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Publisher
DK Publishing
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
208 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps ; 31 cm
Language
English
Description
Transform your view of history with this groundbreaking visual encyclopedia of the events of the past. From the disciplined armies of ancient Rome and the lives of ferocious samurai warriors to World War II and today's eco-friendly innovations, historical events are visualized in incredible detail, providing a fascinating introduction to the world through time.
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Publisher
EDC Publishing
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
128 pages : color illustrations, maps ; 32 cm.
Language
English
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If you want to know when the wheel was invented, Shakespeare was born, or the first man landed on the moon, you'll find it in this densely illustrated reference book. With over 3,500 dates, it's an indispensible guide to what happened when and where.
Author
Publisher
DK Publishing
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
320 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 31 cm.
Language
English
Description
A history of the world is presented through over one hundred different visual timelines, from a chronology of the written word to an ordered listing of the American presidents.
Author
Publisher
DK Publishing
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
128 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps ; 31 cm
Language
English
Description
Profiles thirty children in different eras, discussing the clothes they wore, the food they ate, the games they played, and the moments in history they witnessed.
Author
Publisher
EDC Pub
Pub. Date
2005, c1996]
Physical Desc
48 p. : col. ill. ; 34 cm.
Language
English
Description
There is a brain-teasing picture puzzle on every double-page of this book. Each beautifully illustrated scene shows a different period in history, crammed with all kinds of people, animals and objects to spot. A bustling Greek marketplace, a firework display at a Chinese palace, and a smoky factory town are all included, plus lots more. As well as providing hours of fun, The Greaty History Search is packed full of fascinating historical facts presented...
Publisher
Kingfisher
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
vii, 491 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
"History leaps from the page in this completely revised and updated edition of the critically acclaimed Kingfisher History Encyclopedia. From humankind's earliest history right through to the technological and social revolutions of the current day--including the fight for equality, the threat of climate change, the COVID-19 crisis, and the latest space exploration-- this trusted reference provides a one-stop source for research, and is the perfect...
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Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2021
Physical Desc
368 pages ; maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
A masterful, thought-provoking, and wide-ranging study of how the vestiges of the imperial era shape society today.
In this groundbreaking narrative, The Shadows of Empire explains (in the vein of The Silk Roads and Prisoners of Geography) how the world’s imperial legacies still shape our lives—as well as the thorniest issues we face today.
For the first time in millennia we live without formal empires. But that doesn’t mean we don’t feel...
10) Chronos
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (45 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A visual-musical journey through time and history, featuring locations from the cradle of civilization to a modern day metropolis.
Author
Publisher
Lonely Planet Kids
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
211 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps ; 31 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Take a world tour through 200 countries with this brand new edition of the bestselling kids' version of Lonely Planet's ... The Travel Book, loaded with thousands of ... facts on wildlife, how people live, sports, hideous and mouthwatering food, festivals, and a wide range of other quirky insights on every page. Every ... country gets its own dedicated page, and a mix of photography and ... illustrations brings each land to life"--Amazon.com.
12) Back to life
Publisher
DK Publishing
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
160 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
"Turns back time to reveal realistic reconstructions of the most incredible locations and exciting moments in history. You'll feel the roar of the crowd in the Roman Colosseum, walk the ramparts of the Great Wall of China, and ride the first railways. Each story begins with an archaeological site or artifact. You'll learn when and how it was discovered, and what it teaches us about how the people who lived at the site might have spent their days....
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (160 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"Join Lucy Worsley on a journey across Europe to visit the incredible locations where royal history was made. From the rule of Henry VIII to the Russian Revolution, learn how royal history is a mixture of facts, exaggeration, manipulation and mythology."--container.
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Series
Publisher
Buster Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
127 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 28 cm
Language
English
Description
Featuring a day in the life of early humans as they paint woolly mammoths on the walls of a cave, a fierce gladiator battling in the Colosseum and a codebreaker at Bletchley Park during World War II. And not forgetting the animals of history - from a day in the life of Hannibal's war elephant marching over the Alps and an Egyptian cat (worshiped as a god, of course) to a Galapagos tortoise who meets Charles Darwin on his famous voyage of the Beagle...
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Language
English
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"For generations, our remote ancestors have been cast as primitive and childlike--either free and equal innocents, or thuggish and warlike. Civilization, we are told, could be achieved only by sacrificing those original freedoms or by taming our baser instincts. In their major New York Times bestseller, The Dawn of Everything, David Graeber and David Wengrow fundamentally challenge these assumptions and recast our understanding of human history. We...
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Series
Sapiens A Graphic History volume 2
Publisher
Harper Perennial
Pub. Date
2021
Physical Desc
256 pages chiefly color illustrations ;
Language
English
Description
This second volume of Sapiens: A Graphic History, the full-color graphic adaptation of Yuval Noah Harari’s #1 New York Times bestseller, focuses on the Agricultural Revolution—when humans fell into a trap we’ve yet to escape: working harder and harder with diminishing returns.
What if humanity’s major woes—war, plague, famine and inequality—originated 12,000 years ago, when Homo sapiens converted from nomads to settlers, in pursuit of...
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