En este trabajo innovador de ciencia, historia y arqueología, Charles C. Mann altera radicalmente nuestra comprensión de las Américas antes de la llegada de Colón en 1492.
Ocho décadas después de Colón, un español llamado Legazpi triunfó donde Colón había fracasado. Navegó hacia el oeste para establecer un comercio continuo con China, entonces el país más...
An incisive portrait of the two little-known twentieth-century scientists, Norman Borlaug and William Vogt, whose diametrically opposed views shaped our ideas about the environment, laying the groundwork for how people in the twenty-first century will...
Charles C. Mann schreibt die Geschichte des vorkolumbischen Amerikas.Er macht deutlich, dass die indianischen Kulturen oftmals weiter entwickelt waren als die europäische. Ihre Boote waren schneller und wendiger als die der Europäer, ihre St&aum...
NATIONAL BESTSELLER â¢Â A deeply engaging new history of how European settlements in the post-Colombian Americas shaped the world, from the highly acclaimed author of 1491 .
This is an account of history's biggest ecological invasion, when Europe and the Americas collided for the first time in millennia. The book explores how many historians believe that this collision of ecosystems and cultures - the Columbian Exchange...
NATIONAL BESTSELLER ⢠A groundbreaking work of science, history, and archaeology that radically alters our understanding of the Americas before the arrival of Columbus in 1492âfrom âa remarkably engagi...
Up until very recently it was believed that in 1491, the year before Columbus landed, the Americas, one-third of the earth's surface, were a near-pristine wilderness inhabited by small, roaming bands of indigenous peoples. But recent unexpected discoverie...
Hailed as "a chilling portrait" by The Boston Globe and "a crafty thriller" by Newsweek, this astonishing story of an obsessive hacker promises to change the way you look at the Internet forever.