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A History of Art and Civilization: The Asian World

Author(s): Trudy McNair

Trudy McNair’s A History of Art and Civilization series provides comprehensive coverage of the art and cultural history of different regions and time periods throughout antiquity. The texts place art and societal movements in context, giving students a panoramic view of history and an understanding ...

A Guide to Wider Horizons

Author(s): Kevin Krisciunas

This is a book by an astronomer, but it is not primarily about astronomy... A Guide to Wider Horizons also discusses physics, mathematics, biology, statistics, linguistics, ethics, history, economics, and literature. Its purpose is to introduce the reader to a large number of interesting ideas, a...

Got an Hour? Take a Hike!: Trails of South Orange County

Author(s): Jan Duquette

New Publication! South Orange County has an abundance of trails, unknown by many residents and visitors to this stunning California Coastal area. The remarkable areas vary from sandy beaches, inland canyons, and trails with panoramic views of the sometimes snow-capped Saddleback Mountains, all th...

World Religions: Historical and Philosophical Perspectives

Author(s): Donald Viney

This book is titled World Religions rather than The World’s Religions because I am not trying to canvass all of the religions in the world, only those religions of the world that are more or less products of what Karl Jaspers called the axial age, roughly 800 to 200 BCE. These are religions with lon...