Geography+and+General+History

An introduction to the history of life on Earth, with a look at the methods archaeologists use to uncover the secrets of the planet. || Discusses how people determine what history is and explains why certain events are remembered and included in historical study and others are not. || A chronological sequence of approximately one thousand photographs that outline the history of the twentieth century as seen by the camera. Includes historical background. || Traces the histories of India and China in cartoon format and picks up the history of Rome at the time of Alexander the Great's death, chronicling world events up to the sixth-century reign of Emperor Justinian. Includes a bibliography. || Traces world history in cartoon format from the end of the fourth century to the departure of Christopher Columbus for the New World in 1492, and includes a bibliography and an index. || Traces world history in cartoon format from the universe's Big Bang beginnings to the fourth-century conquests of Alexander the Great. Includes a bibliography. || A bad day to take a walk : 4th century B.C. Macedonia -- Divide and conquer : 219 B.C. Rome -- Stab at stability : 10 B.C. Rome -- Sins of the sister : 1001 A.D. Scandinavia -- There's nothing worse than an idealistic war : 1095 Jerusalem -- Safe and sorry : 1097 the Byzantine Empire -- The burning of beards : 13th century Khwarezm Empire -- Dangerous delusion : 13th century Europe -- Crackdown crack up : 1282 Palermo, Sicily -- A plague on all your mouses : Europe 1300s -- Never look a gift cannon in the mouth : 1453 Constantinople -- One dispensation to many : 1533 Rome and England -- Wrong turn : 1588 Spanish Armada -- How to lose an empire : 1776 America -- From paper to reality, how to lose a war : 1777 America -- France gets even : 1780 America -- Bligh's guys :1789 two months out from Tahiti -- Not steamed up : 1800 France -- To give away a country : 1800s Texas -- Choose the captain well : 1842 Atlantic Ocean -- Great Dread Scott : 1860 Washington, D.C. -- Buy American : 1860 United States -- The man who would be emperor : 1864 Mexico -- For want of a horse : 1876 Montana -- Too Wilde for his own good : 1895 England. Explores incidents of history that began as the best of ideas and ended as the worst of fiascoes, including the Medieval Holy wars, Maximilian's rule of Mexico, Mussolini's partnership with Hitler, and the 1978 Chicago snowstorm that cost the mayor his re-election bid. || Provides an overview of the Cold War, identifying the major issues and events; offers an in-depth discussion of some of the conflict's more significant developments; features an annotated chronology of events; and includes biographies of American figures and biographical sketches of international leaders. || Trojan War -- Socrates -- Alexander the Great -- Herodotus -- Caesar -- Cleopatra -- Caligula -- Nero -- The fall of the Roman Empire -- The barbarians -- Ignorance -- The crusades -- Knights -- Hundred Years' War -- Shylock -- The Spanish Inquisition -- The scientific revolution -- Copernicus -- Galileo -- Scientists are human -- Sex -- Tradition and all that -- A dysfunctional family -- Richard Lion Heart -- Henry V -- Richard III -- George III -- Victoria --- Edward VIII -- Magna Carta -- Star Chamber -- Defeat of the Spanish Armada -- Captain Kidd -- Black Hole of Calcutta -- William Bligh -- Horatio Nelson -- Lawrence of Arabia -- Of old things -- Of kilts and bagpipes -- Joan of Arc -- Louis XIV -- Marie Antoinette -- Rousseau -- Voltaire -- Lafayette -- Napoleon -- Alfred Dreyfus -- Machiavelli -- Catherine the Great -- Sun Yat-Sen -- Chiang Kai-Shek -- Gandhi -- King Arthur -- Lady Godiva -- Robin Hood -- Pied Piper -- William Tell -- Dracula -- Frankenstein -- Little Dutch boy -- Santa Claus -- The Bible -- Judaism -- Christ -- Christianity -- World War I -- Nazism -- World War II -- Hitler -- Mussolini. Surveys several misunderstood historical figures and events, exposing controversial myths about science, religion, politics, and history. Discusses such topics as Cleopatra, King Arthur, the Bible, Nazism, and the Spanish Inquisition. || Escape from the Johnstown Flood -- The Armenian earthquake -- The fire at Storm King -- Escape from the Frank landslide -- Escape from Mount St. Helens. Describes five natural disasters, discussing how and why each happened, and relates the stories of individuals who survived and, in some cases, rescued others. || Describes twenty famous disasters, from the eruption of Mount Vesuvius, to the sinking of the Titanic, to Hurricanes Andrew and Iniki. || True survival stories -- True stories of heroes -- True spy stories. Contains thirty-three true stories of survival, heroes, and spies from throughout history. || Presents step-by-step instructions for over thirty diverse activities--many heroic and many questionable--including winning a bullfight, breaking into Buckingham Palace, and defusing a human bomb. || A collection of essays in three categories: how a historian approaches the writing of history, samples of the author's historical inquiries, and thoughts on the use of historical investigation. || Provides accounts of one thousand events that have shaped the world, grouped in major eras from prehistory to the modern age, with footnotes, fact boxes, sidebars, and illustrations. || Presents a historical overview of the sixteenth century and chronologically arranged primary and secondary source documents on the period, covering European culture and politics, England as a world power, the Renaissance, the Reformation, exploration, the fall of the Aztecs and Incas, and events in Africa, the Turkish Ottoman Empire, Japan, and India. || Contains full-color illustrated photographs and drawings depicting everyday life in the ancient Arab and Islamic world, and describes the dynasties of the Muslim empire, the spread of Islam and Islamic worship, the Ottoman empire, and more. || Explores the legacy, both good and bad, of the ancient Greeks, discussing how their achievements, traditions, art, literature, philosophy, language, sciences, and modes of thinking helped shape the Western world. || Outlines the history of the world, profiling the most significant turning points, including wars, ground-breaking inventions, the rise and fall of great empires, and important discoveries. || Examines the post-World War II decline of the British Empire and the rise of the United States as a superpower. || Explores four examples of European imperialism: the Spanish invasion of Mexico in the sixteenth century, the British taking of Tasmania in 1803, the American forcing of Apaches onto reservations in the nineteenth century, and the German takeover of South West Africa in the 1880s. || Maps, illustrations, time lines, essays, articles, and sidebars chronicle major milestones, events, and figures in world history. || Presents Pulitzer Prize winner Will Durant's last work, discovered twenty years after his death, in which he examines the lives and ideas of some of civilization's most influential men and women, and discusses their roles in history. || Describes the histories of famous doorways throughout the world, and features information on Traitors' Gate, the most famous doorway in London which has--over its thousand-year history--been a gateway to a royal residence, a fortress, an armory, and a prison. || pt.1 text -- pt.2 teacher's edition. || Examines the history of world civilizations from the perspective of the environments in which they developed, looking at seventeen distinct ecosystems, grouped in the categories of desert, tundra, ice; grasslands; tropical lowlands and postglacial forests; drying climates; highlands; the sea; and the oceans. || Explains and analyzes over 175 of the key historical and philosophical ideas that have shaped the world since the origins of civilization, and includes illustrations, cross-references, and suggestions for further reading. || Discusses the accounts of Greek historian Herodotus and the exploration of the world in which he lived. || Covers the civilization of the Islamic Empire from the last years of the eighth century to the thirteenth century. || About the medieval Muslim world -- Centers of power -- City scenes -- A man's world -- Women at home and work -- Growing up in the city -- Rest and recreation -- Urban hardships -- Glossary. A social history of the Islamic world from the eighth through the mid-thirteenth century, with a focus on life in the cities. || About the medieval Muslim world -- Life on the land -- Country communities -- Men of the soil -- Rural women -- Growing up in the country -- Rest and relaxation -- A hard life -- Glossary. A social history of the Islamic world from the eighth through the mid-thirteenth century, with a focus on life in the desert and countryside. || A social history of the Islamic world from the eighth through the mid-thirteenth century, with a focus on life in the upper echelons of society. || A comprehensive visual guide to the history, events, people, culture, inventions, ideas, and religious beliefs of the world's civilizations from prehistory to the modern age. || Comprehensive background information and selected world press articles on the important aspects of Islam and the Muslim world written by prominent scholars in the field of international politics and Middle Eastern studies. || Chronicles Arab history from the pre-Islamic period to the present, measuring the Arabic influence on the global community. || Examines the history of the Islamic world's interactions with the West and the roots of conflict and cultural misunderstanding. Presents a collection of essays by leading experts tracing the development of Islam, its influences and turning points. Profiles major figures in Islam from sultans to Saudi princes. || Tells the story of Renaissance artist and inventor Leonardo da Vinci, and looks at what was happening in each of seven regions of the world during the time in which he lived. Includes a time line and maps. || Explores Muslim achievements in the sciences and medicine describing how they influenced the European Renaissance, Enlightenment, and modern society. || Presents an overview of the history of non-European parts of the world from 500 to 1500 A.D., including Africa, China, Japan, Korea, Southeast Asia, and India. || Afghanistan / Amin Tarzi -- Albania / Isa Blumi -- Bosnia and Herzegovina / Angelo Georgakis -- Egypt / Kathryn M. Coughlin -- Ethiopia / Dana Leigh Hearn -- India / Phyllis K. Herman -- Indonesia / Nelly van Doorn-Harder and R. Michael Feener -- Iran / Mana Kia -- Iraq / Kathryn M. Coughlin -- Nigeria / Kathryn M. Coughlin -- Pakistan / Kathryn M. Coughlin -- Russia / Galina M. Yemelianova -- Saudi Arabia / Kathryn M. Coughlin -- Sudan / Heather J. Sharkey -- Turkey / Kathryn M. Coughlin -- Uzbekistan / Kathryn M. Coughlin. Profiles sixteen countries around the world with significant Muslim populations, providing information on each country's government, history, social structure, economy, culture, and traditions. || Illustrations, photographs, and text describe the prominent figures and important events in the history of the world from prehistory through 2006. Includes time lines. || Provides an overview of world history, with maps, charts, illustrations, and photographs, as well as information on key moments, development, themes, and historical figures. || Discover the timeless grandeur of the pyramids-- from the massive tombs of Egypt's pharaohs to the majestic temples of ancient Mexico. || Describes what life was like for sixteen children living at different historical times. || History of cities and towns from the Middle Eastern civilization in 3500 BC through the twentieth century metropolis. || From Cairo to Istanbul -- The Arab challenge to Ottoman rule -- The Egyptian empire of Muhammad 'Ali -- The perils of reform -- The first wave of colonialism : North Africa -- Divide and rule: World War I and the postwar settlement -- The British empire in the Middle East -- The French empire in the Middle East -- The Palestine disaster and its consequences -- The rise of Arab nationalism -- The decline of Arab nationalism -- The age of oil -- The power of Islam -- After the Cold War. Chronicles the history of the Arab world over the course of five centuries, from the Ottoman conquests to the early twenty-first century. || Chronicles the history of the Islamic world and discusses how the world's Islamic societies are similar and different. || Surveys important occurrences in Europe, Africa, Asia, and the Americas around the year 1200. || A collection of 250 questions and answers about the history of the world from ancient times to the present. || Chronicles the events of the discovery of the Americas, beginning with Christopher Columbus's 1492 expedition which led him to present-day Cuba, and discussing the subsequent journeys and conquests of Balboa, Cortes, Pizarro, and others, as well as the establishment of Spanish missions in California. || Explores the major events in world history from ancient Egypt through the twenty-first century, and includes photographs and a bonus section on United States history. || Map of the Islamic Empires -- Facts about the Islamic Empires -- On the move -- Sightseeing -- Things to do -- Health and safety -- Useful information. A description of life in the ancient Islamic world written in the form of a travel guide, providing facts about the civilization, and including tips on travel, food, shelter, attractions, shopping, and health and safety. || Examines the aftermath of the December 2004 tsunami on the coastal areas of southern Asia, and describes the devastation, loss of life, and recovery processes. || Uses a variety of formats, such as charts, maps, quizzes, side bars, illustrations, comics, and others, to provide a chronological exploration of the history of the world since prehistory. || Contains twenty-six essays that provide opposing opinions about issues related to the Third World, debating the cause of the problems in Third World countries, the means of achieving development, the possibility of forming lasting democracies, and the role of the U.S. and the U.N. in providing aid. || Contains thirty-eight articles about various topics, such as archaeology, culture, disease, religion, women, and war, related to the history of Western civilization from the earliest civilizations through the Reformation. || Contains thirty-eight articles about various topics, such as art, business, enlightenment, philosophy, ethnic issues, imperialism, and war, related to the history of Western civilization from the early modern era through the twentieth century. || Presents a comprehensive reference guide to the major events, peoples, and cultures of the world from prehistory to the twenty-first century. || Contains approximately five hundred line drawings, maps, charts, and time lines that chronicles early civilizations from prehistory to 300 CE in East Africa, of Egypt, Rome, Greece, and other parts of the ancient world. || Presents an illustrated atlas of the Medieval world that includes maps, photographs, and drawings about the ancient civilization, its various cultures, castles and villages, and historic sites. || Surveys important events around the world at the end of the eighth century and the beginning of the ninth century. || Stirrings on the steppes -- Angles, saxons and jutes -- The celts -- Charlemagne and the Franks -- Mediterranean trade -- From Constantinople to Byzantium -- Byzantine art and culture -- Justinian and Theodora -- The holy war -- The Silk Road -- Japan -- Settling the Pacific. Explores the history of the world, from the fall of Rome to the rise of Islam, discussing such areas as Europe, the Mediterranean, the Far East, and the Americas. || A history of the Middle Ages, including the merger of Roman, Christian, and Germanic cultures; the transformation of the Roman Empire; and social,economic, religious, and cultural aspects of medieval life. || Examines the creation of castles as forts from which Christian Crusaders fought to keep control of the Holy Land during the Middle Ages. || The world in 800 CE -- The world in 1000 -- The world in 1279 -- The world in 1492 -- World religions -- The Carolingian empire -- Viking age Europe -- Feudal Europe -- War, revolt, and plague -- Economy of medieval Europe -- Renaissance Europe -- Arab conquests -- The arab world divided -- The Byzantine empire -- Medieval Turkish empires -- The crusades -- Africa -- Medieval India -- Sui and Tang China -- Song China -- The Mongol empire -- The break-up of the Mongol empire -- Medieval Japan and Korea -- Kingdoms of Southeast Asia -- Native cultures of North America -- Toltecs and Aztecs -- Andean civilizations. Discusses the Middle Ages, covering various empires, conquests, religions, cultural movements, and civilizations around the world, with detailed maps depicting migrations, types of subsistence, populations, religious centers, and more. || The fall of the Western Empire -- The Germanic Kingdoms -- The spread of Christianity -- The Islamic world -- The Byzantine Empire -- charlemagne and the Frankish Kingdoms -- Life in the country -- The invasions of the 9th and 10th centuries -- Europe in the year 1000 -- The religious life -- The Crusades -- The black death : medicine and science -- The birth of Russia -- The German Empire and the papacy -- The feudal kingdoms of France and England -- The growth of towns -- Medieval architecture -- Italian city states -- Merchants and bankers -- The Mongol Empire -- The Reconquista -- The Hundred Years War -- Knights and warfare -- Music and entertainment -- The rest of the world -- Europe sets sail. A survey of the Middle Ages, from the fall of the Western Roman Empire in A.D. 476 until the voyages of discovery and conquest in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries; looking at the movements of peoples, advances in technology and learning, religious life, knights and warfare, entertainment, and other topics. || Chronicles the Crusades and presents seventeen biographies, twelve primary documents, a glossary, and an annotated bibliography. || Describes daily life in the Christian West and Muslim East during the three centuries of holy war, analyzing why the armies of Christendom engaged in the Crusades and what they hoped to accomplish. || Describes country and city life during the Middle Ages including such aspects as social order, religion, family life, agriculture, money and trade, war, pestilence, education, and architecture and other arts. || Text plus historical and contemporary maps provide an overview of the history and culture of Europe during the Middle Ages. || Mindslaughter -- History's battleground -- The culture of sanity -- The Marxist irruption : how and why -- The nation : hope and hysteria (nationality, nationalism, fascism, National Socialism) -- Totalitarian party : totalitarian state -- Into the Soviet morass -- The great error : Soviet myths and Western minds -- Launching the Cold War -- Missiles and mind-sets : the Cold War continues -- Facing the consequences -- Scar tissue : a note on post-Soviet Russia -- In a wayward West -- The answer is education -- Halfway to one world : imperialism, anti-imperialism -- The "Europe" idea -- A more fruitful unity : (the oceanic perspective). Discusses the ideologies of the twentieth century showing that Marxism and National Socialism had more impact on modern history than impersonal economic and social forces, and looks at some coming problems including the European Union, which the author considers doomed to failure. || Chronicles the rise and fall of civilizations, trade, conflict, and cultural development from 1492 to 1783, describing the Thirty Years War, Ottoman Empire, Reformation, colonial North America, and the American Revolution. || . || Tells the story of Frankish king Charlemagne, and looks at what was happening in each of seven regions of the world during the time in which he lived. Includes a time line and maps. || Conflict over religion -- The struggle for power -- Everyday life -- The growth of trade and industry -- The world of learning -- European expansion -- Russia and the lands of the East -- Africa and the Americas. Explores the history of the world from 1500 to 1650, an active period which included the Renaissance in Europe, European explorations among the ancient empires of Africa and South America, and the decline of the Mogul Empire in India. || Tells the story of Marie Antoinette, queen of France in the late eighteenth century, and looks at what was happening in each of seven regions of the world during the time in which she lived. Includes a time line and maps. || Town and country life -- Absolute rulers and empires -- Industry, science and the arts -- An era of revolution -- the Eastern world -- Africa -- Exploring the fringes of the world. Explores the history of the world from 1650 to 1800 with emphasis on the agricultural revolution, the Enlightenment, the Industrial Revolution, the American and French Revolutions, Manchu China, and Shogunate Japan. || Surveys important occurrences in Europe, Africa, Asia, Australia, and the Americas around the year 1800. Includes bibliographical references and an index. || Uses contemporary documents to explore the development of the Cold War struggle, the consequences in the 1950s and 1960s, and the lasting effects on American social and cultural patterns. || Photographs and text profile one hundred events that changed the course of world history, including the opening of the Great Exhibition, the death of Presidents Abraham Lincoln and John F. Kennedy, the Armenian genocide, the atomic bomb at Hiroshima, the explosion of the Challenger space shuttle, the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, and Hurricane Katrina. || Discusses the Industrial Revolution, including its birth in England, its spread to Europe and America, and its effects on society. || Tells the story of Abraham Lincoln, sixteenth president of the United States, and looks at what was happening in each of seven regions of the world during the time in which he lived. Includes a time line and maps. || Contains eyewitness accounts of historical events that took place throughout the twentieth century, including the Wright brothers first flight, the first radio broadcast, the landing on Normandy beach, watching the Challenger shuttle explode, and other major events. || A study of how democracy is suffering from the forces of consumerist capitalism, which has broken down the borders between countries, creating a global village of communications, information, entertainment, and commerce; and religious and tribal fundamentalism, which is splintering the world into small, intolerant factions. || A chronological sequence of approximately one thousand photographs that outline the history of the twentieth century as seen by the camera. Includes historical background. || The liberal powers, peace-making and international security, 1914-19 -- The emasculation of international security after the Great War -- The limits of globalization -- The crisis begins, 1927-9 -- The crisis, September 1929-April 1931 -- In the eye of the storm, May 1931-February 1932 -- The collapse of the postwar order, 1932-4 -- Conclusion: from the great interwar crisis to the present. Examines the roles of economics, political ideologies, and racism in the events between the Versailles settlement in 1918 and the Second World War, and describes the impact of these events on globalization and twenty-first-century society. || Reprints twenty-four significant speeches of the Cold War era, including selections by Winston Churchill, Mao Tse-tung, John F. Kennedy, Albert Einstein, Ronald Reagan, and others in which they discuss the fear of communist aggression, coercion and crisis, the threat of nuclear war, the struggle for peace, and the Berlin Wall. || High culture. Popular culture / Richard W. Bulliet -- The "woman question" / Rosalind Rosenberg -- Religion / Zachary Karabell -- Athletics : play and politics / Jean-Marc Ran Oppenheim -- Ethnicity and racism / J. Paul Martin -- Imperialism and decolonization / Ainslee Embree -- Nationalism / James Mayall -- Socialism and communism / Sheila Fitzpatrick -- The international order / Akira Iriye -- War : institution with portfolio / Robert L. O'Connell -- Industry and business / William N. Parker -- Money and economic change / William C. McNeil -- Technology and invention / Christopher Freeman -- Agriculture : crops, livestock, and farmers / B.F. Stanton -- Communications / Jahan Salehi and Richard W. Bulliet -- Transportation / John C. Spychalski -- Scientific thought / Eric Holtzman -- Paths to discovery / Neil Degrasse Tyson -- Twentieth-century medicine / David Rosner -- Ecology and the environment / Mary Corliss Pearl -- Cities / Kenneth T. Jackson -- Demography and population movements / Georges Sabagh. Essays tracing the patterns of worldwide change in the 20th century. || Exposes the myths, misinformation, and little-known truths about progress in the twentieth century. || Contains Enzensberger's three major essays: "Civil War," "Europe in Ruins," and "The Great Migration" which address the predicament of the post-cold war world. || A photographic history of the Cold War from 1945 through 1991, focusing on the dominant themes of strategic thinking and military planning among the major powers of the period, and examining significant conflicts and crises that changed the way in which the prospect of further war was approached by the U.S. and the Soviet Union. || Offers a year-by-year account of the history of the twentieth century, documenting significant events across the globe from 1900 to 1999. || A year-by-year history of the twentieth-century, covering the period between 1952 and 1999, discussing the turmoil the took place throughout the world during this period, including the wars in Korea, Vietnam, and Bosnia, as well as the ongoing efforts to secure peace. || An illustrated narrative history of the Cold War that includes firsthand and eyewitness accounts from individuals in the Soviet Union, Eastern Europe, and China. || Presents a historical backgroun of terrorism and describes examples, concentrating on the Middle East and Northern Ireland. || An analysis of how the modern age came into being and where it is heading, covering the great events, personalities, and ideas of the twentieth century since World War I. || Attempts to determine whether or not the United States should become involved when violence breaks out in other countries. || Examines the correspondence between American diplomat George F. Kennan and historian John Lukacs, in which they discuss the origins of the policy of containment adopted by the United States in the years following World War II in an effort to limit the spread of Communism in Europe. || Examines the political, economic, social, and technological developmentsin the world during the 1920s and 1930s including prohibition and speakeasies, the stock market crash, fascism in Italy and Germany, and Stalinism in the Soviet Union. || Presents a series of fictionalized vignettes of daily life as experienced by ordinary individuals in the U.S. and Europe, featuring one scenario for every year from 1901 to 1969; followed by dialogues in which the author defends the significance of the imagined scenes which are based upon the theme of the decline of English civilization and the ideal of the gentleman. || Tells the story of twentieth-century German scientist Albert Einstein, and looks at what was happening in each of seven regions of the world during the time in which he lived. Includes a time line and maps. || Presents the complete idiot's guide to understanding the origins and policies of the Cold War and provides information on the Cuban Missile Crisis, McCarthyism and the "Red Scare," Gorbachev's reforms, Watergate, and the fall of the Berlin War and the Soviet Union. || A decade-by-decade examination of the primary themes and monumental events of the twentieth century, highlighted by six hundred photographs and illustrations. || A collection of articles that appeared on the front pages of "The New York Times" during the twentieth century, profiling some of the century's most significant events. || Draws upon nearly two hundred interviews with political leaders and other individuals from the East and West to examine the Cold War, discussing the wars in Vietnam and Afghanistan, conflict in Angola, the "war of words," the influence of Mikhail Gorbachev, and other related topics. || A collection of speeches which shaped the twentieth century including those made by presidents and statesmen, soldiers and poets, and dreamers and destroyers. || A collection of news photographs taken between 1906 and 1996 that capture some of the world's most significant historic events, each with a caption and a brief explanatory essay. || Presents a picture of keeping peace in the post-Cold War world, discussing the warlords who have dominated the 1990s, and paying homage to the men and women, often anonymous, sent by the international community in an attempt to confront and control them. || A history of the twenty-five years leading up to World War I, focusing on the people, places, and events that shaped the era in which society was undergoing rapid transformation. || Chronicles the history of thought in the twentieth century, beginning with four topics introduced in 1900--the unconscious, the gene, the quantum, and Picasso's first paintings in Paris--and covering the major artists, writers, philosophers, and scientists that shaped the next hundred years and the way people think in the modern world. || A historical overview of the conflicts and changes to the global economy that took place during the twentieth century, which covers World War I and II, the Cold War, technological advances, and more. || "Italian journalist released" -- What is the war on terror? -- The war on terror begins -- Fighting terrorism in Iraq -- Terrorism at home -- What's next? -- You decide -- Timeline. Examines the pros and cons of continuing the War on Terror following the attacks on the World Trade Center, and questions the reliability of the information provided by the media. || The attack on America -- The war within Islam -- The conflict with "the far enemy" -- A clash of civilizations? -- The battle for hearts and minds. Provides background on the Islamic faith, focusing on the rift caused within the Muslim world by the radical Islam movement, led by Osama bin Laden who seeks to restore an ancient version of the religion and extend the authority of Islam throughout the world. || ||
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 * Sorted by Call Number / Author  ||
 * 900 WOO || Wood, Selina. __A journey through time.__ 1st American ed. London ; : DK, 2001.
 * 901 CAR || Carr, Edward Hallett, 1892-. __What is history?__ New York : Vintage, [1967].
 * 902 CEN || __Century : [one hundred years of human progress, regression, suffering and hope]. __ London, Eng. : Phaidon Press, 1999.
 * 902 GON || Gonick, Larry. __The cartoon history of the universe II.__ 1st Broadway Books trade pbk. ed. New York : Broadway Books, 2001, c1994.
 * 902 GON || Gonick, Larry. __The cartoon history of the universe III.__ 1st ed. New York : W. W. Norton & Co., c2002.
 * 902 GON || Gonick, Larry. __The cartoon history of the universe.__ 1st Broadway Books trade pbk. ed. New York : Broadway Books, 2001, c1990.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt;">902 HAL || __<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">On this day : landmarks of our time. __<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';"> Sydney : New Holland, 2005.  ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt;">902 ITS || __<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">It seemed like a good idea : a compendium of great historical fiascoes. __<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';"> New York, N.Y. : Post Road Press, c2000.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt;">902 SCH || <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">Schwartz, Richard Alan, 1951-. __The Cold War reference guide : a general history and annotated chronology, with selected biographies.__ Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland, c1997.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt;">902.07 SHE || <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">Shenkman, Richard. __Legends, lies & cherished myths of world history.__ 1st HarperPerennial ed. New York : HarperPerennial, 1994, c1993.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt;">904 CUR || <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">Currie, Stephen, 1960-. __Escapes from natural disasters.__ San Diego : Lucent Books ;, c2004.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt;">904 CUS || <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">Cush, Cathie, 1957-. __Disasters that shook the world.__ Austin, TX : Raintree/Steck Vaughn, c1994.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt;">904 DOW || <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">Dowswell, Paul. __True adventure stories.__ London : Usborne ;, 2007.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt;">904 FUL || <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">Fulghum, Hunter S. (Hunter Samuel). __Don't try this at home : how to win a sumo match, catch a great white shark, and start an independent nation and other extraordinary feats (for ordinary people).__ 1st ed. New York : Broadway Books, 2002.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt;">907 TUC || <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">Tuchman, Barbara Wertheim. __Practicing history : selected essays.__ 1st Ballantine Books trade ed. New York : Ballantine Books, 1982, c1981.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt;">909 100 || __<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">1000 events that shaped the world. __<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';"> 1st trade ed. Washington, D.C. : National Geographic, 2008, c2007.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt;">909 150 || __<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">The 1500s. __<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';"> San Diego, CA : Greenhaven Press, c2001.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt;">909 BAR || <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">Barber, Nicola. __Everyday life in the Ancient Arab and Islamic world.__ North Mankato, Minn. : Smart Apple Media, c2006.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt;">909 BEY || <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">Beyer, Rick, 1956-. __The greatest stories never told : 100 tales from history to astonish, bewilder, & stupefy.__ 1st ed. New York : HarperResource, c2003.  ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt;">909 CAH || <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">Cahill, Thomas. __Sailing the wine-dark sea : why the Greeks matter.__ 1st ed. New York : Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, c2003.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt;">909 CHI || <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">Chisholm, Jane. __Usborne timelines of world history.__ London : Usborne ;, 2001, c2000.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt;">909 CLA || <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">Clarke, P. F. __The last thousand days of the British empire : Churchill, Roosevelt, and the birth of the Pax Americana.__ 1st U.S. ed. New York : Bloomsbury Press, 2008.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt;">909 COC || <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">Cocker, Mark, 1959-. __Rivers of blood, rivers of gold : Europe's conquest of indigenous peoples.__ 1st American ed. New York : Grove Press, c1998.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt;">909 DAN || <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">Daniels, Patricia, 1955-. __National Geographic almanac of world history.__ 1st pbk. ed. Washington, D.C. : National Geographic, 2006, c2003.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt;">909 DUR || <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">Durant, Will, 1885-. __Heroes of history : a brief history of civilization from ancient times to the dawn of the modern age.__ New York : Simon & Schuster, c2001.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt;">909 EAM || <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">Eamer, Claire, 1947-. __Traitors' Gate and other doorways to the past.__ Toronto ; : Annick Press, c2008.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt;">909 ELL || <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">Ellis, Elisabeth Gaynor. __Prentice Hall world history.__ Teacher's ed. Boston, Mass. ; : Pearson Prentice Hall, c2007.  ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt;">909 ELL || <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">Ellis, Elisabeth Gaynor. __Prentice Hall world history : connections to today.__ Upper Saddle River, N.J. : Pearson Prentice Hall, c2005.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt;">909 FER || <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">Fernández-Armesto, Felipe. __Civilizations : culture, ambition, and the transformation of nature.__ New York : Free Press, c2001.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt;">909 FER || <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">Fernández-Armesto, Felipe. __Ideas that changed the world.__ 1st American ed. London ; : DK, 2003.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt;">909 GAI || <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">Gaines, Ann. __Herodotus and the explorers of the Classical age.__ New York : Chelsea House Publishers, c1994.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt;">909 GEO || <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">George, Linda S., 1949-. __The golden age of Islam.__ New York : Benchmark Books, c1998.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt;">909 HIN || <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">Hinds, Kathryn, 1962-. __The city.__ New York : Marshall Cavendish Benchmark, c2009.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt;">909 HIN || <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">Hinds, Kathryn, 1962-. __The countryside.__ New York : Marshall Cavendish Benchmark, c2009.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt;">909 HIN || <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">Hinds, Kathryn, 1962-. __The palace.__ New York : Marshall Cavendish Benchmark, c2009.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt;">909 HIS || __<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">History : the definitive visual guide : from the dawn of civilization to the present day. __<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';"> 1st American ed. London ; : DK, 2007.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt;">909 HUS || <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">Husain, Mir Zohair. __Islam and the Muslim world.__ 1st ed. Dubuque, IA : McGraw-Hill, c2006.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt;">909 IFT || __<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">World cultures : a global mosaic. __<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';"> Teacher's ed. Englewood Cliffs : Prentice Hall, c2001.  ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt;">909 LEW || <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">Lewis, Bernard. __The Arabs in history.__ 6th ed. Oxford ; : Oxford University Press, 2002.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt;">909 LEW || <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">Lewis, Bernard, 1916-. __Islam in history : ideas, people, and events in the Middle East.__ New ed., Rev. and expanded. Chicago, Ill. : Open Court, c1993.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt;">909 MAC || <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">MacDonald, Fiona. __The world in the time of Leonardo Da Vinci.__ Hardback ed. Philadelphia : Chelsea House, 2001.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt;">909 MIL || __<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">Millennium, year by year. __<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';"> Updated. New York : DK Pub., 2000.  ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt;">909 MIL || <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">Miles, Lisa. __The Usborne illustrated atlas of world history.__ New York : Scholastic, 1995.  ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt;">909 MOD || __<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">Modern world history : patterns of interaction. __<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';"> Evanston, Ill. : McDougal Littell, c2003.  ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt;">909 MOR || <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">Morgan, Michael Hamilton. __Lost history : the enduring legacy of Muslim scientists, thinkers, and artists.__ Washington, DC : National Geographic, c2007.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt;">909 MOR || <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">Morris, Neil, 1946-. __Beyond Europe.__ [S.l.] : Zak Books, 2009, c2008.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt;">909 MUS || __<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">Muslim cultures today : a reference guide. __<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';"> Westport, CT : Greenwood Press, 2006.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt;">909 NAT || __<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">National Geographic essential visual history of the world. __<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';"> Washington, D.C. : National Geographic, c2007.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt;">909 PAR || <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">Parker, Philip. __World history.__ 1st American ed. London ; : DK, 2010.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt;">909 PEA || __<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">Pearson Learning core knowledge : history & geography. __<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';"> Parsippany, N.J. : Pearson Learning Group, 2002.  ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt;">909 PUT || <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">Putnam, James. __Pyramid.__ London ; : Dorling Kindersley, c2000.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt;">909 RIC || <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">Rice, Christopher. __How children lived.__ 1st American ed. New York : DK, 1995.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt;">909 RIS || __<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">The Rise of cities. __<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';"> Alexandria, Va. : Time-Life Books, c1990.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt;">909 ROG || <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">Rogan, Eugene L. __The Arabs : a history.__ New York : Basic Books, c2009.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt;">909 SCH || <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">Schulze, Reinhard. __A modern history of the Islamic world.__ New York : New York University Press, 2000.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt;">909 SER || <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">Service, Alexandra. __1200.__ New York : Benchmark Books, c2003.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt;">909 SHU || <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">Shulman, Mark, 1962-. __Outsmart history.__ New York : Kaplan, c2008.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt;">909 SMI || <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">Smith, Tom. __Discovery of the Americas, 1492-1800.__ New York : Facts On File, c2005.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt;">909 SOM || <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">Somerset Fry, Plantagenet, 1931-. __The Dorling Kindersley history of the world.__ Rev. ed., 3rd ed., Rev. & updated /. London ; : DK, 2007.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt;">909 SPI || <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">Spielvogel, Jackson J., 1939-. __Glencoe world history : modern times.__ New York : Glencoe/McGraw-Hill, c2005.  ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt;">909 SPI || <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">Spilsbury, Louise. __The Islamic empires.__ Chicago : Raintree, c2008.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt;">909 STE || <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">Stewart, Gail, 1949-. __Catastrophe in southern Asia : the Tsunami of 2004.__ Detroit, MI : Lucent Books :, c2005.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt;">909 TAK || __<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">Take me back to the beginning-- __<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';"> London ; : DK, 2008.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt;">909 THI || __<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">The Third world : opposing viewpoints. __<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';"> San Diego, CA : Greenhaven Press, c2000.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt;">909 WES || __<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">Western Civilization. __<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';"> 14th ed. Dubuque, IA : McGraw Hill, c2007.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt;">909 WES || __<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">Western Civilization. __<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';"> 14th ed. Dubuque, IA : McGraw Hill, c2007.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt;">909 WOR || __<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">World history : people & nations. __<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';"> Austin : Holt, Rinehart and Winston :, [1999], c2000.  ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt;">909 WOR || __<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">World history. __<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';"> Bath, UK : Parragon, 1999.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt;">909 WOR || __<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">World history on file. __<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';"> 2nd ed. New York : Facts On File, c2007.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt;">909.07 ADA || <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">Adams, Simon, 1955-. __The Kingfisher atlas of the medieval world.__ Boston : Kingfisher, 2007.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt;">909.07 GEO || <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">George, Linda S., 1949-. __800.__ New York : Benchmark Books/Marshall Cavendish, c2003.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt;">909.07 GRE || <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">Gregory, Tony, 1948-. __The Dark Ages.__ New York : Facts on File, c1993.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt;">909.07 HAN || <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">Hanawalt, Barbara. __The Middle Ages : an illustrated history.__ New York : Oxford University Press, 1998.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt;">909.07 HOG || <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">Hoggard, Brian. __Crusader castles : Christian fortresses in the Middle East.__ 1st ed. New York : Rosen Central, 2004.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt;">909.07 MID || __<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">The Middle Ages, 600 to 1492. __<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';"> Redding, Conn. : Brown Bear Books, c2009.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt;">909.07 MOR || <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">Morris, Neil. __The atlas of the medieval world in Europe (IV-XV century).__ New York : Peter Bedrick, 1999.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt;">909.07 NIC || <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">Nicholson, Helen J., 1960-. __The Crusades.__ Westport, CT : Greenwood Press, 2004.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt;">909.07 NIC || __<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">The Crusades. __<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';"> Oxford : Osprey Publishing, 1988.  ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt;">909.07 RIC || <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">Rice, Earle. __Life during the crusades.__ San Diego : Lucent Books, c1998.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt;">909.07 RIC || <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">Rice, Earle. __Life during the Middle Ages.__ San Diego, CA : Lucent Books, c1998.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt;">909.07 STE || <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">Stefoff, Rebecca, 1951-. __The medieval world.__ New York : Benchmark Books, c2005.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt;">909.08 CON || <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">Conquest, Robert. __Reflections on a ravaged century.__ New York : Norton, 2001, c2000.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt;">909.08 EAR || __<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">The early modern world, 1492 to 1783. __<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';"> Redding, Conn. : Brown Bear Books, c2009.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt;">909.08 ESL || <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">Ellis, Elisabeth Gaynor. __World history : the modern era.__ Teacher's ed. Boston Mass. : Pearson, c2007.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt;">909.08 MCD || __<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">McDougal Littell modern world history : patterns of interaction. __<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';"> Teacher's ed. Evanston, IL : McDougal Littell, c2003.  ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt;">909.09 HOU || <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">Hourani, Albert Habib. __A history of the Arab peoples.__ New York, NY : Warner Books, 1992.  ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt;">909.1 MAC || <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">Macdonald, Fiona. __The world in the time of Charlemagne.__ Hardback ed. Philadelphia : Chelsea House, c2001.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt;">909.5 MAR || <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">Martell, Hazel. __The age of discovery.__ New York : Facts on File, c1993.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt;">909.7 MAC || <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">Macdonald, Fiona. __The world in the time of Marie Antoinette.__ Hardback ed. Philadelphia : Chelsea House, 2001.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt;">909.7 REY || <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">Reynoldson, Fiona. __Conflict and change.__ New York : Facts on File, c1993.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt;">909.8 ASH || <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">Ashby, Ruth. __1800.__ New York : Benchmark Books/Marshall Cavendish, c2003.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt;">909.8 WIN || <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">Winkler, Allan M., 1945-. __The Cold War : a history in documents.__ Oxford [U.K.] ; : Oxford University Press, c2000.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt;">909.8 YAP || <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">Yapp, Nicholas. __100 days in photographs : pivotal events that changed the world.__ Washington, D.C. : National Geographic, c2007.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt;">909.81 COR || <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">Corrick, James A. __The Industrial Revolution.__ San Diego, CA : Lucent Books, c1998.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt;">909.81 MAC || <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">Macdonald, Fiona. __The world in the time of Abraham Lincoln.__ Hardback ed. Philadelphia : Chelsea House, 2001.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt;">909.82 ARM || <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">Armstrong, Jennifer, 1961-. __The century for young people.__ New York, N.Y. : Random House, c1999.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt;">909.82 BAR || <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">Barber, Benjamin R., 1939-. __Jihad vs. McWorld.__ 1st Ballantine Books ed. New York : Ballantine Books, 1996.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt;">909.82 BER || __<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">Century : one hundred years of human progress, regression, suffering, and hope. __<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';"> London ; : Phaidon, [2002], c1999.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt;">909.82 BOY || <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">Boyce, Robert W. D., 1943-. __The great interwar crisis and the collapse of globalization.__ Basingstoke [England] ; : Palgrave Macmillan, c2009.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt;">909.82 COL || __<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">The Cold War. __<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';"> San Diego : Greenhaven Press ;, c2003.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt;">909.82 COL || __<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">The Columbia history of the 20th century. __<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';"> New York : Columbia University Press, c1998.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt;">909.82 DUN || <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">Dunnigan, James F. __Dirty little secrets of the twentieth century.__ 1st ed. New York, N.Y. : Quill/William Morrow, c1999.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt;">909.82 ENZ || <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">Enzensberger, Hans Magnus. __Civil wars : from L.A. to Bosnia.__ New York : New Press, c1994.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt;">909.82 FRE || <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">Freedman, Lawrence. __The Cold War : a military history.__ London : Cassell, 2001.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt;">909.82 GIL || <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">Gilbert, Martin, 1936-. __History of the twentieth century.__ 1st U.S. ed. New York : William Morrow, 2001.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt;">909.82 GIL || <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">Gilbert, Martin, 1936-. __A history of the twentieth century.__ 1st U.S. ed. New York : Wm. Morrow and Co., c1999.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt;">909.82 ISA || <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">Isaacs, Jeremy, 1932-. __Cold war : an illustrated history, 1945-1991.__ 1st ed. Boston : Little, Brown, c1998.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt;">909.82 JAM || <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">Jamieson, Alison. __Terrorism.__ New York : Thomson Learning, 1995.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt;">909.82 JOH || <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">Johnson, Paul, 1928-. __Modern times : the world from the twenties to the nineties.__ Rev. ed., 1st Perennial Classics ed. New York : Perennial Classics, 2001, c1991.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt;">909.82 KAP || <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">Kaplan, Robert D., 1952-. __The coming anarchy : shattering the dreams of the post Cold War.__ New York : Random House, c2000.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt;">909.82 KEN || <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">Kennan, George Frost, 1904-. __George F. Kennan and the origins of containment, 1944-1946 : the Kennan-Lukacs correspondence.__ Columbia : University of Missouri Press, c1997.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt;">909.82 LEV || <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">Levy, Patricia, 1951-. __From speakeasies to Stalinism.__ Chicago : Raintree, c2006.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt;">909.82 LUK || <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">Lukacs, John, 1924-. __A thread of years.__ New Haven : Yale University Press, c1998.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt;">909.82 MAC || <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">Macdonald, Fiona. __The world in the time of Albert Einstein.__ Hardback ed. Philadelphia : Chelsea House, 2001.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt;">909.82 MAN || <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">Mann, Robert, 1958-. __The complete idiot's guide to the Cold War.__ Indianapolis : Alpha, c2002.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt;">909.82 NAT || __<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">National geographic eyewitness to the 20th century. __<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';"> Washington, D.C. : National Geographic Society, c2004.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt;">909.82 PAG || __<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">Page one : one hundred years of headlines as presented in The New York Times. __<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';"> 1st Galahad Books ed. New York : Galahad Books, 2000.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt;">909.82 PAR || <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">Partos, Gabriel. __The world that came in from the cold : perspectives from East and West on the Cold War.__ London : Royal Institute of International Affairs :, 1993.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt;">909.82 PEN || __<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">The Penguin book of twentieth-century speeches. __<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';"> 2nd rev. ed. London, England ; : Penguin Books, 1999.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt;">909.82 PHO || __<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">Photos that changed the world : the 20th century. __<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';"> Munich, Germany ; : Prestel, c2000.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt;">909.82 SHA || <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">Shawcross, William. __Deliver us from evil : peacekeepers, warlords, and a world of endless conflict.__ New York : Simon & Schuster, c2000.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt;">909.82 TUC || <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">Tuchman, Barbara Wertheim. __The proud tower : a portrait of the world before the war, 1890-1914.__ 1st Ballantine Books ed. New York : Ballantine Books, 1996.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt;">909.82 WAT || <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">Watson, Peter. __The modern mind : an intellectual history of the 20th century.__ 1st Perennial ed. New York : Perennial, 2002.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt;">909.82 WOR || __<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">World wars and globalization, 1914 to 2010. __<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';"> Redding, Conn. : Brown Bear Books, c2009.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt;">909.83 BAR || <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">Barr, Gary, 1951-. __The War on Terror : is the world a safer place?__ Chicago : Heinemann Library, c2007.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt;">909.83 LUX || <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">Luxenberg, Alan H. __Radical Islam.__ Broomall, PA : Mason Crest Publishers, c2010.