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Spanish Springs Library - Children's Nonfiction
J 933.02 BROIDA 2003
1 available

Description

Examines the ancient cultures of the Israelites, the Philistines, and the Phoenicians, focusing on art, architecture, food, clothing, writing, history, religion, and work. Includes related activities.

2) Meanwhile back on Earth

Author

Jeffers, Oliver

Publisher

Philomel

Pub. Date

2022.

Language

English

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Northwest Reno Library - Children's Picture Books
J E JEFFER 2022
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Spanish Springs Library - Children's Picture Books
J E JEFFER 2022
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Description

Meanwhile, Back on Planet Earth is the story of renegade Astronaut Rodney Thibodeaux's unshakable belief that humans are children of the Earth and his quest to inspire the world, against great odds, to save the planet and humanity. Thibodeaux's heartfelt conviction that the Earth is a living being in alarming danger succeeds in drawing the impassioned support of millions of concerned people around the globe as he fends off reactionary threats from...

3) Historical animals: the dogs, cats, horses, snakes, goats, rats, dragons, bears, elephants, rabbits, and other creatures that changed the world

Author

Moberg, Julia

Publisher

Imagine! Publishing

Pub. Date

[2015]

Language

English

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South Valleys Library - Children's Nonfiction
J 590.9 MOBERG 2015
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Spanish Springs Library - Children's Nonfiction
J 590.9 MOBERG 2015
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Description

Offers rhyming entries on animals from throughout history that have achieved celebrity or historical significance, from Ramses II's lioness and Alexander the Great's war horse Bucephalus, to Paul the match-predicting octopus and Cairo the Navy SEAL dog.

The story of civilization

4) Rousseau and revolution : a history of civilization in France, England, and Germany from 1756, and in the remainder of Europe from 1715, to 1789

Author

Durant, Will

Series

Publisher

Simon and Schuster

Pub. Date

1967.

Language

English

Appears on list

Pulitzer Prize Winners in Nonfiction

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Spanish Springs Library - Adult Nonfiction
909 DUR 1967
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5) The ecology of freedom: the emergence and dissolution of hierarchy

Author

Bookchin, Murray

Publisher

AK Press

Pub. Date

2005.

Language

English

On Shelf

Spanish Springs Library - Adult Nonfiction
909 BOOKCH 2005
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Description

“The very notion of the domination of nature by man stems from the very real domination of human by human.” With this succinct formulation, Murray Bookchin launches his most ambitious work, The Ecology of Freedom. An engaging and extremely readable book of breathtaking scope, its inspired synthesis of ecology, anthropology and political theory traces our conflicting legacies of hierarchy and freedom from the first emergence of human culture to...

6) Culture: the story of us, from cave art to K-pop

Author

Puchner, Martin

Publisher

W.W. Norton & Company

Pub. Date

[2023]

Language

English

On Shelf

Spanish Springs Library - Adult Nonfiction
909 PUCHNE 2023
1 available

Description

"In Culture, acclaimed author, professor, and public intellectual Martin Puchner takes us on a breakneck tour through pivotal moments in world history, providing a global introduction to the arts and humanities in one engaging volume. What good are the arts? Why should we care about the past? For millennia, humanity has sought to understand and transmit to future generations not just the “know-how” of life, but the “know-why”&#٬٢٠١٥؛the...