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Before the Dawn: Recovering the Lost History of Our Ancestors by Wade Nicholas
mobi |eng | 2007-03-26 | Author:Wade, Nicholas [Wade, Nicholas]

The Evolution of Religion The essence of religion is communal: religious rituals are performed by assemblies of people. The word itself, probably derived from the Latin religare, meaning to bind, ...
( Category: General October 16,2014 )
In Amazonia by Raffles Hugh
epub |eng | 2014-10-15 | Author:Raffles, Hugh

IMAGINE THAT YOU ARE WALKING THROUGH A FOREST Imagine that you are walking through a forest of interarticulated branches. Some are covered with ice or snow, and the sun melts ...
( Category: Environmental Science October 16,2014 )
Foxfire 9 by Foxfire Fund Inc
epub |eng | 2010-11-09 | Author:Foxfire Fund, Inc. [Wigginton, Eliot]

Jim, one of Earl’s three sons, got into the produce business through his father and is still in it today. He added a fitting conclusion to this article: Daddy’s big ...
( Category: Folklore & Mythology October 16,2014 )
Cro-Magnon by Brian Fagan
mobi, epub, azw3 |ru | 1999-12-31 | Author:Brian Fagan

CHAPTER 8 Fat, Flints, and Furs MORAVIA, LATE WINTER, TWENTY-NINE THOUSAND years ago. The twelve-year-old boy sits listlessly by the hearth, shoulders sagging, seemingly exhausted. He has spent the day ...
( Category: Physical October 16,2014 )
The Silk Road: A New History by Valerie Hansen
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2012-08-14 | Author:Valerie Hansen

CHAPTER 6 The Time Capsule of Silk Road History The Dunhuang Caves If you are going to visit only one Silk Road site, make it Dunhuang. The physical setting is ...
( Category: Cultural October 15,2014 )
The Grapes of Math by Alex Bellos
epub |eng | | Author:Alex Bellos

It gives an approximation for the value of n!, the factorial of n, which as we saw above is the number you get when you multiply 1 × 2 × ...
( Category: Cultural October 15,2014 )
Panic in Level 4 by Richard Preston
epub |eng | 2008-05-27 | Author:Richard Preston [Preston, Richard]

3. Identification IN PAVILION THREE of the Kikwit General Hospital, Dr. Mpia Bwaka collected samples of blood from fourteen of his patients. Somebody drove the samples over the terrible road ...
( Category: Cultural October 14,2014 )
Jensen, Derrick
mobi | | | Author:Endgame Vol. 1

( Category: Environmental Policy October 8,2014 )
Language by Daniel L. Everett
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-03-12 | Author:Daniel L. Everett [Everett, Daniel L.]

Figure 6 Face diagram of human vocal apparatus What underlies our wonderful human voices is a jury-rigged collection of anatomical parts that we need for other things. In the 1980s ...
( Category: Cultural September 25,2014 )
The Global Soul by Pico Iyer
epub |eng | 2011-08-30 | Author:Pico Iyer [Iyer, Pico]

One night, I went to have dinner with my friend David, whom I’d met on a plane down to Havana (he springing out at the first stop to play catch ...
( Category: Cultural September 19,2014 )
The Big Ratchet: How Humanity Thrives in the Face of Natural Crisis by Ruth DeFries
epub, mobi | | | Author:Ruth DeFries [DeFries, Ruth]

Scarecrows to Strychnine Agriculture, and particularly stowaway species and genetically uniform monocultures, lock humanity into finding ways to overcome pests. Well before the pesticide bonanza of the past century, humans ...
( Category: Cultural September 17,2014 )
Stat-Spotting by Joel Best
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Joel Best

LOOK FOR Surprisingly large or small percentages EXAMPLE: NEVER-MARRIED TWENTYSOMETHINGS A newspaper story begins: “Almost three-quarters of men and almost two-thirds of women in their 20s in 2006 said they ...
( Category: Statistics September 15,2014 )
The Silence of Animals: On Progress and Other Modern Myths by Gray John
epub |eng | 2013-02-27 | Author:Gray, John [Gray, John]

MYTHS OF THE NEAR FUTURE Looking out from the hotel balcony shortly after eight o’clock, Kerans watched the sun rise behind the dense groves of giant gymnosperms crowding over the ...
( Category: Cultural September 1,2014 )
The Modern Middle East: A Political History Since the First World War by Mehran Kamrava
azw3 |eng | 2013-08-14 | Author:Mehran Kamrava

In the patrimonial Middle East, the sovereign is located at the center of the political system. He is surrounded by advisors, ministers, military leaders, personal secretaries, and confidants. The one ...
( Category: Middle Eastern August 23,2014 )
The Dawn of Human Culture by Richard G. Klein
epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Richard G. Klein [Klein, Richard G.]

* * * Human stomachs are poorly equipped to digest raw muscle fiber, and without fire people before 250,000 years ago might have had little incentive to hunt. Yet, it ...
( Category: General August 21,2014 )

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