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Deforesting the Earth

Author : Michael Williams
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226899055
Total Pages : 562 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (268 download)

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Download or read book Deforesting the Earth written by Michael Williams and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2010-05-15 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Anyone who doubts the power of history to inform the present should read this closely argued and sweeping survey. This is rich, timely, and sobering historical fare written in a measured, non-sensationalist style by a master of his craft. One only hopes (almost certainly vainly) that today’s policymakers take its lessons to heart.”—Brian Fagan, Los Angeles Times Published in 2002, Deforesting the Earth was a landmark study of the history and geography of deforestation. Now available as an abridgment, this edition retains the breadth of the original while rendering its arguments accessible to a general readership. Deforestation—the thinning, changing, and wholesale clearing of forests for fuel, shelter, and agriculture—is among the most important ways humans have transformed the environment. Surveying ten thousand years to trace human-induced deforestation’s effect on economies, societies, and landscapes around the world, Deforesting the Earth is the preeminent history of this process and its consequences. Beginning with the return of the forests after the ice age to Europe, North America, and the tropics, Michael Williams traces the impact of human-set fires for gathering and hunting, land clearing for agriculture, and other activities from the Paleolithic age through the classical world and the medieval period. He then focuses on forest clearing both within Europe and by European imperialists and industrialists abroad, from the 1500s to the early 1900s, in such places as the New World, India, and Latin America, and considers indigenous clearing in India, China, and Japan. Finally, he covers the current alarming escalation of deforestation, with our ever-increasing human population placing a potentially unsupportable burden on the world’s forests.

Prehistoric Life

Author : Bruce S. Lieberman
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1444334085
Total Pages : 405 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (443 download)

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Download or read book Prehistoric Life written by Bruce S. Lieberman and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2010-03-22 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prehistoric life is the archive of evolution preserved in the fossil record. This book focuses on the meaning and significance of that archive and is designed for introductory college science students, including non-science majors, enrolled in survey courses emphasizing paleontology, geology and biology. From the origins of animals to the evolution of rap music, from ancient mass extinctions to the current biodiversity crisis, and from the Snowball Earth to present day climate change this book covers it, with an eye towards showing how past life on Earth puts the modern world into its proper context. The history of life and the patterns and processes of evolution are especially emphasized, as are the interconnections between our planet, its climate system, and its varied life forms. The book does not just describe the history of life, but uses actual examples from life’s history to illustrate important concepts and theories.

Prehistoric Crisis

Author : Angel Ramon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781726308229
Total Pages : 460 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (82 download)

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Download or read book Prehistoric Crisis written by Angel Ramon and published by . This book was released on 2018-09-08 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Live among the dinosaurs in this Dinosaur Horror/Fantasy LitRPG/GameLit book. Mixes the expansive open world of DinoRule with the Dungeon Core world of the seven elemental temple. Stephen is your average young adult from the UK who just happens to like risky adventures and dinosaurs. When he gets invited to South Africa by an old school friend, he is excited to take the trip. When he arrives, he sneaks off to the southern border of the known territories of South Africa. During his jaywalk, he bumps into a mythical universe where he spots dinosaurs living and these are not genetically engineered either. However, this is a secret that he has to keep to himself.Stephen is surprised when his best friend, Matthew knows about the living dinosaurs. They plan to go visit the mythical land until the dinosaurs pay a visit to their camping grounds and begin to wreak havoc on the real world. Stephen finds a sacred shrine where he finds a legendary blade and shield. That is when he finds out that he's the legendary hero of the mythical land of DinoRule.As the hero of DinoRule, he must stop an evil sage known as Aries from taking over DinoRule and using the dinosaurs to take over not only DInoRule but also the motherearth.Can this young adult conquer the different trials as he enters a world where dinosaurs and humans live in harmony. He'll learn how to use different elemental spells, conquer the different elemental temples in DinoRule, and even raise his own dinosaur pets. This is more than just your regular adventure as he'll meet friends, traitors, dinosaurs that will ally themselves with him, and a world that has the same feeling as our Earth.Can Stephen keep DinoRule a dinosaur paradise or will it be consumed by evil? More importantly, will he ever leave DinoRule or will he make a new life amongst the dinosaurs?

Disasters, Accidents, and Crises in American History

Author : Ballard C. Campbell
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1438130120
Total Pages : 481 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (381 download)

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Download or read book Disasters, Accidents, and Crises in American History written by Ballard C. Campbell and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2008 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a chronologically-arranged reference to catastrophic events in American history, including natural disasters, economic depressions, riots, murders, and terrorist attacks.

Current History

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1048 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (327 download)

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Download or read book Current History written by and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 1048 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Food Crisis in Prehistory

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (637 download)

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Download or read book The Food Crisis in Prehistory written by and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Prehistoric Life

Author : P.R. Yadav
Publisher : Discovery Publishing House
ISBN 13 : 9788171417780
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (177 download)

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Download or read book Prehistoric Life written by P.R. Yadav and published by Discovery Publishing House. This book was released on 2004 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contents: Universe, Precambrian Period, Proterozoic Era, Early Paleozoic Era, Late Paleozoic Era, Mesozoic Era, Mesozoic biosphere, Cenozoic Era (The Paleogene World), Cenozoic Era (The Neogene World).

After the Crisis: Remembrance, Re-anchoring and Recovery in Ancient Greece and Rome

Author : Jacqueline Klooster
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350128562
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book After the Crisis: Remembrance, Re-anchoring and Recovery in Ancient Greece and Rome written by Jacqueline Klooster and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-02-06 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Crises resulting from war or other upheavals turn the lives of individuals upside down, and they can leave marks on a community for many years after the event. This volume aims to explore how such crises were remembered in the ancient world, and how communities reconstituted themselves after a crisis. Can crises serve as catalysts for innovation or change, and how does this work? What do crises reveal about the 'normality' against which they are defined and framed? People living in post-crisis societies have no choice but to adapt to the changes caused by crisis. Such adaptation entails the question of how the relationship between the pre-crisis situation and the new status quo is constructed, and by whom. Due to the reduced possibility of using the immediate past, which is tainted by conflict and bad memories, it may involve revisions of historical narratives about communal pasts and identities, through the selection of new 'anchors', and sometimes even a discarding of the old ones. Crises affect all areas of life, and crisis recovery likewise spans different spheres. This volume finds traces of such recovery strategies in texts as well as visual representations; in literary as well as in documentary texts; in official ideology as much as in subaltern responses. The contributors bring together the diverse testimonies for such ways of coping that have survived from antiquity.

Prehistoric America

Author : Betty Jane Meggers
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
ISBN 13 : 0202368130
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book Prehistoric America written by Betty Jane Meggers and published by Transaction Publishers. This book was released on with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the past 30 years, the relationship between humans and the environment has changed more drastically than during any previous period in human history. Local sustainable exploitation of natural resources has been overridden by global interests indifferent to the detrimental impact of their activities on local environments and their inhabitants. Increasingly efficient technology has reduced the need for human labor, but improved medical treatment favors reproduction and survival, creating a growing imbalance between population density and food supply. Rapid transportation is introducing alien species to distant terrestrial and aquatic environments, where they displace critical elements in the local food chain. This succinct and profusely illustrated volume applies evolutionary and cultural theory to the interpretation of prehistoric cultural development in the western hemisphere. After reviewing cultural development in Mesoamerica and the central Andes, Meggers examines adaptation in North and South American regions with similar environments to evaluate the influence of adaptive constraints on cultural content. What made the human species dominant on the planet is the substitution of cultural behavior for biological behavior. Prehistoric Americans applied this ability to develop sustainable relationships with their environments. Many succeeded and others did not. Paleoclimatic reconstructions can be compared with archeological sequences and ethnographic descriptions to identify cultural behavior responsible for the difference. Comparison of the responses of Amaonians and Mayans to episodes of severe drought provides useful insights into what we are doing wrong. Betty J. Meggers has been a research associate at the Smithsonian Institution since 1951. She has conducted fieldwork in Brail, Guyana, Veneuela, and Ecuador. Her publications include archeological monographs, edited volumes, general books on Amaonia and Ecuador, and over 200 articles on cultural ecology, cultural diffusion, pottery analysis, and transpacific contact. Her contributions have been recognied by six honorary doctorates from universities in Brail, Argentina, and Ecuador.

Political Economy, Neoliberalism, and the Prehistoric Economies of Latin America

Author : Ty Matejowsky
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1781900582
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (819 download)

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Download or read book Political Economy, Neoliberalism, and the Prehistoric Economies of Latin America written by Ty Matejowsky and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2012-10-24 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Continues on-going presentation of highly engaging anthropological research. This title contains a range of broad based and localized topics economic anthropologists that explore from various critical perspectives. It addresses questions of how political economy is articulated through processes of consumption, production, and evolution.

Volcanic Hazards and Disasters in Human Antiquity

Author : Floyd W. McCoy
Publisher : Geological Society of America
ISBN 13 : 9780813723457
Total Pages : 110 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (234 download)

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Download or read book Volcanic Hazards and Disasters in Human Antiquity written by Floyd W. McCoy and published by Geological Society of America. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

In Search of Ancient Roots

Author : Kenneth J. Stewart
Publisher : Inter-Varsity Press
ISBN 13 : 1783596082
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (835 download)

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Download or read book In Search of Ancient Roots written by Kenneth J. Stewart and published by Inter-Varsity Press. This book was released on 2017-11-16 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some evangelical churches appear to be uninterested in their historical roots, and so can be liturgically and doctrinally unstable. Perceiving this disconnection between their Protestant faith and ancient Christianity, a number of evangelicals have abandoned Protestantism for traditions that seem to be clearly rooted in the early church. Ken Stewart argues that the evangelical tradition’s track record of interaction with Christian antiquity is far healthier than is often assumed. He surveys five centuries of Protestant engagement with the ancient church, showing that Christians belonging to the evangelical churches of the Reformation consistently see their faith as connected to early Christianity. Stewart explores areas of positive engagement, including the Lord’s Supper and biblical interpretation, as well as areas that raise concerns, such as monasticism. In Search of Ancient Roots shows that Christian antiquity is the heritage of all orthodox Christians, and that evangelicals have the resources in their history to claim their place at the ecumenical table. ‘A must-read for every person struggling with the question, “What does evangelicalism have to do with history?”’ Leonardo De Chirico, Director of Reformanda Initiative

Traveling Prehistoric Seas

Author : Alice Beck Kehoe
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1315416395
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (154 download)

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Download or read book Traveling Prehistoric Seas written by Alice Beck Kehoe and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-07-01 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Until recently the theory that people could have traversed large expanses of ocean in prehistoric times was considered pseudoscience. But recent discoveries in places as disparate as Australia, Labrador, Crete, California, and Chile open the possibility that ancient oceans were highways, not barriers, and that ancient people possessed the means and motives to traverse them. In this brief, thought-provoking, but controversial book Alice Kehoe considers the existing evidence in her reassessment of ancient sailing. Her book-critically analyzes the growing body of evidence on prehistoric sailing to help scholars and students evaluate a highly controversial hypothesis;-examines evidence from archaeology, anthropology, botany, art, mythology, linguistics, maritime technology, architecture, paleopathology, and other disciplines;-presents her evidence in student-accessible language to allow instructors to use this work for teaching critical thinking skills.

Sedimentary Crisis at the Global Scale 2

Author : Jean-Paul Bravard
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1119597617
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (195 download)

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Download or read book Sedimentary Crisis at the Global Scale 2 written by Jean-Paul Bravard and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2019-03-07 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The great deltas of the globe have been threatened for several decades but their decline now appears to be inevitable; they are receding and losing the fertility that supports their tens of millions of inhabitants. Our deltas are victims of the dramatic deterioration in the volume of continental sediment brought by rivers to the oceans. By nature, deltas are fragile eco- and geological organisms. For centuries, they have been subject to human actions in the Mediterranean and European world, and today a deep crisis is affecting the great tropical deltas. A chapter is also devoted to concerns facing the Mississippi, an “aging delta of the new world”. Sedimentary Crisis at the Global Scale 2 discusses possible strategies to protect the deltas of the world – or at least adapt them and their dependencies to the changes they face. Several models are possible, including comprehensive protection (such as in the Netherlands) and cautious and respectful opening to the forces of the oceans in an environment-first perspective.

Simulating Prehistoric and Ancient Worlds

Author : Juan A. Barceló
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319314815
Total Pages : 405 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (193 download)

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Download or read book Simulating Prehistoric and Ancient Worlds written by Juan A. Barceló and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-10-20 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a unique selection of fully reviewed, extended papers originally presented at the Social Simulation Conference 2014 in Barcelona, Spain. Only papers on the simulation of historical processes have been selected, the aim being to present theories and methods of computer simulation that can be relevant to understanding the past. Applications range from the Paleolithic and the origins of social life up to the Roman Empire and Early Modern societies. Case studies from Europe, America, Africa and Asia have been selected for publication. The extensive introduction offers a thorough review of the computer simulation of social dynamics in past societies as a means of understanding human history. This book will be of great interest to researchers in the social sciences, archaeology, evolutionary anthropology, and social history.

History at the End of the World

Author : Mark Levene
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1847601677
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (476 download)

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Download or read book History at the End of the World written by Mark Levene and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2010 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The authors of this collection of essays propose that climate change means serious peril. The approaches begin from archaeology, literature, religion, psychology, sociology, philosophy of science, engineering and sustainable development, as well as 'straight' history. Our argument, however, is not about the science per se. It is about us, our deep and more recent history, and how we arrived at this calamitous impasse. With contributions from academic activists and independent researchers, History at the End of the World challenges advocates of 'business as usual' to think again. But in its wide-ranging assessment of how we transcend the current crisis, it also proposes that the human past could be our most powerful resource in the struggle for survival.

Prehistoric Life

Author : Bruce S. Lieberman
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1444318640
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (443 download)

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Download or read book Prehistoric Life written by Bruce S. Lieberman and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2010-04-23 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prehistoric life is the archive of evolution preserved in thefossil record. This book focuses on the meaning andsignificance of that archive and is designed for introductorycollege science students, including non-science majors, enrolled insurvey courses emphasizing paleontology, geology and biology. From the origins of animals to the evolution of rap music, fromancient mass extinctions to the current biodiversity crisis, andfrom the Snowball Earth to present day climate change this bookcovers it, with an eye towards showing how past life on Earth putsthe modern world into its proper context. The history of life andthe patterns and processes of evolution are especially emphasized,as are the interconnections between our planet, its climate system,and its varied life forms. The book does not just describe thehistory of life, but uses actual examples from life’s historyto illustrate important concepts and theories.