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Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
443 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"From a renowned historian comes a groundbreaking narrative of humanity's creation and evolution--a #1 international bestseller--that explores the ways in which biology and history have defined us and enhanced our understanding of what it means to be "human." One hundred thousand years ago, at least six different species of humans inhabited Earth. Yet today there is only one--homo sapiens. What happened to the others? And what may happen to us? Most...
Author
Publisher
Harcourt, Brace and Company
Pub. Date
c1934
Physical Desc
xi, 495 p. ; ill. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Technics and Civilization gives a history of the development of the machine during the last thousand years. It examines the origins of the machine as they are found in the social order that crystallized in the early Middle Ages, and in the scientific and philosophic world-views that grew up in the seventeenth century.
Author
Series
Publisher
Sterling
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
527 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Provides a detailed look at two hundred and fifty milestones in aerospace, architecture, chemistry, computer engineering, and more, from ancient history to the present, including the cotton gin, radar, space satellite, and genetic engineering.
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
c2018
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xii, 395 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Traces the development of technology from the Industrial Age to the Digital Age to explore the single component crucial to advancement--precision--in a superb history that is both an homage and a warning for our future.
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
449 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Over the past century humankind has managed to do the impossible and rein in famine, plague, and war. This may seem hard to accept, but, as Harari explains in his trademark style--thorough, yet riveting--famine, plague and war have been transformed from incomprehensible and uncontrollable forces of nature into manageable challenges. For the first time ever, more people die from eating too much than from eating too little; more people die from old...
7) The Romans
Author
Series
Publisher
Sea-to-Sea Publications
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
32 p. : col. ill. ; 28 cm.
Language
English
8) The Greeks
Author
Series
Publisher
Sea-to-Sea Publications
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
32 p. : col. ill. ; 28 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 488 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
In Underland, Macfarland delivers his masterpiece: an epic exploration of the Earth's underworlds as they exist in myth, literature, memory, and the land itself. He takes us on an extraordinary journey into our relationship with darkness, burial, and what lies beneath the surface of both place and mind. Traveling through "deep time" - the dizzying expanses of geologic time that stretch away from the present - he moves from the birth of the universe...
Author
Series
Publisher
Capstone Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
32 pages : color illustrations, map ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"This title explores and explains how the Great Pyramid of Giza was built. The pyramid's construction is described in terms of the engineering process"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation
Pub. Date
2024
Physical Desc
352 pages : 8 pages of photographs; 65 illustrations; 1 map ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Documents the efforts of three scientists to observe the rare total solar eclipse of 1878, citing how the ambitions of James Craig Watson, Maria Mitchell, and Thomas Edison helped America's early pursuits as a scientific superpower.