"Historical Geography of Crop Plants is devoted to a variety of staple and food crops, as well as fodder, fiber, timber, rubber, and other crops. The origins and histories of many of these crops have been clarified only recently by new research. The book has been arranged alphab…
The origin of agriculture is one of the defining events of human history. Some 11-10,000 years ago bands of hunter-gatherers started to abandon their high-mobility lifestyles in favour of growing crops, and the creation of settled, sedentary communities. This shift into an agr…
Knowledge of the initial conditions present in the early solar nebula is required to understand the evolution and its current volatile content. Comets were some of the first objects to accrete in the solar nebula. They are among the most pristine (primitive) remnants of the sola…
The Greek Old Testament has been a focus of speculation and study since its entrance into the religious culture of the Diasporic Jews. Legends and myths surround the creation of the Septuagint, and its use by the New Testament authors only added to the questions surrounding this…
More breast cancers are diagnosed in the left breast than the right. The ratio (l/r) is called the laterality ratio. We analyzed 1.2 million cases of breast cancer diagnosed in the US between 1973 and 2010 and recorded by the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) pr…
Since the discovery of the A-Group culture in 1907, much emphasis has been given to A-Group relationships with the Egyptian Nile civilizations of Upper Egypt. As a result, very little discussion has been ventured about Sudanese interconnections or Eastern and Western Desert rela…
This dissertation analyzes character-portrayal in the Fourth Gospel within the context of Greek and Hebrew methods of character-depiction. Two previous studies serve as points of departure for this examination. One is R. Alan Culpepper's chapter on characterization in Anatomy of…
Horse Behaviour Explained: Origins, Treatment, and Prevention of Problems is a general guide to understanding horse behaviour, how the horse learns and how horse handlers can adjust their behaviour to avoid creating anxiety in the horse. The author begins by providing an overvi…
Horse Behaviour Explained: Origins, Treatment, and Prevention of Problems is a general guide to understanding horse behaviour, how the horse learns and how horse handlers can adjust their behaviour to avoid creating anxiety in the horse. The author begins by providing an overvi…
In The Emergence of Agriculture, well-known archaeologist Bruce Smith explores the initial emergence and early expansion of agriculture, and the transformations in human society that it made possible.