Reviews for The human environment

The average rating for The human environment based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2013-05-07 00:00:00 Belinda Bracey This book contains two essays by McNeill given as the Bland-Lee Lectures at Clark College. He uses the ideas of microparasiticsm in terms of disease and macroparasistism in terms of taxation to give a sweeping analysis of human history. With these processes, McNeill is able to present how societies developed, encountered one another, developed trade, trade routes, and complex economies, and warfare. These essays are a succinct summary of his ideas. Well worth reading.

Review # 2 was written on 2016-09-19 00:00:00 Neil Charles I'm clearly not the intended readership for this book, as a lesbian birth mum. I have to admit I actually picked it up because it had a single one star rating in my library's ecollection, and I was curious to see just how bad it was. It was a lot better than I expected. I find the constant gendering tiresome-to-offensive, especially when it's applied to the baby. On the other hand, as someone experiencing an extremely difficult pregnancy, I found the list of month-by-month physical whinges gelled with my experience, and pretty much to my surprise there were several moments I actually laughed out loud. I was pleasantly surprised, all in all.