... copper is the simplest to smelt from
ore and to fashion into objects, and it was therefore the first metal to be
mined and worked by prehistoric cultures, but it is also the softest of the
three ... communities and regions as surplus commodities of one
sort were exchanged for others. The concatenation of these factors brought
into being the first towns of t...
... but to a lesser determination on the part of the governments. The
Iranian Islamic Revolution of 1979 and the failure of the August 1991
coup in Moscow are other seeming demonstrations of the ... been true historically of most forms
of terrorism, such as that of the Jewish Zealots of the first century c.e.,
for example, or of the Isma\ili sect of Assass...
... ecology theory
and models into analyses of domestication and
agricultural origins.
The transfer and extension of ideas and con-
cepts in order to bring new topics under the
compass of existing theory ... And, to complete the
dynamic circuit, the densities of the resource
species themselves expand or contract accord-
ing to their degree of exploitation and...
... forced to labor, and who are thus subject to the law of deceit and to the pain
of death. It seems that this contract, analogous to the contract linking Michelet's history to
" ;the People"—who, ... with the gifts of our benefactors, offer them products at the expense of the
institution that divides and pays the workers. This practice of...
... word and did not know what to expect. To some of
them, sailing off the edge of the world was a serious prospect. Many
of these sailors were cut off from their native lands for years at a time,
and ... “What is the origin of Earth and the
solar system?” “What is the origin of the universe?” and “What is the
role of consciousness in the universe?”
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... volume can begin to map the overlapping
networks that bind a sheep named Dolly to the Yanomámi of South Amer-
ica, and the African diaspora to the genome of the daffodil.
Two stories from our conference ... found the skit and the
costumes offensive and left. Others, unaware of their colleagues’ departures,
joined the dancing around the fire at the end o...
... president of the University of Maine. He then moved
to the University of California at Berkeley, where he held a number of positions,
eventually becoming director of the Biotechnology Research and ... cavity called the blastocoel. The cells of the blas-
tocyst then segregate into an outer layer, called the trophectoderm, and
an inner cell mass (ICM). The...
... invitations
and all the audiences who gave me such useful feedback at the Abe Fellow-
ship Program, the Annenberg School of Communication at the University
of Southern California, the College of the ... by
Japan/ese following the war, is the collapse of paternal authority (from the
desacralizing of the emperor to the national condemnation of the mil...