Children of the Sun: A History of Humanity's Unappeasable Appetite for Energy (Häftad)
avAlfred W. Crosby
ISBN: 9780393931532 - UTGIVEN: 200708All life on earth is dependent on energy from the sun, but one species has evolved to be especially efficient in tapping that supply. This is the story of the human species and its dedicated effort to sustain and elevate itself by making the earth's stores of energy its own. A story of slow evolutio[...]
Throwing Fire (Pocket)
avAlfred W. Crosby
ISBN: 9780521156318 - UTGIVEN: 2010-08Historian Alfred W. Crosby looks at hard, accurate throwing and the manipulation of fire as unique human capabilities. Humans began throwing rocks in prehistory and then progressed to javelins, atlatls, bows and arrows. We learned to make fire by friction and used it to cook, drive game, burn out ri[...]
Ecological Imperialism (Pocket)
avAlfred W. Crosby
ISBN: 9780521546188 - UTGIVEN: 200401People of European descent form the bulk of the population in most of the temperate zones of the world - North America, Australia and New Zealand. The military successes of European imperialism are easy to explain; in many cases they were a matter of firearms against spears. But, as Alfred Crosby ma[...]
The Measure of Reality (Häftad)
avAlfred W. Crosby
ISBN: 9780521639903 - UTGIVEN: 199712Western Europeans were among the first, if not the first, to invent mechanical clocks, geometrically precise maps, double-entry bookkeeping, precise algebraic and musical notations, and perspective painting. By the sixteenth century more people were thinking quantitatively in western Europe than in [...]
Ecological Imperialism (Inbunden)
avAlfred W. Crosby
ISBN: 9780521837323 - UTGIVEN: 2004-01People of European descent form the bulk of the population in most of the temperate zones of the world - North America, Australia and New Zealand. The military successes of European imperialism are easy to explain; in many cases they were a matter of firearms against spears. But, as Alfred Crosby ma[...]
Att mäta verkligheten (Inbunden)
avAlfred W Crosby
ISBN: 9789171507846 - UTGIVEN: 199910Européerna var bland de första som tillverkade mekaniska klockor och ritade geometriskt exakta kartor, med vars hjälp sjömännen kunde navigera rakt över de stora haven. De utvecklade matematiken med hjälp av de indoarabiska siffrorna som ersatte de ohanterliga romerska, och de uppfann den dub[...]
