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Early man [videorecording] / by Ayoade, Richard,1977-voice actor.; Burton, Mark,screenwriter.; Hiddleston, Tom,voice actor.; Higginson, James,screenwriter.; Margolyes, Miriam,voice actor.; Park, Nick,film producer,film director.; Redmayne, Eddie,1982-voice actor.; Spall, Timothy,1957-voice actor.; Williams, Maisie,1997-voice actor.; Williams, Mark,voice actor.; Entertainment One (Firm : Canada),film distributor.; Studio Canal,production company.; Summit Entertainment,publisher.;
Tom Hiddleston, Eddie Redmayne, Maisie Williams, Timothy Spall, Richard Ayoade, Mark Williams, Miriam Margolyes.Set at the dawn of time, when prehistoric creatures and woolly mammoths roamed the earth, this tells the story of Dug, along with sidekick Hognob as they unite his tribe against a mighty enemy Lord Nooth and his Bronze Age City to save their home.Canadian Home Video Rating: PG.DVD ; widescreen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1.
Subjects: Animated films.; Children's films.; Comedy films.; Feature films.; Clay animation films.; Heroes; Prehistoric peoples; Stone age; Bronze age;
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The end is always near : apocalyptic moments, from the Bronze Age collapse to nuclear near misses / by Carlin, Dan,1965-author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Do tough times create tougher people? Can humanity handle the power of its weapons without destroying itself? Will human technology or capabilities ever peak or regress? No one knows the answers to such questions, but no one asks them in a more interesting way than Dan Carlin. In The End is Always Near, Dan Carlin looks at questions and historical events that force us to consider what sounds like fantasy; that we might suffer the same fate that all previous eras did. Will our world ever become a ruin for future archaeologists to dig up and explore? The questions themselves are both philosophical and like something out of The Twilight Zone. Combining his trademark mix of storytelling, history and weirdness Dan Carlin connects the past and future in fascinating and colorful ways. At the same time the questions he asks us to consider involve the most important issue imaginable: human survival. From the collapse of the Bronze Age to the challenges of the nuclear era the issue has hung over humanity like a persistent Sword of Damocles. Inspired by his podcast, The End is Always Near challenges the way we look at the past and ourselves. In this absorbing compendium, Carlin embarks on a whole new set of stories and major cliffhangers that will keep readers enthralled. Idiosyncratic and erudite, offbeat yet profound, The End is Always Near examines issues that are rarely presented, and makes the past immediately relevant to our very turbulent present.
Subjects: Trivia and miscellanea.; Catastrophical, The; Catastrophical, The.; Civilization; Imaginary histories.; World history; World history.;
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The riddle of the labyrinth : the quest to crack an ancient code / by Fox, Margalit.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.An intellectual detective story follows the quest to unlock one of the great secrets of human history--the decipherment of Linear B, an unknown script from the Aegean Bronze Age.
Subjects: Evans, Arthur, Sir, 1851-1941.; Kober, Alice, 1906-1950.; Ventris, Michael.; Archaeologists; Archaeologists; Civilization, Mycenaean.; Inscriptions, Linear B; Women linguists;
© 2013., HarperCollins,
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War : from ancient Egypt to Iraq / by David, Saul,1966-;
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Subjects: War; Military art and science; War and civilization.;
© 2009., DK Pub.,
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The night hawks / by Griffiths, Elly,author.;
"There's nothing Ruth Galloway hates more than amateur archaeologists, but when a group of them stumble upon Bronze Age artifacts alongside a dead body, she finds herself thrust into their midst-and into the crosshairs of a string of murders circling evercloser"--
Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Galloway, Ruth (Fictitious character); Archaeologists; Murder;
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Underland : a deep time journey / by Macfarlane, Robert,1976-author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.In 'Underland', Robert Macfarlane takes us on a journey into the worlds beneath our feet. From the ice-blue depths of Greenland's glaciers, to the underground networks by which trees communicate, from Bronze Age burial chambers to the rock art of remote Arctic sea-caves, this is a deep-time voyage into the planet's past and future. "He is the great nature writer, and nature poet, of this generation." - Wall Street Journal.
Subjects: Civilization, Subterranean.; Underground areas; Voyages and travels.; Geology.;
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The water rituals / by García Sáenz, Eva,1972-author.; Caistor, Nick,translator.; translation of:García Sáenz, Eva,1972-Ritos del agua.English.;
"Kraken's first girlfriend, Ana Belén Liaño, has been murdered as part of a ritual not seen for 2,600 years. She has been burned, hung, and then placed upside down in a Bronze Age cauldron. But she is not the only one. Pregnant women all over the region are dying at the hands of a psychopath who imitates "the water rituals" in sacred places in the Basque country and Cantabria. There is no time to waste, because Deputy Superintendent Díaz de Salvatierra is also waiting for a child. And the father could very well be Kraken himself"--
Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Murder; Criminal profilers;
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Mother of invention : how good ideas get ignored in an economy built for men / by Marçal, Katrine,author.; translation of:Marçal, Katrine.Att uppfinna världen.English.;
Includes bibliographical references."It all starts with a rolling suitcase. The wheel was invented some 5,000 years ago, and the modern suitcase in the mid-nineteenth century, but it wasn't until the 1970s that someone successfully married the two. What was the hold up? For writer and journalist Katrine Marçal, the answer is both shocking and simple: because "real men" carried their bags, no matter how heavy. There were rolling suitcases before the '70s, but they were marketed as a niche product for (the presumably few) women travelling alone, and the wheeled suitcase wasn't "invented" until it was no longer threatening to masculinity. Mother of Invention draws on this example and many others, from electric cars to tech billionaires, to show how gender bias stifles the economy and holds us back. Our traditional notions about men and women have delayed innovations, sometimes by hundreds of years, and have distorted our understanding of our history. While we talk about the Iron Age and the Bronze Age, we might as well talk about the Ceramic Age or the Flax Age, since these technologies were just as important. But inventions associated with women are not considered to be technology in the same way. Katrine Marçal's Mother of Invention is a fascinating examination of business, technology, and innovation through a feminist lens. Marçal takes us on a tour of the global economy, arguing that gendered assumptions dictate which businesses get funding, how we value work, and how we trace human progress. And it carries a powerful message: If we upend our biases, we can unleash our full potential, tackling climate change and wielding technology to become more human, rather than less."--
Subjects: Feminist economics.; Inventions.; Inventors.; Sex discrimination in economics.; Technology and women.; Women intellectuals.; Women inventors.; Women; Technological innovations;
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A fistful of shells : West Africa from the rise of the slave trade to the age of revolution / by Green, Toby,1974-author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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