Civilization & Culture
mobi, epub |eng | 1997-01-01 | Author:Jared Diamond
Guns, Germs and Steel CHAPTER 13 NECESSITY'S MOTHER O N JULY 3, 1 9 0 8 , ARCHAEOLOGISTS EXCAVATING THE ancient Minoan palace at Phaistos, on the island of Crete, ...
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Human Geography
March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 1997-09-15 | Author:Jared M. Diamond
MY EXAMPLES SO far have been drawn from modern technologies, because their histories are well known. My two main conclusions are that technology develops cumulatively, rather than in isolated heroic ...
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Human Geography
March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2008-01-02 | Author:Jared Diamond
The 1657 Meireki fire, and the resulting demand for timber to rebuild Japan’s capital, served as a wake-up call exposing the country’s growing scarcity of timber and other resources at ...
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mobi, epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 2011-03-02 | Author:Niall Ferguson
In that sense, it might make more sense for historians to talk about an Industrial Evolution, in Darwin’s sense of the word. As the economists Thorstein Veblen and Joseph Schumpeter ...
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mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 1985-01-02 | Author:Georges Roux
‘I forced Kashtiliash, King of Kar-Duniash, to give battle; I brought about the defeat of his armies, his warriors I overthrew. In the midst of that battle my hand captured ...
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Mesopotamia
March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2009-12-01 | Author:Iain McGilchrist
THE ROMANS Most of the great legacy of Rome's literature belongs to the Augustan era, the first century BC, with Virgil, Horace, Ovid, Propertius and Catullus all writing during a ...
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Anatomy
March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 2010-01-13 | Author:Siddhartha Mukherjee
Edinburgh was a disaster. Balkanized into hundreds of isolated and disconnected medical practices, it was a terrible trial site to begin with. Doctors assigned blocks of women to the screening ...
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Oncology
March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2010-11-16 | Author:Siddhartha Mukherjee
Edinburgh was a disaster. Balkanized into hundreds of isolated and disconnected medical practices, it was a terrible trial site to begin with. Doctors assigned blocks of women to the screening ...
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Oncology
March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2008-10-28 | Author:Erik Sass
* * * Ottoman power peaked under Suleiman the Magnificent (one of history’s best names). Coming to power in 1520, he is known in the Muslim world as “the Lawgiver” ...
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Civilization & Culture
March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-10-05 | Author:Bill Bryson
Wherever there are humans there are mice. No other creatures live in more environments than the two of us do. House mice—Mus musculus, as they are known on formal occasions—are ...
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Design & Construction
March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2012-09-15 | Author:Bee Wilson
My mortar and pestle comes from Thailand and is fashioned from craggy black granite. I like it far better than those restrained white-china mortars, whose rough insides set my teeth ...
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Essays
March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2011-06-07 | Author:Matt Ridley
solar panels the size of Spain or wind farms the size of Kazakhstan or woodland the size of India and Pakistan or hayfields for horses the size of Russia and ...
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Economic History
March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 1997-03-04 | Author:Anne Fadiman
Glassrock Health Services will be by at 8:00 p.m. tonight. Give them prescription. Make sure to come to Clinic this Thursday Dec. 11 at 8:00 a.m. Keep egg crate mattress ...
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Minority Studies
March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2007-09-30 | Author:Bauval, Robert [Bauval, Robert]
What cosmic vision influenced Akhenaten to choose this location for his dream city of Akhet-Aten? Could it have been something to do with the position of the sun there that ...
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Ancient & Controversial Knowledge
March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |ru | 2012-02-05 | Author:David Aaronovitch
Henry Lincoln and the TV Quest for the Holy Grail At around the same time as the trial in London was closing, the movie of The Da Vinci Code was ...
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Communication & Media Studies
March 25,2014 )
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