| 单词 | modern |
| 例句 | She was so spontaneous, so emancipated, with such a free and modern spirit, that Aureliano did not know what to do with his body when he saw her arrive. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z Some modern Non-Western music traditions, which have a very different approach to melody and harmony, still base their tuning on the perfect fifth. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z Proceeding in the same way, we can compare modern Taiwanese, Philippine, Indonesian, and Polynesian languages to reconstruct a Proto-Austronesian language spoken in the distant past. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Ancient Greek parents were no more prone to call their sons “Crow” than modern ones—and would anyone called “Crow” have the brass neck to teach the art of public speaking for a living? Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z He spoke a number of languages, ancient and modern, and had published a translation of Anacreon, with commentary, when he was only eighteen. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z The gene provides an organizing principle for modern biology—and it tantalizes us with the prospect of controlling our bodies and fates. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z It is now generally regarded as a much more important marker of the beginning of modern astronomy than the publication of Copernicus’s On the Revolutions. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z In mid-November, Pearl and Moody, along with the rest of their modern European history class, had gone to the art museum to look at paintings. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Thus the modern idea of the machine was born by giving a new meaning to the Latin term machina. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z If this sounds silly, bear in mind that before the development of modern embryological studies, people had no solid evidence that babies are always sired by a single father rather than by many. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z We know that Galapagos and Antarctic birds and mammals, which similarly evolved in the absence of humans and did not see humans until modern times, are still incurably tame today. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z These were the obligatory so-called Studienreisen, or study tours, their goal being the students’ acquisition of the necessary grounding in “the modern developments in Physics” that was simply unattainable in the United States. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z It turned out that 1–4 per cent of the unique human DNA of modern populations in the Middle East and Europe is Neanderthal DNA. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Kepler had lots of facts, and della Porta had one or two, but neither had the word ‘fact’ in the modern sense. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The furniture was neither antique nor modern, and looked extremely comfortable. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z But there is an equally noteworthy and genuine coincidence that results from taking Newton’s birthday as 4 January 1643, in line with our modern calendar. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z A long driveway, its privacy guarded by tall spruce, led to the modern mansion of the newly elected chairman of the board of Westing Paper Products Corporation. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z Perhaps Gaia had risen, taken one look at the modern world and decided to go back to sleep. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z Southwest and Mississippi Valley to the modern American breadbaskets of California and Oregon, where Native American societies remained hunter-gatherers merely because they lacked appropriate domesticates. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z They look like a mixture of both, like they could be on the wall of some modern art museum. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z The conversation that follows involves more creative coercion than outright job offer, and there are several deviations into the subjects of the ballet, modern fashion, and Japanese mythology. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z We demonstrate the reliability of modern science at every moment of every day. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z “How medieval. However, he seems to have some very modern powers. What has he done to the magnetic pole?” The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z They brought destruction at close range with incendiary bombs, and they released annihilation—and a new, modern fear—with the atomic bombs they delivered. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Recent evidence suggests that cattle may have been domesticated independently in North Africa, Southwest Asia, and India, and that all three of those stocks have contributed to modern African cattle breeds. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z From these fragments, researchers discovered that Stone Age mathematicians were a bit more rugged than modern ones. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z A modern novelist could no more write characters and plots than a modern composer could a Mozart symphony. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z On the other side of the river, tall modern buildings, with whole walls of windows, lifted up out above the squat brick constructions. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z They are a family, a modern family outside the norm, but not so unusual that plenty of others wouldn’t recognize themselves in it. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z The early farmers of the Fertile Crescent and China were heirs to the technology that behaviorially modern Homo sapiens had been developing to exploit local resources in those areas for tens of thousands of years. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Conditions are evidently no better now than when the modern insecticides first came into use. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z These modern tensions have roots going back thousands of years. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “You could join us in the modern world,” she said. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z My white T-shirt glowed in the twilight, banded in modern art speckles of fungal reds, yellows, and blues. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z I looked at him and believed he spoke the truth, he seemed less fettered than he had been before, more modern, more human, he was not hemmed in by shadows. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z Most of the people who live in this rugged country seem to have no desire to be severed from the modern world or the untidy flow of human progress. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z The third recent extension of GGS’s message to the modern world was to me the most unexpected one. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The young musicians in modern conservatoires, music colleges and universities study in an environment that fosters respect for and engagement with a multitude of genres and traditions. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z If the full potential of the modern science of genetics was to be unleashed, Muller thought, it would be in Berlin. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z It looked as if someone had taken an ancient marketplace and squashed it together with a modern grocery store. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z In the 1960s, however, interest in the large-scale problems of astronomy and cosmology was revived by a great increase in the number and range of astronomical observations brought about by the application of modern technology. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z This “compartmenting,” as modern intelligence officers call it, can sometimes produce problems. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z He’s the organizer of Wisdom 2.0, a growing movement in the Bay Area aimed at helping people find balance in the modern world. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z We were in an overscaled, Architectural Digest sort of room, big and loft-like, with skylights and a fieldstone fireplace, chairs upholstered in white leather, kidney-shaped coffee table—modern, expensive, Italian stuff. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z The photos were black and white but their subjects were modern—vibrant, well defined. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Anne’s story inspired Zlata, who has been hailed as the modern- day Anne Frank. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z Students are encouraged to consider social problems and responses to ‘practical’ dilemmas in a modern world through which angels and devils no longer dance. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z By the same token, the modern Korean language may be a poor model for the ancient Yayoi language of Korean immigrants in 400 B.C. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Finally, peoples of some areas ecologically suitable for food production neither evolved nor acquired agriculture in prehistoric times at all; they persisted as hunter-gatherers until the modern world finally swept upon them. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Below, she saw a mosaic floor decorated with deer and fauns—maybe a room from an Ancient Roman villa, just stashed away under this modern basement along with the crates of string and plastic swords. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z “No pillars, no straight walls, so much glass that they’ll need three Mr. Vendleri’s to keep it all clean. That kind of modern.” The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z He had abandoned her for this modern, heartless girl. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Their African equivalents—such as the African buffalo, zebra, bush pig, rhino, and hippopotamus—have never been domesticated, not even in modern times. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Descendants of those societies that achieved centralized government and organized religion earliest ended up dominating the modern world. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z There was a cart of books, as clean and modern as the ones on Ben’s shelves. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z These processes, which began in the Neolithic era, continued into modern times. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z But modern astrologers have forgotten about the precession of the equinoxes, which Ptolemy understood. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The history of interactions among disparate peoples is what shaped the modern world through conquest, epidemics, and genocide. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Those who think that modern science derives from the empirical experimental enquiries of craftsmen and artisans need to account for the extraordinarily slow evolution of water-wheel technology prior to the introduction of Smeaton’s scientific method. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z In fact, the common harmonic tradition that includes everything from Baroque counterpoint to modern rock is often called triadic harmony. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z These were impressive, modern, limestone buildings with red tile roofs. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z It is comparatively inexpensive: the cost of a single naval vessel of intermediate size— a modern destroyer, say—would pay for a decade-long program in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z A history of modern science without progress fails to capture science’s unique feature. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z She found it sad that their legacy had been reduced to a field of rubble and a small modern town with an olive-oil museum. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z She may not rely on modern technology to find our new towns, but she sure did to drive there. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z He also suggests that Theo write to Tersteeg about taking some of the modern paintings for their old branch in The Hague, too. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z This is the genuinely decisive technology of modern medicine, exemplified best by modern methods for immunization against diphtheria, pertussis, and the childhood virus diseases, and the contemporary use of antibiotics and chemotherapy for bacterial infections. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z In this dispute the question of the relative merits of ancient and modern science was at first entirely secondary. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Although today’s influenza and cholera epidemics make front-page stories, epidemics used to be far more terrifying before the rise of modern medicine. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z We now know that our galaxy is only one of some hundred thousand million that can be seen using modern telescopes, each galaxy itself containing some hundred thousand million stars. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z She considered modern female undergarments indecent and if not precisely “of the devil,” certainly in that vicinity. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The building was a twelve-story showcase of modern architecture, all glass and concrete, rising like a mirage from the site of Benjamin Duke’s old estate, Four Acres. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z The eastbound riders had a well-lit modern glass awning that actually kept them dry. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z In a feat of modern aircraft design and engineering, Johnson's team built the first U-2 spy plane in only eighty-eight days. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Just as modern humans walked up to unafraid dodos and island seals and killed them, prehistoric humans presumably walked up to unafraid moas and giant lemurs and killed them too. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z There was no cockpit, as there is in modern flying machines. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z Thanks to their potential advantage of combining precision with simplicity, alphabets have now been adopted in most areas of the modern world. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z For the first time in my life I became aware of the life of the modern world, of vast cities, and I was claimed by it; I loved it. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z And still, I maintain that even for a cosmopolitan boy like you, there is something to be found there—a base, even in these modern times, a port in the American storm. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z Some 40,000 years ago, into Europe came the Cro-Magnons, with their modern skeletons, superior weapons, and other advanced cultural traits. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z There is still no type specimen for modern humans. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z If it had not been for those extinctions, modern history might have taken a different course. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z That Greek jokes fell flat on Latin ears should not surprise us; Shakespeare’s jokes don’t cause most modern audiences to fall about either. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z As the organ voices died, I saw a thin brown girl arise noiselessly with the rigid control of a modern dancer, high in the upper rows of the choir, and begin to sing a cappella. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z But this seems unreasonable: modern libraries, after all, keep records of duplicate volumes, and their ancient counterpart was no less carefully cataloged. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z Beyond the main boulevard, the city was a hodgepodge of medieval castle towers, Roman walls, limestone town houses with red-tiled roofs, and modern office buildings all crammed together. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z In modern times, a small difference in skin colour, dialect or religion has been enough to prompt one group of Sapiens to set about exterminating another group. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z “Because the modern world is very picky and the scholars have different opinions, I simply stayed with my own observations.” The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z After a page-long digression on pacifism, Christianity, and the Roman Empire, Keegan returns to what is wrong with Clausewitz’s dictum and with the modern understanding of war it captures. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z The old philosophy is, by the end of the seventeenth century, scholasticism; modern science is the science of Descartes and Newton. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The White Mountain hotels were a little too dull, a little too remote and expensive, for modern tastes. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z Still, 133 pounds was the highest weight any horse had ever lugged in modern California racing, and every other horse in the field would be carrying at least 20 fewer pounds. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z The height difference between the traditional corn, planted in a spiral, and modern, planted in a square, was minimal. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z “Ah, that’s just because modern mortals don’t know how to use Celestial bronze,” Leo said. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z I would build her a proper home in Qunu, with a garden and modern furniture and fittings. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Radar, which has so many uses in modern navigation, didn’t exist in a practical form in the 1930s. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z Today we are concerned with a different kind of hazard that lurks in our environment — a hazard we ourselves have introduced into our world as our modern way of life has evolved. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z He thinks certain modern technologies—the clock, the compass, gunpowder, the telescope—represent a real advance over anything achieved by the ancients. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z For time is the essential ingredient; but in the modern world there is no time. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z I’m more of a documentary and modern movies kind of girl. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z This accurate description somehow got mistranslated as ‘tube’, but modern medicine seems to be stuck with the inaccurate version of the term.’ The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z At the beginning of this chapter, I mentioned the failure of some food-producing societies with complex political organization to develop or adopt writing before modern times. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The modern llama arose similarly, by descending from a giant ancestral beast. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z The most productive areas of modern China were politically joined for the first time in 221 B.C. and have remained so for most of the time since then. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z At last she saw a modern building that nestled against the ground, down a low sloping hill. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z They also look as though they pretty much all come from the same eastern European background, and it’s true that these young Soviet citizens weren’t a diverse group by modern standards. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z Their modern descendants, however, tend to speak of their courage and valor. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z A century later, in 1900, when sugar was used in jams, cakes, syrups, and tea, and every modern country was filled with factories, world production of sugar reached six million tons. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z Does the transition mark the replacement of Jomon people with immigrants from Korea, ancestral to the modern Japanese? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Similarly, I use ‘mankind’ when describing early modern views; ‘humankind’ when expressing my own views. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z It condemned the corruption of the modern industrial world. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z History seemed to repeat itself when Zlata became the modern Anne Frank. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z The idea of modern science also raises, however, a set of further questions which are tied together in Weber’s phrase ‘the disenchantment of the world’. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Abby’s friend lives in an apartment building near the center of town—understated and modern, with its own covered parking deck. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z But even when farmers try, it is often little use: modern hybrids are so productive that despite the distances involved U.S. corporations can sell maize for less in Oaxaca than can Diaz Castellano. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z She’s on a hot-pink Electra with brightly colored stencils on the fenders that remind me of one of the modern art paintings we saw on our class trip to the Norton Museum last year. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z The modern tradition of mathematical argument, essential to all of science, owes much to Pythagoras. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Instead, the old Ionians represent a different and largely contradictory tradition, one in much better accord with modern science. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Did she really think she could hide behind some borrowed notions of modern writing, and drown her guilt in a stream—three streams!—of consciousness? Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z The old sayings had a purpose in village life, but they were completely meaningless in modern Harare. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z They were going to live in a house with five modern bathrooms, she said. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z In this respect, indeed, it is typical of the key concepts that make up modern science. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z In 1941, Leningrad had a population twice the size of modern Manhattan; Moscow was bigger than Los Angeles is today. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z Instead of the Victorian six-bedroom with the wraparound porch and the farmhouse kitchen, instead of the house where Granddad spent every summer since forever, I see a sleek modern building perched on a rocky hill. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z This was one of the tamer, more modern stories, mere introduction. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z She does modern dance, which is like...I don't know. Sunny 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z In this period the word ‘model’ is ambiguous: it can carry the modern meaning but more often it refers to a graphic representation, a plan or drawing. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z There are a million threads from the past intertwined to make the ropes and cables of the modern world. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z I want him to have a more familiar name—something laid back and modern, so I can relate to him better. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries gunpowder, printing and the compass were the three inventions of modernity most frequently cited to prove the superiority of the moderns to the ancients. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Here, ancient Athens resembles a modern democracy even less than in the previous particulars. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z The third and last innovation leading to modern alphabets was to provide for vowels. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The Avianca accident so perfectly illustrates the characteristics of the “modern” plane crash that it is studied in flight schools. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z The whole modern world has been shaped by lopsided outcomes. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z There is a curious inverse relationship in modern physics between the tininess of the thing being sought and the scale of facilities required to do the searching. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z That was the whole point of the community—to allow us to escape the money-hungry rat race of modern society. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z The Spanish sack of Tawantinsuyu calamitously expanded on this tradition of plunder, which has greatly accelerated in modern times, fueled by the desperate poverty of Peru’s Indian population. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z What Aristotle has to say about oaths is fairly peripheral for the modern courtroom, where everyone is expected to speak under oath. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z Then they went to the Nevada Hotel, which was near the Owl Club and had a sign outside saying bar grill clean modern. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z Johannesburg in those days was a combination frontier town and modern city. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Physical stamina is a component in leadership, even in the modern world, where it isn't necessary to be able to harness an ox. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z In the modern era of intensive forestry the old hollow trees are gone and with them homes for woodpeckers and other tree-nesting birds. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Thus, questions about inequality in the modern world can be reformulated as follows. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Their modern clothes flickered, turning into gray hooded robes. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z “It’s just that I thought we could look at some more modern poets this year and think about how they are writing and how we can use those poems as models...” Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z However, that is not surprising, because modern highland staple crops are plant species that do not leave archaeologically visible residues except under exceptional conditions. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z After much study, the steering committee selected the R. N. Harris Elementary School, a modern, one-story brick building. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z In contrast, most big mammals of Africa and Eurasia survived into modern times, because they had coevolved with protohumans for hundreds of thousands or millions of years. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Who today remembers that gasoline, the fuel of modern civilization, originated as yet another invention in search of a use? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z From our modern perspective, all these questions at first seem silly, because the drawbacks of being a hunter-gatherer appear so obvious. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z In fact, the origin of modern chemistry can be traced directly to these experiments. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z I call Cahokia a city so as to have a stick to beat it with, but it was not a city in any modern sense. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z We wanted a modern partnership that suited us both. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z While modern continental peoples included ones dependent on stone tools, as were Polynesians, South America also spawned societies expert in using precious metals, and Eurasians and Africans went on to utilize iron. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Using a different method, Jorge Mora-Urpi, one of Clement’s collaborators, concluded that Indians might have bred the modern peach palm by hybridizing palms from several areas, including the Peruvian Amazon. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Knowing far more about local plants than all but a handful of modern professional botanists, they would hardly have failed to cultivate any useful wild plant species that was comparably suitable for domestication. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z They were followed in turn by younger soldiers, all carrying modern arms and equally proud. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z He was, in truth, more of a Renaissance man than a modern scientist, and still thought in terms of vital forces, an abstract conception of perfection and spirits that kept the body alive. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z One such hybrid among Fertile Crescent selfers, bread wheat, became the most valuable crop in the modern world. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z This is equivalent to several million pounds in modern terms, and it is hard to see what he could have spent it on, so the number may be an exaggeration! The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z While those conclusions rest on archaeological evidence, there is also an independent method for dating the arrival of domestic plants and animals: by comparing the words for them in modern languages. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Their host, an antiquarian architect, had never truckled under to modern civilization and kept his house free of gas and electricity. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z He zealously implemented the reforms requested by Stone that furthered his own desire to remake the bureau into a modern force. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z “So do I,” added her husband, who welcomed the thought of a chance for trying the Socratic method of education on modern youth. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z Consequently, the Greeks and the Romans were incapable of formulating the idea of laws of nature, and without them they could not develop modern science. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z With long winters and high mountains, the country lacks arable land, denies incentives to farmers, and cannot afford fuel or modern farm equipment. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z The engineers, Burnham charged, “had contributed little or nothing either in the way of originating novel features or of showing the possibilities of modern engineering practice in America.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z This photo is from a modern book that faithfully reproduces medieval recipes. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z A mere dozen species account for over 80 percent of the modern world’s annual tonnage of all crops. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z And so, like an underworld courier delivering a bag of ill-gotten cash, the modern traveler must steal out of Athens in the dark, and slip into Alexandria when nobody is watching. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z No wonder that a modern spymaster called espionage a “wilderness of mirrors...an ever-fluid landscape where fact and illusion merge.” George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z When the war began in July 1914, the United States was on the verge of changing dramatically to a more modern society. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z In the months and years ahead, Shin would discover all things modern: streaming video, blogs, and international air travel. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z The back doors were opened again, and through the wire wall of the cage I saw that we had come to a building, very modern, of white cement and glass. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z Jordan, while a modern Middle Eastern state, was not an easy place for a woman used to Western freedoms. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z This may sound funny to us in the context of old Hawaii, until we reflect on all the misery still being caused by such struggles in the modern world. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Our school is gated too, and the campus has new, modern buildings with lots of windows and marigolds blooming along the walkways. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z The connections between modern landmasses and those of the past were found to be infinitely more complex than anyone had imagined. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Was it possible that I was, in the modern term, in denial? Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Bands and tribes already had supernatural beliefs, just as do modern established religions. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z It’s only in the last century that modern society has been able to match the health of its hunter-gatherer ancestors. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z To Wilkes’s way of thinking, ancient Indian farming methods may be the cure for some of modern agriculture’s ailments. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z In this bustling, modern city, Maria now lived independently as an artist and businesswoman. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Still, despite all the arguments, we moderns—and, indeed, we postmoderns—place our faith in facts. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z When, in the time of Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven, we refer to a ‘public’ concert, it is not in the modern sense of a gathering open to absolutely anyone, for the price of a ticket. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z The modern world vanished along with the cold air as the smell of fire and food overwhelmed him. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z Our Father forgot, for fishing in the style of modern redneck Georgia you need your ice. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z He hoped the traditional kernels grew taller than the modern store-bought ones. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z On Saturday Mom parks our car in front of a sprawling modern house with tall windows and a long wooden ramp leading to the front door. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z The tragedy of the Moriori resembles many other such tragedies in both the modern and the ancient world, pitting numerous well-equipped people against few ill-equipped opponents. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Even the Catholic Church of the Middle Ages was tolerant by modern standards. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z It would be unrealistic to suppose that all chemical carcinogens can or will be eliminated from the modern world. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z He spoke about William Blake and John Keats with veneration in his voice, though Liyana wished he would pick somebody a little more modern to talk about soon. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z To supporters of Darwin's recently published theory of evolution, the find proved that the ancestors of modern humans had lived during the Ice Ages, tens of thousands of years ago. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z “Tyrant,” in the classical context, just means absolute ruler—though five will get you ten they were tyrants in the modern sense also. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z But since then it has indeed been uninterrupted and continuous; as an account of modern science, the preface is spot on. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The major factor behind these shifts becomes obvious as soon as one compares the modern Fertile Crescent with ancient descriptions of it. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z In creating modern maize from this unpromising plant, Indians performed a feat so improbable that archaeologists and biologists argued for decades over how it was achieved. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z He texts back K, because “OK” is too long for our modern world. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z “Are you also known as the father of modern medicine?” Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z Similar histories can be related for all modern inventions that are adequately documented. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Their appearance doesn’t sit square with the modern world. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z They did not, as a glance at the faces of most modern New Guineans makes obvious, and as detailed studies of New Guinean genes confirm. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z We’re in an alleyway behind a building, red brick and fairly modern. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z Instead, they evidently knew the local wild plants as intimately as do modern New Guineans, and they used that knowledge to select and bring home only the most useful available seed plants. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The ancients didn’t have the equipment to deal with the infinite, but modern mathematicians have learned to handle it. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z If so, modern Japanese are descendants of Korean immigrants who developed a modified culture of their own over the last 2,000 years. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z To Copernicus, his model was better than that of Ptolemy because it was, in modern parlance, more elegant. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z I dress quickly in the modern clothes I keep in the very back of my wardrobe—jeans, an old gray sweater with a black star on it, and a pair of glittery silver Converse high-tops. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z More to the point, a modern list of laws would have deeply puzzled Descartes. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z At any rate, this is a rule that modern grammarians have long tried to get us out from under. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z His aim was to produce nothing less than a modern equivalent of the drama of the Ancient Greeks. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Second, doesn’t addressing Yali’s question automatically involve a Eurocentric approach to history, a glorification of western Europeans, and an obsession with the prominence of western Europe and Europeanized America in the modern world? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z By the time of the Kofun period, all Japanese skeletons except those of the Ainu formed a homogeneous group, resembling modern Japanese and Koreans. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z People spoke of women’s rights and modern technology. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z We began to make subtle changes to the residence, adding modern lighting to go with the traditional chandeliers and scented candles that made the place feel more like home. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Then, the modern age was an age of restoration, after a lengthy period of catastrophe, crisis and collapse. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z In philosophy, unlike warfare and music, the word ‘modern’ was unavailable because it had already been put to a different use. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Others have suggested instead that a change in brain organization around that time, without a change in brain size, made modern language possible. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Then he changed to modern speech and described some of Father’s actual victories. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z And to Ashish, he was just some weird relic, something that belonged in their parents’ time in India, not here in modern America. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z As Wotton interpreted Swift, it was Swift, the critic of the moderns, who was the sceptical unbeliever, while Wotton presented himself as an orthodox Protestant. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z But very different peoples may have occupied much of modern black Africa until as recently as a few thousand years ago, and so-called African blacks themselves are heterogeneous. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z During the seventeenth century the meaning of key words shifted and changed, and a modern scientific—or rather metascientific—vocabulary slowly took shape. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z What excited her about her achievement was its design, the pure geometry and the defining uncertainty which reflected, she thought, a modern sensibility. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z All these problems of the modern world result from the different historical trajectories implicit in Yali’s question. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z He was a thinker and philosopher more in the style of the Ancient Greeks than a modern scientist. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z It is worth noting that the term itself is relatively modern: in English it dates to 1715. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z This intersection of computers, telecommunications, and the military would yield a change arguably as significant and characteristic of modern life as anything in medicine and the industrialization of food. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z One of the great innovations in modern times has been the industri-alization of food. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z There is a lot of oversimplification here, and too much shorthand for modern purposes, but the essential myth is recognizable. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Our failure to domesticate even a single major new food plant in modern times suggests that ancient peoples really may have explored virtually all useful wild plants and domesticated all the ones worth domesticating. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z As a result, for us moderns, laws of nature are scientific laws and natural laws are moral laws. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Not one of the four ancient Ionian and alchemical “elements” is in the modern sense an element at all: one is a molecule, two are mixtures of molecules, and the last is a plasma. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z In modern times the formation of states out of chiefdoms has been observed repeatedly. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z His voice was deep but casual, very modern. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Also, to start the engine of a modern car you do just two things, turn a key and touch the starter. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Since postslavery days and through to modern times, debate has raged in the African American community. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z With Leibniz’s calculus, these dys and dxs can be manipulated just like ordinary numbers, which is why modern mathematicians and physicists usually use Leibniz’s notation rather than Newton’s. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z It has often struck me that even though modern Americans don’t ever need to grow, hunt, or gather our own food, a lot of us still do. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z “No! Isaac Newton! The father of modern physics!” The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z Once a month, Father let them fly to the police rifle range to study more modern weapons. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z Shakespeare is not aware of living in a distinctly ‘modern’ world, despite the compass, the printing press, gunpowder and the discovery of America. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z For his final measurements, the modern corn was taller. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z Hence we should not be surprised that modern Japanese and Korean people resemble each other far more in their appearance and genes than in their languages. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Although Yali’s question concerned only the contrasting lifestyles of New Guineans and of European whites, it can be extended to a larger set of contrasts within the modern world. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z It was a typical student apartment: prints of modern French paintings tacked onto the walls and books and papers piled on tables and chairs. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z It is likely that the modern map of Eastern Europe and the Cold War’s course would have been significantly different if Hitler had indeed been killed and if World War II had ended then. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z A good example is the history of Thomas Edison’s phonograph, the most original invention of the greatest inventor of modern times. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Perhaps I was nothing more than a victim of modern diagnostics; in another century it would have been said of me that I was old and therefore losing my mind. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z At the same time that he was force-feeding us tribalism we were learning other ways of life, modern ways, from mingling with children whose parents had shed their tribal cloth and embraced Western culture. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z "These modern hotels are all built like boxes of bricks. But what if it is?" The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z A recent centenary conference and festival devoted to him in modern Hungary simply described him, correctly, as 'European'. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z His tastes in music, movies, TV, and drama are as modern as can be. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z Durham transformed itself into a bustling, modern city: Electric trolley cars clattered down broad, tree-lined avenues. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z He argues that modern war is becoming obsolete, leaving primitive, undisciplined warfare as the major kind of war remaining in the world today. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Temperatures, rainfall, and humidity all increased, raising plant productivity to the modern high levels for which Japan is preeminent among temperate-zone countries. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z This may also be another clue that ancient modes may have had more variety of tuning and pitch than modern keys do. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z It helped create the format of the modern civil rights demonstration, and it established the Lincoln Memorial as moral high ground for generations of protesters. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z The ultimate ancestors of all modern Polynesian populations shared essentially the same culture, language, technology, and set of domesticated plants and animals. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Europeans today who note that Aboriginal Australians entered the modern world as Stone Age hunter-gatherers often assume that the Aborigines would have gone on that way forever. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The principal difference between them and tribal shamans is that modern lawyers tell far stranger tales. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z The modern United States is a European-molded society, occupying lands conquered from Native Americans and incorporating the descendants of millions of sub-Saharan black Africans brought to America as slaves. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z So will those who favor the modern trend to built-in obsolescence, for chemical control is self-perpetuating, needing frequent and costly repetition. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Ancient brick walls were crisscrossed with modern electrical cables and plumbing. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z In the plate-glass windows there are heaps of bath towels, overstuffed sofas and chairs, sheets in modern prints. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Our understanding of the word ‘modern’, when talking about science, thus still corresponds to theirs, and their use of the term ‘the modern’ is their way of acknowledging what we call the Scientific Revolution. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Yet their stone tools were still crude by comparison with modern New Guineans’ polished stone axes and were usually not yet made in standardized diverse shapes, each with a clearly recognizable function. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The secret of modern corn hybrids is that they can be planted very close together. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z A treasure trove of materials on cryptography, the library included both rare books and modern photocopies. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Her design was attacked as too simplistic and Asian, too modern. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z And I’d know that I was still on the track of learning about Bigger, still in the midst of the modern struggle for solidarity among men. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z The modern shoes seemed strange with their old-fashioned clothes. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z The great contemporary achievement of modern medicine is the technology for controlling and preventing bacterial infection, but this did not fall into our laps with the appearance of penicillin and the sulfonamides. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z But he was the first modern researcher to put it together with the fact that smallpox visited before anyone in South America had even seen Europeans. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z These women were—what was the word Rasheed had used?—“modern.” A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z A felony is a modern way of saying, ‘I’m going to hang you up and burn you.’ The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z On a modern school protractor you cannot distinguish ten minutes of a degree, and only one astronomer before Kepler would have thought such a measurement unsatisfactory. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z But the legacy of the mechanical philosophy was not simply modern versions of the argument from design, which are still widely defended in the form of Intelligent Design. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Traditional notions of the king in society, after all, brooked no possibility of “exploitation” in the modern sense. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z Cabot Searcy would not give up his “quest,” as he called it, for the truth behind modern human existence. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z In the longer term it would lay the foundation for the whole of modern physics. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z He used to love books and video games about modern soldiers, but now they only remind him of Matt. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z For if the modern mind is whimsical and discursive, the classical mind is narrow, unhesitating, relentless. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z “No. It’s really too late to change the choreography. But never fear. The circuses will be marvelous! Ah...not the modern sort of circus, mind you. That would require clowns, and I hate clowns.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z “A pioneer of modern American photography,” one book called her. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z In modern times, the sisters have largely disappeared from the collective consciousness, but the idea of Fate hasn’t. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z And perhaps now we have had the plague’s modern advance scout—a Hells Angel—come to Norvelt. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z We live in a sea of images conveying the culture and learning of modern civilization. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z The new linguistic skills that modern Sapiens acquired about seventy millennia ago enabled them to gossip for hours on end. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Slung between the two giants of modern biology, he was inevitably haunted by an acute sense of scientific inadequacy. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z We take facts so much for granted that it comes as a shock to learn that they are a modern invention. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z I easily recognize them—business-suited in their modern American executive guise, each boss two feet taller than I am and impossible to meet eye to eye. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z He identified oxygen and hydrogen for what they were and gave them both their modern names. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z It wasn’t the color of a modern city, of steel, glass and concrete. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Mollie, though she often felt bewildered by the upheaval around her, took the lead for her family—a modern traveler in the mist. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Whether the music is classical, modern, jazz, or pop, listen for repeated sections of music. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z But later historians have naturally turned the phrase ‘Whig history’ back against Butterfield himself, accusing him of taking for granted the superiority of modern science over all that went before. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Even Aristotle, he said, if he came back to life, would not be able to make sense of what was said by his modern disciples. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z It’s difficult for a modern person to imagine a life without zero, just as it’s hard to imagine life without the number seven or the number 31. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Before he could ask questions, a bell rang inside: not a modern electronic sound, but the old-fashioned buzz of a hammer on metal. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z The straightforward amputations were flown right to Japan for treatment in the modern hospital, but the more severely wounded had to be stabilized for the trip over. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z Thereafter, the garbage preserved at archaeological sites rapidly becomes more and more interesting and leaves no doubt that we are dealing with biologically and behaviorally modern humans. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z There are a surprising number of places to hide something that size even in any ordinary modern house; you don’t need secret panels and extensive cellars in order to make something hard to find. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Mr. Stone droned ... a Christian can rid himself of the frustrations of modern living by ... coming to Family Night every Wednesday and bringing a covered dish . . . abide with you now and forevermore, Amen. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z The Sokoloff penthouse was dramatic and modern but cluttered with piles of books, magazines, and keepsakes. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z Even with the modern availability of synthetic fertilizers produced by chemical factories, the major source of crop fertilizer today in most societies is still animal manure—especially of cows, but also of yaks and sheep. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Those factors combined to leave Australia the sole continent still without metal artifacts in modern times. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Was it possible to find remnants of the culture of honor in the modern era? Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z There is a very extensive literature devoted to the relationship between Christianity and science in the early modern period. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z According to one modern reconstruction, Dawnland diets at the time averaged about 2,500 calories a day, better than those usual in famine-racked Europe. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z It was a modern brick house that could not have been cheap to buy and the name on the gate said cosy nook. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z Other Austronesians managed to establish themselves in parts of southern Vietnam and Cambodia to become the ancestors of the modern Chamic minority of those countries. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The modern town of Tiwanaku is a poor place and few of its buildings have any heating. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z After I had completed that book, I realized that other modern, as well as prehistoric, encounters between peoples raised similar questions. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Second, there is the decline of belief in magic and witchcraft, already hinted at in Lafeu’s speech, if we take ‘modern’ to mean something more than just ‘ordinary’. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z When we picture the place, we tend to think of it in modern terms: a dedicated building full of racks of books, in this case papyrus rolls. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z Lydia sat in her bedroom at her stark, modern desk, bought on an Ikea run to Atlanta. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z Native peoples had created town sites, farms, monumental earthworks, and networks of roads, and they had devised a wide variety of governments, some as complex as any in the modern world. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z The comparison seems fitting; at the time, the realm of Tiwanaku was about the size of modern France. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Although those Africans of 100,000 years ago had more modern skeletons than did their Neanderthal contemporaries, they made essentially the same crude stone tools as Neanderthals, still lacking standardized shapes. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Peoples of Eurasian origin, especially those still living in Europe and eastern Asia, plus those transplanted to North America, dominate the modern world in wealth and power. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Since longitude was the missing piece of knowledge for oceanic navigators, all the early modern studies of the magnet were alert to the possibility that they might be able to fill this gap. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Our instinct doesn’t realize that in modern times there are always sweet foods available to us. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Far from being modern breadbaskets, they include areas ranking today as somewhat dry or ecologically degraded: Iraq and Iran, Mexico, the Andes, parts of China, and Africa’s Sahel zone. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z I’ve worn nicer dresses before, and this one feels too modern and lopsided. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z Because the artifacts were crudely made, Abbott believed that they must have been fashioned not by historical Indians but by some earlier, “ruder” group, modern Indians’ long-ago ancestors. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Food production also arose in West Africa and Ethiopia, and by around 2500 B.C. cattle herders had already crossed the modern border from Ethiopia into northern Kenya. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “If Mrs. Gandhi is what being modern and advanced is about, I’m not sure I like it,” Mother said. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z Considering this fact, it might be worthwhile to take a familiar question—why is there so much crime in modern society?—and stand it on its head: why isn’t there a lot more crime? Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z The basement rec room was a throwback to the sixties: shag carpeting, modern furniture, a small bar jutting out from the wall, and a Ping-Pong table. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z Nathan factored into his data collection the fact that the modern corn in the square shape had two more weeks to grow than the traditional corn in the circular shape. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z “He’s a famous author, right? How come they’re projecting a statue of a modern writer like Pseudonymous Bosch but not the author who created a classic like Sherlock Holmes?” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z No, the menace of the supernatural is that it attacks where modern minds are weakest, where we have abandoned our protective armor of superstition and have no substitute defense. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z When Walter McMillian arrived on Alabama's death row—just ten years after the modern death penalty was reinstituted—an entire community of condemned men awaited him. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z My examples so far have been drawn from modern technologies, because their histories are well known. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The lodge was modern and very warm, with an open lobby dominated by a stone fireplace, and the sort of anonymously comfortable rooms you would find in a Holiday Inn. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z First, as any modern gardener or farmer still knows by experience, crop yields can be greatly increased by manure applied as fertilizer. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z I love it Now I have two of the competitive modern fashions—Nike and Reebok. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z This chapter is about the birth of the modern in two senses: first, there is the emergence of a new sense of the word ‘modern’ in the 1660s to refer to post-Galilean science. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Bleached structures from antiquity lay like dried bones, embedded in pulsating cables and thrumming traffic, the arteries of modern life. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Martin Luther’s rebellion against Rome was a grandson of the plague, as was modern anti-Semitism. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z In other words, the average forager had wider, deeper and more varied knowledge of her immediate surroundings than most of her modern descendants. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z But a modern human can tell her friends that this morning, near the bend in the river, she saw a lion tracking a herd of bison. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z This tangle is reflected in the modern philosophical discussion of laws of nature. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The modern tourist industry, in the sense of people traveling en masse to a congenial spot and finding lots of diversions awaiting them when they got there, is essentially a White Mountains invention. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z In modern life, as at this cocktail party, the noise is not incidental, not a laboratory exercise. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z The thesis is misnamed, because, as it is usually formulated, Duhem did not hold it and Quine abandoned it, but it is the fundamental conceptual underpinning of much modern history and philosophy of science. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The same was true in architecture, where, in the fifteenth century, ‘modern architecture’ meant Gothic architecture. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Without hesitation, Sosie launched into her sequence, a modern dance full of grace and power and vulnerability. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z Probably the first medical use of modern insecticides occurred in Italy in 1943 when the Allied Military Government launched a successful attack on typhus by dusting enormous numbers of people with DDT. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z But these well temperaments made all keys equally useful, not equal-sounding as modern equal temperament does. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z To judge from modern parallels in the Middle East and elsewhere, it is unlikely that the natives approved of having foreign interlopers for neighbors or absentee landlords. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z The Rough Guide series of books and recordings includes some that examine modern folk artists. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z One theory is that Jomon hunter-gatherers themselves gradually evolved into the modern Japanese. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z We prefer, none the less, to recognise human nature as we find it displayed in the everyday behaviour of the civilised majority in modern life—imperfect, no doubt, but certainly cooperative and frequently benevolent. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z We were sitting around the hibachi, feeling all modern and posh. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z I do remember complaining to her about the committee that had been set up to find a more modern name for Cold Sassy. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z They reached the first of the modern buildings and Mr. Grin pressed his hand against a glass plate next to the door. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z At times the role of the voice is akin to the modern technique of rapping. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Throughout the modern, thinking world, but especially in Britain, men of learning ventured into the countryside to do a little "stone-breaking," as they called it. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z “I would love to give you a complete history of protesting in modern America, but we don’t have time. Look!” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z So to return to Troy McClure and his terrible relevance to modern life, ethos is behind every celebrity endorsement you ever see on television. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z Never had Johnny seen Rab so bothered about anything as he was over his inability to get himself a good modern gun. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z In modern Alexandria few people have a keen appreciation, much less a detailed knowledge, of the Alexandrian Library or of the great Egyptian civilization that preceded it for thousands of years. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The importation of plants is the primary agent in the modern spread of species, for animals have almost invariably gone along with the plants, quarantine being a comparatively recent and not completely effective innovation. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z He wasn’t always terribly accurate–oxygen’s atomic weight is actually sixteen, not seven–but the principle was sound and formed the basis for all of modern chemistry and much of the rest of modern science. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z We are very modern—our bathroom is equipped with amenities such as a flushing toilet, an iron bathtub, and running water. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Indeed, it is more or less taken as modern gospel that profound scientific truth frequently accomplishes the opposite of what Epicurus recommended, costing us peace of mind. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z First, except for the decorations on the pots, the pots themselves and their associated cultural paraphernalia are similar to the cultural remains found at Indonesian and Philippine sites ancestral to modern Austronesian-speaking societies. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z In the end, early modern science defeated two of the most difficult practical problems it had set itself: the calculation of the path of projectiles under real-life conditions, and the measurement of longitude. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z More than any other mark, the comma draws our attention to the mixed origins of modern punctuation, and its consequent mingling of two quite distinct functions: 1. Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z If true, that finding would suggest parallel evolution and multiregional origins of modern humans, rather than origins in a single Garden of Eden. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z In the case of modern history, scholars cannot avoid taking into account non-material factors such as ideology and culture. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z This would not have puzzled Duhem, who specifically formulated his thesis to address modern physics; he acknowledged that it did not apply, for example, to nineteenth-century biology. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The number of modern actors who use a formal method of loci to remember their lines, I daresay, isn’t that high, for instance—and not everyone in the ancient world went along with it. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z It is now one of the standard pieces in every orchestra’s repertoire, an out-and-out modern classic. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Let us consider the distinctive features of chiefdoms, very different from modern European and American states and, at the same time, from bands and simple tribal societies. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z I was visited by Winnie shortly after arriving at Pollsmoor and was pleased to find that the visiting area was far better and more modern than the one on Robben Island. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Its survival into the modern era we owe to two gigantic musical discoveries that began to make their presence felt in the two centuries before ad iooo. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Indeed, he did so accurately, coming at least to within 10 percent of the modern polar measurement of about 24,860 miles, and perhaps as close as 1 percent. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z It governs the behavior of transistors and integrated circuits, which are the essential components of electronic devices such as televisions and computers, and is also the basis of modern chemistry and biology. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The conflict struck many people as horribly modern, fought as it was with recent inventions like tanks, airplanes, and poison gas. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Ours is the closest thing to a sacred mission the modern world knows. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z Africa is the continent where protohumans evolved for the longest time, where anatomically modern humans may also have arisen, and where native diseases like malaria and yellow fever killed European explorers. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z He believes that science is going to transform the world and that the moderns have outstripped the ancients in every possible respect. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The architecture was more elegant too, more modern, and I saw parks where roses and jasmine bloomed in the shadows of trees. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Aviva may be the one modern Hebrew name that is ready to break out: it’s easy to pronounce, pretty, peppy, and suitably flexible. databases, here is a sampling of today’s high-end names. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z The invertebrate eye was invented into an optical instrument at the MBL, opening the way to modern visual physiology. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Yet these modern efforts have achieved only very limited successes. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z She added her own stories of modern battle. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z While wheels are very useful in modern industrial societies, that has not been so in some other societies. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z In addition, within recent years, molecular geneticists have begun to extract DNA from ancient human skeletons and to compare the genes of Japan’s ancient and modern populations. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z War, vengeance, murder—all the themes on which the tale was strung—were so removed from modern reality, few could relate. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z Three days later, Nathan examined the green tips of the modern kernels, which were pushing out of the topsoil in the cornfield. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z These committees, just like modern intelligence agencies, operated openly by holding anti-tax meetings or printing propaganda and secretly by running spy networks. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z It occurs to me to ask that profound question of modern agnosticism: Is God dead? Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z A perfect bedroom decorated throughout in the modern style. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z All my life had shaped me for the realism, the naturalism of the modern novel, and I could not read enough of them. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z “Movement,” here, was not literally motion, but instruction, or information-code, to use a modern formulation. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Ancient Egyptians and Assyrians, and modern Indians, tamed cheetahs for use in hunting. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The first farmers were heirs to that knowledge, accumulated through tens of thousands of years of nature observation by biologically modern humans living in intimate dependence on the natural world. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z But these few modern additions have remained of modest importance compared with ancient staples like wheat, corn, and rice. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Just as in modern shooting, you must never offer criticism to the man in command, so in hawking it was important that no outside advice should be allowed to disturb the judgment of the austringer. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Their father had done everything he could to make the centuries-old hacienda feel like a modern home. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z I began to daydream that I had a pretty modern house and a pretty modern dress just like the people on the screen. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z It might have been brighter and more modern than the cramped space they’d shared with their grandparents in one of the San Antonio corrals, but for her, the house was too full of Henry. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z In some modern music, many of these dissonances are heard as pleasant or interesting or jazzy and don't need to be resolved. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z But the computers would be constructed in the modern buildings he had seen opposite the airstrip. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z It overlooks a staggering amount of basic research to say that modern medicine began with the era of antibiotics. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Someone of insight was needed to thrust chemistry into the modern age, and it was the French who provided him. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Indeed, it has been an outstandingly successful theory and underlies nearly all of modern science and technology. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The modern idea of laws of nature is a by-product of Descartes’ philosophy, for Descartes was the first person to treat the laws of nature as being what knowledge of nature was all about. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The modern locomotives glide past the outer reaches of Mexico City. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z In this regard, I wish to cite a modern example. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z He was like someone who persists in using an old-fashioned manual typewriter even though a modern word-processing computer is available. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z Fishes are almost fantastically sensitive to the chlorinated hydrocarbons that make up the bulk of modern insecticides. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Two critically important facts have been overlooked in designing the modern insect control programs. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The offending piece was Theodora, a setting of a libretto by his friend Thomas Morell, which itself was based on an account of the early Christian martyr by Robert Boyle, the founder of modern chemistry. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Animals much like modern humans first appeared about 2.5 million years ago. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z We turn in at a more modern building, a huge banner draped over its door — women’s prayvaganza today. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z Thus, the Phrygian tonos was named after the Phrygian area of Anatolia, in modern Turkey. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Since those are the oldest West African crops, all modern southern Nigerian languages inherited the same original set of words for them. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z When used in cooking, its resin lent a pungent, onionlike taste perhaps not unlike modern asafoetida; when taken as medicine, the juice was said to cure sore throats, warts, fever, sour stomach, leprosy, and baldness. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z It was a huge, modern structure, and the lower floor consisted of mostly windows. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z The postmortem was not performed with modern precision, and it was controversial even at the time. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z He was the coauthor of the then latest edition of the modern bible of chess, Modern Chess Openings, which contained thousands of variations, positions, analyses, and recommendations. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Who knows what faces I’m making, what kind of modern art I’m drawing onto myself? Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z And then let us check that we know the rules of what modern grammarians call “possessive determiners” and “possessive pronouns” - none of which requires an apostrophe. Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z Tradition has it that modern Sharia Nabi Danyal corresponds to the Street of the Soma, ancient Alexandria’s primary north—south byway. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z What’s more, here was a way for Hoover, a deskbound functionary, to cast himself as a dashing figure—a crusader for the modern scientific age. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z At the end of its own cul-de-sac, it was a large modern house of the “architectural” sort, bleached cedar, its split levels and asymmetrical terraces self-consciously bare. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Some modern musicians advocate performing such pieces using well temperaments, in order to better understand and appreciate them. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z We had all the modern conveniences—electricity, running water, indoor plumbing, a bathtub, and a small stove. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z But don’t run away with the idea that Uraniborg was entirely the forerunner of a modern observatory and technological complex. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z Now I was standing in a large modern fitness center lined with exercise equipment and weight machines, all of which could be perfectly simulated by my haptic suit. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z “Is that so? I don’t understand the modern educational system at all.” The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z The madam was broad-minded and modern, adept in the trajectories of human desire. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z As any modern parent knows, the baby-naming industry is booming, as evidenced by a proliferation of books, websites, and baby-name consultants. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z “Unfortunately,” Darkness said, “your generation is less concerned with learning the stories as well as sharing them, and more concerned with modern conveniences. As such, we are losing our memories.” Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z To a modern eye, Mayan glyph writing is about as alien-looking as you can get. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z From all over the world come echoes of the peril that faces birds in our modern world. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z By 1700 this sense of continuity had been destroyed: the moderns knew that they were different from the ancients. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z He is known as the father of modern education. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z Wednesday was obviously on the verge of tears, an old man made helpless by the implacable plastic march of the modern world. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z The main dining room was on the second floor, in a modern addition that jutted over a loading dock in the back. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Hence writing brings power to modern societies, by making it possible to transmit knowledge with far greater accuracy and in far greater quantity and detail, from more distant lands and more remote times. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z But my mother, a modern woman, said our spells in private. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Although there were five people in it, waiting for the King, perhaps the first thing which a modern visitor would have noticed would have been the room itself. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Slight adjustments are made in tuning and intervals to make them more pleasant to the ear; and the medieval ear had different preferences than our modern ears. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z In that letter Jefferson had mentioned Adams in passing as a retrograde thinker opposed to all forms of progress, one of the “ancients” rather than “moderns.” Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z The longshoremen’s victory launched the modern labor movement in the western United States, in which workers have the right by law to form unions and bargain with employers. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z He does, it is true, mention a small number of modern inventions—stirrups, the compass, clocks, gunpowder, printing—but he has almost nothing to say about new observations, new explanations or new proofs. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z He became a pioneer in modern urban planning. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Black people with criminal records are the most severely disadvantaged applicants in the modern job market. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z The growing exposure of the population to radiation from various sources, plus the many contacts with a host of chemicals suggest a grave new problem for the modern world. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z It is an extraordinary noise, even to tired, over-bombarded modern ears. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z So the word ‘fact’ in its modern sense becomes respectable in English only after 1661, while in French it was at first a word particularly associated with Jansenism. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z He’s not going to be the youngest elected congressman in modern history without earning it, but nobody needs to know how hard he’s kicking underwater. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z The home is impeccably clean, with soaring ceilings and beautiful, modern furniture. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z They constitute 6 of the modern world’s 12 major crops. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z In time, both visions would converge, giving rise to the most important synthesis in modern biology, and the most powerful understanding of human heredity. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z The princes’ efforts to breed cheetahs in captivity failed, and not until 1960 did even biologists in modern zoos achieve their first successful cheetah birth. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Nothing had happened to the modern planting spots. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z “I want him to look modern and successful for the parade. It’s good for business.” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z On the clifftop, a collection of ruined temples and modern cranes gleamed silver in the moonlight. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z Native Americans, possibly ancestral to the modern Inuit, spread throughout the High Arctic around 2000 B.C. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The modern population of the world now hears all music through the filter - some would say imperfection - of Equal Temperament. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Even if a bone looked just like a Neanderthal bone, it couldn’t be classified as one if it Ales Hrdlicka had been found in modern construction debris. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z We’d have a new apartment with pale cream carpets that never got dirty and modern wallpaper with no flowers. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z I don’t mean to suggest that we moderns are unlike Ross in that we believe only things we have experienced for ourselves. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Soliloquy’s is the polar opposite of the modern restaurant where Sarah first met Muhammad and me. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z Although Homo erectus, the stage reached around 1.7 million years ago, was close to us modern humans in body size, its brain size was still barely half of ours. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z We listened to his stories of life in the city, enthralled by his tales of the modern conveniences like indoor plumbing and streetcars, things we could scarcely imagine. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z Montgomery has a beautiful park that houses the Alabama Shakespeare Festival, which brings nationally acclaimed playwrights and actors to Alabama to perform Shakespeare and modern theatrical productions. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z It may be useful as an expression for the ‘unit factors’...demonstrated by modern Mendelian researchers.” The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Instead of dividing by zero as Newton and Leibniz did, modern mathematicians divide by a number that they let approach zero. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z The pastel yellow cube of our modern house sat cleanly on the white snow. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z The notion became the foundation of ice core studies, on which much modern climatological work is based. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Indeed one can say that ‘hypothesis’ only really acquired its modern sense after the foundation of the Royal Society. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z How could the people who owned such rich farms, such beautiful furniture and gardens, modern bathrooms, and electricity to run refrigerators have ever needed to come take over the Soviet Union’s peasant huts? A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z Della Porta reads like a modern when Garzoni is doing his thinking for him, and like Pliny when he is thinking for himself. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z It not only gave the genre a new relevance in the modern age, but also brought it into the lives of people who would never have thought themselves interested in it. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z The modern cuckoo clock is a simplified version of these ‘automatic’ mechanisms. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Those areas also came to support the densest populations of European settlers in modern Australia. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Five fundamental changes thus interacted and interlocked in the course of the seventeenth century to produce modern science. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z So overwhelming was this Chinese steamroller that the former peoples of tropical Southeast Asia have left behind few traces in the region’s modern populations. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The club was my first contact with the modern world. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z As yet insufficient time has elapsed to reveal the full effect of the new chlorinated hydrocarbon insecticides and of the modern herbicides. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z “I know the modern world tends not to agree with me, but after all, Plato had only one teacher, and Alexander.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Already missing the wonders of modern plumbing, I walk back to the cottage. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z Hutton was much more the father of the notion than Lyell, but it was Lyell most people read, and so he became in most people’s minds, then and now, the father of modern geological thought. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z They are also the grandfathers of the germ theory of disease, and therefore of much of modern medicine. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z They lowered the virgule and curved it, for a start, so that it began to look like the modern comma. Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z One of his early ideas was one of the first thermometers, which worked ‘upside down’ to modern eyes. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z In showing that many alchemical recipes can indeed be performed in a modern laboratory, these scholars have rendered apparently incomprehensible texts meaningful and reinstated alchemy as a laboratory science. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Humans have lived in Africa far longer than anywhere else: our remote ancestors originated there around 7 million years ago, and anatomically modern Homo sapiens may have arisen there since then. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z He could not furnish the “proof” we would demand today, but modern research methods have now isolated the deadly chemical in soot and proved the correctness of his perception. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z This is the same sense of ‘modern’ which underlies Butterfield’s title The Origins of Modern Science, and reflects a usage established by the contemporaries of Newton. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z As we have seen, the inhabitants of neighboring towns were—to borrow a modern euphemism—“incentivized” to resettle there. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z A far more important line evolved by way of the Aramaic alphabet, used for official documents of the Persian Empire, into the modern Arabic, Hebrew, Indian, and Southeast Asian alphabets. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The inmate was stripped, his hands were tied to the rings, and then, to use a modern phrase, it was payback time: The keeper he had offended administered blows to his back. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Today, the modern omnivore has almost no culture to fall back on. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Even modern efforts to implant civilization in the South American tropical forest have met with defeat, or survive only with constant assistance from the outside. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z DELPHI: “A much-underestimated part of modern witchcraft”—you two are the greatest, you know that? Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z Everything was plain and straightforward, a modern structure devoid of concealments. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z Christ crucified rules, and it may be that the true business of modern Christianity is to crucify him again and again so that he can never get a word out of his mouth. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Shakespeare used the word ‘modern’ to mean both ‘ordinary’ and ‘contemporary’. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z I had a city accent and spoke city slang, so they thought I was modern. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z But these modern painters don’t bring in enough money, so it’s a constant battle with his bosses. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z A mangled genie invoked by a modern lamp. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z All of these features distinguish Jomon people from observed modern hunter-gatherers who shift base every few weeks, build only shelters, and burden themselves with few and easily portable possessions. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Just as over-scrupulous historians refuse to use the words ‘revolution’, ‘science’ and ‘scientist’ when writing about the seventeenth century, they baulk at using Butterfield’s other word, ‘modern’, because it, too, seems to them inherently anachronistic. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z And because his attitude was poor, their attitude toward him was also poor, until, as time went on, his patients began seeking other, more modern remedies from other, more modern healers. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z The word atom, used in the modern sense, first entered scientific vocabulary in John Dalton’s paper in 1808. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z With the money from my family, I bought fresh clothes, modern straight suits. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z I think this is just astonishing—because it is offered as the sort of practical stage-management advice that a modern person would never think of applying to something entirely imaginary.* Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z More modern Western music, on the other hand, does not sound pleasant using Pythagorean intonation. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z Tools were produced in diverse and distinctive shapes so modern that their functions as needles, awls, engraving tools, and so on are obvious to us. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The Fayu are thereby being brought into the modern world, where they face an uncertain future. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Tokyo has already suffered one of the most devastating earthquakes in modern times. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z It is also the stage least changed by the modern industrial food chain. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Hence any attempt to understand the origins of the modern world must come to grips with the question why the Fertile Crescent’s domesticated plants and animals gave it such a potent head start. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The reason why we can be certain is that the arrivals took place in modern times and involved literate Europeans, who described in innumerable books what happened. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The ancient inhabitation beneath and around the modern town has barely been investigated. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The settlement of the world’s remaining islands was not completed until modern times: Mediterranean islands such as Crete, Cyprus, Corsica, and Sardinia between about 8500 and 4000 B.C.; Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z For Glanvill, and others like him, the new science was intended to serve as a bulwark against materialism and atheism; being modern and believing in witchcraft went hand in hand. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The author must understand from firsthand experience a range of human societies, from hunter-gatherer societies to modern space-age civilizations. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z That it was not the other way around is especially surprising, because Africa was the sole cradle of human evolution for millions of years, as well as perhaps the homeland of anatomically modern Homo sapiens. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Most of the modern music in which convergence is most active has thrived in a relatively prosperous, educated milieu, dominated by the United States and Europe, where something approaching a cultural consensus exists. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z The main room was clean, modern, and rectangular, about fifty feet by thirty, and had a separate section with a toilet, urinal, two sinks, and two showers. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z In fact, as I shall explain in a moment, modern “Stone Age” peoples are on the average probably more intelligent, not less intelligent, than industrialized peoples. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Most of the officers posted to these gates have big, thick keys, but at one gate the guard pushes buttons instead, as they do in modern prisons. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z We can only venture a guess, by analogy with witnessed events in modern times when steel-toting white farmers collided with stone tool-using hunter-gatherers of Aboriginal Australia and Indian California. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z In modern spy talk, Honeyman was a “sleeper,” an agent under cover in enemy territory and awaiting orders, usually for a single, vital mission. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Behind a sliding glass partition sat a young woman in a modern nurse’s uniform, not a white one, but a light blue pantsuit with white trim. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Similarly, the people who first domesticated wet-country crops of West Africa spoke languages ancestral to the modern Niger-Congo languages. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Even modern European plant geneticists have failed to develop any crop except macadamia nuts from Australia’s native wild flora. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z I used to wear my father's clothes but your love has made me a real teenager in modern expensive clothes. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z Annabeth saw couples with babies, toddlers clinging to their parents’ legs, even some elderly folks in a combination of Roman robes and modern clothes. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Looking around the busy streets with their modern buildings, I thought Mamá would be enamored of this place. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z Reverend Mokitimi, who was also Sotho-speaking, was much admired among students as a modern and enlightened fellow who understood our complaints. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The Ethiopian Orthodox Bible is made up of the largest canon of any Bible in print in the modern world. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z This question, raised by political theorists from Plato to Marx, is raised anew by voters in every modern election. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z And so, as powerful a draw as television remains, our modern devices command our attention like nothing before. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z It is this assumption that there are new discoveries to be made which has transformed the world, for it has made modern science and technology possible. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z At the time this was seen as something new and unparallelled; this, too, was modern. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Not all of these apply equally commonly in all parts of the modern world, obviously. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z A familiar modern example is the narrow failure, on July 20, 1944, of the assassination attempt against Hitler and of a simultaneous uprising in Berlin. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Although these modern tunes do not fit the traditional definition, they are also called folk music. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z So through a complicated, haphazard, and constantly readjusted web of economic, social, and moral incentives, modern society does its best to militate against crime. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z The most straightforward way to discover whether the Lagoa Santa people were related to modern Indians, Pena decided, would be to compare DNA from their skeletons with DNA from living Indians. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z One might initially wonder how a linguist, studying only modern languages whose unwritten ancestral forms remain unknown, could ever figure out whether Austronesians living on Taiwan 6,000 years ago had pigs. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z There had been its original purchase by an American millionaire who was crazy about yachting—and an account of the luxurious modern house he had built on this little island off the Devon coast. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z The atom provides an organizing principle for modern physics—and it tantalizes us with the prospect of controlling matter and energy. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z None but a few extremely remote islands escaped man’s notice until the modern age, and these islands kept their fauna intact. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z It has radical and, in modern terms, libertarian implications, because it regards any accommodation of personal freedom to governmental discipline as dangerous. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z When I finished all the Verne books in the library, I became the first in line for any book that arrived written by modern science-fiction writers such as Heinlein, Asimov, van Vogt, Clarke, and Bradbury. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z The farmlands of modern agriculture are highly artificial, unlike anything nature ever conceived. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Ironically, even though embryology had launched the discipline of modern genetics, the reconciliation between genes and genesis would be a vastly more engaging scientific problem. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z But the crucial modern inventions depend on prior scientific discoveries: in the case of the steam engine, Boyle’s law. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z There’s a big porch and a modern kitchen, updated with marble countertops that look a little out of place. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z There are so many modern designs for easy living. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z In our modern society, when a man works and succeeds at a skilled job, we expect it. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z Their other relatives had modern electric bread ovens now, but Sitti refused to touch them. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z It is only a step from a drawing such as this to a modern blueprint. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z A modern woman, she always implied, was capable—nay, required—to have it all. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z And also - less comfortably to the modern eye - like this: Most significantly of all, however, they ignored the old marks that had aided the reader-aloud. Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z The histories of the Fertile Crescent and China also hold a salutary lesson for the modern world: circumstances change, and past primacy is no guarantee of future primacy. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Because nothing like the full-blooded machinery of a modern political party system existed, Adams conveyed his tentative scheme for a bipartisan initiative informally through letters and conversations sure to be picked up by the press. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z “Traditional” and “modern”: those would be the perfect names to label the two groups of corn. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z That means that all modern humans arose from a very small population base, which would explain our lack of genetic diversity. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z All those modern peoples are recent offshoots of their South Chinese cousins. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “Flight is one of the modern miracles. Why, I tell you, there’s nothing like soaring high over the trees like a bird.” The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z South Africa is a mix of the old and the new, the ancient and the modern, and South African Christianity is a perfect example of this. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z There is no way for evolution to rip out the ancient interior of the brain because of its imperfections and replace it with something of more modern manufacture. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z In a crime-free world, there was no modern precedent for how to deal with such a thing. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z The smallest and oldest, he proclaimed, were maize’s true wild ancestor, which Indians had then crossed with Tripsacum to make modern maize. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z All because of the modern style of fishing Our Father dreamed up. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Years before, I had asked Pena what he thought the reaction would be if he discovered that ancient Indians were, in fact, not genetically related to modern Indians. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Rather than being the timeless indigenous adaptation portrayed in ecology textbooks, many archaeologists now view slash-and-burn agriculture as a relatively modern technique whose spread was driven by European technology. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Hollingsworth billed it as an overall guide to helping modern young housewives create a peaceful, optimistic, and sanitary household. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z “Of course we’re studying things rather more modern, Plato and the tragedians and so forth.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Was this not proof of yet another great opportunity in modern America? In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z Euripides’ play, The Suppliants, shows his modern mind better than any of his other plays. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Their knowledge of the deadly effects of extreme altitude was scant, and their equipment was pathetically inadequate by modern standards. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z One might be forgiven for thinking that it is Temple and Swift, the critics of modern science, who live in a disenchanted world, not Wotton, its advocate. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Maybe they were finally beginning to realize she was her own person, with a divergent, more modern belief system that renounced the patriarchal dynamics of their time— When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z In science this began to change only in the course of the debate on the ancients and moderns at the end of the seventeenth century. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Throughout the West, frontier regions that had long revolved around the horse were now dotted with sleek, modern Howard dealerships. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z The result was again the start of farming dependent on crops from elsewhere, a failure to domesticate local species, and a massive modern replacement of human population. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z However, all writers about them, from Romans to modern zookeepers, decry their irascible temper and their nasty habit of biting people. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Not long ago archaeologists with new techniques unraveled the tragedy of Cahokia, near modern St. Louis, which was once the greatest population center north of the Rio Grande. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The early selenographers had so many features to name that they found themselves honouring ancients as well as moderns, opponents as well as allies. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z In 1781 Herschel became the first person in the modern era to discover a planet. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z But I think that if they were alive, they’d feel at home in modern America. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z Rhea Silvia pointed out a large modern apartment building. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z It is perfectly sensible to say that Cayley laid the foundations of modern aeronautics. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z However, the epidemic dies out for any of several reasons, such as being cured by modern medicine, or being stopped when everybody around has already been infected and either becomes immune or dies. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Moreover, in recent generations, foragers have been increasingly subject to the authority of modern states, which prevent the eruption of large-scale conflicts. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z They’d already scouted the modern city, which, strangely, reminded Piper of Albuquerque - a bunch of low, boxy, whitewashed buildings sprawled across a plain at the foot of some purplish mountains. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z But Cecilia, having learned modern forms of snobbery at Cambridge, considered a man with a degree in chemistry incomplete as a human being. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z As White strove to be a modern evidence man, he had to learn many new techniques, but the most useful one was timeless: coldly, methodically separating hearsay from facts that he could prove. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Among modern world powers, the most distinctive in their culture and environment are the Japanese people. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The sparks correspond to lightning—also present on the ancient Earth and on modern Jupiter. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The languages and genes of those homeland inhabitants, as well as their livestock, crops, technologies, and writing systems, became dominant in the ancient and modern world. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z As strange as this system seems to modern eyes, it made perfect sense to ancient peoples. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z It’s not that the Cape of Good Hope itself is too dry for agriculture: it is, after all, the breadbasket of modern South Africa. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z In the case of the Koreans, one kind of deeply rooted legacy stood in the way of the very modern task of flying an airplane. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z Ziman, in a recent Nature essay, points out, “the invention of a mechanism for the systematic publication of fragments of scientific work may well have been the key event in the history of modern science.” The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z But Lillian always remarked that the doctors had taken a badly burned, homely man, and with all the advances of modern medicine at their disposal, turned him into a grotesquerie. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z This does rather neatly tie the rise of modern Europe to the death of the last vestige of the old Roman Empire. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z Alienation between rulers and ruled even extended to matters of simple nomenclature: according to one modern authority on demotic-script documents, the natives studiously avoided referring to Alexandria in the language of their conquerors. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z Given all this emphasis on newness, why did scientists not use the word ‘modern’ in the titles to their books? The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Wilkes was referring to the ecological worries that beset modern agribusiness. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z In the modern West, we’re confident that prevention is better than cure; that hard work deserves reward; that no means no; that you are innocent until proven guilty, and that all men are created equal. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z These discords, though relatively tame by modern standards, would have sounded shocking to Monteverdi's contemporaries. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Books of drawings produced in the early modern period are mainly intended to advertise an engineer’s skills, not to provide you with the information you would need to do the job yourself. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z And there were modern Jews who clearly were on the side of wisdom, instead of ignorance. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z There was a crier, who cried news as a modern newspaper prints headlines—"The Master of Stormhold Suffers a Mysterious Malady!" Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z I preferred the other books, the moderns, which were of course much dearer. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z In all of these respects, Jomon skulls differ from those of modern Japanese and are most similar to those of modem Ainu, while Yayoi skulls most resemble those of modern Japanese. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z In addition to the original rooms, it had a pool, a pub, and a modern movie theater. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z In modern English there are two distinct words, ‘human’ and ‘humane’, but in seventeenth-century English there is one word, usually spelt ‘humane’, with two distinct meanings. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z “Because this automobile is a thoroughly modern car. It’s not only noiseless, it’s invisible. Nobody can see it.” Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z Sometimes Stevens wondered if his views weren’t quaint, given the temper of the modern world. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Thereafter, pottery spread north, reaching the vicinity of modern Tokyo around 9,500 years ago and the northernmost island of Hokkaido by 7,000 years ago. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Father saw himself as part of the New India—rich, modern and as secular as ice cream. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z Indeed, Kepler gave the printing press a prominent place in the frontispiece to the Rudolphine tables, which celebrated the progress of astronomy from the ancient world to the modern era. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z So it is with the science of biological control in its modern sense. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z But there were vestiges of a less modern life, too—merchants selling sardines and cabbage by the roadside, crude homes of brick and mud. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z Many of Lenin’s modern ideals stayed in place as Josef Stalin first took over leadership of the USSR. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z The modern rows were almost as tall as he and the traditional were about three inches shorter. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z All those modern bands are or were nomadic hunter-gatherers rather than settled food producers. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z I suspect that the Korean language that was carried to Japan in 400 B.C., and that evolved into modern Japanese, was quite different from the Silla language that evolved into modern Korean. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Our own day-to-day survival may no longer depend on our ability to sing, but our ancient ancestors were on to something that applies to modern lives, too. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z But the new scale, the more modern analytical device, had been there already; no lag had existed. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z Up a slight slope, across an expanse of vacant lots, a modern church, quite large, stood in a lazy pall of white smoke—St. Ignatius, I assumed. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z There is an old-fashioned way of writing the history of early modern science in which Copernicus, Digges, Benedetti and Gilbert are presented as scientists, although none of them used the word of themselves. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z In zoological significance and distinctiveness, Homo erectus was more than an ape, but still much less than a modern human. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Coming forward as winners from World War II, a modern America began to emerge. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z According to the most modern idea, a real myth has nothing to do with religion. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Alphabets apparently arose only once in human history: among speakers of Semitic languages, in the area from modern Syria to the Sinai, during the second millennium B.C. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z It is, I maintain, incompatible with any grasp of the achievements of modern science. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z In a single stroke, he had set the field on its modern foundations. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Yet the roots of inequality in the modern world lie far back in prehistory. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The bed was modern, but the room was old with beams running across the ceiling, a stone fireplace, and narrow windows in an ornate wooden frame. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z African and European skulls of half a million years ago were sufficiently similar to skulls of us moderns that they are classified in our species, Homo sapiens, instead of in Homo erectus. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z His themes are the primitive form of warfare and the modern form of warfare. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z In modern times, European farmers thereby replaced western North American Indian hunters, Aboriginal Australians, and the San people of South Africa. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z This epic journey took three years, about as long as a modern Voyager spacecraft takes to fly from Earth to Saturn. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z In Cuba large-scale sugar planting began in the 1800s, brought by new owners interested in using modern technology. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z Many early states and all modern ones have had literate elites, and many modern states have literate masses as well. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The racial terrorism of lynching in many ways created the modern death penalty. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z The buildings were constructed specifically for the games, with modern conveniences and accessible facilities for the Paralympic athletes who would be competing as well. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z I think it’s a much- underestimated part of modern witchcraft. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z However, today those languages are gone, and we already saw from Figure 19.1 that the Pygmies’ modern distribution is highly fragmented. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Consequently, he had no interest in describing his own natural philosophy as ‘modern’, preferring to call it ‘new’. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z This was music to Flamsteed’s ears, since it confirmed that modern observing techniques could improve on existing stellar catalogues. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z One way to remedy this is to look at modern forager societies. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Among modern foragers, forty-five-year-old women can expect to live another twenty years, and about 5–8 per cent of the population is over sixty. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z “I kind of like this one, but I’m just not sure about it,” she says, pointing to a hideous mess of a room that’s as far from modern as you can imagine. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z Many other previously uncontacted groups of New Guineans and Amazonian Indians have similarly owed to missionaries their incorporation into modern society. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Permian scored three touchdowns in the second half to defeat Port Arthur Jefferson 28-19 and win its third state championship in one of the great upsets in modern Texas high school history. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Germany would present herself to the world as an unusually clean, efficient, modern, technologically savvy, cultured, vigorous, reasonable, and hospitable nation. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z This seems to be the earliest usage of the term ‘hypothesis’ in its standard modern sense, at any rate in English. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z As the Yale computer scientist David Gelernter says, “Bill Joy is one of the most influential people in the modern history of computing.” Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z We in Europe are only dwarfs and no nation, ancient or modern, has conceived the art of architecture on such a sublime, great, and imposing style, as the ancient Egyptians. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The old, churchy look is so different from the rest of the hospital’s modern, sleek design. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z They think they’re being modern men, intellectuals, on account of their education, I suppose. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z Perhaps most significantly, this great wave of 'rediscovered’ older music was being offered to the public just as modern music was embarking upon a journey towards greater difficulty, confrontation and experimentation. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z But most other modern people consider even New Guineans “backward.” Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z On this occasion the king released political prisoners, remitted taxes, endowed temples, forgave rebels, increased military preparedness and, in short, did all the things that modern rulers do when they wish to stay in office. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z They backed Porphyrion to the edge of the cliffs, the whole of modern Athens spread out below. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z Fayu bands and modern states represent opposite extremes along the spectrum of human societies. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Firstly, all forager societies that have survived into the modern era have been influenced by neighbouring agricultural and industrial societies. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z She also criticized modern Quakers as too passive. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z He looked at the spiral shape of the traditional group and the square shape of the modern group. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z As our hypothetical modern visitors wandered through the hurly- burly of construction and deconstruction, they might have felt that despite the commotion something was missing. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Before he peels away to hobnob, he says he has a thought about another way to illustrate the way attention works, and how easily it can be fractured in the modern world. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z In both, Indians took the first steps toward modern maize in southern Mexico, probably in the highlands, more than six thousand years ago. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Order the modern lamb chop, and it's likely to look no different than your companion's order of shackled pompano. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z All of which brings us to the key point: the ancients, particularly in the classical period, had no notion that equates exactly with our modern conception of “science.” Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z Copernicus himself was an intermediate figure in the scientific revolution, and in one important way he resembled the Ancient Greek philosophers rather than the modern scientist. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z But he was able to develop on observational grounds something akin to the modern cosmic perspective: What a wonderful and Amazing scheme have we here of the magnificant vastness of the universe ... Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z But if this argument is pressed too far it becomes difficult to explain why, in the eighteenth century, modern chemistry established itself not as a continuation of but as a refutation of alchemy. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z We can weave common myths such as the biblical creation story, the Dreamtime myths of Aboriginal Australians, and the nationalist myths of modern states. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z It was strange to see Florent driving a modern car and not the black carriage. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z Although these two are the least toxic of the modern insecticides, Dr. Pickett hopes by further research to replace them with safer and more selective materials. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Since the typical well-educated European was male, I use masculine pronouns when writing about the early modern period; I do not do this when writing about our own intellectual life. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z It was - by the standards of the day - loud, long, and modern. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Tendai changed the tale to remove all mention of modern things. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z One of the most famous speeches of modern times was the one made—apparently extempore—by a British army officer on the eve of the invasion of Iraq. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z But no Proto-Indo-European word can be reconstructed for “gun,” which uses different roots in different modern Indo-European languages: “gun” in English, “fusil” in French, “ruzhyo” in Russian, and so on. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The first part was to plant Nali’s traditional kernels and then the modern, store-bought variety. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z Between the Latin factum and the modern English ‘fact’ there was a barrier that had to be crossed: a factum requires an agent, a fact does not. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z A mantelpiece bare of ornaments save for an enormous block of white marble shaped like a bear, a piece of modern sculpture in which was inset a clock. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z All in all, he seems a beast utterly untouched by the softening influences of modern civilization. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z Anatomically modern humans may have settled Australia before they settled western Europe. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z In the New World the ability to write was confined to small elites among some peoples of modern Mexico and neighboring areas far to the north of the Inca Empire. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z In this sense the place was like modern purpose-built political capitals, such as Washington, D.C., or Canberra, Australia, with sanctifying civic monuments to compensate for a lack of real history. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z Much folk, popular, and modern music, gives instructions in English or in the composer's language. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z Next to it was the skyline of modern Rome. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z For a millennium or so there were ancients and moderns, which corresponded roughly to pagans and Christians. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z “I suppose you’re right. Even Louis Pasteur, the father of modern medicine, said that ‘chance favors the prepared mind.’” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z Linda was dying in company—in .company and with all the modern conveniences. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z This seemed way too modern and creepy—a monster using a mobile phone. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z "I know I'm not very popular. I don't give big parties. I suppose you've got to make your house into a pigsty in order to have any friends--in the modern world." The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z Hrdlicka had seen the Neanderthal skeletons, which did not resemble those of modern humans. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Thus, the problems of modern South Africa stem at least in part from a geographic accident. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z He merely borrowed its main outlines while translating the figures into modern terms. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z He’s so frustrated with his bosses, who won't let him sell modern art in the gallery. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z It was the longest prison sentence in modern British history. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z It would be interesting to know and easy to establish with modern testing methods how much energy in foot pounds is expended in driving a truck for six hours. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z “In these modern days, society cannot get along without French chefs,” he wrote. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z The electrical impulses in modern computers do, however, travel nearly at the speed of light. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z He complained to me once that modern people had generally lost their respect for the art of bullfighting. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z The evidence for a localized origin of modern humans, followed by their spread and then their replacement of other types of humans elsewhere, seems strongest for Europe. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Those historical inequalities have cast long shadows on the modern world, because the literate societies with metal tools have conquered or exterminated the other societies. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Before the days of modern embalming, incense had a practical application. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Writing marched together with weapons, microbes, and centralized political organization as a modern agent of conquest. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The sleek, modern robot ahead of him hesitated and halted his backward steps, then resumed them. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z The doctor’s office is in a modern office building. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z The radio controls of more modern models had not been heard of ten years earlier. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z Yet this assumes that Herophilus was asking modern questions of his data. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z The mind, already jelled by the advances in modern communication so that further boggling is impossible, twitches. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z But they were too far from the first centers of writing to have acquired it before modern times. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z But the Church fathers who initiated rituals that reflect a shared priesthood of laity and clergy should not be surprised by the independence of modern Catholics. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Our modern acorn squashes and summer squashes are derived from those American squashes domesticated thousands of years ago. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z In modern schools, children learn of Pythagoras for his famed theorem: the square of the hypotenuse of a right triangle is equal to the sum of the squares of the other two sides. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z The modern Maori are descendants of Polynesian farmers who colonized New Zealand around A.D. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The analogy is illusory in two ways: the original buildings were not ghostly white as moderns seem to prefer them, but as garishly painted as a Hindu shrine. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z The square, squat, modern ice cream shop where her old home had been was open, and a man was peering out the window at her. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z Having words and explanations for everything is too modern. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z Margulis has summarized the now considerable body of data indicating that the modern nucleated cell was made up, part by part, by the coming together of just such prokaryotic animals. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “Okay then. It is time to choose an editor for our new, modern monthly. Any nominations?” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z Other variation, such as that in seed dispersal mechanisms or seed dormancy, would have gone unrecognized by humans before the rise of modern botany. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z You see, grandchildren, rules about modern warfare were made up between the nations of the world before World War Two. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z From our modern perspective, it is easy to dismiss the ancients’ qualms about the utility of science. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z The birth of modern science—the offspring of theory and observation— teetered on the precipice of their mutual mistrust. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z A moral pessimist, von Wright questioned whether the material and technological advances of modern society could really be considered “progress” at all. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Contained in that 170-year- old architectural hodgepodge are many aspects of the modern history of prisons in the Western world. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Every other man had some docile girl from the village, and here he’d come with this modern woman, a Xhosa woman no less, a culture whose women were thought of as particularly loudmouthed and promiscuous. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z As a result, despite one of the great education explosions in modern history, economic mobility—moving from one income group to another over the course of a lifetime—has stopped rising, researchers say. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z Sigmund Freud, the founder of modern psychiatry, conceived of art primarily in terms of sublimation outside of consciousness. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z The lobby was luxurious—modern—but the rooms she peeped into were sterile green cages. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z In short, the themes of GGS seem to me to be not only a driving force in the ancient world but also a ripe area for study in the modern world. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z She told me formula was the very best thing, a modern miracle, but we couldn’t afford it for two. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z In modern translations these words are often represented by the word ‘discovery’, but this obscures the fact that in 1492 ‘discovery’ was not an established concept. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Especially in their eye shapes, those statues unmistakably depict East Asians, such as modern Japanese or Koreans. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Based on these mini-experiments, modern grammarians have sorted words into grammatical categories that sometimes differ from the traditional pigeonholes. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Count back three billion hours, and modern humans don’t exist—just wild-eyed cave people, all hairy and grunting. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z This is profitability even by modern Wall Street standards: if the Dow Jones average had risen a similar amount since World War II, the index would now stand at over twenty thousand. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z The old men did not even change the adobe walls for modern bricks, or modify the narrow windows. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z But that autumn the serpent got into Meg’s paradise, and tempted her like many a modern Eve, not with apples, but with dress. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z He also writes about art, the art world, and their mutual goal of championing the Impressionists and other modern painters. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Secondly, modern forager societies have survived mainly in areas with difficult climatic conditions and inhospitable terrain, ill-suited for agriculture. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Punishment is frightening, and confinement, the modern punishment of choice, frightens in a particular way. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z To my admittedly biased eye, the book’s central message has survived well, and the most interesting developments since its publication have involved four extensions of the story to the modern world and to recent history. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z In its place a new school has risen instantly, like a mirage: light-colored, block-shaped, glossy and modern. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z He did, however, keep a modern radio in his bedroom, but he listened only to the news. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z He radiated a kind of old energy—a melancholy that came from knowing he didn’t belong in the modern world. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Wherever there are great forests, modern methods of insect control threaten the fishes inhabiting the streams in the shelter of the trees. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The few modern Khoisan speakers survived mainly because of their isolation in areas of southern Africa unsuitable for Bantu farming. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Late on Saturday afternoon, everyone south of us was at mass at Saint Adelbert’s—which had gone modern and figured that it didn’t need to wake parishioners up early. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z The skeletons are completely modern, he would say. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z To hear what is going on in modern Non-Western cultures as their musicians are influenced by American and European pop, listen to "World" music. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z “Take a closer look, Dana. It’s too straight. It’s not a bone; it’s modern lumber. We’ve been finding pieces like it for a couple of weeks now.” Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z Figure 6.12: The modern symbols for sharp, natural, and flat evolved from medieval notation indicating what type of B should be used. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z From Mexico City onward, the rail system is more modern, and trains run so fast that few migrants ride on top. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z That idea, as embodied by the cocktail party effect, is fundamental to modern attention science, and it seems so obvious. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z It turns out that they were hunters, gatherers, and fishing people enjoying a remarkably diverse and well-balanced diet that modern nutritionists would applaud. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z In contrast, most ancient Southwest Asian crops exhibit just one of the alternative wild variants or alternative transforming mutations, suggesting that all modern varieties of that particular crop stem from only a single domestication. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The master of ceremonies asked people to say what they thought the function of the novel might be in modern society, and one critic said, “To provide touches of color in rooms with all-white walls.” Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z An entire ear of teosinte has less nutritional value than a single kernel of modern maize. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z This was a custom that had almost entirely died out in modern Harare. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z Even the modern world has found it hard to shake off this legacy. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z “Zombie Killers Part Three. A modern classic,” I said, sitting on the edge of my bed to watch. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z These chemicals are what make modern processed foods possible. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z These were growing flesh as I watched, turning into men, but men with dull gray skin, yellow eyes, and modern clothes—gray muscle shirts, camo pants, and combat boots. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z After sprucing it up a little, Mr. Clem advertised a drawing in the paper “for a name more befitting this fine, refurbished, modern establishment.” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z After having made a few preparatory experiments, he concluded with a panegyric upon modern chemistry, the terms of which I shall never forget: Frankenstein 1818-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a mix of old and modern. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z They create the modern nightmare of institutional life. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z In 1301, Giotto, one of the founders of modern realistic painting, witnessed another apparition of Comet Hailey and inserted it into a nativity scene. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z He skittered between obstacles like a primeval creature who had outwitted the modern world. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z In modern English the distinction is clear: going to the ballet is an experience; the Large Hadron Collider is an experiment. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The study that founded modern biology was buried in the pages of an obscure journal of an obscure scientific society, read mostly by plant breeders in a declining Central European town. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z By modern times, only one percent of the continent was free of ice. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z As they pushed on, they encountered a strange universe of unknown creatures that included a 450-pound, six-foot kangaroo, and a marsupial lion, as massive as a modern tiger, that was the continent’s largest predator. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z No prayer, no cure from the modern doctor two towns over, no remedies of the field offered shyly and secretly by his parishioners. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z Anuta’s population density exceeded that of modern Holland and even rivaled that of Bangladesh. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z There were lights coming out of the modern buildings. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z The modern cornstalks already were as tall as his knees while the traditional ones were barely seedlings. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z Pascal’s Puy-de-Dôme experiment seems pretty straightforward to us, but that is because we are used to modern physics. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z That removed the last serious barrier between Alaska and Patagonia for modern humans. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Whereas chiefdoms’ populations range from a few thousand to a few tens of thousands, the populations of most modern states exceed one million, and China’s exceeds one billion. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Some of the furniture is modern and shaped like boxes and domes, and some of it looks like it came from a fancy British tea party. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z In the center of town, only yards away from the modern buildings made of steel and glass, streets of painters, ceramists, and sculptors had sprung up on the side of a steep hill. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Within the period covered by the rise of modern pesticides, the incidence of leukemia has been steadily rising. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The modern wing rigs were more complicated than he was used to, plus he’d neglected to take refresher courses. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z Instead, what cries out for explanation is the failure of food production to appear, until modern times, in some ecologically very suitable areas that are among the world’s richest centers of agriculture and herding today. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z As I already mentioned, tame cheetahs were prized by ancient Egyptians and Assyrians and modern Indians as hunting animals infinitely superior to dogs. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The scavengers’ building impressed him; large and modern, it held a good number of high-class purely office employees. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z We also see how the leader of a modern state would seek a more reliable way to deploy muscle to advance its interests, namely by developing a well-trained modern army. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Hence it seems likely that some of them were also the founding crops of highland agriculture, especially as the ancient drainage systems preserved are so similar to the modern drainage systems used for growing taro. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z For now, Dr. Gazzaley is talking a bit about how attention science unfolded, and the leading researchers upon which modern work is built. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Over the course of his or her life, a typical member of a modern affluent society will own several million artefacts—from cars and houses to disposable nappies and milk cartons. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Yes, modern Afghan women married to modern Afghan men who did not mind that their wives walked among strangers with makeup on their faces and nothing on their heads. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z It is the founding concept of modern social science: David Hume’s theory of the balance of trade and Adam Smith’s conception of the market depend on the concept of a feedback mechanism. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Today we take this simplified browser technology for granted, but it was actually one of the most important inventions in modern history. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z To modern eyes, the puzzle is not that this should have occurred, but that it should have taken so long for people to lose their inferiority complex. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z Today we often think of biological and chemical warfare as modern inventions. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z Pietro Crespi gave her some confused explanations about the poor quality of modern pitch lamps and he even helped her install a more secure system of illumination for the room. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z There is a slogan posted in English all over modern Alexandria that reads, “Alexandria is the mermaid of the Mediterranean Sea.” Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z The 1576 edition of the Prognostication is a little puzzle in which we find the whole problem of the early modern history of science in miniature. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Rising four hundred feet over the night-time sprawl of modern Athens, the sheer cliffs were topped with a crown of limestone walls. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z Demigods like Percy were still responsible for carrying on Roman traditions in modern times—fighting monsters, serving the gods, protecting mortals, and upholding the memory of the empire. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z In the Renaissance, modern music was understood to be quite different from ancient music because it was polyphonic rather than monodic—Galileo’s father, Vincenzo, wrote a Dialogue on Ancient and Modern Music. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Thus, Atahuallpa’s capture interests us specifically as marking the decisive moment in the greatest collision of modern history. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z In this case, the scales used are the same as the medieval church modes, but they do not have a reciting tone and are used much more like modern major and minor scales. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z The growth of the modern city to the ancient municipal limits and beyond, however, has made that prospect a remote dream. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z In 1933 the Nazi government seized power in Germany under Adolf Hitler, and by the mid-1950s the Germans were building an impressive modern air force of their own. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z Then it occurred to her they might be some sort of tiny—what did modern people call them?—laptop computers. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z Johnny said Raquel was a modern dancer and wore black clothes. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z Besides, a new train line whisked businessmen straight from Shaker to the heart of the city: nothing could be more modern. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z The Death Penalty Information Center reported that Walter was the fiftieth person to be exonerated in the modern era. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z We saw from the twin evidence of modern peoples and their languages that sub-Saharan Africa was not always a black continent, as we think of it today. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The modern ships that ply the Keplerian trajectories to the planets are unmanned. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Even 20th-century plant breeders, armed with all the power of modern science, have had little success in exploiting North American wild plants. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z But there are good reasons to be very careful in extrapolating from modern forager societies to ancient ones. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z King Lear loses his mind with what we, in modern times, would call Alzheimer’s. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z It is a large room with modern furnishings. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z The ancestors of modern speakers of Thai, Lao, and Burmese all moved south from South China and adjacent areas to their present locations within historical times, successively inundating the settled descendants of previous migrations. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Hazel had tried to pass herself off as a modern kid. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z Along the road the houses were all low-slung and split-level and modern, with big porches and picture windows facing the water. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z The irony is that Osiander’s view is quite in keeping with the modern scientific world view. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z Finally, we can reason conversely that modern areas with a high diversity of languages within a given language family lie closer to the early center of distribution of that language family. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Studies done years later using modern technology have confirmed that the Great Molasses Flood was caused by the outrageously shoddy construction of a tank required to hold 2.5 million gallons of heavy, sticky liquid. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z This would be a good place to start learning more on the subject of modern folk music. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z Newton’s modern biographer, Richard Westfall, concludes that we should regard Newton’s claim to have been surprised by the oblong image cast by the prism ‘as a rhetorical device which is not to be understood literally’. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Our modern picture of the universe dates back to only 1924, when the American astronomer Edwin Hubble demonstrated that ours was not the only galaxy. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z When Newton denoted position with the variable x, he realized that velocity is simply the fluxion—what modern mathematicians call the derivative—of x: x. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Can we test the claim that Copernicanism required a modern theory of the Earth? The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z His was considered a modern, enlightened prison, despite its Victorian chill. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z “The most marvelous exhibit of modern times or ancient times has now just closed successfully at Paris,” he told the Tribune. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z The chief difference between them and our modern scientific myth of the Big Bang is that science is self-questioning, and that we can perform experiments and observations to test our ideas. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z It looked less like a modern subway train than a miniature locomotive. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z This is a dazzling picture of modern man’s scientific and technological progress. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z One that modern medicine doesn’t recognize, can’t identify and is powerless to treat. Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z But the brave and lonely struggle of this man was to ignite the modern scientific revolution. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Clavius’s argument here is identical with that of modern realists who claim that science must approximate to the truth, otherwise it would not be able to make successful predictions. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Yet Renaissance books on warfare often included the word ‘modern’ in their titles to show that they acknowledged the revolutionary consequences of gunpowder. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z But people would have explored and adapted to most other areas quickly, once modern human inventiveness had developed. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Thanks to modern developments in armor, American service members were now surviving bomb blasts that would once have killed them. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z The human societies of those two formerly joined landmasses were in modern times very different from each other. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The modern recording industry has changed things, though. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z The absence of diversity was glaring—honestly, it was embarrassing—for a modern, multicultural country. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z We can even understand how, for these modern states, war can become the continuation of policy by other means. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z For the first time in modern history, major wars of aggression were stopped partly because of the revulsion felt by the citizens of the aggressor nations. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Since we didn’t have a modern bathroom, he’d shave over an enamel basin and use hot water from a pitcher. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Did I really have to give up everything Navajo to succeed in the modern world? Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z Many of the people in Shangla were very poor and did not have modern facilities, such as hospitals and markets, but our family always put on a huge feast for us when we arrived. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z After Mr. Linga died she continued to volunteer her time to care for the mules until they were gradually replaced by more modern machines.” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z With all its imperfections, modern science is a technique that is sufficiently well tuned to nature so that it works—it is a practice that allows us to learn reliable things about the world. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z They believed they had found traces of ancient Indians in modern blood—a first step, possibly, toward rewriting the history of the Americas. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z It showed this beautifully modern open-plan office with three or four people who worked in it having some kind of joke with each other. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z Likewise, my grandfather preferred to spend his mornings working on a modern Greek translation of the “restored” poems of Sappho. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Like the second theory, this one considers modern Japanese to be slightly modified Koreans but dispenses with the need for large-scale immigration. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z In terms of energy, the modern farm is a losing proposition. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z A cathedral stood next to a line of Roman columns, which stood next to a modern soccer stadium. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z In reality, even for the most famous and apparently decisive modern inventions, neglected precursors lurked behind the bald claim “X invented Y.” Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Any large-scale human cooperation—whether a modern state, a medieval church, an ancient city or an archaic tribe—is rooted in common myths that exist only in people’s collective imagination. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Others seemed to be regular living mortals - some in togas, some in modern business suits or army fatigues. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z Her condo was clean and modern, with white walls and white furniture and sprays of exquisite bright orchids adding color. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z That alone had made him a little woozy, but the office itself was clean and white and modern. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z But Poppy acted as if their modern apartment on the Ramallah road was still surrounded by shepherds. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z Here clearly were the seeds of the modern world. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z But if the doctor did the same procedure without anesthetics in a modern hospital, it would be very cruel indeed. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z His hometown was a wealthy but somewhat peripheral place, analogous in its pleasant remoteness to modern Sydney or Cape Town. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z Although some semblance of the routinized mechanisms for political parties had begun to congeal during the debate over Jay's Treaty, nothing remotely resembling the organized campaign structure of modern political parties yet existed. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Now beet sugar set an example of modern farming that helped convince Russian nobles that it was time to free their millions of serfs. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z This was a modern room with a curving steel desk near the center, carefully positioned halogen lights, and a spiral staircase leading down from a perfect circle cut in the ceiling about fifteen feet high. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z I am invited very often these days to speak about modern education in college auditoriums and in Holiday Inn ballrooms. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z On this point modern astrologers seem to have adopted a more cautious position. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The problem whose attempted solution has brought such a train of disaster in its wake is an accompaniment of our modern way of life. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z It was a full flight, but with the lavishly appointed seats of modern air travel, it didn’t feel crowded at all. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z What ‘modern’ means has shifted century by century, and discipline by discipline. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z There were magicians in the forest also in those legendary days, as well as strange animals not known to modern works of natural history. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z I approved of the liberal encyclicals concerning ‘the Church in the modern world.’ Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The latter willingness is one so strongly programmed into us citizens of modern states, by our schools and churches and governments, that we forget what a radical break it marks with previous human history. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Volker Oldenburg paints modern art in a potato cellar in West Berlin. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z These profound and lovely images are, I like to imagine, a kind of premonition of modern astronomical ideas.* Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z These new people are, like us, a modern invention. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z This frantic, somersaulting style turned within a few years into bebop, the elite modern jazz of the late 1940s and ’50s. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z The very concept of character was founded on errors that modern psychology had exposed. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z In many modern dairy farms a milk cow usually lives for about five years before being slaughtered. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z In our modern civilizations, we don’t really think of bathing with soap and water as being gendered. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z Similarly, the Little Ice Age of A.D. 1300-1500 contributed to the extinction of the Greenland Norse, but no historian, and probably not even a modern climatologist, could have predicted the Little Ice Age. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z They came to see him as something new under the sun, what in modern parlance might be termed a rowing “geek.” The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z The ancient lands were forbidden to modern demigods; the area was simply too dangerous. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z “It’s these modern, newfangled dances like the waltz that take so much out of me.” The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z The French Congo and the newly independent Republic of Congo are separated by one mere river and about a million miles of contemporaneous modern thinking. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z This interesting riddle is still quite a challenge to modern science in the twentieth century. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z In all the excitement, Magdalys hadn’t had time to think about how she was about to ride one of the most dangerous and unmanageable creatures in the modern world. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z It is the only religion in which the time scales correspond, no doubt by accident, to those of modern scientific cosmology. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z As a child, I pictured a naked child sitting on a modern toilet desperately trying to perform until it died of congestion. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z From the beginnings of literacy in China, it has had only a single writing system, whereas modern Europe uses dozens of modified alphabets. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z In fact, the trade had helped create modern organized crime. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z I’m not saying that food production could never, in any amount of time, have arisen in all those areas where it actually had not arisen indigenously by modern times. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z It was, by far, the most modern building in town. Ungifted 2012-08-21T00:00:00Z The church didn’t fit in the modern world anymore than the people who went there did. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z This was the highest number of executions in a single year since the beginning of the modern death penalty era in 1976. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z He slowly starts turning the gallery branch he manages into one that sells not just the traditional Salon painters but also works by modern artists—the Impressionists, and now the post-impressionists, too. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z While modern classical music had its challenges, older music was encountering its own difficulties in the twentieth century, despite - or indeed because of - an explosion in recordings in the 1960s. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Flying a modern jet aircraft does not require a great deal of strength, for one thing. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Mom said we should be thankful because we had it better than pioneers, who didn’t have modern conveniences like window glass and cast-iron stoves. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z From these modern sources there often emerges an understanding, among professionals and among the scientifically literate public, of something we might call the ‘consensus in the field’ on many issues. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z In modern spy talk, his warning meant there was a mole—a spy who works inside the enemy’s intelligence agency—in the Sons of Liberty! George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z “Ha! Being immortal helps. But, yes, I wasn’t so old when I died. Not by modern standards. I did a lot during my years as a hero...too much, really.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z I first turned up at Ruth’s recovery centre in Dover—the modern one with the white tiled walls—just a few weeks after that talk with Laura. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z Even with modern instruments, pilots of commercial aircraft today need to be able to see the runway before they can land, even if they’ve been flying in cloud nearly to the ground. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z From those earliest Semitic alphabets, one line of blueprint copying and evolutionary modification led via early Arabian alphabets to the modern Ethiopian alphabet. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z So, too, at first, in the modern languages. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z This led into an even longer argument—hard to follow and, to me, intensely boring—about whether Hesiod’s primordial Chaos was simply empty space or chaos in the modern sense of the word. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Until the late modern era, more than 90 per cent of humans were peasants who rose each morning to till the land by the sweat of their brows. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z He wrote to one official in 1226 asking if he could possibly obtain three pounds of the precious substance—at a cost of about 450 modern dollars. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z The choir was summoned and sang a modern arrangement of “Onward, Christian Soldiers,” with new words pertaining to graduates seeking their place in the world. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z If it had been left to the Italians, classical music would have made it to the modern age without so much as a scratch, still completely mainstream, still loved by everyone. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z And his conduct in providing clandestine instructions to Adams’s cabinet undermined the constitutional authority of the executive branch in ways that would have landed him in jail in modern times. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Neither of these modern cosmologies may be altogether to our liking. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The few preserved African skeletal fragments contemporary with the Neanderthals are more similar to our modern skeletons than to Neanderthal skeletons. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z For the most part, he continued to use those same tools even as more modern, laborsaving power tools came to market in the 1930s. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Those cases, initially so puzzling to us moderns accustomed to viewing writing as indispensable to a complex society, included one of the world’s largest empires as of A.D. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The phrase ‘modern science’ was first used by Gideon Harvey in 1699, in the course of an indiscriminate attack on both the old and the new philosophies. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The word that we use in modern English, ‘science’, was too vague: as we have seen, there were already lots of sciences. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z It has been claimed that Tassoni expresses a sense of liberation from the schoolroom of antiquity, but his claim is merely that the moderns must find a place in the schoolroom alongside the ancients. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Around that time, a population of African apes broke up into several populations, of which one proceeded to evolve into modern gorillas, a second into the two modern chimps, and the third into humans. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z I was a girl with a modern education, with parents who were both thinkers and readers, and a best friend who was the next Marie Curie. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z He was a genius other composers slavishly followed for well over half a century, yet to most modern listeners he is just a name, alongside his colleague Brahms. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z All of this may seem very arbitrary, but it's important to remember that medieval mode theory, just like our modern music theory, was not trying to invent a logical system of music. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z They remain aloof from the modern temptation that captivates many in America’s middle class: the temptation to relieve the anonymity of public life by trying to make it intimate. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z But what happens in nature is not allowed to happen in the modern, chemical-drenched world, where spraying destroys not only the insects but their principal enemy, the birds. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z In deference to his bosses, Theo hangs the more traditional paintings on the ground floor, and the modern paintings on the entresol. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Some have argued for continuity—that modern science derives from medieval science, or indeed from Aristotle. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z In the modern world, it is often considered a violation of international law. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z This history of persecution and wandering had left them, on the whole, poor, deeply traumatized, and out of touch with the modern world. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z Thus, the evidence derived from plant names in modern African languages permits us to glimpse the existence of three languages being spoken in Africa thousands of years ago: ancestral Nilo-Saharan, ancestral Niger-Congo, and ancestral Afroasiatic. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z I’d be excited just to have the five modern bathrooms, but right then I couldn’t think of a single thing to be happy about. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z In this modern post-religious age, secular institutions flounder to imitate the gift that is uniquely found in the temple and mosque and church. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z For Hoover, the Osage murder investigation became a showcase for the modern bureau. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z The best-known modern example of such an effort was Arnold Toynbee’s 12-volume Study of History. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Lawrence had been talent-spotted by Time-, his elevation to the magazine’s cover boy as the symbol of modern American science would soon follow. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Fifty thousand pounds in modern money, using a retail price index, but £725,000 in modern money using an average wage multiplier. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Additional interesting fact: The modern method of judicial hanging is termed the Long Drop. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z They were modern not by the standards of 1826 but by the standards of a century later. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z “Ancient heroes like Beowulf and Athena. And modern ones: Superman. Wonder Woman.” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z On one side of the stone floor, a set of stairs had been excavated, leading down to a modern iron gate with a padlock. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Long, cool perspectives of modern architecture, rising phosphorescent and eerie from the rubble. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z A zero in the other great modern theory—relativity—creates another paradox: the infinite nothing of the black hole. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Our modern global civilization, our view of the world and our present exploration of the Universe are profoundly indebted to their insights. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z |
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