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After the Ice: A Global Human History 20,000-5000 BC
20,000 B.C., the peak of the last ice age--the atmosphere is heavy with dust, deserts, and glaciers span vast regions, and people, if they survive at all, exist in small, mobile groups, facing ... > read more -
When the Rivers Run Dry: Water--The Defining Crisis of the Twenty-first Century
In this groundbreaking book, veteran science correspondent Fred Pearce travels to more than thirty countries to examine the current state of crucial water sources. Deftly weaving together the ... > read more -
Cosmos and Psyche: Intimations of a New World View
From a philosopher whose magisterial history of Western thought was praised by Joseph Campbell and Huston Smith comes a brilliant new book that traces the connection between cosmic cycles and ... > read more -
Maps of Time: An Introduction to Big History (California World History Library)
An introduction to a new way of looking at history, from a perspective that stretches from the beginning of time to the present day, Maps of Time is world history on an unprecedented scale. Beginning ... > read more -
The Island of Seven Cities: Where the Chinese Settled When They Discovered America
In 2003, Paul Chiasson climbed a mountain he never explored on the island where he grew up. Cape Breton, one of the oldest points of exploration in the Americas, is littered with remnants of old ... > read more -
The Maya, Seventh Edition (Ancient Peoples and Places)
"A clear and intelligent description of the development and organization of Maya civilization." —Natural History The Maya has long been established as the best, most readable introduction to ... > read more -
Breakfast Of Biodiversity: The Political Ecology of Rain Forest Destruction
Unweaving the Web of Destruction The continuing devastation of the world's tropical rain forest affects us all—spurring climate change, decimating biodiversity, and wrecking our environment's ... > read more -
The Right Stuff
Tom Wolfe began The Right Stuff at a time when it was unfashionable to contemplate American heroism. Nixon had left the White House in disgrace, the nation was reeling from the catastrophe of ... > read more -
Modern Physical Organic Chemistry
This is the first modern textbook, written in the 21st century, to make explicit the many connections between physical organic chemistry and critical fields such as organometallic chemistry, ... > read more -
Pompeii: The History, Life and Art of the Buried City
The rediscovery of Pompeii in 1748 represented a decisive moment for our understanding of the Roman world. To visit the site on these pagesis to travel through time: here is the excitement and drama ... > read more
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