I am on a jillion book catalogue mailing lists.
The latest copy of Edward R. Hamilton is here.
For those not on that mailing list, its a large
catalogue of cheap books at deep discount.
Some interesting books to consider for AA readers.
Phoenicians - Peoples of the Past
Glenn A. Markoe
3279790 UCaP list $24.95 $7.95
Paper back.
Reconstructs what we currently know about the
mysterious people who occupied the narrow stip of
lands between the Lebanon mountains and the Mediterranian
sea.
The Phoenicians often get a bum rap in the bible.
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The Fourth Crusade and the Sack of Constantinople
Jonathan Phillips. Viking Press
List $25.95 Sale $16.95
In April 1204 the armies of Western Christiandom wrote another
bloodstained chapter in the history of holy war. Two years earlier,
aflame with religous zeal, the fourth crusade set out to free
Jerusalem from the grip of Islam. Here the whole brutal
episode is recounted.
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Secrets of the Bible
By the editors of Archaeology Magazine
List $25.95 Sale $17.95
217 pages
4204840 Hatherleigh Publishing
Tracing the stories in the Bible from Abraham
to Paul, scholars are studying ruins in Jericho, Capernum,
Hazor, Ekron and Jerusalem, among other sites, and are
revealing that archaeological facts don't always match
biblical history.
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First Crusader - Byzantium's Holy Wars.
Geoffery Regen
Palgrave Pub. 280 pages 4227794
List $29.95 Sale $11.95
Challenging the view that "crusade" is only appropriate
to medieval Western christianity, it argues that the
true first crusaders came from the East several centuries
earlier.
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Encyclopedia of Genocide
Edited by Israel W. Charney
4264711 ABC-Clio pub.
2 Vols 718 pages.
Published at $174.00 Sale $39.95
Features A - Z entries which offer comprehensive coverage
of many known genocides - The Nazi Holocaust and the
genocides of Cambodia - as well as the deliberate systematic
eradication of indigineous peoples around the world -
from the aborigines in Australia to the Native Americans.
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The Sceptor and the Star - The Messiahs of
the Dead Sea Scrolls and Other Ancient Literature.
John L. Collins.
4218493 Doubleday pub. 270 pages
List $35.00 Sale $9.95
Turns to ancient manuscripts to shed light on
the origins, meaning and relevance of messianic
expectation, particularly in Judaism, and offers
surprising insights on Judaism's messianic
expectations.
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Illustrated Survey of the Bible.
Derek Tidball et al.
4219953 Bethany House 256 pages
Published at $18.99 Sale $8.95
Presents a concise overview of each book in the bible
with backround information, outline of its content,
the principle message, applications for today (sure)
and suggestions for further study.
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Mullahs, Merchants and Militants
Stephan J. Glain
4120906 St Martin's Press 350 pages.
$25.95 Sale 17.95
Takes the reader on a journey through the heart of what
was once the great Islamic caliphates - the countries
now known as Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Palestine, Iraq and
Egypt to illustrate how a once prosperous and enlightened
civilization finds itself at the precipice of a dark age.
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The Closing of the Western Mind
The Rise and Fall of Reason
Charles Freeman
5019397 432 pages Vintage Press
$16.95 Sale $11.95
Fascinating exploration of a turning point in Western
civilization - the first alliance ofchurch and state
in the aftermath of the Roman emperor Constantine's
conversion to Christianity in the fourth century AD
which set the stage for the triumph of faith over reason.
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When I shake my killfile, I can hear them buzzing!
Cheerful Charlie
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