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Why We Hate tackles a pressing issue of both longstanding interest and fresh relevance: why a social species like Homo sapiens should nevertheless be so hateful to itself. We go to war and are prejudiced against our fellow human beings. We discriminate on the basis of nationality, class, race, sexual orientation, religion, and gender. Why are humans at once so social and so hateful to each other? In this book, Michael Ruse looks at scientific understandings of human hatred, particularly Darwinian evolutionary theory.

La presente obra es una recopilación de leyendas ancestrales de Bolivia que datan del año 1500 a. C.; y que han sido transmitidas de generación en generación a través de la tradición oral y, finalmente, inmortalizadas por el prolífico escritor y folclorista José Antonio Paredes Candia, referente emblemático de la literatura boliviana, quien nos revela la existencia de un país diverso y culturalmente rico, por lo que Leyendas de Bolivia-Herencia de un pueblo indomable abarca las culturas aymara, qheshwa, guaraní, chiquitano, mataco y moré.

During the period between about AD 1000 and 1425, a thriving Native American culture known to archaeologists as the Middle Cumberland Mississippian lived along the Cumberland River and its tributaries in today’s Davidson County. This book is the first public-facing effort by legitimate archaeologists to articulate the history of what happened here before Nashville happened.

Greek mythology has a lot of interesting and thought-provoking tidbits attached to it, and for many people it is a great subject to learn. But how do you get started with it? Well, the answer is simple, and this book will show you just how to kick-start your learning of Greek mythology. By the end of this, you will have a full and in-depth understanding of Greek mythology. It's a ton of fun to learn and understand, and you, too, will avail yourself of all this interesting information through the use of this book.

WNNER OF THE 2016 CWA DAGGER IN THE LIBRARY. The shadow of the Second World War looms dark over the third chilling mystery for Dr Ruth Galloway. Some buried secrets shouldn't be uncovered. 'A melancholy setting, an eerie discovery, a lone investigator... perfect for the long winter evening'...

A dazzling archaeological journey that illuminates the unsung role of music and sound in shaping human civilization What if you could hear the history of the world through a bronze bell buried deep in the ground? Or an old terracotta pot? Or a long strip of a boar’s tusk? In Sound Tracks...

Dean Arnold takes listeners on a journey into the Andes, recounting the adventures of his 1960s research in the village of Quinua, Peru. Arnold’s quest to understand how contemporary pottery production reflected current Quinua society, as well as its ancient Inca and pre-Inca past is one of the earliest studies in what later became known as ethnoarchaeology.

From the bestselling author of Viking Britain, a stunning new perspective on the medieval world. When we think of the Crusades, the image is usually squarely medieval: an era of pageantry, knights, castles and cathedrals. An age of violence, certainly, but one glossed with faith, chivalry and...

A bold new history of the discovery of King Tut and the seismic impact it left on modern society. When it was discovered in 1922, in an Egypt newly independent of the British Empire, the 3,300-year-old tomb of Tutankhamun sent shockwaves around the world. The boy-king became a household name...

When Oxford archeologist Mensun Bound, dubbed the "Indiana Jones of the Deep" by the Discovery Channel, teamed up with a financier to salvage a sunken trove of 15th-century porcelain, it seemed a dream enterprise. The stakes were high: the Hoi An wreck lay hundreds of feet down in a typhoon-prone stretch of water off the coast of Vietnam known as the Dragon Sea.

Flatboats were the most prolific type of vessel on the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers during the early 1800s. Thousands of these boats descended the two rivers each year, carrying not only valuable cargo to New Orleans but also western-bound emigrants to newly opened territories. By the late 1800s, flatboats had completely disappeared, and no intact examples were known to exist. That changed in 2000, when local residents found a wreck on the Ohio River shoreline in Illinois.

For over a century we saw Neanderthals as inferior to Homo Sapiens. After new discoveries, the pendulum swung the other way and they are generally seen as our relatives: not quite human, but similar enough, and still not equal. Now, thanks to an ongoing revolution in palaeoanthropology in which he has played a key part, Ludovic Slimak shows us that they are something altogether different - and they should be understood on their own terms rather than by comparing them to ourselves. As he reveals in this stunning book, the Neanderthals had their own history, their own rituals, their own customs.

Portillo's Hidden History of Britain presents a compelling and wonderfully evocative history of Britain through the stories of its 'lost' or abandoned buildings. The chapters will cover a variety of historical themes: Crime and Punishment, Health and Medicine, Defence and Warfare, Manufacturing Industry, Transport and Communication, and Entertainment and Leisure. Using a combination of his own investigations and archive research, plus memories and quotations from the contributors he interviewed for the series, Michael will explain what the buildings were used for and by whom.

Historians have long asserted that during and after the Hannibalic War, the Roman Republic's need to conscript men for long-term military service helped bring about the demise of Italy's small farms and that the misery of impoverished citizens then became fuel for the social and political conflagrations of the late republic. Nathan Rosenstein challenges this claim, showing how Rome reconciled the needs of war and agriculture throughout the middle republic.

A new narrative history of the Viking Age, interwoven with exploration of the physical remains and landscapes that the Vikings fashioned and walked: their rune-stones and ship burials, settlements and battlefields. To many, the word ‘Viking’ brings to mind red scenes of rape and pillage, of...

L'archéologie en Terre sainte ne peut se réduire à un seul usage politique religieux. Les rapports entre foi et science, mythe et histoire, imaginaire et rationnel sont infiniment plus complexes. A partir d'une approche historique, sont retracés les grandes explorations et les quêtes fantastiques, découvertes scientifiques et débats de société que Jérusalem a suscités.

The Viking Great Army landed in East Anglia in late 865 and over the following fifteen years it fought numerous battles in all four Anglo-Saxon kingdoms, made and broke peace treaties, and deposed or killed at least three Anglo-Saxon kings, replacing them with its own appointees. It had a major impact on English society, initiating extensive transformations in Anglo-Saxon society, culture, economy, and political organization. Previous Viking armies had raided only in the summer months, but the Great Army was a constant presence over this period.

In this comprehensive survey, updated for this new edition, Henderson explores the entire Maya cultural tradition, from the earliest traces of settlement through the period of the Spanish conquest in the 16th century. His wide-ranging account treats diverse aspects of the Maya world, from religion and philosophy to the environments of the various Maya peoples, using deciphered Maya texts to reconstruct the ancient societies.

Josh Bernstein, host of The History Channel's hit series Digging for The Truth, takes listeners beyond the cameras for an even closer look at his adventures through some of the most intriguing, remote, and physically challenging locations on the planet as he explores the world's greatest ancient mysteries. No location is too dangerous, no terrain too rough, no culture too exotic for explorer and survival expert Josh Bernstein.

The Greatest Archaeological Discoveries of All Time: Unearthing the Secrets of Ancient Civilizations is a richly detailed exploration of ten of the most extraordinary and world-changing discoveries ever made beneath the surface of our planet. From the windswept cliffs of Easter Island to the remote valleys of Pakistan, this book journeys across continents and thousands of years to reveal how buried cities, frozen bodies, forgotten temples, and ancient texts have transformed our understanding of history, belief, and human ingenuity. Each chapter brings one major archaeological find to life...