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Author
Publisher
Walker
Pub. Date
2010.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
"Throughout the ages, the most successful civilizations were the ones who realized that everyone poops and they'd better figure out how to get rid of it! From the very first flushing toilet (invented way earlier than you would think) to the efficient Roman aqueducts (possibly inspired by the goddess of sewers!) to castles in the Middle Ages whose moats used more than just water to repel enemies, Poop happened! traces human civilization through this...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"From renowned underwater archaeologist David Gibbins comes an exciting and rich narrative of human history told through the archaeological discoveries of twelve shipwrecks across time. The Viking warship of King Cnut the Great. Henry VIII's the Mary Rose. Captain John Franklin's doomed HMS Terror. The SS Gairsoppa, destroyed by a Nazi U-boat in the Atlantic during World War II. Since we first set sail on the open sea, ships and their wrecks have...
Author
Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
A history of America as reflected by the nation's lighthouses combines maritime lore with original details to trace coastal political, military, and technological expansions, citing the roles of key contributors.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Sprawling across a quarter of the world's land mass and claiming nearly seven hundred million people, Britain's twentieth-century empire was the largest empire in human history. For many Britons, it epitomized their nation's cultural superiority, but what legacy did the island nation deliver to the world? Covering more than two hundred years of history, Caroline Elkins reveals an evolutionary and racialized doctrine that espoused an unrelenting deployment...
Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"A dramatic re-creation and urgent examination of the Cuban Missile Crisis. Nearly thirty years after the end of the Cold War, today's world leaders are abandoning disarmament treaties, building up their nuclear arsenals, and exchanging threats of nuclear strikes. To survive this new atomic age, we must return to the lessons of the most dangerous moment of the Cold War: the Cuban Missile Crisis. Nuclear Folly offers an international perspective on...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
This book tells the story of the Bible, how it came to be constructed and how it has been understood, from its remote beginnings down to the present. John Barton describes how the narratives, laws, proverbs, prophecies, poems and letters which comprise the Bible were written and when, what we know - and what we cannot know - about their authors and what they might have meant, as well as how these extraordinarily disparate writings relate to each other....
Author
Publisher
Four Walls Eight Windows
Pub. Date
©2002
Language
English
Description
One Nation Under Gods is a controversial examination of Mormon doctrine and the history of the Mormon Church, also known as the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS). While chronicling its origins and the events that shaped the Mormon Church, the author posits the idea of a Mormon drive toward religious, political, and social dominance in the United States.
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"A history of the Democratic Party from Andrew Jackson to Joe Biden"--
"A leading historian tells the story of the United States' most enduring political party and its long, imperfect and newly invigorated quest for 'moral capitalism,' from Andrew Jackson to Joseph Biden. The Democratic Party is the world's oldest mass political organization. Since its inception in the early nineteenth century, it has played a central role in defining American society,...
Author
Publisher
Oneworld
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Marie Curie discovered radium and revolutionised medical science. Empress Cixi transformed China. Frida Kahlo turned an unflinching eye on life and death. Anna Politkovskaya dared to speak truth to power, no matter the cost. Their names should be shouted from the rooftops.
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"Between 2011 and 2015, the Opinion section of The New York Times published Disunion, a series marking the long string of anniversaries around the Civil War, the most destructive, and most defining, conflict in American history. The works were startling in their range and direction, some taking on major topics, like the Gettysburg Address and the Battle of Fredericksburg, while others tackled subjects whose seemingly incidental quality yielded unexpected...
Author
Publisher
Abrams Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"A globe-spanning history of sewing, embroidery, and the people who have used a needle and thread to make their voices heard. From the political propaganda of the Bayeux Tapestry, World War I soldiers coping with PTSD, and the maps sewn by schoolgirls in the New World, to the AIDS quilt, Hmong story clothes, and pink pussyhats, women and men have used the language of sewing to make their voices heard, even in the most desperate of circumstances. Threads...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
At the time of Jesus' birth, thousands of people were leaving their families and tribes behind and flocking into brand new multi-ethnic cities. The world was undergoing the first phase of globalization, and in this ferment rulers and ruled turned to religion as a source of order and stability. The world was full of gods, competing and merging with one another. Selina O'Grady takes the reader on a journey across the empires of the ancient world and...
98) Hand reflexology
Author
Publisher
Dorling Kindersley
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
Step-by-step instructions and detailed photographs show the different pressure points and the correct procedures for treating common conditions.
99) No longer radical: understand mastectomies and choose the breast cancer care that's right for you
Author
Publisher
Simon Element
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"A life-saving and empowering guide to understanding breast cancer detection, prevention, and treatment options, from two top doctors in the field-Rachel Brem, a breast radiologist, and Christy Teal, a breast surgeon-who have also made the personal decisions to have mastectomies"--
No Longer Radical is an essential read for everyone whose lives have been touched by breast cancer. Leaders in the field of breast cancer treatment at George Washington...
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Most of us give little thought to the back of the book-it's just where you go to look things up. But as Dennis Duncan reveals in this delightful and witty history, hiding in plain sight is an unlikely realm of ambition and obsession, sparring and politicking, pleasure and play. In the pages of the index, we might find Butchers, to be avoided, or Cows that sh-te Fire, or even catch Calvin in his chamber with a Nonne. Here, for the first time, is the...
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