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The Dawn of Everything
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 482

The Dawn of Everything

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2021-10-19
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  • Publisher: Penguin UK

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER AND SUNDAY TIMES, OBSERVER AND BBC HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR FINALIST FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING 2022 'Pacey and potentially revolutionary' Sunday Times 'Iconoclastic and irreverent ... an exhilarating read' The Guardian For generations, our remote ancestors have been cast as primitive and childlike - either free and equal, or thuggish and warlike. Civilization, we are told, could be achieved only by sacrificing those original freedoms or, alternatively, by taming our baser instincts. David Graeber and David Wengrow show how such theories first emerged in the eighteenth century as a reaction to indigenous critiques of European society, and why the...

The Archaeology of Early Egypt
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 245

The Archaeology of Early Egypt

A 2006 interpretation of the emergence of farming economies and the dynastic state in Egypt c. 10,000-2,650 BC.

What Makes Civilization?
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 238

What Makes Civilization?

A vivid new account of the 'birth of civilization' in ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia where many of the foundations of modern life were laid

A Small Farm Future
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 322

A Small Farm Future

A modern classic of the new agrarianism "Chris Smaje...shows that the choice is clear. Either we have a small farm future, or we face collapse and extinction."—Vandana Shiva "Every young person should read this book."—Richard Heinberg In a groundbreaking debut, farmer and social scientist Chris Smaje argues that organizing society around small-scale farming offers the soundest, sanest and most reasonable response to climate change and other crises of civilisation—and will yield humanity’s best chance at survival. Drawing on a vast range of sources from across a multitude of disciplines, A Small Farm Future analyses the complex forces that make societal change inevitable; explains how...

Civilisation Recast
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 225

Civilisation Recast

Shows what humanity has borrowed and shared as a common heritage.

The Ancient Constitution and the Feudal Law
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 428

The Ancient Constitution and the Feudal Law

Pocock explores the relationship between the study of law and the historical outlook of seventeenth-century Englishmen.

Bullshit Jobs
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 368

Bullshit Jobs

From David Graeber, the bestselling author of The Dawn of Everything and Debt—“a master of opening up thought and stimulating debate” (Slate)—a powerful argument against the rise of meaningless, unfulfilling jobs…and their consequences. Does your job make a meaningful contribution to the world? In the spring of 2013, David Graeber asked this question in a playful, provocative essay titled “On the Phenomenon of Bullshit Jobs.” It went viral. After one million online views in seventeen different languages, people all over the world are still debating the answer. There are hordes of people—HR consultants, communication coordinators, telemarketing researchers, corporate lawyers...

Meeting the Global Crisis
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 231

Meeting the Global Crisis

There is no chance of humankind surviving and flourishing unless we come together as a global community of communities. This book puts forward the unique contribution of Christian faith to the potentially terminal challenges currently facing our world.

The Intersection of Sacredness and Archaeology
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 351

The Intersection of Sacredness and Archaeology

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Circuits of Metal Value
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 225

Circuits of Metal Value

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2023-03-23
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  • Publisher: Oxbow Books

This volume explores the part played by different metals in use from the fourth millennium BC to the Early Iron Age, not only in the Aegean but also in the wider Old World. It addresses the divergent uses and roles of different metals, the interrelationships of these roles and the changing values that may have been accorded to them at different times and in different places by producers and consumers. Individually, the papers in the volume contemplate the particular properties of different metals and the various issues concerning their frequent under-representation in the archaeological (but not necessarily textual) record, and also point out comparative and diachronic perspectives that may ...