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Dreaming of Cockaigne: Medieval Fantasies of the Perfect Life by Herman Pleij Publisher Comments Cockaigne: portrayed in legend, oral history, and art, this imaginary land became the most pervasive collective dream of medieval times -- an earthly paradise to counter the suffering and frustration of daily existence and to quell anxieties over an ever-... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price $16.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Talk of the Devil: Encounters with Seven Dictators by Riccardo Orizio Publisher Comments Inspired by newspaper clippings he had kept about two former African dictators accused of cannibalism, journalist Riccardo Orizio set out to track down tyrants around the world who had fallen from power — to see if they had gained any perspective on... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price $10.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Calendar: Humanity's Epic Struggle to Determine a True and Accurate Year by David Duncan Publisher Comments Humanity's epic struggle to determine a true and accurate year -- featuring the incredible story of how ten days once were lost. Our present calendar predates the invention of the telescope and mechanical clock, modern numbers and the concept of zero... (read more) List Price $23.00 Your price $4.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Augustus: The Life of Rome's First Emperor by Anthony Everitt Publisher Comments He found Rome made of clay and left it made of marble. As Rome's first emperor, Augustus transformed the unruly Republic into the greatest empire the world had ever seen. His consolidation and expansion of Roman power two thousand years ago laid the... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $11.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Spartans by Paul Cartledge Publisher Comments Sparta has often been described as the original Utopia-a remarkably evolved society whose warrior heroes were forbidden any other trade, profession, or business. As a people, the Spartans were the living exemplars of such core values as duty, discipline,... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price $19.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Modern Mind: An Intellectual History of the 20th Century by Peter Watson Publisher Comments This major narrative history of the people and ideas that shaped the modern world is a brilliantly reasoned examination of the thought and individuals that made twentieth-century culture. From Freud to Babbitt, from Relativity to Susan Sontag, from... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price $12.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Business Life of Ancient Athens by George M Calhoun Publisher Comments Provides an interesting insight into the individuals who conducted business in a great civilization of antiquity.... (read more) List Price $34.95 Your price $8.88 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Biography: A Brief History by Nigel Hamilton Publisher Comments For thousands of years we have recorded real lives--the lives of others, and of ourselves. For what purpose and for whom has this universal and timeless pursuit endured? What obstacles have lain in the path of biographers in the past, and what continues... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price $9.75 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Yellow Cross: The Story of the Last Cathars by Rene Weis Publisher Comments A brilliant exploration of the medieval community that, with almost miraculous psychological fortitude and strength of faith, defied the Catholic Church and the Inquisition. The Cathars, whose religion was based on the Gospels but contradicted the... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price $10.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The optimist's guide to history by Doris Flexner Publisher Comments The classic look at the past with a very jaundiced eye -- now with even more disheartening facts! The original "irreverent jaunt through the catastrophes, cataclysms and outrages that shaped our world" has sold more than 73,000 copies. This updated... (read more) Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list

Sign up for our Recently Arrived Used Books newsletter service and find great used titles in Western Civilization on the very day they're added to our shelves. email address   The Northern World: The History and Heritage of Northern Europe by David M Wilson Synopsis The contribution of Germanic-speaking peoples to our civilization between 400-1100 AD is in many ways as vital as that of the Latin speakers. A team of historians and archaeologists condense the discoveries of modern research into a concise and readable... (read more) Your price $29.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Mass Oratory and Political Power in the Late Roman Republic by Rober Morstein Marx Publisher Comments Examines how public, political discourse shaped the distribution of power between Senate and People.... (read more) List Price $85.00 Your price $60.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Cosmopolis :the hidden agenda of modernity by Stephen Toulmin Publisher Comments In the seventeenth century, a vision arose which was to captivate the Western imagination for the next three hundred years: the vision of Cosmopolis, a society as rationally ordered as the Newtonian view of nature. While fueling extraordinary advances in... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price $8.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Beginnings of Rome; Italy from the Bronze Age to the Punic Wars (Circa 1,000 to 264 B.C.) (Routledge History of the Ancient World) by Tim Cornell Publisher Comments This beautifully written study is the most comprehensive study of Rome from 753 BC to 264 BC. It is an important synthesis of the many developments in research over the last couple of decades. It adheres closely to the available sources, dealing with... (read more) List Price $29.99 Your price $16.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Long to Reign by A W Purdue Publisher Comments At the beginning of the twentieth century, monarchy was by far the most common form of government: emperors sat on the thrones of Germany, Austria-Hungary, Persia, China, Russia and the Ottoman Empire, while there were kings of Bulgaria, Serbia, Italy... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $10.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Consumption and the Making of Respectability, 1600-1800 by Woodruff Smith Publisher Comments Over the past twenty years, questions concerning the nature of early modern European consumption have increasingly become the object of critical focus for historians, cultural theorists, and readers interested in the history of material cultures. Why did... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Before Sexuality: The Construction of Erotic Experience in the Ancient Greek World by David M Halperin Publisher Comments A dream in which a man has sex with his mother may promise him political or commercial success--according to dream interpreters of late antiquity, who, unlike modern Western analysts, would not necessarily have drawn conclusions from the dream about the... (read more) List Price $40.00 Your price $15.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Cruelty and Civilization: The Roman Games by Roland Auguet Publisher Comments Cruelty and Civilization offers an in-depth look at the Roman games as a force vital to the functioning of an Empire. Gladiatorial combats, chariot races and other spectacles were a kind of public opiate for the citizens of Ancient Rome. These rites gave... (read more) List Price $24.99 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Concept of Neutrality in Classical Greece by Robert Bauslaugh Publisher Comments "A definitive contribution to the history of Western diplomacy. Thanks to Bauslaugh, the concept of neutrality must play a part in all future discussions of classical Aegean interstate politics."--Nicholas F. Jones, author of "Public Organization in... (read more) List Price $60.00 Your price $33.75 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list History of the Twentieth Century Volume 3 by Martin Gilbert Publisher Comments Critics heralded the first two volumes A History of the Twentieth Century as "masterly" (Boston Globe) and "deft", illuminating, and fascinating" (Henry Kissenger).? Now, the final work in Martin Gilbert's magisterial and acclaimed three-volume history... (read more) List Price $23.00 Your price $7.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list

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