Wood Age. How One Material Shaped the Whole of Human History, Hardback - Roland Ennos

Roland Ennos' The Wood Age is a love-letter to the world's most vital and yet most threatened material. It is the story of how wood has shaped our ...

When our ancestors came down from the trees, they brought the trees with them and remade the world. 'A stunning book on the incalculable debt human...

Publisher: ScribnerAuthor(s): Roland EnnosNumber of pages: 336Publication date: 2020Dimensions: 153 x 228 x 28Cover type: PaperbackRedescopera farm...

Reducere. A groundbreaking examination of the role that wood and trees have played in our global ecosystem--including human evolution and the rise and fall o...

When our ancestors came down from the trees, they brought the trees with them and remade the world.'A stunning book on the incalculable debt humani...

It is hard to imagine that much of the suburban townscape from Croydon to the Thames at Deptford was a vast wood, stretching for almost seven miles...

'Stands comparison with Sapiens... Thrilling' Sunday Times Read the Sunday Times bestseller that reveals the Earth's awesome impact on the shape of...

Reducere. DescriptionA New York Times-bestselling author explains how the physical world shaped the history of our speciesWhen we talk about human history, w...

Cambridge is now world-famous as a centre of science, but it wasn't always so. Before the nineteenth century, the sciences were of little importanc...

First book of 3-book series showing how maritime trade shaped the world from the Ice Age to modernity.Publisher: Pen & Sword Books LtdAuthor(s): Ni...

This fascinating three-thousand-year history of the census traces the making of the modern survey and explores its political power in the age of bi...

From stone age to space age, every human who has ever looked up at the night sky has seen the same stars in the same patterns. They reveal our enti...

A far-reaching, urgent, and thoroughly engaging exploration of our relationship with animals - from the acclaimed Financial Times journalist. *A GU...

Reducere. Humans have "subdued 75 percent of the land surface, concocted a wizardry of industrial and medical marvels, strung lights all across the darkness....

A surprising new history of Tutankhamun published to coincide with the centenary of his tomb's discovery.Publisher: Atlantic BooksAuthor(s): Christ...

From tools and devices to construction and artistic expression, Max Adams explores wood - the material that shaped human history.Publisher: Head of...

The environment is not a neutral background to human struggles for power and profit. "Climate Change, Peatbogs, Plague and Potatoes" makes Scotland...

An intelligently provocative book about Darwin's 'other' theory discusses the curious ways in which sexual attraction has influenced the evolution ...

In this six-session guide, Antony Billington's astute questions, pertinent applications and mini-features will help you discover Proverbs' many ric...

Charting the many and varied ways the coconut has shaped and continues to shape our world

Publisher: Inter-Varsity PressAuthor(s): Dave (Author) BooklessNumber of pages: 160Publication date: 2010Dimensions: 216 x 141 x 13Cover type: Pape...

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Reducere. DescriptionForbidden Fruit: The Golden Age of the Exploitation Film offers the first thorough examination of the exploitation cinema while capturin...

Publisher: Inter-Varsity PressAuthor(s): Antony (Author) BillingtonNumber of pages: 96Collection: Keswick Study GuidesPublication date: 2015Dimensi...

Reducere. Topically Arranged Prayers for Individual, Family, and ChurchGod calls us to pray, and we want to talk to our heavenly Father. But so often we don'...

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERIn God, Reza Aslan sheds new light on mankind's relationship with the divine and challenges our perspective on faith a...

A wide-ranging, beautifully illustrated history of mermaids and merman.

Creating a visual and written timeline of the age of human domination, The Human Age reveals how this era was born, the ways in which it is impacti...

WINNER OF THE BLUE PETER BOOK AWARD BEST BOOK WITH FACTS 2019! A vibrant exploration of the stories behind different colours, and the roles they've...

Publisher: Princeton University PressAuthor(s): J. E. LendonIllustration(s): 5 b/w illus.Number of pages: 328Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 168 ...

The definitive social history of tuberculosis, from its origins as a haunting mystery to its modern reemergence that now threatens populations arou...

Explores W.B. Yeats and Ezra Pound's relationship as played out against the backdrop of Mussolini's Italy in the 1920s and 1930s and shows how Yeat...

The first book to combine the idea that our early ancestors did care for one another in an unselfish way with archaeological evidence. It is the ev...

Reducere. The story of the vibrant and revolutionary soccer culture in Hungary that, on the eve of World War II, redefined the modern game and launched a new...

A dazzling new history of the modern world, as told through the remarkable story of population change.

Upon its first publication in 2001 as the inaugural volume in The New Press People's History series, edited by the late Howard Zinn, Ray Raphael's ...

DescriptionBehind every landmark drug is a story. It could be an oddball researcher's genius insight, a catalyzing moment in geopolitical history, ...

The extraordinary story of how the human brain evolved... and is still evolving.Publisher: John Murray PressAuthor(s): Joseph JebelliNumber of page...