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The Great Acceleration: An Environmental History of the Anthropocene Since 1945
The pace of energy use, greenhouse gas emissions, and population growth has thrust the planet into a new age—the Anthropocene. Humans have altered the planet’s biogeochemical systems without consciously managing them. The Great Acceleration explains the causes, consequences, and uncertainties of thi... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2014 -
Something New Under the Sun: An Environmental History of the Twentieth-Century World (The Global Century Series)
"Refreshingly unpolemical and at times even witty, McNeill's book brims with carefully sifted statistics and brilliant details."--Washington Post Book World The history of the twentieth century is most often told through its world wars, the rise and fall of communism, or its economic upheavals. In h... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2000 -
Mosquito Empires: Ecology and War in the Greater Caribbean, 1620-1914
This book explores the links among ecology, disease, and international politics in the context of the Greater Caribbean - the landscapes lying between Surinam and the Chesapeake - in the seventeenth through early twentieth centuries. Ecological changes made these landscapes especially suitable for ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2010 -
The Webs of Humankind (Vol. 1): A World History
A cohesive, single-author world history built around the webs of interaction that stitched together regions and over time, the globe. A leader in the field presents a cohesive narrative of world history that effectively addresses the main challenge of the introductory survey: how to navigate beginn... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2019 -
The Webs of Humankind (Vol. 2): A World History
A cohesive, single-author world history built around the webs of interaction that stitched together regions and over time, the globe. A leader in the field presents a cohesive narrative of world history that effectively addresses the main challenge of the introductory survey: how to navigate beginn... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2019 -
The Webs of Humankind (Vol. Combined Volume): A World History
A cohesive, single-author world history built around the webs of interaction that stitched together regions and over time, the globe. A leader in the field presents a cohesive narrative of world history that effectively addresses the main challenge of the introductory survey: how to navigate beginn... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2021 -
The Webs of Humankind: A World History (Seagull Edition) (Vol. Combined Volume)
A cohesive, single-author world history built around the webs of interaction, in a portable value format. A leader in the field presents a cohesive narrative of world history that effectively addresses the main challenge of the introductory survey: how to navigate beginning students through the vas... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2021 -
The Webs of Humankind: A World History (Seagull Edition) (Vol. 2)
A cohesive, single-author world history built around the webs of interaction, in a portable value format. A leader in the field presents a cohesive narrative of world history that effectively addresses the main challenge of the introductory survey: how to navigate beginning students through the vas... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2021 -
Environmental History in the Pacific World (The Pacific World: Lands, Peoples and History of the Pacific, 1500-1900)
This volume brings together a set of key articles from the last 30 years pertaining to the environmental history of the Pacific basin. It aims to treat the islands and waters of the Pacific as well as the lands around the Rim, from New Zealand to Japan, to California, to Chile, and is the first wor... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2001 -
The Human Web: A Bird's-Eye View of World History
This book is all about how people created the webs of interaction, how those webs grew, what shapes they took in different parts of the world, how they combined in recent times into a single cosmopolitan web, and how this altered the human role on earth. ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2003 -
The Global Condition: Conquerors, Catastrophes, and Community
William H. McNeill is known for his ability to portray the grand sweep of history. The Global Condition is a classic work for understanding the grand sweep of world history in brief compass. Now with a new foreword by J. R. McNeill, this book brings together two of William Hardy McNeill's popular sh... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2017 -
A Companion to Global Environmental History (Wiley Blackwell Companions to World History)
The Companion to Global Environmental History offers multiple points of entry into the history and historiography of this dynamic and fast-growing field, to provide an essential road map to past developments, current controversies, and future developments for specialists and newcomers alike. Combin... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2012 -
Atlantic American Societies (Rewriting Histories)
Within the chronological framework of Implantation, Maturation and Transition, this book provides the history of European expansion in the Americas from the age of Columbus through the abolition of slavery. Suggesting a shift in the traditional units of analysis away from nationally defined boundari... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 1992 -
The Cambridge World History: Production, Destruction, and Connection, 1750–Present
Since 1750, the world has become ever more connected, with processes of production and destruction no longer limited by land- or water-based modes of transport and communication. Volume 7 of The Cambridge World History, divided into two books, offers a variety of angles of vision on the increasingl... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2015 -
Environmental Histories of the First World War
This anthology surveys the ecological impacts of the First World War. Editors Richard P. Tucker, Tait Keller, J. R. McNeill, and Martin Schmidt bring together a list of experienced authors who explore the global interactions of states, armies, civilians, and the environment during the war. They show... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2018 -
The Resilient City in World War II: Urban Environmental Histories (Palgrave Studies in World Environmental History)
The fate of towns and cities stands at the center of the environmental history of World War II. Broad swaths of cityscapes were destroyed by the bombing of targets such as transport hubs, electrical grids, and industrial districts, and across Europe, Asia, and the Americas, urban environments were t... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2019 -
Introduction To Neurogenic Communication Disorders
Get the tools you need to evaluate, diagnose, and treat patients with neurogenic communication disorders! Introduction to Neurogenic Communication Disorders, 8th Edition provides a solid foundation in the neurology of communication, as well as the causes, symptoms, diagnosis, assessment, and managem... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2015 -
Healthcare-Associated Infections in Children: A Guide to Prevention and Management
With advances in technology and medical science, children with previously untreatable and often fatal conditions, such as congenital heart disease, extreme prematurity and pediatric malignancy, are living longer. While this is a tremendous achievement, pediatric providers are now more commonly faci... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2019 -
Parent-Child Interaction Therapy with Toddlers: Improving Attachment and Emotion Regulation
This book presents an early treatment model for toddlers. It describes the early life span development, trajectory, and future potential of toddlers and how it may be powerfully influenced by the protection and guidance of caregivers to meet toddlers’ physical and mental health needs. It offers an i... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2018 -
50 Mystery and Detective masterpieces you have to read before you die vol: 1
by Edgar Allan Poe • Mark Twain • Jules Verne • Wilkie Collins • Charles Dickens • E. W. Hornung • Edgar Wallace • G. K. Chesterton • Ernest Bramah • Agatha Christie • Arthur Conan Doyle • J. S. Fletcher • R. Austin Freeman • Arthur Morrison • H. C. McNeile • Dorothy Leigh Sayers • Frank Froest • C. N. Williamson • Isabel Ostrander • Rober Barr • Thomas W. Hanshew • Victor L. WhitechurchThis book, newly updated, contains now several HTML tables of contents that will make reading a real pleasure! The first table of contents (at the very beginning of the ebook) lists the titles of all novels included in this volume. By clicking on one of those titles you will be redirected to the be... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 1926 -
African American Arts: Activism, Aesthetics, and Futurity (The Griot Project Book Series)
by Sharrell D. Luckett • Carmen Gillespie • Rikki Byrd • Amber Lauren Johnson • Doria E. Charlson • Florencia V. Cornet • Daniel McNeil • Lucy Caplan • Genevieve Hyacinthe • Sammantha McCalla • Nettrice R. Gaskins • Abby Dobson • J. Michael Kinsey • Shondrika Moss-Bouldin • Julie B. Johnson • Jasmine Eileen Coles • Tawnya Pettiford-Wates • Rickerby HindsSignaling such recent activist and aesthetic concepts in the work of Kara Walker, Childish Gambino, BLM, Janelle Monáe, and Kendrick Lamar, and marking the exit of the Obama Administration and the opening of the National Museum of African American History and Culture, this anthology explores the rol... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2020 -
Think in Public: A Public Books Reader (Public Books Series)
by Barbara Cassin • Jill Lepore • Judith Butler • Kieran Setiya • Fred Turner • Jan Mieszkowski • Jeremy Adelman • Haruo Shirane • Anne E. Fernald • Matthew Engelke • Imani Perry • James Vernon • Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak • Kim Phillips-Fein • Philip Gorski • Frances Negrón-Muntaner • Namwali Serpell • Shannon Mattern • Karen Dunak • John Plotz • Daegan Miller • Christopher Schaberg • Lilly Irani • Joseph Jonghyun Jeon • Suzy Hansen • Max Holleran • Mark McGurl • Stacey Balkan • Nathan Connolly • Najwa Al-Qattan • Destin Jenkins • Andrew Perrin • Lynn French • Salamishah Tillet • Matthew Clair • Ursula K. Guin • Eli Rosenblatt • Rebecca Falkoff • Karl Ashoka Britto • Marah Gubar • Tess McNulty • Nicholas Dames • John R. McNeillSince 2012, Public Books has championed a new kind of community for intellectual engagement, discussion, and action. An online magazine that unites the best of the university with the openness of the internet, Public Books is where new ideas are debuted, old facts revived, and dangerous illusions di... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2019 -
New Jersey Fan Club: Artists and Writers Celebrate the Garden State
by Pooja Makhijani • Caren Lissner • Chris Gethard • Christopher Smith • Jen A. Miller • Emily Thompson • Linda J. Barth • Michael C. Gabriele • Sarah Prager • Alexandra Beguez • Scott Neumyer • Alicia Cook • Kate Morgan • Whit Taylor • Raakhee Mirchandani • Brandon Stosuy • Kerri Sullivan • Matthew Taub • Frankie Huang • Erinn Salge • Brandon Harrison • Mike Dawson • Wills Kinsley • Kat Schneider • Stacey Mei Fong • Kamelia Ani • Brittany Coppla • Jacquinn Sinclair • Carlos Dengler • Miko Beach • Team 1:1 Jersey • Brittany Ingersoll • Caiti Borruso • Elise Sacco • Lucy Dean Stockton • Bob Varettoni • Erica Commisso • Hallel Yadin • Kae Lani Palmisano • Lisa Rosalie Eisenberg • Donnie Martino • Hassan Ghanny • Lorraine Goodman • Alex Flannery • Haley Simone • Jonathan Conner • Joy Velasco • Kasey Bohnert • Julie Benbassat • Sean Rynkewicz • Mikhaila Leid • Veronica Casson • Dan Misdea • Kristen Broderick • Tori Wehringer • Lauren H. Adams • Katie Reynolds • Kate Watt • Tim Kauger • Brian Scully • Jaclyn Sovern • Donovan Myers • R Justin McNeill • Dan SchenkerDespite the many jokes and stereotypes about New Jersey and its residents, in reality the state is a wildly diverse place, home to a vast variety of landscapes, cultures, and people. There is no singular New Jersey experience, and the stories that its residents have to share about the state will sur... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2022 -
Knowing Him by Heart: African Americans on Abraham Lincoln
by Frederick Douglass • James Smith • Julius Lester • Barack Obama • Clarence Thomas • Langston Hughes • Benjamin Quarles • John Hope Franklin • Daisy Bates • Elizabeth Keckley • Mary Frances Berry • Richard Carwardine • James Weldon Johnson • Paul Laurence Dunbar • T. Thomas Fortune • James Oakes • Douglas L. Wilson • Charles Chesnutt • Gwendolyn Brooks • W. E. Du Bois • George Washington • Vincent Harding • Jackie Robinson • Sojourner Truth • Henry Johnson • St. Clair Drake • Thomas Hamilton • Michael Burlingame • Matthew Pinsker • Kelly Miller • Elizabeth Thomas • Rodney O. Davis • Hannah Johnson • Walter White • John Proctor • Claude McKay • Booker T Washington • Martin Delany • Robert Hamilton • Henry Louis Gates • Henry Highland Garnet • Edna Greene Medford • Alice Dunbar-Nelson • Thurgood Marshall • Gerald J Prokopowicz • John R Sellers • Jennifer L Weber • H. Ford Douglas • Jabez P Campbell • Henry McNeal Turner • Daniel Alexander Payne • Philip A Bell • Edward M Thomas • Alfred P Smith • Frances Ellen Harper • George B Vashon • Thomas Strother • Ezra R Johnson • Alexander T Cps • Alexander T Augusta • Jeremiah B Sanderson • Osborne P Anderson • Thomas Morris Chester • James H Hudson • Robert Purvis • Leonard A Grimes • Jeremiah Asher • John Willis Menard • Henry African Civilization Society • William Florville • Thomas R Street • John H Morgan • Mattild Burr • Amos G Beman • Richard H Cain • Jean Baptiste Roudanez • Arnold Bertonneau • George E North Carolina Freedmen • Don Carlos Rutter • George E Stephens • James W.C Pennington • S. W. Africano" • Annie Davis • S. W. Chase • Isaac J Hill • Alexander H Newton • Jacob Thomas • Angeline R Demby • Henry O Wagoner • George W Le Vere • Paul Trevigne • Thomas N.C Liverpool • H Cordelia • Emmanuel K Love • William S Scarborough • John Mercer Langston • Peter H Clark • Ews Hammond • Charles W Anderson • Harriet Tubman • Julius F Taylor • Ida B Wells-Barnett • Archibald H Grimke • Elizabeth Keckly • William A Sinclair • Jesse Max Barber • Mary Church Terrell • Reverdy C Ransom • William Monroe Trotter • Maude K Griffin • Hightower T Kealing • Silas X Floyd • George L Knox • Thomas S Inborden • George W Henderson • William Pickens • Etta M. Cottin • John M Gandy • Fred R Moore • Sylvanie F Williams • Harry C Smith • James H Magee • James L Curtis • John W. Bowen • Cora J Ball • Thomas Nelson Baker • Josephine Silone Yates • William H Lewis • John H Murphy • Robert R Wright • Theophile T Allain • Oliva Ward Bush-Banks • Richard W Gadsden • Edward A Johnson • Hubert H Harrison • Carter G Woodson • Robert R Moton • Georgia Douglas Johnson • Lamar Perkins • Samuel A Haynes • William E Lilly • Robert L Vann • William Lloyd Imes • Eugene Gordon • Arthur W Mitchell • Grace Evans • Aaron H Payne • Roscoe Conkling Simmons • Joel A Rogers • Mary McLeod Bethune • Ella Baker • Luther Porter Jackson • Willard Townsend • Ralph J Bunche • Roy Wilkins • Mordecai W Johnson • Carl J Murphy • Martin Luther King • Edith Sampson • Charles H Wesley • Julius Malcolm X • Lerone Bennett • Henry Lee Moon • John H Sengstacke • Norman E. Hodges • Arvarh E. Strickland • Barbara Jeanne FieldsThough not blind to Abraham Lincoln's imperfections, Black Americans long ago laid a heartfelt claim to his legacy. At the same time, they have consciously reshaped the sixteenth president's image for their own social and political ends. Frederick Hord and Matthew D. Norman's anthology explores the ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2023