The Resource Before Columbus : the Americas of 1491, Charles C. Mann
Before Columbus : the Americas of 1491, Charles C. Mann
Resource Information
The item Before Columbus : the Americas of 1491, Charles C. Mann represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Evansville Vanderburgh Public Library.This item is available to borrow from all library branches.
Resource Information
The item Before Columbus : the Americas of 1491, Charles C. Mann represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Evansville Vanderburgh Public Library.
This item is available to borrow from all library branches.
- Summary
- Adapted for younger readers from the book 1491, turns conventional wisdom on its head, arguing that the people of North and South America lived in enormous cities, raised pyramids hundreds of years before the Egyptians did, engineered corn, and farmed the rainforests
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- ix, 117 pages
- Note
- "A Downtown Bookworks book."
- Contents
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- 1: How old was the "new world"?
- Cities in the desert
- Genetic engineering
- From Olmec to Maya
- To the land of four quarters
- 2: Why did Europe succeed?
- The great meeting
- Long, long ago
- Extinction
- Disease-free paradise?
- 3: Were the Americas really a wilderness?
- Amazonia
- Land of fire
- The created wilderness
- Isbn
- 9781416949008
- Label
- Before Columbus : the Americas of 1491
- Title
- Before Columbus
- Title remainder
- the Americas of 1491
- Statement of responsibility
- Charles C. Mann
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Adapted for younger readers from the book 1491, turns conventional wisdom on its head, arguing that the people of North and South America lived in enormous cities, raised pyramids hundreds of years before the Egyptians did, engineered corn, and farmed the rainforests
- Awards note
- A Junior Library Guild selection.
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Mann, Charles C
- Dewey number
- 970.01
- Illustrations
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- illustrations
- maps
- Index
- index present
- Intended audience
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- Ages 8 up
- NC 1080
- Intended audience source
- Lexile
- Interest level
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- MG
- 6-8
- LC call number
- E61
- LC item number
- .M267 2009
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- Reading level
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- 8.1
- 9.2
- Study program name
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- Accelerated Reader AR
- Reading Counts RC
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Indians
- Indians
- Indians
- America
- Target audience
- juvenile
- Label
- Before Columbus : the Americas of 1491, Charles C. Mann
- Note
- "A Downtown Bookworks book."
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (page 110) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier.
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent.
- Contents
- 1: How old was the "new world"? -- Cities in the desert -- Genetic engineering -- From Olmec to Maya -- To the land of four quarters -- 2: Why did Europe succeed? -- The great meeting -- Long, long ago -- Extinction -- Disease-free paradise? -- 3: Were the Americas really a wilderness? -- Amazonia -- Land of fire -- The created wilderness
- Control code
- 276335321
- Dimensions
- 27 cm.
- Extent
- ix, 117 pages
- Isbn
- 9781416949008
- Isbn Type
- (reinforced)
- Lccn
- 2009007691
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia.
- Media type code
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- n
- Other physical details
- color illustrations, color maps
- Label
- Before Columbus : the Americas of 1491, Charles C. Mann
- Note
- "A Downtown Bookworks book."
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (page 110) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier.
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent.
- Contents
- 1: How old was the "new world"? -- Cities in the desert -- Genetic engineering -- From Olmec to Maya -- To the land of four quarters -- 2: Why did Europe succeed? -- The great meeting -- Long, long ago -- Extinction -- Disease-free paradise? -- 3: Were the Americas really a wilderness? -- Amazonia -- Land of fire -- The created wilderness
- Control code
- 276335321
- Dimensions
- 27 cm.
- Extent
- ix, 117 pages
- Isbn
- 9781416949008
- Isbn Type
- (reinforced)
- Lccn
- 2009007691
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia.
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- color illustrations, color maps
Library Locations
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Central LibraryBorrow it200 SE Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., Evansville, IN, 47713, US37.971461 -87.565988
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