Figal, Gerald A.
Summary: "Monsters, ghosts, the supernatural, the fantastic, the mysterious. These are not usually considered the "stuff" of modernism. More often they are regarded as inconsequential to the study of the modern or, at best, seen as representative of traditional beliefs that are overcome and left behind in the transformation toward modernity. In Civilization and Monsters Gerald Figal asserts that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Duke University Press 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 398.2 FIGCooper, Paul M. M.
Summary: "Based on the podcast with over one hundred million downloads, Fall of Civilizations ... explores how a range of ancient societies rose to power and sophistication, and how they tipped over into collapse. Across the centuries, we journey from the great empires of Mesopotamia to those of Khmer and Vijayanagara in Asia and Songhai in West Africa; from Byzantium to the Maya, Inca, and Aztecs of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hanover Square Press 2024
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Summary: Presents a photo essay on ancient Egypt and the people who lived there, documented through the mummies, pottery, weapons, and other objects they left behind.
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Publisher / Publication Date: DK Publishing 2021
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2 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 932 HARCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 932 HARBeaton, 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 909 BEAFinan, Catherine C.
Summary: "You may like chocolate, but how would you feel about using cocoa beans as money or in glue? Maybe you'd like to play a ball game for warriors (just be careful you don't become a scarified to the gods after playing). What about living life with a calendar system even more advanced than our own? You could try it all if you lived like the Maya! Discover extreme facts about the Maya civilization...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bearport Publishing 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 972.81 FINFinan, Catherine C.
Summary: "Whether going for a sail or hitting the road on anything with wheels, you may need to thank the people from Mesopotamia. Did you know this ancient civilization inspired and invented a lot of things that we can still find in our modern lives? The Cradle of Civilization brought us board games and astrology, maps and soap, and so much more. But there are some things we may be glad to leave behind...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bearport Publishing 2022
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "Take a journey back in time to the strange and spectacular land of the pharaohs. You'll meet the Egyptian gods, explore the river Nile, decipher hieroglyphics and discover the truth about the curse of Tutankhamun's tomb. Why did they build the pyramids? How were mummies made? And what is the mysterious Sphinx? Find the answers to these and many more questions inside!"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Button Books, an imprint of Guild of Master Craftsman Publications, Ltd.
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Summary: "Did you know the umbrella and toilet paper were both invented in China? Or that many ancient emperors believed they were descended from dragons? How about that kites were first used as warning signals in ancient China? Walk along miles and miles of the Great Wall, take a peek into terrific tombs, and stroll through some of the most amazing palaces ever built as you discover extreme facts about...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bearport Publishing Company 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 931 FINFinan, Catherine C.
Summary: "How would you like to use a public toilet every time you had to go? Or compete in an Olympic wrestling event where the only rules were no biting or gauging? Well, that was life in ancient Greece! And if you think we're far removed from that life, you may be surprised to learn that a lot in our modern world was inspired by our ancient friends (from alarm clocks and odometers to democracy and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bearport Publishing 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 938 FINFinan, Catherine C.
Summary: "Did you know that the Ancient Romans ate while lying down? Or that they spread a sauce made of fish guts over their food? What about that gladiator sweat was sold as a beauty product in Ancient Rome? Travel along roads that are still around today (ones that were made by Romans over 2,000 years ago) or take a peek at the Declaration of Independence and you'll see the civilization's lasting...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bearport Publishing Company 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 937 FINLo, Rich
Summary: "Animal names and their significance in Chinese culture is explained in simple bilingual text for young readers."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2021
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE LOBillington, James H.
Summary: Interpretive history of Russian thought and culture designed to provide new information and interpretation and not merely to codify an already established consesus. The period under discussion is the last six hundred years, during which time Russia has emerged as a distinctive civilization.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 1966
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 947 BILJermyn, Leslie
Summary: "A book for middle and high school students about the history and culture of the South American nation Guyana."--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cavendish Square 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 988.1 JERFinan, Catherine C.
Summary: "Did you know ancient Egyptians would shave their eyebrows in mourning if their cats died? Or that the first pharaoh may have been killed by a trampling hippo? You may know that a mummy's brain was removed through its nose before the body was wrapped up. But did you know that the ancient Egyptians threw the brain away and kept his heart as the center of intelligence instead? Discover extreme...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bearport Publishing Company 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 932 FINMills, Andrea
Summary: "Every country profile is packed with photos, and each nation has a full-color map detailing its main cities, landscape features, and borders, and exactly where in the world it is. At-a-glance panels provide a quick reference to all the stats, and the easy-to-read text is full of fascinating, fun facts."--Provided by publisher
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Publisher / Publication Date: DK Publishing 2020
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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!" --
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Publisher / Publication Date: DK Publishing 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 938 PEACopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 938 PEABaker, Gerard
Summary: American breakdown dissects how, in the space of a generation, the pillars that sustained the once-dominant superpower have been dangerously eroded. From government to business, from media to medicine—the strength and security of the American experiment have been weakened by a widening gap between the elites who control these institutions and the public. At the root of this breakdown is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twelve 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973 BAKBreen, 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2024
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 154.4 BRERae, Susie
Summary: How are our lives different from the lives of people around the world? Explore the amazing diversity of our planet's people and cultures in full technicolor. Find out how people celebrate the New Year in Thailand, discover Iran's incredible Fire Festival, and much, much more.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JN WC RaeWalker, John A.
Summary: The name of this book may be kind of misleading, beause what started out to be a weekly Fish Report in the local paper turned into tales from a U.P. (Michigan's Upper Peninsula) Game Warden. It kind of became a weekly story about working as a Game Warden and growing up in God's Country, Michigan's U.P.
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Publisher / Publication Date: J.A. Walker 1994
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 799.2 WALSummary: Presents a children's encyclopedia, focusing on space, Earth, nature, the human body, science, and history.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Summary: "In the wake of Brexit, Ian Morris chronicles the eight-thousand-year history of Britain's relationship to Europe as it has changed in the context of a globalizing world"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 327.4104 MORSmiley, Jane.
Summary: On their farm in Denby, Iowa, Rosanna and Walter Langdon abide by time-honored values that they pass on to their five wildly different yet equally remarkable children: Frank, the brilliant, stubborn first-born; Joe, whose love of animals makes him the natural heir to his family's land; Lillian, an angelic child who enters a fairy-tale marriage with a man only she will fully know; Henry, the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2014