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It was the basis of the Academy Award-winning documentary The Silent World (1956). It has been very successful; as of the book's 50th anniversary, it has been translated into some 22 languages and sold over 5 million copies, [3] and is still in print, notably as a 2004 hardcover edition published by the National Geographic Society. [4]
The Conquest of America: The Question of the Other is a book by Tzvetan Todorov first published in 1982, detailing Spanish colonials' contact with natives upon the discovery of the Americas. Todorov analyzes texts and arguments from Spanish figures such as Pedro de Valdivia and Francisco de Vitoria. Todorov argues that the latter "demolishes ...
Labatut presents the book's subjects in a less flattering light, subverting the status often given to scientists. [7] He allows scientists to glance at "truth" only after they have proven themselves worthy of their discovery through sacrifice, for example, Heisenberg scientifically concluded that he "seemed to have gouged out both his eyes in order to see further".
The Discovery of the Sea (1974, 1975, 1981) The Discovery of South America (1979) Romance of the Sea (1981) New Iberian World: A Documentary History of the Discovery and Settlement of Latin America to the Early 17th Century, edited, with commentaries by John H. Parry and Robert G. Keith; with the assistance of Michael Jimenez (1984)
The short history chronicles human development from the inventions of cavemen to the results of the First World War.Additionally, the book describes the beliefs of many major world religions, including Judaism, Hinduism, Buddhism, Christianity, and Islam, and incorporates these ideas into its narrative presentation of historical people and events.
The Silent World (French: Le Monde du silence) is a 1956 French documentary film co-directed by Jacques Cousteau and Louis Malle. One of the first films to use underwater cinematography to show the ocean depths in color , [ 1 ] [ 2 ] its title derives from Cousteau's 1953 book The Silent World: A Story of Undersea Discovery and Adventure .
The final section of the work relates his discovery of the so-called third law of planetary motion. [1] The full title is Harmonices mundi libri V (The Five Books of The Harmony of the World), which is commonly but ungrammatically shortened to Harmonices mundi. [2] [3]
In the United Kingdom, the book is published by Granta Books and is titled 1493: How the Ecological Collision of Europe and the Americas Gave Rise to the Modern World. The book was adapted for younger readers by Rebecca Stefoff and published by Seven Stories Press in 2015 as 1493 for Young People: From Columbus's Voyage to Globalization .