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California

From the co-author of the two-million copy mega-bestseller The Rule of Four comes a riveting thriller with a brilliant premise based on the 2012 apocalypse phenomenon--perfect for readers of Steve Berry, Preston and Child, and Dan Brown.
 
For decades, December 21, 2012, has been a touchstone for doomsayers worldwide. It is the date, they claim, when the ancient Maya calendar predicts the world will end.
 
In Los Angeles, two weeks before, all is calm. Dr. Gabriel Stanton takes his usual morning bike ride, drops off the dog with his ex-wife, and heads to the lab where he studies incurable prion diseases for the CDC. His first phone call is from a hospital resident who has an urgent case she thinks he needs to see. Meanwhile, Chel Manu, a Guatemalan American researcher at the Getty Museum, is interrupted by a desperate, unwelcome visitor from the black market antiquities trade who thrusts a duffel bag into her hands.
 
By the end of the day, Stanton, the foremost expert on some of the rarest infections in the world, is grappling with a patient whose every symptom confounds and terrifies him. And Chel, the brightest young star in the field of Maya studies, has possession of an illegal artifact that has miraculously survived the centuries intact: a priceless codex from a lost city of her ancestors. This extraordinary record, written in secret by a royal scribe, seems to hold the answer to her life's work and to one of history's great riddles: why the Maya kingdoms vanished overnight. Suddenly it seems that our own civilization might suffer this same fate.
 
With only days remaining until December 21, 2012, Stanton and Chel must join forces before time runs out.
 
Advance praise for 12.21
 
"Dustin Thomason, M.D., will invariably be compared to Michael Crichton, M.D., and 12.21 will be favorably compared to The Andromeda Strain. Both authors have written first-rate medical thrillers, the kind of fact-based fiction that is very scary but also very entertaining. Thomason knows his stuff, and it shows on every page. I truly could not put this book down."--Nelson DeMille

"The most exciting novel of its kind since the days of Michael Crichton, 12.21 takes us from the frontiers of modern neuroscience to the riddles of ancient Maya texts, with nothing less than the future of our civilization at stake."--Vince Flynn

"A fast-moving tale . . . Thomason displays an impressive depth of knowledge of both science and the ancient Mayan way of life. Along the way, he skillfully ramps up the action, one notch at a time. A winning book."--Kirkus Reviews

"Fascinating, terrifying for its potential realism. I loved how tightly everything fit together. I had to keep reading."--Taylor Stevens, New York Times bestselling author of The Informationist

"Fast, suspenseful . . . Michael Crichton fans will find a lot to like."--Publishers Weekly

12.21 Mayan Calendar End of the world

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A 40,000 Year Chronicle of Civilization

History's Timeline

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#hardcover #civilization #science #postmodernism #dualism #monism #moderncivilization 

Tennessee

Of extraordinary philosophical, religious, and historical scope, this work is the product of a great historian's lifetime of thought on the subject of his discipline and the human condition.

At the End of an Age

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#fiction #paperback #scifi #Futuristic #Novel #ArtificialIntelligence #VirtualReality #ParallelUniverse #Civilization #Regime box 29
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Texas

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1984 meets The Matrix in this riveting science fiction novel about corporate totalitarianism, personal freedom, and one brave character's journey to reclaim her humanity from an oppressive regime. 250 years in the future, artificial intelligences control every aspect of Kim's life - from what she has for breakfast to who she is allowed to have sex with. Living in the northeast province of what used to be the United States, she is a rising star at The Artificial Intelligence Company, training and managing sentient beings called "AIs" in the enigmatic parallel universe of Virtual Reality. When a seemingly harmless lark sends Kim's life spinning out of control and the AIs begin to go mad, Kim launches into a journey of self-discovery and chaos that threatens to tear down society's corrupt powers, and possibly civilization itself. ﻿ For fans of classic dystopian literature like Brave New World and groundbreaking TV shows like Black Mirror, Stanfill explores the lurking dangers of a surveillance state where privacy is dead, corporations have unlimited power, and even using the word "I" is forbidden.

Terms of Service

#hardcover #Europe #Islamic #history #civilization 

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Hailed by critics as an essential book, God's Crucible is a bold, new interpretation of Islamic Spain and the birth of Europe from one of our greatest historians. David Levering Lewis's narrative, filled with accounts of some of the greatest battles in world history, reveals how cosmopolitan, Muslim al-Andalus flourished--a beacon of cooperation and tolerance--while proto-Europe floundered in opposition.At the beginning of the eighth century, the Arabs brought a momentous revolution in power, religion, and culture to Dark Ages Europe. David Levering Lewis's masterful history begins with the fall of the Persian and Roman empires, followed by the rise of the prophet Muhammad and the creation of Muslim Spain. Five centuries of engagement between the Muslim imperium and an emerging Europe followed, from the Muslim conquest of Visigoth Hispania in 711 to Latin Christendom's declaration of unconditional warfare on the Caliphate in 1215. Lewis's narrative, filled with accounts of some of the greatest battles in world history, reveals how cosmopolitan, Muslim al-Andalus flourished--a beacon of cooperation and tolerance between Islam, Judaism, and Christianity--while proto-Europe, defining itself in opposition to Islam, made virtues out of hereditary aristocracy, religious intolerance, perpetual war, and slavery. A cautionary tale, God's Crucible provides a new interpretation of world-altering events whose influence remains as current as today's headlines.

Gods Crucible:Islam and the Making of Europe, 570-1215

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#paperback #apocalyptic #TomAbrams #Pilgrimage #Survival #Adventure #Civilization #Disaster #EndTimes box 103

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

A Post-Apocalyptic Survival Story

A FAMILY VACATION. AN EXPLOSIVE DISASTER. A DESPERATE STRUGGLE TO GET HOME.


PILGRIMAGE is a stand-alone post-apocalyptic story of survival. It was previously published as three separate novellas: Crossing, Refuge, and Advent.


High School teacher James Rockwell is vacationing in Maine with his family, when an earth-changing explosion sends them on a race for their lives. Their first step is escaping an island in the midst of a tsunami, and it only gets more dangerous from there.


Can they find their way home as civilization crumbles around them? And if they do, what horrors will they find?


It's a bullet-train of a thriller riding on the edge of the rails to the last page.


Pilgrimage

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#paperback #classic #JosephConrad #haunting #imperialism #civilization #darkness #brutalization

Pennsylvania

Great Books Edition

A masterpiece of twentieth-century writing, Heart of Darkness exposes the tenuous fabric that holds "civilization" together and the brutal horror at the center of European colonialism. Conrad's crowning achievement recounts Marlow's physical and psychological journey deep into the heart of the Belgian Congo in search of the mysterious trader Kurtz.




Heart of Darkness

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#hardcover #history #civilization #science

The Science of a Curious Dimension

Time surrounds us. It defines our experience of the world; it echoes through our every waking hour. Time is the very foundation of conscious experience.  Yet as familiar as it is, time is also deeply mysterious. We cannot see, hear, smell, taste, or touch it. Yet we do feel it—or at least we think we feel it. No wonder poets, writers, philosophers, and scientists have grappled with time for centuries.

            In his latest book, award-winning science writer Dan Falk chronicles the story of how humans have come to understand time over the millennia, and by drawing from the latest research in physics, psychology, and other fields, Falk shows how that understanding continues to evolve. In Search of Time begins with our earliest ancestors’ perception of time and the discoveries that led—with much effort—to the Gregorian calendar, atomic clocks, and “leap seconds.” Falk examines the workings of memory, the brain’s remarkable “bridge across time,” and asks whether humans are unique in their ability to recall the past and imagine the future. He explores the possibility of time travel, and the paradoxes it seems to entail. Falk looks at the quest to comprehend the beginning of time and how time—and the universe—may end. Finally, he examines the puzzle of time’s “flow,” and the remarkable possibility that the passage of time may be an illusion.

Entertaining, illuminating, and ultimately thought provoking, In Search of Time reveals what some of our most insightful thinkers have had to say about time, from Aristotle to Kant, from Newton to Einstein, and continuing with the brightest minds of today.

In Search of Time

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Louisiana

3000 Years Of Civilization 

The Mayas

#hardcover #atlas #geography #ancienthistory #antiquity #history #civilization

This book is in good condition, with a little wear to the spine and binding. Pages are clean and unmarked. Dust jacket has a small tear near the top, and a coffee stain in the upper right that affected both front and back cover (see photo). Printed in 1979 in Great Britain, 61pp.

Minnesota

Text, maps, diagrams, and pictures describe the ancient civilizations of the world.

Atlas of the Ancient World

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#hardcover #asimov #history #themarchofthemillennia #civilization Some staining on inside of cover. 

Maryland

A Key to Looking at History 

A broad millennium-by-millennium history of the development and decline of world cultures.

The March of the Millennia

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Anthony Esolen

The Left’s culture war threatens America’s foundation and its very civilization, warns Esolen in his brand new book, Out of the Ashes: Rebuilding American Culture. They will tell you that babies in the womb are fetuses, that gender is a social construct, and that the backbone of society is government not the community.

In Out of the Ashes, Esolen outlines his surprisingly simple plan to take back American culture— start at home. Esolen urges us to demand a return to values in our homes, our schools, our churches, and our communities, and to reject political correctness.

Indiana

Rebuilding American Culture

"Out of the Ashes is a full-throated, stout-hearted call to arms--soul-stirring,uncompromising, and irresistible." --ROD DREHER, author of The Benedict Option

"Out of the Ashes is an astonishing combination of energy, humor, insight, and exceptional erudition, topped off by a vivid personal style and a special gift for tweaking the nose of secularist nonsense-peddlers. If you're looking for a guide to our current cultural predicament (and how to fix it), one that's sobering and invigorating at the same time, start with this book." --CHARLES J. CHAPUT, O.F.M. Cap., Archbishop of Philadelphia

"Anthony Esolen is one of our nation's best writers because he's one of our best thinkers. Out of the Ashes is vintage Esolen: eloquent, bold, insightful, profound." -- RYAN T. ANDERSON, Ph.D., Senior Research Fellow, The Heritage Foundation, and author of Truth Overruled: The Future of Marriage and ReligiousFreedom

 

What do you do when an entire civilization is crumbling around you?

You do everything. This is a book about how to get started.

The Left's culture war threatens America's foundation and its very civilization, warns Esolen in his brand new book, Out of the Ashes: Rebuilding American Culture. They will tell you that babies in the womb are fetuses, that gender is a social construct, and that the backbone of society is government not the community.

In Out of the Ashes, Esolen outlines his surprisingly simple plan to take back American culture-- start at home. Esolen urges us to demand a return to values in our homes, our schools, our churches, and our communities, and to reject political correctness.

 "We must become tellers of truth again--and people who are willing to hear truths, especially when it hurts to hear them."

Out of the Ashes

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Thomas Cahill

Ohio

The Untold Story of Ireland's Heroic Role from the Fall of Rome to the Rise of Medieval Europe

This narrative tells the story of how Europe evolved from the classical age of Rome to the medieval era. Without Ireland, this transition could not have taken place. Irish monks and scribes maintained records of Western civilization and brought their uniquely Irish world-view to the task.

How the Irish Saved Civilization

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Dale Brown

Reign of Blood and Splendor

Detailed essays, extensive photos, and informative sidebars describe life in ancient Aztec civilization, showing the results of significant archaeological digs; also includes a time line and a bibliography.

Aztecs

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David Ellis

Prima's Official Strategy Guide

Inside this guide readers get proven military, diplomatic and economic strategies for expanding their empires, as well as new culture features, single and multi-player strategies and how to use units and armies.

Sid Meier's Civilization III

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#paperback #internationalrelations #history #civilization #culture #USAhistory

South Carolina

The Mccarthy Era in Perspective

According to newspaper headlines and television pundits, the cold war ended many months ago; the age of Big Two confrontation is over. But forty years ago, Americans were experiencing the beginnings of another era--of the fevered anti-communism that came to be known as McCarthyism. Duringthis period, the Cincinnati Reds felt compelled to rename themselves briefly the "Redlegs" to avoid confusion with the other reds, and one citizen in Indiana campaigned to have The Adventures of Robin Hood removed from library shelves because the story's subversive message encouraged robbing fromthe rich and giving to the poor. These developments grew out of a far-reaching anxiety over communism that characterized the McCarthy Era.Richard Fried's Nightmare in Red offers a riveting and comprehensive account of this crucial time. He traces the second Red Scare's antecedents back to the 1930s, and presents an engaging narrative about the many different people who became involved in the drama of the anti-communist fervor, fromthe New Deal era and World War II, through the early years of the cold war, to the peak of McCarthyism, and beyond McCarthy's censure to the decline of the House Committee on Un-American Activities in the 1960s. Along the way, we meet the familiar figures of the period--Presidents Roosevelt,Truman, and Eisenhower, the young Richard Nixon, and, of course, the Wisconsin Senator Joseph R. McCarthy. But more importantly, Fried reveals the wholesale effect of McCarthyism on the lives of thousands of ordinary people, from teachers and lawyers to college students, factory workers, andjanitors. Together with coverage of such famous incidents as the ordeal of the Hollywood Ten (which led to the entertainment world's notorious blacklist) and the Alger Hiss case, Fried also portrays a wealth of little-known but telling episodes involving victims and victimizers of anti-communistpolitics at the state and local levels.Providing the most complete history of the rise and fall of the phenomenon known as McCarthyism, Nightmare in Red shows that it involved far more than just Joe McCarthy.

Nightmare in Red

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Excellent historical reference with many photos and illustrations, both color and B&W. The book highlights the beginnings of western civilization in Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece and Rome. Published in 1953, it is a very readable account of history. Tight copy even though the boards are a bit worn. Semi-glossy pages, a little tanned with age. Previous owner seal on title page. Strangely, the inside front board (and one additional page) contain the previous owner’s return address label. Please see photos. #history #nonfiction #hardcover #Egypt #civilization #Greece #Rome #NatGeo (Shelf 4F)

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

New Jersey

Everyday Life in Ancient Times 

#exlibrary #homeschoolbooks #homeschool #canada #civilization #mannersandcustoms #multiculturalismcanada #hardcover 

Michigan

A nation built around many cultures, this book shows how multiculturalism helps Canadians better understand their neighbors.

Canada - The Culture

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David Jeremiah

10 Prophetic Clues You Cannot Afford to Ignore

Is the current economic and political crisis actually prophesied in the Bible? This title is a unique look that cuts through the hundreds of theories to identify the essential 10 most important Bible prophecies.

What in the World Is Going On?

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Samuel P. Huntington

Connecticut

The classic study of post-Cold War international relations, more relevant than ever in the post-9/11 world, with a new foreword by Zbigniew Brzezinski. Since its initial publication, The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order has become a classic work of international relations and one of the most influential books ever written about foreign affairs. An insightful and powerful analysis of the forces driving global politics, it is as indispensable to our understanding of American foreign policy today as the day it was published. As former National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski says in his new foreword to the book, it “has earned a place on the shelf of only about a dozen or so truly enduring works that provide the quintessential insights necessary for a broad understanding of world affairs in our time.” Samuel Huntington explains how clashes between civilizations are the greatest threat to world peace but also how an international order based on civilizations is the best safeguard against war. Events since the publication of the book have proved the wisdom of that analysis. The 9/11 attacks and wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have demonstrated the threat of civilizations but have also shown how vital international cross-civilization cooperation is to restoring peace. As ideological distinctions among nations have been replaced by cultural differences, world politics has been reconfigured. Across the globe, new conflicts—and new cooperation—have replaced the old order of the Cold War era. The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order explains how the population explosion in Muslim countries and the economic rise of East Asia are changing global politics. These developments challenge Western dominance, promote opposition to supposedly “universal” Western ideals, and intensify intercivilization conflict over such issues as nuclear proliferation, immigration, human rights, and democracy. The Muslim population surge has led to many small wars throughout Eurasia, and the rise of China could lead to a global war of civilizations. Huntington offers a strategy for the West to preserve its unique culture and emphasizes the need for people everywhere to learn to coexist in a complex, multipolar, muliticivilizational world.

The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order

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Eric J. Hobsbawm

First Edition. This hardcover book titled "The Age of Empire, 1875-1914" by Eric J. Hobsbawm is a fascinating read for history enthusiasts. Published in 1987 by Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, this book weighs 26.8 ounces and contains 404 pages. The book is written in English and belongs to the genre of non-classifiable and history. 

The book takes you back to the modern 19th and 20th centuries, providing insight into the past and its impact on the present. It is an excellent addition to any book collection and a must-have for those interested in gaining a deeper understanding of history.

Florida

A Braudel for the modern world--a masterful recreation of the years that formed our century--by England's leading social historian. 50 black-and-white photographs in three inserts.

The Age of Empire, 1875-1914

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James Fenimore Cooper

1984 Vintage Book that does have some form of Shelf Wear, Foxed/Foxing, Darkening/Fading & its Tight

Readers Digest Hardcover w/Insert 

The tale of a Mohican brave's struggle to protect two English girls from an evil Huron.

The Last of the Mohicans, 1984 

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Terri Blackstock

Today, the world as you know it will end. No need to turn off the lights. Your car suddenly stalls and won't restart. You can't call for help because your cell phone is dead. Everyone around you is having the same problem ... and it's just the tip of the iceberg. Your city is in a blackout. Communication is cut off. Hospital equipment won't operate. And airplanes are falling from the sky. Is it a terrorist attack ... or something far worse? In the face of a crisis that sweeps an entire high-tech planet back to the age before electricity, your family faces a choice. Will you hoard your possessions to survive--or trust God to provide as you offer your resources and your hearts to others? Yesterday's world is gone. Now all you've got is your family and community. You stand or fall together. Like never before, you must rely on each other. But one of you is a killer.

Last Light

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#hardcover #Christianity #Christ #civilization #Caesar #Religion￼ #history Includes Roman empire map￼

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Dustin Thomason

12.21 Mayan Calendar End of the world

Jean Cooke; Ann Kramer; Theodore Rowland-Entwistle; Fay Franklin

History's Timeline

John Lukacs

At the End of an Age

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