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Price: $29.15
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Sale: $19.08
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Manufacturer: Hamlyn
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Brenda Rosen
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Publisher: Hamlyn
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Dewey Decimal Number: 930
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Publication Date: 2008-03-01
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Reading Level: 176
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Description: Some of the most extraordinary ancient cities that have been abandoned, forgotten, or hidden by time are now revealed in their full splendor. Examining the role of natural and man-made disasters, rulers and their hostile neighbors, and the fate of cities built to celebrate religious beliefs, this fascinating volume features stunning photography of major archaeological sites and recently discovered cities. Detailed reconstructions and maps trace the lost beauty and ancient wisdom embodied in the Borobodur in Java, Aphrodisias in Turkey, and Niya in Central Asia. An illuminating and thought-provoking work that builds on the recent success of numerous bestsellers about how and why ancient civilizations fail, it will prove an invaluable reference.
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Price: $45.00
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Sale: $27.15
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Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
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Edition: Concise
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Dewey Decimal Number: 911
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Publication Date: 2002-11-07
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Reading Level: 312
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Description: Traces 12,000 years of history with 450 full color maps and over 200,000 words of text. In addition, more than 200 illustrations and tables complement the fascinating chronological narrative written by dozens premiere scholars.
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Price: $24.00
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Sale: $12.64
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Manufacturer: Holt Paperbacks
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Eric Homberger
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Publisher: Holt Paperbacks
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Edition: 2nd
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Dewey Decimal Number: 912
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Publication Date: 2005-07-01
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Reading Level: 192
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Description: A New York Public Library Outstanding Reference Book
The rich and eminently browsable visual guide to the history of New York, in an all-new
second edition
The Historical Atlas of New York City, second edition, takes us, neighborhood by neighborhood, through four hundred years of Gotham's rich past, describing such crucial events as the city's initial settlement of 270 people in thirty log houses; John Jacob Astor's meteoric rise from humble fur trader to the richest, most powerful man in the city; and the fascinating ethnic mixture that is modern Queens. The full-color maps, charts, photographs, drawings, and mini-essays of this encyclopedic volume also trace the historical development and cultural relevance of such iconic New York thoroughfares as Fifth Avenue, Wall Street, Park Avenue, and Broadway. This thoroughly updated edition brings the Atlas up to the present, including three all-new two-page spreads on Rudolph Giuliani's New York, the revival of Forty-second Street, and the rebuilding of Ground Zero.
A fascinating chronicle of the life of a metropolis, the handsome second edition of The Historical Atlas of New York City provides a vivid and unique perspective on the nation's cultural capital.
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Price: $29.97
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Sale: $15.00
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Manufacturer: B&H Publishing Group
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Thomas C. Brisco
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Publisher: B&H Publishing Group
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Dewey Decimal Number: 200
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Publication Date: 1999-01
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Reading Level: 298
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Price: $21.95
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Sale: $12.69
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Manufacturer: Checkmark Books
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Carl Waldman
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Publisher: Checkmark Books
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Edition: Revised
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Dewey Decimal Number: 970.00497
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Publication Date: 2000-03
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Reading Level: 385
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Description: Combining clear, informative text with a wealth of maps and illustrations, this unique resource offers the most comprehensive coverage available in a single volume on the history, culture, languages, and lifeways of Native American groups across North America.
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Price: $200.00
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Sale: $126.00
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Manufacturer: TASCHEN America Llc
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Stephan Fussel::Rem Koolhaas
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Publisher: TASCHEN America Llc
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Edition: Mul
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Dewey Decimal Number: 709
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Publication Date: 2008-12-01
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Reading Level: 600
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Description: Google Earth's ancestor: a snapshot of urban life, circa 1600
History's most opulent collection of town maps and illustrations
The complete reprint of all 363 color plates from Braun and Hogenberg's survey of town maps, city views, and plans of Europe, Africa, Asia and Central America, with dozens of unusual details, two folding maps, as well as selected extracts from the original text and an in-depth commentary. First published in Cologne 1572-1617.
More than four centuries after the first volume was originally published in Cologne, Braun and Hogenberg's magnificent collection of town map engravings, Civitates orbis terrarum, has been brought back to life with this reprint taken from a rare and superbly preserved original set of six volumes, belonging to the Historische Museum in Frankfurt. Produced between 1572 and 1617 - just before the extensive devastation wreaked by the Thirty Years' War - the work contains 564 plans, bird's-eye views, and map views of all major cities in Europe, plus important cities in Asia, Africa, and Latin America. Edited and annotated by theologian and publisher Georg Braun, and largely engraved by cartographer Franz Hogenberg, the Civitates was intended as a companion volume for Abraham Ortelius's 1570 world atlas, Theatrum orbis terrarum. Over a hundred different artists and cartographers contributed to the sumptuous artwork, which not only shows the towns but also features additional elements, such as figures in local dress, ships, ox-drawn carts, courtroom scenes, and topographical details, that help convey the situation, commercial power, and political importance of the towns they accompany.
The Civitates gives us a comprehensive view of urban life at the turn of the 17th century. TASCHEN's reprint includes all of the city plates, accompanied by selected extracts from Braun's texts on the history and contemporary significance of each urban center as well as translations of the Latin cartouches. A detailed commentary places each city map in its cartographical and cultural context, and examines earlier sources and later editions. Rounding off this comprehensive publication is a separate introductory essay examining the Civitates in its cultural and historical context. From Paris and London to Cairo and Jerusalem, readers will find many a familiar city to zoom back in time to and explore - in fact, many of the maps can still be used for orientation in historical town centers today.
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Price: $39.95
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Sale: $24.95
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Manufacturer: University of California Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Derek Hayes
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Publisher: University of California Press
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 911.794
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Publication Date: 2007-10-30
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Reading Level: 256
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Description: Using nearly five hundred historical maps and many other illustrations--from rough sketches drawn in the field to commercial maps to beautifully rendered works of art--this lavishly illustrated volume is the first to tell the story of California's past from a unique visual perspective. Covering five hundred years of history, it offers a compelling and informative look at the transformation of the state from before European contact through the Gold Rush and up to the present. The maps are accompanied by a concise, engaging narrative and by extended captions that elucidate the stories and personalities behind their creation. At once a valuable reference and an exhilarating adventure through history, the Historical Atlas of California, featuring many rare and unusual maps, will be a treasured addition to any library. Distilling an enormous amount of information into one volume, it presents a fascinating chronicle of how California came to be what it is today.
Copub: Douglas & McIntyre
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Price: $45.00
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Sale: $27.46
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Manufacturer: Schocken
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Eli Barnavi
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Publisher: Schocken
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Edition: Rev Sub
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Dewey Decimal Number: 909.04924
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Publication Date: 2003-10-14
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Reading Level: 336
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Description: A Historical Atlas of the Jewish People, edited by Eli Barnavi, is one of those rare books that can literally make a reader gasp with delight and horror. It may even be the best one-volume history of Judaism in print. Beginning with "The Migrations of the Patriarchs," and continuing to the present day, the book's chapters include historical maps, timelines, illustrations and photographs, and narrative essays by leading historians (such as Moshe Idel) that help readers not only understand but visualize the movements of the Jewish people. The editors have chosen not to structure the story as leading inexorably to the Holocaust and the rise of Israel, although both events are covered in some detail. Instead, they have depicted the rich variety of lives established by the Diaspora in such far-flung places as China and England, and have been equally attentive to the joys and triumphs of Jews, both in everyday life and in national cultures, as to the considerable tragedies Jews have endured. The text of this book is smart and readable, but the real joy of the atlas is its illustrations, many of which are rarely seen, such as 20th-century artist Abel Pann's depiction of the creation of Adam, "He breathed into his nostrils the breath of life." It's the kind of image that reminds you that life really is a gift, and makes you savor it. --Michael Joseph Gross
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Price: $16.95
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Sale: $8.95
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Manufacturer: Penguin (Non-Classics)
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Chris Scarre
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Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
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Dewey Decimal Number: 911.37
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Publication Date: 1995-09-01
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Reading Level: 144
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Description: Matching clear graphics with informative text, Christopher Scarre's atlas gives a fine overview of Roman history from the emergence of the first city-state in the eighth century B.C. to the rise of Christian theocracy a millennium later. The Penguin Historical Atlas of Ancient Rome is especially helpful in showing the growth of the Roman empire through successive centuries of military campaigning from Scotland to Arabia and in delineating the networks of trade, transit, and communication that bound the far-flung outposts to the imperial capital. Scarre notes that many of those networks still survive in one form or another.
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Price: $20.00
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Sale: $11.05
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Manufacturer: Penguin (Non-Classics)
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: John Haywood
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Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
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Dewey Decimal Number: 911.0901
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Publication Date: 2005-10-25
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Reading Level: 144
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Description: The Penguin Historical Atlas of Ancient Civilizations explores the world’s earliest cultures, from the farming settlements of Mesopotamia to the foundation of Rome. Examining the development of civilizations around the globe, it covers such subjects as the roots of the Egyptian pharaohs, China’s long-lived dynasties, and the great cities of the Incas and Aztecs. Richly illustrated with photographs, artwork re-creations, and full-color maps, this is an illuminating and multifaceted one-volume introduction to early peoples and the world they created.
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