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" Human-Earth system dynamics : "
Rongxing Guo.
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889649
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Guo, Rongxing.
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Human-Earth system dynamics : : implications to civilizations /\ Rongxing Guo.
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Singapore :: Springer,, [2019]
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1 online resource (207 pages)
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9789811305474
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: 9789811305481
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: 9789811344473
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: 9811305471
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: 9811344477
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9789811305467
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9811305463
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Includes bibliographical references.
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| Contents
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Win-stay, lose-shift : a survival rule -- Human thermodynamics and culture (I) -- Human thermodynamics and culture (II) -- Environment matters, but not the way you think (I) -- Environment matters, but not the way you think (II) -- Civilization as responses to cyclical challenges -- Studying civilizations : retrospect and prospect.
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This book explores the factors and mechanisms that may have influenced the dynamic behaviors of earliest civilizations, focusing on both environmental (geographic) factors on which traditional historic analyses are based and human (behavioral) factors on which anthropological analyses are usually based. It also resurrects a number of common ancestral terms to help readers understand the complicated process of human and cultural evolution around the globe. Specifically, in almost all indigenous languages, the words 'wa' and any variants of it were originally associated with the sound of crying of - and certainly were selected as the common ancestral word with the meanings of "house, home, homeland, motherland, and so on" by - early humans living in different parts of the world. This book provides many neglected but still crucial environmental and biological clues about the rise and fall of civilizations - ones that have largely resulted from mankind's long-lasting "Win-Stay Lose-Shift" games throughout the world. The narratives and findings presented at this book are unexpected but reasonable - and are what every student of anthropology or history needs to know and doesn't get in the usual text.
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Civilization-- Environmental aspects.
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Civilization-- History.
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Human ecology-- History.
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Anthropology.
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Civilization.
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HISTORY-- Civilization.
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909
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GF13.G86 2019
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