Civilizations : (Record no. 390)
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| fixed length control field | 02889nam a2200265 i 4500 |
| 003 - CONTROL NUMBER IDENTIFIER | |
| control field | MIUC |
| 005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION | |
| control field | 20190520115101.0 |
| 008 - FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS--GENERAL INFORMATION | |
| fixed length control field | 150203s2001 nyu||||| |||| 001 | eng d |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9780743202497 |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE | |
| Original cataloging agency | MIUC |
| Language of cataloging | eng |
| Transcribing agency | MIUC |
| 082 0# - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 909 |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| 9 (RLIN) | 1586 |
| Personal name | Fernández-Armesto, Felipe |
| 952 ## - Items | |
| Itemnumber | 464 |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Civilizations : |
| Remainder of title | culture, ambition, and the transformation of nature / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc. | Felipe Fernández-Armesto. |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. | |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc. | New York : |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. | Simon & Schuster, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. | c2001. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 545 p. : |
| Dimensions | 24 cm. |
| 504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE | |
| Bibliography, etc. note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | The itch to civilize -- <br/>1. The helm of ice: ice worlds and tundra as human habitats -- <br/>2. The death of Earth: adaptation and counteradaptation in deserts of sand -- <br/>3. The sweepings of the wind: prairy and grassy savanna -- <br/>4. The highway of civilizations: the eurasian steppe -- <br/>5. The wild woods: postglacial and temperate woodland -- <br/>6. Hearts of darkness: tropical lowlands -- <br/>7. The lone and level sands: misleading cases in the Near East -- <br/>8. Of shoes and rice: transcending environments of origin in China and India -- <br/>9. The gardens of the clouds: the highland civilizations of the New World -- <br/>10. The climb to paradise: the highland civilizations of the Old World -- <br/>11. The allotments of the gods: small-islands civilizations -- <br/>12. The view from the shore: the nature of seaboard civilizations -- <br/>13. Chasing the monsoon: seaboard -- <br/>14. The tradition of Ulysses: the Greek and Roman seabords -- <br/>15. Almost the last environment: the rise of oceanic civilizations -- <br/>16. Refloating Atlantis: the making of Atlantic civilization -- <br/>17. The Atlantic and after: Atlantic supremacy and the global outlook. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | Erudite, wide-ranging, a work of dazzling scholarship written with extraordinary flair, Civilizations redefines the subject that has fascinated historians from Thucydides to Gibbon to Spengler to Fernand Braudel: the nature of civilization. <br/><br/>To the author, Oxford historian Felipe Fernádez-Armesto, a society's relationship to climate, geography, and ecology are paramount in determining its degree of success. "Unlike previous attempts to write the comparative history of civilizations," he writes, "it is arranged environment by environment, rather than period by period or society by society." Thus, for example, tundra civilizations of Ice Age Europe are linked with those of the Inuit of the Pacific Northwest, the Mississippi Mound Builders with the deforesters of eleventh-century Europe. <br/><br/>Civilizations brilliantly connects the world of ecologist, geologist, and geographer with the panorama of cultural history. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| 9 (RLIN) | 73 |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Civilization |
| General subdivision | History |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| 9 (RLIN) | 1583 |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Human geography |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| 9 (RLIN) | 642 |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Human ecology |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| 9 (RLIN) | 1587 |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Nature |
| General subdivision | Effect of human beings on |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| 9 (RLIN) | 1051 |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Ambition |
| General subdivision | History |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) | |
| Source of classification or shelving scheme | Dewey Decimal Classification |
| Koha item type | Books |
| Withdrawn status | Lost status | Source of classification or shelving scheme | Damaged status | Not for loan | Home library | Current library | Shelving location | Date acquired | Total Checkouts | Full call number | Date last seen | Price effective from | Koha item type |
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| Dewey Decimal Classification | Marbella International University Centre | Marbella International University Centre | Library | 13/06/2018 | 909 FER civ | 13/06/2018 | 13/06/2018 | Books |