Summary: Unlock mysteries and uncover lost history with the experts as they use yesteryear's technology to recreate five ancient engineering marvels and to discover what daily life was really like in these communities. Travel around the globe from China to Egypt and take a fresh, "hands-on" look at mankind's greatest cultures and civilizations.
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Publisher / Publication Date: WGBH Boston Video 2008
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV SECSaville, Laurel.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Quarry Books 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 693.1 SAVKelly, Lynne
Summary: In ancient, pre-literate cultures across the globe, tribal elders had encyclopedic memories. They could name all the animals and plants across a landscape, identify the stars in the sky, and recite the history of their people. Yet today, most of us struggle to memorize more than a short poem. Using traditional Aboriginal Australian song lines as a starting point, Dr. Lynne Kelly has since...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 301 KELLondon, Mark.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Preservation Press 1988
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 693.1 LONKicklighter, Clois E.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Goodheart-Willcox 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 693.1 KICFrench, Lew.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gibbs Smith 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 721.0441 FREMcRaven, Charles.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Storey Communications 1989
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 693.1 MCRLong, Charles.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Camden House 1981
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 693.1 LONSummary: "The first volume in more than 20 years tells a new and modern story of the U.S. State Department's Diplomatic Reception Rooms, one of the top collections of American fine and decorative arts in existence. The art of United States diplomacy has been conducted over more than two centuries with figures from all over the world, in peacetime and in conflict. For the last six decades, these...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rizzoli Electa 2023
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 725.1 AMESummary: Tells the life story of Earl Young, realtor, developer, and builder in Charlevoix, Michigan, who from the 1920's to the 1970's created the remarkable legacy of unusual homes and buildings, utilizing native stones and boulders.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Charlevoix Historical Society 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.486 EARSummary: Beginning in 1921, a self-taught home designer named Earl A. Young brought to life whimsical creations using the massive glacial boulders he found around his hometown of Charlevoix, Michigan. During the next fifty years, he produced over thirty iconic manifestations. Though his work evolved to a modern style, Young never lost touch with the beauty of his natural surroundings. The results are...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bon Ami Filmworks 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.486 WIZBartlett, Karen
Summary: "Architects of Death tells the astonishing story of how the gas chambers and crematoria that facilitated the murder and incineration of more than one million people in the Holocaust were designed not by the Nazi SS, but by a small respectable family firm of German engineers. Topf and Sons designed and built the crematoria at the concentration camps at Auschwitz-Birkenau, Buchenwald, Belzec,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 720 BARHauser, Michael.
Summary: "For over a century, the J.L. Hudson's Department Store on Woodward Avenue was more than just a store--it was a Detroit icon and a world-class cultural treasure. At 25 stories, it was the world's tallest department store, and was at one time home to the most exceptional offerings in shopping, dining, services, and entertainment. The store prided itself on stocking everything from grand pianos...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Arcadia 2004