This is our world from Alaska to the Amazon

This Is Our World takes young readers on a journey to 20 different places around the world, from Alaska and the Amazon to Australia, Cambodia, Turkey, and New York City. Through the experiences of children living in these places, readers discover different animals, plants, weather, foods, clothing, languages, schools, sports, games, customs, and traditions. The book celebrates cultural and envi…

Guns, germs, and steel: the fates of human societies

The story begins 13,000 years ago, when Stone Age hunter-gatherers constituted the entire human population. Around that time, the developmental paths of human societies on different continents began to diverge greatly. Early domestication of wild plants and animals in the Fertile Crescent, China, Mesoamerica, the Andes, and other areas gave peoples of those regions a head start at a new way of …

Everything you need to ace world history in one big fat notebook : a middle s…

Big Fat Notebooks offer the support of a knowledgeable teacher in the form of an approachable peer—the notes of the smartest kid in class. Everything You Need to Ace World Historyin One Big Fat Notebook is the same indispensable resource so many students depend on, updated with new and improved content exploring ancient civilizations, indigenous cultures, social movements, war, colonialism, i…

The diary of a young girl

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The definitive edition

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9780141315188

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A little history of the world

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9780300143324

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284 p. 21 cm

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909 GOM l

The diary of a young girl : the definitive edition

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9780553577129

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384 p.

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900 FRA d

The bomber mafia

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9780316296618

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One day, everyone will have always been against this

On October 25, 2023, after just three weeks of the bombardment of Gaza, Omar El Akkad put out a tweet: “One day, when it’s safe, when there’s no personal downside to calling a thing what it is, when it’s too late to hold anyone accountable, everyone will have always been against this.” This tweet has been viewed more than 10 million times. As an immigrant who came to the West, El A…

Anthem for doomed youth

The great Firs World War poet portrays first-hand the horror, devastation and futility of the trenches.

The dawn of everything: a new history of humanity

For generations, our remote ancestors have been cast as primitive and childlike—either free and equal innocents, or thuggish and warlike. Civilization, we are told, could be achieved only by sacrificing those original freedoms or by taming our baser instincts. David Graeber and David Wengrow show how such theories first emerged in the eighteenth century as a conservative reaction to powerful …