Mosquito Empires: Ecology and War in the Greater Caribbean, 1620-1914
10 best books like Mosquito Empires: Ecology and War in the Greater Caribbean, 1620-1914 (John Robert McNeill): Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies, Hard Boiled, The Little Ice Age: How Climate Made History 1300-1850, Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England, Bears on Wheels, The Machine in the Garden: Technology and the Pastoral Ideal in America, Gonzo: The Life of Hunter S. Thompson, Nature's Economy: A History of Ecological Ideas, Creatures of Empire: How Domestic Animals Transformed Early America, Uncommon Ground: Rethinking the Human Place in Nature
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
| Author | Jared Diamond |
| ISBN | 0739467352 |
"Diamond has written a book of remarkable scope ... one of the most important and readable works on the human past published in recent years."
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and a national bestseller: the global account of the rise of civilization that is also a stunning refutation of ideas of...
| Author | Frank Miller |
| ISBN | 1840237511 |
"Intricate, kinetic, and thoroughly outrageous!" - Rolling Stone
Winner of comics' prestigious Eisner Award!
Carl Seltz is a suburban insurance investigator, a loving husband, and devoted father. Nixon is a berserk, homicidal tax collector racking up mind-boggling body counts...
| Author | Brian M. Fagan |
| ISBN | 0465022723 |
The Little Ice Age tells the story of the turbulent, unpredictable, and often very cold years of modern European history, how this altered climate affected historical events, and what it means for today's global warming. Building on research that has only recently confirmed that the world endured...
| Author | William Cronon |
| ISBN | 0809016346 |
The book that launched environmental history now updated.
Winner of the Francis Parkman Prize
In this landmark work of environmental history, William Cronon offers an original and profound explanation of the effects European colonists' sense of property and their pursuit of...
| Author | Stan Berenstain |
| ISBN | 0001712896 |
1) Book summary: A cute simple counting book with the bears trying to see how many they can fit on a bike. There are one bike with one wheel and another bike with tens wheel. Eventually everyone falls off execpt baby bear as she heads home.
2) Grade level, interest level, lexile : Grade level preschool...
For over four decades, Leo Marx's work has focused on the relationship between technology and culture in 19th- and 20th-century America. His research helped to define--and continues to give depth to--the area of American studies concerned with the links between scientific and technological advances,...
| Author | Jann S. Wenner |
| ISBN | 0316005274 |
Few American lives are stranger, more action-packed, or wilder than that of Hunter S. Thompson. Born a rebel in Louisville, Kentucky, Thompson spent a lifetime channeling his energy and insight into such landmark works as Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - and his singular and provocative style challenged...
| Author | Donald Worster |
| ISBN | 0521468345 |
In a narrow sense, Nature's Economy could be considered a counterpart to Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. While Kuhn looks at evolution of scientific knowledge from the inside, looking for moments when accumulated evidence pushes scientists to a new paradigm, Worster looks at the...
| Author | Virginia DeJohn Anderson |
| ISBN | 0195304462 |
When we think of the key figures of early American history, we think of explorers, or pilgrims, or Native Americans--not cattle, or goats, or swine. But as Virginia DeJohn Anderson reveals in this brilliantly original account of colonists in New England and the Chesapeake region, livestock played...
| Author | William Cronon |
| ISBN | 0393315118 |
In a lead essay that powerfully states the broad argument of the book, William Cronon writes that the environmentalist goal of wilderness preservation is conceptually and politically wrongheaded. Among the ironies and entanglements resulting from this goal are the sale of nature in our malls through...
| Author | Shepard Krech III |
| ISBN | 0393321002 |
The idea of the Native American living in perfect harmony with nature is one of the most cherished contemporary myths. But how truthful is this larger-than-life image? According to anthropologist Shepard Krech, the first humans in North America demonstrated all of the intelligence, self-interest,...
| Author | Alfred W. Crosby |
| ISBN | 0521546184 |
People of European descent form the bulk of the population in most of the temperate zones of the world--North America, Australia and New Zealand. The military successes of European imperialism are easy to explain because in many cases they were achieved by using firearms against spears. Alfred Crosby,...
| Author | Donald Worster |
| ISBN | 0195156358 |
If the word "hero" still belonged in the historian's lexicon, it would certainly be applied to John Wesley Powell. Intrepid explorer, careful scientist, talented writer, and dedicated conservationist, Powell led the expedition that put the Colorado River on American maps and revealed the Grand...
Hey Rube: Blood Sport, the Bush Doctrine, and the Downward Spiral of Dumbness: Modern History from the ESPN.com Sports Desk
| Author | Hunter S. Thompson |
| ISBN | 0684873206 |
SPORTS, POLITICS, AND SEX COLLIDE IN HUNTER S. THOMPSON'S WILDLY POPULAR ESPN.COM COLUMNS.
Insightful, incendiary, outrageously brilliant, such was the man who galvanized American journalism with his radical ideas and gonzo tactics. For over half a century, Hunter S. Thompson devastated...
