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Based on Sumerian tablets and ancient DNA, this book reveals the world’s first pandemic. Historians have many theories for the demise of the Sumer and Indus Valley civilisations, but none ever proposed an infectious disease. This book rewrites ancient history.
This book tells the story of the world’s first documented pandemic, based on ancient Sumerian cuneiform tablets and ancient DNA from skeletons. This pandemic eventually involved all of Eurasia and spread to India and Russia. Ancient historians have suggested many theories for the demise of Sumer and the Indus Valley civilisations; but none have ever proposed the possibility of an infectious disease – a pandemic.
Hence, this book rewrites ancient history and asks people to consider the possibility of an infectious disease pandemic being the cause of the eradication of a civilisation.
This history documents the persecution of Jehovah’s Witnesses in Eastern Europe. It compares their survival under different political systems, from dictatorships to modern Russia, where a renewed ban has returned Soviet-era conditions of repression.
They are Third Culture Kids. While their global lifestyle offers an expanded worldview, it brings recurring losses. In this collection, writers from around the world explore the search for identity, belonging, and a place to call “home.”
Under the guise of protection, Britain overran, plundered and disempowered the kingdom of Buganda. Based on newly de-classified records, this book reconstructs the machinations of British rule in Uganda, demonstrating how its colonial past shapes its future.
Western civilisation is on a path to destruction. This isn’t scaremongering – it is science.
A revolutionary new theory links human biology with the rise and fall of civilisations—a cataclysmic relationship that brought all other Empires to their knees.
Highlighting pioneering and ground-breaking Egyptian women that the media have overlooked and ignored, this collection shatters the monolithic and unflattering stereotype of contemporary Egyptian women as victims, uneducated and uncivilized, dominated by men.
Selahattin Ülkümen, a Turkish diplomat, is the only Muslim designated “Righteous among the Nations” for saving 42 Jews from the Nazis at his own risk. The remarkable story of this hero is an important but little-known aspect of Holocaust history. This book fills that void.
This book combines the history of religions with Byzantine studies to analyze kings, symbols, and cities. It demonstrates how the ancient pagan ruler cult was gradually replaced by the ruler becoming subordinate to Christ, the ‘Master of All’ (Pantokrator).
What drives the rise and fall of civilisations? Biohistory’s revolutionary answer is biology. This testable theory explains why the West is in terminal decline and reveals its only hope may lie in biochemistry.
This anthology examines artwork and sites in East and Southeast Asia through the lens of eco–art history, exploring the mutual impact of artistic expression and local environments. Case studies range from the Little Ice Age to contemporary responses to climate change.
This book examines the Pioneer Health Centre, a world-renowned experiment in health-creation. Forced to close in 1950, its ideas continue to inspire. It investigates why such initiatives struggle against a culture that values cure more than prevention.
Wine: our oldest medicine. Uncover its 9,500-year history, from its true origins in China to how it can reduce death rates by 50% and dementia by 80%. This groundbreaking book rewrites everything you thought you knew about the health benefits of wine.
