Discovering Us: Fifty Great Discoveries in Human Origins, 1968-2018

Discovering Us: Fifty Great Discoveries in Human Origins, 1968-2018
Author: Evan Hadingham
Publisher: Signature Books
Total Pages: 160
Release: 2019-07-30
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9781560852773

Over the past fifty years, researchers have made extraordinary discoveries that help us to understand who we are, where we came from, and what makes us human. Discovering Us brings our shared history to life and tells the stories behind fifty of the most important human origins discoveries ever made. Illustrated with stunning full-color photographs, this book celebrates science, exploration, and the search for what it means to be human. The Leakey Foundation is a non-profit organization formed in 1968 to fund human origins research and to share discoveries. Since then, the foundation has awarded more than 2,500 grants for research in 110 countries. Discovering Us highlights the thrilling fossil finds, groundbreaking primate behavior observations, and important scientific work of Leakey Foundation researchers.

Discovering America's Past

Discovering America's Past
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 408
Release: 1993
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN:

More than 450 accounts of the myriad customs, beliefs, legends, languages, adventures, and traditions that helped form America, illustrated with over 700 photographs, paintings, and engravings.

Discovering U. S. History

Discovering U. S. History
Author: Tim McNeese
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
Total Pages: 137
Release: 2010
Genre: Cowboys
ISBN: 1438130503

Focuses on the history of the South post-civil war as well as the old west.

Discovering History in China

Discovering History in China
Author: Paul A. Cohen
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Total Pages: 316
Release: 2010
Genre: History
ISBN: 0231151926

Originally published: New York: Columbia University Press, 1984.

On This Date

On This Date
Author: Carl M. Cannon
Publisher: Twelve
Total Pages: 792
Release: 2017-07-18
Genre: History
ISBN: 1455542288

Forget what you were taught in seventh grade-this riveting book takes readers down American history's back alleys and side streets. From the arrival of the Mayflower through the 2016 election, On This Date explores five hundred years of American history, revealing a compelling tale for each day in the calendar year. Drawing from Carl M. Cannon's popular RealClearPolitics' "Morning Note," On This Date is focused on fascinating -- and sometimes unknown -- stories behind specific dates in U.S. history: What inspired Abraham Lincoln to grow his famous beard, what Dwight Eisenhower really thought about playing football against the great Jim Thorpe, the legal grounds for the first American divorce, who wrote "Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer" -- and who profited from it. Colorful yet authoritative, On This Date debunks some popular myths and celebrates America's forgotten heroes.

Who Discovered America?

Who Discovered America?
Author: Gavin Menzies
Publisher: Harper Collins
Total Pages: 293
Release: 2013-10-08
Genre: History
ISBN: 0062236776

Greatly expanding on his blockbuster 1421, distinguished historian Gavin Menzies uncovers the complete untold history of how mankind came to the Americas—offering new revelations and a radical rethinking of the accepted historical record in Who Discovered America? The iconoclastic historian’s magnum opus, Who Discovered America? calls into question our understanding of how the American continents were settled, shedding new light on the well-known “discoveries” of European explorers, including Christopher Columbus. In Who Discovered America? he combines meticulous research and an adventurer’s spirit to reveal astounding new evidence of an ancient Asian seagoing tradition—most notably the Chinese—that dates as far back as 130,000 years ago. Menzies offers a revolutionary new alternative to the “Beringia” theory of how humans crossed a land bridge connecting Asia and North America during the last Ice Age, and provides a wealth of staggering claims, that hold fascinating and astonishing implications for the history of mankind.