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This resource book invites educators and students on a journey into the worlds of yesterday, today and tomorrow, where they encounter Stone Age nomads, Vikings, conquistadors, pirates and space travellers. They hear tales of sea monsters and explore life in the Middle Ages, the cultures of native tribes of North America, the traditions of the Mayans and the Aztecs, and the voyages of Columbus and later explorers. And they learn about shipbuilding, navigation, shipwrecks, slavery and colonisation. Arranged chronologically, this book focuses not only on the facts and fictions surrounding early exploration, but also extends learning beyond the realm of reading simple historical accounts of a specific era. Beginning with chapters on the spirit of exploration and the meaning of history, it offers thought-provoking discussions, resource lists of outstanding children's books and a variety of learning activities, selected for use in preschool, primary, and intermediate grades. Subsequent chapters, following the same format, trace the history of world exploration from ancient explorations to the current exploration of outer space.Games, songs, creative dramatics, writing projects, crafts, group discussions and other activities bring historical events to life and allow students to experience what life was like in other times. Each activity is coded for the appropriate grade level (PreK-6), and a number of them are in the form of reproducible sheets that teachers can copy for immediate use. They can be adapted to fit a range of age goups and a variety of purposes, from story-hours for young children to activity and reading programmes for older children. The book lists should be helpful with library book displays and as a resource for teachers. The flexibility and quantity of material included should make this book an ideal resource for both classroom and library settings. Fostering investigation, research skills, discussion, co-operative learning and independent, critical thinking it should instil youngsters with a sense of history and the spirit of exploration. ... Read more

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Great book on the Age of Exploration
This well-written book is a very useful addition for schools, libraries and home schoolers.It can help make the Age of Exploration come alive for students.It contains not only well-researched historical information butalso theme-related crafts, activities and illustrations that can reinforcethe learning process and help children experience what life was like atother times.Finally, booklists make possible further investigations. ... Read more

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This sequel to the successful turn-based strategy gameImperialism improves greatly upon the original with its easierinterface, improved graphics, and greater game play. This detailedguide reveals essential strategies and secrets for more than 40 unittypes and 100 technologies from 300 years of history. Readers willlearn the best techniques for beating each scenario, including thestrategic use of pirates and spies. Written with the support of thegame's designers, this invaluable guide reveals secrets found nowhereelse.Amazon.com Review
The first Imperialism was something of sleeper hitamong strategy buffs. The sequel, from SSI and developer Frog City,promises to be at least as successful as its predecessor. Thoughroughly similar to Civilization and other empire-buildinggames, Imperialism II has a number of intricacies andidiosyncrasies all its own--which is why this Sybex guide is sohelpful. The book walks you through every important aspect of thegame, including industry, diplomacy, research, and war. Each maintopic is addressed in a separate chapter, with the most importanttopics (such as diplomacy and war) taking up slightly more space thanthe more basic concepts. Every unit type is described in detail, asare the many research technologies. Separate sections addressstrategies for success in the beginning, middle, and end portions of agame. A section on multiplayer strategy can help you achievedomination over your living, breathing friends and enemies. Finally,the book includes a short chapter that explains the many differencesbetween this game and the original. ... Read more

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A Book Of Books
I know that Imperialism 2 is a great game, and I want to make this cheaper, I bought a "internet cracked cd" that includes the game, so I played and liked it.when I saw the help issue (within-
the game),I saw the manual,and I asked myself what the heck is that manual.And so I wrote here and found out.

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Superb strategy guide
I'm one of those people who buys every strategy guide for every game I have worth playing.The guide for Imperialism II is one of the very best I've read.It contains very helpful advice on sound strategies coveringeach aspect of the game and has a very helpful section outlining researchoptions.Highly recommended.

Best true strategy guide in some time
I was pleasantly surprised by the information content, analysis, and true strategic content in the strategy guide.At a time when few strategy guides for war and strategy games are worth buying, this is a strongexception.

Best true strategy guide in some time
I was pleasantly surprised by the information content, analysis, and true strategic content in the strategy guide.At a time when few strategy guides for war and strategy games are worth buying, this is a strongexception.

Imperialim II:The Age of Exploration
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A paperback edition of the title first published in 1990. A history of the famous sea voyages made by European explorers in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Illustrated with colour and black and white photographs and artwork throughout, a BEGINNING HISTORY title. ... Read more

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Did you know that Columbus was not actually searching for America when he found it? Or that many of the explorers after him were looking for a sea route to China instead? During the golden age of exploration, men set sail with hopes of finding different travel routes, treasures, and spices. The fact that they came ashore on uncharted land was not only one of the greatest accidents of all time, it also led to one of the greatest discoveries -- the New World!

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Claire Farago, University of Colorado at Boulder
Julie Hochstrasser, University of Iowa
Christopher Johns, Vanderbilt University
Carol Mavor, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Art historians have long been accustomed to thinking about art and artists in terms of national traditions. This volume takes a different approach, suggesting instead that a history of art based on national divisions often obscures the processes of cultural appropriation and global exchange that shaped the visual arts of Europe in fundamental ways between 1492 and the early twentieth century.

Essays here analyze distinct zones of contact--between various European states, between Asia and Europe, or between Europe and so-called primitive cultures in Africa, the Americas, and the South Pacific--focusing mainly but not exclusively on painting, drawing, or the decorative arts. Each case foregrounds the centrality of international borrowings or colonial appropriations and counters conceptions of European art as a "pure" tradition uninfluenced by the artistic forms of other cultures. The contributors analyze the social, cultural, commercial, and political conditions of cultural contact--including tourism, colonialism, religious pilgrimage, trade missions, and scientific voyages--that enabled these exchanges well before the modern age of globalization.

Contributors:
Claire Farago, University of Colorado at Boulder
Elisabeth A. Fraser, University of South Florida
Julie Hochstrasser, University of Iowa
Christopher Johns, Vanderbilt University
Carol Mavor, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Mary D. Sheriff, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Lyneise E. Williams, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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Designed to introduce LIS students to the ever-changing world of modern libraries and information centers, this text provides an important overview of libraries in the era of electronic information. It helps students build necessary core knowledge in such areas as electronic dissemination of information, the impact of the Internet on libraries, the changing responsibilities of library professionals, the new paradigm for evaluating information, and characteristics and functions of today's library personnel. Each chapter revolves around a pertinent topic: the history of libraries, job opportunities, collections, preparing materials for use, circulation, reference service, ethics in the information age, job search basics, and the Internet. References and relevant books, Web sites, and publications at the end of every chapter point to further resources. Additional information—such as policies, the library bill of rights, the code of ethics, and the freedom to read statement-is supplied in the appendixes.

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A collection of stories from the nineteenth century's most legendary voyages of discovery.

For intensity of geographical exploration and wealth of first-rate adventure writing by intrepid men and women, the nineteenth century stands alone. This definitive collection contains thirty-five stories from the most compelling odysseys of the century: Fridtjof Nansen tries to walk to the North Pole; Mary Kingsley wanders alone in the jungles of West Africa; Richard Burton makes a forbidden pilgrimage to Mecca; Mary Mummery describes a harrowing first ascent in the Alps; Francis Parkman hunts buffalo with the Sioux.

The excerpts are as varied as the voyages themselves—some humorous and lighthearted, others desperate and thrilling—but all are examples of adventure, and adventure writing, at the highest level. Several long-forgotten classics are reprinted here for the first time in one hundred years. From the search for the source of the Nile to the first crossing of the Himalayas to a quest for the origin of species, this book ranges the globe and captures the restlessness of the human spirit. 30 b/w illustrations. ... Read more

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perhaps the best collection of adventure writing
The author does an excellent job of culling not only the most interesting and exciting pieces of 19th century travel writing, but editing out the dull parts so that every line draws you in.To make the book even more readable, she writes helpful short introductions which set the scene and explain the context of each adventurer along with his/her adventures.Big names like Darwin and Shackleton are represented along with many lesser known writers who were equally captivating.I've read many exploration/adventure books in the past few years, but as far as a great collection, I've come across no more exciting reading than this one.From Polar to equatorial to nautical, every time of extreme adventure is represented and the incredible leadership of many of the explorers shines through.Even more noteworthy is the obervational detail the authors provide as naturalists and observers of the world around them, largely unexplored during much of that time period.A great read!

THE ALLURE OF THE UNEXPLORED
This is an enthralling book, filled with personal, very human stories about some of the most extraordinary expeditions ever ventured.

Remember those old maps that show sea monsters lurking at the rims of certain large, anonymous land masses? They represented the complete unknown, the places no human being had ever ventured into. However, those were the very places that incited wonder and curiosity in imaginations of nineteenth century explorers.

The decision to journey into these lands was a commitment to step into uncertainty of the most extreme kind. Just organizing a journey into an unknown land was a tremendous undertaking, requiring great sums of money, generous and sympathetic supporters, supplies that the crew could only estimate, and a great deal of patience and determination. To launch a journey of exploration was to set off knowing that there was a very good possibility that one would never return. Climate, local inhabitants, wildlife, supplies and the disposition of one's traveling companions were factors that could determine the success or failure of an expedition. But the allure of the unknown was so strong that these determined men and women could never ignore it.

DEAD RECKONING, edited by Helen Whybrow, is an adventure story unto itself. It gathers into one volume the most exciting, most challenging and most dramatic episodes from the most intrepid explorers of the Age of Discovery. Here is Mary Mummery, one of the first women explorers, making her way up slippery ice slopes in the Alps. Here is Alfred Russell Wallace clambering around in thick foliage in the South Sea Islands in an effort to spot new birds as he formulates a theory of evolution that will be eclipsed by Darwin's. Here is Mark Twain "vagabondizing" in the American West and looking at everything with his contagious sense of humor.

These men and women journeyed without the benefit of Gore-Tex or cell phones, down sleeping bags or OFF! insect repellant. They endured endured long voyages on leaking ships, frostbite and insect bites, hunger and thirst, indifference or hostility or envy. Many of them traveled arroganly, with the belief that no land truly existed until it had been visited by an educated white man. All of them, however, expderienced an inner journey that was as profound as their outer journey. All of them were dreamers and visionaries, and all of them were changed forever by the journeys they took.

This book makes you wish that there were more lands to be explored, more wild climates to be endured, and that you yourself could be the one to visit them. Since that it impossible, you can dive into this book and get lost without any of the physical or emotional discomforts these daring adventurerers had to survive. ... Read more

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The Pacific Ocean covers one third of the planet, but until 1513 no white man even knew it existed. In Pacific Passions, Frank Sherry tells in sweeping narrative the enthralling story of one of the most exciting periods of human history: the first 250 years of European exploration of the Pacific Ocean. It is an unforgettable tale of bold exploration and the cataclysmic events that molded sixteenth-, seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Europe. Pacific Passions recounts some of the most heroic voyages in human history and places them in their proper historical contexts. It is popular history at its most exciting. ... Read more

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thorough coverage of the exploration of the Pacific
Frank Sherry works very hard to cover the first 250 years of European exploration of the Pacific and its lands, particularly the struggle to control the spice trade, the continual wars and battles fought over its control, the search for alternate passages from European waters to the Pacific, and the hunt for the mythical southern continent, Terra Australis Incognita. Chronicling Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, French, and English activities in the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries, it is ambitious and epic in scope.

Sherry paints a picture of continual hardship on the part of these sailors on voyages of exploration, trade, and warfare. Political infighting and miserly sovereigns delayed missions for years, or so underfunded them that they were doomed to failure thanks to decreipt ships, wormy food, or otherwise poor supplies. Leaders of expeditions were often chosen by the rulers of the various nations not because of sailing skill or some personal or professional trait that made them outstanding explorers, but because they were owed favors, were the darlings of various kings, or simply because they bought their way on. Time and again sailing expeditions broke down into infighting and sometimes outright mutiny when supplies ran low, there were disputes over leadership of a ship or expedition, when winds were poor, and/or when a mythical island failed to appear, either because it never existed in the first place or because the ships were woefully off course. Petty treachery and arrogance often poisoned relations with peaceful natives throughout the Pacific, resulting in suffering on both sides and inevitable European massacres of Polynesians, Melanesians, and Micronesians, or sometimes vice versa. Other times fairly peaceful European explorers and merchants were meant with extremely hostile natives and slaughtered, perhaps the legacy of previous visits, or in some cases due to local xenophobia and warlike ways. If one wanted to die old, exploring the Pacific was not recommended.

Sherry does a great job discussing the continual struggles to just get to the Pacific, of one nation trying to reach this world's largest ocean and its coasts and islands and avoid areas of Spanish, English, or other national domination. Much of these efforts relate to events and schemes in the Strait of Magellan and Tierra Del Fuego, and make for interesting though sometimes sad reading.

Much of the later parts of the book concern the struggle for finding and laying claim to the mythical southern continent, long thought to exist. It was almost painful to read about expeditons that either just missed Australia, or saw Australia and failed to realize it was the continent they were seeking. It appeared even when some did realize what it was, it wasn't the legendary paradise they hoped it would be.

My only real complaint about the book is that after a while reading about how so miserably so many explorers and expeditions turned about, about explorers languishing in port for years due to lack of funds, of ships stranded at sea with dwindling food and water thanks to lack of sufficient winds, of continual conflicts with islanders, it almost got depressing. One certainly can't acccuse Sherry of needlessly romanticizing the exploration of the Pacific. Perhaps it is just me though, but I found some of the continual hardship a bit tedious.

Still, this is a very good history book, one well worth buying.

Outstanding History Writing
Frank Sherry's account of the European exploration and mastering of the Pacific Ocean is an excellent and well written work of history that hassomehow been overlooked.Lovers of great tales of exploration and nauticalhistory should seek out a copy.It is WELL worth the effort.

Not a good choice for those susceptible to day dreaming!
Pacific Passions is a captivating story of the explorers who opened the Pacific Ocean to the western world. Frank Sherry paints a riveting experience as he puts the reader on the decks of Spanish, Portuguese, English, and Dutch ships on journeys to the Spice Islands, Australia, Tahiti, and countless other destinations. The author does a masterful job in recounting the human misery and self sacrifice associated with the age of exploration as well as the human triumph. By the last paragraph I was ready to set sail myself for my own adventure into the South Seas! I could not put the book down! ... Read more

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This book presents several highly philosophical and intellectual discussions. Yet it is written in a very beautiful and readable style. A layman such as myself obtained much knowledge and pleasure from this book.

Refreshingly revisionist vs. "the golden age of Moorish Spain"
Rémi Brague, a French historian, seeks to revise our notions of medieval thought, or what we mistakenly perceive as that era's lack of reason. His essays collected as "The Legend of the Middle Ages," explore philosophical intersections of Islamic, Jewish, and Christian pursuits of truth.

Modern intellectuals look at science differently than their medieval, yes, predecessors did. It's not that they did not study it, but that they studied it with an eye, literally, to seek another reason why to study natural phenomena. Here's a summary of key arguments Brague makes.

The Jewish scholars of the time looked to the world as they did to the heavens. There was not the separation from the Creator that distinguishes for most moderns who enter the laboratory or the observatory today the walling off of God from matter. Modernity itself would not have emerged, the professor opines, without the tremendous push from the medievals who sought in Aristotle the summa of knowledge, next to the Prophet, for the Arabic translators in Spain who transferred Greek wisdom and ancient knowledge into their own language. Once carried over, the Greek could be discarded by the Arab: their sacred tongue then subsumed that of the infidel's vernacular.

Certainly, this differed from those Jews who learned Arabic to rescue, as it were, the Greek storehouse of Aristotelian science, or the Catholics who did the same by learning Hebrew to delve more deeply into the shared scholarship of their own times. Brague goes on to insist that the legacy of Aristotle we inherit comes from Arabic-speaking Jews and Christians who turned the texts into Latin for dissemination across Christian Europe. The Arabs, contrarily, held that once the Greeks had been rendered into the language of the Qur'an, that no more transmission was needed. Perfection had been attained in the tongue of the Prophet.

For the Jews, they bridged the divide opened in Spain by their expulsion fromthe southern part of Iberia by the Almohid dynasty in the twelfth century. The Spanish Jews fled north and brought with them fluency in Arabic and a knack for polyglot survival. The Christians learned what the Jews had learned from the Muslims, who had found what they wanted in Aristotle's Greek.

Brague contrasts the relative openness of Jews and Christians towards their "pagan" inspirations with the rather more smug confidence of those in power and tenure, as it were, over Moorish Spain. The Arabs threw away the Greek corpus, so to speak, once it was safely transformed into the holy Arabic. The context fell away; the core remained intact, if approved for incorporation into what jibed with Islamic understanding.

Greeks gained commentary, line-by-line, when edited by Jews and Christians, contrarily. By keeping a sense of the original source texts along with what the Spanish intellectuals added or remarked upon, they allowed greater interaction between the Greek and Arab contexts and their own application of such complex frameworks to a wider European audience.

I wonder if the commonplace observation of Islamic stagnation intellectually under centralized power and fear of unorthodox opinions that would run counter to the Qur'an can be traced back to such diasporic forces? These foreshadow, in their institutional arrogance and clerical domination, the dispersion of both the Jews and the last Muslims from Spain. That final conquest by Christians ended in 1492 with the great Sephardic scattering-- when some fleeing Jews found themselves back in Salonika, speaking of Greece, at the source again?
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Trade, Travel, and Exploration: An Encyclopedia is a reference book that covers the peoples, places, technologies, and intellectual concepts that contributed to trade, travel and exploration during the Middle Ages, from the years A.D. 525 to 1492.

Comprehensive coverage
The contributors have presented the most comprehensive and up-to-date knowledge of the topics covered in the book. There are entries on the familiar topics, such as the voyages of Columbus and Marco Polo, but there are also articles on information that is more difficult to find, for example, the traditions of travel among Muslim women and the influence of Viking travel on navigation and geographical knowledge. Until now, some of this information has been available only in specialized journals, and some of it was never published in English translation.

Multi-disciplinary, non-Eurocentric approach
More than 175 scholars from a variety of disciplines, including European literature, European art, Asian studies, and the history of technology, have come together to write about travel and trade during the Middle Ages. Unlike many earlier general works on the Middle Ages, Medieval Trade, Travel, and Exploration: An Encyclopedia minimizes the Eurocentric bias and gives extensive coverage to such topics as travel within Inner Asia, Mongol society, and the spread of Buddhism.
Coverage of specific aspects of medieval travel
The encyclopedia contains many interesting articles on specific elements of medieval travel, for example, on inns and accommodations, on horses and harnesses, and on the magnetic compass. Overview essays, for example on topics like medieval geography, inland transportation, and maps, help place details on the importance of an individual, place, or technology in a wider context.
Extensive map program.
A extensive map program, specially prepared for this volume, is keyed to the articles in the text and gives standardized spellings for names of places that are often difficult to find on modern maps.
Heavily illustrated
More than 125 illustrations, reproduced mainly from manuscripts and other medieval art forms, provide an authentic view of how people in the Middle Ages conceived of geographical concepts and imagined faraway people, places, and animals. Illustrations include reproductions of manuscript illuminations; photos of sculpture, architecture, and other medieval art forms; photos of ships found at archaeological digs; and reproductions of maps of medieval trade routes and trade sites.

Aids for the reader
Entries conclude with bibliographies that guide the reader to additional accessible works on the subject. The end of the book contains a General Bibliography, which lists the standard works on medieval travel and the sources most frequently cited by the encyclopedia's contributors. Other reader aids include a comprehensive index and "see also" references at the end of entries that guide the reader to articles of related interest in the encyclopedia.
Medieval Trade, Travel, and Exploration contains, in one volume, a vast amount of geographical, historical, and technological information about the Middle Ages for undergraduate and graduate students but also for scholars seeking quick, factual information. ... Read more

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Despite earlier naval expeditions undertaken for reasons of diplomacy or trade, it wasn't until the early 1400s that European maritime explorers established sea routes through most of the globe's inhabited regions, uniting a divided earth into a single system of navigation. From the early Portuguese and Spanish quests for gold and glory, to later scientific explorations of land and culture, this new understanding of the world's geography created global trade, built empires, defined taste and alliances of power, and began the journey toward the cultural, political, and economic globalization in which we live today.

Ronald Love's engaging narrative chapters guide the reader from Marco Polo's exploration of the Mongol empire to Ferdinand Magellan's circumnavigation of the globe, the search for a Northern Passage, Henry Hudson's voyage to Greenland, the discovery of Tahiti, the perils of scurvy, mutiny, and warring empires, and the eventual extension of Western influence into almost every corner of the globe. Biographies and primary documents round out the work.

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Part of a series that tells the stories of important voyages of discovery, describing the challenges and hardships faced by those who set out to discover new lands. This book describes the Viking ocean exploration and colonization of the lands discovered: first to the Hebrides, Orkneys, Shetlands and Faroes, and then to Iceland and how Greenland was colonized by "Eric the Red", and the historic voyage of his son Leif Eriksson, the first recorded European to set foot on the North American continent. Life aboard ship and in the spartan Viking colonies is vividly evoked through detailed fullcolour artwork, supplemented by photographs of Viking artefacts and historical sites. ... Read more

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Part of a series telling the stories of important voyages of discovery. It follows Marco Polo's journey to the court of the Mongol Emperor Kublai Khan in the 13th century. ... Read more

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[This book is written in Japanese.]

This book is one of the Tachibana Publishing Future Book Series (Japanese Edition), a series of books with the world’s leading futurists and social analysts. This series looks at future perspectives in a variety of fields- economics, ecology, management, leadership, stock markets, culture, and social issues.