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This book is the last from a cycle of books where I attempted to analyze when and why appeared the civilization. Back in 2006 with The Real World, I investigated a nonlinear-complex background on which we have built our alleged "world of order." In 2015, I continued with Solovki Ersatz, where, to my disappointment, I was not ready to provide a fair answer. Finally, in 2019, I fulfilled my desire to unveil such a hard to crack a nut, and the answer...
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La humanidad lleva más de 4.000 años construyendo murallas para protegerse: desde la muralla de Mesopotamia al muro de Berlín, pasando por la Gran Muralla China y El Mirador en Guatemala.
Los muros, además de defender, han trazado una línea divisoria en las sociedades que los construyen, separando a los de dentro y a los de fuera, a los salvajes de los civilizados y, en ocasiones, a los valientes de los cobardes.
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More than one-and-a-half billion Muslims of all races, nationalities, and ethnicities live in the world today, but the birthplace of Islam is the Middle East. Islam is a religion based on the revelations given to the Prophet Muhammad. These teachings are contained in the Quran, Islam s holy book. Like other religions, Islam preaches peace and love for others. Also like other religions, Islam s teachings are often interpreted differently by different...
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En una síntesis lograda y transparente, Historia de las ideas en la Argentina recorre las creencias y los discursos que permiten entender de qué manera los argentinos han pensado su identidad, su pasado, sus opciones políticas y su porvenir como sociedad, desde 1810 hasta 1980. Así, describe los climas de cada época y los temores o las esperanzas que animaban a sus hombres: los sueños de la Generación del 37, la democratización de la mano...
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The book provides an insight into the scientific evolution of mankind, food production, writing system, modern society and their spread in Sikkim. It also provides in brief about the technological framework guidelines for appropriated development interventions and suggestions to overcome weaknesses of SARD in mountainous Sikkim.
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Hell Bent (with dramatic illustrations) reveals how the very biology that led to our common Ancestor coming down from the trees on to the top of the food chain, is the very biology that will send our civilization spiraling toward extinction within the next century or two.
The civilization we know today is the direct descendant of Chimps who were male dominated and used aggression as their default method of control. Their basic instincts centered...
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According to the Long Count Calendar used by the Maya, the current Great Cycle, which has lasted 5,125 years, is to end in 2012. What will happen when this occurs has been a hot topic for many years, literally decades, since the mid-1980s. Based loosely on Maya cosmology and mythology describing the death and rebirth of humankind, many observers have speculated on the events preceding and subsequent to the changing of the Great Cycles. These speculations...
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Secular humanists and other "progressives" have been predicting the demise of religion for the past 250 years. But they keep running into a problem: those who were supposed to be liberated by the secular gospel that God is Dead aren't buying it. Except for some parts of western Europe and in countries culturally destroyed by Communism, secularization in the radical sense has not occurred. While it has not obliterated the religious impulse, however,...
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A first hand report of how The US Mail Service really worked for over a century. Kennith Culbreth started his Postal Career in the early 1960's and worked in his early years as a Substitute Railway Mail Clerk in the two Carolinas. The personal and hand-me-down stories tell what the work was like and how these Postal Workers took pride in their work.
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Ciudades milenarias, lugares de poder, objetos imposibles, tumbas, momias, reliquias sagradas, civilizaciones perdidas... Descubra los hallazgos arqueológicos que afianzan nuestra convicción de que el pasado de la humanidad esconde asombrosos secretos.
Un viaje por el conocimiento hermético de la antigüedad, desde el génesis de nuestra especie, pasando por las primeras ciudades-estado, los constructores de megalitos, las pirámides egipcias,...
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"World History: Civilizations And Their Stories" invites readers on a captivating journey through the tapestry of human civilization. From the earliest societies to the modern world, this book delves into the rich and diverse narratives that have shaped our global heritage.
Through vivid storytelling and insightful analysis, the book explores the rise and fall of empires, the clash of cultures, and the enduring legacies of key figures and events....
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After nearly two decades in Britain, Bill Bryson, the acclaimed author of such best-sellers as The Mother Tongue and Made in America, decided it was time to move back to the United States for a while. This was partly to let his wife and kids experience life in Bryson's homeland - and partly because he had read that 3.7 million Americans believed that they had been abducted by aliens at one time or another. It was thus clear to him that his people...
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The Maya have lived in parts of Mexico and Central America for thousands of years, forging one of the greatest societies in the history of the Americas -- indeed, of humankind. Long before European contact, Mayas built spectacular cities, created complex agricultural systems, mastered the visual arts, and developed a sophisticated writing system that recorded calendrical, mathematical, and astronomical knowledge. Yet there was never a Maya empire...
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"The world Cal and Frida have always known is gone, and they've left the crumbling city of Los Angeles far behind them. They now live in a shack in the wilderness, working side-by-side to make their days tolerable in the face of hardship and isolation. Mourning a past they can't reclaim, they seek solace in each other. But the tentative existence they've built for themselves is thrown into doubt when Frida finds out she's pregnant. Terrified of the...
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A wise and witty compendium of the greatest thoughts, greatest minds, and greatest books of all time-listed in accessible and succinct form-by one of the world's greatest scholars. From the "Hundred Best Books" to the "Ten Greatest Thinkers" to the "Ten Greatest Poets," here is a concise collection of the world's most significant knowledge. For the better part of a century, Will Durant dwelled upon-and wrote about-the most significant eras, individuals,...
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“A major work by an authentic master of alternate history.” – Booklist (Starred Review)
In the tenth year of the Change, the survivors in western Oregon live in a world without technology. Michael Havel’s Bearkillers hold the lands west of Salem in peace and order. To the east, the Clan Mackenzie flourishes under the leadership of Juniper...
In the tenth year of the Change, the survivors in western Oregon live in a world without technology. Michael Havel’s Bearkillers hold the lands west of Salem in peace and order. To the east, the Clan Mackenzie flourishes under the leadership of Juniper...
60) Medieval life
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An illustrated look at various aspects of life in medieval Europe, covering everyday life, religion, royalty, and more.
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