Paul Mason
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English
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Did the Ancient Romans eat chips? Who was the first queen to use a toilet? Have a city's streets ever been paved with gold? This book takes a fun look at history by asking and answering a series of quirky yet thought-provoking questions such as these! Although primarily a recreational read, the book nevertheless contains a wealth of fascinating information and bizarre facts about history that readers will be sure to find captivating.
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English
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The sweeping grasslands are a raging battleground! Witness towering Utahraptors threatening a young Iguanacolossus, Allosaurus locked on to giant Brontosaurus, and other titanic fights to the death. No dinosaur can surrender--all want to be predator, not prey.
3) Mummies
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32 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps ; 29 cm.
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English
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Introduces readers to mummies from many different cultures and periods in history. Mummies have been pulled out of bogs, dug up in the desert, created by monks and priests, and pried frozen out of the ice.
4) Cuba
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32 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps ; 29 cm.
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English
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Learn about Cuba: its history, conflicts, leadership, and more. is currently in the news"--Provided by publisher.
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xxi, 340 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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English
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"Over the past two centuries or so, capitalism has undergone profound changes--economic cycles that veer from boom to bust--from which it has always emerged transformed and strengthened. Surveying this turbulent history, Paul Mason's Postcapitalism argues that we are on the brink of a change so big and so profound that this time capitalism itself, the immensely complex system within which entire societies function, will mutate into something wholly...