"A trailblazing account of human history, challenging our most fundamental assumptions about social evolution-from the development of agriculture and cities to the emergence of "the state," political violence, and social inequality-and revealing new possibilities for human emancipation"--

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"The Story of Ireland" is an 1887 work by Emily Lawless that offers the reader a fantastic overview of Irish history. The Hon. Emily Lawless (1845-1913) was an Irish historian, gardener, poet, entomologist, and novelist of the early modern period. Contents include: "Primeval Ireland", "The Legends and the Legend Makers", "Pre-Christian Ireland", "St Patrick the Missionary", "The First Irish Monasteries", "St Columba and the Western Church", "The Northern...

What's This Book About? Through a series of unlikely events, Justice Miller, a university professor and former hockey star, discovers profound secrets about the fundamental nature of human civilization, the perils we face, and unexpected prospects for a brighter future. Not one to shy away from a fight, she and a group of activists provoke establishment adversaries as they pursue new solutions and strategies to confront our social and ecological...

Eyes were one of the very first body parts to evolve more than 500 million years ago, and their structure has remained virtually unchanged through most of evolutionary history. But eyes alone were never enough for Homo sapiens. From the mastery of fire, a million years ago to the smartphone today, humans have repeatedly invented new ways to see their surroundings, each other and themselves. Artificial light, art, mirrors, writing, lenses, printing,...

Navigators Forging a Matriarchal Culture evidences the women's efforts to cuddle, cradle and nurtured the culture from its early development to a robust praxis which sustained the indigenous Polynesian-Navigators for over 3000 years. The Orator Chief's treatise, here, is a historiography and autobiographical story of the Navigators' cultural development and history. It is historiographical, because the first documented Island histories were made as...

Li-emba is the cause of any and everything, it explains any and everything, and it solves nothing and nothing at all. Along with its brother, Nyongo, Li-emba is a Community Destroyer that has wreaked havoc in communities both rural and urban, a discord exploited by the Nga-nga (Yoworite) business enterprise, living off a people who are bent on chasing the shadows of their compatriots. The Nga-nga entrepreneur must ensure the maintenance of the Li-emba-Nyongo...

Este ejercicio etnográfico navega, describe y vislumbra las voces de mujeres en la Cárcel Rodrigo de Bastidas en Santa Marta, que, a partir de su experiencia, generan reflexiones profundas alrededor de la necesidad de crear e implementar una política pública para mujeres privadas de la libertad. Combinando el rigor científico con narrativas en tiempo real, se da un giro en la creación de conocimiento: estos testimonios constituyen un necesario...

Professor Julie Peteet believes that the concept of mobility is key to understanding how place and space act as forms of power, identity, and meaning among Palestinians in Israel today. In Space and Mobility in Palestine, she investigates how Israeli policies of closure and separation influence Palestinian concerns about constructing identity, the ability to give meaning to place, and how Palestinians comprehend, experience, narrate, and respond to...

Has apocalyptic thinking contributed to some of our nation's biggest problems-inequality, permanent war, and the despoiling of our natural resources? From the Puritans to the present, historian and public policy advocate Betsy Hartmann sheds light on a pervasive but-until now-invisible theme shaping the American mindset: apocalyptic thinking, or the belief that the end of the world is nigh. Hartmann makes a compelling case that apocalyptic fears are...