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  • Foundations of Eurasianism: Volume II by Arnold, Jafe
    Jafe Arnold

    Foundations of Eurasianism: Volume II

    A century ago, between the uneasy aftermath of the First World War and the chaos of the Russian Revolution, an elite group of Russian intellectuals announced the discovery of a new continent they called "Eurasia", a sprawling landmass wedged between Europe and Asia fated...
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  • Incomplete Ignorance at Play: Poetic Musings on the Origin and Destiny of Human Life by Gustafson, Scott W.
    Scott W. Gustafson

    Incomplete Ignorance at Play: Poetic Musings on the Origin and Destiny of Human Life

    In verse, rhyme and original art, Incomplete Ignorance at Play demonstrates the author's incomplete ignorance of the many subjects this poem addresses. It is divided into three books - Emergence, Divergence and Convergence - where topics from the Big Bang to Hiroshima are "playfully"...
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  • The Journey of Humanity: A New History of Wealth and Inequality with Implications for Our Future by Galor, Oded
    Oded Galor

    The Journey of Humanity: A New History of Wealth and Inequality with Implications for Our Future

    A landmark, radically uplifting account of our species' progress, from one of the world's preeminent thinkers. "Unparalleled in its scope and ambition...All readers will learn something, and many will find the book fascinating.'--The Washington Post "Breathtaking. A new Sapiens!" --L'Express "Completely brilliant and utterly...
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  • Eurasian Universism: Sinitic Orientations for Rethinking the Western Logos by Ansprandi, Xantio
    Xantio Ansprandi

    Eurasian Universism: Sinitic Orientations for Rethinking the Western Logos

    The cosmic map of the 21st century exhibits imbalance and disorder. On one end of the Eurasian continent, Europe faces a deep civilizational, philosophical, and spiritual crisis, its Logos rapidly dissipating in the whirl of Chaos alongside the breakdown of the modern Western world...
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  • PALE SKIN, GIANTS, and the GREAT TRANSITION by Brener, Milton
    Milton Brener

    PALE SKIN, GIANTS, and the GREAT TRANSITION

    This book, Milton Brener's third on the subject of UFOs and extraterrestrials, is a giant leap. He delves into an analysis of much current scientific evidence that appears to add credence to claims of early hybridization of the human race. It is an entirely...
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  • The Start: Origin of Civilisation by Angus, Kenneth John
    Kenneth John Angus

    The Start: Origin of Civilisation

    Questions have always been raised about the origins of the world's first civilisation and why they chose such an inhospitable land to start their quest. The people looked and sounded different from the surrounding clans and seemed to appear from nowhere. They didn't just...
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  • Making the Union Work: Scotland, 1651-1763 by Murdoch, Alexander
    Alexander Murdoch

    Making the Union Work: Scotland, 1651-1763

    Making the Union Work: Scotland, 1651-1763, explores and analyses existing narratives of Jacobitism and Unionism in late seventeenth to mid-eighteenth century Scotland. Using in-depth archival research, the book questions the extent to which the currency of kinship patronage politics persisted in Scotland as the...
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  • The Horde: How the Mongols Changed the World by Favereau, Marie
    Marie Favereau

    The Horde: How the Mongols Changed the World

    Cundill Prize FinalistA Financial Times Book of the YearA Spectator Book of the YearA Five Books Book of the Year The Mongols are known for one thing: conquest. But in this first comprehensive history of the Horde, the western portion of the Mongol empire...
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  • Knowing What We Know: The Transmission of Knowledge: From Ancient Wisdom to Modern Magic by Winchester, Simon
    Simon Winchester

    Knowing What We Know: The Transmission of Knowledge: From Ancient Wisdom to Modern Magic

    From the creation of the first encyclopedia to Wikipedia, from ancient museums to modern kindergarten classes this is award winning writer Simon Winchester s brilliant and all-encompassing look at how humans acquire, retain, and pass on information and data, and how technology continues to...
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  • Knowing What We Know: The Transmission of Knowledge: From Ancient Wisdom to Modern Magic by Winchester, Simon
    Simon Winchester

    Knowing What We Know: The Transmission of Knowledge: From Ancient Wisdom to Modern Magic

    From the creation of the first encyclopedia to Wikipedia, from ancient museums to modern kindergarten classes this is award winning writer Simon Winchester s brilliant and all-encompassing look at how humans acquire, retain, and pass on information and data, and how technology continues to...
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  • Earthly Materials: Journeys Through Our Bodies' Emissions, Excretions, and Disintegrations by Wood, Cutter
    Cutter Wood

    Earthly Materials: Journeys Through Our Bodies' Emissions, Excretions, and Disintegrations

    Bill Bryson's The Body meets Mary Roach's Gulp (with a dash of What's Your Poo Telling You?) in this rollicking and delightfully educational tour of our bodily emissions--from mucus to sweat to poop--revealing them to be as fascinating as they are embarrassing and proving...
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  • Empires of the Steppes: A History of the Nomadic Tribes Who Shaped Civilization by Harl, Kenneth
    Kenneth Harl

    Empires of the Steppes: A History of the Nomadic Tribes Who Shaped Civilization

    A narrative history of how Attila, Genghis Khan and the so-called barbarians of the steppes shaped world civilization. For readers of The Storm before the Storm, The Silk Road and Ten Caesars. The barbarian nomads of the Eurasian steppes have played a decisive role...
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  • Energy and Civilization Lib/E: A History by Smil, Vaclav
    Vaclav Smil

    Energy and Civilization Lib/E: A History

    Author: Vaclav SmilISBN-10: 8200556174ISBN-13: 9798200556175Publisher: Gildan Media CorporationLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/08/2018Format: CD
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  • Understanding Harappa: Civilization in the Greater Indus Valley by Ratnagar, Shereen
    Shereen Ratnagar

    Understanding Harappa: Civilization in the Greater Indus Valley

    This slim volume is an attempt to rouse the interest of students and non-specialists in the early civilization of the Indus valley and adjoining regions of Pakistan and India. The challenges of archaeological interpretation are discussed, together with maps, site plans and illustrations of...
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  • Shipwrecks, Legal Landscapes and Mediterranean Paradigms: Gone Under Sea by Mataix Ferrándiz, Emilia
    Emilia Mataix Ferr疣diz

    Shipwrecks, Legal Landscapes and Mediterranean Paradigms: Gone Under Sea

    Now available in Open Access thanks to the support of the University of Helsinki.This book changes our understanding of the Roman conceptions about the sea by placing the focus on shipwrecks as events that act as bridges between the sea and the land. The...
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  • Roman Satire by Ferriss-Hill, Jennifer
    Jennifer Ferriss-Hill

    Roman Satire

    How do you insert yourself into an artistic canon? How do you establish yourself as a worthy successor to your predecessors while making your own mark on a genre? How do you police a genre's boundaries to keep out the unwanted? With particular attention...
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  • Libertas and Res Publica in the Roman Republic: Ideas of Freedom and Roman Politics by Balmaceda
    Catalina Balmaceda

    Libertas and Res Publica in the Roman Republic: Ideas of Freedom and Roman Politics

    Libertas and Res Publica in the Roman Republic offers some essential ideas for an understanding of Roman politics during the Republican period by analysing two key concepts: libertas (liberty) and res publica (public matter, republic). Exploring these concepts through a variety of different aspects...
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  • Text Editions of (Abnormal) Hieratic, Demotic, Greek, Latin and Coptic Papyri and Ostraca: Some People Love Their Friends Even When They Are Far Away: by A. J. C. Van Loon, Guus
    Guus A. J. C. Van Loon

    Text Editions of (Abnormal) Hieratic, Demotic, Greek, Latin and Coptic Papyri and Ostraca: Some People Love Their Friends Even When They Are Far Away:

    This volume is a Festschrift in honour of Francisca Hoogendijk, containing contributions by forty friends, colleagues and former students. It includes fifty-six editions and re-editions of (Abnormal) Hieratic, Demotic, Greek, Latin and Coptic texts, most of them from Ancient Egypt. The texts are as...
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  • Roman Colonies in Republic and Empire by Jo Coles, Amanda
    Amanda Jo Coles

    Roman Colonies in Republic and Empire

    The Romans founded colonies throughout Italy and the provinces from the early Republic through the high Empire. Far from being mere 'bulwarks of empire, ' these colonies were established by diverse groups or magistrates for a range of reasons that responded to the cultural...
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  • Cassius Dio: The Impact of Violence, War, and Civil War by Hjort Lange
    Carsten Hjort Lange

    Cassius Dio: The Impact of Violence, War, and Civil War

    Cassius Dio: The Impact of Violence, War, and Civil War is part of a renewed interest in the Roman historian Cassius Dio. This volume focuses on Dio's approaches to foreign war and stasis as well as civil war. The impact of war on Rome...
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  • Wooden Furniture in Herculaneum: Form, Technique and Function by Mols
    Stephan T. a. M. Mols

    Wooden Furniture in Herculaneum: Form, Technique and Function

    This study presents an overview of the wooden furniture that has come to light since the rediscovery of Herculaneum in the 18th century, with an emphasis on the form, function and the techniques employed. The combination of comments in the excavation reports with the...
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  • Rome, Global Dreams, and the International Origins of an Empire by Davies
    Sarah Davies

    Rome, Global Dreams, and the International Origins of an Empire

    In Rome, Global Dreams, and the International Origins of an Empire, Sarah Davies explores how the Roman Republic evolved, in ideological terms, into an "Empire without end." This work stands out within Roman imperialism studies by placing a distinct emphasis on the role of...
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  • The Impact of the Roman Empire on Landscapes: Proceedings of the Fourteenth Workshop of the International Network Impact of Empire (Mainz, June 12-15, by Horster, Marietta
    Marietta Horster

    The Impact of the Roman Empire on Landscapes: Proceedings of the Fourteenth Workshop of the International Network Impact of Empire (Mainz, June 12-15,

    This volume presents the results of the fourteenth workshop of the international network 'Impact of Empire'. It focuses on the ways in which Rome's dominance influenced, changed, and created landscapes, and examines in which ways (Roman) landscapes were narrated and semantically represented. To assess...
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  • Empires of the Sea: Maritime Power Networks in World History by Strootman, Rolf
    Rolf Strootman

    Empires of the Sea: Maritime Power Networks in World History

    Empires of the Sea brings together studies of maritime empires from the Bronze Age to the Eighteenth Century. The volume aims to establish maritime empires as a category for the (comparative) study of premodern empires, and from a partly 'non-western' perspective. The book includes...
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  • Cassius Dio's Forgotten History of Early Rome: The Roman History, Books 1-21 by Burden-Strevens
    Christopher Burden-Strevens

    Cassius Dio's Forgotten History of Early Rome: The Roman History, Books 1-21

    In a radical change of approach, Cassius Dio's Forgotten History of Early Rome illuminates the least explored and understood part of Cassius Dio's enormous Roman History: the first two decads, which span over half a millennium of history and constitute a quarter of Dio's...
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  • Rome and the Indian Ocean Trade from Augustus to the Early Third Century Ce by A. Cobb
    Matthew A. Cobb

    Rome and the Indian Ocean Trade from Augustus to the Early Third Century Ce

    In Rome and the Indian Ocean Trade from Augustus to the Early Third Century CE Matthew Adam Cobb examines the development of commercial exchange between the Mediterranean and the Indian Ocean worlds from the Roman annexation of Egypt (30 BCE) up to the early...
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  • Ptolemy I and the Transformation of Egypt, 404-282 Bce by McKechnie
    Paul McKechnie

    Ptolemy I and the Transformation of Egypt, 404-282 Bce

    Amyrtaeus, only pharaoh of the Twenty-eighth Dynasty, shook off the shackles of Persian rule in 404 BCE; a little over seventy years later, Ptolemy son of Lagus started the 'Greek millennium' (J.G. Manning's phrase) in Egypt―living long enough to leave a powerful kingdom to...
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  • Brill's Companion to Propertius by Günther, Hans-Christian
    Hans-Christian G?ther

    Brill's Companion to Propertius

    The present volume provides a comprehensive guide to one of the most difficult authors of classical antiquity. All the major aspects of Propertius' work, its themes, the poetical technique, its sources and models, as well as the history of Propertian scholarship and the vexed...
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  • Brill's Companion to Herodotus by Bakker
    Egbert J. Bakker

    Brill's Companion to Herodotus

    Herodotus' Histories can be read in many ways. Their literary qualities, never in dispute, can be more fully appreciated in the light of recent developments in the study of pragmatics, narratology, and orality. Their intellectual status has been radically reassessed: no longer regarded as...
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  • Island at the End of the World: The Turbulent History of Easter Island by Fischer, Steven Roger
    Steven Roger Fischer

    Island at the End of the World: The Turbulent History of Easter Island

    On a long stretch of green coast in the South Pacific, hundreds of enormous, impassive stone heads stand guard against the ravages of time, war, and disease that have attempted over the centuries to conquer Easter Island. Steven Roger Fischer offers the first English-language...
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  • The Muslim Heritage of Bengal: The Lives, Thoughts and Achievements of Great Muslim Scholars, Writers and Reformers of Bangladesh and West Bengal by Khan, Muhammad Mojlum
    Muhammad Mojlum Khan

    The Muslim Heritage of Bengal: The Lives, Thoughts and Achievements of Great Muslim Scholars, Writers and Reformers of Bangladesh and West Bengal

    "The Muslim Heritage of Bengal is a multidimensional work. . . . I am sure this book will add to the vista of knowledge in the field of Muslim history and heritage of Bengal. I recommend this work."--A. K. M. Yaqub Ali, PhD, professor...
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  • The Descent of Japanese Father God Ame-no-Mioya-Gami by Okawa, Ryuho
    Ryuho Okawa

    The Descent of Japanese Father God Ame-no-Mioya-Gami

    There used to be the God called Ame-no-Mioya-Gami in Japan. He came from the Andromeda Galaxy to land on the foothills of Mt. Fuji about 30,000 years ago. Using his spiritual abilities, the author and spiritual leader Ryuho Okawa explored the mystery of the...
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  • Uluru and the Star People by Barrow, Valerie
    Valerie Barrow

    Uluru and the Star People

    "The day science begins to study non-physical phenomena, it will make more progress in one decade than in all the previous centuries of its existence."- Nikola Tesla. We have experienced Star Wars on our Planet. ULURU is a result of a star war that...
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  • Man Through the Ages: A Global History by Bowle, John
    John Bowle

    Man Through the Ages: A Global History

    A panoramic history of humanity, exploring the debt that the modern societies owe to their forebears. Perfect for readers of Jared Diamond, Paul Kennedy and Yuval Noah Harari. How have societies, cultures and traditions from across the globe shaped our conception of who we...
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  • Atlantis: The Origins Of Ancient Civilizations And Mystery (New Evidence Of A Previous Technological Civilization) by Gill, David
    David Gill

    Atlantis: The Origins Of Ancient Civilizations And Mystery (New Evidence Of A Previous Technological Civilization)

    Atlantis Discloses The Star Beings And Earth's Ancient Mystical History. This Book Reveals The Truth About The Source And Creation Of Everything, The Various Extraterrestrial Races, The Formation And Destruction Of Lemuria And Atlantis, And Earth's Mystery Schools And Secret Societies. Absorb Mystical Teachings...
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  • Indus Valley Civilization: A Quick Glance to the Indus Valley Civilization (The History and Legacy of Ancient India's Most Influential Powers) by Townsley, Drew
    Drew Townsley

    Indus Valley Civilization: A Quick Glance to the Indus Valley Civilization (The History and Legacy of Ancient India's Most Influential Powers)

    The dynasty that came to power in the late 4th century bce is known today as the mauryan dynasty, and although the ruling family was short-lived and their power was ephemeral, its influence resonated for several subsequent centuries and spread as far east as...
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  • Mayan Civilization: An Essay on the Collapse of Mayan Civilization (Explore the History and Mystery of the Ancient Mayan Ruins) by Guzman, Cherly
    Cherly Guzman

    Mayan Civilization: An Essay on the Collapse of Mayan Civilization (Explore the History and Mystery of the Ancient Mayan Ruins)

    Are you interested in learning what our ancestors studied, built, and how they entertained themselves?Do you find the internet to be an overwhelming place and want all the information compiled into one convenient location?I have studied the mayan civilization and have come to the...
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  • The French Invention of Menopause and the Medicalisation of Women's Ageing: A History by Downham Moore, Alison M.
    Alison M. Downham Moore

    The French Invention of Menopause and the Medicalisation of Women's Ageing: A History

    Doctors writing about menopause in France vastly outnumbered those in other cultures throughout the entire nineteenth century. The concept of menopause was invented by French male medical students in the aftermath of the French Revolution, becoming an important pedagogic topic and a common theme...
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  • Foundations of Eurasianism: Volume II by Arnold, Jafe
    Jafe Arnold

    Foundations of Eurasianism: Volume II

    A century ago, between the uneasy aftermath of the First World War and the chaos of the Russian Revolution, an elite group of Russian intellectuals announced the discovery of a new continent they called "Eurasia", a sprawling landmass wedged between Europe and Asia fated...
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  • Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age by Newitz, Annalee
    Annalee Newitz

    Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age

    Author: Annalee NewitzISBN-10: 1665115629ISBN-13: 9781665115629Publisher: HighBridge AudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/09/2021Format: MP3 CDWeight: 0.17lbs
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  • Technology: New Trajectories in Law by Crofts, Penny
    Penny Crofts

    Technology: New Trajectories in Law

    Placing contemporary technological developments in their historical context, this book argues for the importance of law in their regulation. Technological developments are focused upon overcoming physical and human constraints. There are no normative constraints inherent in the quest for ongoing and future technological development....
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  • Transcending Modernity with Relational Thinking by Donati, Pierpaolo
    Pierpaolo Donati

    Transcending Modernity with Relational Thinking

    The Open Access version of this book, available at http: //www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9781003146698, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license. This book explores the ways in which social relations are profoundly changing modern society, arguing that, constituting a reality of...
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  • The Descent of Japanese Father God Ame-no-Mioya-Gami by Okawa, Ryuho
    Ryuho Okawa

    The Descent of Japanese Father God Ame-no-Mioya-Gami

    There used to be the God called Ame-no-Mioya-Gami in Japan. He came from the Andromeda Galaxy to land on the foothills of Mt. Fuji about 30,000 years ago. Using his spiritual abilities, the author and spiritual leader Ryuho Okawa explored the mystery of the...
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  • BC to 1066: An early history of eastern Sussex and the Battle area from the Dawn of Time to the death of Edward the Confessor by Foord, Keith
    Keith Foord

    BC to 1066: An early history of eastern Sussex and the Battle area from the Dawn of Time to the death of Edward the Confessor

    The book covers from time immemorial until 1066 the history of eastern Sussex which may mistakenly appear to have been a bit of a backwater. It was shaped by its geology and its geography, with the English Channel to the south, the deep Andreadsweald...
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  • A Time for Every Purpose Under Heaven: An Exploration of Sacred History by Heiser, James D.
    James D. Heiser

    A Time for Every Purpose Under Heaven: An Exploration of Sacred History

    What is history? For many post-modern men-maltreated and miseducated by substandard pseudo-educators in the holding pens which society calls "public schools"-history is just a string of disassociated events which reduces to a catalog of 'one blasted thing after another.' Taught to avoid any awareness...
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  • A Brief History of Motion: From the Wheel, to the Car, to What Comes Next by Standage, Tom
    Tom Standage

    A Brief History of Motion: From the Wheel, to the Car, to What Comes Next

    From the bestselling author of A History of the World in 6 Glasses, an eye-opening road trip through 5,500 years of humans on the go, revealing how transportation inevitably shapes civilization. Hailed for their "colorful, smooth, and wonderfully engaging" writing (Smithsonian), Tom Standage's fleet-footed...
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  • New Age Bible of Mother Africa (Vol.2): Black Consciousness, Ancient Alien Gods, Metaphysics, Kemetic Spirituality & African Origins of Civilization by Lindsey-Billingsley, T.
    T. Lindsey-Billingsley

    New Age Bible of Mother Africa (Vol.2): Black Consciousness, Ancient Alien Gods, Metaphysics, Kemetic Spirituality & African Origins of Civilization

    A scientific exploration into our extraterrestrial ancestors and their creation us. The Facts presented in the manual, are to support the idea of "Intelligent Design of Life on Earth". Establishing the Creation of Mankind, African Origins of Humanity and Civilization. This no-nonsense philosophical study...
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  • Civilizations of Africa: The History and Culture of the Mbuti (Pygmy) by Charles River Editors
    Charles River

    Civilizations of Africa: The History and Culture of the Mbuti (Pygmy)

    *Explains the origins, history, religion, and social structure of the Mbuti *Includes ancient descriptions of pygmies and theories about their evolution. *Includes a Bibliography for further reading. " T]heir eyes had an untameable wildness about them that struck me as very remarkable." - French-American...
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  • How Capitalism Ends: History, Ideology and Progress by Paxton, Steve
    Steve Paxton

    How Capitalism Ends: History, Ideology and Progress

    While the past 300 years have witnessed immense growth in productive capacity, the 'logic' of capitalist production is now pushing progress in all the wrong directions. We've passed the point where our biggest enemy is material scarcity. Our problems no longer revolve around insufficient...
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  • We, Hominids: A Journey Into What Makes Us Human by Westerman, Frank
    Frank Westerman

    We, Hominids: A Journey Into What Makes Us Human

    A roving philosophical journey into what makes us human. In this charming, thought-provoking book, one of Holland's greatest non-fiction writers hunts down answers to humanity's most fundamental questions: Who are we? What makes us different from animals? With an ancient skull as his starting...
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