Contents: Setting the Stage for the Black Death -- What Was the Black Death? -- The Path of the Black Death -- The Black Death Psyche -- Medicine and the Black Death -- Social and Economic Impact of the Black Death -- Culture, and the Black Death -- The End of the Black Death

This illustrated survey examines what it was actually like to live with plague and the threat of plague in late-medieval and early modern England.

Focuses on current concepts in evolution as they pertain to conservation, and the empirical study of these concepts. See Part III: Evolutionary Responses to Environmental Change.

Emphasizing the influences of massive geographical forces, discusses how Earth’s physical environment has challenged the survival of its organisms and ecosystems and driven evolution forward.

Explores the relationship between ecological and evolutionary processes, evolutionary responses to environmental change. See Part D Ch. 14-15 for discussion of adaptive responses to landscape disturbances.

Presents a wider view of the events that led to the migration of the moderns into Europe, what might have happened during the contact of the two populations, and what finally drove the Neanderthals to extinction. It is a view that considers climate, ecology, and migrations of populations, as well as culture and interaction.

Two leading researchers make the controversial argument that our species is still measurably evolving in important ways—in fact, faster than ever before. See Ch. 3: Agriculture: The Big Change.

Tattersall thoroughly examines both fossil and archaeological records to trace human evolution from the earliest beginnings of our zoological family, Hominidae, through the appearance of Homo sapiens to the Agricultural Revolution. See Ch. 7 Settled Life for discussion of the development of agriculture.

Epic account of the worst natural disaster in European history, which left twenty-five million people dead.

Draws together the most recent scientific discoveries and groundbreaking historical research to pierce the mist and tell the story of the Black Death, which wiped out a third of Europe’s population in the 14th century.

Examines what it was like to live with plague at all levels of society. Argues that the severe labor shortage that persisted for over a century after the Black Death ultimately broke the ties of feudal bondage.

Drastic and frequent climatic changes affected our ancient ancestors in dramatic, life- altering ways. In matching wits with the undependable prehistoric climate, early humans first developed the capacities for society, culture, and ethics.

Contents: Looking at animals -- Animals as machines -- The limits of animals -- Sex and species -- Groups and troops -- Territory -- Animal migration -- Interactions -- Communities of the land -- Communities of the water -- An ape called man -- The search for better foods -- The world's crops -- The world's livestock -- The resource of trees -- The last great hunt -- Farming the waters -- The shadow of extinction -- Threats to the environment -- Saving habitats -- Saving wildlife.