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The Columbia history of the 20th century
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ISBN: 0231076282 Year: 1998 Publisher: New York, N.Y. Columbia University Press

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Hunters, herders, and hamburgers : the past and future of human-animal relationships
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ISBN: 0231130767 0231503962 Year: 2005 Publisher: New York, N.Y. Columbia University Press

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Cotton, climate, and camels in early Islamic Iran : a moment in world history
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ISBN: 9780231148368 9780231519878 Year: 2009 Publisher: New York, N.Y. Columbia University Press

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Islam : the view from the Edge
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ISBN: 0231082185 9780231082181 Year: 1994 Publisher: New York (N.Y.): Columbia university press

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Conversion to Islam in the medieval period : an essay in quantitative history.
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ISBN: 0674170350 9780674170353 Year: 1979 Publisher: Cambridge Harvard university


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La civilisation islamo-chrétienne son passé, son avenir.
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ISBN: 2082105210 9782082105217 Year: 2006 Publisher: Paris,

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The patricians of Nishapur : a study in medieval Islamic social history
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ISBN: 0674657926 Year: 1972 Publisher: Cambridge (Mass.): Harvard university

The case for Islamo-Christian civilization
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ISBN: 0231127960 9780231127967 9780231509183 0231509189 0231127979 9780231127974 Year: 2004 Publisher: New York Columbia University Press

The camel and the wheel.
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ISBN: 9780231072359 9780231072342 023107235X 0231072341 Year: 1990 Publisher: New York Columbia University Press

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The wheel
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ISBN: 9780231173384 9780231540612 0231540612 0231173385 Year: 2016 Publisher: New York

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In this book, Richard W. Bulliet focuses on three major phases in the evolution of the wheel and their relationship to the needs and ambitions of human society. He begins in 4000 B.C.E. with the first wheels affixed to axles. He then follows with the innovation of wheels turning independently on their axles and concludes five thousand years later with the caster, a single rotating and pivoting wheel.Bulliet's most interesting finding is that a simple desire to move things from place to place did not drive the wheel's development. If that were the case, the wheel could have been invented at any time almost anywhere in the world. By dividing the history of this technology into three conceptual phases and focusing on the specific men, women, and societies that brought it about, Bulliet expands the social, economic, and political significance of a tool we only partially understand. He underscores the role of gender, combat, and competition in the design and manufacture of wheels, adding vivid imagery to illustrate each stage of their development.

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Wheels --- Simple machines --- Vehicles --- History.

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