Civilization One

Author : Christopher Knight,Alan Butler
Publisher : Duncan Baird Publishers
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2014-01-30
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781780282275

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Civilization One: The World is Not as You Thought it Was by Christopher Knight,Alan Butler Pdf

...one of the biggest breakthroughs of all times... this is the definitive proof that civilisation is thousands of years older than historians believe' -Colin Wilson 'A breakthrough book. The last four thousand years are never going to be the same again' - Graham Hancock This is the amazing story of how a quest to try to crack the mystery of the Megalithic Yard - an ancient unit of linear measurement - led to the discovery of compelling evidence pointing to the existence of an unknown, highly advanced culture which was the precursor to the earliest known civilizations such as the Sumerians and the Egyptians. There must have been a Civilization One. Knight and Butler reveal the secrets of an extraordinary integrated measuring system which might have been lost to the world for ever. It was a system, far more advanced than anything used today, which forms the basis of both the Imperial and Metric measure systems! These ancient scientists understood the dimensions, motions and relationships of the Earth, Moon and Sun - they measured the solar system and even understood how the speed of light was integrated into the movements of our planet. Their conclusions fly in the face of everything that we thought we knew about the origins of the modern world - but the evidence is incontrovertible. And the implications of these revelations go far beyond the fascination of the discovery of a 'super-science' of prehistory; they indicate a grand plan which will have far reaching theological ramifications!

Author : Eric H. Cline
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2015-09-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691168388

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1177 B.C. by Eric H. Cline Pdf

A bold reassessment of what caused the Late Bronze Age collapse In 1177 B.C., marauding groups known only as the "Sea Peoples" invaded Egypt. The pharaoh's army and navy managed to defeat them, but the victory so weakened Egypt that it soon slid into decline, as did most of the surrounding civilizations. After centuries of brilliance, the civilized world of the Bronze Age came to an abrupt and cataclysmic end. Kingdoms fell like dominoes over the course of just a few decades. No more Minoans or Mycenaeans. No more Trojans, Hittites, or Babylonians. The thriving economy and cultures of the late second millennium B.C., which had stretched from Greece to Egypt and Mesopotamia, suddenly ceased to exist, along with writing systems, technology, and monumental architecture. But the Sea Peoples alone could not have caused such widespread breakdown. How did it happen? In this major new account of the causes of this "First Dark Ages," Eric Cline tells the gripping story of how the end was brought about by multiple interconnected failures, ranging from invasion and revolt to earthquakes, drought, and the cutting of international trade routes. Bringing to life the vibrant multicultural world of these great civilizations, he draws a sweeping panorama of the empires and globalized peoples of the Late Bronze Age and shows that it was their very interdependence that hastened their dramatic collapse and ushered in a dark age that lasted centuries. A compelling combination of narrative and the latest scholarship, 1177 B.C. sheds new light on the complex ties that gave rise to, and ultimately destroyed, the flourishing civilizations of the Late Bronze Age—and that set the stage for the emergence of classical Greece.

Author : Phillip Campbell
Publisher : TAN Books
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2016-03-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781505105681

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The Story of Civilization by Phillip Campbell Pdf

Author : Sid Meier
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2020-09-08
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781324005889

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Sid Meier's Memoir!: A Life in Computer Games by Sid Meier Pdf

The life and career of the legendary developer celebrated as the “godfather of computer gaming” and creator of Civilization, featuring his rules of good game design. "Sid Meier is a foundation of what gaming is for me today." — Phil Spencer, head of Xbox Over his four-decade career, Sid Meier has produced some of the world’s most popular video games, including Sid Meier’s Civilization, which has sold more than 51 million units worldwide and accumulated more than one billion hours of play. Sid Meier’s Memoir! is the story of an obsessive young computer enthusiast who helped launch a multibillion-dollar industry. Writing with warmth and ironic humor, Meier describes the genesis of his influential studio, MicroProse, founded in 1982 after a trip to a Las Vegas arcade, and recounts the development of landmark games, from vintage classics like Pirates! and Railroad Tycoon, to Civilization and beyond. Articulating his philosophy that a video game should be “a series of interesting decisions,” Meier also shares his perspective on the history of the industry, the psychology of gamers, and fascinating insights into the creative process, including his rules of good game design.

Author : R Nordgren
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2020-07-20
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798667718949

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Civilization Zero by R Nordgren Pdf

Indistinguishable from the background noise of termites or the convection of tectonics, the machinations of humanities cumulative peak of civilization could easily be missed from just beyond our sun's warmth. Bound to the dirt of a single sphere, existing on the thinnest margin of its surface. Contented in our blind mastery of none of it in our niches. Surviving, off the land, and each other. We live in a society, one that if scored on the possibilities conceivable from within our electrified hovels would not even score a whole number in its classification. Civilization Type: Zero incapable of even harnessing a fraction of the planetary energy spinning beneath our feet, still at the mercy of our native atmosphere stripping us and our constructs from the surface like so many termites. What if this wasn't always so? What if we were so much more? What if we were? What if we could be again? What if the reason we have not advanced technologically beyond hot water heaters to generate electricity, poisons as medicine, and ignoring the ability to feed every starving human is not profit but a plan. One not entirely of our own making, but perpetuation. A penance, a pound, exacted by another type from within and without a single regard to its malice to exploit humanity, and our divides to its end, and our own.

Author : Niall Ferguson
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2011-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781101548028

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Civilization by Niall Ferguson Pdf

From the bestselling author of The Ascent of Money and The Square and the Tower “A dazzling history of Western ideas.” —The Economist “Mr. Ferguson tells his story with characteristic verve and an eye for the felicitous phrase.” —Wall Street Journal “[W]ritten with vitality and verve . . . a tour de force.” —Boston Globe Western civilization’s rise to global dominance is the single most important historical phenomenon of the past five centuries. How did the West overtake its Eastern rivals? And has the zenith of Western power now passed? Acclaimed historian Niall Ferguson argues that beginning in the fifteenth century, the West developed six powerful new concepts, or “killer applications”—competition, science, the rule of law, modern medicine, consumerism, and the work ethic—that the Rest lacked, allowing it to surge past all other competitors. Yet now, Ferguson shows how the Rest have downloaded the killer apps the West once monopolized, while the West has literally lost faith in itself. Chronicling the rise and fall of empires alongside clashes (and fusions) of civilizations, Civilization: The West and the Rest recasts world history with force and wit. Boldly argued and teeming with memorable characters, this is Ferguson at his very best.

Author : Sigmund Freud
Publisher : Courier Dover Publications
Page : 81 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1994-01-01
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780486282534

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Civilization and Its Discontents by Sigmund Freud Pdf

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Author : Darrin Qualman
Publisher : Fernwood Publishing
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781773630878

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Civilization Critical by Darrin Qualman Pdf

The modern world is wondrous. Its factories produce ten thousand cars every hour and ten trillion transistors every second. We carry supercomputers in our pockets, and nearly a million people are in the air at any time. In Civilization Critical, Darrin Qualman takes readers on a tour of the wonders of the 21st century. But the great strength of our modern word is also its great weakness. Our immense powers to turn resources and nature into products and waste imperil our future. And plans to double and redouble the size of the global economy veto sustainability. So, is our civilization doomed? No. Doom is a choice. We can make different choices. Qualman demonstrates that a 19th- and 20th-century transition to linear systems and away from the circular patterns of nature (and of all previous civilizations) is the foundational error—the underlying problem, the root cause of climate change, resource depletion, ocean’s full of plastics, and a host of mega-problems now intensifying and merging, with potentially civilization-cracking results. In this sweeping work, Qualman reinterprets and re-explains the problems we face today, and charts a clear, hopeful path into the future.

Author : Will Durant
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 1076 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2011-06-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781451646689

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Our Oriental Heritage by Will Durant Pdf

The first volume of the expansive Pulitzer Prize-winning series The Story of Civilization. Discover a history of civilization in Egypt and the Near East to the Death of Alexander, and in India, China, and Japan from the beginning; with an introduction on the nature and foundations of civilization.

Author : Christian Liberty Press,Mary Stanton,Albert Hyma
Publisher : Christian Liberty Press
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1999-05-03
Category : Education
ISBN : 1930367430

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Streams of Civilization by Christian Liberty Press,Mary Stanton,Albert Hyma Pdf

This world history text provides a comprehensive overview of ancient history from Creation through the 1620s, from a Christian perspective. Extensive vocabulary questions and suggested projects are listed throughout the text. The text is beautifully illustrated and contains numerous high-quality maps in two-color. Grade 9.

Author : Henry Thomas Buckle
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1868
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : HARVARD:HWRU9A

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History of Civilization in England by Henry Thomas Buckle Pdf

Author : Norman Steinaber
Publisher : Christian Liberty Press
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1999-05-03
Category : History
ISBN : 1930367449

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Streams of Civilization Volume 1 Teacher Manual by Norman Steinaber Pdf

Teacher manual for the Streams of Civilization Volume 1 Textbook. Grade 9.

Author : Kevin Siembieda
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Fantasy games
ISBN : 157457146X

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Dead Reign sourcebook one by Kevin Siembieda Pdf

Author : Brett Bowden
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2009-08-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780226068169

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The Empire of Civilization by Brett Bowden Pdf

The term “civilization” comes with considerable baggage, dichotomizing people, cultures, and histories as “civilized”—or not. While the idea of civilization has been deployed throughout history to justify all manner of interventions and sociopolitical engineering, few scholars have stopped to consider what the concept actually means. Here, Brett Bowden examines how the idea of civilization has informed our thinking about international relations over the course of ten centuries. From the Crusades to the colonial era to the global war on terror, this sweeping volume exposes “civilization” as a stage-managed account of history that legitimizes imperialism, uniformity, and conformity to Western standards, culminating in a liberal-democratic global order. Along the way, Bowden explores the variety of confrontations and conquests—as well as those peoples and places excluded or swept aside—undertaken in the name of civilization. Concluding that the “West and the rest” have more commonalities than differences,this provocative and engaging bookultimately points the way toward an authentic intercivilizational dialogue that emphasizes cooperation over clashes.

Author : Thomas Cahill
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2010-04-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780307755131

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How the Irish Saved Civilization by Thomas Cahill Pdf

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A book in the best tradition of popular history—the untold story of Ireland's role in maintaining Western culture while the Dark Ages settled on Europe. • The perfect St. Patrick's Day gift! Every year millions of Americans celebrate St. Patrick's Day, but they may not be aware of how great an influence St. Patrick was on the subsequent history of civilization. Not only did he bring Christianity to Ireland, he instilled a sense of literacy and learning that would create the conditions that allowed Ireland to become "the isle of saints and scholars"—and thus preserve Western culture while Europe was being overrun by barbarians. In this entertaining and compelling narrative, Thomas Cahill tells the story of how Europe evolved from the classical age of Rome to the medieval era. Without Ireland, the transition could not have taken place. Not only did Irish monks and scribes maintain the very record of Western civilization -- copying manuscripts of Greek and Latin writers, both pagan and Christian, while libraries and learning on the continent were forever lost—they brought their uniquely Irish world-view to the task. As Cahill delightfully illustrates, so much of the liveliness we associate with medieval culture has its roots in Ireland. When the seeds of culture were replanted on the European continent, it was from Ireland that they were germinated. In the tradition of Barbara Tuchman's A Distant Mirror, How The Irish Saved Civilization reconstructs an era that few know about but which is central to understanding our past and our cultural heritage. But it conveys its knowledge with a winking wit that aptly captures the sensibility of the unsung Irish who relaunched civilization.