wyszukanych pozycji: 50
The Little Ice Age: How Climate Made History 1300-1850
ISBN: 9781541618596 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The groundbreaking history of how climate change transformed Europe and the world, from a renowned archaeologist -- updated with a new preface on the latest climate research
The groundbreaking history of how climate change transformed Europe and the world, from a renowned archaeologist -- updated with a new preface on the ...
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76,31 zł |
Archeologia. Krótka historia
ISBN: 9788381518963 / Polski / broszurowa / 2024 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 6-8 dni roboczych. Przeszłość jest wciąż obecna wokół nas wystarczy tylko chcieć ją dostrzecKiedy myślimy o archeologii, wyobrażamy sobie wykopaliska w poszukiwaniu starożytnych skarbów czy przebijanie tuneli do wnętrza grobowców egipskich faraonów. Archeologia to jednak znacznie więcej to nauka bazująca na ludzkiej ciekawości tego, co było niegdyś.Krótka historia archeologii opowiada o wybitnych archeologach, ich metodach badawczych i zdumiewających odkryciach, których dokonali w różnych epokach i zakątkach świata. Znajdziemy tu historie o sztuce naskalnej epoki lodowcowej,...
Przeszłość jest wciąż obecna wokół nas wystarczy tylko chcieć ją dostrzecKiedy myślimy o archeologii, wyobrażamy sobie wykopaliska w poszu...
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37,99 zł |
Staying Put!: The Art of Anchoring
ISBN: 9780963463524 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 112 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. Anchoring is a key skill for yachtsmen and motor boaters. Indeed, anchoring may be the only way to prevent a boat being blown onto the rocks. No wonder so many pubs are called "Hope and Anchor"!
Anchoring is a key skill for yachtsmen and motor boaters. Indeed, anchoring may be the only way to prevent a boat being blown onto the rocks. No wonde...
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54,43 zł |
The Long Summer: How Climate Changed Civilization
ISBN: 9780465022823 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Humanity evolved in an Ice Age in which glaciers covered much of the world. But starting about 15,000 years ago, temperatures began to climb. Civilization and all of recorded history occurred in this warm period, the era known as the Holocene-the long summer of the human species. In The Long Summer, Brian Fagan brings us the first detailed record of climate change during these 15,000 years of warming, and shows how this climate change gave rise to civilization. A thousand-year chill led people in the Near East to take up the cultivation of plant foods; a catastrophic flood drove...
Humanity evolved in an Ice Age in which glaciers covered much of the world. But starting about 15,000 years ago, temperatures began to climb. Civiliza...
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84,80 zł |
Time Detectives: How Archaeologist Use Technology to Recapture the Past
ISBN: 9780684818283 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. University of California Professor of Anthropology Brian Fagan offers a fascinating look at how the key archaeological discoveries of the past 50 years were made--and how new techniques and devices have led to new insights into ancient civilizations. of photos.
University of California Professor of Anthropology Brian Fagan offers a fascinating look at how the key archaeological discoveries of the past 50 year...
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88,87 zł |
Fishing: How the Sea Fed Civilization
ISBN: 9780300240047 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. The story of humanity's last major source of food from the wild and how it enabled and shaped the growth of civilization
The story of humanity's last major source of food from the wild and how it enabled and shaped the growth of civilization
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82,01 zł |
Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations
ISBN: 9780465005307 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In 1999, few people had thought to examine the effects of climate on civilization. Now, due in part to the groundbreaking work of archaeologist Brian Fagan, climate change is a central issue. Revised and updated ten years after its first publication, Floods, Famines and Emperors remains the definitive account of how the world's best-known climate event had an indelible impact on history.
In 1999, few people had thought to examine the effects of climate on civilization. Now, due in part to the groundbreaking work of archaeologist Brian ...
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142,83 zł |
A Little History of Archaeology
ISBN: 9780300243215 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 1-3 dni roboczych. |
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52,30 zł |
The Journey from Eden: The Peopling of the World
ISBN: 9781597409681 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 258 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. A history of Homo sapiens and the spread of humanity across the continents. Line illustrations are included.
A history of Homo sapiens and the spread of humanity across the continents. Line illustrations are included.
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184,40 zł |
Clash of Cultures
ISBN: 9780761991465 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In Europe it was called the Age of Discovery. To the rest of the world, it often meant slavery, epidemic disease, cultural genocide, and wholesale social and economic changes. What happened in the period when Europe first came in contact with the rest of the world? In this new edition of Brian Fagan's Clash of Cultures, the best-selling author offers a series of fascinating cases on the impact of cultural contact, including cultures such as those of the Huron fur traders, South African Khoi Khoi, Tahitians, Japanese, and Aztecs. Each case provides a description of the pre-European culture,...
In Europe it was called the Age of Discovery. To the rest of the world, it often meant slavery, epidemic disease, cultural genocide, and wholesale soc...
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297,30 zł |
Grahame Clark : An Intellectual Biography Of An Archaeologist
ISBN: 9780813341132 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 327 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The British archaeologist Grahame Clark was a seminal figure in European and world archaeology for more than half of the twentieth century, but, at the same time, one whose reputation has been outshone by other, more visible luminaries. His works were never aimed at a wide general public, nor did he become a television or radio personality. Clark was, above all, a scholar, whose contributions to world archaeology were enormous. He was also convinced that the study of prehistory was important for all humanity and spent his career saying so. For this, he was awarded the prestigious Erasmus...
The British archaeologist Grahame Clark was a seminal figure in European and world archaeology for more than half of the twentieth century, but, at th...
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228,62 zł |
Fish on Friday: Feasting, Fasting, and the Discovery of the New World
ISBN: 9780465022854 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. What gave Christopher Columbus the confidence in 1492 to set out across the Atlantic Ocean? Fish on Friday tells the story of the discovery of America as a product of the long sweep of history: the spread of Christianity and the radical cultural changes it brought to Europe, the interaction of economic necessity with a changing climate, and generations of unknown fishermen who explored the North Atlantic in the centuries before Columbus. A fascinating and multifaceted book, Fish on Friday will intrigue everyone who wonders how the vast forces of climate, culture, and technology...
What gave Christopher Columbus the confidence in 1492 to set out across the Atlantic Ocean? Fish on Friday tells the story of the discovery of ...
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136,90 zł |
Lord and Pharaoh: Carnarvon and the Search for Tutankhamun
ISBN: 9781629581514 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 183 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Both born to power and wealth, and raised by courtiers, they lived lives of aristocrats and landowners, in poor health and with uncertain futures. Though they lived over 3000 years apart, the lives of Egyptian King Tutankhamun and the fifth Lord Carnarvon share many parallels, not the least of which was Carnarvon's sponsorship of the team that found the pharaoh's tomb in the Valley of the Kings. Brian Fagan's narrative expertly weaves these two lives together, showing similarities and differences between these two powerful men. -Both figures are placed in their historical context, showing the...
Both born to power and wealth, and raised by courtiers, they lived lives of aristocrats and landowners, in poor health and with uncertain futures. Tho...
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197,43 zł |
Writing Archaeology : Telling Stories About the Past
ISBN: 9781598746099 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 215 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Archaeology's best known author of popular books and texts distills decades of experience in this well-received guide designed to help others wanting to broaden the audience for their work. Brian Fagan's no nonsense approach explains how to get started writing, how to use the tools of experienced writers to make archaeology come alive, and how to get your work revised and finished. He also describes the process by which publishers decide to accept your work, and the path your publication will follow after it is accepted by a press. The new edition contains chapters on academic writing and on...
Archaeology's best known author of popular books and texts distills decades of experience in this well-received guide designed to help others wanting ...
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192,23 zł |
Chaco Canyon: Archaeologists Explore the Lives of an Ancient Society
ISBN: 9780195170436 / Angielski / Twarda / 2005 / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Chaco Canyon, New Mexico, has been called the Stonehenge of North America. Its spectacular pueblos, or great houses, are world famous and have attracted the attention of archaeologists for more than a century.
Beautifully illustrated with color and black-and-white photographs, Chaco Canyon draws on the very latest research on Chaco and its environs to tell the remarkable story of the people of the canyon, from foraging bands and humble farmers to the elaborate society that flourished between the tenth and twelfth centuries A.D. Brian Fagan is a master story teller, and he weaves the... Chaco Canyon, New Mexico, has been called the Stonehenge of North America. Its spectacular pueblos, or great houses, are world famous and have attract...
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129,34 zł |
The Great Archaeologists
ISBN: 9780500296752 / Miękka / 2022 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
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67,37 zł |
From Black Land to Fifth Sun: The Science of Sacred Sites
ISBN: 9780738201412 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Until recently, archaeology was concerned mainly with piecing together the material lives of our ancestors. In this groundbreaking book, master storyteller and respected archaeologist Brian Fagan explains how cutting-edge science can now take us beyond the artifacts--into the mystical realm of shamans and spirit mediums, ancestor worship, and ritual sacrifice. From the Nile's black land to the Aztec's world of the Fifth Sun, from Stonehenge to Jericho, Fagan describes how Accelerator Mass Spectrometry, Geographic Information Systems, Computer Automated Design-mapping and other sophisticated...
Until recently, archaeology was concerned mainly with piecing together the material lives of our ancestors. In this groundbreaking book, master storyt...
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154,71 zł |
Grahame Clark: An Intellectual Biography of an Archaeologist
ISBN: 9780367316037 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The British archaeologist Grahame Clark was a seminal figure in European and world archaeology for more than half of the twentieth century, but, at the same time, one whose reputation has been outshone by other, more visible luminaries. His works were never aimed at a wide general public, nor did he become a television or radio personality. Clark w
The British archaeologist Grahame Clark was a seminal figure in European and world archaeology for more than half of the twentieth century, but, at th...
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701,59 zł |
The Rape of the Nile: Tomb Robbers, Tourists, and Archaeologists in Egypt, Revised and Updated
ISBN: 9780813340616 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. A narrative history of the cavalcade of archaeologists, charlatans, thieves, self-promoters, and sightseers who have flocked to the Nile Valley since early times to study - or steal - the wonders of ancient Egypt. The scandalous rape of Ancient Egypt is a historical vignette of greed, vanity, and dedicated archaeological research. It is a tale vividly told by renowned archaeology author, Brian Fagan, with characters that include the ancient historian Herodotus; Theban tomb robbers; obelisk-stealing Romans; Coptic Christians determined to erase the heretical past; mummy traders; leisured...
A narrative history of the cavalcade of archaeologists, charlatans, thieves, self-promoters, and sightseers who have flocked to the Nile Valley since ...
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136,90 zł |
From Stonehenge to Samarkand: An Anthology of Archaeological Travel Writing
ISBN: 9780195160918 / Angielski / Twarda / 2006 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Ever since Roman tourists scratched graffiti on the pyramids and temples of Egypt over two thousand years ago, people have traveled far and wide seeking the great wonders of antiquity. In From Stonehenge to Samarkand, noted archaeologist and popular writer Brian Fagan offers an engaging historical account of our enduring love of ancient architecture--the irresistible impulse to visit strange lands in search of lost cities and forgotten monuments.
Here is a marvelous history of archaeological tourism, with generous excerpts from the writings of the tourists themselves. Readers will find... Ever since Roman tourists scratched graffiti on the pyramids and temples of Egypt over two thousand years ago, people have traveled far and wide seeki...
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131,80 zł |