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While Americans have been deeply absorbed with the topic of immigration for generations, emigration from the United States has been almost entirely ignored. Following the US Civil War, an estimated 10,000 Confederates left the US South, most of them moving to Brazil, where they became known as Confederados, Portuguese for “Confederates”. These Southerners were the largest organized group of White Americans to ever voluntarily emigrate from the United States. 

In light of concerns about food and human health, fraying social ties, economic uncertainty, and rampant consumerism, some people are foregoing a hurried, distracted existence and embracing a mindful way of living. Intentional residential communities across the United States are seeking the freedom to craft their own societies and live based on the values of nonviolence, self-sufficiency, equality, and voluntary simplicity.

Organized in keeping with our knowledge of the migration of human groups through history, with statistics and a cultural portrait of each ethnic group, People of the World becomes a fascinating round-the-world tour of customs and traditions, as well as a go-to source for background information to round out one's own family history. From the Tuvans of Siberia to the Samoans and Tahitians of Polynesia, from the Mapuche of Chile to the Sami of Scandinavia, 222 of the world's 10,000-plus ethnic groups are featured.

English naturalist and geologist Charles Darwin first published On the Origin of Species in 1859. The idea of evolution and that all earth's species have descended from a common ancestor had already been around for some time. What was new about Darwin's work was that it found a way to explain evolution using a theory called natural selection. This claimed that species change in small ways, gradually, over long periods of time; the individuals who happen to be best suited to their environment survive.

The Big Ratchet is the story of the ratchets: the technologies and innovations, big and small, that propelled our species from hunters and gatherers on the savannahs of Africa to shoppers in the aisles of the supermarket. Our species long lived on the edge of starvation. Now we produce enough food for all 7 billion of us to eat nearly 3,000 calories every day. This is such an astonishing thing in the history of life as to verge on the miraculous. The Big Ratchet is the story of how it happened.

人类文明的兴衰绝非偶然，而是季风、山川与人类求生本能之间一场跨越数万年的宏大地理博弈。当你在通勤的喧嚣或深思的独处中，渴望寻找理解全球局势的底层逻辑时，这部充满史诗感的历史洞见将彻底颠覆你的旧有认知...

La geografia non è un semplice sfondo, ma il vero motore occulto che plasma l'evoluzione e la storia dell'umanità. Durante i tuoi spostamenti quotidiani o nelle pause di profonda riflessione, lasciati avvolgere da una narrazione epica che trasforma le dinamiche atmosferiche e le immense reti...

英雄の決断や戦争の勝敗よりも深く人類の運命を決定づけてきた、地理と気候という大自然のダイナミクスが織りなす壮大な歴史ドラマへようこそ。いつもの通勤時間や散歩のひとときが、地球規模の知的好奇心を刺激す...

Begreife die Weltgeschichte neu: Wie Klima und Geografie den Aufstieg mächtiger Zivilisationen unerbittlich formen. Dieses fesselnde Sachbuch verwandelt deine Zeit beim Pendeln in eine augenöffnende Zeitreise von den ersten menschlichen Siedlungen bis zur global vernetzten Moderne. Spüre die...

京都住所の「上ル」「下ル」、1階と2階とで市が違うビル、長野県長野市南長野県町、住所の中に「ABC」や「渡辺」の文字――。 日本の住所は実はツッコミどころだらけ。全国のユニークな住所をたどると、そこには歴史の偶然や行政の事情、地域の人々の思いが隠されていた。

Paradise of Thorns, a new William Collins book, full description to follow when available...

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize In this groundbreaking work, evolutionary biologist Jared Diamond stunningly dismantles racially based theories of human history by revealing the environmental factors actually responsible for history’s broadest patterns. It is a story that spans 13,000 years of...

Young people worldwide face a grave crisis: the relentless assault on their innocence through normalized pedophilia, sex trafficking, forced prostitution, and ruthless violence. Countless children vanish into a vast, malevolent system, while many remain unaware or indifferent. Innocence Shattered exposes these dark realities, challenges the church to awaken from passivity, and calls readers to action.

«Si fa presto a dire pace. Quando finisce una guerra, restano irrisolti innumerevoli problemi generati di norma da dettagli trascurati per ragioni di necessità. Anche quando è ben chiaro il confine che divide i vincitori dagli sconfitti, a chi sarà assegnato l'alloro per aver combattuto dalla parte del bene e chi sarà invece dannato come un'incarnazione del male.» Niente di più attuale, verrebbe da dire.

日本は「東西」で語れるのか？ 「中部地方」は存在するのか？ 何が「裏日本」をつくったのか？ 私たちが知らない〈この国のかたち〉 日本列島って、こんなに面白かったのか！！！ 【フルカラー＆図版100点以上収録】 分けて、つないで、知的興奮……日本の見方がガラリと変わる まったく新しい地理学入門！

Throughout history, humans have chosen to settle in some of Earth’s most objectively inhospitable places Lured by the promise of sudden wealth, strategic defense, or free real estate, we have established cities in scorching deserts, atop active supervolcanoes, and along sinking river deltas...

地図でひもとく東京の真実――データが語る、知って驚く東京の新発見！

Este audiolibro es una mezcla entre historias de crímenes contra las mujeres con el análisis de los comportamientos cotidianos, los mal llamados micromachismos, que contribuyen a un ambiente que permite la muerte de las mujeres por el solo hecho de ser mujeres.

Konstruktive Lösungen für eine post-fossile Welt von morgen Das fossile System bröckelt. Ein Klima ohne Krise ist in Reichweite. Was es jetzt braucht: dass wir endlich unsere Abhängigkeit von CO2 verlernen – und zwar in allen Bereichen unseres Lebens. Denn das Treibhausgas steckt nicht nur...

Urban survival focuses on keeping safe in your daily life as well as a crisis. It’s having a plan, and developing the skills needed to not just survive, but thrive in an urban environment. It is not a “prepper” mentality of waiting for a pending threat. It is accepting the fact that we live in turbulent times. Just watch the news. Every day there is a shooting, people being beaten, stabbed, pushed in front of oncoming subway trains, social unrest, and political threats. Forewarned is forearmed. Let’s get to that plan!