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The Big Ratchet : How Humanity Thrives in the Face of Natural Crisis.
A MacArthur Genius and eminent scientist shows how an ordinary mammal manipulated nature to become a technologically sophisticated city-dweller and why our history points to an optimistic future in the face of environmental crisis.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Basic Books,
2014.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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| 245 | 1 | 4 | |a The Big Ratchet : |b How Humanity Thrives in the Face of Natural Crisis. |
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| 505 | 0 | |a Prologue; 1: A Bird's-Eye View; Civilization's Engine; The Irish Pivot; The Length of the Lens; 2: Planetary Beginnings; Real Estate in the Cosmos; What Goes Around Comes Around; Time to Fill the Pantry; 3: Enter Human Ingenuity; From Genes to Ingenuity; Tools, Fire, and Words; Forager to Farmer; 4: Conundrums of Settled Life; The Great Irony; Bottleneck from Below; Life from Rivers; Another Conundrum; Ancient China Sidesteps the Bottlenecks; Europe Ratchets Up; 5: Ratchets from Afar; Boobies and Cormorants; Sun-Powered Cargo; Traveling Water; 6: Smash Open the Bottlenecks. | |
| 505 | 8 | |a Food from AirBuffalo Bones and Buried Coral; Hatchets Downstream; Another Spigot Opens; 7: Monocultures March Across the Midwest; Hybrids Invade the Corn Belt; Short Beats Tall; In Search of the Soybean; Power from the Ancient Sun; More Meat, Less Starch; 8: Competition for the Bounty ; Scarecrows to Strychnine; A Better Scarecrow; Cascading Consequences; Perpetual Pursuit; 9: The Revolution Goes Global ; From Mexico to India; Miracles with Rice; The Dark Side of the Revolution; Back to the Wild; The Next Genetic Twist; 10: Farmer to Urbanite; Fattier and Sweeter. | |
| 505 | 8 | |a The Planetary Machinery Lashes Back; The Next Pivots; Into the Cacophony; Acknowledgments; Notes; References; Index. | |
| 520 | |a A MacArthur Genius and eminent scientist shows how an ordinary mammal manipulated nature to become a technologically sophisticated city-dweller and why our history points to an optimistic future in the face of environmental crisis. | ||
| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references and index. | ||
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| 650 | 0 | |a Nature |x Effect of human beings on. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Human ecology. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Physical anthropology. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Human evolution. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Social evolution. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Survival. | |
| 650 | 6 | |a Êtres humains |x Influence sur la nature. | |
| 650 | 6 | |a Écologie humaine. | |
| 650 | 6 | |a Anthropologie physique. | |
| 650 | 6 | |a Êtres humains |x Évolution. | |
| 650 | 6 | |a Évolution sociale. | |
| 650 | 6 | |a Habiletés de survie. | |
| 650 | 7 | |a human ecology. |2 aat | |
| 650 | 7 | |a physical anthropology. |2 aat | |
| 650 | 7 | |a Evolution. |2 bisacsh | |
| 650 | 7 | |a Cultural. |2 bisacsh | |
| 650 | 7 | |a Agriculture & Food. |2 bisacsh | |
| 650 | 7 | |a SOCIAL SCIENCE |x Human Geography. |2 bisacsh | |
| 650 | 7 | |a Human ecology |2 fast | |
| 650 | 7 | |a Human evolution |2 fast | |
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