A Dog's History of the World: Canines and the Domestication of Humans - Laura Hobgood-Oster

Reducere. Canines and humans have depended upon one another for tens of thousands of years. Humans took the initial steps of domesticating canines, but somew...

Publisher: Princeton University PressAuthor(s): Marc BekoffIllustration(s): 17 b/w illus.Number of pages: 240Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 148 ...

Explores how the growth of marine domestication has blurred traditional distinctions between fish and animals, recasting farmed fish as sentient be...

Reducere. Current theories and views on the differences in the 'mind' of human societies depend very much on a dichotomy between 'advanced' and 'primitive', ...

American urbanites once lived alongside livestock and beasts of burden. But as cities grew, human-animal relationships changed. The city became a p...

Reducere. Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

This book is about the origins of agriculture and plant domestication that occurred in the Neolithic Near East 10, 500 years ago. It is directed no...

Reducere. Winner of the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for HistoryEncounters at the Heart of the World concerns the Mandan Indians, iconic Plains people whose teeming, ...

The development of the Inca Empire was complex and often paradoxical. This lavishly illustrated volume, based on extensive archaeological research ...

Reducere. DescriptionThe Art of Hunting Humans presents key aspects of the human mind. With straightforward language, weird metaphors and practical examples,...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Karen DavisonContribution by: Bob The WestieHave you ever wondered how dogs see us? A Dog's Guide to Humans A lighthearted ...

A monumental history of the nineteenth century, The Transformation of the World offers a panoramic and multifaceted portrait of a world in transiti...

Reducere. Even with all our modern technology and advanced science, we still know relatively little about the origins of our fascinating species. We have an ...

Publishing during the 100th Anniversary of the First World War An NYRB Classics Original The budding young Hungarian artist B la Zombory-Moldov n w...

DescriptionCovering the years 1920-1925, Without a Dog's Chance is the first major study of Northern nationalists' role in the Boundary Commission ...

Publisher: Penguin Random House AustraliaAuthor(s): Laura GreavesNumber of pages: 320Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 155 x 235 x 24Cover type: Pa...

Reducere. Wounds and disease were as devastating on the battlefields of the ancient world as they are today. In an age of bloody combat, how did physicians a...

Reducere. The Neanderthals had brow ridges to keep the sun out of their eyes, but why don't we? When a leading scientist walked into a wall and broke his nos...

DescriptionIf you want to discover captivating stories of people and events of World War 1, then keep reading... Three captivating manuscripts in o...

Philip Gooding analyses Lake Tanganyika as a crucial frontier zone of the wider Indian Ocean World during the nineteenth century. Using interdiscip...

Reducere. Before there was Max, there was Mike. A true story much like the touching movie, Navy SEAL Dogs explores the incomparable relationship between trai...

DescriptionA provocative argument that eating meat is not what made humans human and that the future is not necessarily carnivorous.Humans are eati...

Reducere. Mark Rowlands presents a novel analysis of three epoch-defining environmental problems: climate, extinction, and pestilence. Our climate is changin...

This is not a book about Laurie Lee, still less a biography. Taking this as a starting point, poet Adam Horovitz reaches back through myth, memory ...

Reducere. Dividing the century into the Age of Catastrophe, 1914 1950, the Golden Age, 1950 1973, and the Landslide, 1973 1991, Hobsbawm marshals a vast arra...

A history of the global nature of the radical union, The Industrial Workers of the World

'F*cking brilliant' Sarah Knight'Very funny' Mark WatsonAN EXHILARATING JOURNEY THROUGH THE MOST CREATIVE AND CATASTROPHIC F*CK-UPS OF HUMAN HISTOR...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Martin GilbertMartin Gilbert, author of the multivolume biography of Winston Churchill and other brilliant works of history...

Reducere. Have you ever wondered how a man like Adolf Hitler could have come into power?How did he legally become a dictator by using a democratic process?Or...

The oracle and sanctuary of the Greek god Apollo at Delphi were known as the "omphalos"--the "center" or "navel"--of the ancient world for more tha...

DescriptionOften romanticized in print and on the silver screen, real-life pirates were a brutal menace that plagued the high seas. In this book, A...

By the former editor of the London Times, a vivid, evocative, and deeply knowledgeable history of this unique world capital. London: a settlement f...