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Publisher
National Geographic
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (165 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
An epic detective story that offers a gripping expose on why the world is so unequal. Professor Jared Diamond traveled the globe for over 30 years trying to answer this question. Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning book. Why did Eurasians conquer, displace, or decimate Native Americans, Australians, and Africans, instead of the reverse? Diamond dismantles racially based theories of human history by revealing the environmental factors actually responsible...
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Description
"Ryland Grace is the sole survivor on a desperate, last-chance mission-and if he fails, humanity and the earth itself will perish. Except that right now, he doesn't know that. He can't even remember his own name, let alone the nature of his assignment or how to complete it. All he knows is that he's been asleep for a very, very long time. And he's just been awakened to find himself millions of miles from home, with nothing but two corpses for company....
Author
Series
Robert Langdon novels volume 5
Description
Robert Langdon, Harvard professor of symbology and religious iconology, arrives at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao to attend the unveiling of a discovery that "will change the face of science forever". The evening's host is his friend and former student, Edmond Kirsch, a forty-year-old tech magnate whose dazzling inventions and audacious predictions have made him a controversial figure around the world. This evening is to be no exception: he claims he...
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
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 stylethorough, yet rivetingfamine, 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 age...
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Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
viii, 344 pages ; 25 cm
Description
"Humans have subdued 75 percent of the land surface, concocted a wizardry of industrial and medical marvels, strung lights all across the darkness. We tinker with nature at every opportunity; we garden the planet with our preferred species of plants and animals, many of them invasive; and we have even altered the climate, threatening our own extinction. Yet we reckon with our own destructive capabilities in extraordinary acts of hope-filled creativity...
Author
Publisher
Hay House, Inc
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
xviii, 295 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Description
"What would it mean to discover we're designed to live extraordinary lives of self-healing, longevity, and deep intuition? Is it possible that the advanced awareness achieved by monks, nuns, and mystics- considered rare in the past- is actually meant to be a normal part of our daily lives? In this revelatory book, now available for the first time in paperback, five-time New York Times best-selling author and 2018 Templeton Award nominee Gregg Braden...
7) Human
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
2017
Physical Desc
1 DVD (143 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Collects stories and images revealing daily struggles and triumphs of ordinary people from around the world.
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2016
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 120 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Numbering no more than a few thousand, tiny groups of intrepid humans began to move out of Africa, eventually dominating the planet. How did these early humans acquire the skills, technology, and talent to thrive in every environment on Earth? Take a global journey through the past, following the ancestors' footsteps out of Africa along a trail of scientific clues to help unravel the mystery of how humans got where they are.
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
xii, 320 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Description
Outlines a reassessment of human evolution that draws on recent fossil findings and challenges current theories to say that humans coexisted and competed across the African continent while exchanging genes, tools, and behaviors.
Author
Series
Safehold series volume 3
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
492 p. : map ; 24 cm.
Description
The Kingdom of Charis and the Kingdom of Chisholm have joined together, pledged to stand against the tyranny of a corrupt Church. The youthful Queen Sharleyan of Chisholm has wed King Cayleb of Charis, forging a single dynasty, a single empire, dedicated to the defense of human freedom. Yet there are things Sharleyan still does not know. Secrets Cayleb has not been permitted to share, even with her--and these secrets may threaten all they have achieved...
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 60 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Over 60,000 years ago, the first modern humans left their African homeland and entered Europe, then a bleak and inhospitable continent in the grip of the Ice Age. But when they arrived, they were not alone: the stocky, powerfully built Neanderthals had already been living there for hundreds of thousands of years. So what happened when the first modern humans encountered the Neanderthals? Did they make love or war?
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
260 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Description
"A wide-ranging take on why humans have a troubled relationship with being an animal, and why we need a better one Human are the most inquisitive, emotional, imaginative, aggressive, and baffling animals on the planet. But we are also an animal that does not think it is an animal. How well do we really know ourselves? How to Be Animal tells a remarkable story of what it means to be human and argues that at the heart of our existence is a profound...
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Publisher
TED Books, Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
169 pages : color illustrations ; 19 cm.
Description
A paleontologist examines the importance of the way dinosaurs lived and may have died, the meaning of fossils, the nature of deep time, and humans? place in the world as the earth moves into an uncertain environmental future.
16) Prometheus
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2012.
Formats
Description
Explorers have discovered a clue that brings them to the origins of mankind on Earth. This leads them on a journey that takes them to the darkest corners of the universe.
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Series
Publisher
Distributed to the trade and art markets in North America by North Light Books
Pub. Date
c2002
Physical Desc
63 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 28 cm.
Description
Starting with simple shapes, young artists can quickly learn to create their own cartoon figures, for hours of fun and learning.
Publisher
Ambrose Video
Pub. Date
c2007.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (104 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A massive survey of science from flint tools to the theory of relativity. It was made as a science counterpart to Sir Kenneth Clark's series Civilisation, with Jacob Bronowski presenting his own view of science and mankind.
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