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Author : Stephen Oppenheimer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 492 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Out of Africa's Eden written by Stephen Oppenheimer and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Stephen Oppenheimer
Publisher : Robinson
ISBN 13 : 1780337531
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (83 download)
Download or read book Out of Eden: The Peopling of the World written by Stephen Oppenheimer and published by Robinson. This book was released on 2012-03-01 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a brilliant synthesis of genetic, archaeological, linguistic and climatic data, Oppenheimer challenges current thinking with his claim that there was only one successful migration out of Africa. In 1988 Newsweek headlined the startling discovery that everyone alive on the earth today can trace their maternal DNA back to one woman who lived in Africa 150,000 years ago. It was thought that modern humans populated the world through a series of migratory waves from their African homeland. Now an even more radical view has emerged, that the members of just one group are the ancestors of all non-Africans now alive, and that this group crossed the mouth of the Red Sea a mere 85,000 years ago. It means that not only is every person on the planet descended from one African 'Eve' but every non-African is related to a more recent Eve, from that original migratory group. This is a revolutionary new theory about our origins that is both scholarly and entertaining, a remarkable account of the kinship of all humans. Further details of the findings in this book are presented at www.bradshawfoundation.com/stephenoppenheimer/
Author : Alan Turner
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780231119443
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (194 download)
Download or read book Evolving Eden written by Alan Turner and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Garden of Eden as the ideal and untouched site of life's creation persists in popular thought, even as we have uncovered a lengthy fossil record and developed a scientific understanding of evolution. The continent of Africa is a good candidate for Eden: its generally warm climate, rich vegetation, and variety of animal species lend themselves easily to such a comparison. Yet in the time since the first primates appeared millions of years ago, Africa has undergone profound alterations in physical geography, climate, and biota. Linking the evidence of the past with that of the present, this exquisitely illustrated guide examines the evolution of the mammalian fauna of Africa within the context of dramatic changes over the course of more than 30 million years of primate presence. The book covers such topics as dating, continental drift, and global climate change and the likely motors of evolution as well as the physical evolution of the African continent, including present and past climates, and the major determinants of plant and mammal distributions. The authors discuss human evolution as a part of the larger pattern of mammalian evolution while responding to the unique interest that we have in our own past. The meticulous reconstructions of fossil mammals in this book are the result of detailed anatomical research. Restorations of mammalian musculature and appearance take into account the affinities between fossil forms and extant species in order to make well-founded inferences about unpreserved animal attributes. Environmental reconstructions benefit from the authors' visits to more than a dozen wildlife preserves in five African countries as well as the use of an extensive database of published studies on the evolution of landscapes on the continent. A fascinating read and a visual feast, Evolving Eden lays the foundation for a deeper appreciation of contemporary African wildlife.
Author : Spencer Wells
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 0307830454
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (78 download)
Download or read book The Journey of Man written by Spencer Wells and published by Random House. This book was released on 2012-10-31 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Around 60,000 years ago, a man—genetically identical to us—lived in Africa. Every person alive today is descended from him. How did this real-life Adam wind up as the father of us all? What happened to the descendants of other men who lived at the same time? And why, if modern humans share a single prehistoric ancestor, do we come in so many sizes, shapes, and races? Examining the hidden secrets of human evolution in our genetic code, Spencer Wells reveals how developments in the revolutionary science of population genetics have made it possible to create a family tree for the whole of humanity. Replete with marvelous anecdotes and remarkable information, from the truth about the real Adam and Eve to the way differing racial types emerged, The Journey of Man is an enthralling, epic tour through the history and development of early humankind.
Author : Stephanie Hanes
Publisher : Metropolitan Books
ISBN 13 : 0805097171
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (5 download)
Download or read book White Man's Game written by Stephanie Hanes and published by Metropolitan Books. This book was released on 2017-07-11 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A probing examination of Western conservation efforts in Africa, where our feel-good stories belie a troubling reality The stunningly beautiful Gorongosa National Park, once the crown jewel of Mozambique, was nearly destroyed by decades of civil war. It looked like a perfect place for Western philanthropy: revive the park and tourists would return, a win-win outcome for the environment and the impoverished villagers living in the area. So why did some researchers find the local communities actually getting hungrier, sicker, and poorer as the project went on? And why did efforts to bring back wildlife become far more difficult than expected? In pursuit of answers, Stephanie Hanes takes readers on a vivid safari across southern Africa, from the shark-filled waters off Cape Agulhas to a reserve trying to save endangered wild dogs. She traces the tangled history of Western missionaries, explorers, and do-gooders in Africa, from Stanley and Livingstone to Teddy Roosevelt, from Bono and the Live Aid festivals to Greg Carr, the American benefactor of Gorongosa. And she examines the larger problems that arise when Westerners try to “fix” complex, messy situations in the developing world, acting with best intentions yet potentially overlooking the wishes of the people who live there. Beneath the uplifting stories we tell ourselves about helping Africans, she shows, often lies a dramatic misunderstanding of what the locals actually need and want. A gripping narrative of environmentalists and insurgents, poachers and tycoons, elephants and angry spirits, White Man’s Game profoundly challenges the way we think about philanthropy and conservation.
Author : Charles Finch
Publisher : Khenti
ISBN 13 : 9780962944406
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (444 download)
Download or read book Echoes of the Old Darkland written by Charles Finch and published by Khenti. This book was released on 1991 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the African basis for the origin and evolution of humanity, culture, myths, and religion.
Author : Brian J. Huntley
Publisher : Protea Boekhuis
ISBN 13 : 9781485306115
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (61 download)
Download or read book Wildlife at War in Angola written by Brian J. Huntley and published by Protea Boekhuis. This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Angola was once one of Africa's last great wildernesses. Gorillas and chimpanzees shared the pristine rainforests of Cabinda, giant sable antelope roamed the miombo woodlands of Luando, and the enigmatic Welwitschia mirabilis crowded the plains of the Namib. But war, intrigues and arrogance have resulted in the loss and near extinction of most of Angola's formerly abundant wildlife and the decay and erosion of a once endless Eden. From 1971 to 1975 Brian J. Huntley was ecologist for Angola's five major national parks, surveying the entire country and developing the country's conservation strategy. Integrating the historical, political, economic and environmental threads that account for Angola's post-colonial tragedy, Huntley describes in detail the wildlife, wild places and wild personalities that have occupied Angola's conservation landscape through four decades of war and a decade and a half of peace. Despite the loss of its innocence, Huntley believes that Angola can rebuild its national parks and save much of its wildlife and wilderness. As the popular Angolan motto goes: Esperanc̦a é a última coisa a morrer--hope is the last thing to die"--Page 4 of cover.
Author : Richard Dawkins
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 0786724269
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (867 download)
Download or read book River Out of Eden written by Richard Dawkins and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2008-08-04 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did the replication bomb we call ”life” begin and where in the world, or rather, in the universe, is it heading? Writing with characteristic wit and an ability to clarify complex phenomena (the New York Times described his style as ”the sort of science writing that makes the reader feel like a genius”), Richard Dawkins confronts this ancient mystery.
Author : Frans Lanting
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9783836534154
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (341 download)
Download or read book Okavango written by Frans Lanting and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Botswana, many say, represents the last of Old Africa. For a year, between 1988 and 1989, the author roamed the wetlands and deserts of northern Botswana. This book is a testament not only to the wondrous wildlife of the region, but also to the author's extraordinary courage, skill, and photographic eye.
Author : Stephen Oppenheimer
Publisher : Orion Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9780753806791
Total Pages : 560 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (67 download)
Download or read book Eden in the East written by Stephen Oppenheimer and published by Orion Publishing Company. This book was released on 1998 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book completetly changes the established and conventional view of prehistory by relocating the Lost Eden—the world's first civilisation—to Southeast Asia. At the end of the Ice Age, Southeast Asia formed a continent twice the size of India, which included Indochina, Malaysia, Indonesia, and Borneo. In Eden in the East, Stephen Oppenheimer puts forward the astonishing argument that here in southeast Asia—rather than in Mesopotamia where it is usually placed—was the lost civilization that fertilized the Great cultures of the Middle East 6,000 years ago. He produces evidence from ethnography, archaeology, oceanography, creation stories, myths, linguistics, and DNA analysis to argue that this founding civilization was destroyed by a catastrophic flood, caused by a rapid rise in the sea level at the end of the last ice age.
Author : Nadine Gordimer
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1408832674
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (88 download)
Download or read book Get a Life written by Nadine Gordimer and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2012-03-15 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Paul Bannerman, an ecologist in Africa, is diagnosed with cancer and prescribed treatment that makes him radioactive, his suddenly fragile existence makes him question his life for the first time. He is especially struck by the contradiction in values between his work as a conservationist and that of his wife, an advertising agency executive. Then when Paul moves in with his parents to protect his wife and young son from radiation, the strange nature of his condition leads his mother to face her own past.
Author : Ernest Hemingway
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 147677014X
Total Pages : 167 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (767 download)
Download or read book Green Hills of Africa written by Ernest Hemingway and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-05-22 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things, and because it takes a man's life to know them the little new that each man gets from life is very costly and the only heritage he has to leave. In the winter of 1933, Ernest Hemingway and his wife Pauline set out on a two-month safari in the big-game country of East Africa, camping out on the great Serengeti Plain at the foot of magnificent Mount Kilimanjaro. “I had quite a trip,” the author told his friend Philip Percival, with characteristic understatement. Green Hills of Africa is Hemingway's account of that expedition, of what it taught him about Africa and himself. Richly evocative of the region's natural beauty, tremendously alive to its character, culture, and customs, and pregnant with a hard-won wisdom gained from the extraordinary situations it describes, it is widely held to be one of the twentieth century's classic travelogues.
Author : Eden Royce
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062899600
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (628 download)
Download or read book Root Magic written by Eden Royce and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2021-01-05 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A poignant, necessary entry into the children’s literary canon, Root Magic brings to life the history and culture of Gullah people while highlighting the timeless plight of Black Americans. Add in a fun, magical adventure and you get everything I want in a book!”—Justina Ireland, New York Times bestselling author of Dread Nation Debut author Eden Royce arrives with a wondrous story of love, bravery, friendship, and family, filled to the brim with magic great and small. It’s 1963, and things are changing for Jezebel Turner. Her beloved grandmother has just passed away. The local police deputy won’t stop harassing her family. With school integration arriving in South Carolina, Jez and her twin brother, Jay, are about to begin the school year with a bunch of new kids. But the biggest change comes when Jez and Jay turn eleven— and their uncle, Doc, tells them he’s going to train them in rootwork. Jez and Jay have always been fascinated by the African American folk magic that has been the legacy of their family for generations—especially the curious potions and powders Doc and Gran would make for the people on their island. But Jez soon finds out that her family’s true power goes far beyond small charms and elixirs…and not a moment too soon. Because when evil both natural and supernatural comes to show itself in town, it’s going to take every bit of the magic she has inside her to see her through. Walter Dean Myers Honor Award for Outstanding Children's Literature!
Author : Victoria Foyt
Publisher : Sand Dollar Press Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9780983650324
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (53 download)
Download or read book Revealing Eden written by Victoria Foyt and published by Sand Dollar Press Incorporated. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A modern day Beauty and the Beast tale about a white skinned pearl in a world of dark skinned coals.
Author : Ladan Osman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781566895446
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (954 download)
Download or read book Exiles of Eden written by Ladan Osman and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poems steeped in the Somali tradition refract the streets of Ferguson, the halls of Guantanamo, and the fields near Abu Ghraib through the myth of Adam and Eve to ask: What does it mean to be a refugee?
Author : James Howard Bowden
Publisher : Createspace Independent Pub
ISBN 13 : 9781481268035
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (68 download)
Download or read book A Gift for Africa written by James Howard Bowden and published by Createspace Independent Pub. This book was released on 2012-12-15 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in the year 2047, this literary intrigue is strongly themed around overpopulation and environmental degradation. The government offers the Near Death Experience (NDE) as part of the health system, to encourage voluntary euthanasia among the old and sick. Women must get a permit to bear a child, based on someone else's death. The United Nations has established quotas for the number of people sustainable by each nation. Some countries, particularly those in Africa, consistently violate their quota allotments. The continent is an ecological disaster. Wildlife has been decimated and mass starvation is only avoided through United Nations food shipments. A trillionaire playboy, Barry Morgenthau, decides to set up a foundation to create a “New Eden” in Africa, but first he must find a way to get rid of the excess population which is blocking the environmental restoration he envisions. He invites a reporter and two young women to the Bohemian Grove in California, where the Lycurgeans (sponsors of the Spartan League) are meeting to find ways to stabilize the population. When the reporter gets wind of Morgenthau's real plans, he is about to reveal all. However, the playboy forestalls him and teaches him a painful lesson in his Museum of the Inquisition. The reporter understands that he must promote Morgenthau's foundation, not undermine it. Will there be a new Garden of Eden in Africa? Where will all the people go?
Author : Chris Stringer
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0805058141
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (5 download)
Download or read book African Exodus written by Chris Stringer and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1998-06-15 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This landmark book argues that our genes betray the secret of a single racial stock shared by all of modern humanity. "Anyone who read "The Bell Curve" should read this book".--"The Times", London. 55 illustrations.
