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While sometimes striving for the good of mankind, Constantine is often manipulative and a dangerous person to have as a friend, as the lives and souls of those around him become perilously involved in his misadventures.
This book tackles the issue of whether and how thinking should be taught in schools and explores how best to help children become effective thinkers and learners.
Richard Mayhew is a young man with a good heart and an ordinary life, which is changed forever when he stops to help a girl he finds bleeding on a London sidewalk. His small act of kindness propels him into a world he never dreamed existed. There are people who fall through the cracks, and Richard has become one of them. And he must learn to survive in this city of shadows and darkness, monsters and saints, murderers and angels, if he is ever to return to the London that he knew.
A highly original and
ambitious approach to civilizations. Fernández-Armesto emphasizes the degree to
which control over the environment shapes the nature of civilizations. Blessed
with a gift for illuminating "total history" in books like
Millennium, Felipe Fernandez-Armesto has become a fixture on the annual New
York Times Notables list, time and again proving himself a brilliantly original
and accessible historian. Now, with this breakthrough new work, he achieves a
masterful resolution to the riddle that has preoccupied centuries of state-of-the-art
thinkers: the nature of civilization. To the author, societies become civilized
by taming and warping nature. Civilizations can best be studied and ranked in
relation to their environments. Exploring seventeen distinct habitats -
including tundra societies of Ice Age Europe, bushmen of South Africa, and
island cultures of Polynesia - Civilizations zooms in on features that will be
familiar to any ecologist, but which actually reflect the quality of life and
source of survival in civilizations across ten millennia.
