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011034
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Great Britain, Kingfisher Publications Plc, 2006.
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48pPurple Spine
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Kingfisher history encyclopedia
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Provides fascinating facts about the earliest history of humanity, as it evolved from cave-dwellers to village-dwelling farmers to populations in towns, up to and including the first advanced civilizations.
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What is history?
The world at a glance
The first humans
The first farmers
Ancient Egypt
Megalithic Europe
The Indus valley
Ancient Crete
The Myceneans
Shang dynasty
The Hittites
Babylon
The Assyrians
The Hebrews
Egypt, the new kingdom
The Phoenicians
Africa
America
Aryan India
The founding of Rome
Babylon revived
Greek dark age
The Zhou dynasty
The Persian empire
The Arts
Architecture
Science and technology
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9780753409756 Pb.
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| Accession# | Call# | Current Location | Status | Policy | Location |
| 011220 | 930.1/HOL | Main | On Shelf | General | |
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011027
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Great Britain, Kingfisher Publications Plc, 2006.
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48pBlue Spine
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Kingfisher history encyclopedia
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Provides fascinating facts explaining the influence of Greece and Rome being responsible for shaping much of the world we live in today and the dominance of four empires - Roman empire, Han Dynasty Sassanids and Gupta dynasty.
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The world at a glance
Classical Greece
Greek city-states
Alexander the great
India: the Mauryan empire
China: the Qin dynasty
Africa
Judea
The Roman republic
The Roman empire
Roman life
The Celts
China: the Han dynasty
Christianity
Parthians and Sassanids
The Americas
The Gupta dynasty
The decline of Rome
The Barbarians
Japan
The Maya
The Polynesians
The arts
Architecture
Science and technology
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9780753409756 Pb.
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| Accession# | Call# | Current Location | Status | Policy | Location |
| 011226 | 930/HOL | Main | On Shelf | General | |
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011030
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Great Britain, Kingfisher Publications Plc, 2006.
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48pGreen Spine
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Kingfisher history encyclopedia
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Provides fascinating facts about the early Middle Ages, a period that seperates ancient and modern history.
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The world at glance
The Byzantine empire
Monasticism
Sui and Tang China
Islam
Persecution of the Jews
North America
Bulgars and Slavs
The Carolingians
The Abbasid dynasty
Ghana
Fujiwara Japan
Magyars and Bohemians
Anglo-Saxon Britain
The holy Roman empire
Capetian France
The Americas
The Vikings
The Normans
The Seljuk turks
China: the Song dynasty
The Arts
Architecture
Science and technology
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9780753409756 Pb.
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| Accession# | Call# | Current Location | Status | Policy | Location |
| 011222 | 909.07/HOL | Main | On Shelf | General | |
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011035
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Great Britain, Kingfisher Publications Plc, 2006.
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48pRed Spine
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Kingfisher history encyclopedia
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Provides fascinating facts about the Middle ages, a period during which empires rose and fell throughout the world, the times of faith and fortune, of war and torture, famine and wealth and by the end of which learning had come within the reach of everyone who could read.
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The world at a glance
The Crusades
Knighthood
Henry of Anjou
Ireland
Shoguns and Samurai
European trade
Venice
Charter and parliament
Mali and Ethiopia
Benin and Zimbabwe
Religion in the Middle ages
The Mongol empire
Aztecs and Incas
Medieval explorers
The hundred years war
The Black Death
China: the Ming dynasty
Constantinople
The Khmer empire
The Arts
Architecture
Sciene and technology
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9780753409756 Pb.
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| Accession# | Call# | Current Location | Status | Policy | Location |
| 011221 | 909.07/HOL | Main | On Shelf | General | |
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011029
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London, Kingfisher Publications Plc, 2006.
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48pDark Blue Spine
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Kingfisher history encyclopedia
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Highlights the social, technological and environmental changes, advances in science and technology, changing family structures, a growing gap between the rich and poor, and an increase in global terrorism, in today's modern world.
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The world at a glance
The Cold War
In space
China
World economy
Wars in Asia
Civil rights
Terrorism
Famine in Africa
New nations
Wars in the Middle East
A scientific revolution
The environment
Asian economies
Peacekeeping
World trouble spots
South Africa
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9780753409756 Pb.
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| Accession# | Call# | Current Location | Status | Policy | Location |
| 011228 | 909.83/HOL | Main | On Shelf | General | |
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011033
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London,
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48pBrown Spine
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Kingfisher history encyclopedia
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Provides fascinating facts about the period between 1461-1600, marking the start of modern history.
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The world at a glance
The Aztecs
The Inca empire
The reconquest of Spain
The Renaissance
Italy
European explorers
The Songhai empire
Safavid Persia
Tudor England
The Portuguese empire
The reformation
The Ottoman empire
India: the Moguls
The Conquistadores
The Spanish empire
The Habsburgs
The Spanish Armada
French wars of religion
Russia
Dutch Independence
North America
Japan and China
The Arts
Architecture
Science and technology
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9780753409756 Pb.
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| 011227 | 909.4/HOL | Main | On Shelf | General | |
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011040
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London, Kingfisher Publications Plc,
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48pBlue Spine
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Kingfisher history encyclopedia
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Highlights the different revolutions during this period such as revolutions in farming techniques and industry, in science, technology and medicine, in transport, and in arts, especially literature.
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The world at a glance
Austria and Prussia
Scotland: The Jacobites
Agricultural Revolution
Industry: early revolution
India and change
The seven years war
North America
Trade with China
The age of logic
Africa
Modernizing Russia
Exploration in Oceania
Japan and Southeast Asia
The founding of the USA
The French revolution
The Napoleonic wars
The end of slavery
The british in India
Revolt in Latin America
Unrest in Britain
USA: Westward migration
The Arts
Architecture
Science and Technology
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9780753409756 Pb.
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| 011224 | 909.7/HOL | Main | On Shelf | General | |
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ID:
011028
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Great Britain, Kingfisher Publications Plc, 2006.
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48pPink Spine
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Kingfisher history encyclopedia
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Explains how Europeans began to take over the world, with their trading posts and how this century brought a tragic mixture of wars, revolution and devastation, as well as enormous growth and progress in the sciences and arts to Europe. On the other hand, the Americas were being impacted by British and French settlers occuping the east coast of North Amreica, and the Spanish having taken over Central and South America.
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The world at a glance
Japan in isolation
The Stuarts
Early American settlers
The Swedish empire
The thirty years war
France and Richelieu
Decline of Spain
East India Companies
The Dutch empire
English Civil War
China: the Qing dynasty
The sun king
Decline of Moghul India
The Ottoman Empire
The Age of Reason
Slavery and pirates
African states
Ireland
Russian expansion
The Great Northern War
The Spanish succession
Colonial America
The Arts
Architecture
Science and technology
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9780753409756 Pb.
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| 011229 | 909.6/HOL | Main | On Shelf | General | |
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ID:
011038
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London, Kingfisher Publications Plc, 2006.
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48pRed Spine
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Kingfisher history encyclopedia
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A period during which the world map changed greatly - new nations were formed and some were unified. Railways, telegraph wires and steamships made the world suddenly smaller. New cities such as New York, Buenos Aires, Johannesburg, Bombay and Shanghai became centres in a new global order.
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The world at a glance
Industrial revolution
Texas and Mexico
South Africa
The Opium wars
Year of revolution
New Zealand
The Crimean war
Japan
American Civil War
The end of the Civil War
Canada
Italy
Germany
Scramble for Africa
Ireland
Southeast Asia
The British empire
USA: The plain wars
The boxer rebellion
Suffrage
Australia
The Balkan wars
The Arts
Architecture
Science and technology
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9780753409756 Pb.
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| 011223 | 909.81/HOL | Main | On Shelf | General | |
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ID:
011026
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Great Britain, Kingfisher Publications Plc, 2006.
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48pGreen Spine
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Kingfisher history encyclopedia
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Provides fascinating facts about the period 1914-1949, during which, the world went through a period of rapid, intense and painful change followed by the Great War, 1917 revolution in Russia, Great Depression, World War II with replacing the European world-dominance by that of the USA and USSR.
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The world at a glance
The start of World War I
Battles of World War I
Ireland: Civil unrest
Russia
World War I: the aftermath
The rise of fascism
USA: between the wars
China
The great depression
Weimar and Hitler
The Spanish civil war
China and Japan at war
German expansion
The beginning of World War II
War in the west
War in the pacific
Peace in the pacific
The United Nations
Italy and the balkans
Indian independence
Israel
British commonwealth
Communist China
The arts
Architecture
Science and technology
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9780753409756 Pb.
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| Accession# | Call# | Current Location | Status | Policy | Location |
| 011225 | 909.822/HOL | Main | On Shelf | General | |
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