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Author
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Formats
Description
"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"--
2) The revenge of geography: what the map tells us about coming conflicts and the battle against fate
Author
Publisher
Random House Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Formats
Description
In The Revenge of Geography, Kaplan builds on the insights, discoveries, and theories of great geographers and geopolitical thinkers of the near and distant past to look back at critical pivots in history and then to look forward at the evolving global scene. Kaplan traces the history of the worlds hot spots by examining their climates, topographies, and proximities to other embattled lands. The Russian steppes pitiless climate and limited vegetation...
3) Heroes of history: a brief history of civilization from ancient times to the dawn of the modern age
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
At Will Durant's death in 1981, his personal papers were dispersed among relatives, collectors, and archive houses. Twenty years later, scholar John Little discovered the previously unknown manuscript of Heroes of History in Durant's granddaughter's garage. Written shortly before he died, these twenty-one essays serve as an abbreviated version of Durant's bestselling, eleven-volume series, The Story of Civilization. Durant traces
...6) The 1960s
Author
Publisher
Watts
Pub. Date
[c1988]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Reader's Digest
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
Examines 180 historically and culturally momentous events in politics, war, science, sports, and the arts, spanning over sixty years from 1939 to 2005, including the assassination of John F. Kennedy, the moon landing, the fall of the Berlin Wall, and the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2017
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
World War 2 is raging across Europe, and the Axis and Allied powers are in a stalemate. Dak,Sera, and Riq can tip the scales in the Allies favor... if they can pull off the most daring spy mission of all time. But even if they succeed, are they playing into the SQ's hands?
13) Cave of wonders
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2017
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
"Europe is in the grip of the Dark Ages, but there is a light in the dark: Baghdad. The great city has become a center of learning, populated by scholars, merchants, and explorers from all across the known world. But danger lurks in the desert ... and Dak, Sera, and Riq must act fast to save the world's greatest library from utter destruction."--
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Sera has seen the future, and it is terrifying. Unfortunately, she can't do anything to prevent the Cataclysm while stranded with Dak and Riq thousands of years in the past. Their only hope lies with the ancient Maya, a mysterious people who claim to know a great deal about the future. Is there more to these ancients than meets the eye?
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