It not only gives Harari more scope to address the big questions, but also gives many people their first detailed introduction to the origins of human beings. There's a lot to think about after reading this book, even if you ultimately disagree with his interpretation. Read expert ...
guides her through Taiwanese prehistory. The text by multi-award-winning children’s book author Wang Shu-fen does not go into depth about paleontological research into the fossils and parts of a neolithic human skull discovered in the Tsai-Liao River basin. Instead, it encourages ...
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Ehret rejects the ‘artificial separation of our human story into something called ‘history’ and something else called ‘prehistory’’ and starts his story in 68,000 BCE. I love this approach and just wish it was taught more in school. As he writes, ‘Barely more than fifty thousand ...
Summary: Prompted by a little girl’s questions, a human fossil, the so-called “Zuojhen Man”, guides her through Taiwanese prehistory. The text by multi-award-winning children’s book author Wang Shu-fen does not go into depth about paleontological research into the fossils and parts of ...
revolutionaries and a true life police procedural murder mystery with the Qin Empire’s version of Hercule Poirot. All have something to say about the historical edifice of China, and in doing so allow the reader to place a more human face upon it. These of course drift along in a narrativ...
…the human race has two books, two registers, two testaments: masonry and printing; the Bible of stone and the Bible of paper. … The past must be reread upon these pages of marble. This book, written by architecture, must be admired and perused incessantly; but the grandeur of the ed...
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"Spencer Wells, whose genetic work has contributed to our understanding of human prehistory, has provided the lay reader with an account of the spread and mixing of the human species from its origin in Africa that is both scientifically accurate and accessible to the nonscientist. In achieving ...
The Conference of the Birdsis a twelfth-century Sufi allegorical poem by Farid ud-Din Attar. A gathering of the world’s birds, each representing a different aspect of human nature, debate who should be king of all the birds. Led by the Hoopoe, they agree to seek the advice of the myt...