Books | Ancient History & Civilisation

Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain

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Review: This book addresses some fascinating topics, but my impression was that it skimmed the surface. There are three subject areas: how writing systems developed, how we learn to read, and why some of us don't read well. All to be covered in 229 pages? It can't reall....

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Decoding the Heavens: Solving the Mystery of the World's First Computer

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Review: when I recieved this book I was disappointed by the lack of detailed photographs or illustrations of the Antikythera device. This is not so much a book about the device, but the story of its discovery and recognition. The story is told as a series of biographies o....

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1434: The Year a Chinese Fleet Sailed to Italy and Ignited the Renaissance

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Review: This is the kind of history book that really should be consigned to the fiction shelves - along with all those bonkers books about the Knights Templars, Holy Grail etc etc. What makes me angry is that Mr Menzies ruins a proper appreciation of Chinese culture and ci....

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The Oxford Companion to Classical Civilization (Oxford Companions)

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Review: Admittedly there's no beating the OCD but this is a brilliant alternative. The entries come from the OCD itself but it excludes the bibliographies per subject - which frankly are out of date anyway. As the other reviewer here has mentioned, the entries are wide ran....

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The End of Days: Armageddon and Prophecies of the Return (The Earth Chronicles)

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Review: This is a masterpiece and is the best and most authoratative book on the end of days I have encountered to date. It's all here with historical evidence to back it all up ~ What will happen in the future, we will only have to wait and see, but this book gives a goo....

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The Fall: The Insanity of the Ego in Human History and the Dawning of a New Era

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Review: I thoroughly enjoyed reading this book. What it says seems to make sense on an intuitive level. I seem to be alone in not being entirely convinced by his arguements. I think particularly where he tries to relate things to evolutionary theory. An evolutionary proces....

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Forbidden History: Extraterrestrial Intervention, Prehistoric Technologies, and the Suppressed Origins of Civilization

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Review: This is just a quick thumbs up for the previous two reviews which sum up the book nicely. There is much food for thought and plenty of information for further reading. Some of the most interesting aspects for me were the descriptions of the ancient structures found....

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101 Things I Learned in Architecture School

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Review: I really enjoyed this book - lots of little things that make you think, and some really basic things that you probably wouldn't know unless you have finished architecture school. As I am just starting out, I thought it was great. Good tips for crits, drawing, etc.....

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The Oxford History of Ancient Egypt

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Review: A fantastic, informative book, although lacking in religious discourse which formed much of ancient egyptian life. However, a marvellous reference book all the same. Would have been better in a larger format as difficult to read at times.....

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Travelling Heroes: Greeks and Their Myths in the Epic Age of Homer

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Review: Robin Lane Fox, as the reader may or may not know, is an accomplished historian and, quite remarkably, actually underpinning this book is an academic dissertation which is based upon the exposition of four different (8th century)texts. Students of Homer will find t....

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