The Origins Of The World

Author : Lewis Dartnell
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 1541617894
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Origins written by Lewis Dartnell and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2019-05-14 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times-bestselling author explains how the physical world shaped the history of our species When we talk about human history, we often focus on great leaders, population forces, and decisive wars. But how has the earth itself determined our destiny? Our planet wobbles, driving changes in climate that forced the transition from nomadism to farming. Mountainous terrain led to the development of democracy in Greece. Atmospheric circulation patterns later on shaped the progression of global exploration, colonization, and trade. Even today, voting behavior in the south-east United States ultimately follows the underlying pattern of 75 million-year-old sediments from an ancient sea. Everywhere is the deep imprint of the planetary on the human. From the cultivation of the first crops to the founding of modern states, Origins reveals the breathtaking impact of the earth beneath our feet on the shape of our human civilizations.

Author : Robert Marks
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 074255418X
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Origins of the Modern World written by Robert Marks and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2007 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did the modern world get to be the way it is? How did we come to live in a globalized, industrialized, capitalistic set of nation-states? Moving beyond Eurocentric explanations and histories that revolve around the rise of the West, distinguished historian Robert B. Marks explores the roles of Asia, Africa, and the New World in the global story. He defines the modern world as marked by industry, the nation state, interstate warfare, a large and growing gap between the wealthiest and poorest parts of the world, and an escape from environmental constraints. Bringing the saga to the present, Marks considers how and why the United States emerged as a world power in the 20th century and the sole superpower by the 21st century; the powerful resurgence of Asia; and the vastly changed relationship of humans to the environment.

Author : Michael Witzel
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199812853
Total Pages : 688 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Origins of the World's Mythologies written by Michael Witzel and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 688 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Michael Witzel persuasively demonstrates the prehistoric origins of most of the mythologies of Eurasia and the Americas ('Laurasia').

Author : Robert Shapiro
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Origins written by Robert Shapiro and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : James McConkey Robinson
Publisher : Brill Archive
ISBN 13 : 9789004071858
Total Pages : 516 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Nag Hammadi Library in English written by James McConkey Robinson and published by Brill Archive. This book was released on 1984 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Richard Heath
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1620556138
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Harmonic Origins of the World written by Richard Heath and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2018-03-20 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A profound exploration of the simple numerical ratios that underlie our solar system, its musical harmony, and our earliest religious beliefs • Reveals how the orbits of Jupiter, Saturn, and Uranus relate to the Moon and the inner planets as an octave with musical scales • Explores how this harmonic planetary knowledge was encoded within ancient monuments and temples then spread within oral traditions • Explains how the solar system functions as a musical instrument and how this led to the rise of intelligent life, civilization, and culture on our planet As modern humans first walked the Earth roughly 70,000 years ago, the Moon’s orbit came into harmonic resonance with the outer planets of Jupiter, Saturn, and Uranus. The common denominators underlying these harmonic relationships are the earliest prime numbers of the Fibonacci series--two, three, and five--the same numbers that interact to give us the harmonic relationships of music. Exploring the simple mathematical relationships that underlie the cycles of the solar system and the music of Earth, Richard Heath reveals how Neolithic astronomers discovered these ratios using megalithic monuments like Stonehenge and the Carnac stones, discoveries that informed later myths and stories including the Epic of Gilgamesh, the Resurrection of Osiris, the Rg Veda, the Hebrew Bible, Homer’s epic tales, and the Return of Quetzalcoatl. He explains how this harmonic planetary knowledge formed the basis of the earliest religious systems, in which planets were seen as gods, and shows how they spread through Sumer, Egypt, and India into Babylon, Judea, Mexico, and archaic Greece. He exposes how the secret knowledge encoded within the Bible’s god YHWH was lost as Greek logic and reason steadily weakened mythological beliefs. Revealing the mysteries of the octave and of our musical scales, Heath shows how the orbits of the outer and inner planets gave a structure to time, which our Moon’s orbit could then turn into a harmonic matrix. He explains how planetary time came to function as a finely tuned musical instrument, leading to the rise of intelligent life on our planet. He demonstrates how this harmonic science of numbers can be read in the secret symbolism and sacred geometry of ancient cities such as Teotihuacan and in temples such as the Parthenon, connecting the higher worlds of planetary time and harmonics with the spiritual and physical life on Earth. Recasting our understanding of the solar system, Heath seeks to reawaken humanity’s understanding of how sacred numbers structure reality, offering an opportunity to recover this lost harmonic doctrine and reclaim our intended role in the outer life of our planet.

Author : Richard F. Hamilton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521817356
Total Pages : 558 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Origins of World War I written by Richard F. Hamilton and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-02-24 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses and examines the possible causes of World War I.

Author : SIDNEY BRADSHAW. FAY
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781033808955
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book ORIGINS OF THE WORLD WAR, written by SIDNEY BRADSHAW. FAY and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : P. M. H. Bell
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317865243
Total Pages : 413 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Origins of the Second World War in Europe written by P. M. H. Bell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-09-11 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: PMH Bell's famous book is a comprehensive study of the period and debates surrounding the European origins of the Second World War. He approaches the subject from three different angles: describing the various explanations that have been offered for the war and the historiographical debates that have arisen from them, analysing the ideological, economic and strategic forces at work in Europe during the 1930s, and tracing the course of events from peace in 1932, via the initial outbreak of hostilities in 1939, through to the climactic German attack on the Soviet Union in 1941 which marked the descent into general conflict. Written in a lucid, accessible style, this is an indispensable guide to the complex origins of the Second World War.

Author : Hubert Reeves
Publisher : Skyhorse Publishing Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1611455073
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Origins written by Hubert Reeves and published by Skyhorse Publishing Inc.. This book was released on 2012-06 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An astrophysicist, an organic chemist, and an anthropologist discuss some of mankind's most basic questions about the creation of the universe, the first particles, and the evolution that led to contemporary life forms.