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The World's Construction Mechanism : (Record no. 16390)

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International Standard Book Number 9781119706786
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Canceled/invalid ISBN 9781786305152
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System control number (MiAaPQ)EBC6123272
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System control number (Au-PeEL)EBL6123272
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System control number (OCoLC)1143647903
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Original cataloging agency MiAaPQ
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050 #4 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER
Classification number HM626
Item number .B376 2020
082 0# - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 304.27
100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Barnouin, Jacques.
245 14 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title The World's Construction Mechanism :
Remainder of title Trajectories, Imbalances, and the Future of Societies.
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Edition statement 1st ed.
264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE
Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture Newark :
Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated,
Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice 2020.
264 #4 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE
Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice ©2020.
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent 1 online resource (303 pages)
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Carrier type term online resource
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505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE
Formatted contents note Cover -- Half-Title Page -- Dedication -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Introduction -- I.1. Objectives and methodological framework -- I.2. Getting off to a good start -- 1. History of Color -- 1.1. Linnaeus and us -- 1.2. Ultraviolet and melanin -- 1.3. The skin map -- 1.4. New World Drama -- 1.5. Foundations of an unfounded theory -- 1.6. Deviations in the 19th and 20th Centuries -- 1.7. Symbols and fantasies -- 1.8. Whiteness, blondness and blueness -- 2. Geoclimate and Prosperity -- 2.1. Comparisons -- 2.2. More comfortable in the cold than in the heat -- 2.3. Delights of thermal comfort -- 2.4. Temperate life -- 2.5. Time and temperature -- 3. Pathway of Societal Precociousness -- 3.1. From climate to history -- 3.2. Original migrations -- 3.3. The corridor effect -- 3.4. On the road to human societies -- 3.5. Obsessive obsidian -- 3.6. From self-service to production control -- 3.7. A crescent… -- 3.8. …fertile in ideas -- 3.9. The emergence of the alphabet -- 4. Diffusion of Societal Achievements -- 4.1. The notion of diffusion -- 4.2. Initiation of diffusion -- 4.3. Dynamics of diffusion -- 4.4. From diffusion to prosperity -- 4.5. Other migration and other diffusion -- 4.6. The steppe issue -- 5. Cultural Intermission -- 5.1. Taking stock -- 5.2. Tracing culture -- 6. Mechanism and Realities -- 6.1. The world's mechanism -- 6.2. A very important differential -- 6.3. Two sub-species? -- 6.4. What connects the two realities? -- 6.5. Youths -- 7. Other Potential Reasons for Societal Imbalances -- 7.1. Inter and intra variation -- 7.2. WCM and income inequality -- 7.3. Factors of income inequality -- 7.4. The creation of inequality -- 7.5. An Asian Energy? -- 7.6. Combining equality and prosperity -- 8. Three Crucial Questions -- 8.1. A potentially different world? -- 8.2. A potentially devastated world? -- 8.3. Any damage?.
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Formatted contents note 9. Rebalancing Societies -- 9.1. In search of the human project -- 9.2. Two major societal innovations -- 9.3. Containing the WCM -- 9.3.1. Obstacles -- 9.3.2. The educational component -- 9.3.3. The institutional aspect -- 9.4. The future: containment or conflict? -- 9.5. Arrival -- References -- Index -- Other titles from iSTE in Science, Society and New Technologies -- EULA.
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590 ## - LOCAL NOTE (RLIN)
Local note Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Social evolution.
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Genre/form data or focus term Electronic books.
776 08 - ADDITIONAL PHYSICAL FORM ENTRY
Relationship information Print version:
Main entry heading Barnouin, Jacques
Title The World's Construction Mechanism
Place, publisher, and date of publication Newark : John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated,c2020
International Standard Book Number 9781786305152
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Uniform Resource Identifier <a href="https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=6123272">https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=6123272</a>
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