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Series
Publisher
Teaching Company
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (approximately 720 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 book.
Language
English
Description
Discover how the immense variety of matter (stars, mountains, plants, people) is made by a limited number of elements that combine in simple ways. In these engaging lectures, no scientific background is needed to appreciate everyday miracles like a bouncing rubber ball or water's astonishing power to dissolve. Knowledge of materials drives the development of civilization.
Author
Publisher
ISLET-Verlag
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
xxvi, 309 pages : illustrations (black and white), map ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Aothor takes us on an epic journey through the economies of ancient civilizations and reveals their relevance for us today. For the past 40 years, in conjunction with Harvard's Peabody Museum, he and his colleagues have documented how interest-bearing debt was invented in Bronze Age Mesopotamia, and then disseminated to the ancient world. What the Bronze Age rulers understood was that avoiding economic instability required regular royal debt cancellations....
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