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Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
For more than one thousand years, Christians and Muslims lived side by side, sometimes at peace and sometimes at war. When Christian armies seized Jerusalem in 1099, they began the most notorious period of conflict between the two religions. Depending on who you ask, the fall of the holy city was either an inspiring legend or the greatest of horrors. In Crusaders, Dan Jones interrogates the many sides of the larger story, charting a deeply human and...
3) The Crusades
Series
Pub. Date
[2013], c2012
Language
English
Description
In this program, Dr. Thomas Asbridge traces the journey of the first crusaders as they marched 3,000 miles from Europe to recapture Jerusalem from the Muslims. Enduring starvation, disease, and bloody battle to reach their goal, the Christian soldiers then unleashed an appalling tide of barbaric violence upon their Muslim enemies. Yet far from being the invincible warriors of legend, Asbridge says that these men actually considered surrender in the...
Language
English
Formats
Description
Indy's Nazi enemies are back and have kidnapped his father, Professor Henry Jones, Sr. to get help in their search for the Holy Grail. Following a trail from America to Venice to the deserts of the Middle East, it's up to Indy to save his father, save the Grail and save the day.
Pub. Date
[2005], c1999
Language
Español
Description
Rigoberta Menchu has become widely known as a leading advocate of Indian rights and ethno-cultural reconciliation-and also a center of controversy-not only in her native Guatemala, but throughout the western hemisphere. In this program, Menchu, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize and other international awards, talks about her life both at home and in exile, her autobiographical I, Rigoberta Menchu, her associations with the Committee of the Peasant Union...
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Batman and Robin, the boy wonder, swing into action when the earth is threatened by Gotham City's most malevolent master-criminals, Joker, Riddler, Penguin and Catwoman! The Dynamic Duo try to save the day when Batman is turned from good to bad. Now Catwoman and Robin must team up to stop him from taking over Gotham City and ultimately, the world.
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
In this final edition of Moyers & Company, Bill speaks with legal scholar and environmentalist Mary Christina Wood about a new legal framework against global warming. Called atmospheric trust litigation, it takes the fate of the Earth into the courts, arguing that the planet's atmosphere - its air, water, land, plants and animals - are the responsibility of government, held in its trust to insure the survival of all generations to come.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"It's May 1963, and twelve-year-old Nina Norris is answering a call from civil rights leaders in Birmingham, Alabama. Black Americans are demanding the right to vote, but adults who protest risk losing their jobs. So, children are protesting in their place. As Nina prepares for her day, she knows she will likely be arrested and put in jail, but it's a price she is willing to pay so that all people can have a say in their government. Readers can learn...
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"The Castles & Crusades players handbook introduces you to our easy to learn attribute based rules system that allows players to choose among multiple archetypes to build their characters. Spells, fast-paced combat rules, and all essential information needed to play a game of Castles & Crusades are in this book."--From back cover.
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Publisher Annotation: Slaughterhouse-Five, an American classic, is one of the world's great antiwar books. Centering on the infamous firebombing of Dresden, Billy Pilgrim's odyssey through time reflects the mythic journey of our own fractured lives as we search for meaning in what we fear most. 192pp.
17) Crusades
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
Join Terry Jones for a chronicle of the Crusades.
Series
Pub. Date
[2014], c2008
Language
English
Description
Written and presented by leading British writer Howard Jacobson, this program examines the story of the origins, and consequences, of Christian belief. The bare facts are that although Christianity originated in devout Judaism, for Jews, it has by and large been a calamity. The roots of anti-semitism that enabled the Holocaust lie in 2000 years of Christian vilification of the Jews based on the false accounts of Jesus's death written in the Christian...
Author
Series
England's medieval queens volume 2
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Packed with incredible true stories and legendary medieval intrigue, this epic narrative history chronicles the first five queens from the powerful royal family that ruled England and France for over three hundred years. This remarkable recreation of the action-packed century that saw the murder of Thomas Becket and the signing of the Magna Carta covers the lives and reigns of the first five Plantagenet queens, who ruled England and France throughout...
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
From the -- The New York Times Book ReviewThe Children's Crusade, an extraordinary study in character, a rare and wise examination of the legacy of early life on adult children attempting to create successful families and identities of their own. This is Ann Packer's most deeply affecting book yet.
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