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1 videodisc (54 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Some five centuries ago, a major revolution overturned traditional ship designs. In just a few years, ships were transformed from small coastal-bound transports into massive ocean-going vessels capable of long-distance exploration. These designs were crucial to launching Europe's age of imperial expansion and colonial exploitation, toppling the indigenous civilizations of the New World and spreading pandemics.
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282 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm
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English
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Modern humans have come a long way in the seventy thousand years they've walked the earth. Art, science, culture, trade -- on the evolutionary food chain, we're true winners. But it hasn't always been smooth sailing, and sometimes -- just occasionally -- we've managed to truly f*ck things up. Weaving together history, science, politics and pop culture, Phillips offers a panoramic exploration of humankind in all its glory, or lack thereof. From Lucy,...
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230 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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"There is more history in a bowl of pasta than in the Colosseum," writes Andreas Viestad in Dinner in Rome. From the table of a classic Roman restaurant, Viestad takes us on a fascinating culinary exploration of the Eternal City and global civilization. Food, he argues, is history's secret driving force. Viestad finds deeper meanings in his meal: He uses the bread that begins his dinner to trace the origins of wheat and its role in Rome's rise as...
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Infinity ring volume 1
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190 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
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English
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Time has gone wrong, and best friends Dak Smyth and Sera Froste, together with the young Hystorian Riq, must use the infinity ring to travel back to one of the Great Breaks--a mutiny on the Santa María--to correct history and defeat the SQ.
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166 pages : chiefly black and white illustrations ; 23 cm
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English
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"Ida B. Wells, the Black Prince, and Benito Juárez burst off the pages of Step Aside, Pops: A Hark! A Vagrant Collection, armed with modern-sounding quips and amusingly on-point repartee. Kate Beaton's second D+Q book brings her hysterically funny gaze to bear on these and even more historical, literary, and contemporary figures. Irreverently funny and carefully researched, no target is safe from Beaton's incisive wit in these satirical strips"--...
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xxii, 617 pages : black and white photographs ; 25 cm
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English
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Few, if any, historians have brought such insight, wisdom, and empathy to public discourse as Jill Lepore. Arriving at The New Yorker in 2005, Lepore, with her panoptical range and razor-sharp style, brought a transporting freshness and a literary vivacity to everything from profiles of long-dead writers to urgent constitutional analysis to an unsparing scrutiny of the woeful affairs of the nation itself. The astonishing essays collected in The Deadline...
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492 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
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Español
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Hace 100 mil años por lo menos seis especies diferentes de seres humanos habitaron la tierra. Sin embargo hoy en día hay sólo uno -- homo sapiens. ¿Qué pasó con los otros? ¿Y lo que nos puede pasar? De examinar el papel evolutivo de los seres humanos han desempeñado en el ecosistema global para trazar el surgimiento de imperios, Sapiens integra historia y ciencia a reconsiderar relatos aceptados, conectar pasado desarrollos con preocupaciones...
68) Hark!: a vagrant
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166 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 23 cm
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English
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"Hark! A Vagrant" takes readers on a romp through history and literature--with dignity for few and cookies for all--with comic strips about famous authors, their characters, and political and historical figures, all drawn in Kate Beaton's pared-down, excitable style. This collection features favorite stories as well as new, previously unpublished content. Whether she's writing about Nikola Tesla, Napoleon, or Nancy Drew, Beaton brings a refined sense...
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xiii, 446 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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English
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Explores the concept of land ownership and how it has shaped history, examining how people fight over, steward, and occasionally share land, and what humanity's proprietary relationship with land means for the future.
"Land examines in depth how we determine where the land lies, how we acquire it, how we steward it, how and why we fight over it, and, finally, how we can, and on occasion do, come to share it. Ultimately, Winchester confronts the...
70) Three plays
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xxxii, 423 pages ; 21 cm.
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English
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From celebrated Pulitzer Prize-winning author and playwright Thornton Wilder, three of the greatest plays in American literature together in one volume: Our Town, The Skin of Our Teeth, and The Matchmaker. This essential compendium includes a preface by the author, as well as a foreword by playwright John Guare.
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415 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 26 cm
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English
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Earth? Space? Animals? History? STEM? The Britannica All New Kids' Encyclopedia has them all. This beautifully illustrated, 415-page compendium of knowledge is a must-have addition to every family bookshelf and library collection! With more than 100 expert consultants from around the world, and over 1000 images, including specially commissioned illustrations, stunning photography, and maps this single-volume encyclopedia for kids takes Britannica's...
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252 pages : chiefly color illustrations, color maps ; 29 cm
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English
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In the second "Sapiens" volume, Yuval Noah Harari tells the story of how we took over the world; how an unlikely marriage between a god and a bureaucrat created the first empires; and how war, famine, disease, and inequality became a part of the human condition. The origins of modern farming are introduced through Elizabethan tragedy, the changing fortunes of domesticated plants and animals are tracked in the columns of the Daily Business News, and...
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128 pages : color illustrations, color maps, portraits ; 29 cm
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Español
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Presenta breves perfiles de cien inventores, filósofos, economistas, políticos, exploradores y otras personas que han hecho un impacto en la historia, la discusión de los logros de Aristóteles, Mark Zuckerberg, Marie Curie, Pelé, y otros de diversas industrias.
Presents brief profiles of one hundred inventors, philosophers, economists, politicians, explorers, and other individuals who have made an impact on history, discussing the achievements...
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"From a renowned historian comes a groundbreaking narrative of humanity's creation and evolution -- a #1 international bestseller -- that explores the ways in which biology and history have defined us and enhanced our understanding of what it means to be "human." One hundred thousand years ago, at least six different species of humans inhabited Earth. Yet today there is only one -- homo sapiens. What happened to the others? And what may happen to...
76) The rise of ISIS
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1 videodisc (56 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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In The Rise of ISIS, Martin Smith (Gangs of Iraq; Beyond Baghdad) draws on in-depth interviews with Iraqi politicians, and American policymakers and military leaders to explore and explain how the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) became a major force so quickly. What does it mean for the U.S. to be back in Iraq, fighting a new war on terror, less than three years after American troops pulled out of the country? Smith delivers a revelatory look...
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310 pages : color ; 26 cm
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English
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The present can loom very large in a child's mind: all the challenges of the modern world can feel overwhelming and, at times, dispiriting. Big Ideas from History is an immense story of what has happened through time, from the beginnings of the universe to now, that speaks personally and constructively to a growing mind. The book encourages children to think about how and why they experience the world as they do and offers a helpful perspective by...
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445 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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"For the past twenty years, Bronson Powers, former Hollywood stuntman and converted Mormon, has been homesteading deep in the uninhabited desert outside Joshua Tree with his three wives and ten children. Bronson and his wives, Yalulah, Mary, and Jackie, have been raising their family away from the corruption and evil of the modern world. Their insular existence - controversial, difficult, but Edenic - is upended when the ambitious young developer...
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440 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps ; 32 cm.
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English
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More than 140 detailed maps tell the story of pivotal episodes in world history, from the first human migrations out of Africa to the space race. Custom regional and global maps present the history of the world in action, charting how events traced patterns on land and ocean--patterns of exploration, discovery, or conquest that created empires, colonies, or theaters of war. Thoughtful organization of information will help you follow the story of civilizations...
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xxii, 753 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
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English
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"A fascinating, epic exploration of who gets to record the world's history -- from Julius Caesar to William Shakespeare to Ken Burns -- and how their biases influence our understanding about the past. There are many stories we can spin about previous ages, but which accounts get told? And by whom? Is there even such a thing as "objective" history? In this lively and thought-provoking book, Richard Cohen reveals how professional historians and other...
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