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  • Remembering Asia's World War Two

    Edited by Mark R. Frost, Daniel Schumacher, Edward Vickers ...
    Series series Remembering the Modern World
    Over the past four decades, East and Southeast Asia have seen a proliferation of heritage sites and remembrance practices which commemorate the region’s bloody conflicts of the period 1931–45. Remembering Asia’s World War Two examines the origins, dynamics, and repercussions of this regional war “memory boom”.The book analyzes the politics of war commemoration in contemporary East and Southeast ... Read more

    $92.99 CAD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Zooarchaeology

    Edited by Umberto Albarella, Mauro Rizzetto, Hannah Russ, Kim Vickers, Sarah Viner-Daniels ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    Animals have played a fundamental role in shaping human history, and the study of their remains from archaeological sites--zooarchaeology--has gradually been emerging as a powerful discipline and crucible for forging an understanding of our past. The Oxford Handbook of Zooarchaeology offers a cutting-edge compendium of zooarchaeology the world over that transcends environmental, economic, and ... Read more

    $45.99 CAD

  • Shifting Baselines

    The Past and the Future of Ocean Fisheries

    by Jeff Bolster, Francisco Chavez, Jamie Cournane, Jon Erlandson, David Field, Marah J. Hardt, Carina B. Lange, William B. Leavenworth, Heike Lotze, Alec D. MacCall, Loren McClenachan, Richard Norris, Daniel Pauly, Andrew A. Rosenberg, Kaustuv Roy, Carl Safina, Paul Smith, Tim D. Smith, Rashid Sumaila, Daniel Vickers, Christine R. Whitcraft, Randy Olson, Dr., Stephen R. Palumbi, Dr. ...
    Shifting Baselines explores the real-world implications of a groundbreaking idea: we must understand the oceans of the past to protect the oceans of the future. In 1995, acclaimed marine biologist Daniel Pauly coined the term "shifting baselines" to describe a phenomenon of lowered expectations, in which each generation regards a progressively poorer natural world as normal. This seminal volume ... Read more

    $93.49 CAD

  • The Human Tradition in the American Revolution

    by Edward J. Cashin, David Grimsted, Gary L. Hewitt, Alison Duncan Hirsch, Phillip W. Hoffman, Thomas J. Humphrey, Michelle Leung, Katherine M. J. McKenna, Gary B. Nash, Jon W. Parmenter, John Sainsbury, John Shy, Sheila Skemp, Daniel Vickers, Maurice Jackson, Stephen Aron ...
    Series series The Human Tradition in America
    This collection of 17 biographies provides a unique opportunity for the reader to go beyond the popular heroes of the American Revolution and discover the diverse populace that inhabited the colonies during this pivotal point in history. ... Read more

    $52.99 CAD

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  • The Humans Who Went Extinct:Why Neanderthals died out and we survived

    Why Neanderthals died out and we survived

    by Clive Finlayson ...
    Just 28,000 years ago, the blink of an eye in geological time, the last of Neanderthals died out in their last outpost, in caves near Gibraltar. Thanks to cartoons and folk accounts we have a distorted view of these other humans - for that is what they were. We think of them as crude and clumsy and not very bright, easily driven to extinction by the lithe, smart modern humans that came out of ... Read more

    $17.89 CAD

  • After the Ice

    A Global Human History, 20,000 - 5000 BC

    by Prof Steven Mithen ...
    A fantastic voyage through 15,000 years of history that laid the foundations for civilisation as we know it by award-winning science writer Steven Mithen.Twenty thousand years ago Earth was in the midst of an ice age. Then global warming arrived, leading to massive floods, the spread of forests and the retreat of the deserts. By 5,000 BC a radically different human world had appeared. In place of ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • Animals and Inequality in the Ancient World

    Edited by Benjamin S. Arbuckle, Sue Ann McCarty ...
    Animals and Inequality in the Ancient World explores the current trends in the social archaeology of human-animal relationships, focusing on the ways in which animals are used to structure, create, support, and even deconstruct social inequalities.The authors provide a global range of case studies from both New and Old World archaeology—a royal Aztec dog burial, the monumental horse tombs of ... Read more

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  • The Indigenous Paleolithic of the Western Hemisphere

    by Paulette F. C. Steeves ...
    2022 Choice Outstanding Academic TitleThe Indigenous Paleolithic of the Western Hemisphere is a reclaimed history of the deep past of Indigenous people in North and South America during the Paleolithic. Paulette F. C. Steeves mines evidence from archaeology sites and Paleolithic environments, landscapes, and mammalian and human migrations to make the case that people have been in the Western ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • Prehistory

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Chris Gosden ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Prehistory covers the period of some 4 million years before the start of written history, when our earliest ancestors, the Australopithecines, existed in Africa. But this is relatively recent compared to whole history of the earth of some 4.5 billion years. A key aspect of prehistory is that it provides a sense of scale, throwing recent ways of life into perspective. Humans and their ancestors ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • The Holocene

    An Environmental History

    by Neil Roberts ...
    The Holocene provides students, researchers and lay-readers with the remarkable story of how the natural world has been transformed since the end of the last Ice Age around 15,000 years ago. This period has witnessed a shift from environmental changes determined by natural forces to those dominated by human actions, including those of climate and greenhouse gases. Understanding the environmental ... Read more

    $59.99 CAD

  • Climate Change and the Health of Nations

    Famines, Fevers, and the Fate of Populations

    by Anthony McMichael ...
    When we think of climate change, we often picture man-made global warming, caused by greenhouse gas emissions. But natural climate change has occurred throughout human history, and populations have had to adapt to the climate's vicissitudes. Anthony McMichael, a renowned epidemiologist and a pioneer in the field of how human health relates to climate change, is the ideal person to tell this story. ... Read more

    $26.39 CAD

  • First Migrants

    Ancient Migration in Global Perspective

    by Peter Bellwood ...
    The first publication to outline the complex global story of human migration and dispersal throughout the whole of human prehistory. Utilizing archaeological, linguistic and biological evidence, Peter Bellwood traces the journeys of the earliest hunter-gatherer and agriculturalist migrants as critical elements in the evolution of human lifeways.The first volume to chart global human migration and ... Read more

    $42.99 CAD