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The Little Ice Age tells the story of the turbulent, unpredictable, and often very cold years of modern European history, how climate altered historical events, and what they mean in the context of today’s global warming.

More than 12,000 years ago, in one of the greatest triumphs of prehistory, humans colonized North America, a continent that was then truly a new world. Just when and how they did so has been one of the most perplexing and controversial questions in archaeology.

Want to get a taste of the entirety of human history in a single book? With World History for Dummies, you'll get an overview of the history of, well, everything, from the Neanderthal experience to the latest historical developments of the twenty-first century. Re-live history from your armchair as you ride into battle alongside Roman generals, prepare Egyptian pharaohs for the afterlife, and learn from the great Greek poets and philosophers. It's the perfect gift for the lifelong learner who wants to brush up on their world history knowledge.

The early history of Earth covers such vast stretches of time that years, centuries, and even millennia become virtually meaningless. Instead, paleontologists and scientists who study geochronology divide time into periods and eras. What humans commonly refer to as the “Ice Age” is actually a series of fluctuating climate events that have occurred throughout the planet’s history. These ongoing historical phenomena are difficult to conceptualize because of both the time frame involved and the natural process by which they cyclically unfold.

The northern mountain village offers protection from the threat of dragons, but is a difficult place, especially for a misfit like Jason Dreshen. His days are spent hunting for food for his family, praying for warmth, and trying to hide his strange silver eye that grants him dragon sight. When a stranger visits during the local Freedom Festival searching for a different kind of dragon, everything changes.

From the author of Apocalyptic Planet, an unsparing, vivid, revelatory travelogue through prehistory that traces the arrival of the First People in North America 20,000 years ago and the artifacts that enable us to imagine their lives and fates. This book upends our notions of where these people came from and who they were.

As a happily married presenter of a top-rated morning news show, Olivia Ross has it all. Only none of it’s real. The show’s ratings are flailing, her boss is out to get her, and her marriage has become a hollow sham. And things are about to get worse. Because after her co-anchor falls ill, the show needs a temporary stand-in. And Olivia needs only one look at her youthful, sexy new co-host to know that she’s there to replace her. Young and hungry, Holly Reynolds is thrilled to get a temporary gig on the biggest show on the network. She’s even more thrilled to work with Olivia, her ...

The Pleistocene spans a period from around 2.5 million years ago (mya) to just over 12,000 years ago, and it was an epoch of enormous change on Earth, mainly characterized by climate changes involving fluctuations between periods of extreme heat and long periods of glaciation. This period is commonly known as the Ice Age, despite the fact there were actually a number of separate periods of cold. The Pleistocene Era: The History of the Ice Age and the Dawn of Modern Humans looks at the development of the era, what life on Earth was like, and the origins of archaic humans.

Best-selling author Brian Fagan brings early humans out of the deep freeze with his trademark mix of erudition, cutting-edge science, and vivid storytelling. Cro-Magnon reveals human society in its infancy, facing enormous environmental challenges - including a rival species of humans, the Neanderthals. For ten millennia, Cro-Magnons lived side by side with Neanderthals, an encounter that Fagan fills with drama.

Kamal Hafeez. CEO. Billionaire. Powerful. A man who lives by one rule—until Madeline becomes the exception he can’t walk away from. He has one rule: never keep a woman longer than one month. Until his assistant becomes his obsession. He is an arrogant tycoon. She is hired as an assistant to a man who never mixes business with pleasure. Kamal is cynical and ruthless. Maddie is determined to take control of her life. The billionaire can’t stay away from her. She can’t resist him. Madeline You know what a tornado, a hurricane, or any other force of nature is. You’ve heard about their...

Jack Hampton—full-time big game hunter, part-time time traveler, embarks on an epic journey of a lifetime to the Ice Age to hunt the biggest, most monstrous game of all. During his quest to quench his insatiable addiction, he makes a dire mistake that could cost humanity's future existence. Both Jack's present and past selves are at war aiming to undo the seemingly irreparable damage. Amongst the cross-dimensional chaos, the close calls with dangerous prehistoric creatures, and a giant bear that aims to kill him for sport, will Jack be successful in saving all of mankind? Or will the ...

In this groundbreaking new book, Decoding Göbekli Tepe: Biblical Anatolia & the Watchers, the authors reexamine the ancient site of Göbekli Tepe, offering a compelling new perspective that transforms its traditional interpretation as a communal center into a sacred space for ancestor deification. Key book themes: - Deified Ancestors: The ancients' sought immortality by deifying the first ancestors, regenerating the dead into gods and to the cosmos. Göbekli Tepe's central stone pillars represent deified Adam and Eve in this divine process. Adam is tied to the Sumerian bull-god Anu, ...

The Great Blue Above… The White Nothingness… The Sky People… These only exist as whispered stories for the people of the City Below, humanity’s final habitat located beneath the snowy surface. Ruled by the ruthless Jonas family for generations, its citizens are fed lies by King Edmond, who controls the largest section of city and its army of guards. But the leaders of other sections begin to question the city’s history and King Edmond's divinity, and their children dream about escaping through the guarded tunnels to learn the truth...

My whole world changed when I stepped inside the academy. Nothing is right about this place or the other students in it. Here I am, a mere mortal among gods...or monsters. I still can't decide which of these warring factions I belong to, if I belong at all. I only know the one thing that unites them is their hatred of me. Then there's Jaxon Vega. A vampire with deadly secrets who hasn't felt anything for a hundred years. 

The only thing more brutal than a body check is falling for the one man who can end your career. A Steamy MM Enemies to Lovers Hockey Romance featuring a Grumpy Veteran Captain and the Sunshine Rookie who's after his job. Full of forced proximity, high-stakes action, and a hard-won happily ever after. Liam "Sully" Sullivan is the heart, soul, and ticking time bomb of the Brooklyn Blades. As team captain, his legendary career is on thin ice, his temper is wearing thin, and the trade deadline is breathing down his neck. He’s built walls around his heart for a reason, and he's not about to ...

The last ice age didn’t disappear. It only slept. And now, it’s waking up. When an early October snowstorm blankets northern Wisconsin, most residents shrug it off as a seasonal anomaly. But former Army paratrooper Daniel Reicher senses something far more dangerous brewing beneath the cold. Temperatures freefall, lakes freeze overnight, and the snow—unnervingly—never melts. Then a suppressed NOAA report leaks: the Gulf Stream is slowing. The same oceanic collapse that triggered ancient Ice Age catastrophes is happening again—only this time, millions are in the path. As the Midwest...

Nature doesn't just happen; it attacks. Experience the raw power of the atmosphere’s most violent whiteouts in this gripping narrative that spans centuries of human struggle. From the deceptive, mild morning of the 1888 Gilded Age to the hyper-connected, digital-age chaos of the 2022 Buffalo tragedy, these are the moments when civilization stood still and the elements took over. Discover the harrowing true accounts of teachers shielding students on the frozen plains, cities paralyzed by "bomb cyclones," and the catastrophic technical failures that left millions in the dark. This ...

On the ice, he owns you. Off the ice, you want him to. Four dark MM romances. Four forbidden age gaps. Four powerful men who break every rule for the athletes under their authority. COACHED — The head coach who keeps his rookie after practice. The sessions were supposed to be about hockey. STRETCHED — The team PT whose hands were supposed to fix an injury. They found something else entirely. BENCHED — The retired legend who sees the player nobody wanted. And shows him what it feels like to be chosen. TRADED — The GM who controls contracts, careers, and futures. He wants something ...

Taliyah: The last person I expect to ask me a favor is the headmistress of Blood Rose Academy, Aurea Grimsbane. But when she tells me her daughter, Vivian, has been brutally murdered, I can guess what’s coming next… Yep, Aurea wants me to figure out what happened to Vivian. Of course, my first answer is a resounding ‘no’ because I want nothing to do with that backstabbing witch. But when she threatens the safety of my family, claiming she’s stolen a bone dagger from the would-be Queen of Winter, Janara, my ears perk up. Why? Because that dagger will kill me, and I don’t want to ...

No holds barred guidebook to surviving the coming Mini Ice Age. Covers best locations, heating, storing and growing food and herbs, water collection and filtering, health preservation, retrofitting for cold, raising chickens, rabbits, goats and other small livestock, home defense and firearms, solar and alt energy, psychology of survival and much more. Included are multiple "from scratch" recipes for bread and beer starter cultures, making wines, tanning hides, and how to calculate how much to plant for your group. Wide ranging and comprehensive, the book is drawn from the author's five ...