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Western Civilization 3e: A Concise History I
Christopher A Brooks · Portland Community College
This volume covers the origins of civilization in Mesopotamia c. 8,000 BCE through the early Middle Ages in Europe c. 1,000 CE and explores Mesopotamia, Egypt, Persia, Greece, Rome, the Islamic caliphates, and the early European Middle Ages.
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Western Civilization - A Concise History III
Christopher Brooks · Portland Community College
This volume covers topics including the Industrial Revolution, the politics of Europe in the nineteenth century, modern European imperialism, the world wars, fascism, Nazism, and the Holocaust, the postwar era, the Cold War, and recent developments in economics and politics.
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Western Civilization - A Concise History II
Christopher Brooks · Portland Community College
Volume II addresses the early Middle Ages to the French Revolution in 1789 CE. This text covers topics including the High Middle Ages, the Renaissance, the European conquest of the Americas, the Reformation, the Scientific Revolution, and the Enlightenment.
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Western Civilization 3e: A Concise History II
Christopher A Brooks · Portland Community College
Volume II addresses the early Middle Ages to the French Revolution in 1789 CE. This text covers topics including the High Middle Ages, the Renaissance, the European conquest of the Americas, the Reformation, the Scientific Revolution, and the Enlightenment.
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Western Civilization 3e: A Concise History III
Christopher A Brooks · Portland Community College
This volume covers topics including the Industrial Revolution, the politics of Europe in the nineteenth century, modern European imperialism, the world wars, fascism, Nazism, and the Holocaust, the postwar era, the Cold War, and recent developments in economics and politics.
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History of World Civilizations to 1500
Mieke Lisuk · Sacramento City College
In the contents: 2.01: Early Middle Eastern and Northeast African Civilizations · 2.1.02: Introduction - Defining Civilization · 4.1.06: India's First Major Civilization - The Indus Valley Civilization ( 2600-1700 BCE)
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Western Civilization A Concise History I
Christopher Brooks · Portland Community College
This volume covers the origins of civilization in Mesopotamia c. 8,000 BCE through the early Middle Ages in Europe c. 1,000 CE and explores Mesopotamia, Egypt, Persia, Greece, Rome, the Islamic caliphates, and the early European Middle Ages.
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Early World Civilizations
Lumen Learning · Lumen Learning
In the contents: 01: The Study of History and the Rise of Civilization · 02: Ancient Mesopotamian Civilizations · 2.03: River Valley Civilizations
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Western Civilization: A Concise History
Christopher Brooks · Portland Community College · 2024
Western Civilization: A Concise History is an Open Educational Resource textbook covering the history of Western Civilization from approximately 8000 BCE to the recent past. The textbook is divided into three volumes. The core narrative of the textbook is a political history of the greater Mediterranean region in the ancient period in Volume 1, Europe and European empires in the medieval and early modern periods in Volume 2, and both European and world history in the modern period in Volume 3. Elements of intellectual, cultural, social, and religious history are present throughout, but the main focus of the text is politics over time.
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Western Civilization: A Concise History
Christopher Brooks · Portland Community College · 2024
Western Civilization: A Concise History is an Open Educational Resource textbook covering the history of Western Civilization from approximately 8000 BCE to the recent past. The textbook is divided into three volumes. The core narrative of the textbook is a political history of the greater Mediterranean region in the ancient period in Volume 1, Europe and European empires in the medieval and early modern periods in Volume 2, and both European and world history in the modern period in Volume 3. Elements of intellectual, cultural, social, and religious history are present throughout, but the main focus of the text is politics over time.
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Western Civilization: A Concise History
Christopher Brooks · Portland Community College · 2024
Western Civilization: A Concise History is an Open Educational Resource textbook covering the history of Western Civilization from approximately 8000 BCE to the recent past. The textbook is divided into three volumes. The core narrative of the textbook is a political history of the greater Mediterranean region in the ancient period in Volume 1, Europe and European empires in the medieval and early modern periods in Volume 2, and both European and world history in the modern period in Volume 3. Elements of intellectual, cultural, social, and religious history are present throughout, but the main focus of the text is politics over time.
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Culturas y Civilizaciones de los Países Hispanos (Cultures and Civilizations of the Hispanic Countries)
Angela Gonzalez · PALNI · 2025
La presente obra, Culturas y civilizaciones de los países hispanos, nace con el propósito de ofrecer una visión amplia y profunda de las culturas que conforman el mundo hispanohablante, desde sus raíces históricas, sus civilizaciones y movimientos sociales hasta sus complejidades contemporáneas. Este libro ha sido diseñado con la intención de proporcionar a los estudiantes de estudios hispanos una herramienta esencial para desarrollar un análisis crítico y reflexivo sobre los diversos aspectos de las sociedades que componen este vasto universo cultural.
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Texts, Contexts, and Critical Reading
Jessica Miller · Los Angeles Harbor College
World Literature I: Texts, Contexts, and Critical Reading introduces major works from ancient civilizations through the Renaissance while developing students’ skills in close reading, literary analysis, academic writing, and cross-cultural interpretation.
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History and Science of Cultivated Plants
Sushma Naithani · Oregon State University
History and Science of Cultivated Plants narrates how humans transitioned from foragers to farmers and have arrived at present-day industrial agriculture-based civilization. It entails myths, historical accounts, and scientific concepts to describe how human efforts have shaped and produced easier to grow, larger, tastier, and more nutritious fruits, vegetables, and grains from wild plants.
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Hum C100: Introduction to the Humanities
K.M. Volmer · Coastline College
In the contents: 2.02: Early Civilizations · 2.11: Early Cultures and Civilizations in the Americas
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Annotated and Revised Odyssey with Critical Introduction, Undergraduate Remix
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An annotated and revised version of Samuel Butler's translation. Accompanied by an accessible critical introduction and essays on important civilizations, religion, burial customs, political leadership, racism, gender roles, and slavery. Discussion questions and activities are embedded throughout; a special bonus question section with break-out questions organized by sections of the book is included. Extensive but succinct footnotes aid the reader throughout.
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History and Science of Cultivated Plants
Sushma Naithani · Oregon State University · 2021
History and Science of Cultivated Plants narrates how humans transitioned from foragers to farmers and have arrived at present-day industrial agriculture-based civilization. It entails myths, historical accounts, and scientific concepts to describe how human efforts have shaped and produced easier to grow, larger, tastier, and more nutritious fruits, vegetables, and grains from wild plants. Using examples of various economically and socially important crops central to human civilization, the book describes the origin of crop plants, the evolution of agricultural practices, fundamental concepts of natural selection vs. domestication, experimental and methodical plant breeding, and plant biotechnology.
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Energy and Human Ambitions on a Finite Planet
Thomas Murphy · eScholarship · 2021
Where is humanity going? How realistic is a future of fusion and space colonies? What constraints are imposed by physics, by resource availability, and by human psychology? Are default expectations grounded in reality? This textbook, written for a general-education audience, aims to address these questions without either the hype or the indifference typical of many books. The message throughout is that humanity faces a broad sweep of foundational problems as we inevitably transition away from fossil fuels and confront planetary limits in a host of unprecedented ways—a shift whose scale and probable rapidity offers little historical guidance. Salvaging a decent future requires keen awareness, quantitative assessment, deliberate preventive action, and—above all—recognition that prevailing assumptions about human identity and destiny have been cruelly misshapen by the profoundly unsustainable trajectory of the last 150 years. The goal is to shake off unfounded and unexamined expectations, while elucidating the relevant physics and encouraging greater facility in quantitative reasoning. After addressing limits to growth, population dynamics, uncooperative space environments, and the current fossil underpinnings of modern civilization, various sources of alternative energy are considered in detail— assessing how they stack up against each other, and which show the greatest potential. Following this is an exploration of systemic human impediments to effective and timely responses, capped by guidelines for individual adaptations resulting in reduced energy and material demands on the planet’s groaning capacity. Appendices provide refreshers on math and chemistry, as well as supplementary material of potential interest relating to cosmology, electric transportation, and an evolutionary perspective on humanity’s place in nature.
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Math 27: Number Systems for Educators
Ashley McHale · Las Positas College
In the contents: 3.3.02: The Number and Counting System of the Inca Civilization
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A World Perspective of Art Appreciation
Deborah Gustlin & Zoe Gustlin · Evergreen Valley College
In the contents: 03: The First Civilizations and their Art (5000 BCE 1900 BCE) · 07: The Sacred Buildings of Civilizations (200 CE 1400 CE)