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Beaton, Roderick

Summary: A sweeping history of the Greeks, from the Bronze Age to today More than two thousand years ago, the Greek city-states, led by Athens and Sparta, laid the foundation for much of modern science, the arts, politics, and law. But the influence of the Greeks did not end with the rise and fall of this classical civilization. As historian Roderick Beaton illustrates, over three millennia Greek...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2021

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 909 BEA

Janega, Eleanor

Summary: In this vibrant, high-spirited history, medievalist Eleanor Janega turns to the Middle Ages to unfurl its suppositions about women and reveal what's shifted over time--and what hasn't. Enshrined medieval thinkers, almost always male, subscribed to classical Greek and Roman philosophy and Christian theology for their concepts of the sexes, deriding women as oversexed sinners, inherently lustful,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. 2023

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 305.409 JAN

Pearson, Anne

Summary: "Travel back in time to a civilization rich in epic heroes, powerful gods, myths, and legends. Discover how ancient Greek art, ideas, science, and medicine have influenced the world today, and how a sports festival in honor of the god Zeus became the modern Olympic Games!" --

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: DK Publishing 2023

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 938 PEA

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 938 PEA

Breen, Benjamin

Summary: ""It was not the Baby Boomers who ushered in the first era of widespread drug experimentation. It was their parents." Far from the repressed traditionalists they are often painted as, the generation that survived the second World War emerged with a profoundly ambitious sense of social experimentation. In the '40s and '50s, transformative drugs rapidly entered mainstream culture, where they were...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2024

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 154.4 BRE

Summary: Historian Michael Wood chronicles the history of the Indian subcontinent, focusing especially on the diversity of its peoples, cultures and landscapes. The world's largest democracy and a rising economic giant, India is now as well known across the globe for its mastery of computer technology as it is for its many-armed gods and its famous spiritual traditions. But India is also the world's...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Maya Vision International 2008

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV STO

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD STO

Trotta, Roberto

Summary: "Here's what it is about: For tens of thousands of years, the stars were our constant companions. In the glow of today's artificial lighting, when even professional astronomers study the universe by staring at screens rather than through eyepieces, we have forgotten this intimacy with the cosmos. Roberto Trotta is here to remind us: one of our species' most enduring and (literally) universal...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2023

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 520 TRO

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