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New In Paperback: Charles C. Mann's 1493 Explores the Birth of the Modern World
…as shaped the modern world. In this history, a follow-up to the bestselling 1491, Mann uncovers the germ of today’s fiercest political disputes, from immigration to trade policy to culture wars. He presents the latest research by biologists, anthropologists, archaeologists, and historians to demonstrate how the post-Columbian network of ecological and economic exchange fostered the rise of Europe, devastated imperial China, convulsed Africa, and f…
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…| Google eBookstore | iBookstore | Nook About the book: From the author of 1491—the best-selling study of the pre-Columbian Americas—a deeply engaging new history of the most momentous biological event since the death of the dinosaurs. More than 200 million years ago, geological forces split apart the continents. Isolated from each other, the two halves of the world developed radically different suites of plants and animals. When Christopher Colu…
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Media Center: ‘Wizard and the Prophet’ by Charles Mann
…ournalist Mann, also the author of two best-selling history books, 1493 and 1491, pegs our divided outlooks to two seminal yet overlooked scientists whose opposing viewpoints underlie the two primary channels through which environmental thought and practices flow. “William Vogt is the Prophet. A book-loving boy enchanted by then-bucolic Long Island, he came to perceive that all species, ours included, are ‘part of ecosystems ruled by biological la…
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