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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thames & Hudson Inc. 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 417.7 RICDrimmer, 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic 2016
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1 available in Adult, Call number: J920 NATSebag 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....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 929.7 SEBLieven, 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 352.23 LIEFrankopan, Peter
Summary: "Our world was made on and by the Silk Roads. For millennia it was here that East and West encountered each other through trade and conquest, leading to the spread of ideas and cultures, the birth of the world's great religions, the appetites for foreign goods that drove economies and the growth of nations. From the first cities in Mesopotamia to the growth of Greece and Rome to the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2015
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 909 FRAEaton, 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....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tilbury House Publishers 2019
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 300 STOBergreen, Laurence.
Summary: "A middle grade adaptation of Bergreen's adult title of the same name, about Magellan's historic voyage around the globe"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Roaring Brook Press 2017
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 910 BERDamrosch, David
Summary: "A transporting and illuminating voyage around the globe, through classic and modern literary works that are in conversation with one another and with the world around them. Inspired by Jules Verne's hero Phileas Fogg, David Damrosch, chair of Harvard University's department of comparative literature and founder of Harvard's Institute for World Literature, set out to counter a pandemic's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 808 DAMDartnell, Lewis
Summary: "Being Human is history made flesh. It will change the way you see the world. We are a wonder of evolution. Powerful yet dextrous, instinctive yet thoughtful, we are expert communicators and innovators. Our exceptional abilities have created the civilisation we know today. But we're also deeply flawed. Our bodies break, choke and fail, whether we're kings or peasants. Diseases thwart our...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Bodley Head 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 304.2 DARBruning, John R.
Summary: "This little-known WWII story introduces a renegade pilot whose personal mission to rescue his family from a POW camp changed modern air warfare forever. December 1941: Manila is invaded, and US citizen and Philippine Airlines manager, Pappy Gunn, is ordered to fly key military command out of the country, leaving his family at home. So Gunn was miles away when the Japanese captured his wife and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Books 2016
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 940.54 BRUSides, Hampton
Summary: "From New York Times bestselling author Hampton Sides, an epic account of the most momentous voyage of the Age of Exploration, which culminated in Captain James Cook's death in Hawaii, and left a complex and controversial legacy still debated to this day On July 12th, 1776, Captain James Cook, already lionized as the greatest explorer in British history, set off on his third voyage in his ship...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2024
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 910.92 SIDCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 910.92 SIDBader, Bonnie
Summary: Describes the history of the soccer World Cup, covering clothing and equipment, host stadiums, the rules, qualifying to participate, and the most successful teams.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Workshop, an imprint of Random House 2018
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1 available in JT Non-Fiction, Call number: JT Sport What BaderHarari, Yuval N.
Summary: "One hundred thousand years ago, at least six different species of humans inhabited Earth. Yet today there is only one--homo sapiens. What happened to the others? And what may happen to us? Most books about the history of humanity pursue either a historical or a biological approach, but Dr. Yuval Noah Harari breaks the mold with this ... book that begins about 70,000 years ago with the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2015
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 909 HARO'Donnell, Patrick K.
Summary: "The rich history of SEAL Team 6 that captured Osama bin Laden stretches back to World War II when US intelligence officials formed a team of special-operation combat swimmers. Under the leadership of Captain Jack Taylor, a California dentist, the Maritime Unit (MU) started training in 1942, learning underwater and covert operation techniques, as it developed an array of James Bond-like new...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.54 ODOGraeber, David
Summary: "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"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Social Cult GraberFernández-Armesto, Felipe.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 1995
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 909 FERGonick, 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: W.W. Norton & Co. 2002
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 GONAbanes, Richard.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Four Walls Eight Windows 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 291.23 ABAJacobson, Judy.
Summary: History lays the foundation to understand a group of people. Genealogy lays the foundation to understand a person or family using tangible historic evidence.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Clearfield 2009
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R-GEN 929.1 JACGabriele, Matthew
Summary: "A lively and magisterial popular history that refutes common misperceptions of the European Middle Ages, showing the beauty and communion that flourished alongside the dark brutality--a brilliant reflection of humanity itself."--Dust jacket.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.1 GABCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.1 GABKirsch, Jonathan
Contents: Something rich and strange -- Spooky knowledge and last things -- The history of a delusion -- The Apocalyptic invasion -- "Your own days, few and evil" -- To begin the world over again -- The godless Apocalypse.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperSanFrancisco 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 228 KIRStrathern, Paul
Summary: "Eminent historian Paul Strathern opens the history of Empire with the Akkadian civilization, which ruled over a vast expanse of the region of ancient Mesopotamia, then turns to the immense Roman Empire, where we trace back our Western and Eastern roots. Next the narrative describes how a great deal of Western Classical culture was developed in the Abbasid and Umayyad Caliphates. Then, while...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 909 STRCrofton, Ian
Summary: The Little Book of Big History is an endeavor to encapsulate the entire story of the cosmos, from the Big Bang to the current day, into an engaging and comprehensive narrative. Combining methods from history, astronomy, physics, and biology to draw together the big story arcs of how the universe was created, why planets formed, and how life developed, the result is a unique perspective of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2017