Peculiar Lessons: How Nature and the Physical World Shaped a Prairie Childhood 1773370375, 9781773370378

The Nature of the Physical World 1376185288

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A Splendid Exchange: How Trade Shaped the World 9781555848439, 1555848435

Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; List of Maps; Introduction; 1 Sumer; 2 The Straits of Trad

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Infinitesimal: How a Dangerous Mathematical Theory Shaped the Modern World

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Visions of Nature: How Landscape Photography Shaped Settler Colonialism 9780520381278

Visions of Nature revives the work of a cast of late nineteenth-century landscape photographers who shaped the environme

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Europa: How Europe Shaped the Modern World 1681778246, 9781681778242

European history is deeply embedded in the global civilization that has emerged in the 21st century. More than two third

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A Peculiar Fate: Metaphysics and World-History in Kant 9781501734526

A Peculiar Fate demonstrates for the first time how Kant's concern with history motivates and gives shape to his &q

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The Nature of Physical Reality

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Biomimetics: How Lessons From Nature can Transform Technology 1785789899, 9781785789892

An exploration of the transformative ways in which nature has inspired the technological advancement of humankind. B

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The Ideal River: How Control Of Nature Shaped The International Order [1 ed.] 9781526154385

Environmental politics has traditionally been a peripheral concern for IR theory, but increasing alarm over global envir

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The ideal river: How control of nature shaped the international order 9781526154392

This book examines the geographical imaginaries that underpinned international efforts to create the first international

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