Mass Destruction: The Men and Giant Mines That Wired America and Scarred the Planet
By: Timothy J. LeCain
3.81
Format: 280 pages, Hardcover
The place: The steep mountains outside Salt Lake City. The time: The first decade of the twentieth …
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Twenty-Five Hundred years ago, Sun Tzu wrote this classic book of military strategy based on Chines… read more
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"Never venture, never win!"-Sun Tzu, The Art of War
"Danger has a bracing effect."-Sun Tzu, The Art of War
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"mystify, mislead, and surprise the enemy"-Sun Tzu, The Art of War
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Many Japanese once revered the wolf as Oguchi no Magami, or Large-Mouthed Pure God, but as Japan be… read more
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3. The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
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Over the last half-billion years, there have been five mass extinctions, when the diversity of life… read more
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The Cod. Wars have been fought over it, revolutions have been triggered by it, national diets have … read more
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5. The Organic Machine: The Remaking of the Columbia River
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6. Mosquito Empires: Ecology and War in the Greater Caribbean, 1620-1914
By: John Robert McNeill
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7. Visit Sunny Chernobyl: And Other Adventures in the World's Most Polluted Places
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8. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
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10. The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World
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4.20
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The dinosaurs. Sixty-six million years ago, the Earth’s most fearsome creatures vanished. Today the… read more
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"There is a dinosaur outside my window. I'm watching it as I write this."-Steve Brusatte, The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World
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12. Coffeeland: One Man's Dark Empire and the Making of Our Favorite Drug
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"Історична батьківщина рослини, яка по-ботанічному називається Coffea arabica, — Ефіопія. Просто в XVI–XVII століттях кавою монопольно торгували арабські купці з єменського узбережжя Червоного моря, а…"-Augustine Sedgewick, Coffeeland: One Man's Dark Empire and the Making of Our Favorite Drug
"...means the destruction of our nation just as surely as it meant the destruction of Egypt and Rome and Spain and Germany and all the other nations who came to measure their greatness by their materi…"-Augustine Sedgewick, Coffeeland: One Man's Dark Empire and the Making of Our Favorite Drug
13. Mass Destruction: The Men and Giant Mines That Wired America and Scarred the Planet
By: Timothy J. LeCain
3.81
Format: 280 pages, Hardcover
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