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Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
4 DVDs (ca. 670 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (34 p. : ill. ; 18 cm.)
Description
Art historian Sir Kenneth Clark presents an epic examination of Western European culture, defining what he considers to be the crucial phases of its development. This lavish series was hailed as a masterpiece when it was broadcast in 1969.
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Earth's children volume 6
Description
Continuing the story of Ayla and Jondalar, Auel combines her brilliant narrative skills and appealing characters with a remarkable re-creation of the way life was lived more than 25,000 years ago.
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Publisher
Raintree
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
64 p. : col. ill., col. map ; 22 cm.
Description
Presents a tour of medieval Europe, discussing facts about climate, landscape, religion, social classes, government, education, clothing, culture, transportation, food, diseases, crime, and languages.
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"In vivid detail, Hoffman sheds light on the two millennia of economic, political, and historical changes that set European states on a distinctive path of development and military rivalry. Compared to their counterparts in China, Japan, South Asia, and the Middle East, European leaders--whether chiefs, lords, kings, emperors, or prime ministers--had radically different incentives, which drove them to make war. These incentives, which Hoffman explores...
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Montague siblings volume 1
Description
Vowing to make his yearlong escapade across Europe his last hurrah before taking over the family estate, Henry "Monty" Montague and his best friend Percy find themselves in the middle of a dangerous manhunt involving pirates and highwaymen.
8) Europe
Publisher
Lonely Planet Publications Pty Ltd
Pub. Date
2015-
Physical Desc
volumes : color illustrations, color maps ; 20 cm
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Publisher
Bloomsburg Publishing
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
[xii, 254 pages, [16] pages of plates] : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Description
This is a group biography of the first geologists, the people who were first to excavate from the layers of the world its buried history. These first geologists were made up primarily of gentlemen with the necessary wealth to support their interests, yet also included clergymen, academics and women. The new science of geology was pursued by this assorted band because it opened a window on Earth's ancient past. They showed courage in facing the conflict...
12) A peculiar peril
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Series
Misadventures of Jonathan Lambshead volume 1
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
632 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Description
"The first book in a two-volume fantasy about a teenaged boy who inherits his grandfather's mansion and discovers three strange doors, evidence his grandfather did not die of natural causes but spectacularly unnatural ones, and clues to the family's tiesto an alternate Europe immersed in a war fought with strange tech and dark magic"--
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Publisher
Baen
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
517 pages.
Description
Up-timer Morris Roth and his Grand Army of the Sunrise stand at a crossroads. Military success against the Polish-Lithuanian magnates has all but guaranteed a continued push east into Ruthenian lands. There, Roth hopes to further his Anaconda Project sothat tens of thousands of Jews are not slaughtered in what's to become known as the Chmielnicki Pogrom of 1648. An envoy from Transylvania arrives with a promising offer from its prince, who wishes...
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Earth's children volume 1
Description
An injured and orphaned infant carries within her the seed and hope of mankind in this epic of survival and destiny set at the dawn of prehistory
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Publisher
Sterling
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
xvii, 309 pages : illustrations (some color), maps, portraits ; 21 cm
Description
We consider the Middle Ages barbaric, yet the period furnished some of our most enduring icons, including King Arthur's Round Table, knights in shining armor, and the idealized noblewoman. In this vivid history of the time, the medieval world comes to life in all its rich daily experience. Find out what people's beds were like, how often they washed, what they wore, what they cooked, how they worked, how they entertained themselves, how they wed,...
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Penguin history of Europe volume 8
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
xxiv, 593 pages, [16] pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 24 cm.
Description
"The Penguin History of Europe series reaches the twentieth century with ... Ian Kershaw's long-anticipated analysis of the pivotal years of World War I and World War II. The European catastrophe, the long continuous period from 1914 to 1949, was unprecedented in human history-- an extraordinarily dramatic, often traumatic, and endlessly fascinating period of upheaval and transformation. This new volume in the ... series offers comprehensive coverage...
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