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Summary: This series covers history from 3500 B.C. to the 1780's. This course analyzes civilizations by looking at their geographic and political environments, their technologies, economies, social institutions, and cultural achievements. Students will look at history from new perspectives, come to understand the connections between human beings despite time and distance, and appreciate the lasting...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: The Teaching Company 1995

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3 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: DVD 909 WOR PART 1
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Call number: DVD 909 WOR PART 3

Vengoechea, Ximena

Summary: A workbook that examines world history on a middle school level. Organized by key concepts, the text includes mnemonic devices, definitions, timelines and doodles to help the subject stick in your brain, so you can ace your class.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Workman Publishing 2016

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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 909 VEN

Summary: Illustrations and text in question and answer format provide miscellaneous information about world history.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2015

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Juvenile Parent-Teacher Collection, Call number: J Teach Ask

Drimmer, Stephanie Warren

Summary: "Everybody needs a role model! Discover true stories of superstars, war heroes, world leaders, gusty gals, and everyday women who changed the world. From Sacagawea to Mother Teresa, Annie Oakley to Malala Yousafzai, these famous women hiked up their pants and petticoats and charged full-speed ahead to prove girls are just as tough as boys...maybe even tougher. Complete with amazing images and a...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic 2016

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: J920 NAT

Van Loon, Hendrik Willem

Summary: Originally written in 1921 for the author's grandchildren, Hendrik Willem van Loon's The Story of Mankind has charmed generations with its warmth, simplicity, and wisdom. Rather than the dry recitation of events so common in school textbooks, van Loon's witty, amiable tone animates the story of human history as a grand and perpetually unfolding adventure. Beginning with the origins of human...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company 2014

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 909 VAN

Richards, Mary Agnes

Summary: "A History of Words for Children explores the uniquely human ability to share thoughts using words. Written in a lively narrative style, this book presents a history of the world through language, introducing young readers to the civilizations, inventions, and writers who have shaped the way we communicate. Divided into themed chapters to help young minds grasp difficult concepts, the book...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thames & Hudson Inc. 2022

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 417.7 RIC

Beaton, Kate

Summary: "Hark! A Vagrant" takes readers on a romp through history and literature -- with dignity for few and cookies for all -- with comic strips about famous authors, their characters, and political and historical figures, all drawn in Kate Beaton's pared-down style. This collection features favorite stories from the webcomic of the same name, as well as new, previously unpublished content. Whether...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Drawn & Quarterly 2011

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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 BEA

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 BEA

Jones, Rob Lloyd

Summary: This history of the world covers 100 fascinating historical subjects, including Ancient Egypt, Alexander the Great, the start of Islam, the Aztecs, the French Revolution, the first computer, Albert Einstein and the Space Race. Each topic is brought to life by photographs, easy-to-read text and colourful, modern illustrations.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J Around Jones

Chisholm, Jane

Summary: A gorgeously illustrated guide to the history of the world, from wars and revolutions to ground-breaking inventions, discoveries and artistic movements. With over 3,500 key dates from the Stone Age to the year 2000, organised geographically so readers can compare what was happening in different parts of the world.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Usborne Publishing 2016

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1 available in JT Non-Fiction, Call number: JT History Chisholm

Moraes, Thiago de

Summary: This amazing atlas of history shows how fifteen extraordinary cultures experienced their world. Packed with remarkable characters from all different periods, you'll meet emperors, explorers, inventors, pirates, astronauts, and more! Children will be fascinated as they travel the world and discover how cultures such as the Greeks, Romans, Egyptians, Mongols, Ottomans, Inca, Chinese, Russians,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2020

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Sebag Montefiore, Simon

Summary: "From the acclaimed author of The Romanovs-a magisterial history of humanity viewed through the lens of its most powerful dynasties In this sprawling and eye-opening book, best-selling historian Simon Sebag Montefiore chronicles the world's great dynasties across human history through engrossing tales of palace intrigue, glorious battle, and the real lives of people who held unfathomable power....

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2023

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 929.7 SEB

Yenne, Bill

Summary: Provides an overview of world history through capsulized descriptions of major turning points that have profoundly affected the world.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks eXplore 2023

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 909 YEN

Winchester, Simon

Summary: Land--whether meadow or mountainside, desert or peat bog, parkland or pasture, suburb or city--is central to our existence. Simon Winchester examines what we human beings are doing, and have done, with the billions of acres that together make up the solid surface of our planet.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD 333.3 WIN

Lieven, D. C. B.

Summary: "A dazzling account of the men (and occasional woman) who led the world's empires, a book that probes the essence of leadership and power through the centuries and around the world. From the rise of Sargon of Akkad, who in the third millennium BCE ruled what is now Iraq and Syria, to the collapse of the great European empires in the twentieth century, the empire has been the dominant form of...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2022

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 352.23 LIE

Summary: ... shows a rather different side of Moses, the Stone Age and the Roman Empire - in which Brooks is a stand-up philosopher playing Caesar's Palace. Next, the truth is finally told about the Spanish Inquisition in a splashy production number featuring song-and-dance monks and swimming nuns ... It's history as you've never known it - completely irreverent and positively hilarious. -- Container.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 1999

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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY HIS

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie History 1981

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Summary: "This entertaining companion to the massively popular history podcast tackles everything from Alexander the Great to Agatha Christie, the Wars of the Roses to Watergate-with a unique blend of wit, wisdom, and good old-fashioned banter. The Rest Is History podcast brilliantly distills major moments in human history, covering everything from the Trojan War to a historical ranking of the greatest...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: PublicAffairs 2023

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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 909 RES

Eaton, Gale

Summary: Civilization rearranges nature for human convenience. Clothes and houses keep us warm; agriculture feeds us; medicine fights our diseases. It all works—most of the time. But key resources lie in the most hazardous places, so we choose to live on river flood plains, on the slopes of volcanoes, at the edge of the sea, above seismic faults. We pack ourselves into cities, Petri dishes for germs....

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Tilbury House Publishers 2019

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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 300 STO

Lavelle, Kari

Summary: An inspiring and empowering picture book about the small things kids do that have the potential to change the world! Meet some of the world's most beloved movers, shakers, scientists, activists, dreamers, and doers from the past and present who model what every childhood first can lead to! Neil Armstrong, Misty Copeland, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and more were once kids-they grew up to lead us to...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: [Library Ideas, LLC] 2021

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2 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J READ-ALONG LAV

Mason, Phil

Contents: Detours on the march of history -- Politics : fates and fortunes -- History's tricks : accidents, illnesses, and assassinations -- The fog of war -- Science : inspiration, invention, and intrigue -- Chance beginnings -- Artistic strokes (of luck) -- "Unlucky, Sport!" -- Crime : missed demeanours -- Business : enterprise and intuition.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Skyhorse Pub. 2009

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Misc Mason

Roth, Jonathan P.

Summary: Professor Roth, a military historian, presents a different look at war and its history. Instead of focusing on battles, campaigns, and strategies in individual wars, he looks at the story of the intimate interconnections of war with human cultures and societies and how these connections have shaped history. War not only destroys, it creates: the growth of essential new technologies; the...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: The Teaching Company 2009

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4 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 909 ROT VOL. 1
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Call number: CD 909 ROT VOL. 3
Call number: CD 909 ROT VOL. 4

Summary: From 1750 B.C. to 2001, historic events that changed the world are discussed.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2010

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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 909 WOR
Call number: DVD 909 WOR

Bergreen, Laurence.

Summary: "A middle grade adaptation of Bergreen's adult title of the same name, about Magellan's historic voyage around the globe"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Roaring Brook Press 2017

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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 910 BER

Chrisp, Peter.

Summary: Chronologically traces human history and civilization from prehistoric times to the present day using a detailed timeline, covering key events, people, inventions, and discoveries, and ideas and beliefs.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: DK Pub. 2013

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 909 CHR

Dashner, James

Summary: 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 Mara̕--to correct history and defeat the SQ.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2012

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in J Series, Call number: J FIC DAS

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC INF

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