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    A Geographical Introduction to Ethnology

    An introduction to the ethnography and human geography of non-European peoples, this book deals with the economic and social life of a number of groups at diverse levels of cultural achievement and in different regions of the world. International in its scope the book covers: Malaysia, Africa, North America, Canada, Siberia, the Amazon, Eastern Solomon Islands, India, Central Asia and the Middle ... Leer más

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    Climate Change and the Rise and Fall of Civilizations

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    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

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  • Beothuk Of Newfoundland: A Vanished People

    A Vanished People

    A wonderful history of the Red Indians of Newfoundland. Exciting in its detail, this book shares all available information concerning every aspect of Beothuk life-housing, clothing, hunting methods, arts and social life. Ingeborg Marshall gives us a rare picture of a lost people whose culture was completely destroyed after the arrival of white settlers. ... Leer más

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  • Fishing

    How the Sea Fed Civilization

    de Brian Fagan ...
    An archaeologist examines humanity's last major source of food from the wild, and how it enabled and shaped the growth of civilization.In this history of fishing—not as sport but as sustenance—archaeologist and best-selling author Brian Fagan argues that fishing was an indispensable and often overlooked element in the growth of civilization. It sustainably provided enough food to allow cities, ... Leer más

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  • Climate Chaos

    Lessons on Survival from Our Ancestors

    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

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  • 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

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  • Malay Archipelago

    This is one the first and most important books about 18th century Malaysia and covers a wide array of topics from Malaysian culture and history to nature and wildlife. It is essential reading for anyone interested in Malaysia.A century and a half after it was first published, this book remains one of the great classics of natural history and travel—perhaps the greatest. Alfred Russel Wallace (1823 ... Leer más

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  • The Birds of Paradise, Illustrated

    This short piece by the noted naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace, describes the nineteenth century view of the Birds of Paradise, their habits as known at the time. Taken from Wallaces Numerous trips to the south seas. Alfred Russel Wallace, OM, FRS (8 January 1823– 7 November 1913) was a British naturalist, explorer, geographer, anthropologist and biologist. He is best known for independently ... Leer más

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  • Borneo, Celebes, Aru

    Racked with fever, virtually broke and earning a precarious living through sending back to London the plumes of beautiful birds, Wallace (1823-1913) ultimately became one of the most heroic and admirable of all scientist-explorers. Whether living with Hill Dyaks or hunting Orang-Utans or sailing on a junk to the unbelievably remote Aru islands, Wallace opens our eyes to a now long vanished world ... Leer más

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  • The Malay Archipelago, the land of the orang-utan and the bird of paradise; a narrative of travel, with studies of man and nature — Volume 1

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  • America Before the European Invasions

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    Beginning with the immigrants from Asia, through inventions of agriculture, cities and kingdoms, American First Nations are integral to the history of the United States. They explored the continent, pioneered its waterways and mountain passes, cleared forests, irrigated deserts, and ranched its great plains.Invading Europeans justifies their conquests by denying the evidence of American Indian ... Leer más

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  • Abominable Snowmen

    To Bernard and Monique Heuvelmans My own Alma And also to the Following Today finds a surprising host of assorted students in this odd field, but also a few professional scientists whose labors I would like first to note, at the same time thanking them for their long-standing encouragement, constructive criticism, and many forms of direct help, not only in this book but also in my Other studies of ... Leer más

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