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Books on: ancient climates

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An Ancient Economic History: From the Palaeolithic Age to the Migrations of the Germanic, Slavic and Arabic Nations - Vol. 1

Book by Fritz M. Heichelheim, Joyce Stevens; A.W. Sijthoff, 1957

Subjects:

Economic Anthropology, Economic History--Ancient--To 500, Industries, Primitive

Collections: History, Entire Library

...and the archaeology of the Ancient East could be advanced to...races and in very unfavourable climates. For the later periods of...the money investing of the Ancient Orient, so that a continuous...in subtropical and tropical climates. This new practice of hoe...
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Groundbreaking Scientific Experiments, Inventions, and Discoveries: The Ancient World

Book by Robert E. Krebs, Carolyn A. Krebs; Greenwood Press, 2003

Subjects:

Science, Ancient, Technology--History

Collections: Entire Library

...used in great abundance in the diets of ancient civilizations. Spices were also used...land area and encompasses many varied climates and regions. The northern part of China...making of paper. As the migration of ancient peoples continued, farming techniques...
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The Social Thought of the Ancient Civilizations

Book by Joyce O. Hertzler; McGraw-Hill, 1936

Subjects:

Civilization, Ancient, Ethics--History, Sociology--History

Collections: Philosophy, History, Entire Library

...chapters that follow, certain social aspects of the thought of ancient Egypt, Babylonia, the Hittites, Assyria, Persia, India...Euphrates, the Ganges, and the Hoang Ho with equable climates bordering on the semitropical, played a very important part...
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Ancient Meteorology

Book by Liba Taub; Routledge, 2003

Subjects:

Meteorology--Greece--History, Meteorology--Rome--History, Science, Ancient

Collections: History, Entire Library

The first book of its kind in English, Ancient Meteorology discusses Greek and Roman approaches and attitudes to this broad discipline, which in classical antiquity included not only 'weather', but occurrences such as earthquakes and comets that today would be regarded as geological, astronomical ...
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The first book of its kind in English, Ancient Meteorology discusses Greek and Roman approaches and attitudes to this broad discipline, which in classical antiquity included not only 'weather', but occurrences such as earthquakes and comets that today would be regarded as geological, astronomical or seismological.The range and diversity of this literature highlights the question of scholarly authority in antiquity and illustrates how writers responded to the meteorological information presented by their literary predecessors. Ancient Meteorology will be a valuable reference tool for classicists and those with an interest in the history of science.
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A History of Ancient Geography

Book by H. F. Tozer; Biblo and Tannen, 1971

Subjects:

Geography, Ancient--History

Collections: History, Entire Library

A HISTORY OF ANCIENT GEOGRAPHY A HISTORY OF ANCIENT GEOGRAPHY BY H. F. TOZER Second edition with additional...scholars by the late Sir E. H. Bunbury in his History of Ancient Geography --a book equally conspicuous for learning and for...

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Journal Articles on: ancient climates

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Energy Simulation of Urban Dwellings in Temperate Climates

Journal article by Mohamed M. Elnahas; Architectural Science Review, Vol. 46, 2003

Subjects:

Adelaide, Australia--Environmental aspects, Architecture, Domestic--Energy use, Architecture, Domestic--Environmental aspects, Climatic factors, Energy consumption--Models, Home design--Energy use, Home design--Environmental aspects, Temperature control--Environmental aspects, Temperature control--Models, Urban ecology--Research

Collections: Entire Library

...cooling energy use in temperate climates. A unique aspect of the results...and resource con straints. Ancient city plans reveal that sunlight...design objectives in temperate climates. The proposed range is consistent...superior in warm-temperate climates, as they are much cooler in...
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Emotional Climates: Ritual, Seasonality and Affective Disorders

Journal article by Simon Harrison; Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Vol. 10, 2004

Subjects:

Manners and customs--Psychological aspects, Manners and customs--Research, Seasonal affective disorder--Research, Seasonal affective disorder--Social aspects

Collections: Psychology, Entire Library

...middle-class Swedes could produce at least the shadowy vestiges of an ancient network of semantic connections between autumn, melancholy...symptom of major depression (Friberg amp; Borrero 2000). The ancient theories of melancholy as a darkening or dimming of perception...
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Debating Jomon Social Complexity

Journal article by Richard Pearson; Asian Perspectives: the Journal of Archaeology for Asia and the Pacific, Vol. 46, 2007

Subjects:

Ancient art--Research, Art, Ancient--Research, Jomon culture--Research, Lacquer and lacquering--History, Lacquer and lacquering--Usage, Lacquers--History, Lacquers--Usage, Mourning customs--Case studies

Collections: History, Entire Library

...sustainable hierarchy. Habu, in her book Ancient Jomon of Japan (2004:15, 16), distinguishes...between storage and intensification. In warm climates, following constriction of territory and...Osaka: National Museum of Ethnology. 2004 Ancient Jomon of Japan. Cambridge: Cambridge University...
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Explaining Fortifications in Indo-Pacific Prehistory

Journal article by Julie S. Field; Archaeology in Oceania, Vol. 43, 2008

Subjects:

Climate change--Social aspects, Climatic changes--Social aspects, Evolution (Biology)--Social aspects, Evolution--Social aspects, Fortification--Research, Human acts--Models, Human acts--Research, Human behavior--Models, Human behavior--Research

Collections: History, Entire Library

...cannot be equated with ancient divisions. However...reconstructions of past climates in the Pacific derive...reconstructions of past climates from the study of fossil...fortifications to variations in ancient climates must be tied to local...
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The Conquering of Climate: Discourses of Fear and Their Dissolution

Journal article by Mike Hulme; The Geographical Journal, Vol. 174, 2008

Subjects:

Climate change--Influence, Climatic changes--Influence, Fear--Control, Fear--Environmental aspects, Human beings--Influence on nature, Human beings--Research, Human-environment interactions--Research

Collections: Entire Library

...the Rhodian Shore: nature and culture in western thought from ancient times to the end of the eighteenth century University of California...Weather, climate, culture Berg, Oxford 103-20 Harrison M 1999 Climates and constitutions: health, race, environment and British Imperialism...

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Magazine Articles on: ancient climates

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Climates and Other Disasters: Robin Wood on the Films of Nuri Bilge Ceylan

Magazine article by Robin Wood; Artforum International, Vol. 45, November 2006

Subjects:

Ceylan, Nuri Bilge--Criticism and interpretation, Ceylan, Nuri Bilge--Works, Motion pictures--Criticism and interpretation, Movies--Criticism and interpretation

Collections: Entire Library

...unequivocally on the womans side. The scene, near the beginning of Climates, of two couples--including the films protagonists, Isa and...last being close-ups of Bahar: Isa studies and photographs ancient ruins, Bahar watches, walks away, climbs a hill, sits, looks...
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A New Age for the Ancient Potato

Magazine article by Louis Werner; Americas (English Edition), Vol. 46, March 1994

Subjects:

International Potato Center--Research, Potatoes--Varieties

Collections: Entire Library

...collecting endangered species, and recording ancient farming practices--even publishing a cookbook...at fourteen thousand feet, in temperate climates and in heavy frost. There is even a tropical...symbolized even in CIPs institutional logo--an ancient Nazca harvest bearer who clutches a healthy...
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Great Climate Flip-Flop: ... Warming Could Lead, Paradoxically, to Drastic Cooling

Magazine article by William H. Calvin; The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 281, January 1998

Subjects:

Global warming, Greenhouse effect

Collections: Entire Library

...been able to glimpse ancient climates in some detail. Water...seeing what regional climates were doing, even though...re-examined them. Ancient lakes near the Pacific...goes to hear a talk on ancient climates of North America, one...
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The Great Climate Flip-Flop

Magazine article by William H. Calvin; The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 281, January 1998

Subjects:

Global warming--Analysis

Collections: Entire Library

...been able to glimpse ancient climates in some detail. Water...seeing what regional climates were doing, even though...re-examined them. Ancient lakes near the Pacific...goes to hear a talk on ancient climates of North America, one...
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When the World's Wells Run Dry

Magazine article by Sandra Postel; World Watch, Vol. 12, September 1999

Subjects:

Aquifers--Environmental aspects, Water, Underground--International aspects, Water-supply, Agricultural--International aspects

Collections: Entire Library

...get so little natural recharge that they are essentially nonrenewable. These "fossil aquifers" are the remnants of ancient climates that were much wetter than current local conditions. Pumping from fossil aquifers depletes the supply, just as pumping...

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Newspaper Articles on: ancient climates

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Sri Lanka to a Tea; Island Offers Mountains and Beaches, Hot or Cool Climates

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, March 20, 2004

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...mountains, historic forts and Buddhist shrines, the ruins of the ancient cities, the tea-covered hills. Even the pineapple is sweeter...were reclaimed from the jungle that grew over the ruins of the ancient cities. amp;#91;Photograph by Richard Slusser/The Washington...
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Travel: Spain Ancient and Modern; TRAVEL JOURNALIST EDWARD STEPHENS FINDS THERE'S SOMETHING FOR EVERYONE IN THE BUSTLING AND HISTORIC CITY OF VALENCIA

Newspaper article; Coventry Evening Telegraph (England), July 26, 2006

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...roads, winding alleyways and awe-inspiring ancient architecture and the surrounding newer...as Valencia enjoys one of the mildest climates in Europe with an average temperature...centre of the city is where to find its ancient architecture among the narrow, winding...
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Climate Panel on the Hot Seat

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, March 14, 2008

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...was not discovered in part because statisticians were never consulted. Furthermore, the community of specialists in ancient climates from which the peer reviewers were drawn was small and many of them had ties to the original authors - 43 paleoclimatologists...
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Warming May Bring Oregon Monsoons

Newspaper article; The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR), April 4, 2005

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Retallack, an authority on ancient soils whose research recently...late Paleocene epoch, monsoon climates extended well into what are...more spread out in monsoonal climates where the variations between...atmospheric disaster such as the ancient event Retallack studied. It...
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Weekend Mail: Gardens: Totally Tropical Tastes!

Newspaper article; Birmingham Evening Mail (England), August 21, 2004

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...the centre of a Birmingham suburb. Many exotics are from climates that are similar to ours, says Chris who runs Akamba garden...frost by bringing it indoors or wrapping with fleece. Two ancient plants worth considering are the Cycas and Tree Fern. Cycas...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: ancient climates

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Ebony

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...family of trees and shrubs widely distributed in warmer climates and in the tropics. The principal genus, Diospyros...both ebony and persimmon trees. Ebony wood, valued from ancient times, is hard and dark; it is extensively used for piano...
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Barley

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...humans probably as early as any cereal. It was known to the ancient Greeks, Romans, Chinese, and Egyptians and was the chief bread...period is short; however, it cannot withstand hot and humid climates. Today barley is typically a special-purpose grain with many...
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Roof

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Various methods of construction, such as are suited to different climates, have diversified exterior and interior architectural effects...shedding of rain and snow does not present a problem, e.g., in ancient Mesopotamia, Egypt, and in the SW United States. Modern structural...
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Olive

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...trees and shrubs (including climbing forms) of warm temperate climates and of the Old World tropics, especially Asia and the East...hundred horticultural varieties of olives, many cultivated since ancient times, differ in appearance, flavor, and oil content. Some...
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Africa

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...subtropical climates or tropical climates modified by altitude; in the...abundant in the continents ancient crystalline rocks, which are...in Egypt in 3400 b.c.; other ancient centers were Kush and Aksum...gold, salt, and slaves, was ancient Ghana, already thriving when...

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