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The People's Peking Man
Language: en
Pages: 368
Authors: Sigrid Schmalzer
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-05-15 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

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In the 1920s an international team of scientists and miners unearthed the richest evidence of human evolution the world had ever seen: Peking Man. After the com
The Search for Peking Man
Language: en
Pages: 250
Authors: Christopher George Janus
Categories: Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 1975 - Publisher:

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An account of the search for the onehalf-million-year-old fossil remains of Peking Man, which were discovered in China in 1926 and lost in 1941 when the Japanes
The Peking Man is Missing
Language: en
Pages: 364
Authors: Claire Taschdjian
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008 - Publisher:

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In the 1920s, on a hill near Peking (now Beijing), a team of scientists discovered a huge cache of human bones, some more than half a million years old. Collect
The Jesuit and the Skull
Language: en
Pages: 324
Authors: Amir Aczel
Categories: Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008-11-04 - Publisher: Penguin

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From the New York Times bestselling author of Fermat?s Last Theorem, ?an extraordinary story?( Philadelphia Inquirer) of discovery, evolution, science, and fait
The Adventures of Wu
Language: en
Pages: 514
Authors: H. Y. Lowe
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-07-14 - Publisher: Princeton University Press

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Based on first-hand experience, this entrancing narrative of daily life in Peking in the first decades of this century makes vivid the milieu of a fictional fam