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1) Origin
Author
Series
Robert Langdon novels volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 25
Language
English
Description
After an event at which futurist Edmond Kirsch is to announce a groundbreaking discovery erupts into chaos, Robert Langdon rushes to Barcelona to locate a cryptic password that will reveal Kirsch's secret before it is lost forever.
4) Prometheus
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Explorers discover a clue that may point to the origins of mankind on Earth and leads them to a distant planet.
Author
Publisher
Thames & Hudson
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Who are the English? Their language and culture have had an impact on the modern world out of all proportion to the size of their homeland. But what do we really understand about their ancestry? Skilfully and accessibly blending together results from this cutting-edge DNA technology with new research from archaeology and linguistics, Jean Manco reveals a long and adventurous journey before a word of English was spoken. Going beyond a narrow focus...
Author
Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"After working the restaurant beat for years, restaurant critic and writer Wyatt Williams decided to find Springer Mountain farm, to see just what, if anything, made their chicken so special. What he found instead was an elaborate marketing scheme. After his discovery, Williams spent a year dedicated to understanding what it meant to work and live meat. He moved to a chicken farm, learned to hunt his own game, worked on a slaughterhouse kill floor,...
Author
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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"The Renaissance in Florence conjures images of beautiful frescoes and elegant buildings-the dazzling handiwork of the city's skilled artists and architects. But equally important for the centuries to follow were geniuses of a different sort: Florence's manuscript hunters, scribes, scholars, and booksellers, who blew the dust off a thousand years of history and, through the discovery and diffusion of ancient knowledge, imagined a new and enlightened...
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