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Publisher
Teaching Co
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
A 48-lecture course that reveals the stories of how human beings around the world transitioned from small farming communities to the impressive cultural and political systems that would forever alter the course of history. Taking a gripping archaeological and historical approach to these formative states and civilizations, archaeologist and Professor Scott MacEachern of Bowdoin College completes your understanding of the history of human civilization{u2014}by...
Author
Publisher
Prometheus Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"Everyone loves a good villain! From the back pages of history, vivid, entertaining portraits of little-known scoundrels whose misdeeds range from the simply inept to the truly horrifying. Even if you're an avid history buff, you've probably never heard of this disreputable cast of characters: A drunken, ne'er-do-well cop who abandoned his post at Ford's Theatre, giving assassin John Wilkes Booth unchallenged access to President Lincoln; a notorious...
25) Sacred planet
Publisher
Disney DVD
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Explores the wild and exotic places around the world that people call home; included are old forests, glaciers, snow capped mountains, tropical jungles, deserts, beaches and more.
Publisher
A&E Home Video
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Did you know that 1% of the white noise you see on your television is actually background radiation from The Big Bang? This CGI-driven special will tell the 14 billion year history of our world in two hours. It's an epic story that will give surprising connections to our daily lives. From the formation of the earth and the emergence of life, to the advance of man and the growth of civilization, it's a rapid-fire view of our unforgettable story.
Publisher
Discovery Communications
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Take an epic adventure with intimate insight into the big, bold, and tenacious country of Australia. In the vast interior, a man transforms the struggle to survive into a game of pathos and humor; on the coast, a naval cadet dreams of a place in the sophisticated navy of the world's largest island; in the tropical North, a couple preserves a storehouse of culture over 40,000 years old; along the Gold Coast, a woman competes to win against nature's...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
730L
Language
English
Description
Taken from her home on an Aegean island as a six-year-old girl, Anaxandra calls on the protection of her goddess while she poses as two different princesses over the next six years, before ending up as a servant in the company of Helen and Paris as they make their way to Troy.
Author
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
In Killer Apes, Naked Apes, and Just Plain Nasty People, anthropologist Richard J. Perry delivers a scathing critique of determinism. Exploring the historical context and enduring popularity of the movement over the past century and a half, he debunks the facile and the reductionist thinking of so many popularizers of biological determinism while considering why biological explanations have resonated in ways that serve to justify deeply conservative...
Publisher
Distributed by Questar
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
This video story not only traces the Spanish conquest of the Aztecs and Maya, but also follows the journeys, in 1839, of New York explorer John L. Stephens to these strange and wonderful cities. Using computer graphic reconstruction, animated maps, classic art, reanactment and beautiful on-location cinematography, the viewer sees Teotihuacan, Cholula, Monte Alban, Chichen Itza, Tenochtitlian, Tikal, Copan, Uxmal, and Palenque as they might have looked...
Series
Publisher
Time-Life Video and Television (distributor)
Pub. Date
[1995]
Language
English
Description
With the opening of the tomb of Tutankhamen the world was provided with details of the ancient civilization of Egypt. In the land of the pharaohs a culture existed that believed in eternal life for all, from farmer to aristocracy. Now archaeologists are discovering the mysteries of the ancients, from preparing a mummy for burial to the technology necessary to raise enormous stone buildings.
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"One of our most important public intellectuals reveals the hidden history of our current global crisis. How can we explain the origins of the great wave of paranoid hatreds that seem inescapable in our close-knit world--from American 'shooters' and ISIS to Trump, from a rise in vengeful nationalism across the world to racism and misogyny on social media? In Age of Anger, Pankaj Mishra answers our bewilderment by casting his gaze back to the eighteenth...
Author
Publisher
Hachette Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"From the Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist George F. Will, his ninth collection of reflections on our culture, examining the many ways in which expertise, reason, and manners are continually under attack in our institutions, courts, political arenas, and social venues. George F. Will has been one of this country's leading columnists since 1974. He won the Pulitzer Prize for it in 1977. The Wall Street Journal once called him "perhaps the most powerful...
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
In the epic final season, Daryl and Maggie embark on a risky mission with Negan to root out the shadowy Reapers while Eugene and Ezekiel make contact with the sprawling Commonwealth. To secure aid for Alexandria, their goal, they must assimilate, a tough ask for people who have seen no end of deceit, betrayal, and loss. Stunned by the Commonwealth₂s resources, the group slowly adjusts to their new home, but they cannot ignore what lurks beneath...
Publisher
A & E Television Networks
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
The fourth season of the television series analyzes alien evidence here on Earth to investigate extraterrestrial forces and Earth's natural disasters; extraterrestrial beings, the Mayans' disappearance and the doomsday prophecies; and the existence of grey aliens.
Publisher
WGBH Boston Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
In the suburbs of Lima, Peruvian archaeologists make a startling find - dozens of hasty burials with bones disfigured by violent, traumatic injuries. The victims are from a fierce, little-known battle between club-wielding Inca warriors and the Spanish cavalry. The battle is a decisive turning point that helps explain a long-standing mystery about the Spanish conquest of Peru--Container.