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- The end of everything : how wars descend into annihilation / by Hanson, Victor Davis,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.In 'The End of Everything', military historian Victor Davis Hanson charts how and why societies from ancient Greece to the modern era chose to utterly destroy their foes, and warns that similar wars of obliteration are possible in our time.
- Subjects: Civilization; Military history.;
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- Fall of civilizations : stories of greatness and decline / by Cooper, Paul M. M.,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."Based on the podcast with over one hundred million downloads, Fall of Civilizations explores how a range of ancient societies rose to power and sophistication, and how they tipped over into collapse. Across the centuries, we journey from the great empires of Mesopotamia to those of Khmer and Vijayanagara in Asia and Songhai in West Africa; from Byzantium to the Maya, Inca, and Aztecs of Central America; from Roman Britain to Rapa Nui. With research, insight, and empathic storytelling, historian and novelist Paul Cooper evokes the majesty and jeopardy of these ancient civilizations, and asks what it might have felt like for a person alive at the time to witness the end of their world"--
- Subjects: Civilization, Ancient.; Civilization, Ancient; History, Ancient.;
- Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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- The story of the Jews, by Schama, Simon,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- Subjects: Jews; Jews;
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- Origin story : a big history of everything / by Christian, David,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Subjects: World history.; Civilization; Civilization; Cosmology.;
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- A short history of progress / by Wright, Ronald,1948-;
Includes bibliographical references (p. [187]-199) and index.
- Subjects: Progress; Civilization; Environmental degradation;
- © 2004., Anansi,
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- The Oxford illustrated history of the Roman world / by Boardman, John,1927-; Griffin, Jasper.; Murray, Oswyn;
Includes bibliographical references and index.
- © 2001, c1988., Oxford University Press,
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- Ancient Chinese / by Binns, Tristan Boyer,1968-;
Includes bibliographical references (p. 31), Internet address and index.Presents an overview of ancient Chinese civilization, including its geography, government, religion, social classes, recreation, art, and architecture.
- © 2007, c2005., Compass Point Books,
- Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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- Sea people / by Thompson, Christina,1959-author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Subjects: Polynesians;
- Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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- The Celts : search for a civilization / by Roberts, Alice M.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.LSC
- Subjects: Civilization, Celtic.; Celts;
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- The dawn of everything : a new history of humanity / by Graeber, David,author.; Wengrow, D.,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."A trailblazing account of human history, challenging our most fundamental assumptions about social evolution-from the development of agriculture and cities to the emergence of "the state," political violence, and social inequality-and revealing new possibilities for human emancipation"--
- Subjects: Civilization; Social history.; World history.;
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