At 12:05 PM 10/13/2004 -0500, you wrote:
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>Tim> Try "Against the Grain", by Richard Manning. Intriguing subtitle,
>'How Agriculture Has Hijacked Civilization'.
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>No offense, but it seems to me a dumb subtitle. Agriculture didn't hijack
>civilization, it created civilization.
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The subtitle isn't "How Agriculture Didn't Create Civilization but Hijacked
It". I guess the subtitle would be best understood having actually read the
book. I found the book very interesting and a good companion to Diamond's
'Guns, Germs, and Steel'.
Tim