Description: Further DetailsTitle: Four Lost CitiesCondition: NewSubtitle: A Secret History of the Urban AgeISBN-10: 0393882454EAN: 9780393882452ISBN: 9780393882452Publisher: WW Norton & CoFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 02/25/2022Description: In Four Lost Cities, acclaimed science journalist Annalee Newitz takes readers on an entertaining and mind-bending adventure into the deep history of urban life. Investigating across the centuries and around the world, Newitz explores the rise and fall of four ancient cities, each the centre of a sophisticated civilisation: the Neolithic site of Çatalhöyük in Central Turkey, the Roman town of Pompeii on Italy’s southern coast, the medieval megacity of Angkor in Cambodia and the indigenous American metropolis Cahokia, which stood beside the Mississippi River where East St. Louis is today. Newitz travels to all four sites and investigates the cutting-edge research in archaeology, revealing the mix of environmental changes and political turmoil that doomed these ancient settlements. Tracing the early development of urban planning, Newitz also introduces us to the often-anonymous workers—slaves, women, immigrants and manual labourers—who built these cities and created monuments that lasted millennia. Four Lost Cities is a journey into the forgotten past but, foreseeing a future in which the majority of people on Earth will be living in cities. It may also reveal something of our own fate.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 211mmItem Length: 140mmItem Width: 20mmItem Weight: 250gAuthor: Annalee NewitzGenre: Society & CultureTopic: Social Sciences, History, Science Nature & MathRelease Year: 2022 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Publication Name: Four Lost Cities
Title: Four Lost Cities
Subtitle: A Secret History of the Urban Age
ISBN-10: 0393882454
EAN: 9780393882452
ISBN: 9780393882452
Release Date: 02/25/2022
Release Year: 2022
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Book Title: Four Lost Cities : a Secret History of the Urban Age
Number of Pages: 320 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Norton & Company, Incorporated, w. w.
Item Height: 0.7 in
Publication Year: 2022
Topic: Civilization, Archaeology, Earth Sciences / Geography
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Social Science, Science, History
Item Weight: 9.6 Oz
Author: Annalee Newitz
Item Length: 8.2 in
Item Width: 5.5 in
Format: Trade Paperback
