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  • A History of Babylon, 2200 BC - AD 75

    by Paul-Alain Beaulieu ...
    Series series Blackwell History of the Ancient World
    Provides a new narrative history of the ancient world, from the beginnings of civilization in the ancient Near East and Egypt to the fall of ConstantinopleWritten by an expert in the field, this book presents a narrative history of Babylon from the time of its First Dynasty (1880-1595) until the last centuries of the city’s existence during the Hellenistic and Parthian periods (ca. 331-75 AD). ... Read more

    $51.99 CAD

  • Michel Foucault and Power Today

    International Multidisciplinary Studies in the History of the Present

    by Mario Colucci, Pierangelo Di Vittorio, David Gabbard, Monique Lanoix, Christian Lavagno, Thomas Lemke, Dario Melossi, Warren Montag, Tracey Nicholls, Frank Pearce ...
    Foucault's thought finds innumerable applications across the social sciences, from studies in the social aspects of the medical practices and criminal sociology to juridical and economic sciences. Owing to their philosophical ramifications, his ideas have also impacted the spheres of literary studies, ethics, political thought, and "critical ontology." Few thinkers have left such an influence ... Read more

    $61.99 CAD

  • Gilles Deleuze and Metaphysics

    by Alberto Anelli, Daniel Whistler, Adrian Switzer, Gregory Kalyniuk, Mary Beth Mader, Joshua Ramey, Thomas Nail, Sjoerd van Tuinen, Professor Rocco Gangle ...
    Deleuze remains indifferent to the ambient pathos related to the end of metaphysics and compares the undertakings of destruction, overcoming and deconstruction of metaphysics with the gestures of murderers. He considers himself “a pure metaphysician,” which is rather unique in the contemporary philosophical landscape. What are we to make of this and similar claims? What do they mean in light of ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

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  • Babylon

    Mesopotamia and the Birth of Civilization

    by Paul Kriwaczek ...
    Civilization was born eight thousand years ago, between the floodplains of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, when migrants from the surrounding mountains and deserts began to create increasingly sophisticated urban societies. In the cities that they built, half of human history took place.In Babylon, Paul Kriwaczek tells the story of Mesopotamia from the earliest settlements seven thousand years ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

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  • When God Was A Woman

    by Merlin Stone ...
    Here, archaeologically documented,is the story of the religion of the Goddess. Under her, women’s roles were far more prominent than in patriarchal Judeo-Christian cultures. Stone describes this ancient system and, with its disintegration, the decline in women’s status. ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

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  • Mesopotamia

    The Invention of the City

    by Gwendolyn Leick ...
    Situated in an area roughly corresponding to present-day Iraq, Mesopotamia is one of the great, ancient civilizations, though it is still relatively unknown. Yet, over 7,000 years ago in Mesopotamia, the very first cities were created. This is the first book to reveal how life was lived in ten Mesopotamian cities: from Eridu, the Mesopotamian Eden, to that potent symbol of decadence, Babylon - the ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • Christianity: An Ancient Egyptian Religion

    by Ahmed Osman ...
    Contends that the roots of Christian belief come not from Judaea but from Egypt• Shows that the Romans fabricated their own version of Christianity and burned the Alexandrian library as a way of maintaining political power• Builds on the arguments of the author's previous books The Hebrew Pharaohs of Egypt, Moses and Akhenaten, and Jesus in the House of the PharaohsIn Christianity: An Ancient ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • The Ancient Near East

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Amanda H. Podany ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    The ancient Near East is known as the "cradle of civilization"--and for good reason. Mesopotamia, Syria, and Anatolia were home to an extraordinarily rich and successful culture. Indeed, it was a time and place of earth-shaking changes for humankind: the beginnings of writing and law, kingship and bureaucracy, diplomacy and state-sponsored warfare, mathematics and literature. This Very Short ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

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  • The Oxford History of the Biblical World

    Edited by Michael D. Coogan ...
    In this impressive volume, leading scholars offer compelling glimpses into the biblical world, the world in which prophets, poets, sages, and historians created one of our most important texts--the Bible. For more than a century, archaeologists have been unearthing the tombs, temples, texts, and artifacts of the ancient Near East and the Mediterranean world. Using new approaches, contemporary ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

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  • Ancient Assyria

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Karen Radner ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Assyria was one of the most influential kingdoms of the Ancient Near East. In this Very Short Introduction, Karen Radner sketches the history of Assyria from city state to empire, from the early 2nd millennium BC to the end of the 7th century BC. Since the archaeological rediscovery of Assyria in the mid-19th century, its cities have been excavated extensively in Iraq, Syria, Turkey and Israel, ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD

  • Ancient Iraq

    by Georges Roux ...
    Book provides an introduction to the history of ancient Mesopotamia and its civilizations, incorporating archaeological and historical finds up to 1992 ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • The Hebrew Pharaohs of Egypt

    The Secret Lineage of the Patriarch Joseph

    by Ahmed Osman ...
    A reinterpretation of Egyptian and biblical history that shows the Patriarch Joseph and Yuya, a vizier of the eighteenth dynasty king Tuthmosis IV, to be the same person• Uses detailed evidence from Egyptian, biblical, and Koranic sources to place Exodus in the time of Ramses I• Sheds new light on the mysterious and sudden rise of monotheism under Yuya’s daughter, Queen Tiye, and her son ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD