Examines the role of change in contemporary society, touching on trends in education, technology, the arts, and interpersonal relations, and explores what these changes hold for the future.
Presents a comprehensive historical narrative that describes how and why ancient civilizations such as the Anasazi, Maya, and the Polynesian culture on Easter Island failed and fell into ruin and examines how lessons learned from the past can help in preserving the future.
Presents approximately 150 primary source documents, such as speeches, legislation, memoirs, newspaper articles, and interviews, related to government, politics, and protest between the nineteenth and twenty-first centuries.
Collects annotated primary documents that discuss aspects of daily living in the ancient world, covering domestic, economic, intellectual, material, political, recreational, and religious life, and including illustrations.
Presents a comprehensive historical narrative that describes how and why ancient civilizations such as the Anasazi, Maya, and the Polynesian culture on Easter Island failed and fell into ruin and examines how lessons learned from the past can help in preserving the future.
Presents information on rats, with many stories of the depredations of these creatures, whose teeth grow continually, forcing them to gnaw. Only man has a wider range of habitat than the rat.
