In the early Middle Ages is not from books to any of the ancient Roman civilization, knowledge has also appeared in many respects wakening also now rather than ignorance, and even the third grade of elementary school children. It seems that in our modern lives infinitely empty the Roman Empire...
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Summary: Five children from An City meet by chance in an old residential quarter, where there is an ancient academy and a “Cat Granny” caring for stray cats. Each having their own troubles to deal with, the children become friends and advocate for the same cause: to help Cat Granny rem...
More recent issues, however, have put the spotlight on the modern-day country of Armenia, whose roots date back to ancient times. Fortunately, I had inherited this book from my brother, and I pulled it out to sate my curiosity after learning about the recent conflict inNagorno-Karabakhand g...
The best books on the history of science—from the ancient world to the space race, recommended byMatthew Cobb, Professor of Zoology at the University of Manchester and author of a number of history and history of science books. His book on neuroscience,The Idea of the Brain,was shortlisted...
Xenophon in his famous work,Anabasis(The March of the Ten Thousand), recounted the dramatic story of how he led a stranded army of 10,000 Greek mercenaries out of Mesopotamia and back to Greece. In his narrative, he is looking at, in an ancient landscape, the remains of the cities of ...
He and his wife, Oriana (a novelist and travel writer), lived in an apartment on the Upper West Side and a country house in New England for summers and long weekends. Thus Once Around the Sun captures a very special civilization — that of Manhattan at a time when it sat atop American...
aI like reading for three reasons. First of all, books introduce me to a new world, which is colourful and without time and space limit, Through reading, I can trace back. to ancient Egypt, the cradle of human civilization. 我喜欢读为三个原因。 首先,书介绍我给一个新的世界,是五颜六色...
As Gray shows, palms sustained rainforest communities for thousands of years, contributing to the development of ancient civilizations across the globe. But as palms gained mystical and religious significance, they also became a plant of abstractions and fantasies, a contradictory symbol of leisure and...
He focuses on a "heyday of Egyptology" bookmarked by two epoch-making events: the decipherment of hieroglyphics, thanks to the Rosetta Stone, in 1822 and the discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb a century later. Our interview with Toby on Ancient Egypt is one of our most-read interviews on ...