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Description not available.A portrait of ancient Eygpt as told through the lives of eleven people follows the stories of royal architect and high priest Imhotep, female pharaoh Hatshepsut, temple builder and magician Nectanebo II, and a series of everyday Egyptians who give insight into the life of non-royal citizens. (History) AUTHOR: John Ray
PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: History 
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 | Breaking the Maya Code by Michael D. Coe
Coe's classic inside story of one of the major intellectual breakthroughs of our time--the last decoding of an ancient script--has been updated to reflect the fast-changing advancements in decipherment. 112 illustrations. AUTHOR: Michael D. Coe
PUBLISHER: Thames & Hudson
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: History
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 | Torpedo Junction by Homer H. Hickam
In the early years of World War II, German U-boats cruised up and down the U.S. Eastern Seaboard, sinking 259 ships and littering the waters with cargo and bodies. This riveting account of death and rescue at sea captures all the ship-by-ship action of a war that hit terrifyingly close to home. AUTHOR: Homer H. Hickam
PUBLISHER: Dell Publishing
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: History
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 | Pursuit of Destiny
In THE PURSUIT OF DESTINY, physicist Paul Halpern brings a scientist's eye to questions of time and fate, tracing the history of forecasting from its roots in ancient mysticism to its development as a modern science. As Halpern explains, the desire to foretell the future is an integral part of what makes us human. Newtonian mechanics offered the tantalizing possibility of describing nature as a clockwork mechanism, but twentieth-century scientific discoveries, such as Heisenberg's uncertainty principle and Einstein's flexible concepts of past, present, and future, undermined this rigid notion. Scientists today grapple with formidable barriers to knowledge, hoping to extend prediction's frontiers. Drawing on modern theories of complexity, chaos theory, quantum theory, and relativity, Halpern explores the latest methods of scientific, social, and technological forecasting. How much of the future is inevitable? When are predictions most likely to succeed? Does time even exist? An intriguing look at the potential limits to our ability to forecast, THE PURSUIT OF DESTINY is an eloquent testament to our very human need to try.
CATEGORY: History
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 | An Island Out of Time by Tom Horton
This is a profile of an island in Chesapeake Bay, with a population of 100, where the author moved in 1987 to teach ecology to schoolchildren. Horton details the specifics of the slowly dying blue crab industry, and talks to the local men and women about their lives on the island over the years. AUTHOR: Tom Horton
PUBLISHER: Knopf Publishing Group
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: History
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 | The Catcher Was a Spy by Nicholas Dawidoff
The biography of Moe Berg, sometime major-league catcher, sometime spy, sometime lawyer, and full-time enigma. Berg, a Princeton graduate and Wall Street lawyer who played sporadically (and not very well) with the major leagues between 1923 and 1939, was recruited by Wild Bill Donovan for the OSS during World War II, and he eventually was awarded the Medal of Freedom for his work in Germany collecting information for the H-bomb project. A Jew, Berg was the odd man out in nearly every world he inhabited--the Ivy League, baseball, Wall Street, the OSS--and Dawidoff neatly emphasizes how his sense of himself as an outsider worked marvelously to his advantage in espionage, just as it had inhibited and held him back everywhere else. AUTHOR: Nicholas Dawidoff
PUBLISHER: Knopf Publishing Group
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: History
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