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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.;

Crash of the Heavens : The Remarkable Story of Hannah Senesh and the Only Military Mission to Rescue Europe's Jews During World War II. by Century, Douglas.;
'Crash of the Heavens' is the awe-inspiring and largely untold story of Hannah Senesh, aka the "Jewish Joan of Arc", a female paratrooper in WWII whose courage and sacrifice during a daring mission to rescue Europes Jews left an indelible mark on history. Douglas Century lives in Calgary, AB.Library Bound Incorporated
Subjects: HISTORY / Holocaust; HISTORY / Military / World War II; HISTORY / Women;

Backward glances : people and events from inside and out / by Black, Conrad,author.;
Subjects: Essays.; Political science.; World history.; Economics.;

Daring to Be Free : Rebellion and Resistance of the Enslaved in the Atlantic World. by Hazareesingh, Sudhir.;
The ending of the slave trade and the abolition of slavery by European powers during the 19th century is generally told as the work of enlightened liberals. In 'Daring to Be Free', Sudhir Hazareesingh shows the extraordinary degree to which the enslaved resisted their oppressors and emancipated themselves. He portrays the struggle for liberation from the perspective of the enslaved and, wherever possible, in their own words.Library Bound Incorporated
Subjects: HISTORY / Modern / General; HISTORY / World; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Slavery;

A brief history of the end of the f*cking world / by Phillips, Tom(Journalist),author.;
Includes bibliographical references.Do you feel like we're living in the end times? Does it seem like everything is on fire, and one disaster follows another? Here's a small comfort: you're not the first to feel that way. If there's one thing that people throughout history have agreed on, it's that history wasn't going to be around for much longer.
Subjects: End of the world; World history;

From then to now : a short history of the world / by Moore, Christopher,1950-; Krystoforski, Andrej,1943-;
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Subjects: World history; Civilization;
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Big history / by Christian, David,1946-; Dorling Kindersley Publishing, Inc.; MacQuarie University.; Big History Institute.;
Subjects: Civilization.; Human evolution.; Human ecology.; World history.;

Sapiens : a brief history of humankind / by Harari, Yuval N.,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subjects: Civilization; Human beings; World history.; Chronology, Historical.; Technology and civilization;

The River Battles : Canada's Final Campaign in World War II Italy. by Zuehlke, Mark.;
Library Bound Incorporated
Subjects: HISTORY / Military / Canada; HISTORY / Military / General; HISTORY / Military / World War II;

Age of revolutions : progress and backlash from 1600 to the present / by Zakaria, Fareed,author.;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 331-364) and index."Populist rage, ideological fracture, economic and technological shocks, war, and an international system studded with catastrophic risk -- the early decades of the twenty-first century may be the most revolutionary period in modern history. But it is not the first. Humans have lived, and thrived, through more than one great realignment. What are these revolutions, and how can they help us to understand our fraught world? In this major work, Fareed Zakaria masterfully investigates the eras and movements that have shaken norms while shaping the modern world. Three such periods hold profound lessons for today. First, in the seventeenth-century Netherlands, a fascinating series of transformations made that tiny land the richest in the world -- and created politics as we know it today. Next, the French Revolution, an explosive era that devoured its ideological children and left a bloody legacy that haunts us today. Finally, the mother of all revolutions, the Industrial Revolution, which catapulted Great Britain and the US to global dominance and created the modern world. Alongside these paradigm-shifting historical events, Zakaria probes four present-day revolutions: globalization, technology, identity, and geopolitics. For all their benefits, the globalization and technology revolutions have produced profound disruptions and pervasive anxiety and our identity. And increasingly, identity is the battlefield on which the twenty-first century's polarized politics are fought. All this is set against a geopolitical revolution as great as the one that catapulted the United States to world power in the late nineteenth century. Now we are entering a world in which the US is no longer the dominant power. As we find ourselves at the nexus of four seismic revolutions, we can easily imagine a dark future. But Zakaria proves that pessimism is premature. If we act wisely, the liberal international order can be revived and populism relegated to the ash heap of history." --
Subjects: Revolutions.; Revolutions; Social change.; World history.;

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