Charles C Mann
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In this book the author shows how a new generation of researchers equipped with novel scientific techniques have come to previously unheard of conclusions about the Americas before the arrival of the Europeans. In 1491 there were probably more people living in the Americas than in Europe. Certain cities, such as Tenochtitlan, the Aztec capital, were greater in population than any European city. Tenochtitlan, unlike any capital in Europe at that time,...
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"From the author of 1491--the best-selling study of the pre-Columbian Americas--a deeply engaging new history that explores 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 totally different suites of plants and animals. Columbus's voyages brought them back together--and marked the beginning...
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[2018]
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x, 616 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
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Presents two influential scientists, William Vogt (1902-1968), and Norman Borlaug (1914-2009), whose diametrically opposed views shaped modern understandings about the environment and related public policies.
In forty years, Earth's population will reach ten billion. Can our world support that? What kind of world will it be? Those answering these questions generally fall into two deeply divided groups--Wizards and Prophets, as Charles Mann calls...
4) 1493
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2012
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Quando Cristovão Colombo descobriu a América, abrindo aos impérios espanhol e português à conquista do novo mundo, seguidos por outros colonizadores europeus, começava uma nova era não só na história da humanidade, mas na própria vida do planeta. A globalização não foi só económica e política, mas também biológica. O desencadear de uma troca mundial de plantas, animais, insectos, produtos e doenças criou novos hábitos alimentares...
