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The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
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Carl Sagan
Scientist Dr Carl Sagan argues that modern tales of the paranormal, such as alien abduction stories, are in fact simply a modern version of fairy tales and only exist in the mind, and asserts that these accounts come from a potentially hazardous lack of scientific thought and knowledge, a situation which he feels should be remedied.
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Apocalypse 2012: An Investigation Into Civilization's End
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Lawrence E Joseph
In this provocative work, Joseph reveals the curious fact that 2012 has been pinpointed as a pivotal, perhaps cataclysmic, year in human history by ancient sources and contemporary science alike.
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When Time Began
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Zecharia Sitchin
"When Time Began, " the fifth book, explores ancient knowledge of Heaven and Earth and the interwoven cycles that gave rise to astronomy, the zodiac and astrology, and stone calendars such as Stonehenge, revealing the secret of New Ages past and future.
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The Long Summer: How Climate Changed Civilization
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Brian M Fagan
The Earth's climate has always been in flux: glacial periods and warm ones have slowly and relentlessly alternated for millennia. But the period of global warming of the last 15,000 years is without precedent, and it set the conditions which enabled civilization to arise. It is our 'long summer'. From the almost unimaginably hostile climate of the ...
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The Genius of China: 3,000 Years of Science, Discovery, and Invention
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Robert K G Temple
The suspension bridge, the fishing reel, the stirrup, the parachute, papermoney, the decimal system, tear gas and explosives, the seismograph, the plough and the blast furnace were all Chinese discoveries. This book also reveals that the Chinese were the first to isolate sex hormones.
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Western Civilization: Ideas, Politics & Society
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Marvin Perry
This survey text presents the Western intellectual tradition within a chronology of political history. Known for its accessible writing style, Western Civilization appeals to students and instructors alike for its brevity, clarity, and careful selection of content. New technology resources, including Houghton Mifflin's Eduspace course management ...
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Understanding America: The Anatomy of an Exceptional Nation
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Peter H Schuck (Editor), James Q Wilson (Editor)
In this book, America's top scholars explore the nation's quintessential values, systems, institutions, challenges and dilemmas, providing a fascinating primer to the most powerful nation in the worldThe stakes in understanding America could not be higher. For better or worse, America is the 800-pound gorilla in every room in the world. When it ...
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Science: A Four Thousand Year History
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Professor Patricia Fara
Science: A Four Thousand Year History rewrites science's past. Instead of focussing on difficult experiments and abstract theories, Patricia Fara shows how science has always belonged to the practical world of war, politics, and business. Rather than glorifying scientists as idealized heroes, she tells true stories about real people - men (and ...
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Critical path
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R Buckminster Fuller
Critical Path is R. Buckminster Fuller's masterwork - the summing up of a lifetime's thought and concern - as urgent and relevant as it was upon its first publication over 20 years ago. Critical Path details how humanity found itself in its current situation - at the limits of the planet's natural resources and facing political, economic, ...
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The Collapse of Complex Societies
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Professor Joseph A Tainter
Any explanation of political collapse carries lessons not just for the study of ancient societies, but for the members of all complex societies in both the present and future. Dr Tainter describes nearly two dozen cases of collapse and reviews more than 2000 years of explanations. He then develops a new and far-reaching theory that accounts for ...
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Apocalypse 2012: A Scientific Investigation Into Civilization's End
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Lawrence E Joseph
In this provocative work, Joseph reveals the curious fact that 2012 has been pinpointed as a pivotal, perhaps cataclysmic, year in human history by ancient sources and contemporary science alike. His revelation results in this authoritative and deeply unsettling appraisal of just how close the earth, or at least humankind, might be to extinction.
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What Is Your Dangerous Idea?: Today's Leading Thinkers on the Unthinkable
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John Brockman (Editor), Richard Dawkins (Afterword by), Steven Pinker (Introduction by)
The author of "What We Believe but Cannot Prove" returns with another iconoclastic collection in which some of the world's leading scientific thinkers discuss ideas that are perilous for their potential practical uses and philosophical implications.
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Occidentalism: The West in the Eyes of Its Enemies
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Ian Buruma, Avishai Margalit
Misperceptions and stereotypes govern much of the way the West is viewed by the rest of the world. These pernicious, and often striking, ways of looking at and talking about the West encourage members of movements such as radical Islam, becoming are the soil in which hate grows. Ian Buruma identifies some of these views, traces their origins in ...
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The Invisible Pyramid
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Loren Eiseley
'A relentless haunting and haunted figure devils the man [Eiseley] and twists from him some of the best prose we have...The beauty of "The Invisible Pyramid" is that it communicates the awesome spectacle of our environmental crisis without a single shrill note...Eiseley is a master of significant anecdote. There is an unstated but real gothic ...
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At the End of an Age
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John Lukacs
Historian John Lukacs reconsiders objective science and history as we near what he considers to be the end of the modern age.
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Science and Civilisation in China: Volume 5, Chemistry and Chemical Technology, Part 10, Textile Technology: Weaving and Looms
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Joseph Needham
Donald B. Wagner provides a comprehensive historical account of the production and use of iron and steel in China in their political and economic context. An initial chapter on the traditional Chinese iron industry introduces the important technical concepts and the ways in which technology, geography, and economics interact and influence ...
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The Waning of the Renaissance, 1550-1640
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William James Bouwsma
This interdisciplinary history of the closing phase of the Renaissance looks at that period's discontent and anxiety about its own accomplishments; a questioning of whether freedom brings about excess and chaos; and a growing desire for boundaries and order.
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Pathways to the Gods: The Stones of Kiribati
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Erich Von Daniken
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Camping with the Prince and Other Tales of Science in Africa
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Thomas A. Bass
CAMPING WITH THE PRINCE follows explorer Bass as he travels across Africa, tagging along with scientists on various expeditions. Bass recounts his experiences in colorful, simple language, vivifying the African landscape as well as the scientific inquiries he witnesses.
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Introduction to Korean History and Culture
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Andrew C. Nahm
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The Chaos Point: The World at the Crossroads
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Ervin Laszlo
Breakdown or Breakthrough? We are at a critical juncture in history, a "decision-window" where we face the danger of global collapse--or the opportunity for global renewal. Written by Ervin Laszlo, the founder of systems philosophy and general evolution theory, The Chaos Point provides a concise overview of the present world situation, showing ...
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Science for the citizen : a self-educator based on the social background of scientific discovery
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Lancelot Thomas Hogben
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Civilization on Trial
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Arnold J Toynbee
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Different Engines: How Science Drives Fiction and Fiction Drives Science
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Mark L Brake, Neil Hook
Since its emergence in the seventeenth century, science fiction (SF) has been a sustained, coherent and subversive check on the promises and pitfalls of science. In their turn, invention and discovery have forced fiction writers to confront the nature and limits of reality. "Different Engines" is the first trade book to explore how this ...
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Origins of the State and Civilization: The Process of Cultural Evolution
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Elman Rogers Service
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