Author: Piotr Michalowski
Publisher: Eisenbrauns
Keywords: civilizations, vol, mesopotamian, sumer, over, destruction, lamentation
Number of Pages: 219
Published: 1989-01-01
List price: $49.50
ISBN-10: 0931464439
ISBN-13: 9780931464430

Author: Tristan Boyer Binns
Publisher: Compass Point Books
Keywords: ancient, civilizations, point, compass, chinese
Number of Pages: 32
Published: 2006-09
List price: $27.93
ISBN-10: 0756516471
ISBN-13: 9780756516475

This book introduces the reader to the fascinating world of the ancient Chinese. It explores how the Chinese worked, played, and lived their daily lives. It also looks at how the Chinese world was ruled and how they built massive structures, including the Great Wall. Did you ynow? The Great Wall was built more than 2,400 years ago. The Chinese built many inventions from their vast knowledge of math and science. Ancient Chinese coins looked like tiny knives. The Ancient Civilizations series tells the stories of the greatest cultures in human history and explains the lives of ancient people with

Author: Anita Ganeri
Publisher: Compass Point Books
Keywords: ancient, civilizations, point, compass, egyptians
Number of Pages: 32
Published: 2006-09
List price: $27.93
ISBN-10: 0756516455
ISBN-13: 9780756516451

Part of a series which explores many different topics from a range of viewpoints. Science, history, maths, geography, technology, art, language and music are some of the many aspects treated in the cross-curricular approach.

Author: Mehdi Mozaffari
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: civilizations, globalization
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2002-12-06
List price: $52.95
ISBN-10: 0415286158
ISBN-13: 9780415286152

This collection challenges established assumptions about the nature of civilizations and the supposed inevitability of the conflict between the Islamic and Western worlds. Uniquely, this edited book critically interrogates the concept of ’civilization’ by asking whether it is still valid in the globalized world economy of the twenty-first century.

Author: Carroll Quigley
Publisher: Liberty Fund Inc.
Keywords: civilizations, evolution
Number of Pages: 444
Published: 2010-11-30
List price: $12.00
ISBN-10: 0913966576
ISBN-13: 9780913966570

A comprehensive and perceptive look at the factors behind the rise and fall of civilizations. Quigley defines a civilization as "a producing society with an instrument of expansion". A civilization’s decline is not inevitable but occurs when its instrument of expansion is transformed into an institution-that is, when social arrangements that meet real social needs are transformed into social institutions serving their own purposes regardless of real social needs.

Author: Jill Carroll
Publisher: Tughra Books
Keywords: civilizations, dialogue
Number of Pages: 128
Published: 2007-04-21
List price: $13.95
ISBN-10: 1597841102
ISBN-13: 9781597841108

Fethullah Glen is a Turkish intellectual, scholar, and activist whose influence over a new Islamic intellectual, social, and spiritual revival is revealed in this insightful book. Readers will gain a fuller understanding of where Glen stands on issues of inherent human value and dignity, freedom of thought, education and taking responsibility for creating society and the world. In addition, readers will also see how different perspectives across time, geography, and worldview can still find points on which to engage in dialogue and find a deep resonance.

Author: Mehdi Mozaffari
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: civilizations, globalization
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2002-12-06
List price: $170.00
ISBN-10: 041528614X
ISBN-13: 9780415286145

Critically interrogates the concept of ’civilization’ by asking whether it is still valid in the globalized world economy of the twenty-first century.