|
Search Results:
|
Displaying records 1 through 10 of 1900 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
 |
|
Price: $9.95
|
|
Sale: $3.17
|
| |
|
Manufacturer: Penguin Classics
|
|
Number of Items: 1
|
| |
|
|
|
Binding: Paperback
|
|
Author: Anonymous
|
|
Publisher: Penguin Classics
|
|
Edition: Revised
|
|
Dewey Decimal Number: 892.1
|
|
Publication Date: 1960-12-30
|
|
Reading Level: 128
|
|
|
|
Description: This edition provides a prose rendering of The Epic of Gilgamesh, the cycle of poems preserved on clay tablets surviving from ancient Mesopotamia of the third mi llennium B.C. One of the best and most important pieces of epic poetry from human history, predating even Homer's Iliad by roughly 1,500 years, the Gilgamesh epic tells of the various adventures of that hero-king, including his quest for immortality, and an account of a great flood similar in many details to the Old Testament's story of Noah. The translator also provides an interesting and useful introduction explaining much about the historical context of the poem and the archeological discovery of th e tablets.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
 |
|
|
Price: $15.00
|
|
Sale: $5.58
|
| |
|
Manufacturer: Free Press
|
|
Number of Items: 1
|
| |
|
|
|
Binding: Paperback
|
|
Author: Stephen Mitchell
|
|
Publisher: Free Press
|
|
Dewey Decimal Number: 808
|
|
Publication Date: 2006-01-24
|
|
Reading Level: 304
|
|
|
|
Description: Gilgamesh is considered one of the masterpieces of world literature, but until now there has not been a version that is a superlative literary text in its own right. Acclaimed by critics and scholars, Stephen Mitchell's version allows us to enter an ancient masterpiece as if for the first time, to see how startlingly beautiful, intelligent, and alive it is.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
 |
|
|
Price: $15.99
|
|
Sale: $8.98
|
| |
|
Manufacturer: DK CHILDREN
|
|
Number of Items: 1
|
| |
|
|
|
Binding: Hardcover
|
|
Author: John Farndon
|
|
Publisher: DK CHILDREN
|
|
Dewey Decimal Number: 935
|
|
Publication Date: 2007-06-25
|
|
Reading Level: 72
|
|
Reading Level: Ages 9-12
|
|
|
|
Description: In these 4 all-new titles-each with its own clip-art CD and wall chart-DK shines its Eyewitness spotlight on vital topics from the past, present, and future. While Mesopotamia explore the cradle of civilization and Great Scientists reveals the minds that shaped the modern world, China investigates the present-day culture of the most populous country on the planet, and Oil takes a look at the controversial substance responsible for the beginning-and, if we're not careful, the end of life as we know it today.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
 |
|
|
Price: $22.00
|
|
Sale: $15.89
|
| |
|
Manufacturer: University Of Chicago Press
|
|
Number of Items: 1
|
| |
|
|
|
Binding: Paperback
|
|
Author: Samuel Noah Kramer
|
|
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
|
|
Dewey Decimal Number: 913.35
|
|
Publication Date: 1971-02-15
|
|
Reading Level: 372
|
|
|
|
Description: The Sumerians, the pragmatic and gifted people who preceded the Semites in the land first known as Sumer and later as Babylonia, created what was probably the first high civilization in the history of man, spanning the fifth to the second millenniums B.C. This book is an unparalleled compendium of what is known about them.
Professor Kramer communicates his enthusiasm for his subject as he outlines the history of the Sumerian civilization and describes their cities, religion, literature, education, scientific achievements, social structure, and psychology. Finally, he considers the legacy of Sumer to the ancient and modern world.
"There are few scholars in the world qualified to write such a book, and certainly Kramer is one of them. . . . One of the most valuable features of this book is the quantity of texts and fragments which are published for the first time in a form available to the general reader. For the layman the book provides a readable and up-to-date introduction to a most fascinating culture. For the specialist it presents a synthesis with which he may not agree but from which he will nonetheless derive stimulation."—American Journal of Archaeology
"An uncontested authority on the civilization of Sumer, Professor Kramer writes with grace and urbanity."—Library Journal
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
 |
|
|
Price: $13.95
|
|
Sale: $7.80
|
| |
|
Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
|
|
Number of Items: 1
|
| |
|
|
|
Binding: Paperback
|
|
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
|
|
Dewey Decimal Number: 299.21
|
|
Publication Date: 1998-09-17
|
|
Reading Level: 368
|
|
|
|
Description: These tales from the ancient civilizations of the "fertile crescent" stand alongside the Odyssey and the Arabian Nights in being popular with an international audience at the dawn of recorded history. Here are myths of the Creation and of the Flood, as well as the fascinating Epic of Gilgamesh, a story of heroic failure in a moment of human weakness.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
 |
|
|
Price: $14.95
|
|
Sale: $5.50
|
| |
|
Manufacturer: Harper Perennial
|
|
Number of Items: 1
|
| |
|
|
|
Binding: Paperback
|
|
Author: Diane Wolkstein::Samuel Noah Kramer
|
|
Publisher: Harper Perennial
|
|
Edition: 1st
|
|
Dewey Decimal Number: 299.92
|
|
Publication Date: 1983-09-03
|
|
Reading Level: 227
|
|
|
|
Description: A fresh retelling of the ancient texts about Ishtar, the world's first goddess. Illustrated with visual artifacts of the period. "A great masterpiece of universal literature."--Mircea Eliade
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
 |
|
|
Price: $13.95
|
|
Sale: $6.49
|
| |
|
Manufacturer: Three Rivers Press
|
|
Number of Items: 1
|
| |
|
|
|
Binding: Paperback
|
|
Author: Marek Halter
|
|
Publisher: Three Rivers Press
|
|
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
|
|
Publication Date: 2007-04-24
|
|
Reading Level: 272
|
|
|
Description: Set in the magnificent culture of the Middle East more than four thousand years ago, Lilah is a rich and emotionally resonant story of faith, love, and courage.
Living in exile, Lilah is in love with Antinoes, a Persian warrior. They have known each other since they were children, and Antinoes dearly wants to make Lilah his wife. Yet Lilah does not feel she can marry without the blessing of her brother, Ezra. She and Ezra are close, and Lilah knows her brother well—he does not want his sister to have a husband outside their faith. Ezra is a scholar of the laws of Moses, and Lilah believes it is her brother’s destiny to lead the Jewish people back to the Promised Land. While Antinoes pressures her to accept his proposal, Lilah realizes that before she can consider her own happiness, it is her duty to help her brother accomplish the seemingly impossible task that is before him.
Putting herself in grave danger, and with the help of Antinoes, Lilah wins Ezra an audience with Artaxerxes II, the King of Kings, who grants permission to lead the exiles on their journey back to the Promised Land. After a hazardous trip across the desert, Lilah, Ezra, and the thousands who join them arrive in Jerusalem. But the hardship of rebuilding the Temple takes its toll, and the religious enthusiasm of some turns to extremism. Ezra, listening to the zealots, orders all non-Jewish wives and their children banished from Jerusalem. Lilah, whose love for Antinoes has never wavered, is horrified by this command. She knows she must now choose between her brother and her conscience, which tells her that the time has come to defy him.
Lilah is a timeless story of one woman’s stand against intolerance; it will linger in the reader’s mind long after the last page has been turned.
From the Hardcover edition.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
 |
|
|
Price: $9.95
|
|
Sale: $6.31
|
| |
|
Manufacturer: Childrens Press
|
|
Number of Items: 1
|
| |
|
|
|
Binding: Paperback
|
|
Author: Virginia Schomp
|
|
Publisher: Childrens Press
|
|
Dewey Decimal Number: 935
|
|
Publication Date: 2005-03
|
|
Reading Level: 112
|
|
Reading Level: Young Adult
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
 |
|
|
Price: $29.95
|
|
Sale: $17.97
|
| |
|
Manufacturer: University of Texas Press
|
|
Number of Items: 1
|
| |
|
|
|
Binding: Paperback
|
|
Author: Jeremy Black::Anthony Green
|
|
Publisher: University of Texas Press
|
|
Dewey Decimal Number: 200.935
|
|
Publication Date: 1992
|
|
Reading Level: 192
|
|
|
Description: "The authors know their material inside out... The choice of illustrations, both half-tone and line-drawings, and the careful, cross-referencing of entries make this book a compelling compendium of ideas and images." —Trevor Watkins, History Today Ancient Mesopotamia was a rich, varied and highly complex culture whose achievements included the invention of writing and the development of sophisticated urban society. This book offers an introductory guide to the beliefs and customs of the ancient Mesopotamians, as revealed in their art and their writings between about 3000 B.C. and the advent of the Christian era. Gods, goddesses, demons, monsters, magic, myths, religious symbolism, ritual, and the spiritual world are all discussed in alphabetical entries ranging from short accounts to extended essays. Names are given in both their Sumerian and Akkadian forms, and all entries are fully cross-referenced. A useful introduction provides historical and geographical background and describes the sources of our knowledge about the religion, mythology and magic of "the cradle of civilisation".
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
 |
|
|
Price: $35.00
|
|
Sale: $27.30
|
| |
|
Manufacturer: Checkmark Books
|
|
Number of Items: 1
|
| |
|
|
|
Binding: Hardcover
|
|
Author: Norman Bancroft Hunt
|
|
Publisher: Checkmark Books
|
|
Dewey Decimal Number: 911.35
|
|
Publication Date: 2004-08
|
|
Reading Level: 192
|
|
|
|
Description: The recent war in Iraq focused international attention on the unique historical and cultural heritage of ancient Mesopotamia, the land between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Displaying records 1 through 10 of 1900
|
|
|
|
