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"One of Medium.com's Books of the Year 2017" "One of The Times Literary Supplement's Books of the Year 2017" "One of the Forbes.com "Great Anthropology and History Books of 2017" (chosen by Kristina Killgrove)" "One of The Federalist's Notable Books for 2017" "Honorable Mention for the 2018 PROSE Award in Classics, Association of American Publishers" "One of Strategy + Business's Best Business Books in Economics for 2018" "One of Choice Reviews' Outstanding...
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RED is a brilliantly told, captivating history of red hair throughout the ages. A book that breaks new ground, dispels myths, and reinforces the special nature of being a redhead, with a look at multiple disciplines, including science, religion, politics, feminism and sexuality, literature, and art.
With an obsessive fascination that is as contagious as it is compelling, author Jacky Colliss Harvey (herself a redhead) begins her exploration of red...
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"The world that we leave to our children will depend on the children we leave to our world." - FEDERICO MAYOR, former President of Unesco
Study of the effect of Man's activities on the environment is not exclusive to contemporary societies. It has been pondered upon by human minds since thought and philosophy have endeavored to help him to reach his ideal. The quotations found throughout this book are a perfect illustration of this.
The state of...
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Paul Mellars is both Reader in Prehistory and President of Corpus Christi College of the University of Cambridge. He is the editor, with Christopher Stringer, of The Human Revolution: Behavioral and Biological Perspectives on the Origins of Modern Humans (Princeton).
The Neanderthals populated western Europe from nearly 250,000 to 30,000 years ago when they disappeared from the archaeological record. In turn, populations of anatomically modern humans,...
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« Le monde que nous laisserons à nos enfants dépendra des enfants que nous laisserons à notre monde. » Federico Mayor, ancien directeur général de l'Unesco
La réflexion sur l'action de l'humanité sur son environnement au sens large n'est pas exclusive de nos sociétés contemporaines. Elle traverse l'esprit de l'homme depuis que la pensée et la philosophie essaient de l'aider à devenir ce qu'il pourrait idéalement être. Les citations...
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Each year the world faces thousands of earthquakes of magnitude 5.0 or greater, resulting in devastating property destruction and tragic loss of life. To help avert these catastrophes, scientists have long searched for ways to predict when and where earthquakes will happen. The earth science establishment in the US says that earthquake prediction still lies outside the realm of possibility. But recent scientific developments across the globe suggest...
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Extrait: "Le célèbre voyageur Dumont d'Urville ne passa que fort peu de temps en Australie, mais il sut mettre à profit ce court séjour. Dès son arrivée, il fut à même de rencontrer et d'étudier les indigènes du pays; on sait avec quel soin et quelle exactitude étaient faites ses observations. Il apprend qu'à un mille environ du mouillage résidait une tribu composée d'une quinzaine d'individus, -mais laissons-lui la parole."
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Extrait: "Les aspects multiples du luxe ne se manifestent nulle part sur un théâtre plus vaste et plus complet qu'à Rome. Il y prend des développements qui laissent bien loin la Grèce et qui dépassent l'Asie elle-même par je ne sais quoi d'emporté que l'apathique Orient a rarement connu. Athènes avait montré au monde ce qu'est le luxe dans une démocratie commerçante et riche, chez une race fine, apte à tout sentir, les charmes suprêmes...
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Extrait : "La question du luxe a mis aux prises deux écoles de morale également extrêmes qui, sous des noms divers, semblent s'être disputé de tout temps l'humanité. L'une est la morale rigoriste : elle voit d'un œil sévère et inquiet les développements de l'industrie ; elle flétrit du nom de décadence ce que la masse humaine qualifie du nom de progrès. L'autre traite le vice avec indulgence, quelquefois avec faveur."
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Join Arthur Hubbard on an immersive journey into the history of civilization. Written over a century ago, this book is still just as relevant today. Indeed, it was featured in a 2012 documentary titled "Four Horsemen" about civilization and economics.
The book is relatively short and divided into two main parts. The first lays ground to the elements of the rise of civilization. It raises questions like the role of ethnic diversity in the rise or...
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The six survivors of a microbial apocalypse that has wiped out the human race find themselves divided by two different views of how a new society should be established, in a tale told from the viewpoints of a child from each side of the conflict.
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Where did the state come from? Where is it going? This study in politogenesis shakes up the status quo. Worshiping Power cuts through inadequate theories of early state formation to offer a new analysis of the roles that kinship, religious practice, and commerce have played in stifling self-organization. Gelderloos's partisan approach to human social complexity is highly innovative, yet comprehensible to the layperson. A formidable assault on a social...
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From the #1 New York Times bestselling author and pioneering journalist, an expansive look at how history has been shaped by humanity's appetite for food, farmland, and the money behind it all-and how a better future is within reach.
The story of humankind is usually told as one of technological innovation and economic influence-of arrowheads and atomic bombs, settlers and stock markets. But behind it all, there is an even more fundamental driver:...
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Conversations About The History Of Ideas consists of the following five Ideas Roadshow conversations which are based on in-depth filmed conversations with 4 leading intellectual historians and an award-winning author. This collection includes a detailed preface highlighting the connections between the different books. Each book is broken into chapters with a detailed introduction and questions for discussion at the end of each chapter:
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The must-read summary of Jared Diamond's book: "Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed".
This complete summary of "Collapse" by Jared Diamond, a renowned scientist, writer and cautious optimist for the world's future, presents his explanation of the secret to why some societies succeed, while others fail. To do this, the author investigates several significant events from the past that have caused societies to self-destruct and what this...
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Under Hor's protection, a pagan deity of Sun and war and the supreme God of the early Croatian pantheon, the warrior nation of Croats (Old Croat. Hrvuati) travels on the track of the Sun, setting off at dawn from the Asian vastness in the East, toward the setting Sun and a new homeland in which they will find a home and accept Christianity. The Croatian legendary saga from the Island of Krk, “On the Track of the Sun—The Red Warriors from Chorasmia”...
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"The Instinct of Workmanship and the State of the Industrial Arts" is an 1899 treatise by Thorstein Veblen. Thorstein Bunde Veblen (1857 – 1929) was a Norwegian-American sociologist and economist most famous for his idea of 'conspicuous consumption. He theorized that humans do not rationally pursue value and utility-an idea that has become one of the cornerstones of modern behavioral economics. He made a lasting contribution to his field and has...
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Extrait : "Dans l'antiquité, la question se posait d'une manière différente. La société païenne ne donnait de soins aux enfants qu'en vue de l'utilité dont ils pouvaient être soit à la famille, soit à l'Etat ; elle attribuait au père le droit de sacrifier son enfant, de le tuer ou de l'exposer. Souvent l'Etat l'obligeait à le supprimer, quand on jugeait que l'enfant était un être inutile ou une charge incommode."
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