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Thunder Bay Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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"Smithsonian America: The Atlas is a superb depiction of the history of North America and the United States told through extensive photographs and maps, both old and new. In collaboration with experts from the Smithsonian Institution, every corner of the continent is explored in detail--from the early people who first settled the land thousands of years ago to the diversity of the present day. This edition also includes 32 pages of bonus material,...
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Publisher
Ambrose Video
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
Tracking through 12,000 years of history in the Middle East, Europe, and the United States, James Burke shows how past events and technologies led to modern inventions, such as the atomic bomb, engines, electric lamps, telecommunications, the computer, refrigeration, the production line, jets, plastics, rocketry, and movies.
Author
Publisher
Anchor Books
Pub. Date
1989.
Language
English
Description
"The history of disease is the history of humankind: an interpretation of the world as seen through the extraordinary impact—political, demographic, ecological, and psychological—of disease on cultures. "A book of the first importance, a truly revolutionary work." —The New Yorker From the conquest of Mexico by smallpox as much as by the Spanish, to the bubonic plague in China, to the typhoid epidemic in Europe, Plagues and Peoples is "a brilliantly...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 12.6 - AR Pts: 33
Language
English
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In this book, Jared Diamond dismantles racially based theories of human history by revealing the environmental factors actually responsible for shaping the modern world.
Guns, Germs, and Steel is a brilliant work answering the question of why the peoples of certain continents succeeded in invading other continents and conquering or displacing their peoples. This edition includes a new chapter on Japan and all-new illustrations drawn from the television...
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Ackerman is justly celebrated for her unique insight into the natural world and our place in it. In this landmark book, she confronts the unprecedented reality that one prodigiously intelligent and meddlesome creature, Homo sapiens, is now the dominant force shaping the future of planet Earth.Humans have "subdued 75 percent of the land surface, concocted a wizardry of industrial and medical marvels, strung lights all across the darkness." We tinker...
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