{"product_id":"between-two-rivers","title":"Between Two Rivers","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eBetween Two Rivers\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eMoudhy Al-Rashid\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9781324134589\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eW. W. Norton \u0026amp; Company\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2026\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003ePaperback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber of Pages: \u003c\/b\u003e336\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eNew from the publisher\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eThousands of years ago, in a part of the world we now call ancient Mesopotamia, people began writing things down for the very first time.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhat they left behind, in a vast region between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, preserves leaps in human ingenuity, like the earliest depiction of a wheel and the first approximation of pi. But they also capture breathtakingly intimate, raw, and relatable moments, like a dog's paw prints as it accidentally stepped into fresh clay, or the imprint of a child's teeth.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eBetween Two Rivers\u003c\/em\u003e, historian Dr. Moudhy Al-Rashid reveals what these ancient people chose to record about their lives, allowing us to brush hands with them millennia later. We find a lullaby to soothe a baby, instructions for exorcising a ghost, countless receipts for beer, and the messy writing of preschoolers. We meet an enslaved person negotiating their freedom, an astronomer tracing the movement of the planets, a princess who may have created the world's first museum, and a working mother struggling with \"the juggle\" in 1900 BCE.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMillennia ago, Mesopotamians saw the world's first cities, the first writing system, early seeds of agriculture, and groundbreaking developments in medicine and astronomy. With breathtaking intimacy and grace, Al-Rashid brings their lives--with all their anxieties, aspirations, and intimacies--vividly close to our own.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"W. W. Norton \u0026 Company","offers":[{"title":"Between Two Rivers | Moudhy Al-Rashid | Paperback | 9781324134589 | New | History 1765060","offer_id":50777864208642,"sku":"1765060","price":33.26,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0609\/3327\/5906\/files\/91nLKVulqnL.jpg?v=1792168110","url":"https:\/\/boswellsbooks.com\/products\/between-two-rivers","provider":"Boswell's Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}