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History Begins at Sumer: Thirty-Nine Firsts in Man's Recorded History
by Samuel Noah Kramer. 388 pgs.
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Preface to the First Edition
List of Illustrations
Photographic Sources
Chapter 1: Education
Chapter 2: Schooldays
Chapter 3: Father and Son
Chapter 4: International Affairs
Chapter 5: Government
Chapter 6: Civil War in Sumer
Chapter 7: Social Reform
Chapter 8: Law Codes
Chapter 9: Justice
Chapter 10: Medicine
Chapter 11: Agriculture
Chapter 12: Horticulture
Chapter 13: Philosophy
Chapter 14: Ethics
Chapter 15: Suffering and Submission
Chapter 16: Wisdom
Chapter 17: Aesopica
Chapter 18: Logomachy
Chapter 19: Paradise
Chapter 20: A Flood
Chapter 21: Hades
Chapter 22: Slaying of the Dragon
Chapter 23: Tales of Gilgamesh
Chapter 24: Epic Literature
Chapter 25: To the Royal Bridegroom
Chapter 26: Book Lists
Chapter 27: World Peace and Harmony
Chapter 28: Ancient Counterparts of Modern Woes
Chapter 29: Destruction and Deliverance
Chapter 30: The Ideal King
Chapter 31: Shulgi of Ur
Chapter 32: Poetry
Chapter 33: The Sacred Marriage Rite the First Sex Symbolism
Chapter 34: Weeping Goddesses
Chapter 35: U-A A-U-A
Chapter 36: The Ideal Mother
Chapter 37: Three Funeral Chants
Chapter 38: The Pickaxe and the Plow
Chapter 39: Home of the Fish
Corrigenda and Addenda to the Second Edition
Appendixes
Appendix B: The Origin and Development of the Cuneiform System of Writing and Other Comments on the Illustrations
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Iraq: From Sumer to Saddam
by Geoff Simons. 444 pgs.
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Preface to the Second Edition
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part I: Iraq in the New World Order
1: After the 1991 Gulf War
Part II: The History of Iraq
2: The Ancient Crucible
3: The Arabs, Islam and the Caliphate
4: Seljuks, Mongols and Ottomans
5: The Western Impact
6: From Monarchy to Republic
7: Into the Era of Saddam
Part III: Towards the New World Order
8: War with the West
Notes
Bibliography
Index
3.
The Face of the Ancient Orient: A Panorama of Near Eastern Civilizations in Pre-Classical Times (Chap. 3 "The Sumerians")
by Sabatino Moscati. 328 pgs.
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Part I: The Conditions
1: The Oriental Renaissance
Part II: The Components
2: The Sumerians
3: The Babylonians and Assyrians
4: The Egyptians
Part III: The Catalysts
5: The Hittites and the Hurrians
6: The Canaanites and the Aramaeans
7: Israel
Part IV: The Synthesis
8: The Persians
9: The Face of the Ancient Orient
Index
4.
Ancient Civilizations: The Near East and Mesoamerica (Chap. 3 "The Rise of Civilization: Egypt, Sumer, and the Indus")
by C. C. Lamberg-Karlovsky, Jeremy A. Sabloff. 347 pgs.
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Ancient Civilizations the near East and Mesoamerica
Foreword
Preface
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1: The History of History
2: Agricultural Communities: the near Eastern Evidence
3: The Rise of Civilization: Egypt, Sumer, and the Indus
4: Ancient Mesoamerican Civilization
5: General Considerations and Future Directions
Selected References
Index
5.
Sumerian Mythology: A Study of Spiritual and Literary Achievement in the Third Millennium B.C.
by Samuel Noah Kramer. 132 pgs.
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Introduction: The Sources: the Sumerian Literary Tablets Dating From Approximately 2000 B. C.
Chapter I: The Scope and Significance of Sumerian Mythology
Chapter II: Myths of Origins
Chapter III: Myths of Kue
Chapter IV: Miscellaneous Myths
Chapter V: References and Notes
Supplementary Notes
Index
6.
Forgotten Religions: Including Some Living Primitive Religions ("Sumerian Religion" begins on p. 47)
by Vergilius Ferm. 394 pgs.
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Books by Vergilius Ferm
Editor's Preface
Table of Contents
List of Contributors
The Dawn of Religions
Notes
The Religion of Ancient Egypt
Sumerian Religion
Assyro-Babylonian Religion
Hittie Religion
Bibliography
The Religion of Canaanites
Bibliography and Notes
Religion in Prehistoric Greece
Mystery Religions of Greece
The Inhabited World
Mithraism
Manichaeism
Makdakism
Bibliography
Old Norse Religion
Bibliography
Tibetan Religion
The Religion of the Australian Aborigines
South American Indian Religions
Shamanism
The Religion of the Eskimos
Bibliography
The Religion of the Navaho Indians
The Religion of the Hopi Indians
Index
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New Light on the Most Ancient East (Chap. 7 "The Urban Revolution in Mesopotamia")
by V. Gordon Childe. 258 pgs.
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Preface to the Fourth Edition
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List of Figures
Chapter I from History to Prehistory
Chapter II: The Setting of the Stage
Chapter IV Africans and Asiatics on the Nile
Chapter V: The Rise of the Pharaohs
Chapter VI: The Colonization of Mesopotamia
Chapter VII: The Urban Revolution in Mesopotamia
Chapter VIII: The Early Dynastic Period
Chapter IX: Indian Civilization in the Third Millennium B.C.
Chapter X: From the Tigris to the Indus
Chapter XI: Between the Horns of the Fertile Crescent
Chapter XII: Proofs of Diffusion
Bibliography: Books Cited in More Than One Chapter
Abbreviations
Index
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From Sumer to Rome: The Military Capabilities of Ancient Armies
by Richard A. Gabriel, Karen S. Metz. 186 pgs.
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Recent Titles in Contributions in Military Studies
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Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1: The World's First Armies
CONCLUSION
2: The Military Revolution
CONCLUSION
3: Weapons and Lethality
4: Death, Wounds, and Injury
5: Military Medical Care
6: The Legacy of the Ancients
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index
About the Authors
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The Art of the Middle East including Persia, Mesopotamia and Palestine (Chap. 3 "Sumer: From the Beginnings of Art to the End of the Early Dynastic Period" and Chap. 4 "Sumer and Akkad; the Sargonid Age and the Third Dynasty of Ur to the Time of Hammurabi")
by Leonard Woolley. 259 pgs.
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Foreword
Chapter I The Geography of the Middle East And Its History Down to 500 A.D.
Chapter II Elam Before the Coming of The Indo-Europeans
Chapter III Sumer: From the Beginnings of Art To The End Of The Early Dynastic Period
Chapter IV Sumer and Akkad; the Sargonid Age And the Third Dynasty of Ur To the Time of Hammurabi
Chapter V Syria and Palestine: from The Earliest Times Until The Conquest of Alexander
Chapter VI The Hurri and the Hittites
Chapter VII Anatolia, 1200-330 B.C.
Chapter VIII Assyria and Neo-Babylonia
Chapter IX Graeco-Roman Art in the Middle East
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