Children of the Sun. A History of Humanity's Unappeasable Appetite for Energy, Paperback - Alfred W. Crosby

We don't often recognize the humble activity of cooking for the revolutionary cultural adaptation that it is. But when the hearth fires started bur...

Reducere. Thirty years ago, Alfred Crosby published a small work that illuminated a simple point, that the most important changes brought on by the voyages o...

Reducere. Between August 1918 and March 1919 the Spanish influenza spread worldwide, claiming over 25 million lives, more people than those perished in the f...

Reducere. Western Europeans were among the first, if not the first, to invent mechanical clocks, geometrically precise maps, double-entry bookkeeping, precis...

Throwing Fire: Projectile Technology through History - Alfred W. Crosby

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Stephen Edred FlowersEditor: Joshua BuckleyEditor: Michael MoynihanThroughout the United States and Europe, a revival of in...

Reducere. DescriptionThis tribal history of the Spokane Indians begins with an account of their early life in the Pacific Northwest central plateau region. I...

Long a leading figure in American literature, N. Scott Momaday is perhaps best known for his Pulitzer Prize-winning House Made of Dawn and his cele...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: James Willard SchultzThe Blackfeet were people of the buffalo. They originated on the plains of today's southern Alberta, w...

Reducere. The definitive history of the Vikings -- from arts and culture to politics and cosmology -- by a distinguished archaeologist with decades of expert...

The history of Japanese aviation offers countless stories of heroic achievements and dismal failures, passionate enthusiasm and sheer terror, brill...

Materials for Energy offers a comprehensive overview of the latest developments in materials for efficient and sustainable energy applications, inc...

The rapid decline of the bastions of American power established over the twentieth century is the subject of this extensive historical analysis emp...

Reducere. Includes an afterword by the author Harry Crosby was the godson of J. P. Morgan and a friend of Ernest Hemingway. Living in Paris in the twenties a...

Publisher: Penguin Books LtdAuthor(s): Neil PriceNumber of pages: 624Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 134 x 197 x 31Cover type: Paperback / softba...

Reducere. Long a leading figure in American literature, N. Scott Momaday is perhaps best known for his Pulitzer Prize-winning House Made of Dawn and his cele...

Publisher: Nabu PressAuthor(s): Luther Emmett HoltNumber of pages: 226Publication date: 2010Dimensions: 246 x 190 x 22Cover type: PaperbackRedescop...

Reducere. The ancient Religion of the Sun has been one of the most powerful influencers on human history. It originated in the depths of prehistory, possibly...

The history of the twentieth century is most often told through its world wars, the rise and fall of communism, or its economic upheavals. In his s...

DescriptionFrom the award-winning author of The Great Trouble comes a story of espionage, survival, and friendship during World War II. Bertie Brad...

Reducere. A magnificent, bawdy telling of Shakespeare's love life, following young Will's maturation into sex and writing. A playful romp, it is at the same ...

This fresh perspective on crucial questions of history identifies the root metaphors that cultures have used to construct meaning in their world. I...

Reducere. First published in 1981, Harry W. Crosby's Last of the Californios captured the history of the mountain people of Baja California during a critical...

Reducere. SPIES OF THE MIDNIGHT SUN is the true story of legendary British safecracker and spy Eddie Chapman, the British Double Cross Spy System, and Norweg...

Reducere. Hidatsa Social and Ceremonial Organization, a study of an important horticultural Plains Indian tribe, synthesizes the rich material Alfred W. Bowe...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A friendly and inspiring introduction to art history, telling the stories of the world's greatest paintings and artists from prehistory to the mode...

Likened to Kazuo Ishiguro's }The Buried Giant{ for young readers, this new title from the }Skellig{ author follows Davie's journey through the coun...

Long ago, a magical war destroyed an empire, and a new one was built in its ashes. But still the old grudges simmer, and two siblings will fight on...

Reducere. Vinyl 1: Side A: 1. Like Gods Of The Sun 2. The Dark CaressSide B: 1. Grace Unhearing 2. A Kiss To Remember Vinyl 2: Side A: 1. All Swept Away 2. F...

Reducere. The #1 New York Times Bestseller Return to the world of His Dark Materials--now an HBO original series starring Dafne Keen, Ruth Wilson, James McAv...

An award-winning historian of religion examines the role a "messiah" plays in Western culture, from its pre-Christian roots to modern interpretatio...

Reducere. Throughout the chronicle of Britain's history, one factor above all others has determined the fate of kings, the security of trade, and the integri...

In November 1519, Hernando Cort�s walked along a causeway leading to the capital of the Aztec kingdom and came face to face with Moctezuma. That st...