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The Library of Ancient Wisdom pieces together a vivid portrait of Mesopotamian life from the shattered remnants of the 30 000 or so tablets in Ashurbanipal s library which not only bring kings and queens to life but also priests traders and professional lamenters New Scientist Fascinating and rich in detail provides an excellent survey of Mesopotamian literary classics and offers snippets of daily life Literary Review The story of the ancient world s most spectacular library and the civilization that created itWhen a team of Victorian archaeologists dug into a grassy hill in Iraq they chanced upon one of the oldest and greatest stores of knowledge ever seen the library of the Assyrian king Ashurbanipal seventh century BCE ruler of a huge swathe of the ancient Middle East known as Mesopotamia After his death vengeful rivals burned Ashurbanipal s library to the ground yet the texts carved on clay tablets were baked and preserved by the heat Buried for millennia the tablets were written in cuneiform the first written language in the world More than half of human history is written in cuneiform but only a few hundred people on earth can read it In this captivating new book Assyriologist Selena Wisnom takes us on an immersive tour of this ext

From one of the world s leading historians comes the first substantial study of environmentalism set in any country outside the Euro American world

The definitive account of the Tokyo war crimes trials of 1946 8 and the impact the settlement has had on post war China and Japan and on the wider the world right up to the present day

Diary of a Crisis explores the past tumultuous and traumatic year in Israel Palestine The eminent historian Saul Friedlander began a diary of Israeli politics in January 2023 as the country was convulsed by protests against Netanyahu s attempt to overhaul the judiciary Hundreds of thousands took to the streets to demonstrate against this threat to democracy But the protests said nothing about the Palestinian question the elephant in the room according to Friedlander who resumed his diary after Hamas s 7 October assault on southern Israel Israel was facing one of the worst crises in its history he observes under the worst possible internal conditions Friedlander weaves together profound reflections on a national history in which he has been an active participant He describes how Prime Minister Golda Meir once flatly declared to him There is no Palestinian people For Friedlander on the other hand the fight for democracy is inseparable from equality of treatment for Arab and Jewish citizens and an end to Israeli domination over Palestinians in the Occupied Territories He argues that despite the continuing bloodshed a two state solution remains the only long term answer to this most intractable of conflicts

If you want to discover the captivating history of Southeast Asia, then keep reading...Five captivating manuscripts in one book:History of Southeast Asia: A Captivating Guide to the History of a Vast Region Containing Countries Such as Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, Singapore, Indonesia, Burma, and MoreHistory of Thailand: A Captivating Guide to the Thai People and Their HistoryHistory of Vietnam: A Captivating Guide to Vietnamese HistoryHistory of Bali: A Captivating Guide to Balinese History and the Impact This Island Has Had on the History of Indonesia and Southeast AsiaHistory of the Philippines: A Captivating Guide to Philippine History

A feast for beer geeks and history buffs alike In the Land of Ninkasi tells the story of the world s first great beer culture In this authoritative but light hearted account of beers gone by archaeologist Tate Paulette brings the famous land between the rivers back to life in vivid detail We meet not only the beers of ancient Mesopotamia but also the people who brewed them and drank them the places where these people lived and worked the taverns and temples and tombs where they did their drinking the stories they told about beer their preferred styles of drinking their brewing equipment and drinking paraphernalia the gods and goddesses who governed their lives and who were also partial to a drink Rigorous in its scholarship yet staunchly unpretentious in style this beer centered travel guide for a trip back in time offers a clear roadmap into the ancient source material for those who are new to Mesopotamia Paulette weaves together insights drawn from archaeological remains ancient works of art and cuneiform texts He uses a series of narrative vignettes and thought experiments to interrogate specific pieces of evidence and pull the reader step by step into the process of analysis and interpretation explaining exactly what we know and how we know i

La historia reciente de Japón está marcada por el llamado «Triple Desastre», que se desencadenó el 11 de marzo de 2011 por la trágica confluencia de tres fenómenos: el mayor terremoto registrado en e

Arhundhati Roy narra en aquest llibre els mesos que va conviure amb els naxalites, les guerrilles que s’enfronten als abusos del govern i de les multinacionals des dels boscos de l’Índia. En aquest t