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Author | : Fred C. Adams |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 2000-06-19 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0684865769 |
Download The Five Ages of the Universe Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book takes readers on a fantastic voyage to the physics of eternity, with a long-term projection of the evolution of the universe.
Author | : Stephen J. Pyne |
Publisher | : University of Arizona Press |
Total Pages | : 337 |
Release | : 2021-02-23 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0816541116 |
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For more than 600 years, Western civilization has relied on exploration to learn about a wider world and universe. The Great Ages of Discovery details the different eras of Western exploration in terms of its locations, its intellectual contexts, the characteristic moral conflicts that underwrote encounters, and the grand gestures that distill an age into its essence. Historian and MacArthur Fellow Stephen J. Pyne identifies three great ages of discovery in his fascinating new book. The first age of discovery ranged from the early 15th to the early 18th century, sketched out the contours of the globe, aligned with the Renaissance, and had for its grandest expression the circumnavigation of the world ocean. The second age launched in the latter half of the 18th century, spanning into the early 20th century, carrying the Enlightenment along with it, pairing especially with settler societies, and had as its prize achievement the crossing of a continent. The third age began after World War II, and, pivoting from Antarctica, pushed into the deep oceans and interplanetary space. Its grand gesture is Voyager’s passage across the solar system. Each age had in common a galvanic rivalry: Spain and Portugal in the first age, Britain and France—followed by others—in the second, and the USSR and USA in the third. With a deep and passionate knowledge of the history of Western exploration, Pyne takes us on a journey across hundreds of years of geographic trekking. The Great Ages of Discovery is an interpretive companion to what became Western civilization’s quest narrative, with the triumphs and tragedies that grand journey brought, the legacies of which are still very much with us.
Author | : Nathaniel Platt |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 774 |
Release | : 1954 |
Genre | : World history |
ISBN | : |
Download Our World Through the Ages Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Jos C.N. Raadschelders |
Publisher | : University of Michigan Press |
Total Pages | : 327 |
Release | : 2020-11-05 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0472038540 |
Download The Three Ages of Government Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
It is only in the last 250 years that ordinary people (in some parts of the world) have become citizens rather than subjects. This change happened in a very short period, between 1780 and 1820, a result of the foundations of democracy laid in the age of revolutions. A century later local governments embraced this shift due to rapid industrialization, urbanization, and population growth. During the twentieth century, all democratic governments began to perform a range of tasks, functions, and services that had no historical precedent. In the thirty years following the Second World War, Western democracies created welfare states that, for the first time in history, significantly reduced the gap between the wealthy and everyone else. Many of the reforms of that postwar period have been since rolled back because of the belief that government should be more like a business. Jos C.N. Raadschelders provides the information that all citizens should have about their connections to government, why there is a government, what it does, how it does it, and why we can no longer do without it. The Three Ages of Government rises above stereotypical thinking to show the centrality of government in human life.
Author | : James Lovelock |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 9780393312393 |
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James Lovelock proposes that all living species are components of that organism, as cells are components of the human body.
Author | : Jeffrey D. Sachs |
Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | : 369 |
Release | : 2020-06-02 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0231550480 |
Download The Ages of Globalization Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Today’s most urgent problems are fundamentally global. They require nothing less than concerted, planetwide action if we are to secure a long-term future. But humanity’s story has always been on a global scale. In this book, Jeffrey D. Sachs, renowned economist and expert on sustainable development, turns to world history to shed light on how we can meet the challenges and opportunities of the twenty-first century. Sachs takes readers through a series of seven distinct waves of technological and institutional change, starting with the original settling of the planet by early modern humans through long-distance migration and ending with reflections on today’s globalization. Along the way, he considers how the interplay of geography, technology, and institutions influenced the Neolithic revolution; the role of the horse in the emergence of empires; the spread of large land-based empires in the classical age; the rise of global empires after the opening of sea routes from Europe to Asia and the Americas; and the industrial age. The dynamics of these past waves, Sachs demonstrates, offer fresh perspective on the ongoing processes taking place in our own time—a globalization based on digital technologies. Sachs emphasizes the need for new methods of international governance and cooperation to prevent conflicts and to achieve economic, social, and environmental objectives aligned with sustainable development. The Ages of Globalization is a vital book for all readers aiming to make sense of our rapidly changing world.
Author | : Chris Harman |
Publisher | : Verso Books |
Total Pages | : 753 |
Release | : 2017-05-02 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1786630818 |
Download A People's History of the World Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Building on A People’s History of the United States, this radical world history captures the broad sweep of human history from the perspective of struggling classes. An “indispensable volume” on class and capitalism throughout the ages—for readers reckoning with the history they were taught and history as it truly was (Howard Zinn) From the earliest human societies to the Holy Roman Empire, from the Middle Ages to the Enlightenment, from the Industrial Revolution to the end of the twentieth century, Chris Harman provides a brilliant and comprehensive history of the human race. Eschewing the standard accounts of “Great Men,” of dates and kings, Harman offers a groundbreaking counter-history, a breathtaking sweep across the centuries in the tradition of “history from below.” In a fiery narrative, he shows how ordinary men and women were involved in creating and changing society and how conflict between classes was often at the core of these developments. While many scholars see the victory of capitalism as now safely secured, Harman explains the rise and fall of societies and civilizations throughout the ages and demonstrates that history moves ever onward in every age. A vital corrective to traditional history, A People's History of the World is essential reading for anyone interested in how society has changed and developed and the possibilities for further radical progress.
Author | : G. Brent Dalrymple |
Publisher | : Stanford University Press |
Total Pages | : 506 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9780804723312 |
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A synthesis of all that has been postulated and is known about the age of the Earth
Author | : Bryan C. Keene |
Publisher | : Getty Publications |
Total Pages | : 300 |
Release | : 2019-09-03 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 160606598X |
Download Toward a Global Middle Ages Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This important and overdue book examines illuminated manuscripts and other book arts of the Global Middle Ages. Illuminated manuscripts and illustrated or decorated books—like today’s museums—preserve a rich array of information about how premodern peoples conceived of and perceived the world, its many cultures, and everyone’s place in it. Often a Eurocentric field of study, manuscripts are prisms through which we can glimpse the interconnected global history of humanity. Toward a Global Middle Ages is the first publication to examine decorated books produced across the globe during the period traditionally known as medieval. Through essays and case studies, the volume’s multidisciplinary contributors expand the historiography, chronology, and geography of manuscript studies to embrace a diversity of objects, individuals, narratives, and materials from Africa, Asia, Australasia, and the Americas—an approach that both engages with and contributes to the emerging field of scholarly inquiry known as the Global Middle Ages. Featuring more than 160 color illustrations, this wide-ranging and provocative collection is intended for all who are interested in engaging in a dialogue about how books and other textual objects contributed to world-making strategies from about 400 to 1600.
Author | : Emanuel Swedenborg |
Publisher | : Swedenborg Foundation |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780854481552 |
Download The Five Ages Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The Five Ages: Swedenborg's View of Spiritual History presents a compelling spiritual and psychological history of human evolution through extracts from the works of the eighteenth-century Swedish philosopher and mystic Emanuel Swedenborg, neatly linking them with an engaging and informative commentary that places the ideas within the context of modern historical and archaeological knowledge.