Settling The Earth

Author : Clive Gamble
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107013267
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Settling the Earth written by Clive Gamble and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-12-30 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How and when did we become the only human species to settle the whole earth? How did our brains become so large? In this book, Clive Gamble sets out to answer these fundamental questions, digging deep into the archives of archaeology, fossil ancestors and human genetics. The wealth of detail in these sources allows him to write a completely new account of our earliest beginnings: a deep history in which we devised solutions not only to the technical challenges of global settlement but also cracked the problem, long before writing and smartphones, of how to live apart yet stay in touch.

Author : Ole Edvart Rølvaag
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 506 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Giants in the Earth written by Ole Edvart Rølvaag and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A narrative of pioneer hardship and heroism on the boundless Dakota prairie, as a Norwegian-American immigrant family passed through Ellis Island and worked to eke out a living in America's midwest.

Author : Clive Gamble
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781107013261
Total Pages : 405 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Settling the Earth written by Clive Gamble and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-12-30 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this worldwide survey, Clive Gamble explores the evolution of the human imagination, without which we would not have become a global species. He sets out to determine the cognitive and social basis for our imaginative capacity and traces the evidence back into deep human history. He argues that it was the imaginative ability to "go beyond" and to create societies where people lived apart yet stayed in touch that made us such effective world settlers. To make his case Gamble brings together information from a wide range of disciplines: psychology, cognitive science, archaeology, palaeoanthropology, archaeogenetics, geography, quaternary science and anthropology. He presents a novel deep history that combines the archaeological evidence for fossil hominins with the selective forces of Pleistocene climate change, engages with the archaeogeneticists' models for population dispersal and displacement, and ends with the Europeans' rediscovery of the deep history settlement of the earth.

Author : Meredith Mullins
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781632751348
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Settling Into Earth written by Meredith Mullins and published by . This book was released on 2018-06-10 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Dr Frank Crossman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780974144382
Total Pages : 578 pages
Book Rating : 4.8X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mars Colonies written by Dr Frank Crossman and published by . This book was released on 2019-11-11 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Fall 2018, The Mars Society offered a prize for the best design and description of a 1000 person colony on Mars. The twenty page plans had to account for the colony location and design, the economic success of the colony, the socio/cultural environment, the governance processes, and the aesthetics of living on Mars. One hundred teams from around the world responded with their proposals. This book presents 22 of the plans judged to be the best to address all these requirements in a comprehensive way. The depth and breadth of this thinking of teams from around the planet Earth as they planned and described their concepts for settling the Red Planet can only be fully appreciated by reading all of the design reports in this book.

Author : Christopher Wanjek
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 067498448X
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Spacefarers written by Christopher Wanjek and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What will it take to make humanity a spacefaring species? The usual: good reasons and good planning. Christopher Wanjek explores the practical motivations for striking out into the far reaches of the solar system and the realities of the challenge. And he introduces us to the scientists and entrepreneurs who are already tackling that challenge.

Author : Robert Zubrin
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1471109887
Total Pages : 498 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Case For Mars written by Robert Zubrin and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-12-11 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the beginning of human history Mars has been an alluring dream; the stuff of legends, gods, and mystery. The planet most like ours, it has still been thought impossible to reach, let alone explore and inhabit. Now with the advent of a revolutionary new plan, all this has changed. Leading space exploration authority Robert Zubrin has crafted a daring new blueprint, Mars Direct, presented here with illustrations, photographs, and engaging anecdotes. The Case for Mars is not a vision for the far future or one that will cost us impossible billions. It explains step-by-step how we can use present-day technology to send humans to Mars within ten years; actually produce fuel and oxygen on the planet's surface with Martian natural resources; how we can build bases and settlements; and how we can one day "terraform" Mars; a process that can alter the atmosphere of planets and pave the way for sustainable life.

Author : Christine Jeske
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
ISBN 13 : 0830837876
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book This Ordinary Adventure written by Christine Jeske and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2012-08-24 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Join Adam and Christine Jeske as they mine their experience, from riding motorcycles in Africa to dicing celery in Wisconsin, in search of a God who is always present and who is charging every moment with potential. You'll discover the amazing things God is doing in the shadows of even the most ordinary day.

Author : John K. Strickland
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781989044162
Total Pages : 397 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Settling Space written by John K. Strickland and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "From John Strickland, a 40 year veteran space advocate and a Director with the National Space Society, with collaboration from Sam Spencer, a leading industrial development expert (a Process Development Expert at TechnipFMC ), who has been involved in asteroid mining and several innovative multi-billion dollar mega-projects, and Anna Nesterova, a talented digital artist, comes a detailed and practical account of how the future of mankind in space can evolve in the short term, and where it can aspire to in the long term. Settling Space, the second book in a series (with Developing Space) has been specifically written (taking into account the actual physical and chemical characteristics of the asteroids, the moon, Mars and the galaxy) to construct an example of a realistic, holistic and accessible space development agenda for humanity’s initial expansion from Earth onto other worlds. In Settling Space, the authors clearly and absolutely define what humanity needs to do to become a multi-planet, and eventually multi-system, species. This book includes sections on how humans can operate in the solar system, the settlement of Mars, asteroids as both a threat and a resource, building rotating settlements in space, terraforming Mars and other planets, realistic fusion-powered starships and future expeditions to terraform and settle exoplanets."--Publisher's description.

Author : James Belich
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199604541
Total Pages : 587 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Replenishing the Earth written by James Belich and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2011-05-05 with total page 587 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pioneering study of the anglophone 'settler boom' in North America, Canada, South Africa, Australia, and New Zealand between the early 19th and early 20th centuries, looking at what made it the most successful of all such settler revolutions, and how this laid the basis of British and American power in the 19th and 20th centuries.