Tabla de Contenidos: “…Introducing the issues and themes -- African firsts in the history of technology -- Ancient Africa and the export of agricultural innovation -- Towns and long-distance commerce in ancient Africa -- The Africanity of ancient Egypt -- Africa and Africans in early global history -- Appendix: Considerations for historians reading genetic studies…”

“…Sharon Farmer here investigates the ways in which three medieval communities—the town of Tours, the basilica of Saint-Martin there, and the abbey of Marmoutier nearby—all defined themselves through the cult of Saint Martin. …”

“…They are a valuable documentation of itinerant trade in a Lower Saxon agrarian town that was becoming a university town and where the traditional rural range of goods competed with the needs of a more sophisticated section of the population. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Part One: Living with Whales, 1600-1850 -- The Whale Pilgrimage -- The Beached God -- Bringing Sardines to the Shore -- Establishing Whaling in the North -- Part Two: Destroying the Cetosphere, 1850-2019 -- The Whaling Empire -- The First Whaling Town -- Burning Down the Whaling Station -- Washing Away the Past…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Siegecraft : the basis of medieval warfare -- Fortified towns and cities -- Strong points in a landscape -- Castles and fortifications : designers, builders, and developments -- Machines of war -- Fire hazard -- Artillery -- Attack and defence -- Logistics -- War games, psychology, and morale -- Women at war -- Rules of engagement -- The horrors of total war…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Introduction -- The meaning of death -- Cycles and tragedies -- Gray rhinos, black swans, and dragon kings -- Networld -- The science delusion -- The psychology of political incompetence -- From the boogie woogie flu to Ebola in town -- The fractal geometry of disaster -- The plagues -- The economic consequences of the plague -- The three-body problem -- Future shocks…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Conquests and wars -- V. Cities, towns, and places -- Cultural and natural hazards -- Images of places and linkages -- VIII. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Where the streets have no name -- I still haven't found what I'm looking for -- With or without you -- Bullet the blue -- Running to stand still -- Red hill mining Town -- In God's country -- Trip through your wires -- One tree hill -- Exit -- Mothers of the disappeared…”

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Tabla de Contenidos: “…Contiene: Angels from the realms of glory ; God rest ye merry gentlemen ; See amid the winter's snow ; Il Est Ne Le Divin Enfant ; The First Noel ; Lullay Lullay (Coventry Carol); The Holly and The Ivy ; In The Bleak Mid Winter ; As Joseph Was A Walking ; Oh Little Town of Bethlehem ; Silent Night ; Universal Child…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Sustainable initiatives -- Research in context -- Assumptions -- Concepts -- Tama New Town -- Initial survey : preliminary propositions -- Abstractions : typologies -- Applied prototypes -- Measuring performance : infrastructures -- Site concepts -- Low density prototypes -- Medium density prototypes -- High density prototypes -- Future directions -- Appendix: carbon calculations…”
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Tabla de Contenidos: “…Reconnaissance parties -- Small town : Washington Court House, 1860-1900 -- Small cities : the Springfields -- In White worlds : politics -- Violence : patterns of attack and riposte -- Moving in and moving on, 1860-1930 -- A taste of lemon pie : urban experience in the South -- The advance guard arrives -- New Black worlds…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…The rediscovery of the ancient Near East: the physical environment -- History, chronology and social organization -- Patterns of settlement and agriculture -- Town planning and temple architecture -- Public buildings and private housing -- Upper Mesopotamia -- Life, death and the meaning of the universe -- Manufacturing industries -- Trade -- Writing and the arts -- Conclustions: the development of Sumerian society…”