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Publisher
Parragon
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
WORLD HISTORY. This beautifully illustrated family reference guide explores 30 wonders from Stonehenge to the Grand Canyon - with fantastic colour illustrations and photographs that capture both the magic and the majesty of these stunning natural wonders and incredible man made constructions. Filled with annotated 3D illustrations and cutaway diagrams you can journey to the heart of these extraordinary places. This stunning guide takes you on a journey...
Author
Publisher
W Publishing, an imprint of Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Join author and trusted Bible teacher, Dr. David Jeremiah's as he unpacks the scriptures to reveal that the problems we are facing is to be expected, and in fact will increase as we draw closer to the End Times. But even more importantly we should not worry since Jesus has overcome the world. And because of this there is hope for this life, but more importantly for the next.
Author
Publisher
Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Hope Jahren is an award-winning geobiologist, a brilliant writer, and one of the seven billion people with whom we share this earth. The Story of More is her impassioned open letter to humanity as we stand at the crossroads of survival and extinction. Jahren celebrates the long history of our enterprising spirit--which has tamed wild crops, cured diseases, and sent us to the moon--but also shows how that spirit has created excesses that are quickly...
Author
Publisher
Beacon Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Axelrod spins his personal philosophy out into the wider world, where technology is changing the nature of human consciousness faster than we can see it happening. He draws a parallel between the environmental crisis and a lesser-known, but equally pressing issue: as we lose the world around us, he argues, we are losing our interior worlds, too. We can't navigate without a GPS, we can't pay attention unless our attention is DEMANDED in all caps and...
Author
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
"The World and the West reaches from such diverse cases as the Maya and Yaqui of Mexico, the Ghost Dance of North America, cargo cults of Melanesia, to Meiji Japan and the Ottoman Empire. In discussing a variety of questions about the relations between the world and the West in recent centuries, Curtin ultimately introduces a new perspective on the underlying question: How do human societies change through time?"--Jacket.
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"One of the most violent conflicts in the history of civilization, World War I has been strangely forgotten in American culture. It has become a ghostly war fought in a haze of memory, often seen merely as a distant preamble to World War II. In The Long Shadow critically acclaimed historian David Reynolds seeks to broaden our vision by assessing the impact of the Great War across the twentieth century."--Book jacket.
Author
Publisher
Other Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"The year 1947 marks a turning point in the twentieth century. Peace with Germany becomes a tool to fortify the West against the threats of the Cold War. The CIA is created, Israel is about to be born, Simone de Beauvoir experiences the love of her life, an ill George Orwell is writing his last book, and Christian Dior creates the hyper-feminine New Look as women are forced out of jobs and back into the home."--Provided by publisher.
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