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Floods, famines, and emperors
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Brian M. Fagan |
Civilisations have long been dictated by cycles of rise and fall. The author shows beautifully how El Nino gave rise to human civilisation and continually shape and alter their fates, and how human a… |
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Blame it on the rain
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Laura Lee |
An amazing, enlightening, and endlessly entertaining look at how weather has shaped our world. Throughout history, great leaders have fallen, the outcomes of mighty battles have been determined, and… |
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A cultural history of climate
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Wolfgang Behringer |
Explores the latest historical research on the development of the earth's climate, showing how even minor changes in the climate could result in major social, political, and religious upheavals. |
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The collapse of the eastern Mediterranean
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Roni Ellenblum |
"As a 'Medieval Warm Period' prevailed in Western Europe during the tenth and eleventh centuries, the eastern Mediterranean region, from the Nile to the Oxus, was suffering from a series of climatic … |
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Water, life and civilisation
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Steven J. Mithen,Emily Black |
"A unique interdisciplinary study of the relationships between climate, hydrology and human society from 20,000 years ago to the present day within the Jordan Valley. It describes how state-of-the-ar… |
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Larry Bond's red dragon rising
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Larry Bond |
CIA officer Mara Duncan is on assignment in bomb-torn Hanoi to get scientist Josh MacArthur and a seven-year-old witness to Chinese atrociities in Vietnam out of the country safely. Meanwhile, U.S. A… |
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Larry Bond's red dragon rising
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Larry Bond,Jim DeFelice |
In the year 2014, with the world torn by climate change and economic and geopolitical chaos, the Chinese premier reacts to mass riots by marching on traditional Chinese enemies through Southeast Asia… |
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