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  • Ancient Assyrians

    Identity and Society in Antiquity and Beyond

    by Jonathan Valk ...
    In this book, Jonathan Valk asks a deceptively simple question: What did it mean to be Assyrian in the second millennium bce? Extraordinary evidence from Assyrian society across this millennium enables an answer to this question. The evidence includes tens of thousands of letters and legal texts from an Assyrian merchant diaspora in what is now modern Turkey, as well as thousands of administrative ... Read more

    $119.99 CAD

  • Ancient Taxation

    The Mechanics of Extraction in Comparative Perspective

    Series Book 11 - ISAW Monographs
    A collection of studies that explores the extractive systems of eleven ancient states and societies from across the ancient worldAncient Taxation is a collection of studies that explores the extractive systems of eleven ancient states and societies from across the ancient world, ranging from Bronze Age China to Anglo-Saxon Britain. The contributors discuss the inherent challenges of taxation in ... Read more

    $63.99 CAD

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  • Ancient Mesopotamia

    Portrait of a Dead Civilization

    "This splendid work of scholarship . . . sums up with economy and power all that the written record so far deciphered has to tell about the ancient and complementary civilizations of Babylon and Assyria."—Edward B. Garside, New York Times Book ReviewAncient Mesopotamia—the area now called Iraq—has received less attention than ancient Egypt and other long-extinct and more spectacular civilizations. ... Read more

    $3.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Mesopotamia

    The Invention of the City

    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

  • Gilgamesh

    A New Translation of the Ancient Epic

    by Sophus Helle ...
    A poem for the ages, freshly and accessibly translated by an international rising star, bringing together scholarly precision and poetic graceGilgamesh is a Babylonian epic from three thousand years ago, which tells of King Gilgamesh’s deep love for the wild man Enkidu and his pursuit of immortality when Enkidu dies. It is a story about love between men, loss and grief, the confrontation with ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • Kitle İletişim Kuramları

    Kavramlar, Okullar, Modeller

    Series Book 435 - Araştırma-İnceleme
    Oldukça titiz ve yoğun bir çalışmanın ürünü olan Kitle İletişim Kuramları iletişim kuramlarının ezberlenecek malumatlar bütününden ibaret olmadığını, sosyal ve beşeri bilimler içerisinde derinlikli, incelikli ve zor bir çalışma alanı olduğunu gösteriyor.İletişim bilimlerindeki anaakım ve eleştirel kuramların düşünsel ve metodolojik farklılıklarını; toplum ve kitle iletişim araçları arasındaki ... Read more

    $11.98 CAD

  • Enheduana

    The Complete Poems of the World's First Author

    by Sophus Helle ...
    The complete poems of the priestess Enheduana, the world’s first known author, newly translated from the original SumerianEnheduana was a high priestess and royal princess who lived in Ur, in what is now southern Iraq, about 2300 BCE. Not only does Enheduana have the distinction of being the first author whose name we know, but the poems attributed to her are hymns of great power. They are a rare ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

  • The Babylonian World

    Edited by Gwendolyn Leick ...
    Series series Routledge Worlds
    The Babylonian World presents an extensive, up-to-date and lavishly illustrated history of the ancient state Babylonia and its 'holy city', Babylon.Historicized by the New Testament as a centre of decadence and corruption, Babylon and its surrounding region was in fact a rich and complex civilization, responsible for the invention of the dictionary and laying the foundations of modern science. ... Read more

    $100.99 CAD

  • The Age of Agade

    Inventing Empire in Ancient Mesopotamia

    The Age of Agade is the first book-length study of the Akkadian period of Mesopotamian history, which saw the rise and fall of the world’s first empire during more than a century of extraordinary political, social, and cultural innovation. It draws together more than 40 years of research by one of the world’s leading experts in Assyriology to offer an exhaustive survey of the Akkadian empire ... Read more

    $84.99 CAD

  • The Routledge Intermediate Turkish Reader

    Political and Cultural Articles

    by Senel Symons ...
    Series series Routledge Modern Language Readers
    NEW: The Routledge Intermediate Turkish Reader APP is now available on Google Play:https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=uk.co.oxola.turkishreaderThe Routledge Intermediate Turkish Reader has been specially designed for intermediate and advanced learners of Turkish and comprises a broad selection of graded readings.Written by prominent Turkish academics and journalists, the collection of ... Read more

    $117.99 CAD

  • From Hittite to Homer

    The Anatolian Background of Ancient Greek Epic

    This book provides a groundbreaking reassessment of the prehistory of Homeric epic. It argues that in the Early Iron Age bilingual poets transmitted to the Greeks a set of narrative traditions closely related to the one found at Bronze-Age Hattusa, the Hittite capital. Key drivers for Near Eastern influence on the developing Homeric tradition were the shared practices of supralocal festivals and ... Read more

    $69.99 CAD

  • Wool Economy in the Ancient Near East

    Series Book 17 - Ancient Textiles
    The history of the Ancient Near East covers a huge chronological frame, from the first pictographic texts of the late 4th millennium to the conquest of Alexander the Great in 333 BC. During these millennia, different societies developed in a changing landscape where sheep (and their wool) always played an important economic role. The 22 papers presented here explore the place of wool in the ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus