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Amazon to Zodiac 101 Scientific Curiosities Across Time and Space

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07.07.2026

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Simon + Schuster LLC

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358

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22.9/15.2/2 cm

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272 g

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Englisch

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978-1-4930-9558-2

Beschreibung

Produktdetails

Einband

Taschenbuch

Erscheinungsdatum

07.07.2026

Abbildungen

120 BW Photos

Verlag

Simon + Schuster LLC

Seitenzahl

358

Maße (L/B/H)

22.9/15.2/2 cm

Gewicht

272 g

Sprache

Englisch

ISBN

978-1-4930-9558-2

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Libri GmbH
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  • Introduction

    ANTHROPOLOGY: Where we came from

    1. A is for Amazon: Not all the sistahs picked berries
    2. The Cooking Ape: How fire made us human
    3. The Skin of Our Teeth: Our species survived a bottleneck. Just
    4. The Neanderthal Connection: Tell-tale genes
    5. Altruism’s Hidden Benefits: Being kind pays off
    6. The Earliest Americans: From Siberia to the Americas
    7. Agriculture: Our Worst Mistake?: The Neolithic Revolution
    8. Ötzi the Iceman: He didn’t die of natural causes
    9. The Bronze Age: Copper good, bronze better. Much better.
    10. The Long Mayan Drought: The end of Tikal, Palenque, Copan…

    ENGINEERING: Beyond Lego® blocks
    1. Pyramid Scheme: Does the Great Pyramid incorporate pi?
    2. Mind the Gap!: A brief history of the arch
    3. The Antikythera Mechanism: A 2,000-year-old computer
    4. Perry Collins’ Overland Telegraph: A world-class miss
    5. The Most Expensive Lighthouse: California’s St. George Reef
    6. Panama: Linking the Oceans: Saving 5,000 miles of travel

    EVOLUTION: The single best idea ever
    1. Yo’ Mama’s a Fish!: Give or take 100 million generations
    2. Genetic vs. Cultural Evolution: In two Powerpoint® slides
    3. The Unity of Life: If it’s alive, it’s your cousin
    4. Evolution Isn’t Progress!: The meme that just won’t quit
    5. Are Men (and Women) from Mars?: Life began…where?
    6. Eohippus to Percheron: Evolution of the horse
    7. Darwin’s Bulldog: Thomas Huxley and the Great Debate
    8. Evolution’s Co-Discoverer: Crediting Alfred Russel Wallace
    9. The Other Evolutionist: Did a farmer upstage Darwin and Wallace?
    10. Dawn Redwoods: An overlooked branch of evolution

    EXPLORATION: To the ends of the Earth
    1. Fifth Century Pacific Crossing?: Evaluating the evidence
    2. The United States of Zheng: Showing the flag 600 years ago
    3. The Martellus Map: Was Columbus misled?
    4. Magellan’s Pacific: Linking the oceans
    5. Columbus of the Pacific: Friar Urdaneta’s “Volta do Mar”
    6. The Longitude Challenge: Latitude, easy. Longitude, not so much
    7. Scott of the Antarctic: Reckless and/or brave?

    HEALTH: Our bodies, ourselves
    1. Hunter vs. Farmer and ADHD: Leave those kids alone
    2. Lactose-tolerance: Evolution in action
    3. Barbie Redux: That waist-to-hip ratio
    4. Sleep, Pray, Sleep: Are you a normal insomniac?
    5. When the Old World Met the New: Smallpox in America
    6. A Brief History of Vaccination: Anti-vaxxers aren't new
    7. The Roots of Homeopathy: It’s BS (but with the best of intentions)
    8. An Uplifting Story: Is the bra a booby trap?

    INVENTIONS: Building better mousetraps
    1. The Real Wheel: Someone had to be first
    2. Unwrapping the Past: Reading a lump of charcoal
    3. A Brief History of Dildos: A penetrating account
    4. Perpetual Motion Machines: Fighting thermodynamics
    5. Spectacles and Telescopes: A small mystery
    6. Gutenberg’s Legacy: Inventor or synthesizer?
    7. Atoms: Solving the Invisible: Inventing our theory of matter
    8. Monsieur Sax’s Brass Clarinet: Creating that smooth sound
    9. Alice in (Photography) Wonderland: A math teacher’s hobby
    10. The Sound Guys: Edison and Berliner: Cylinders: 0; Discs: 1
    11. The Golden Age of Crystal Sets: That 1920s sound
    12. The Quartz Crisis: Adventures in watchmaking
    13. Analog Youth to Digital Geezer: Trying to keep up
    14. Charon’s Obol, the Zahir and More: Riffing on coinage
    15. Mastodons in Greenland: How an invention helped recreate an ancient land

    LANGUAGE: Words, spoken and written
    1. Language: Nature or Nurture?: Or, is Chomsky irrelevant?
    2. Quest for our Mother Tongue: Making sense of “Proto-World”
    3. The Weirdness of English: Black sheep of Germanic languages
    4. No Celtic? Blame the Volcanoes: Why English lacks Celtic
    5. The Phoenician Connection: How English “softened”
    6. Lord, is it me? (Or, is it I?): The quest for “proper English”
    7. Homer’s Wine-dark Sea: Did the ancients see our colors?
    8. Invention of our Alphabet: From ox head to letter A
    9. Runes in the Ruins: Viking graffiti
    10. Black English: Simplify, simplify
    11. Whence “Britain”: Not Brutus
    12. The Rosetta Stone: Deciphering the hieroglyphs
    13. When did Language Begin?: 100,000 or a million years ago
    14. The Vindolanda Tablets: Voices from Roman Britain
    15. Silent Reading and Word Breaks: How they’re related
    16. For the Week-hearted: Our curious seven-day period
    17. Hesiod: Farmer, Poet, Misogynist

    MYTHS: Stuff of dreams
    1. The Voynich Manuscript: It’s been decoded...again!
    2. Doubting Shakespeare: Stratford man or Stratford myth?
    3. Vlad, Vampires and Dracula: The warlord-diplomat behind the myth
    4. Fairy Tales: Fooling Sherlock Holmes’ creator
    5. Antarctic Atlantis: Looking for Plato’s mythical land
    6. The Myth of the Good Old Days: They weren’t
    7. King Arthur: Once and Future King
    8. The Great Flood: The reality behind the Noah story
    9. A Brief History of Hell: The myth to end all myths
    10. The Lure of Labyrinths: From Minotaur’s den to a meditative walk
    11. Attila, Scourge of God…and Diplomat: Beyond the myth
    12. The Myth of the Dark Ages: Time to drop the label

    NUMBERS: The magic of math
    1. The Number of the Beast: 666 or 616?
    2. Metering the Meter: First, go to the North Pole
    3. Measuring Our Lives: 60 minutes, 24 hours, 7 days, 52 weeks
    4. Archimedes’ Tomb: Anticipating calculus by two thousand years
    5. Roman and Arabic Numerals: Our debt to Leonardo of Pisa
    6. Halloween, Samhain, Jack o’ Lantern: Our pagan festivals
    7. A Funny Thing Happened to Pi: Finding its 10 trillionth digit

    SPACE: Earth’s eye view of the Universe
    1. Einstein, Newton and Eclipse of 1919: Fudging the results
    2. The Monk’s Tale: When the moon split in two
    3. Were the Old Days Shorter?: Or am I getting older?
    4. Impact! 50,000 BC: Arizona’s Barringer Crater
    5. Galileo’s Moons: Everything changed one night in 1610
    6. Dinosaurs Died, Mammals Thrived: An ancient fluke put us here
    7. Vulcan, Missing in Action: Searching for Planet X
    8. Are We the World?: The problem with hubris
    9. Z is for Zodiac: I am Virgo, hear me roar