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Start Your Weekend at the Library!
Enjoy stories, songs, and hands-on activities.
(All Ages)
Saturdays: 10:30 a.m. at Roy and Helen Hall Library (Hall)
Special Story Themes:
June 15: Juneteenth
June 29: Pride Month
July 6: Independence Day
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
Español
Description
En Sapiens, exploró nuestro pasado; en el Homo Deus miró hacia nuestro futuro. Ahora, uno de los pensadores más innovadores del planeta recurre al presente para encontrarle sentido a los problemas más apremiantes de hoy. Religión, terrorismo, guerra, política, noticias falsas, migración humana, medio ambiente, nacionalismo. 21 Lecciones para el siglo XXI es una investigación investigadora de los grandes temas que enfrentamos a diario en los...
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Formats
Description
The revered New York Times bestselling author traces the development of technology from the Industrial Age to the Digital Age to explore the single component crucial to advancement--precision--in a superb history that is both an homage and a warning for our future.The rise of manufacturing could not have happened without an attention to precision. At the dawn of the Industrial Revolution in eighteenth-century England, standards of measurement were...
24) Ancient Rome
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
An exploration of ancient Rome offers insights into the civilization's history, institutions, myths, and traditions, and discusses its influence on modern society.
26) Ancient China
Author
Pub. Date
[2015?]
Language
English
Description
"In Ancient China, readers discover the history and impressive accomplishments of the people of ancient China, including their technological wonders and feats of construction. Engaging text provides details on the civilization's history, development, daily life, culture, art, technology, warfare, social organization, and more."--Publisher's website.
Author
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
What caused some of the great civilizations of the past to collapse into ruin, and what can we learn from their fates? Diamond weaves an all-encompassing global thesis through a series of historical-cultural narratives. Moving from the prehistoric Polynesian culture of Easter Island to the formerly flourishing Native American civilizations of the Anasazi and the Maya, the doomed medieval Viking colony on Greenland, and finally to the modern world,...
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