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Publisher
DK Publishing
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Ancient Worlds is a tour through history's most influential civilizations between 3000 BCE and 750 CE, capturing moments that reveal the culture and technology that made them great. From Sumer, the world's earliest civilization, to the heyday of the Mayan Empire, the tour crosses every continent, taking in developments in urban planning, art and architecture, religion, warfare, trade, and cultural exchange. Discover how deep knowledge of the Sun,...
Author
Publisher
The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Where do human societies come from? The drive to answer this question took on a new urgency in the nineteenth century, when a generation of archaeologists began to look beyond the bible for the origins of different cultures and civilizations. A child of the San Francisco Gold Rush whose mother was born in Mexico City, Zelia Nuttall threw herself into the study of Aztec customs and cosmology, eager to use the tools of the emerging science of anthropology...
Author
Publisher
Europa Editions
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Why do we run? To what end, all the effort and pain? Wherefore this love of muscle, speed, and sweat? The Greeks were the first to ask these questions, the first to suspend war, work, politics, to enjoy public celebrations of athletic prowess. They invented sport and they were also the first to understand how physical activity connected to our mental well-being. After a lifetime spent with her head and heart in the books trying to think like a Greek,...
Author
Publisher
DK Publishing
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"This book introduces children to the thrilling mythological beasts from ancient civilizations. Discover 23 stories accompanied by beautiful, colorful illustrations. Through the incredible storytelling you can learn about fantastic creatures such as the Japanese Baku, which had the power to devour nightmares, the wise Sphinx, and the fearsome Minotaur who went head-to-head with Theseus in Greek mythology. Featured pages highlight amazing real-life...
Author
Publisher
Open Road Media
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Formats
Description
Scientists unleash a subterranean horror in the South Pacific in this classic adventure by the author of Burn, Witch, Burn! and The Ship of Ishtar.
On the island of Ponape, a party of researchers explores the ruins of an ancient civilization. There they discover an entrance to an underground world full of unusual scientific findings, including strange beings . . .
The most intelligent among this advanced
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Publisher
APA
Pub. Date
2016-
Language
English
Description
TRAVEL & HOLIDAY GUIDES. Insight Guide Ecuador and Galapagos is a comprehensive full-colour guide to the culture, history and wildlife of this diverse and fascinating country. The book is illustrated throughout with hundreds of beautiful, specially commissioned colour photographs. Our inspirational Best of Ecuador section illustrates the country's top attractions, from Inca monuments and colonial buildings to the best places for wildlife-spotting...
Author
Publisher
Magic Cat Publishing
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Rediscover the ancient world as you've never seen it before and meet: The women and children who painted the world's oldest-known cave art Black pharaohs, forgotten from Ancient Egypt's history; the Indus civilization who built a sustainable city; female warriors who led battles in Ancient China; workers who migrated to Machu Picchu; peaceful Viking traders; the African engineers behind Great Zimbabwe; Indigenous peoples of North America who built...
Author
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Scientists, journalists, and politicians increasingly tell us that human impacts on climate constitute the single greatest threat facing our planet and may even bring about the extinction of our species. Yet behind these anxieties lies an older, much deeper fear about the power that climate exerts over us. The Empire of Climate traces the history of this idea and its pervasive influence over how we interpret world events and make sense of the human...
Author
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"A beautiful, full-color graphic version of Eric Cline's bestselling 1177 B.C., adapted by award-winning author-illustrator Glynnis FawkesEric Cline's 1177 B.C. tells the story of one of history's greatest mysteries: what caused the ancient civilizations of the Aegean and Eastern Mediterranean to collapse more than three thousand years ago, bringing the Late Bronze Age to an abrupt end? In this vivid and captivating full-color graphic adaptation of...
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Series
Publisher
Gareth Stevens Publishing
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Even today we can trace the roots of our civilization to Ancient Greece. Its thousands of years later and kids still learn about it in school-and discoveries about it are still being made! But even as democracy and philosophy grew and then flourished, kids still grew up, learned, ate, and played. In this book, readers walk through the streets of Athens and Sparta, learning about their unique culture through children who lived there. The text covers...
Author
Publisher
Prometheus
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"In a series of short and humorous essays, Insane Emperors, Sunken Cities, and Earthquake Machines features more answers to questions that ancient historian Garrett Ryan is frequently asked in the classroom, in online forums, and on his popular YouTube channel Told in Stone"--
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"A writer and mom with decades of experience working in Silicon Valley, Jessica Carew Kraft grew fed up with her life filled with digital screens and deep anxieties about the future of humanity and nature. She quit her job and set out to learn about "rewilding" from people who reject the comforts and convenience of civilization to live in nature using Stone Age tools and skills. A suburbanite with a husband, kids, and a mortgage, she learned to turn...
14) Daily life
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Series
Publisher
Abdo Kids Jumbo, is an imprint of Abdo Kids
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"The ancient Egyptians may have lived long ago, but their daily lives were not too different from today. Readers will learn about the homes, family life, jobs, and pets that many ancient Egyptians had and enjoyed."--
Author
Series
Publisher
Abdo Kids Jumbo, is an imprint of Abdo Kids
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"The ancient Egyptians were very creative. The art we can see today tells a story of how they lived and what they cared about. Readers will learn about ancient Egyptians artisans and artists and the pottery, paintings, jewelry, and glasswork they created thousands of years ago."--
Author
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
What makes us human? What, if anything, sets us apart from all other creatures? Ever since Charles Darwin's theory of evolution, the answer to these questions has pointed to our own intrinsic animal nature. Yet the idea that, in one way or another, our humanity is entangled with the non-human has a much longer and more venerable history. In the West, it goes all the way back to classical antiquity. This grippingly written and provocative book boldly...
17) Pharaohs
Author
Series
Publisher
Abdo Kids Jumbo, is an imprint of Abdo Kids
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Egypt was ruled by powerful rulers called pharaohs. Pharaohs were seen as divine beings in human form. In this book, readers will learn about what pharaohs did and some of the more famous rulers, including Hatshepsut and Tutankhamun.
Author
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Pub. Date
1980.
Language
English
Description
"One of the most remarkable historical works of the 19th century came from the pen of French historian Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges, a native of Paris. This amazing analysis of family and religious life among the ancient Greeks and Romans is the key to understanding ancient Mediterranean civilizations. The story begins in the misty period of the Bronze Age as the Indo-Europeans began to filter down into the Italian and Greek peninsulas. They brought...
Author
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"In the late 8th to early 7th century BC, Scythian steppe warriors conquered Central Eurasia and peripheral regions in Iran and China, revolutionizing the local cultures. A nomadic herding people who lived with their cats in felt-tent homes on wheels, the Scythians spread their complex, mobile, highly innovative culture into the frontiers of Southeast Europe, the Near East, Central Asia, South Asia, and East Asia. They produced the world's first "global"...
Author
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Covering the whole of the ancient Greek experience from its beginnings late in the third millennium BCE to the Roman conquest in 30 BCE, Out of One, Many is an accessible and lively introduction to the Greeks and their ways of living and thinking. In this fresh and witty exploration of the thought, culture, society, and history of the Greeks, Jennifer Roberts traces not only the common values that united them across the seas and the centuries, but...
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