A Brief History of Misogyny: The World's Oldest Prejudice

The world is flat: a brief history of the twenty-first century

✍ Friedman, Thomas L 📂 Fiction 📅 2007 🏛 New York : Picador/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007 🌐 English ⚖ 462 KB

SUMMARY: The Beginning Of The Twenty-First Century Will Be Remembered, Friedman Argues, Not For Military Conflicts Or Political Events, But For A Whole New Age Of Globalization A Flattening' Of The World. The Explosion Of Advanced Technologies Now Means That Suddenly Knowledge Pools And Resources

The world is flat: a brief history of the twenty-first century

✍ Friedman, Thomas L 📂 Fiction 📅 2007 🏛 New York : Picador/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007 🌐 English ⚖ 356 KB

SUMMARY: The Beginning Of The Twenty-First Century Will Be Remembered, Friedman Argues, Not For Military Conflicts Or Political Events, But For A Whole New Age Of Globalization A Flattening' Of The World. The Explosion Of Advanced Technologies Now Means That Suddenly Knowledge Pools And Resources

A Brief History of the Vikings

✍ Jonathan Clements 📂 Fiction 📅 2013 🏛 Constable & Robinson 🌐 English ⚖ 571 KB 👁 4 views

**'From the Fury of the Northmen deliver us, O Lord.'** Between the eighth and eleventh centuries, the Vikings surged from their Scandinavian homeland to trade, raid and invade along the coasts of Europe. Their influence and expeditions extended from Newfoundland to Baghdad, their battles were as fa

Chris Harman-A People's History of the World

📂 Fiction 📅 2008 🌐 English ⚖ 499 KB 👁 3 views

The oldest fossils of Africa – a brief r

The oldest fossils of Africa – a brief reappraisal of reports from the Archean

✍ Wladyslaw Altermann 📂 Article 📅 2001 🏛 Elsevier Science 🌐 English ⚖ 460 KB

From the Archean sedimentary rocks of Africa numerous reports of cellularly preserved microfossils were published since 1960. Until the first report of authentic microfossils from the Barberton Greenstone Belt [M.M. Walsh, D.R. Lowe, Nature 314 (1985) 530], however, none of these reports stood up to

A brief history of the flood: stories

✍ Jean Harfenist 📂 Fiction 📅 2007 🏛 Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group;Random House Inc. 🌐 English ⚖ 130 KB 👁 3 views

Lillian Anderson is a strong-minded, backwoods-Minnesota girl, well-versed in the basics of survival. She can find air to breathe under a capsized boat, drive in a blizzard, or capture a wild duck. As part of a large struggling family, she tiptoes around her explosive father whose best days always c