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Mann shows how a new generation of researchers equipped with novel scientific techniques have come to previously unheard-of conclusions about the Americas before the arrival of the Europeans: In 1491 there were probably more people living in the Americas than in Europe. Certain cities -- such as Tenochtitlán, the Aztec capital -- were greater in population than any European city. Tenochtitlán, unlike any capital in Europe at that time, had running...
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Naples, 1750. In the dead of night, three men with swords burst into the palazzo of a marquis. Their leader, the Prince of San Severo, accuses the marquis of being an imposter, and demands to know a secret only the marquis harbors. In the fight that ensues, the false marquis escapes over the rooftops of Naples, leaving behind a burning palazzo and a raging prince now obsessed with finding his quarry at any cost. Baghdad, 2003. An army unit on a routine...
4) Provenance
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2017.
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English
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A power-driven young woman has just one chance to secure the status she craves and regain priceless lost artifacts prized by her people. She must free their thief from a prison planet from which no one has ever returned. Ingray and her charge will return to her home world to find their planet in political turmoil, at the heart of an escalating intergalactic conflict. Together, they must make a new plan to salvage Ingray's future, her family, and her...
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Dirk Pitt adventures volume 21
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IL: UG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 24
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English
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In A.D. 327, a Roman galley barely escapes a pirate attack with its extraordinary cargo. In 1916, a British warship mysteriously explodes in the middle of the North Sea. In the present day, a cluster of important mosques in Turkey and Egypt are wracked by explosions. Does anything tie them together? NUMA director Dirk Pitt is about to find out, as Roman artifacts discovered in Turkey and Israel unnervingly connect to the rise of a fundamentalist movement...
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Thames and Hudson
Pub. Date
1991
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240 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 25 cm.
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English
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Chronicles pre-Columbian America weaving together history and mythology, archaeology and ethnography, to create a narrative of the rise and fall of America's ancient civilizations.
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Sigma Force novels volume 17
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English
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"An international research station in the Coral Sea comes under siege during a geological disaster that triggers massive quakes, deadly tsunamis, and volcanic eruptions. To stop the world from burning, it's up to Sigma Force to uncover a secret buried at the heart of our planet. The Titan Project-an international research station off the coast of Australia-discovers a thriving zone of life in an otherwise dead sea. The area teems with a strange...
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English
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"Rachel Morgan's frank and incisive history begins with Richard Wetherill's "discovery" of Mesa Verde in Colorado in 1888. Subsequent expeditions by amateurs, looters, and budding professional archaeologists abetted the devastation of Indigenous sites throughout the Southwest. These expeditions became the proving grounds for different conceptions of what archaeology should be and how it should be practiced. Ultimately, revulsion at the work of nineteenth-century...
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University of New Mexico Press
Pub. Date
2006
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xiv, 320 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), col. maps ; 29 cm.
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English
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Puebloan Ruins of the Southwest offers a complete picture of Puebloan culture from its prehistoric beginnings through twenty-five hundred years of growth and change, ending with the modern-day Pueblo Indians of New Mexico and Arizona. Aerial and ground photographs, over 325 in color, and sixty settlement plans provide an armchair trip to ruins that are open to the public and that may be visited or viewed from nearby. Included, too, are the living...
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Packard Publications
Pub. Date
1974]
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64 p. illus. 28 cm.
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English
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This book attempts to explain in some depth the significance of over seventy symbols found in the Indian rock carvings of the Southwest. It is concerned mainly with those made by the Puebloid people of Arizona and New Mexico and peripheral areas. Much of the knowledge vanished with those who made them two hundred to four thousand years ago. Some may have been messages or trail markers, and ones in or near habitation sites may have been merely decorations...
12) Ancient China
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Distributed by Random House
Pub. Date
1994
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63 p. : col. ill. ; 29 cm.
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English
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The history of Imperial China from the building of the Great Wall to the days of the last emperor.
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University of New Mexico Press
Pub. Date
c1987
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xiv, 296 p. : col. ill. ; 29 cm.
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English
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Photographs and descriptions of all extant, accessible Anasazi ruins of the Southwest. Many aerial views showing the interrelationships of the structures and the intrinsic beauty of the settings. Emphasis on the sites of Mesa Verde, Chaco Canyon, Canyon de Chelly, and Kayenta. Current research and presentation of contradictory theories.
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Cotton Malone novels volume 14
Pub. Date
2019.
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English
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"A deadly race for the Vatican's oldest secret ... The pope is dead. A conclave to select his replacement is about to begin. Cardinals are beginning to arrive at the Vatican, but one has fled Rome for Malta in search of a document that dates back to the 4th century and Constantine the Great. Former Justice Department operative, Cotton Malone, is at Lake Como, Italy, on the trail of legendary letters between Winston Churchill and Benito Mussolini that...
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Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
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ix, 179 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
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English
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"In Pianos and Flowers we are invited, through the medium of sepia images, to glimpse a world long departed. In these stories, inspired by long-lost photographs, the lives of the people in the frame are imagined and then explored, layer by layer. What must have it like to be them? We hold our breath for them. Our heart beats faster for them. We look again at the photograph in a new light, and say Yes, it might have happened just like that"--
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