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Series
Publisher
[Distributed by] Recorded Books
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
25 sound discs (ca. 12 hr.): digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Around 10,000 years ago, the small group of Paleolithic hunter-gatherers that had walked the earth for millennia gave way to increasingly complex Neolithic villages of agricultural producers. Around 4,000-5,000 years later, people had gathered in urban settings, established laws, and developed cultural and political systems. This remarkable change took place in Mesopotamia, on the North China plain, in the Indus Valley, in the Nile Valley, on Aegean...
Author
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
xiv, 332 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Turn on the faucet, and water pours out. Pull out the drain plug, and the dirty water disappears. Most of us give little thought to the hidden systems that bring us water and take it away when we're done with it. But these underappreciated marvels of engineering face an array of challenges that cannot be solved without a fundamental change to our relationship with water, David Sedlak explains in this enlightening book. To make informed decisions about...
23) A million years in a day: a curious history of everyday life from the Stone Age to the phone age
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Who invented beds? When did we start cleaning our teeth? How old are wine and beer? Which came first: the toilet seat or toilet paper? What was the first clock? Every day, from the moment our alarm clock wakes us in the morning until our head hits our pillow at night, we all take part in rituals that are millennia old.Structured around one ordinary day, A Million Years in a Day reveals the astonishing origins and development of the daily practices...
Author
Publisher
Bear & Company
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
xx, 300 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
How the global mind drives the evolution of both consciousness and civilization: explains how our brains receive consciousness from the global mind, which upgrades human consciousness according to a pre-set divine time frame; reveals how the Mayan Calendar provides a blueprint for these consciousness downloads throughout history; examines the mind shift in humans and the development of pyramids and civilization in ancient Egypt, Sumer, South America,...
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