Author: Anthony Aveni
Publisher: Roaring Brook Press
ISBN: 1596439130
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 98
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A beautifully illustrated look at the forces that help cities grow—and eventually cause their destruction—told through the stories of the great civilizations of ancient America. You may think you know all of the American cities. But did you know that long before New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, or Boston ever appeared on the map—thousands of years before Europeans first colonized North America—other cities were here? They grew up, fourished, and eventually disappeared in the same places that modern cities like St. Louis and Mexico City would later appear. In the pages of this book, you'll find the astonishing story of how they grew from small settlements to booming city centers—and then crumbled into ruins.
Author: Jennie Hall
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3752304677
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 142
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Reproduction of the original: Buried Cities by Jennie Hall
Author: George St. Clair
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 328
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This book contains a description of some of the most important modern discoveries bearing upon the Bible, with the selection of locations featured made to meet the wants of those who have no time to follow the course of exploration and no taste for technical details. Countries featured in the book include Israel, Palestine, and Egypt.
Author: Annalee Newitz
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 039365267X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 320
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Named a Best Book of the Year by NPR and Science Friday A quest to explore some of the most spectacular ancient cities in human history—and figure out why people abandoned them. In Four Lost Cities, acclaimed science journalist Annalee Newitz takes readers on an entertaining and mind-bending adventure into the deep history of urban life. Investigating across the centuries and around the world, Newitz explores the rise and fall of four ancient cities, each the center of a sophisticated civilization: the Neolithic site of Çatalhöyük in Central Turkey, the Roman vacation town of Pompeii on Italy’s southern coast, the medieval megacity of Angkor in Cambodia, and the indigenous metropolis Cahokia, which stood beside the Mississippi River where East St. Louis is today. Newitz travels to all four sites and investigates the cutting-edge research in archaeology, revealing the mix of environmental changes and political turmoil that doomed these ancient settlements. Tracing the early development of urban planning, Newitz also introduces us to the often anonymous workers—slaves, women, immigrants, and manual laborers—who built these cities and created monuments that lasted millennia. Four Lost Cities is a journey into the forgotten past, but, foreseeing a future in which the majority of people on Earth will be living in cities, it may also reveal something of our own fate.
Author: Jennie Hall
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3387330871
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 30
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Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.
Author: Jennie Hall
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3387330855
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 54
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Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.
Author: Jennie Hall
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 338733088X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 126
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Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.
Author: Jennie Hall
Publisher: Litres
ISBN: 5041270074
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 102
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Author: William Henry Davenport Adams
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Herculaneum (Extinct city)
Languages : en
Pages : 296
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Author: Robert Sigfrid Wicks
Publisher: Texas Tech University Press
ISBN: 9780896724143
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 348
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"Niven was planning a book about his experiences, but never completed it owing to ill health. The result of twenty years' research, Buried Cities, Forgotten Gods offers a well-illustrated and vivid first-hand account through Wicks and Harrison's selection of photographs and stories from Niven's own extensive writings and those of people with whom he worked."--BOOK JACKET.
