M Fagan: 15 books
by Brian M. Fagan
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 1997
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 1997
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...
In the Beginning
An Introduction to Archaeology
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2015
Demonstrates the importance of archaeology today
In the Beginning: An Introduction to Archaeology presents the history and methods of archaeology and explores its significance today. The text introduces archeology's basic principles along with numerous examples from all over the world. Authors...
World Prehistory
A Brief Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
This popular introductory textbook provides an overview of more than 3 million years of human prehistory. Written in an accessible and jargon-free style, this engaging volume tells the story of humanity from our beginnings in tropical Africa up to the advent of the world’s first urban civilizations....
People of the Earth
An Introduction to World Prehistory
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2018
People of the Earth is a narrative account of the prehistory of humankind from our origins over 3 million years ago to the first pre-industrial civilizations, beginning about 5,000 years ago. This is a global prehistory, which covers prehistoric times in every corner of the world, in a jargon-free...
Ancient Lives
An Introduction to Archaeology and Prehistory
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2016
Focusing on sites of key significance and the world’s first civilizations, Ancient Lives is an accessible and engaging textbook which introduces complete beginners to the fascinating worlds of archaeology and prehistory. Drawing on their impressive combined experience of the field and the classroom,...
Philosophy of Stem Cell Biology
Knowledge in Flesh and Blood
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2013
This examination of stem cell biology from a philosophy of science perspective clarifies the field's central concept, the stem cell, as well as its aims, methods, models, explanations and evidential challenges. Relations to systems biology and clinical medicine are also discussed.
Keyed Up in Seconds
Idiomerica Book 2
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2018
They’ve experienced a degree of success at peeling back the layers of secrecy shrouding the ruthless Pharma organization that resorts to kidnapping human guinea pigs for some kind of nefarious medical testing and murder to keep meddlers away from their sordid “business,” but Mason and the Jargonauts...
People of the Earth
An Introduction to World Prehistory
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2015
Understand major developments of human prehistory People of the Earth: An Introduction to World Prehistory 14/e, provides an exciting journey though the 7-million-year-old panorama of humankind's past. This internationally renowned text provides the only truly global account of human prehistory from...
Keystone of the Fifth Column
Idiomerica Book 5
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2018
The Jargonauts would like nothing better than for the truth to come into focus like a Polaroid photo, with a clear and favorable outcome, a phoenix from the ashes, a swan from an ugly duckling. But they are plagued by setbacks, false leads, and dashed hopes. The head of the snake is elusive, and the...
Key Figures Get the Third Degree
Idiomerica Book 3
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2018
Whom should you trust? The enormity of the Jargonauts’ mission has reached biblical proportions as they venture into the nation’s Bible Belt to gather information and recruit desperately needed allies to help root out the monstrous Pharma agents, their operating labs, and their frightening recipes....
Passkey to the Formulary
Idiomerica Book 4
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2018
Just when you think things are hopeless, something good can happen. And just when you think you’ve got it made—well, think again. The quest to find the real wizards behind the screen has led the Jargonauts on a nationwide hunt through the minefield of a complex hierarchy of enemy operatives, hundreds...
Through the Keyhole to One L of a Mess
Idiomerica Book 1
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2018
A vague, shadowy trouble lurks beneath the customary tenor of Idiomerica, its citizens unaware of the peril they will soon face. A complex knot of abomination is beginning to cinch down to a stranglehold. Who with but a snowball’s chance in hell would have the audacity to think of challenging the...
German
A Linguistic Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2009
Standard German is spoken by approximately 95 million people worldwide. This book provides an introduction to the linguistic structure of standard German that is rich in descriptive detail and grounded in modern linguistic theory. It describes the main linguistic features: the sounds, structure and...
German Phonetics and Phonology
Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2016
The first course book designed to engage students in the pronunciation of modern German by grounding practice in theory An essential introduction to the pronunciation of modern German, this unique classroom text is designed to help mid- to upper-level undergraduate students of German produce more accurate...
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