Vital Statistics
Vital Statistics

Author: Paul Grobman

Publisher: Putnam Adult

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780452286467

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A compendium of trivia that provides facts on everything from sports and fashion to literature and architecture.

The Center
The Center

Author: Christina K. Schaefer

Publisher: Genealogical Publishing Com

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 162

ISBN-13: 9780806315157

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This book's aim is simple: to identify resources in the Washington, DC area that will aid family historians in tracing their ancestors. In meeting that goal, it shows the researcher precisely what genealogical resources are available in the nation's capital and where they can be found. More than a tool, this book is a resource in itself.

Gulf Coast Colonials
Gulf Coast Colonials

Author: Winston De Ville

Publisher: Genealogical Publishing Com

Published: 2010-05

Total Pages: 70

ISBN-13: 0806300930

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A register of French Americans in Mobile, Ala.

American English Compendium
American English Compendium

Author: Marv Rubinstein

Publisher: Taylor Trade Publications

Published: 2011-12-01

Total Pages: 519

ISBN-13: 1589797264

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A compendium of American proverbs, expressions, slang, colloquialisms; British-US glossary; abbreviations and acronyms; and other various odds and ends. Widely used by non-native speakers and translators.

Figuring Out the Past
Figuring Out the Past

Author: Peter Turchin

Publisher: The Economist

Published: 2020-11-17

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 1541736761

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Discover the world records that define our history and jump headfirst into the past using scientific data that reveals accurate and insightful answers to life’s biggest questions. What was history's biggest empire? Or the tallest building of the ancient world? What was the plumbing like in medieval Byzantium? The average wage in the Mughal Empire? Where did scientific writing first emerge? What was the bloodiest ever ritual human sacrifice? ​ We are used to thinking about history in terms of stories. Yet we understand our own world through data: cast arrays of statistics that reveal the workings of our societies. In Figuring Out the Past, radical historians Peter Turchin and Dan Hoyer dive into the numbers that reveal the true shape of the past, drawing on their own Seshat project, a staggeringly ambitious attempt to log every data point that can be gathered for every society that has ever existed. This book does more than tell the story of humanity: it shows you the big picture, by the numbers.