Cambridge Springs Public Library

Presents the history of the United States from the point of view of those who were exploited in the name of American progress.

Presents a history of Ancient Greece and Rome as well as information about the literature and daily life of these early civilizations.VOL. 3 LEGION-ROMAN NUMERALS

"What's it like to be the first to enter an Egyptian burial chamber that's been sealed for thousands of years? What horrifying secret was found among the prehistoric ruins of the American Southwest? Who really was the infamous the Monster of Florence? Douglas Preston's journalistic explorations have taken him from the haunted country of Italy to the jungles of Honduras. He was granted exclusive journalistic access to the largest tomb in Egypt's Valley...

P. J. O'Rourke says we've worked ourselves into a state of anger and perplexity, and it's no surprise because perplexed and angry are what Americans have been since the Roanoke Colony got lost. This astute and entertaining look at the state of these United States includes essays on everything from our fraught history ("O Beautiful for . . . Pilgrim Feet?") to the political effects of social media ("Whose Bright Idea Was It to Make Sure that Every...

Separating fact from fiction, myth from legend, this assessment of the enduring legacy of the claim that Vikings reached North America around the year 1000 doubles as a journey from the high seas of a millennium ago to rough waters and dark undercurrents of the online world today.

A field guide to the twenty-first century shares strategies for surviving today's hectic technological, environmental, and economic challenges, contrasting present-day environments with the working model of an earlier generation.