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In this fascinating book, Diamond seeks to understand the fates of past societies that collapsed for ecological reasons, combining the most important ... More

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Global Environmental History introduces this rapidly developing field through a broad and thought-provoking range of expert contributions. ... More

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"The Humanities" by Henry M. Sayre helps the reader see context and make connections across the humanities by tying together the entire cultural ... More

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The Companion to Global Environmental History offers multiple points of entry into the history and historiography of this dynamic and fast-growing ... More

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This book explores the shifting relationship between people and their environments by focusing on the environmental change and historical change from ... More

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Like Jared Diamond's Guns, Germs and Steel, Clive Ponting's book studies the relationship between the environment and human history. It examines ... More

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Canadians and the Natural Environment to the Twenty-First Century provides an accessible synthesis of the most important recent work in the field, ... More

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English summary: Who is the wind-energy industry? The author pursues this question in order to analyze the rapidly growing industry by using use of ... More

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"For an undergraduate introductory level course in the humanities. "Humanities narrated in a story-telling approach. The Humanities: Culture, ... More

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From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of GUNS, GERMS, AND STEEL comes an examination of what caused the downfall of some of the great civilizations ... More

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A unifying discussion of our increasingly integrated global economy, higher population levels and greater resource demands.

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Empire and imperialism have returned with a vengeance--not as a set of ideas and practices to be exhumed by the historians, but as paradigms for ... More

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This text provides a thorough examination of the history of Myanmar from Neolithic times to the present.

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"The Human Footprint" is a global, thematic, and multi-disciplinary history of the planet, from its earliest origins to its current condition. ... More

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"The Human Footprint" is a global, thematic, and multi-disciplinary history of the planet, from its earliest origins to its current condition. ... More

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This book addresses contemporary geographical issues in the Mediterranean Basin from a perspective that recognizes the physical characteristics and ... More

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Long before the creation of the Serengeti National Park in Tanzania, the people of the western Serengeti had established settlements and interacted ... More

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This comprehensive, accessible reference is designed for the desk and library--with all the pertinent facts of world history from the dawn of ... More

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So much about the society that is now emerging in the twenty-first century bears an astonishing resemblance to the most prominent features of what we ... More

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Environmental archaeology focuses on the ways in which humans have interacted with nature throughout the past. This book discusses what exactly the ... More

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This book is a substantial text in dictionary form; an almanac of world history taking the place or territory as its starting point. The range of ... More

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