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The invention of good and evil : a world history of morality / by Sauer, Hanno,author.; Heinrich, Jo,translator.; translation of:Sauer, Hanno.Moral.English.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."What makes us moral beings? How do we decide what is good and what is evil? In the vein of Sapiens comes a grand history of our universal moral values at the moment of their greatest crisis. How did we learn to distinguish good from evil? Have we always been capable of doing so? And will we still be in the world to come? In this breathtaking book, ethics expert Hanno Sauer offers a great universal history of morality in the era of its darkest crisis. He finds that morality existed long before there was talk of God, religion, or philosophy. Its history is, first of all, the fruit of a process of natural selection, going back to the dawn of humanity, in the forests of East Africa which, five million years ago, thinned out owing to climate change. Among the early humans that came down from the trees, there were also our ancestors, who adapted to open spaces by organizing themselves into large groups. Under the pressure of environmental factors, morality emerges as the foundation for cooperation, a quality that is as precarious as it is essential to the survival of the species. Moving between paleontology and genetics, psychology and cognitive science, philosophy and evolutionism, Sauer traces a genealogy of morality and along the journey, marks the main moral transformations in the history of humanity. In the end, he concludes that millions of years of stratifications has led to the moral crisis of our present--and the only way to build a future together is to retrace our history."--
Subjects: Ethics;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Wehrmacht Panzer divisions 1939-45 / by Rosado, Jorge; Bishop, Chris;
Includes index.
Subjects: Tanks (Military science); World War, 1939-1945;
© 2005., Amber Books,
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The Canadians at Amiens, August 8th to 16th, 1918 : a social history and battlefield tour / by Christie, N. M.;
Includes bibliographical references (p. 90)
Subjects: Canada. Canadian Army; Amiens, Battle of, 1918; World War, 1914-1918;
© 1999., CEF Books,
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The sea and civilization : a maritime history of the world / by Paine, Lincoln P.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subjects: Naval art and science; Naval history.; Navigation; Ocean and civilization.; Sea-power;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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A mutiny in time / by Dashner, James,1972-;
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.LSC
Subjects: Science fiction.; Santa María (Ship); Time travel; World history; Best friends; Friendship;
© 2012., Scholastic,
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 3
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The Canadians at Arras and the Drocourt-Queant Line, August-September, 1918 : a social history and battlefield tour / by Christie, N. M.;
Includes bibliographical references (p. 89)
Subjects: Canada. Canadian Army; Arras (France), 2nd Battle of, 1918.; World War, 1914-1918;
© 1997., CEF Books,
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The classical world : an epic history from Homer to Hadrian / by Lane Fox, Robin,1946-;
Includes bibliographical references (p. 605-629) and index.LSC
Subjects: Civilization, Classical.; Civilization, Greco-Roman.;
© 2008, c2006., Basic Books,
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Battles that changed history : an encyclopedia of world conflict / by Tucker, Spencer,1937-;
Includes bibliographical references and index.LSC
Subjects: Battles; Battles; Military history;
© c2011., ABC-CLIO,
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Battle of the Atlantic : gauntlet to victory / by Barris, Ted,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.The Battle of the Atlantic, Canada's longest continuous military engagement of the Second World War, lasted 2,074 days, claiming the lives of more than 4,000 men and women in the Royal Canadian Navy, the Royal Canadian Air Force and the Canadian merchant navy The years 2019 to 2025 mark the eightieth anniversary of the longest battle of the Second World War, the Battle of the Atlantic. It also proved to be the war's most critical and dramatic battle of attrition. For five and a half years, German surface warships and submarines attempted to destroy Allied trans-Atlantic convoys, most of which were escorted by Royal Canadian destroyers and corvettes, as well as aircraft of the Royal Canadian Air Force. Throwing deadly U-boat "wolf packs" in the paths of the convoys, the German Kriegsmarine almost succeeded in cutting off this vital lifeline to a beleaguered Great Britain. In 1939, the Royal Canadian Navy went to war with exactly thirteen warships and about 3,500 regular servicemen and reservists. During the desperate days and nights of the Battle of the Atlantic, the RCN grew to 400 fighting ships and over 100,000 men and women in uniform. By V-E Day in 1945, it had become the fourth largest navy in the world. The story of Canada's naval awakening from the dark, bloody winters of 1939-1942, to be "ready, aye, ready" to challenge the U-boats and drive them to defeat, is a Canadian wartime saga for the ages. While Canadians think of the Great War battle of Vimy Ridge as the country's coming of age, it was the Battle of the Atlantic that proved Canada's gauntlet to victory and a nation-building milestone.
Subjects: Canada. Royal Canadian Navy; World War, 1939-1945; World War, 1939-1945;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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To hell and back : Europe, 1914-1949 / by Kershaw, Ian,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subjects: World War, 1914-1918; World War, 1914-1918; World War, 1939-1945; World War, 1939-1945;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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