“Reading Dalrymple’s prose is a lively journey for the modern-day armchair Marco Polo. The big picture is always present, but never at the expense of the adventure.”
“For the general reader or the beginning scholar of the ancient world on the path to become more, The Missing Thread is one of the works that makes a good starting point.”
This charmingly produced little book is a new volume in the Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readersseries put out by Princeton University Press that aims to show how our contemporary preoccupat
“Goldsworthy fills a little-known but important gap in the history of the Western World with a history of the lands of Armenia, Iraq, and Syria that, as part of the Parthian Empire, became
“Draycott gives a careful, clear history that presents the historical facts as best determined from the very incomplete and prejudiced fragmentary Roman sources.
“True Raiders represents the best kind of rollicking adventure true-life tale, lively engaging prose based on what did happen, not wild speculation bordering on fantasy.”
“Neanderthals belong to a distant past of hundreds of thousands of years but studying them is a rapidly developing race to the future of scientific exploration.
“a careful and splendidly written narrative that separates known facts from long-believed myths and outright falsehoods about events leading up to the battle, the battle itself, and its aft
“This sweeping and novel synthesis exploring the arc of the human condition— its highly diverse forms of political organizing, and the future that lays in store for us—may well prove to be
“This is a fascinating and easy to read survey history that avoids legal jargon and deftly combines history, anthropology, and legal analysis to provide an excellent introduction to why law
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