Replay: Empires of the Sky May 23, 2021 Time to Eat the Dogs Live Podcast! April 30, 2021 Inventing the World April 30, 2021 Replay: Running and the Science of the Extreme April 4, 2021 The Alchemy of Conquest March 27, 2021 Replay: Why Did Scientists Collect the Blood of Ind...
In antiquity, war dogs were trained for combat by Egyptians, Greeks and Romans for the purposes of conquest and the defense of the realm. They were viewed as formidable warriors, but their use was also a response to the war economy,1 in which other tasks could be entrusted to them, such...
Will former President Kill Clingtalon give up the last of his political nine lives? Can President Spot A. Gusher deal with the chaos leading up to election day in November-from the snarling, hissing, biting and scratching political party conflict, to the maniacal threats of conquest from der ...
Replay: Empires of the SkyMay 23, 2021 Time to Eat the Dogs Live Podcast!April 30, 2021 Inventing the WorldApril 30, 2021 Replay: Running and the Science of the ExtremeApril 4, 2021 The Alchemy of ConquestMarch 27, 2021 Replay: Why Did Scientists Collect the Blood of Indigenous Peoples?
The Alchemy of ConquestMarch 27, 2021 Replay: Why Did Scientists Collect the Blood of Indigenous Peoples?March 16, 2021 IceboundMarch 11, 2021 Replay: A History of Modern TourismSeptember 4, 2020 Replay: Sea WifeAugust 29, 2020 The Argument Against Human Colonies in SpaceAugust 16, 2020 ...
000+ feet (their names flash by quickly in the credits at the end of the flim). WatchingBreshearsViesturs climb near the summit, one gets the sense that he is on the mountain by himself (filmed by…God?). This reminded me a lot of the Arctic explorers I’ve written about inmy book...
Ernest Shackleton If I had to guess, I'd put the current readership of books on Ernest Shackleton at about three billion. This number will surely grow to include all members of our species once the corpus of Shackletonia has been fully translated into Ch
the story of Arctic exploration in the United States during the height of its popularity, from 1850 to 1910. My second book,The Lost White Tribe: Scientists, Explorers, and the Theory that Changed a Continent,winner of the 2019Davis Prize in the History of Science, describes at the rise ...
See, for example,his book on Coral and Coral Islandswhich is online at the Making of America site. The Smithsonian put out a lovely edited collection of essays (with terrific plates) on the US Ex Ex calledMagnificent Voyagers. Unfortunately it is no longer in print. Nathaniel Philbrick’s...
good contextual background on science and medicine in 19th century British society. Taken together with Google Book’s collection of full text Livingstone works (includingMissionary Travels and Researches in South Africa), we now have the key sources to uncover the man (if not, alas, the Nile)...