NADIA DURRANI

A thirty-thousand-year history of the relationship between climate and civilization that teaches powerful lessons about how humankind can survive. Human-made climate change may have begun in the last two hundred years, but our species has witnessed many eras of climate instability. The results have not always been pretty. From Ancient Egypt to Rome to the Maya, some of historys mightiest civilizations have been felled by pestilence and glacial melt and drought.The challenges are no less great today. We face hurricanes and megafires and food shortages and more. But we have one powerful advantage as we face our current crisis: the past. Our knowledge of ancient climates has advanced tremendously in the last decade, to the point where we can now reconstruct seasonal weather going back thousands of years and see just how people and nature interacted. The lesson is clear: the societies that survive are those that plan ahead.Climate Chaos is a book about saving ourselves. Brian Fagan and Nadia Durrani show in remarkable detail what it was like to battle our climate over centuries and offer us a path to a safer and healthier future.

This is the story of the first Blitz and the first Battle of Britain, featuring a full account of the first Zeppelin crash site excavation and also covering airfields, gun sites, searchlights, and radio listening posts. The book features contemporary accounts and archive photographs alongside the reports and photographs from the excavations, including Hunstanton, Monkhams, Chingford and North Weald Basset, the Lea Valley, Potters Bar and Theberton. Written in collaboration between academic archaeologists and aviation enthusiasts/metal detectorists, this fascinating project has also been the subject of a BBC2 Timewatch documentary.

Esta amplia historia social de la cama cubre los últimos setenta mil años. Brian Fagan y Nadia Durrani analizan el papel infinitamente variado de este mueble a lo largo del tiempo. Este era un lugar para el sexo, la muerte, el parto, la narracion de historias y la socializacion, asi como para dormir. Es apenas en la era moderna que la cama se ha transformado en una zona privada y oculta, y en gran medida su rica historia social ha quedado en el olvido.

Esta amplia historia social de la cama cubre los últimos setenta mil años. Brian Fagan y Nadia Durrani analizan el papel infinitamente variado de este mueble a lo largo del tiempo. Este era un lugar para el sexo, la muerte, el parto, la narracion de historias y la socializacion, asi como para dormir. Es apenas en la era moderna que la cama se ha transformado en una zona privada y oculta, y en gran medida su rica historia social ha quedado en el olvido.

"Un excellent livre qui regorge dhistoires. Cest malin, cest intelligent, cest divertissant."Eva Roque - C LHebdo - France 5Comme la dit Groucho Marx, il y a ce quon peut faire dans un lit et le reste.Le reste ne vaut pas cher.Et il avait sans doute raison, car lhomme, depuis la nuit des temps, y a tout fait ou presque. Dans lEgypte antique, le lit representait un lien essentiel avec lau-dela, tandis que les contemporains de Shakespeare y voyaient un lieu de sociabilite conviviale ; Louis XIV regna sur la France depuis sa chambre a coucher, Churchill gouverna depuis la sienne la Grande-Bretagne en guerre, et le couple forme par John Lennon et Yoko Ono y milita pour la paix dans le monde. La gamme des activites auxquelles les humains se sont livres a lhorizontale , qui va de la conception a la mort, est vaste et a beaucoup a nous apprendre !Aujourdhui relegue au domaine de lintime, du sexe et du sommeil, le lit nen cache pas moins une fabuleuse histoire de lhumanite, faite de fantasmes et de fonctions surprenantes, que ce livre devoile. Passionnant et insolite, il explore, de lAntiquite a nos jours, la fonction pragmatique et symbolique dun meuble ou continue de se jouer le theatre de la vie. " Une passionante enquete."Historia.