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The Ancient South Asian World
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 178

The Ancient South Asian World

Learn about the history and civilizations from ancient South Asia through the study of a variety of archaeological discoveries.

The Shakeress
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 212

The Shakeress

While searching for her true self and for the way to meet the needs of her personal sense of spirituality, an orphaned teenaged girl joins a Shaker community in mid-nineteenth century New England and learns about a new religion called Mormonism.

Otto Von Bismarck
  • Language: en

Otto Von Bismarck

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2010
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  • Publisher: Unknown

Examines the life and career of Otto von Bismark.

Mao Zedong
  • Language: en

Mao Zedong

It's hard to imagine any fictional villain half as fiendish as the real-life warlords, tyrants, and pirates in these new Wicked biographies. Bet you can't read just one! He presented himself as a man of the people and promised to turn the most populous country on earth into a worker's paradise. But the reality of life in Mao Zedong's Communist China was a different story entirely, marked by widespread famine and inhumane policies that cost tens of millions of lives.

Napoleon
  • Language: en

Napoleon

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2010-03
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  • Publisher: Unknown

Napoleon Bonaparte was a victim of French imperialism who became a ruthless emporer and an unstoppable general. Learn the story of this tyrant who crushed the French republic and became the mightiest emporor of all

Dante's Daughter
  • Language: en

Dante's Daughter

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2003
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  • Publisher: Lemniscaat

In fourteenth-century Italy, Antonia, the daughter of Dante Alighieri, longs for a stable family and home while developing her artistic talent and seeking a place for herself in a world with limited options for women.

The Book of Jude
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 232

The Book of Jude

In 1989, when fifteen-year-old Jude's mother wins a Fulbright fellowship to study art in Czechoslovakia, the family postpones a planned move to Utah to join her, but the political situation and the move itself are too much for Jude, who is overwhelmed by a previously undiagnosed psychological disorder.

The Indus Civilization
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 208

The Indus Civilization

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1968-09-02
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  • Publisher: CUP Archive

This book discusses climate and dating of the Indus Valley civilization and Sir Mortimer Wheeler summarizes other contributions to the study.

The Roots of Hinduism
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 385

The Roots of Hinduism

In this pioneering book, Asko Parpola traces the Indo-Iranian speakers from the Aryan homeland north of the Black Sea through the Eurasian steppes to Central, West and South Asia, presenting new ideas on the origin and formation of the Vedic literature and rites, and the great Hindu epics.

The Ancient Egyptian World
  • Language: en

The Ancient Egyptian World

Taking readers back 4,000 years, to the fertile land around the Nile River, The Ancient Egyptian World tells the stories of the kings, queens, pharaohs, gods, tomb builders, and ordinary citizens who lived there. Using papyri, scarabs, tomb inscriptions, mummies, and a rich variety of other primary sources, Eric H. Cline and Jill Rubalcaba uncover the fascinating history of ancient Egypt. Scarabs, which scholars call "imperial news bulletins," record important moments in a pharaoh's reign. The Edwin Smith Papyrus details the injuries sustained by the builders of the great pyramids, and the remedies used to treat them. For a worker who has had a stone fall on his head, it suggests: "bind it w...