From rocks and arrows to the V2 and the rocket, man has been driven to dominate the world around him, including other humans, by throwing missiles. This lighthearted and interesting book begins in the ...Celý popis
From rocks and arrows to the V2 and the rocket, man has been driven to dominate the world around him, including other humans, by throwing missiles. This lighthearted and interesting book begins in the Pliocene when man became his worst enemy and shows how well-suited the human body is to running and throwing. Missiles became more sophisticated during the Upper Palaeolithic and Crosby ponders whether our developed skill as game hunters had anything to do with the mass extinctions of the Late Pleistocene. Much of the book conside the weapon technology of the Middle Ages, in particular the trebuchet, and the significance of the spread of gunpowder from China. Finally Crosby discusses the development of the bomb and the longest throw' which has carried man into Space.
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Nabízíme miliony knih v angličtině. Od beletrie až po ty nejodborněji odborné.
Poštovné zdarma
Poštovné už od 54 Kč a při objednávce nad 1499 Kč doprava na pobočku Zásilkovny zdarma.
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Ceny knih se snažíme držet při zemi a vždy pod cenou doporučovanou vydavatelem, aby si je mohl koupit opravdu každý.
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Nejdůležitější je pro nás Vaše spokojenost. Prodáváme knihy, protože je milujeme. Nejsme žádní nadnárodní giganti, ale poctivá česká firma.