The Birth of Mankind
Title | The Birth of Mankind PDF eBook |
Author | Elaine Hobby |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 404 |
Release | 2017-03-02 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1351893955 |
Between 1540 and 1654, The Byrth of Mankynde was a huge commercial success. Offering information on fertility, pregnancy, birth, and infant care, and written in a chatty, colloquial style, it influenced most other literary works of the period bearing on sex, reproduction, and childcare. Until now, this important text has been unavailable except for a microfilm of the 1654 edition. For this new annotated edition of the 1560 version, Elaine Hobby has modernized the spelling and included informative notes. In her critical introduction, she not only traces the development of the book from its German origins, but also shows how early-modern ideas about the reproductive process combined ancient, medieval, and contemporary conceptions. Combining editorial rigour with a concern for the needs of the informed non-specialist, Hobby has made available a text that will be useful to scholars and students in a range of academic disciplines, including literature, history, and women's studies.
The Birth of Mankind
Title | The Birth of Mankind PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | Ordem do Graal na Terra |
Pages | 146 |
Release | |
Genre | |
ISBN | 8572790977 |
The Birth of Mankind
Title | The Birth of Mankind PDF eBook |
Author | Eucharius Rösslin |
Publisher | |
Pages | 206 |
Release | 1598 |
Genre | |
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The Birth of Mankind ... Fourth Edition, Corrected, Etc
Title | The Birth of Mankind ... Fourth Edition, Corrected, Etc PDF eBook |
Author | Thomas RAYNALDE |
Publisher | |
Pages | 222 |
Release | 1654 |
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Enemy of All Mankind
Title | Enemy of All Mankind PDF eBook |
Author | Steven Johnson |
Publisher | Penguin |
Pages | 306 |
Release | 2020-05-12 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0735211620 |
“Thoroughly engrossing . . . a spirited, suspenseful, economically told tale whose significance is manifest and whose pace never flags.” —The Wall Street Journal From The New York Times–bestselling author of The Ghost Map and Extra Life, the story of a pirate who changed the world Henry Every was the seventeenth century’s most notorious pirate. The press published wildly popular—and wildly inaccurate—reports of his nefarious adventures. The British government offered enormous bounties for his capture, alive or (preferably) dead. But Steven Johnson argues that Every’s most lasting legacy was his inadvertent triggering of a major shift in the global economy. Enemy of All Mankind focuses on one key event—the attack on an Indian treasure ship by Every and his crew—and its surprising repercussions across time and space. It’s the gripping tale of one of the most lucrative crimes in history, the first international manhunt, and the trial of the seventeenth century. Johnson uses the extraordinary story of Henry Every and his crimes to explore the emergence of the East India Company, the British Empire, and the modern global marketplace: a densely interconnected planet ruled by nations and corporations. How did this unlikely pirate and his notorious crime end up playing a key role in the birth of multinational capitalism? In the same mode as Johnson’s classic nonfiction historical thriller The Ghost Map, Enemy of All Mankind deftly traces the path from a single struck match to a global conflagration.
Mankind
Title | Mankind PDF eBook |
Author | Pamela D. Toler |
Publisher | Running Press Adult |
Pages | 450 |
Release | 2012-10-30 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0762447176 |
It takes more than 10 billion years to create just the right conditions on one planet for life to begin. It takes another three billion years of evolving life forms until it finally happens, a primate super species emerges: mankind. In conjunction with History Channel's hit television series by the same name, Mankind is a sweeping history of humans from the birth of the Earth and hunting antelope in Africa's Rift Valley to the present day with the completion of the Genome project and the birth of the seven billionth human. Like a Hollywood action movie, Mankind is a fast-moving, adventurous history of key events from each major historical epoch that directly affect us today such as the invention of iron, the beginning of Buddhism, the crucifixion of Jesus, the fall of Rome, the invention of the printing press, the Industrial Revolution, and the invention of the computer. With more than 300 color photographs and maps, Mankind is not only a visual overview of the broad story of civilization, but it also includes illustrated pop-out sidebars explaining distinctions between science and history, such as why there is 700 times more iron than bronze buried in the earth, why pepper is the only food we can taste with our skin, and how a wobble in the earth's axis helped bring down the Egyptian Empire. This is the most exciting and entertaining history of mankind ever produced.
The Birth of Mankind Or The Woman's Book
Title | The Birth of Mankind Or The Woman's Book PDF eBook |
Author | Power d'Arcy (Sir).) |
Publisher | |
Pages | 58 |
Release | 1927 |
Genre | Midwifery |
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