VLADIMIR USSACHEVSKY

Hailey Buckley
Sep 4, 2018 · 7 min read

Anthropological historians commonly assert that the first radical change in human behaviour came with the emergence of farming in a society that had subsisted thitherto on hunting and gathering. The importance of that change is undeniable. But in one respect it was a change of degree, not in kind; that is, in both conditions, physical survival, of the tribe and its individual members, depended on an intimate involvement of man and the forces of…

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Alphabeticon

"Alphabeticon" is a series of small books about men and women, past and present, who have been important in various fields of human endeavour, such as the arts and sciences, politics, religion, sport, and so on. Each volume contains twenty-six chapters; alphabetically arranged.

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