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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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The great journey
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Brian M. Fagan |
How, where, when, and why did human beings take the first steps in their journey to populate North America? First published in 1987, The Great Journey tells the story of the search for the first Amer… |
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The illustrated naked ape
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Desmond Morris |
Dans la même optique et avec le même vocabulaire que celui utilisé pour les animaux, une observation du comportement humain sous l'angle de la sexualité, de l'éducation, de la combativité et de la re… |
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Evidence as to man's place in nature
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Thomas Henry Huxley |
Evidence as to Man's Place in Nature is an 1863 book by Thomas Henry Huxley, in which he gives evidence for the evolution of man and apes from a common ancestor. It was the first book devoted to the … |
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Choose Life
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Arnold J. Toynbee,Daisaku Ikeda,Ikeda Daisaku |
Also known as *The Toynbee-Ikeda Dialogue*. |
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Catastrophe
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David Keys |
It was a catastrophe without precedent in recorded history: for months on end, starting in A.D. 535, a strange, dusky haze robbed much of the earth of normal sunlight. Crops failed in Asia and the Mi… |
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On the Unseriousness of Human Affairs
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James V. Schall |
Echoing philosophers such as Josef Pieper, Schall explains how the modern world has inverted the rational order of human affairs, devaluing the activities of leisure and placing an exaggerated emphas… |
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New Bottles for New Wine
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Julian Huxley |
Thirteen essays of great interest on a variety of topics (<a href=http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1525/aa.1958.60.6.02a00260/pdf>review</a>). |
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STORY OF MAN
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CYRIL AYDON |
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HEALTH COMMUNICATIONS
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Stacey B. Day MD |
A pioneer book seeking to cover the widely divergent and critically complex, often undefined sub-threshold fields of knowledge, information, communications science, technology, policy, public health,… |
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Dawn light
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Diane Ackerman |
In an eye-opening sequence of personal meditations through the cycle of seasons, one of our most celebrated storyteller-poet-naturalists awakens us to the world at dawn. Diane Ackerman draws from sou… |
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My nose, your nose
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Melanie Walsh |
Looks at what pairs of children have in common, despite their obvious differences, such as Daisy and Kit both kicking hard in the swimming pool, although one's legs are short and the other's long. |
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De hominis dignitate
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Giovanni Pico della Mirandola,Patricia Mari-Fabre |
The Oration on the Dignity of Man (De hominis dignitate) is a famous public discourse pronounced in 1486 by Pico della Mirandola, an Italian scholar and philosopher of the Renaissance. It has been ca… |
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The weather changes man
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Ben Bova |
Traces the weather patterns and climatic changes on earth from prehistory to the present and discusses their influence on man's physical and psychological development. |
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Supernatural
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Graham Hancock |
Less than fifty thousand years ago mankind had no art, no religion, no sophisticated symbolism, no innovative thinking. Then, in a dramatic and electrifying change, described by scientists as "the gr… |
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United States Exploring Expedition
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Horatio Emmons Hale |
Ethnography of Australian Aborigines; investigation of languages; comparative word list (33 items) of 9 languages of N.S.W.; phonology of Australian languages; comparative grammars of Awabakal (calle… |
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God and the evolving universe
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Michael Murphy,Sylvia Timbers,James Redfield |
In a world racked by violence and conflict, James Redfield and Michael Murphy-leading cocreators of today's spiritual boom-present a message of hope and a vision for the future.It is no accident, the… |
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Steve Jones |
Publisher's description: Renowned scientist and author Steve Jones reveals the mysteries of maleness and arrives at a startling conclusion: men are actually the second sex. Beginning with what men co… |
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Supersuits
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Vicki Cobb |
Describes severe environment conditions that require special clothing for survival--conditions involving freezing cold, fire, underwater work, and thin or non-existent air. |
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On the origin of species by means of natural selection, or, The preservation of favoured races in t…
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Charles Darwin |
facsimile of the first edition
OCLC 62857845
ISBN 9780486450063 |
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