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Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Co
Pub. Date
[1996]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
31 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
Describes the nature of books in the world before the development of the printing press and the subsequent effect of that invention on civilization.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The Renaissance in Florence conjures images of beautiful frescoes and elegant buildings-the dazzling handiwork of the city's skilled artists and architects. But equally important for the centuries to follow were geniuses of a different sort: Florence's manuscript hunters, scribes, scholars, and booksellers, who blew the dust off a thousand years of history and, through the discovery and diffusion of ancient knowledge, imagined a new and enlightened...
Author
Series
Publisher
Raintree Steck-Vaughn
Pub. Date
[1999]
Physical Desc
63 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
An examination of several of the more important ancient civilizations of Peru with particular focus on the Incas and with attention drawn also to the effects of the Spanish conquests.
Author
Publisher
PublicAffairs
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 308 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Traces the historic quest to rekindle the human exploration of space as navigated by billionaire entrepreneurs, sharing insights into how professional rivalry and Silicon Valley innovations are lowering the cost of space travel and exceeding the achievements of NASA.
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2011]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
iii, 60 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 24 x 26 cm
Language
English
Description
Presents the story of Kennewick Man, one of the oldest and most complete skeletons found in America near the Columbia River in Washington.
Author
Series
Out from Egypt volume 1
Language
English
Description
Sold into slavery by her father and forsaken by the man she was supposed to marry, young Egyptian Kiya must serve a mistress who takes pleasure in her humiliation. When terrifying plagues strike Egypt, Kiya is in the middle of it all. To save her older brother and escape the bonds of slavery, Kiya flees with the Hebrews during the Great Exodus. She finds herself utterly dependent on a fearsome God she's only just beginning to learn about, and in love...
Author
Publisher
The Experiment
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
xiv, 401 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
In our unique genomes, every one of us carries the story of our species--births, deaths, disease, war, famine, migration, and a lot of sex. But those stories have always been locked away--until now. Who are our ancestors? Where did they come from? Geneticists have suddenly become historians, and the hard evidence in our DNA has blown the lid off what we thought we knew. Acclaimed science writer Adam Rutherford explains exactly how genomics is completely...
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