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Ancient Egypt and beyond [videorecording]. by Entertainment One (Firm); History (Television network); Istituto geografico De Agostini.;
Pyramids: designed for eternity -- The cities of the Pharoahs -- Egypt according to Cleopatra -- The Pyramids of the Sun -- The ports of the desert -- Sailing with the Phoenicians -- At the court of the King of Kings -- The roads to El Dorado -- The lost city of the Mayas.Produced by Istituto geografico De Agostini.Take a virtual tour through rediscovered cities and see archaeological sites as their inhabitants saw them centuries ago. Explore ancient Egypt, the magnificence of the Pyramids, the city of the Pharaohs, the ancient city of Palmyra, the Mayan ruins and Incan temple at Machu Picchu. Includes state-of-the-art computer graphics, spectacular on-location photography, and research from the world's leading archaeologists.E.DVD, full screen (4x3, 1.33:1); Dolby Digital 2.0 stereo.
Subjects: Archaeology.; Civilization, Ancient.; Documentary television programs.; El Dorado.; Excavations (Archaeology); Historical television programs.;
© c2012., Entertainment One,
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The human age : the world shaped by us / by Ackerman, Diane,1948-;
Includes bibliographical references, Internet addresses and index.LSC
Subjects: Human ecology.; Civilization; Human beings; Nature;
© c2014., HarperCollins Publishers,
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Future home of the living god : a novel / by Erdrich, Louise,author.;
A tale set in a world of reversing evolution and a growing police state follows pregnant thirty-two-year-old Cedar Hawk Songmaker, who investigates her biological family while awaiting the birth of a child who may emerge as a member of a primitive human species.
Subjects: Dystopian fiction.; Domestic fiction.; Regression (Civilization); Dystopias; Pregnant women; Adoptees; Ojibwa Indians;
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These truths : a history of the United States / by Lepore, Jill,1966-author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."In the most ambitious one-volume American history in decades, award-winning historian Jill Lepore offers a magisterial account of the origins and rise of a divided nation. The American experiment rests on three ideas--"these truths," Jefferson called them--political equality, natural rights, and the sovereignty of the people. And it rests, too, "on a dedication to inquiry, fearless and unflinching," writes Jill Lepore in a groundbreaking investigation into the American past that places truth itself at the center of the nation's history. In riveting prose, These Truths tells the story of America, beginning in 1492, to ask whether the course of events has proven the nation's founding truths, or belied them. "A nation born in contradiction, liberty in a land of slavery, sovereignty in a land of conquest, will fight, forever, over the meaning of its history," Lepore writes, finding meaning in those very contradictions as she weaves American history into a majestic tapestry of faith and hope, of peril and prosperity, of technological progress and moral anguish. A spellbinding chronicle filled with arresting sketches of Americans from John Winthrop and Frederick Douglass to Pauli Murray and Phyllis Schlafly, These Truths offers an authoritative new history of a great, and greatly troubled, nation"--
Subjects: Civil rights;
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This scorched earth / by Gear, W. Michael,author.;
Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Historical fiction.; Families;
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The spinning magnet : the force that created the modern world and could destroy it / by Mitchell, Alanna,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."The magnetic North Pole will eventually trade places with the South Pole. Satellite evidence suggests to some scientists that the move has already begun, but most still think it won't happen for many decades. All agree that it has happened many times before and will happen again. But this time it will be different. It will be a very bad day for modern civilization. Award-winning science journalist Alanna Mitchell tells in The Spinning Magnet the fascinating history of one of the four fundamental physical forces in the universe, electro-magnetism. From investigations into magnetism in 13th century feudal France and the realization six hundred years later in the Victorian era that electricity and magnetism were essentially the same, to the discovery that the earth was itself a magnet, spinning in space with two poles and that those poles aperiodically reverse, this is an utterly engrossing narrative history of ideas and science that readers of Stephen Greenblatt and Sam Kean will love. But the recent finding that the Earth's magnetic force field is decaying ten times faster than previously thought, portending an imminent pole reversal, ultimately gives this story a spine tingling urgency. When the poles switch, a process that takes many years, the Earth is unprotected from solar radiation storms that would, among other things, wipe out all electromagnetic technology. No satellites, no internet, no smart phones--maybe no power grid at all. Such potentially cataclysmic solar storms are not unusual. The last one occurred in 2012 and we avoided returning to the dark ages only because the part of the sun that erupted happened to be facing away from the Earth. One leading US researcher is already drawing maps of the parts of the planet that would likely become uninhabitable."--
Subjects: Geomagnetism.; Magnetic pole.; Electromagnetism.; Civilization, Modern;
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The persecution of the Knights Templar : scandal, torture, trial / by Demurger, Alain,author.; Fagan, Teresa Lavender,translator.; translation of:Demurger, Alain.Persécution des Templiers.English.;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 290-335) and indexes.A history of the infamous trial of the Order of the Knights Templar draws on firsthand testimonies and written records to chronicle the early plots of 1305, the tortured confessions of arrested Templars, and the executions of order leaders.
Subjects: Templars; Templars; Civilization, Medieval.;
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I wouldn't do that if I were me : modern blunders and modest triumphs (but mostly blunders) / by Gay, Jason(Newspaper columnist),author.;
"Like the rest of us, Jason Gay never anticipated where we've found ourselves. Challenged by the pandemic, frightened by political and societal divisiveness, awash in a digital world that dramatically changes how we think and interact, and all wondering what kind of calamity could possibly happen next. With a series of topical and interconnected personal pieces, Gay does his best to have some fun with all of it, looking for the optimism and joy in the face of the mountain of discouragement. From taking on his children's schooling to how texting has changed his relationship with his wife to allowing his mom to kidnap his family's cat to reckoning with the impending death of a close friend-Gay runs the gamut of our collective social lives, and he approaches it all with humility, grace, and more than a few laughs"--
Subjects: Civilization, Modern; Conduct of life.; Interpersonal relations.; Judgment;
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Blood and daring : how Canada fought the American Civil War and forged a nation / by Boyko, John,1957-;
Includes bibliographical references and index.
© c2013., Knopf Canada,
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The last great road bum / by Tobar, Héctor,1963-author.;
"In The last great road bum, Héctor Tobar turns the peripatetic true story of a naive son of Urbana, Illinois who died fighting with guerillas in El Salvador into the great American novel for our times"--
Subjects: Action and adventure fiction.; Historical fiction.; Travelers; Americans;
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