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First peoples in a new world: colonizing Ice Age America
Par David J. Meltzer. 2009
Archaeologist explores the origins of the first North Americans, their migratory routes into the New World, and the ecological conditions…
they encountered. Discusses the methods used by archaeologists, geologists, linguists, physical anthropologists, and geneticists to arrive at these conclusions - which are often at odds. 2009.Fingerprints of the gods: The Evidence Of Earth's Lost Civilization
Par Graham Hancock. 1995
The author compiles compelling evidence of a technologically and culturally advanced civilization that he argues was destroyed from human memory.…
To do this he used data from archaeology, astronomy, geology and computer analysis of ancient myths. 1995.Egypt before the pharaohs: the prehistoric foundations of Egyptian civilization
Par Michael A Hoffman. 1979
Dying every day: Seneca at the court of Nero
Par James S Romm. 2014
Explores the moral struggles, political intrigues and violent vendettas that enmeshed Seneca, the ancient Roman writer and philosopher, in the…
brutal daily lives of the imperial family and the regime of his student, Nero. 2014.Echoes of the ancient skies: the astronomy of lost civilizations
Par E. C Krupp. 1983
Discovering the iceman: what was it like to find a 5,300-year-old mummy? (I was there)
Par Shelley Tanaka. 1996
In 1991, two hikers discovered the remains of a Stone Age Man over 5,000 years old in the Alps. Be…
transported back to the Iceman's ancient world - find out who he was, how he lived, and how he died on a mountain ridge. Grades 3-6. 1996.Deep water, ancient ships: the treasure vault of the Mediterranean
Par Willard Bascom. 1976
Classical mythology: the Romans (The modern scholar)
Par Peter Meineck. 2005
In this course, New York University professor Peter Meineck examines, in detail, the way in which military power, colonial organization,…
superior technology, a well-organized infrastructure, and a cohesive economic system helped to make Rome such a successful empire. These elements of Roman genius are well known, but it was the very idea of Rome that proved persuasive and this Roman ideal was born from mythology. 2005.Bones: discovering the first Americans
Par Elaine Dewar. 2001
With Native American activists, white supremacists, DNA experts, and anthropologists all vying for control of ancient remains, Dewar explores the…
ambiguous terrain left behind when a long-standing paradigm is swept away by new discoveries. Presents stories that rarely find their way into scientific journals or newspapers - stories of mysterious deaths, of the bones of evil shamans, and the shadows that fall on the lives of scientists who've pulled them from the ground. 2001.Bones of contention: controversies in the search for human origins
Par Roger Lewin. 1987
By focusing on several landmark fossil discoveries, the author reveals how the interpretation of data is heavily dependent upon an…
anthropologist's cultural and personal biases, emotions, pre-conceptions, and professional loyalties. 1987.Ascent to civilization: the archaeology of early man
Par John Gowlett. 1984
Ancient people of the Arctic
Par Robert McGhee. 1996
McGhee, a curator of archeology with the Canadian Museum of Civilization, traces the lives of the Palaeo-Eskimos, who entered the…
northern extremes of the North American continent four thousand years ago. McGhee reconstructs what their life was like, explains how they dealt with sharp climate changes, and speculates on their eventual demise. 1996.Ancient Greece
Par Don Nardo. 1994
History of the culture often credited with originating belief in the worth of the individual. Begins with the birth of…
Greek civilization about 2200 B.C. and continues with the development of city-states, the Greek and Persian wars, the Athenian Empire and Athens's golden era, the Peloponnesian War, the feats and death of Alexander the Great, and the Hellenistic Age that ended about A.D. 1. Junior High. c1994.Ancient Greece (History in a hurry #Vol. 8)
Par John Farman. 1998
Ancient Egypt (History in a hurry #Vol. 1)
Par John Farman. 1997
A universal history of the destruction of books: from ancient Sumer to modern Iraq
Par Fernando Báez, Alfred J Mac Adam. 2008
Beginning with ancient Mesopotamia, Báez considers the wide-ranging reasons why books are destroyed: the desire of conquerors to eradicate their…
predecessors or foreign cultures, religious intolerance, fire and other natural or man-made disasters. Other books were lost because they were no longer considered important, and we know of them only through references in other works. Includes a chapter on fictional book destroyers, from Don Quixote to Fahrenheit 451. Some descriptions of violence. c2008. Uniform title: Historia universal de la destrucción de libros.A little history of the world (Little Histories Ser.)
Par E. H. Gombrich, Caroline Mustill. 2005
A history of humankind from the Stone Age through World War II, including accounts of cave people and their inventions,…
ancient life along the Nile and in Mesopotamia and Greece, the growth of religion, the Dark Ages, and the New World. Also provides concise sketches of such figures as Confucius, Alexander the Great, Jesus, Leonardo da Vinci, Napoleon, and Columbus. Originally written in 1935. For grades 4-7. c2005. Uniform title: Kurze Weltgeschichte für Junge Leser.Offers an account of the ‘classical’ period of Greek history, from the aftermath of the Persian Wars in 478 BC…
to the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BC. Covers the history of an important period, including: the flourishing of democracy in Athens; the Peloponnesian war, and the conquests of Alexander the Great. 2010.A history of ancient Greece (The modern scholar)
Par Eric H Cline. 2007
George Washington University professor, Erich H. Cline, delves into the history of Ancient Greece, frequently considered to be the founding…
nation of democracy in Western civilization. From the Minoans to the Mycenaeans to the Trojan War and the first Olympics, the history of this civilization abounds with momentous events and cultural landmarks that resonate through the millennia. 2007.A history of ancient Israel: from the Patriarchs through the Romans (The modern scholar)
Par Eric H Cline. 2006
George Washington University professor Eric H. Cline delivers lectures that follow the course of Israel's history from Abraham and the…
Patriarchs through the Exodus, Exile, and two great Jewish rebellions, encompassing a rich history that increases one's understanding of Israel’s place in the world today. 2006.