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The Basics Serie de eBooks

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  • Archaeology: The Basics

    de Brian M. Fagan, Nadia Durrani ...
    Series series The Basics
    Archaeology: The Basics, rewritten for this fourth edition, is a short, engaging book that takes the reader on a journey through the fascinating world of archaeology and archaeologists.Written in a non-technical style by two experienced archaeologists and writers about the past, the book begins by introducing archaeology as a unique way of studying the entire span of the human past from our ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

  • World Prehistory: The Basics

    de Brian M. Fagan, Nadia Durrani ...
    Series series The Basics
    World Prehistory: The Basics tells the compelling story of human prehistory, from our African origins to the spectacular pre-industrial civilizations and cities of the more recent past.Written in a non-technical style by two archaeologists and experienced writers about the past, the story begins with human origins in Africa some 6 million years ago and the spread of our remote ancestors across the ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

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  • Unbound

    How Eight Technologies Made Us Human and Brought Our World to the Brink

    de Richard L. Currier ...
    Like Guns, Germs, and Steel, a work of breathtaking sweep and originality that reinterprets the human story.Although we usually think of technology as something unique to modern times, our ancestors began to create the first technologies millions of years ago in the form of prehistoric tools and weapons. Over time, eight key technologies gradually freed us from the limitations of our animal ... Leer más

    $13.99 USD

  • Animals and Inequality in the Ancient World

    Edición de Benjamin S. Arbuckle, Sue Ann McCarty ...
    Animals and Inequality in the Ancient World explores the current trends in the social archaeology of human-animal relationships, focusing on the ways in which animals are used to structure, create, support, and even deconstruct social inequalities.The authors provide a global range of case studies from both New and Old World archaeology—a royal Aztec dog burial, the monumental horse tombs of ... Leer más

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  • The Great Warming

    Climate Change and the Rise and Fall of Civilizations

    de Brian Fagan ...
    In this New York Times bestseller, Brian Fagan shows how climate transformed-and sometimes destroyed--human societies during the earth's last global warming phase.From the 10th to 15th centuries the earth experienced a rise in surface temperature that changed climate worldwide-a preview of today's global warming. In some areas, including much of Western Europe, longer summers brought bountiful ... Leer más

    $15.99 USD

  • Archaeology For Dummies

    de Nancy Marie White ...
    An objective guide to this fascinating science of history and cultureArchaeology continually makes headlines--from recent discoveries like the frozen Copper-Age man in the Italian Alps to the newest dating of the first people in America at over 14,0000 years ago. Archaeology For Dummies offers a fascinating look at this intriguing field, taking readers on-site and revealing little-known details ... Leer más

    $15.00 USD

  • Before Atlantis

    20 Million Years of Human and Pre-Human Cultures

    de Frank Joseph ...
    A comprehensive exploration of Earth’s ancient past, the evolution of humanity, the rise of civilization, and the effects of global catastrophes• Explores biological evidence for the aquatic ape theory and 20-million-year-old evidence of pre-human cultures from which we are not descended• Traces the genesis of modern human civilization to Indonesia and the Central Pacific 75,000 years ago after a ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD

  • Climate Chaos

    Lessons on Survival from Our Ancestors

    de Brian Fagan, Nadia Durrani ...
    A thirty-thousand-year history of the relationship between climate and civilization that teaches powerful lessons about how humankind can survive.**“A rich survey of the past.” ―**NatureHuman-made climate change may have begun in the last two hundred years, but our species has witnessed many eras of climate instability. The results have not always been pretty. From Ancient Egypt to Rome to the ... Leer más

    $18.99 USD

  • A Little History of Archaeology

    de Brian Fagan ...
    Series series Little Histories
    A "learned and lively" (Wall Street Journal) history of archaeological adventure—with tales of danger, debate, audacious explorers, and astonishing discoveries around the globe—for readers of all agesWhat is archaeology? The word may bring to mind images of golden pharaohs and lost civilizations, or Neanderthal skulls and Ice Age cave art. Archaeology is all of these, but also far more: the only ... Leer más

    $11.99 USD

  • Elixir

    A History of Water and Humankind

    de Brian Fagan ...
    Elixir spans five millennia, from ancient Mesopotamia to the parched present of the Sun Belt. As Brian Fagan shows, every human society has been shaped by its relationship toour most essential resource. Fagan's sweeping narrative moves across the world, from ancient Greece and Rome, whose mighty aqueducts still supply modern cities, to China, where emperors marshaled armies of laborers in a ... Leer más

    $16.99 USD

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  • Voyages of the Pyramid Builders

    de Robert M. Schoch ...
    Is it a mere coincidence that pyramids are found throughout our globe? Did cultures ranging across vast spaces in geography and time, such as the ancient Egyptians; early Bud-dhists; the Maya, Inca, Toltec, and Aztec civilizations of the Americas; the Celts of the British Isles; and even the Mississippi Indians of pre-Columbus Illinois, simply dream the same dreams and envision the same structures ... Leer más

    $10.99 USD

  • An Environmental History of the World

    Humankind's Changing Role in the Community of Life

    de J. Donald Hughes ...
    This second edition of An Environmental History of the World continues to present a concise history, from ancient to modern times, of the interactions between human societies and the natural environment, including the other forms of life that inhabit our planet. Throughout their evolutionary history, humans have affected the natural environment, sometimes with a promise of sustainable balance, but ... Leer más

    $57.99 USD