Magdalena Urban từ Dagdho, Jharkhand, India

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11/25/2024

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2018-08-09 01:30

Kinh Nghiệm Chữa Ung Thư Của Các Bác Sĩ Theo Phương Pháp Thực Dưỡng Ohsawa Macrobiotics Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

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This is a most remarkable book. Charles Mann, the author, presents the reader with some of the latest research regarding pre-Columbian civilizations. Because of my under-graduate degree in anthropology, I have probably been exposed to more pre-contact archaeology, history, and religion of the Americas than the average American so I did not expect to be wooed by the book. Rather, my intention was to review the information that I have been steadily forgetting since college. Pleasantly surprised, the author brought to light the genetic, ethnic, historic, religio-mythic, agricultural, and politic realities of the many civilizations pre-dating European contact and the strange confluence of events that led to their downfalls. The lion's share of this information comes from the past decade, as archeaology and genetic research continues to march on. Most fascinating is the author's ability to challenge conventional wisdom regarding the New England coast at the time of the Puritan arrival, the myth of Edenic Amazonia,and the outbreak populations of Bison, elk, and passenger pigeons resulting from massive native die-outs resulting from European disease transmission. What is more, Mann is a superb writer; he employs an extensive vocabulary chock full of clever turns of phrase and double-entendre that flows smoothly for expository text. At the close of the book I discovered that Mann has written a follow-up book titled, "1493" in which he chronicles the dramatic changes that transpired after the merging of the Old and New Worlds. Though I was dismayed that 1491 came to an end, I am animated knowing that there is another, follow-up to the one I just read!

Người đọc Magdalena Urban từ Dagdho, Jharkhand, India

Người dùng coi những cuốn sách này là thú vị nhất trong năm 2017-2018, ban biên tập của cổng thông tin "Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn" khuyến cáo rằng tất cả các độc giả sẽ làm quen với văn học này.