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1491 (Second Edition)

Charles C. Mann
1491 Second Edition Book PDF

Author : Charles C. Mann
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 578 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2006-10-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780307278180

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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A groundbreaking work of science, history, and archaeology that radically alters our understanding of the Americas before the arrival of Columbus in 1492—from “a remarkably engaging writer” (The New York Times Book Review). Contrary to what so many Americans learn in school, the pre-Columbian Indians were not sparsely settled in a pristine wilderness; rather, there were huge numbers of Indians who actively molded and influenced the land around them. The astonishing Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan had running water and immaculately clean streets, and was larger than any contemporary European city. Mexican cultures created corn in a specialized breeding process that it has been called man’s first feat of genetic engineering. Indeed, Indians were not living lightly on the land but were landscaping and manipulating their world in ways that we are only now beginning to understand. Challenging and surprising, this a transformative new look at a rich and fascinating world we only thought we knew.

1491 (Second Edition)

Charles C. Mann
1491 Second Edition Book PDF

Author : Charles C. Mann
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 578 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2006-10-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781400032051

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1491 (Second Edition) by Charles C. Mann Pdf

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A groundbreaking work of science, history, and archaeology that radically alters our understanding of the Americas before the arrival of Columbus in 1492—from “a remarkably engaging writer” (The New York Times Book Review). Contrary to what so many Americans learn in school, the pre-Columbian Indians were not sparsely settled in a pristine wilderness; rather, there were huge numbers of Indians who actively molded and influenced the land around them. The astonishing Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan had running water and immaculately clean streets, and was larger than any contemporary European city. Mexican cultures created corn in a specialized breeding process that it has been called man’s first feat of genetic engineering. Indeed, Indians were not living lightly on the land but were landscaping and manipulating their world in ways that we are only now beginning to understand. Challenging and surprising, this a transformative new look at a rich and fascinating world we only thought we knew.

1493

Charles C. Mann
1493 Book PDF

Author : Charles C. Mann
Publisher : Knopf
Page : 561 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780307265722

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More than 200 million years ago, geological forces split apart the continents. Isolated from each other, the two halves of the world developed totally different suites of plants and animals. Columbus's voyages brought them back together--and marked the beginning of an extraordinary exchange of flora and fauna between Eurasia and the Americas.

Before Columbus

Charles C. Mann,Rebecca Stefoff
Before Columbus Book PDF

Author : Charles C. Mann,Rebecca Stefoff
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2009-09-08
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781416949008

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Before Columbus by Charles C. Mann,Rebecca Stefoff Pdf

Based on the startling revelations that the author presented in his adult-level 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus, this book for young readers is a fascinating full-color journey into the world of the many advanced cultures that populated the Americas before the arrival of European explorers.

1491

Charles C. Mann
1491 Book PDF

Author : Charles C. Mann
Publisher : Alfred a Knopf Incorporated
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 9781400040063

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An analysis of America prior to 1492 describes how the research of archaeologists and anthropologists has transformed myths about the Americas, revealing that the cultures were far older and more advanced than previously known.

The Wizard and the Prophet

Charles C. Mann
The Wizard and the Prophet Book PDF

Author : Charles C. Mann
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 640 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2018-01-23
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780307961709

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The Wizard and the Prophet by Charles C. Mann Pdf

From the best-selling, award-winning author of 1491 and 1493--an incisive portrait of the two little-known twentieth-century scientists, Norman Borlaug and William Vogt, whose diametrically opposed views shaped our ideas about the environment, laying the groundwork for how people in the twenty-first century will choose to live in tomorrow's world. In forty years, Earth's population will reach ten billion. Can our world support that? What kind of world will it be? Those answering these questions generally fall into two deeply divided groups--Wizards and Prophets, as Charles Mann calls them in this balanced, authoritative, nonpolemical new book. The Prophets, he explains, follow William Vogt, a founding environmentalist who believed that in using more than our planet has to give, our prosperity will lead us to ruin. Cut back! was his mantra. Otherwise everyone will lose! The Wizards are the heirs of Norman Borlaug, whose research, in effect, wrangled the world in service to our species to produce modern high-yield crops that then saved millions from starvation. Innovate! was Borlaug's cry. Only in that way can everyone win! Mann delves into these diverging viewpoints to assess the four great challenges humanity faces--food, water, energy, climate change--grounding each in historical context and weighing the options for the future. With our civilization on the line, the author's insightful analysis is an essential addition to the urgent conversation about how our children will fare on an increasingly crowded Earth.

The Perkin Warbeck Conspiracy

Ian Arthurson
The Perkin Warbeck Conspiracy Book PDF

Author : Ian Arthurson
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 586 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2009-10-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780752495637

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The Perkin Warbeck Conspiracy by Ian Arthurson Pdf

Perkin Warbeck, pretender to the English throne, claimed to be Richard of Shrewsbury, Duke of York & Norfolk, the younger of the two sons of Edward IV imprisoned in the Tower of London by Richard III, and whose true fate is unknown to this day. He led two attempts to claim the crown, but was captured by Henry VII and hanged at Tyburn. This book looks at who Warbeck really was, how he was used by those in power in Burgundy, France, Italy, Scotland and Ireland, and the progress of the conspiracy itself. It has often been considered to be a side issue to Henry's reign, but this book reveals how close the conspirators came to bringing about a fundamental change in European politics. Importantly, Ian Arthurson not only sets the plot within the context of what was happening in fifteenth-century Europe, but also reveals important truths about Henry's reign in England. Illustrated with a wealth of contemporary portraits, paintings, engravings and documents, The Perkin Warbeck Conspiracy will appeal to anyone with an interest in fifteenth-century history.

The Second Creation

Robert P. Crease,Charles C. Mann
The Second Creation Book PDF

Author : Robert P. Crease,Charles C. Mann
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 502 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0813521777

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The Second Creation by Robert P. Crease,Charles C. Mann Pdf

The Second Creation is a dramatic--and human--chronicle of scientific investigators at the last frontier of knowledge. Robert Crease and Charles Mann take the reader on a fascinating journey in search of "unification" with brilliant scientists such as Niels Bohr, Max Planck, Albert Einstein, Erwin Schrödinger, Richard Feynman, Murray Gell-Mann, Sheldon Glashow, Steven Weinberg, and many others. They provide the definitive and highly entertaining story of the development of modern physics, and the human story of the physicists who set out to find the "theory of everything."

1493 for Young People

Charles Mann
1493 for Young People Book PDF

Author : Charles Mann
Publisher : Seven Stories Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2016-01-26
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781609806316

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1493 for Young People by Charles Mann Pdf

1493 for Young People by Charles C. Mann tells the gripping story of globalization through travel, trade, colonization, and migration from its beginnings in the fifteenth century to the present. How did the lowly potato plant feed the poor across Europe and then cause the deaths of millions? How did the rubber plant enable industrialization? What is the connection between malaria, slavery, and the outcome of the American Revolution? How did the fabled silver mountain of sixteenth-century Bolivia fund economic development in the flood-prone plains of rural China and the wars of the Spanish Empire? Here is the story of how sometimes the greatest leaps also posed the greatest threats to human advancement. Mann's language is as plainspoken and clear as it is provocative, his research and erudition vast, his conclusions ones that will stimulate the critical thinking of young people. 1493 for Young People provides tools for wrestling with the most pressing issues of today, and will empower young people as they struggle with a changing world.

Ancient Americans

Charles C. Mann
Ancient Americans Book PDF

Author : Charles C. Mann
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : America
ISBN : 1862076170

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The first general and comprehensive history of all of Native America

The Boundaries of Babel, second edition

Andrea Moro
The Boundaries of Babel second edition Book PDF

Author : Andrea Moro
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2015-11-13
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780262029858

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The Boundaries of Babel, second edition by Andrea Moro Pdf

The new edition of a pioneering book that examines research at the intersection of contemporary theoretical linguistics and the cognitive neurosciences. In The Boundaries of Babel, Andrea Moro describes an encounter between two cultures: contemporary theoretical linguistics and the cognitive neurosciences. As a leading theoretical linguist in the generative tradition and also a neuroscientist, Moro is uniquely equipped to tell this story. Moro examines what he calls the “hidden” revolution in contemporary science: the discovery that the number of possible grammars is not infinite and that their number is biologically limited. This will require us to rethink not just the fundamentals of linguistics and neurosciences but also our view of the human mind. Moro searches for neurobiological correlates of “the boundaries of Babel”—the constraints on the apparent chaotic variation in human languages—by using an original experimental design based on artificial languages exploiting neuroimaging techniques. This second edition includes a new chapter in which Moro extends the exploration of the boundaries of Babel in search of the source of order with which all human languages are endowed. Reflecting on the emerging methodology that obtains physiological data from awake brain surgery, Moro shifts from considering where the neurophysiological processes underlying linguistic competence take place—that is, where neurons are activated—to considering the neuronal code involved in these processes—that is, what neurons communicate to each other. This edition also features a substantive new foreword by Noam Chomsky synthesizing the major issues theoretical syntax will face in the near future.

A Young People's History of the United States

Howard Zinn
A Young People s History of the United States Book PDF

Author : Howard Zinn
Publisher : Seven Stories Press
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2011-01-04
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781583229453

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A Young People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn Pdf

A Young People's History of the United States brings to US history the viewpoints of workers, slaves, immigrants, women, Native Americans, and others whose stories, and their impact, are rarely included in books for young people. A Young People's History of the United States is also a companion volume to The People Speak, the film adapted from A People's History of the United States and Voices of a People’s History of the United States. Beginning with a look at Christopher Columbus’s arrival through the eyes of the Arawak Indians, then leading the reader through the struggles for workers’ rights, women’s rights, and civil rights during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and ending with the current protests against continued American imperialism, Zinn in the volumes of A Young People’s History of the United States presents a radical new way of understanding America’s history. In so doing, he reminds readers that America’s true greatness is shaped by our dissident voices, not our military generals.

Death Masks

Ed Greenwood
Death Masks Book PDF

Author : Ed Greenwood
Publisher : Wizards of the Coast
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2016-06-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780786966066

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Death Masks by Ed Greenwood Pdf

The creator of the Forgotten Realms leads readers through a rollicking fantasy adventure and murder mystery set in the city of Waterdeep Revealed in death to have been Masked Lords, three more citizens had been murdered over the preceding day and night: the Sembian wine-seller and collector Oszbur Malankar; the half-elf sorceress and artisan Dathanscza Meiril; and the moneylender, landlord, and investor Ammasker Gwelt. All of Waterdeep now knew someone was killing the Lords of Waterdeep, one by one. Yet that was about where truth ended and speculation—however plausible—began. The broadsheets were full of wild conjecture. Who's behind this? The ousted Lord Neverember? The Zhentarim, the Cult of the Dragon or some other Outland Power? The Xanathar? Some cabal of guilds or nobles planning a coup? The rumors would rage on, whether the Open Lord Laeral Silverhand did something or not. That was the trouble with rumors; once loosed, they roamed free like snarling, untamed beasts, with no simple way of stopping them. And all rumors aside, Waterdeep has become . . . a City of Murderers. Death Masks is loosely connected to the Elminster series and Sage of Shadowdale series.

Noah's Choice

Charles C. Mann,Mark L. Plummer
Noah s Choice Book PDF

Author : Charles C. Mann,Mark L. Plummer
Publisher : Alfred A. Knopf
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Nature
ISBN : UOM:39015032312475

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Noah's Choice by Charles C. Mann,Mark L. Plummer Pdf

The authors suggest new principles for striking a balance between the needs of human beings and the rest of the world.

The Western Wind

Samantha Harvey
The Western Wind Book PDF

Author : Samantha Harvey
Publisher : Grove Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2018-11-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780802146533

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Winner of the Staunch Book Prize. “A beautifully written and expertly structured medieval mystery packed with intrigue, drama and shock revelations.” —Minneapolis Star-Tribune An extraordinary new novel by Samantha Harvey—whose books have been nominated for the Man Booker Prize, the Women’s Prize for Fiction (formerly the Orange Prize), and the Guardian First Book Award—The Western Wind is a riveting story of faith, guilt, and the freedom of confession. It’s 1491. In the small village of Oakham, its wealthiest and most industrious resident, Tom Newman, is swept away by the river during the early hours of Shrove Saturday. Was it murder, suicide, or an accident? Narrated from the perspective of local priest John Reve—patient shepherd to his wayward flock—a shadowy portrait of the community comes to light through its residents’ tortured revelations. As some of their darkest secrets are revealed, the intrigue of the unexplained death ripples through the congregation. But will Reve, a man with secrets of his own, discover what happened to Newman? And what will happen if he can’t? Written with timeless eloquence, steeped in the spiritual traditions of the Middle Ages, and brimming with propulsive suspense, The Western Wind finds Samantha Harvey at the pinnacle of her outstanding novelistic power. “Beautifully rendered, deeply affecting, thoroughly thoughtful and surprisingly prescient . . . a story of a community crowded with shadows and secrets.” —The New York Times Book Review “Ms. Harvey has summoned this remote world with writing of the highest quality, conjuring its pungencies and peculiarities.” —The Wall Street Journal “Brings medieval England back to life.” —The Washington Post