Before Columbus

Before Columbus
Title Before Columbus PDF eBook
Author Charles C. Mann
Publisher Simon and Schuster
Pages 128
Release 2009-09-08
Genre Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN 1416949003

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A companion book for young readers based upon the explorations of the Americas in 1491, before those of Christopher Columbus.

1493

1493
Title 1493 PDF eBook
Author Charles C. Mann
Publisher Knopf
Pages 561
Release 2011
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 0307265722

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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 of an extraordinary exchange of flora and fauna between Eurasia and the Americas.

1491 (Second Edition)

1491 (Second Edition)
Title 1491 (Second Edition) PDF eBook
Author Charles C. Mann
Publisher Vintage
Pages 578
Release 2006-10-10
Genre History
ISBN 1400032059

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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A groundbreaking work of science, history, and archaeology that radically alters our understanding of the Americas before the arrival of Columbus in 1492—from “a remarkably engaging writer” (The New York Times Book Review). Contrary to what so many Americans learn in school, the pre-Columbian Indians were not sparsely settled in a pristine wilderness; rather, there were huge numbers of Indians who actively molded and influenced the land around them. The astonishing Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan had running water and immaculately clean streets, and was larger than any contemporary European city. Mexican cultures created corn in a specialized breeding process that it has been called man’s first feat of genetic engineering. Indeed, Indians were not living lightly on the land but were landscaping and manipulating their world in ways that we are only now beginning to understand. Challenging and surprising, this a transformative new look at a rich and fascinating world we only thought we knew.

The Wizard and the Prophet

The Wizard and the Prophet
Title The Wizard and the Prophet PDF eBook
Author Charles C. Mann
Publisher Vintage
Pages 641
Release 2018-01-23
Genre Science
ISBN 0307961702

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From the bestselling, award-winning author of 1491 and 1493—an incisive portrait of the two little-known twentieth-century scientists, Norman Borlaug and William Vogt, whose diametrically opposed views shaped our ideas about the environment, laying the groundwork for how people in the twenty-first century will choose to live in tomorrow's world. 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 them in this balanced, authoritative, nonpolemical new book. The Prophets, he explains, follow William Vogt, a founding environmentalist who believed that in using more than our planet has to give, our prosperity will lead us to ruin. Cut back! was his mantra. Otherwise everyone will lose! The Wizards are the heirs of Norman Borlaug, whose research, in effect, wrangled the world in service to our species to produce modern high-yield crops that then saved millions from starvation. Innovate! was Borlaug's cry. Only in that way can everyone win! Mann delves into these diverging viewpoints to assess the four great challenges humanity faces--food, water, energy, climate change--grounding each in historical context and weighing the options for the future. With our civilization on the line, the author's insightful analysis is an essential addition to the urgent conversation about how our children will fare on an increasingly crowded Earth.

1491 (Second Edition)

1491 (Second Edition)
Title 1491 (Second Edition) PDF eBook
Author Charles C. Mann
Publisher Vintage
Pages 578
Release 2006-10-10
Genre History
ISBN 0307278182

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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A groundbreaking work of science, history, and archaeology that radically alters our understanding of the Americas before the arrival of Columbus in 1492—from “a remarkably engaging writer” (The New York Times Book Review). Contrary to what so many Americans learn in school, the pre-Columbian Indians were not sparsely settled in a pristine wilderness; rather, there were huge numbers of Indians who actively molded and influenced the land around them. The astonishing Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan had running water and immaculately clean streets, and was larger than any contemporary European city. Mexican cultures created corn in a specialized breeding process that it has been called man’s first feat of genetic engineering. Indeed, Indians were not living lightly on the land but were landscaping and manipulating their world in ways that we are only now beginning to understand. Challenging and surprising, this a transformative new look at a rich and fascinating world we only thought we knew.

Ancient Americans

Ancient Americans
Title Ancient Americans PDF eBook
Author Charles C. Mann
Publisher
Pages 0
Release 2005
Genre America
ISBN 9781862076174

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The first general and comprehensive history of all of Native America

The Second Creation

The Second Creation
Title The Second Creation PDF eBook
Author Robert P. Crease
Publisher Rutgers University Press
Pages 502
Release 1996
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 9780813521770

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The Second Creation is a dramatic--and human--chronicle of scientific investigators at the last frontier of knowledge. Robert Crease and Charles Mann take the reader on a fascinating journey in search of "unification" with brilliant scientists such as Niels Bohr, Max Planck, Albert Einstein, Erwin Schrödinger, Richard Feynman, Murray Gell-Mann, Sheldon Glashow, Steven Weinberg, and many others. They provide the definitive and highly entertaining story of the development of modern physics, and the human story of the physicists who set out to find the "theory of everything."