Just about all the people who really matter in one handy and endlessly browsable book

This is a revised version of an unrivalled small reference work for working historians.

With over 7,500 entries, this dictionary includes wars, treaties, plots and political movements, along with nations of the world, international organizations and biographies of key figures. It contains a helpful system of cross-references and highlights connections between individuals, ideas and events.

* Blending real historical characters and situations, Elizabeth Chadwick's latest novel takes readers back in time to life and love in the eleventh century.

Cave paintings at Lascaux, France and Altamira, Spain, fraught with expression thousands of years later; point to an early human desire to form a cultural identity. This companion explores the role of mythology, or myth-logic, in history and determines that the dreams of specific cultures add up to a larger collective story of humanity.

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