Robert E Edgar These essays clearly demonstrate that santions substantially weakened the apartheid regime's ability to sustain itself and helped strengthen the stuggle for majority rule in South Africa. January...

John Romer One of the best-known historians working today, and a world-renowned expert on the ancient world, presents a brilliant account of the lives of the stonemasons, scribes, and painters...

Colleen McCullough A sweeping epic of ancient Rome from the #1 bestselling author of The Thorn BirdsIn this breathtaking follow-up to The October Horse , Colleen McCullough turns her attention...

John Romer Depicts the history of ancient Egypt and portrays the religious beliefs, family life, and culture of both the common people and court life December 5, 1989 by Penguin...

Daniel C Snell In this sweeping overview of life in the ancient Near East, Daniel Snell surveys the history of the region from the invention of writing five thousand years...

Michel Chauveau The book provides an easily digestible introduction to Cleopatra's world... A fascinating introduction to an era when the political and military face of the Mediterranean world was changing...

Erik Hornung "A concise and detailed summary... This is a recommended book for all searching for details on important Egyptian texts."―Francesca Jourdan, quik.com Ancient Egyptians held a rich and complex...

E.A. Wallis Budge (Translator), R.O. Faulkner (Translator), Carol A.R. Andrews (Editor) For millennia, the culture and philosophy of the ancient Egyptians have fascinated artists, historians, and spiritual seekers throughout the...

GM Goshgarian, Dimitri Meeks, Christine Favard-Meeks This is the first English translation of a highly appealing volume originally published in French in 1993. Informed by a sense of wonderment at...

Doris Lessing In this illuminating, moving memoir Doris Lessing, the Nobel laureate, gives us a tale of two halves, of fiction and memory. She revisits her parents' lives as they...

Maaza Mengiste Set during Mussolini's 1935 invasion of Ethiopia, The Shadow King takes us back to the first real conflict of World War II, casting light on the women soldiers...

Michael Lerner and Cornel West Examining the issues that have united Blacks and Jews in the past and now separate them, two long-time friends and leading intellectuals try to restore...