Fagan, Brian M.
Summary: Animals, and our ever-changing relationship with them, have left an indelible mark on human history. Through an in-depth analysis of six truly transformative human-animal relationships, Fagan shows how our habits and our very way of life were considerably and irreversibly altered by our intimate bond with animals. Among other stories, Fagan explores how herding changed human behavior; how the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Press 2014
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Summary: Humanity's last major source of food from the wild, and how it enabled and shaped the growth of civilization In this history of fishing-not as sport but as sustenance-archaeologist and best-selling author Brian Fagan argues that fishing was an indispensable and often overlooked element in the growth of civilization. It sustainably provided enough food to allow cities, nations, and empires to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yale University Press 2017
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thames and Hudson 1987
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 970.01 FAGFagan, Brian M.
Contents: A time of warming -- "The mantle of the poor" -- The flail of God -- The golden trade of the Moors -- Inuit and Qadlunaat -- The megadrought epoch -- Acorns and pueblos -- Lords of the water mountains -- The lords of Chimor -- Bucking the trades -- The flying fish ocean -- China's sorrow -- The silent elephant.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Press 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 904.5 FAGFagan, Brian M.
Summary: Summary: A compelling account of pre-Columbian America covering topics such as history and mythology, archaeology and ethnography, all in a magnificient narrative of the rise and fall of America's ancient civilizations.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thames and Hudson 1991
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 970.01 FAGFagan, Brian M.
Summary: A history of climate change describes the dramatic evolution and stabilization of the oceans before the rise of humans approximately 6,000 years ago, tracing a significant rise in global temperatures since 1860 and how a rising sea level is affecting world populations.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Press 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 551.458 FAGFagan, Brian M.
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Publisher / Publication Date: New York 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 910.4 FAGFagan, Brian M.
Summary: "Man-made climate change may have began in the last two hundred years, but humankind has witnessed many eras of climate instability. The results have not always been pretty: once-mighty civilizations felled by pestilence and glacial melt and drought. Butwe have one powerful advantage as we face our current crisis: history. The study of ancient climates has advanced tremendously in the past ten...
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Publisher / Publication Date: PublicAffairs 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 304.2 FAGFagan, Brian M.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thames and Hudson 1990
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 573.2 FAGSummary: "Epic in scope, yet filled with detail, this illustrated guide takes readers through the whole of our human past. Spanning the dawn of human civilization through the present, it provides a tour of every site of key archaeological importance. From the prehistoric cave paintings of Lascaux to Tutankhamun's tomb, from the buried city of Pompeii to China's Terracotta Army, all of the world's most...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Smithsonian Books 2017