Collins, Paul
Summary: A narrative history of the origins of Western civilization argues that Europe was transformed in the tenth century from a continent rife with violence and ignorance to a continent on the rise.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 940.1 COLSummary: This remarkable story from the past is especially timely today. Filmed in Cordoba, Granada, Seville, and Toledo, this film retraces the 800 years in medieval Spain when Muslims, Christians, and Jews forged a common cultural identity that frequently transcended their religious differences, revealing what made this rare and fruitful collaboration possible, and what ultimately tore it apart.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV ORNAhmed, Akbar S.
Summary: Tensions over Islam were escalating in Europe even before 9/11. Since then, repeated episodes of terrorism together with the refugee crisis have dramatically increased the divide between the majority population and Muslim communities, pushing the debate well beyond concerns over language and female dress. Meanwhile, the parallel rise of right-wing, nationalist political parties throughout the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Brookings Institution Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.6 AHMSypeck, Jeff.
Summary: In the year 800, Pope Leo III placed the crown of imperial Rome on a Germanic king named Karl. Thus, the man later hailed as Charlemagne claimed his empire and forever shaped the destiny of Europe. Transporting readers far beyond Europe to the glittering palaces of Constantinople and the streets of medieval Baghdad, this far-ranging book shows how the Frankish king and his wise counselors built...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CHARLEMAGNE SypOtele, Olivette
Summary: Conventional wisdom holds that Africans are only a recent presence in Europe. But in African Europeans, renowned historian Olivette Otele debunks this and uncovers a long history of Europeans of African descent. From the third century, when the Egyptian Saint Maurice became the leader of a Roman legion, all the way up to the present, Otele explores encounters between those defined as "Africans"...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.896 OTEMenocal, Maria Rosa.
Summary: Undoing the familiar notion of the Middle Ages as a period of religious persecution and intellectual stagnation, Menocal brings us a portrait of a medieval culture where literature, science, and tolerance flourished for 500 years. The story begins as a young prince in exile--the last heir to an Islamic dynasty--founds a new kingdom on the Iberian peninsula: al-Andalus. Combining the best of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 946.02 MENDickinson, Rachel.
Summary: Explores the history and science of ancient Rome, teaching about Roman innovations and ideas of government, science, religion, sport, and warfare, and how they have shaped world history and our own world view.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nomad Press 2006
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Summary: A radical reappraisal of the impact of Constantine's adoption of Christianity in 368 AD on the later Roman world, and on Western civilization. Adopting those aspects of the religion that suited his purposes, Constantine turned Rome on a course from the relatively open, tolerant and pluralistic civilization of the Hellenistic world, towards a culture that was based on the rule of fixed...
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Publisher / Publication Date: A.A. Knopf 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.12 FREReynoso, Naibe
Summary: Brief biographies in rhyme of 11 notable Latinos.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Con Todo Press 2020
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2 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 REYCall number: J SPANISH 920 REY
Beaton, Roderick
Summary: A sweeping history of the Greeks, from the Bronze Age to today More than two thousand years ago, the Greek city-states, led by Athens and Sparta, laid the foundation for much of modern science, the arts, politics, and law. But the influence of the Greeks did not end with the rise and fall of this classical civilization. As historian Roderick Beaton illustrates, over three millennia Greek...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 909 BEASummary: See how the Germanic tribes lived, fought and worshipped their gods. Intricate 3D animation shows how they built their settlements, buried their kings, vanquished their enemies. Roman cities such as the ancient Cologne, home of the Romanophile Germans, and the Roman limes, the border to free Germania, are also reconstructed through computer graphics and full-cast reenactments.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2003
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV GERSummary: Children are used to hearing about how important it is to protect nature, but they may not fully understand how the natural world can positively impact their emotional wellbeing. With that in mind, this book looks to show children how nature can be fun, uplifting, consoling and even offer companionship.
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Publisher / Publication Date: The School of Life 2022
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J304.2 SCHFischer, David Hackett
Summary: "A brilliant synthesis of African and African-American history that shows how slavery differed in different regions of the country, and how the Africans and their descendants influenced the culture, commerce, and laws of the early United States"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.0496 FISCahill, Thomas.
Summary: The perfect St. Patrick's Day gift, and a book in the best tradition of popular history -- the untold story of Ireland's role in maintaining Western culture while the Dark Ages settled on Europe. Every year millions of Americans celebrate St. Patrick's Day, but they may not be aware of how great an influence St. Patrick was on the subsequent history of civilization. Not only did he bring...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Books, Doubleday 1996
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 941.501 CahilRobinson, Marilynne.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.92 ROBMurphy, Cullen.
Summary: The rise and fall of ancient Rome has been on American minds from the beginning of our Republic. Depending on who's doing the talking, the history of Rome serves either as a triumphal call to action, or a dire warning of imminent collapse. Esteemed editor and author Murphy ventures past the pundits' rhetoric to draw nuanced lessons about how we might avoid Rome's demise. Working on a canvas...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 970.01 MURJeffrey, Gary.
Summary: Relates in graphic novel format three Viking attacks on Great Britain and places them in historic context.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crabtree Pub Co 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 948 JEFMenzies, Gavin.
Summary: The brilliance of the Renaissance laid the foundation of the modern world. Textbooks tell us that it came about as a result of a rediscovery of the ideas and ideals of classical Greece and Rome. But now bestselling historian Gavin Menzies makes the startling argument that in the year 1434, China--then the world's most technologically advanced civilization--provided the spark that set the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Perennial 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 945.05 MENSmiley, Jane.
Summary: On their farm in Denby, Iowa, Rosanna and Walter Langdon abide by time-honored values that they pass on to their five wildly different yet equally remarkable children: Frank, the brilliant, stubborn first-born; Joe, whose love of animals makes him the natural heir to his family's land; Lillian, an angelic child who enters a fairy-tale marriage with a man only she will fully know; Henry, the...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2014
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC SMIBrown, Erik J.
Summary: Putting their trust in one another, two boys, Andrew and Jamie, search for civilization in a world ravaged by a deadly pathogen, but their secrets could cost them everything as they try to find the courage to fight for the future, together.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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Summary: "Because of our shared English language, as well as the celebrated origin tales of the Mayflower and the rebellion of the British colonies, the United States has prized its Anglo heritage above all others. However, as Carrie Gibson explains with great depth and clarity in El Norte, the nation has much older Spanish roots--ones that have long been unacknowledged or marginalized. The Hispanic...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 327.73 GIBMorris, Ian
Summary: "In the wake of Brexit, Ian Morris chronicles the eight-thousand-year history of Britain's relationship to Europe as it has changed in the context of a globalizing world"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 327.4104 MORMikanowski, Jacob
Summary: "In light of Russia's aggressive 2022 invasion of Ukraine, Goodbye, Eastern Europe is a crucial, elucidative read, a sweeping epic chronicling a thousand years of strife, war, and bloodshed--from pre-Christianity to the fall of Communism--illuminating the remarkable cultural significance and richness of a place perpetually lost to the margins of history. Eastern Europe, the moniker, has gone...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2023