Ancient History Books

The constitution, what does it mean anymore? This document changed the course of the world and this book will tell you why the United States of America changed the world in 200 years. Sadly, it is also pointing out why we are loosing what has made...
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Once again W. Cleon Skousen tries to manipulate his reader by using completely unreliable and unsubstantiated claimes as truth. He attempts to use Mormon ideaology and supplant it into our minds with unsubstantiated conclusions. Very...
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The 5000 Year leap left me irritated, challenged, and wanting to read more.

I found the historical material the most interesting, but every time I read the views and conclusions, I felt the need to check the facts. Somehow it seemed...
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I can't add much to the good reviews, but I wanted to suggest that if your child is taking history in school or shows an interest before that, please buy them this book.

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G, G, & S is pretentious but shallow and illustrates the corruption of too much of American academia where political correctness masquerades as objective scholarship. It is as false as Lysenko's "biology." Diamond sets up a strawman,...
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It is remarkable and disappointing that Diamond's attempt to discover reasons for industrialization and technological development in certain cultures skirts the history of MONEY.
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Jared Diamond's at it again, providing a comprehensive view of the real root causes and conditions that have brought past civilizations to an end and what we can learn from them today. Though he delves on pre-set circumstances to help determine an...
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Here Diamond continues with the same line of thought he laid out in Guns, Germs and Steel. Unfortunately, given all the hype the man receives, his hypothesis is neither original nor sustainable. He entirely ignores phylogenic variables in his...
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Diamond's books are always filled with interesting facts and thought provoking theories about ancient societies. But while I enjoy reading his books, I find his conclusions are often undeveloped.

Although Diamond makes an effort to...
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I have been reading and comtemplating about the Meaning of My Life for 4-5 years now. After reading many books on a variety of subjects, I still recommend Barzun's book as my Top-2 best book for understanding LIFE, and therefore providing the...
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On page 753 of this book we meet a James Agate. We read some titbits on his finances, domestic arrangements and even the pronunciation of his name (which he preferred "to rhyme with hay-gate" whereas his acquaintances chose to say "Ay-git"). This...
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I'm an avid Jacques Barzun fan. I've read more than half-a-dozen of his well-written, incisive, and provocative books with great pleasure, and go out of my was to capture his frequent appraisals of culture today. I expected no less from this...
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This book is great because you can either read many chapters or a few lines and learn something new every time. The historical value, the value to wordsmiths and economic insight into the world of food is fascinating and the recipes sprinkled...
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Who knew that the everday kitchen compound we call salt was once a form of currency?

Mark Kurlansky did, and he painstakenly documented that and many other random facts in Salt: A World History. The book is detailed look at the...
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Salt is a great subject for a book. Everyone is familiar with salt. It complements the flavor of food (as with French fries). It can be used to preserve foods (salted fish for example). It can be used to process foods (such as cheeses). It...
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This is my first book I have read by Kapuscinski. So I had no idea what I was getting into but when I see Herodotus it always gets my attention. Kapuscinski carries you along on his personal global journies and ties in his experiences and that...
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very entertaining and gives a true and honest description of things without the silly Political Correctness and naive approach found in most similar books these days.
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All you need to know about greek mithology can be found with in this book.
Great mixture of info and pictures.
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Somewhere amid the oodles of glossy photos of athlete-festooned kraters and oinochoes, I was hoping to discover some well narrated myths. My quest was frustrated. Not only does the book provide, at best, sketchy coverage of the thrilling heroic...
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This book makes an good and convincing case for the importance of environmental issues as they affect the well being of all societies developed and developing.

The book is centered around the collapse of past societies, although this...
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I was sorry to find underlining in the book. Underlining should be revealed as part of the condition of the book,
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Jared Diamond has a gift for explaining complex phenomena to the average person in a way that is captivating and digestible. In this book, he tackles a topic (the collapse of societies) that is depressing to some and terrifying to others (I...
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