Religion in Human Evolution: From the Paleolithic to the Axial Age
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Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings
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The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism
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Miraculously preserved on clay tablets dating back as much as four thousand years, the poem of Gilgamesh, king of Uruk, is the world’s oldest epic, predating Homer by many centuries. The story tells o…
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The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century (The Princeton Economic History of the Western World)
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Why the West Rules—for Now: The Patterns of History, and What They Reveal About the Future
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