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Author
Series
Publisher
[Distributed by] Recorded Books
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
12 sound discs (ca. 12 hr.): digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"Turning Points in Modern History takes you on a far-reaching journey around the globe-- from China to the Americas to New Zealand-- to shed light on how two dozen of the top discoveries, inventions, political upheavals, and ideas since 1400 have shaped the modern world. Taught by award-winning history professor Vejas Gabriel Liulevicius of the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, these 24 thought-provoking lectures tell the amazing story of how life...
Author
Series
Publisher
Dorling Kindersley Limited
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
620 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
"History will transform your view of the past. It looks at our development and progress from every angle. Exploring the key events, the crucial ideas, the political forces, the pivotal individuals, and the technological breakthroughs that have shaped the human history." - back cover
Author
Publisher
Gecko Press USA, an imprint of Geck Press Ltd
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly color illustrations ; 38 cm
Language
English
Description
An introduction to history for young and old, Timeline travels the story of our world, through a lens that captures myths and legends, dinosaurs, and great civilizations, kings and knights, discoveries and inventions.
Author
Series
Century trilogy volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
This novel picks up right where the first book left off, as its five interrelated families, American, German, Russian, English, Welsh, enter a time of enormous social, political, and economic turmoil, beginning with the rise of the Third Reich, through the Spanish Civil War and the great dramas of World War II, up to the explosions of the American and Soviet atomic bombs. Carla von Ulrich, born of German and English parents, finds her life engulfed...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
A trailblazing account of human history, challenging our most fundamental assumptions about social evolution-from the development of agriculture and cities to the emergence of "the state," political violence, and social inequality-and revealing new possibilities for human emancipation. For generations, our remote ancestors have been cast as primitive and childlike—either free and equal innocents, or thuggish and warlike. Civilization, we are...
Publisher
DK US, an imprint of Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
[2015].
Edition
First American Edition :
Physical Desc
160 pages : illustrations, color maps ; 31 cm.
Language
English
Description
Wrap up warm for a trip to the Ice Age, wonder at the invention of the wheel, show your support at the French Revolution, and blast off for the Moon landings! This fascinating history book for kids showcases the impact of global events over millennia and centuries past.
From ancient times to the 21st century, these colorful, detailed maps pinpoint exactly when and where the most important events and movements in history happened, as well as the part...
Author
Series
Publisher
Workman Publishing
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
502 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
A workbook that examines world history on a middle school level. Organized by key concepts, the text includes mnemonic devices, definitions, timelines and doodles to help the subject stick in your brain, so you can ace your class.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
443 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"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 us? Most...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
408 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
A critical assessment of the war on terror offers insight into such topics as the decision to invade Iraq, the high number of civilian casualties, and the United States' associations with questionable allies.
16) A mutiny in time
Author
Series
Infinity ring volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
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 Mar�ia--to correct history and defeat the SQ.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First US edition.
Physical Desc
xix, 645 pages, 16 pages of unnumbered plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Our world was made on and by the Silk Roads. For millennia it was here that East and West encountered each other through trade and conquest, leading to the spread of ideas and cultures, the birth of the world's great religions, the appetites for foreign goods that drove economies and the growth of nations. From the first cities in Mesopotamia to the growth of Greece and Rome to the depredations by the Mongols and the Black Death to the Great Game...
Author
Publisher
Chicago Review Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
xvii, 222 pages : 23 cm illustrations ;
Language
English
Description
"Special Agent Paul Landis is in the follow-up car directly behind JFK’s and is at the president’s limo as soon as it stops at Parkland Memorial Hospital. He is inside Trauma Room #1, where the president is pronounced dead. He is on Air Force One with the president’s casket on the flight back to Washington, DC; an eyewitness to Lyndon Johnson taking the oath of office. What he saw is indelibly imprinted upon his psyche. He writes and files his...
