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  • Picts, Gaels and Scots

    Early Historic Scotland

    A look at Scotland before it was Scotland, with illustrations and photos included: “An outstanding book.” —Current ArchaeologyEarly historic Scotland—from the fifth to the tenth century AD—was home to a variety of diverse peoples and cultures, all competing for land and supremacy. Yet by the eleventh century it had become a single, unified kingdom, known as Alba, under a stable and successful ... Read more

    $12.99 USD $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 1177 B.C.

    The Year Civilization Collapsed: Revised and Updated

    by Eric H. Cline ...
    Series Book 1 - Turning Points in Ancient History
    A bold reassessment of what caused the Late Bronze Age collapseIn 1177 B.C., marauding groups known only as the "Sea Peoples" invaded Egypt. The pharaoh's army and navy managed to defeat them, but the victory so weakened Egypt that it soon slid into decline, as did most of the surrounding civilizations. After centuries of brilliance, the civilized world of the Bronze Age came to an abrupt and ... Read more

    $12.99 USD $2.99 USD

  • The Lost Tomb

    And Other Real-Life Stories of Bones, Burials, and Murder

    Douglas Preston, the #1 bestselling author of The Lost City of the Monkey God, presents the jaw-dropping discovery of a vast Egyptian tomb containing dozens of sealed burial chambers, as well as recounting tales of pirate treasure, mysterious deaths, archaeological mysteries, and more…What’s it like to be the first to enter an Egyptian burial chamber that’s been sealed for thousands of years? ... Read more

    $14.99 USD $3.99 USD

  • The Message of the Sphinx

    A Quest for the Hidden Legacy of Mankind

    NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Two Egypt experts posit a revolutionary theory: The Sphinx and other great Egyptian monuments are older than common history books tell us and are arranged in such a way as to send us a message from the silent past.Graham Hancock is featured in Ancient Apocalypse, a Netflix original docuseriesGuardian of the ancient mysteries, the keeper of secrets . . . For thousands of years ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Carabinieri Command for the Protection of Cultural Property

    Saving the World's Heritage

    Renowned for their rigorous investigative approach, the dedicated officers of the Carabinieri Command for the Protection of Cultural Property (Carabinieri TPC) have recovered thousands of objects and built legal cases resulting inhigh profile repatriations of cultural property. Their actions have effectively changed an art market that previously depended upon theft and criminal behaviour. Italy is ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Cleopatra

    Last Pharaoh of Egypt

    by M. Trow ...
    Series series Brief Histories
    When Cleopatra took the throne of the kingdom of Egypt, the pyramids and Sphinx were already ancient wonders. As queen she faced conquest by a new, all-powerful empire. A Ptolemy, descended from a general of Alexander the Great who conquered the Nile as part of his Macedonian lands, her relationship with Mark Anthony has become one of the legendary love stories in history.Trow draws on recent ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • The Golden Geometry of the Interior Design of the Great Pyramid

    A golden-ratio-based geometric model unveils the Great Pyramid’s sophisticated design and accounts with astonishing accuracy for all details of its internal and external architecture. The model values match the measurements of W.F. Petrie or G. Dormion within 1 cm or 5', respectively for the lengths and angles, and in multiple cases exactly (within 1 mm or 1'). The model yields mathematical ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Native American Archaeology in the Parks

    A Guide to Heritage Sites in Our National Parks and Monuments

    Historian Wallace Stegner characterized America’s National Park system as “the best idea we ever had.” One can quibble with that, but, indeed, it was a pretty good idea! This book specifically is a guide and a celebration of 30 of those national parks, national historical parks, and national monuments that, each in its own way, reveals the histories and cultures of America’s first inhabitants, the ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • The Everyday Language of White Racism

    by Jane H. Hill ...
    Series Book 7 - Wiley Blackwell Studies in Discourse and Culture
    In The Everyday Language of White Racism, Jane H. Hill provides an incisive analysis of everyday language to reveal the underlying racist stereotypes that continue to circulate in American culture.provides a detailed background on the theory of race and racismreveals how racializing discourse—talk and text that produces and reproduces ideas about races and assigns people to them—facilitates a ... Read more

    $39.00 USD

  • The Hellenistic Age

    The three centuries which followed the conquests of Alexander are perhaps the most thrilling of all periods of ancient history. This was an age of cultural globalization: in the third century BC, a single language carried you from the Rhône to the Indus. A Celt from the lower Danube could serve in the mercenary army of a Macedonian king ruling in Egypt, and a Greek philosopher from Cyprus could ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Creation of Inequality

    How Our Prehistoric Ancestors Set the Stage for Monarchy, Slavery, and Empire

    Our early ancestors lived in small groups and worked actively to preserve social equality. As they created larger societies, however, inequality rose, and by 2500 bce truly egalitarian societies were on the wane. In The Creation of Inequality, Kent Flannery and Joyce Marcus demonstrate that this development was not simply the result of population increase, food surplus, or the accumulation of ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • Walking Among Pharaohs

    George Reisner and the Dawn of Modern Egyptology

    In this expansive new biography of George Reisner, Egyptologist Peter Der Manuelian examines the life and work of America's greatest archaeologist. Manuelian presents Reisner's undeniable impact and considers his life within the context of Western colonialism, racism, and nationalism. Pyramids with hidden burial chambers. Colossal royal statues and minuscule gold jewelry. Decorated tomb chapels, ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Warfare in Prehistoric Britain

    by Julian Heath ...
    Warfare in Prehistoric Britain provides a fascinating insight into early methods of warfare and charts the changing attitudes towards prehistoric warfare. This book provides a fresh study of the significance of primitive and prehistoric warfare. Indeed, there can be little doubt that prehistoric warfare is now an important and valid area of archaeological enquiry which is increasingly showing that ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Genesis Race

    Our Extraterrestrial DNA and the True Origins of the Species

    by Will Hart ...
    Shows that Earth was visited by an extraterrestrial race who bioengineered modern man in its image and taught man how to construct the pyramids• Examines the flaws in Darwin’s theory of evolution and presents startling new evidence of intelligent intervention• Reveals the messages coded in the pyramids left by the ancients concerning impending Earth changes at the end of the Mayan calendarFor ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Earl and the Pharaoh

    From the Real Downton Abbey to the Discovery of Tutankhamun

    Bestselling author the Countess of Carnarvon tells the thrilling behind-the-scenes story of the discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun on its centennial, and explores the unparalleled life of family ancestor George Herbert—the famed Egyptologist, world-traveler, and 5th Earl of Carnarvon behind it—whose country house, Highclere Castle, is the setting of the beloved series Downton Abbey.In November ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Agency in Archaeology

    Agency in Archaeology is the first critical volume to scrutinise the concept of agency and to examine in-depth its potential to inform our understanding of the past. Theories of agency recognise that human beings make choices, hold intentions and take action. This offers archaeologists scope to move beyond looking at broad structural or environmental change and instead to consider the individual ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Life and Death on Mt. Everest

    Sherpas and Himalayan Mountaineering

    The Sherpas were dead, two more victims of an attempt to scale Mt. Everest. Members of a French climbing expedition, sensitive perhaps about leaving the bodies where they could not be recovered, rolled them off a steep mountain face. One body, however, crashed to a stop near Sherpas on a separate expedition far below. They stared at the frozen corpse, stunned. They said nothing, but an American ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • Work's Intimacy

    by Melissa Gregg ...
    This book provides a long-overdue account of online technology and its impact on the work and lifestyles of professional employees. It moves between the offices and homes of workers in the knew "knowledge" economy to provide intimate insight into the personal, family, and wider social tensions emerging in today’s rapidly changing work environment.Drawing on her extensive research, Gregg shows that ... Read more

    $21.00 USD

  • Life along the Silk Road

    Second Edition

    In this long-awaited second edition, Susan Whitfield broadens her exploration of the Silk Road and expands her rich and varied portrait of life along the great pre-modern trade routes of Eurasia. This new edition is comprehensively updated to support further understanding of themes relevant to global and comparative history and remains the only history of the Silk Road to reconstruct the route ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • Carthage Must Be Destroyed

    The Rise and Fall of an Ancient Civilization

    by Richard Miles ...
    The first full-scale history of Hannibal's Carthage in decades and "a convincing and enthralling narrative." (The Economist )Drawing on a wealth of new research, archaeologist, historian, and master storyteller Richard Miles resurrects the civilization that ancient Rome struggled so mightily to expunge. This monumental work charts the entirety of Carthage's history, from its origins among the ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • A Short History of the Phoenicians

    Revised Edition

    by Mark Woolmer ...
    Series series Short Histories
    Offering new insights based on recent archaeological discoveries in their heartland of modern-day Lebanon, Mark Woolmer presents a fresh appraisal of this fascinating, yet elusive, Semitic people. Discussing material culture, language and alphabet, religion (including sacred prostitution of women and boys to the goddess Astarte), funerary custom and trade and expansion into the Punic west, he ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Under Jerusalem

    The Buried History of the World's Most Contested City

    by Andrew Lawler ...
    **A spellbinding history of the hidden world below the Holy City—a saga of biblical treasures, intrepid explorers, and political upheaval“A sweeping tale of archaeological exploits and their cultural and political consequences told with a historian’s penchant for detail and a journalist’s flair for narration.”—Washington Post**In 1863, a French senator arrived in Jerusalem hoping to unearth relics ... Read more

    $13.99 USD $4.99 USD

  • The Archaeology of New York State

    The most complete account of ancient man in the New York area ever published in one volume, this book traces a rich, 8000-year story of human prehistory. Beginning with the first known inhabitants, Paleo-Indian hunters who lived approximately 7000 B.C., the author gives a detailed chronological account of the complex of cultural units that have existed in the area, culminating in the Iroquois ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Monacan Millennium

    A Collaborative Archaeology and History of a Virginia Indian People

    While Jamestown and colonial settlements dominate narratives of Virginia’s earliest days, the land’s oldest history belongs to its native people. Monacan Millennium tells the story of the Monacan Indian people of Virginia, stretching from 1000 A.D. through the moment of colonial contact in 1607 and into the present.Written from an anthropological perspective and informed by ethnohistory, ... Read more

    $23.99 USD