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Author
Publisher
Hearst Home Kids
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
History comes alive in this beautifully illustrated book with bite-size facts (along with a touch of humor) that will engage and entertain young curious minds. Jam-packed with important events, inspiring accomplishments by remarkable people, and groundbreaking inventions, this super-fun fact-filled book, the first kids book from History Channel, includes the most interesting historical facts-from early civilization up to the 21st century all around...
Publisher
Athena
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Journalist Bill Moyers sits down with 16 prominent intellectuals for comprehensive conversations about American life. Features conversations with winners of the Nobel Prize, the Pulitzer, an Academy Award, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Booklet contains brief biographical sketches of each interviewee.
Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"An urgent examination of how disruptive politics, technology, and art are capsizing old assumptions in a great wave of change breaking over today's world, creating both opportunity and peril--from the Pulitzer Prize-winning critic and author of the New York Times bestseller The Death of Truth. The twenty-first century is experiencing a watershed moment defined by chaos and uncertainty, as one emergency cascades into another, underscoring the larger...
11) Pompeii
Author
Series
Publisher
Dash! Leveled Readers, an imprint of Abdo Zoom
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
700L
Language
English
Description
This title takes readers to Italy to discover the ruins of Pompeii. Fascinating and historical images, maps, and more facts complete this title. This series is at a Level 3 and is specifically written for transitional readers. Aligned to Common Core standards & correlated to state standards.
12) Petra
Author
Publisher
Dash!, an imprint of Abdo Zoom
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
610L
Language
English
Description
"This title takes readers to a valley in southern Jordan to discover the . . . city of Petra. Historical images, maps, and more facts complete this title"--OCLC.
13) Herakles inside and outside the church: from the first apologists to the end of the Quattrocento
Series
Metaforms volume Volume 18
Publisher
Brill
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Series
Publisher
Button Books, an imprint of Guild of Master Craftsman Publications, Ltd
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Take a journey back in time to the strange and spectacular land of the pharaohs. You'll meet the Egyptian gods, explore the river Nile, decipher hieroglyphics and discover the truth about the curse of Tutankhamun's tomb. Why did they build the pyramids? How were mummies made? And what is the mysterious Sphinx? Find the answers to these and many more questions inside!"--
15) Ancient empires
Publisher
A&E Television Networks
Pub. Date
[2024].
Language
English
Description
From Greece to Egypt to Italy, explore the dramatic rise and epic fall of three of the ancient world's most iconic rulers, Alexander the Great, Cleopatra, and Julius Caesar, in The HISTORY Channel's ANCIENT EMPIRES, an enthralling 7-hour docuseries. Filled with thrilling live-action sequences and explosive battle scenes, as well as insightful expert interviews from renowned authors, generals, and historians, this docuseries sheds new light on these...
Author
Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"In this remarkable and enlivening study, Stefanos Geroulanos traces the development of our modern fascination with humanity's deep past, and lays out that fascination's deadly costs." --Amia Srinivasan, author of The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century An eminent historian tells the story of how we came to obsess over the origins of humanity--and how, for three centuries, ideas of prehistory have been used to justify devastating violence...
Author
Publisher
Juggernaut
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
"Who are we Indians? Where did we come from? Many of us believe our ancestors have lived in South Asia since 'time immemorial'. But, as it turns out, 'time immemorial' may not have been all that long ago. To tell us the story of our ancestry, journalist Tony Joseph goes 65,000 years into the past - when a band of modern humans, or Homo sapiens, first made their way from Africa into the Indian subcontinent. Citing recent DNA evidence, he traces the...
18) Edge of survival
Author
Series
Edge of collapse volume 6
Publisher
Paper Moon Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Three months after an EMP attack destroys the U.S. power grid, starvation and disease have killed millions. With the end of winter finally in sight, the town of Fall Creek, Michigan balances on the precipice of collapse. They have suffered and sacrificed. But to forge a future worth living, they will have to face the darkness within themselves. Each must decide--will they retain their humanity or choose survival at any cost?
19) Edge of valor
Author
Series
Edge of collapse volume 7
Publisher
Paper Moon Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"The final battle for Fall Creek looms...and not everyone will make it out alive."--