A great historian can make clear the connections between the first Homo sapiens and today's version of the species; and a great storyteller can make those connections come alive. David Christian is both. This Fleeting World: A Short History of Humanity makes the journey a fascinating one. Christian takes us from the Big Bang to the earliest foraging era to the present Anthropocene epoch. This popular work; now in its fifth printing; has been reorganized to help the student and expanded to include material on "big history." Enter This Fleeting World - and give up the preconception that anything old is boring. A compact; easy-to-read overview of world history; ideal for curriculum development; classroom preparation; and student review.
#1001368 in Books Haymarket Books 2007-02-01Original language:EnglishPDF # 1 8.50 x .60 x 5.60l; .60 #File Name: 1931859361280 pages
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. ... book for my boyfriend for Valentine's Day and he loved it.By kcatesBought this book for my boyfriend for Valentine's Day and he loved it.2 of 3 people found the following review helpful. Five StarsBy coryloved it...17 of 17 people found the following review helpful. A treasure of political science history; offering valuable insights that transcend its time.By Midwest Book ReviewRosa Luxemburg was a visionary socialist in Germany during the early twentieth century; who insisted that ordinary working people could fight and win battles for not only improvements in their daily working conditions; but also the struggle to create a society based on justice and equality. The Essential Rosa Luxemburg: Reform or Revolution and The Mass Strike presents the full text of Rosa Luxemburg's classics "Reform or Revolution" and "The Mass Strike"; enhanced with extensive explanatory notes; appendices; and introductions. The two most pivotal concepts discussed are the questions of whether capitalism can be reformed and refined into a system of justice; and what efforts are most needed to bring about such a transformation? "Producers' cooperatives can survive within capitalist economy only if they manage to suppress; by means of some detour; the capitalist-controlled contradiction between the mode of production and the mode of exchange. And they can accomplish this only by removing themselves artificially from the influence of the laws of free competition. And they can succeed in doing the last only when they assure themselves beforehand of a constant circle of consumers; that is; when they assure themselves of a constant market." A treasure of political science history; offering valuable insights that transcend its time.
