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Summary: Here's the phenomenal bestseller that Publishers Weekly selected as one of the twelve best graphic books of all time. Spanning ages and continents from the Big Bang to Ancient India to Rome and China in A.D. 600 to the Renaissance, The cartoon history of the world presents facts about world history in a humorous, cartoon-style format.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Co. 2002
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 GONGonick, Larry.
Summary: Here's the phenomenal bestseller that Publishers Weekly selected as one of the twelve best graphic books of all time. Spanning ages and continents from the Big Bang to Ancient India to Rome and China in A.D. 600 to the Renaissance, The cartoon history of the world presents facts about world history in a humorous, cartoon-style format.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 1990
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 GONBurke, Jill
Summary: "Plunge into the intimate history of cosmetics, and discover how, for centuries, women have turned to make-up as a rich source of creativity, community and resistance. The Renaissance was an era obsessed with appearances. And beauty culture from the time has left traces that give us a window into an overlooked realm of history - revealing everything from 16th-century women's body anxieties to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: The fifth installment of Michael Wood's journey through Indian history moves on to the time of the Renaissance in Europe, when India was the richest, most populous civilization in the world. The major focus is on the history of the Mogul Empire, its legacy, and the rulers most readily associated with it: the redoubtable Babur, founder of the Mogul dynasty, and his grandson Akbar the Great. The...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Klepeis, Alicia Z.
Summary: In The Renaissance Inventors: With History Projects for Kids, readers 10 through 15 explore the period of European history from the fourteenth to seventeenth centuries while focusing on the biographies of five inventors from that time and the creations they brought to the world. The lives of Leonardo da Vinci, Galileo Galilei, Leon Battista Alberti, Johannes Gutenberg, and Gerardus Mercator are...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nomad Press 0000
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 KLEKing, Ross
Summary: "The Renaissance in Florence conjures images of beautiful frescoes and elegant buildings-the dazzling handiwork of the city's skilled artists and architects. But equally important for the centuries to follow were geniuses of a different sort: Florence's manuscript hunters, scribes, scholars, and booksellers, who blew the dust off a thousand years of history and, through the discovery and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 381.45 KINCurrie, Stephen
Summary: Analyzes the conditions that led to the Renaissance; examines how Greek and Roman trade routes were revitalized during the period; and explores the artwork, ideas, and scientific theories that were developed.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Referencepoint Pr Inc 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 940.2 CURSummary: Dream A World Anew is the stunning gift book accompanying the opening of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. It combines informative narratives from leading scholars, curators, and authors with objects from the museum's collection to present a thorough exploration of African American history and culture. The first half of the book bridges a major gap in our...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Smithsonian Books 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973 DRENurin, Tara
Summary: It’s women, not men, who’ve brewed beer throughout most of human history. Their role as family and village brewer lasted for hundreds of thousands of years—through the earliest days of Mesopotamian civilization, the reign of Cleopatra, the witch trials of Medieval and Renaissance Europe, and the settling of colonial America. A Woman’s Place Is in the Brewhouse celebrates the contributions and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chicago Review Press 2021
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Summary: Publisher's description: Ferdinand Magellan's daring circumnavigation of the globe in the sixteenth century was a three-year odyssey filled with sex, violence, and amazing adventure. Now in Over the Edge of the World, acclaimed author Laurence Bergreen, interweaving a variety of candid, first-person accounts, some previously unavailable in English, brings to life this groundbreaking and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 910.92 BERSummary: What should your child learn in the sixth grade? How can you help him or her at home? This book answers these important questions and more, offering the specific shared knowledge that thousands of parents and teachers across the nation have agreed upon for American sixth graders.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 372.19 WHA1 available in Juvenile Parent-Teacher Collection, Call number: JPT 372 WHA
Gates, Henry Louis
Summary: "A profound new rendering of the struggle by African-Americans for equality after the Civil War and the violent counter-revolution that resubjugated them, as seen through the prism of the war of images and ideas that have left an enduring racist stain on the American mind. The abolition of slavery in the aftermath of the Civil War is a familiar story, as is the civil rights revolution that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2019