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Hellenistic culture : fusion and diffusion / by Hadas, Moses,1900-1966.(CARDINAL)125616;
Bibliography: pages 291-314.
Subjects: Hellenism.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Only in London / by Shaykh, Ḥanān.(CARDINAL)780152; Cobham, Catherine.(CARDINAL)765532;
On a flight from Dubai to London, a sudden turbulence throws together four people from different corners of the Arab world and after the plane lands, their lives remain entwined as they seek love and liberty in London's burgeoning Arab community.
Subjects: Novels.; Arabs; Culture diffusion;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Memory and the Mediterranean / by Braudel, Fernand.(CARDINAL)150063; Ayala, Roselyne de.(CARDINAL)306368; Braudel, Paule.(CARDINAL)638441; Reynolds, Sian.(CARDINAL)757519;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 345-347) and index.
Subjects: Antiquities, Prehistoric; Culture diffusion; Historical geography.;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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A study of the diffusion of culture in a relatively isolated mountain county / by Winston, Ellen,1903-1984.;
Bibliographic references included (pages 114-117).
Available copies: 0 / Total copies: 1
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Gods of the Cataclysm : a revolutionary investigation of man and his gods before and after the Great Cataclysm / by Fox, Hugh,1932-2011.(CARDINAL)126209;
Bibliography: pages 283-288.
Subjects: Civilization; Culture diffusion.; Mythology; Religion;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Guns, germs, and steel : the fates of human societies / by Diamond, Jared M.(CARDINAL)272935;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 429-457) and index.1440LAccelerated Reader AR
Subjects: Social evolution.; Civilization; Ethnology.; Human beings; Culture diffusion.;
Available copies: 0 / Total copies: 2
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Guns, germs, and steel [sound recording]: the fates of human societies by Diamond, Jared M.(CARDINAL)272935; Ordunio, Doug,1950-nrt.;
Read by Doug Ordunio.The physicist and evolutionary biologist explains why Eurasians conquered Native Americans, Australians, and Africans, instead of the reverse. Relying on science and not racism, he explains that geographical and environmental factors shaped populations. Pulitzer prize for general nonfiction.
Subjects: Audiobooks.; Civilization; Culture diffusion.; Ethnology.; Human beings; Social evolution.;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 3
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Guns, germs, and steel : the fates of human societies / by Diamond, Jared M.(CARDINAL)272935;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 442-471) and index.Yali's question: The regionally differing courses of history -- From Eden to Cajamarca. Up to the starting line: What happened on all the continents before 11,000 B.C.? -- A natural experiment of history: How geography molded societies on Polynesian islands -- Collision at Cajamarca: Why the Inca emperor Atahuallpa did not capture King Charles I of Spain -- The rise and spread of food production. Farmer power: The roots of guns, germs, and steel -- History's haves and have-nots: Geographic differences in the onset of food production -- To farm or not to farm: Causes of the spread of food production -- How to make an almond: The unconscious development of ancient crops -- Apples or indians: Why did peoples of some regions fail to domesticate plants? -- Zebras, unhappy marriages, and the Anna Karenina principle: Why were most big wild mammal species never domesticated? -- Spacious skies and tilted axes: Why did food production spread at different rates on different continents? -- From food to guns, germs, and steel. Lethal gift of livestock: The evolution of germs -- Blueprints and borrowed letters: The evolution of writing -- Necessity's mother: The evolution of technology -- From egalitarianism to kleptocracy: The evolution of government and religion -- Around the world in five chapters. Yali's people: The histories of Australia and New Guinea -- How China became Chinese: The history of East Asia -- Speedboat to Polynesia: The history of Austronesian expansion -- Hemispheres colliding: The histories of Eurasia and the Americas compared -- How Africa became black: The history of Africa -- The future of human history as a science -- 2003 afterword: Guns, germs, and steel today.1440LAccelerated Reader AR
Subjects: Civilization; Culture diffusion.; Social evolution.; Human beings; Ethnology.;
Available copies: 21 / Total copies: 29
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Guns, germs, and steel : the fates of human societies / by Diamond, Jared M.(CARDINAL)272935;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 429-457) and index.Why did Eurasians conquer, displace, or decimate Native Americans, Australians, and Africans, instead of the reverse? In this groundbreaking book, evolutionary biologist Jared Diamond stunningly dismantles racially based theories of human history by revealing the environmental factors actually responsible for history's broadest patterns. Here, at last, is a world history that really is a history of all the world's peoples, a unified narrative of human life even more intriguing and important than accounts of dinosaurs and glaciers. A major advance in our understanding of human societies, Guns, Germs, and Steel chronicles the way that the modern world, and its inequalities, came to be. It is a work rich in dramatic revelations that will fascinate readers even as it challenges conventional wisdom.1440LAccelerated Reader AR
Subjects: Civilization; Culture diffusion.; Ethnology.; Human beings; Social evolution.;
Available copies: 24 / Total copies: 36
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Guns, germs, and steel [sound recording] : the fates of human societies / by Diamond, Jared M.(CARDINAL)272935; Gardner, Grover.(CARDINAL)345517;
Disc 1. 1. Yali's question: the regionally differing courses of history -- 7. Up to the starting line: what happened on all the continents before 11,000 B.C?Disc 2. 2. Farmer power: the roots of guns, germs and steel -- 5. History's haves and have-nots: geographic differences in the onset of food production -- 6. To farm or not to farm: causes of the spread of food production -- 9. How to make an almond: the unconscious development of ancient crops.Disc 3. 1. Apples or Indians: why did peoples of some regions fail to domesticate plants? -- 4. Zebras, unhappy marriages, and the Anna Karenina principle: why were most big wild mammal species never domesticated? -- 8. Spacious skies and tilted axes: why did food production spread at different rates on different continents?Disc 4. 3. Lethal gift of livestock: the evolution of germs -- 9. Necessity's mother: the evolution of technology.Disc 5. 3. From egalitarianism to kleptocracy: the evolution of government and religion -- 8. Epilogue.Read by Grover Gardner.Is the balance of power in the world, the essentially unequal distribution of wealth and clout that has shaped civilization for centuries, a matter of survival of the fittest, or merely of the luckiest? In Guns, Germs, and Steel, UCLA professor (and author of the best-seller bearing the same title) Jared Diamond makes a compelling case for the latter. Diamond's theory is that the predominance of white Europeans (and Americans of European descent) over other cultures has nothing to do with racial superiority, as many have claimed, but is instead the result of nothing more, or less, than geographical coincidence. His argument, in a nutshell, is that the people who populated the Middle East's "fertile crescent" thousands of years ago were the first farmers, blessed with abundant natural resources (native crops such as wheat and barley, domesticable animals like pigs, goats, sheep, and cows). When their descendents migrated to Europe and northern Africa, climates similar to the crescent's, those same assets, which were unavailable in most of the rest of the world, led to the flourishing of advanced civilizations in those places as well. Add to that their ability to control fire, and Europeans eventually developed the guns and steel (swords, trains, etc.) they used to conquer the planet (the devastating diseases they brought with them, like smallpox, were an unplanned "benefit" to their subjugation of, for instance, Peru's native Incas). The program uses location footage (from New Guinea, South America, Africa, and elsewhere), interviews, reenactments, maps, and Diamond's own participation to support his thesis.
Subjects: Sound recording.; Audiobooks.; Civilization; Culture diffusion.; Ethnology.; Human beings; Social evolution.;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 4
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