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"A journey of discovery through 15,000 years of world history. Food and drink. Fads and fashions. Homes and furnishings. Heating and lighting. Plumbing and sanitation. Work and wages. Sports and amusements. Arts and music. Courtship and marriage. Crime and punishment. Weapons and warfare. Health and medicine. Religion and morality. Transport and travel. Money and trade. Inventions and education. Politics and government. Death and burial"--Back cover....

This episode of The Green Interview features Ronald Wright, a novelist, essayist, historian, philosopher and the author of nine books, including the 2004 CBC Massey Lectures, "A Short History of Progress," which won the Libris Award for Nonfiction Book of the Year and was subsequently produced as a documentary film. Wright is also a compelling and well-regarded speaker who began as an archaeologist and then returned to it later, looking for patterns...

The Great Frontier represents a daring attempt to interpret the settlement of the American West in the global context of the expansion of European civilization between the fifteenth and twentieth centuries. According to Webb's boom hypothesis, the expansion of Europe's Great Frontier into the Western Hemisphere energized a static society and made possible the development of such fundamental institutions of the modern era as individualism, capitalism,...

A portrait of how people lived in the pre-industrial age describes how a lack of electric lighting separated daytime and evening into more contrasting worlds, explaining how superstition, work, fire, crime, religion, slavery, and other factors were different before the advent of electric lighting.

"Her reflections on the women's movement, the peace efforts during the World War, prohibition, and immigration under the quota are valuable as acute observations not from the sidelines but from the very center of the field. It is sound, constructive comment."--W.B. Shaw in American Review of Reviews (January 1931).

Illuminates the construction, architectural style, histories, and beauty of thirty-three medieval cathedrals.

"Written to educate and inform readers about the social-roles of disability, this accessible and informative work addresses: social classifications of disability; social reactions to disability; legal rights and classifications of persons with disabilities; issues of accessibility to information and communication technologies; representations of disability in a range of media, including literature, painting, film, television and advertising; and major...