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Series
Publisher
Chip Taylor Communications
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Timeblazers Jen and Sam travel back in history with Alex to show him that getting the news out is a major part of the history story. First we learn about the legend of Pheidippides, a Greek soldier who ran 26 miles from Marathon to Athens to announce that the Persians had been defeated. Next we learn about two ancient newspaper-type publications- the Acta Diurna and Chinese news sheets called tipao. During the Middle Ages, being the Town Crier was...
Series
Publisher
Chip Taylor Communications
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Shakira is stuck doing extra chores to raise cash for new computer equipment. She wonders what the world would be like without money - and how the concept of currency began. Timeblazers Sam and Jen whisk her back in time to when ancient Chinese civilizations used cowrie shells for barter. In the 1800s, goods could be purchased with beaver pelts and in the 1400s, "gold fever" gripped explorers who searched for El Dorado. It was the 1849 California...
Series
Publisher
Chip Taylor Communications
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
As Shakira prepares for her aunt's wedding, she wonders how modern-day romance got to be so complicated. Time travelers Sam and Jen propel themselves back to 800 AD to participate in a traditional Goth wedding, where the groom's men were actually "Bride's Knights," assigned to escort the bride to the wedding. Next Shakira sees first-hand how the whole notion of romance was invented by wandering troubadours, that the uptight Victorians learned to flirt...
Publisher
Dorling Kindersley Limited
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Español
Description
Recorre 13 000 millones de años de historia, desde el Big Bang hasta la era digital. Extraordinarias cronologías que muestran los mayores acontecimientos del mundo: el auge y la caída de los imperios, los inventos que han cambiado nuestras vidas, los grandes avances de la ciencia o la evolución del arte. Con fantásticas ilustraciones y datos sorprendentes, tienes en tus manos un libro que te cuenta la historia de la forma más apasionante que...
Author
Series
Publisher
Teaching Co
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
"Turning Points in Modern History takes you on a far-reaching journey around the globe-- from China to the Americas to New Zealand-- to shed light on how two dozen of the top discoveries, inventions, political upheavals, and ideas since 1400 have shaped the modern world. Taught by award-winning history professor Vejas Gabriel Liulevicius of the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, these 24 thought-provoking lectures tell the amazing story of how life...
Publisher
DK Publishing
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Incredible maps show where history was made. Much more than an atlas or a history book, When on Earth? charts global historical events through stunning world maps. A truly visual guide to discovering when, where, and why things happened, When on Earth? presents history as a series of stunning, specially commissioned historical maps of the world. Each of these maps charts a key global event, such as the migration of the earliest humans, the spread...
Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
In After Eden, prominent Latin American historian John Charles Chasteen provided a concise history of the world, in which he explores the origins and persistence of the timeless phenomena of humanity's inhumanity to itself. Where did it come from? Why has it been so prevalent throughout our history? And, most importantly, can we overcome it? Chasteen argues that to do so, we must understand our shared past. While much of that past is violent, we can...
Author
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
This book celebrates the great speeches of world history and cultural life. In this exuberant collection, acclaimed historian Simon Sebag Montefiore takes us on a journey from ancient times to the twenty-first century: some speeches are heroic and inspiring; some diabolical and atrocious; some are exquisite and poignant; others cruel and chilling. The speakers themselves vary from empresses and conquerors to rock stars, novelists and sportsmen, dreamers...
Publisher
Thames & Hudson
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
National history is a vital part of national self-definition. Most books on the history of the world try to impose a uniform narrative, written usually from a single writer's point of view. Histories of Nations is different: it presents 28 essays written by a leading historian as a self-portrait of his or her native country, defining the characteristics that embody its sense of nationhood. The countries have been selected to represent every continent...
Author
Publisher
Skyhorse Publishing
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Discover the impactful ways that climate and weather changed the very course of human history from the founder and CEO of AccuWeather! Learn about the comet that hit Earth almost 67 million years ago, and how it triggered a massive climate disruption that led to the extinction of the dinosaur; the dramatic climate shift in 1213 BC that created the conditions for the Ten Plagues of Egypt, a foundational moment in three major world religions; how superior...
Author
Publisher
PublicAffairs
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"We in the West routinely ask: "What does China want?" The answer is quite simple: the superpower status it always had, but briefly lost. In this colorful, informative story filled with fascinating characters, epic battles, influential thinkers, and decisive moments, we come to understand how the Chinese view their own history and how its narrative is distinctly different from that of Western civilization. More important, we come to see how this unique...
Author
Publisher
National Geographic Society
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
You won't find dusty topics and long-dead heroes and villains in the National Geographic History Book. Turn the pages and you'll find documents, letters, journals, telegrams, posters, and artworks that you can literally pull out and examine. See for yourself, with the primary source materials that history buffs love, what really happened and who really did it. Pull out Shakespeare's will and see how he changed his mind about who got what. Examining...
Series
Publisher
Chip Taylor Communications
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Through her school's mentorship program, Shakira wins a chance to spend a day with a police officer. But she realizes that all she really knows about the profession is what she sees on television. According to Timeblazers Sam and Jen, the concept of policing dates back as far as ancient Rome, but modern police came to be in just the past 200 years. In fact, it was British Bobbies who were the first police to be separate from the court. Sam plays a...
Publisher
DK
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
Español
Description
"¿Cuándo cruzó Aníbal los Alpes? ¿Qué causó la guerra de la Oreja de Jenkins? ¿Quién fue Rosa Parks? ¿Cómo se desarrolló la Primavera Árabe? Explora las personas, los acontecimientos, las culturas y los inventos que marcaron nuestra historia en el contexto de su época."-- Publisher description.
"The most memorable moments and significant events of each year are charted in a definitive timeline that runs throughout the book. From the...
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