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Fall of civilizations : stories of greatness and decline / Paul Cooper.
"Based on the podcast with over one hundred million downloads, Fall of Civilizations brilliantly explores how a range of ancient societies rose to power and sophistication, and how they tipped over into collapse. Across the centuries, we journey from the great empires of Mesopotamia to those of Khmer and Vijayanagara in Asia and Songhai in West Africa; from Byzantium to the Maya, Inca and Aztecs of Central America; from Roman Britain to Rapa Nui. With meticulous research, breathtaking insight and dazzling, empathic storytelling, historian and novelist Paul Cooper evokes the majesty and jeopardy of these ancient civilizations, and asks what it might have felt like for a person alive at the time to witness the end of their world."-- Amazon.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781335013415
- Physical Description: 575 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some colour), maps ; 24 cm
- Publisher: Toronto, Ontario : Hanover Square Press, 2024.
- Copyright: ©2024
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Part I. The ancient world. The Sumerians -- ‡tThe late Bronze Age collapse -- ‡tAssyria -- ‡tCarthage -- ‡tHan China -- ‡tRoman Britain -- ‡tPart II. The Middle Age. The Maya -- ‡tThe Khmer -- ‡tByzantium -- ‡tVijayanagara -- ‡tPart III. Worlds collide -- ‡tSonghai -- ‡tThe Aztecs -- ‡tThe Inca -- ‡tEaster Island. |
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| Subject: | Civilization, Ancient. Civilization, Ancient > History History, Ancient. |
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
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| Tumbler Ridge Public Library | ANF 930 COOPE (Text) | TRL38150 | Entertaining Non-Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
| Valemount Public Library | anf 930 coo (Text) | 35194014356026 | Adult non-fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
| 100 Mile House Branch | 930 COO (Text) | 33923006700003 | Non-fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
| Gibsons Public Library | 930 COOP (Text) | 30886001136817 | Adult Nonfiction | Volume hold | Checked out | 2025-01-10 |
| Lillooet Branch | 930 COO (Text) | 35180000436229 | New Nonfiction | Volume hold | Checked out | 2025-01-17 |
| Quesnel Branch | 930 COO (Text) | 33923006671097 | Non-fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
| Sechelt Public Library | 930 COOP (Text) | 33260100172114 | New Books | Volume hold | Available | - |
| Williams Lake Branch | 930 COO (Text) | 33923006671105 | Non-fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
