Author: Charles M. Doughty
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 706
Book Description
Travels in Arabia Deserta
Author: Charles M. Doughty
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 706
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 706
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The Dawn of Everything
Author: David Graeber
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 0374721106
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A dramatically new understanding of human history, challenging our most fundamental assumptions about social evolution—from the development of agriculture and cities to the origins of the state, democracy, and inequality—and revealing new possibilities for human emancipation. For generations, our remote ancestors have been cast as primitive and childlike—either free and equal innocents, or thuggish and warlike. Civilization, we are told, could be achieved only by sacrificing those original freedoms or, alternatively, by taming our baser instincts. David Graeber and David Wengrow show how such theories first emerged in the eighteenth century as a conservative reaction to powerful critiques of European society posed by Indigenous observers and intellectuals. Revisiting this encounter has startling implications for how we make sense of human history today, including the origins of farming, property, cities, democracy, slavery, and civilization itself. Drawing on pathbreaking research in archaeology and anthropology, the authors show how history becomes a far more interesting place once we learn to throw off our conceptual shackles and perceive what’s really there. If humans did not spend 95 percent of their evolutionary past in tiny bands of hunter-gatherers, what were they doing all that time? If agriculture, and cities, did not mean a plunge into hierarchy and domination, then what kinds of social and economic organization did they lead to? The answers are often unexpected, and suggest that the course of human history may be less set in stone, and more full of playful, hopeful possibilities, than we tend to assume. The Dawn of Everything fundamentally transforms our understanding of the human past and offers a path toward imagining new forms of freedom, new ways of organizing society. This is a monumental book of formidable intellectual range, animated by curiosity, moral vision, and a faith in the power of direct action. Includes Black-and-White Illustrations
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 0374721106
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A dramatically new understanding of human history, challenging our most fundamental assumptions about social evolution—from the development of agriculture and cities to the origins of the state, democracy, and inequality—and revealing new possibilities for human emancipation. For generations, our remote ancestors have been cast as primitive and childlike—either free and equal innocents, or thuggish and warlike. Civilization, we are told, could be achieved only by sacrificing those original freedoms or, alternatively, by taming our baser instincts. David Graeber and David Wengrow show how such theories first emerged in the eighteenth century as a conservative reaction to powerful critiques of European society posed by Indigenous observers and intellectuals. Revisiting this encounter has startling implications for how we make sense of human history today, including the origins of farming, property, cities, democracy, slavery, and civilization itself. Drawing on pathbreaking research in archaeology and anthropology, the authors show how history becomes a far more interesting place once we learn to throw off our conceptual shackles and perceive what’s really there. If humans did not spend 95 percent of their evolutionary past in tiny bands of hunter-gatherers, what were they doing all that time? If agriculture, and cities, did not mean a plunge into hierarchy and domination, then what kinds of social and economic organization did they lead to? The answers are often unexpected, and suggest that the course of human history may be less set in stone, and more full of playful, hopeful possibilities, than we tend to assume. The Dawn of Everything fundamentally transforms our understanding of the human past and offers a path toward imagining new forms of freedom, new ways of organizing society. This is a monumental book of formidable intellectual range, animated by curiosity, moral vision, and a faith in the power of direct action. Includes Black-and-White Illustrations
British Film Institute Film Classics
Author: Rob White
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 9781579583286
Category : Motion pictures
Languages : en
Pages : 656
Book Description
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 9781579583286
Category : Motion pictures
Languages : en
Pages : 656
Book Description
Paperbound Books in Print
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Paperbacks
Languages : en
Pages : 1256
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Paperbacks
Languages : en
Pages : 1256
Book Description
N.A.R.T.
Author: Terry O'Neil
Publisher: David and Charles
ISBN: 1787117014
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
Luigi Chinetti's association with Ferrari, and the origins, formation and racing history of NART (North American Racing Team). A complex organisation, inextricably linked to Luigi Chinetti Motors Inc, NART enjoyed success on the race tracks of the US and Europe for three decades - as well as financial difficulties and arguments with organisers -Â to rightly become a legend.
Publisher: David and Charles
ISBN: 1787117014
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
Luigi Chinetti's association with Ferrari, and the origins, formation and racing history of NART (North American Racing Team). A complex organisation, inextricably linked to Luigi Chinetti Motors Inc, NART enjoyed success on the race tracks of the US and Europe for three decades - as well as financial difficulties and arguments with organisers -Â to rightly become a legend.
Legends of Aukera - Volume 2
Author: Amanda Webb
Publisher: Caliber Comics
ISBN:
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 103
Book Description
For those that enjoy Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit, and Dungeons and Dragons. Welcome to Dagruum, a port city plagued with pirates, thieves, and greedy nobles. Felosial, an elf with a penchant for magic, and her best friend Bakar, a down-on-his-luck dwarf, are both searching for new opportunities after Bakar loses his beloved restaurant to a gang of dangerous criminals. After stumbling upon a deal between thieves gone wrong, Felosial and Bakar encounter a mysterious rogue, known only as Shade, who may be the answer to all of their problems. And thus the story of the Legends of Aukera begins. Now with the thieves guild in shambles, Dagruum taken over by unruly pirates, and Bakar still missing, things are looking grim for Felosial and Dilavo. They must rely upon the help of the eccentric mage Thesa Farseer and the half-elven pirate captain Rufus Bladefist. Soon they find themselves in a struggle for life and death that will lead them to finding out the dangerous identity of their enemy! Collects comic book Legends of Aukera: The Ascendants issues #5-8.
Publisher: Caliber Comics
ISBN:
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 103
Book Description
For those that enjoy Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit, and Dungeons and Dragons. Welcome to Dagruum, a port city plagued with pirates, thieves, and greedy nobles. Felosial, an elf with a penchant for magic, and her best friend Bakar, a down-on-his-luck dwarf, are both searching for new opportunities after Bakar loses his beloved restaurant to a gang of dangerous criminals. After stumbling upon a deal between thieves gone wrong, Felosial and Bakar encounter a mysterious rogue, known only as Shade, who may be the answer to all of their problems. And thus the story of the Legends of Aukera begins. Now with the thieves guild in shambles, Dagruum taken over by unruly pirates, and Bakar still missing, things are looking grim for Felosial and Dilavo. They must rely upon the help of the eccentric mage Thesa Farseer and the half-elven pirate captain Rufus Bladefist. Soon they find themselves in a struggle for life and death that will lead them to finding out the dangerous identity of their enemy! Collects comic book Legends of Aukera: The Ascendants issues #5-8.
The Zombie Movie Encyclopedia, Volume 2: 2000-2010
Author: Peter Dendle
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 0786492880
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 293
Book Description
This is a comprehensive overview of zombie movies in the first 11 years of the new millennium, the most dynamic and vital period yet in the history of the zombie genre. It serves not only as a follow-up to its predecessor (The Zombie Movie Encyclopedia, McFarland 2001), which covered movies from 1932 up until the late 1990s, but also as a fresh exploration of what uniquely defines the genre in the 2000s. In-depth entries provide critical analysis of the zombie as creature in more than 280 feature-length movies, from 28 countries and filmed on six continents. An appendix offers shorter entries for more than 100 shorts and serials.
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 0786492880
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 293
Book Description
This is a comprehensive overview of zombie movies in the first 11 years of the new millennium, the most dynamic and vital period yet in the history of the zombie genre. It serves not only as a follow-up to its predecessor (The Zombie Movie Encyclopedia, McFarland 2001), which covered movies from 1932 up until the late 1990s, but also as a fresh exploration of what uniquely defines the genre in the 2000s. In-depth entries provide critical analysis of the zombie as creature in more than 280 feature-length movies, from 28 countries and filmed on six continents. An appendix offers shorter entries for more than 100 shorts and serials.
The British National Bibliography
Author: Arthur James Wells
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography, National
Languages : en
Pages : 1864
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography, National
Languages : en
Pages : 1864
Book Description
One Hundred Years of Air Power and Aviation
Author: Robin Higham
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
ISBN: 9781585442416
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
In this precise, interpretive and informative volume, Higham looks at everything from the roots of strategic bombing and tactical air power to the lessons learned and unlearned during the invasion of Ethiopia, the war in China and the Spanish Civil War. He also considers the problems posed by jet aircraft in Korea and the use of Patriot missiles in the Persian Gulf. He covers anti-guerrilla operations, doctrine, industrial activities and equipment, as well as the development of commercial airlines.
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
ISBN: 9781585442416
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
In this precise, interpretive and informative volume, Higham looks at everything from the roots of strategic bombing and tactical air power to the lessons learned and unlearned during the invasion of Ethiopia, the war in China and the Spanish Civil War. He also considers the problems posed by jet aircraft in Korea and the use of Patriot missiles in the Persian Gulf. He covers anti-guerrilla operations, doctrine, industrial activities and equipment, as well as the development of commercial airlines.
The Publishers' Circular and Booksellers' Record
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 1288
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 1288
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