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"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 books about the history of humanity pursue either a historical or a biological approach, but Dr. Yuval Noah Harari breaks the mold with this highly original book that begins about 70,000 years ago with the appearance of modern cognition."--
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.7 - AR Pts: 5
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1150L
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English
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"From the New York Times-bestselling author of Where Good Ideas Come From and Everything Bad Is Good for You, a new look at the power and legacy of great ideas. In this illustrated volume, Steven Johnson explores the history of innovation over centuries, tracing facets of modern life (refrigeration, clocks, and eyeglass lenses, to name a few) from their creation by hobbyists, amateurs, and entrepreneurs to their unintended historical consequences....
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"We all sense it--something big is going on. You feel it in your workplace. You feel it when you talk to your kids. You can't miss it when you read the newspapers or watch the news. Our lives are being transformed in so many realms all at once--and it is dizzying. In Thank You for Being Late, a work unlike anything he has attempted before, Thomas L. Friedman exposes the tectonic movements that are reshaping the world today and explains how to get...
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Island Press/Shearwater Books
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2002.
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English
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"In this work, Nicols Fox examines contemporary resistance to technology and places it in a surprising historical context. She illuminates the rich but oftentimes unrecognized literary and philosophical tradition that has existed for nearly two centuries, since the first Luddites - the machine breaking followers of the mythical Ned Ludd - lifted their sledgehammers in protest against the Industrial Revolution. Tracing that current thought through...
9) The substance of civilization: materials and human history from the stone age to the age of silicon
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Arcade Pub
Pub. Date
[1998]
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English
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Johns Hopkins University Press
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2011.
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English
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This book is the author's history of the relationship between technology and society over the past 500 years reveals how technological innovations have shaped, and have been shaped by, the cultures in which they arose. Spanning the preindustrial past, the age of scientific, political, and industrial revolutions, as well as the more recent eras of imperialism, modernism, and global security, this work evaluates what the author, a historian, calls "the...
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Ambrose Video
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[2003]
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English
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"Life is no picnic: Examine the interwoven histories of freeze dried coffee and soldier ration packs in WWII; the Star Spangled Banner and a Greek poem; and Europe's Romantic movement and Darwin's theory of evolution."--Container.
"Elementary stuff: Explore histories [sic] intricate web of commonalities: spiritualism and the device that makes radio reception possible; Scottish oppression and the creation of turpentine; and the debate over modern...
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Ambrose Video
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[2003]
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English
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"The big spin: The greatest medical accident in history starts a trail that leads to Helen of Troy, 17th century flower-power, the invention of soda pop and earthquake detection."--Container.
"Bright ideas: A Baltimore man invented the bottle, which led to razors, clock springs, and the Hubbell telescope."--Container.
"Making waves: Hairdressers, Gold Rush miners, Irish potato farmers and English parliamentarians are really tied together."--Container.
"Routes:...
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Ambrose Video
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[2003]
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English
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"Hit the water: From the cockpit of a Tornado Fighter Bomber, dip into the history of margarine, dance at the ballet Copella, and blow up a dam in Norway with a British commando team to find out why and how Hitler never harnessed heavy water and the A-Bomb."--Container.
"In touch: An American scientist ponders the problem of nuclear fusion in 1951 and from the connections between the Eiffel Tower to modern oceanography, the Global Net is developed."--Container....
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Ambrose Video
Pub. Date
[2003]
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English
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"Something for nothing: Something impossible happened 400 years ago. And we wound up in outer space, thanks (en route) to pigeon lovers, the Pope, and electric Italian frogs."--Container.
"Echoes of the past: On his way to finding the secret of the universe, Burke takes us to the Buddhist tea ceremony, ties it to international spies and Lincoln's assassination."--Container.
"Photo finish: The Le Mans 24-hour race is the backdrop for linking photography...
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Ambrose Video
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[2003]
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English
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"HIgh times: Unwrap a sandwich and you're on a path to World War II radar and Neo Impressionist painters."--Container.
"Deja vu: History repeats itself, when you know how to look. Pizzaro beats the Incas, the first stock market opens. The Queen of England salutes a Mexican beetle and Hitler's plans misfire."--Container.
"New harmony: Microscopic bugs inspired the novel'Frankenstein" which aided the birth of Socialism."--Container.
"Hot pickle:...
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Ambrose Video
Pub. Date
[2003]
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English
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"Feedback: Electronic agents may be our servants using feedback mathematics that won World War II based on an idea from France's vineyards where the Humane Society began while a doctor in Michigan created cornflakes."--Container.
"What's in a name?: A breakfast leads to corn cob garbage used for 'furfan' which creates resin for bonding that leads to inventing the tractor and diesal engine and to the creation of the Smithsonian in Washington, DC."--Container....
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Ambrose Video
Pub. Date
[2003]
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English
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"A special place: Connections between historical events are revealed and explored. Featured are a 400-year trip through 20 locations; Swedish electricity, Dutch wind tunnels, and a new type of photography; and WWI fighter-aces and their eccentric uncles."--Container.
"Fire from the sky: What does the majestic beauty of Iceland's geysers have to do with the destruction of the Allied fire-bombing of Hamburg in WWII? Stop by Stonehenge, chat with the...
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Ambrose Video
Pub. Date
[2003]
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English
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"One word: One medieval word kicks off the investigation into different cultures with the same stories that ends in cultural anthropology."--Container.
"Sign here: Dutch piracy starts international law and French probability math, phonetics, and Victorian seances."--Container.
"Better than the real thing: How the zipper started with technology Jefferson picked up in Paris during a row about Creation."--Container.
"Flexible response: Robin Hood...
