TITLE: The Intimate Bond: How Animals Shaped Human History AUTHOR: Brian M. Fagan DATE PUBLISHED: 2015 FORMAT: Hardcover ISBN-13: 9781620405727 _____________________ DESCRIPTION: "Animals, and our ever-changing relationship with them, have left an indelible mark on human history. F...
TITLE: The Attacking Ocean AUTHOR: Brian Fagan DATE PUBLISHED: 2013 FORMAT: ebook ISBN-13: 9781608196951 ________________________ In this book, Brian Fagan takes a look at the changing sea levels over the entire span of human civilization, from the end of the Ice Age to our current ...
This is an interesting survey of the impact of climate change on man in the last 18,000 or so years (since the last ice age). Fagan knows his material, as he is a distinguished anthropologist. However, in reading the material on effects of climate change in the historical era, I think he sometime...
I quite honestly didn’t think I would enjoy this book quite as much as I did. This was really fascinating, so fascinating that it was totally absorbing. While accessible to the common reader, Fagan’s book is one that students could use, so it can, at times, be technical. Still fascinating. Thoug...
The premise of this book seemed interesting: how extreme weather patterns influenced the rise and fall of civilizations through history. Climate change is in the news almost daily these days, and I've watched the people on the Weather Channel explain El Nino before so I thought "Hey, this might be...
National Geographic 52 minsTreasure Seekers: The Edge of the OrientAusten Henry LayardGertrude Bell
I came across this book while browsing in our home library. Well, more accurately, sitting on a dining room chair staring at a loaded bookcase, glassy-eyed and drooling. When I first encountered the woman who is now my wife, one of her most attractive characteristics was that she was a big-time read...
A fascinating look at the Medieval Warming period that includes not only Europe, but just about every part of the world. Fagan presents various examples of how the warming period (which was not a consistent warmth, but a period of cyclical warmth resulting from, among a few things, El Nino/La Nina c...
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