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  • The Musical Human: A History of Life on Earth - A BBC Radio 4 'Book of the Week' by Spitzer, Michael
    Michael Spitzer

    The Musical Human: A History of Life on Earth - A BBC Radio 4 'Book of the Week'

    "Michael Spitzer has pulled off the impossible: a Guns, Germs and Steel for music." --Daniel Levitin A colossal history spanning cultures, time, and space to explore the vibrant relationship between music and the human species. 165 million years ago saw the birth of rhythm.66...
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  • The Theban Plays: King Oedipus; Oedipus at Colonus; Antigone by Sophocles
    Sophocle

    The Theban Plays: King Oedipus; Oedipus at Colonus; Antigone

    'O Light! May I never look on you again, Revealed as I am, sinful in my begetting, Sinful in marriage, sinful in shedding of blood!' The legends surrounding the royal house of Thebes inspired Sophocles (496-406 BC) to create a powerful trilogy of mankind's...
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  • In the Beginning by Velikovsky, Immanuel
    Immanuel Velikovsky

    In the Beginning

    This book is a sequel (or better: a prequel) to Immanuel Velikovsky's main work, the best-selling Worlds in Collision, in which he gave a detailed reconstruction of two global natural catastrophes based on information handed down by our ancestors. He mentioned there that, as...
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  • The Mosquito: A Human History of Our Deadliest Predator by Winegard, Timothy C.
    Timothy C. Winegard

    The Mosquito: A Human History of Our Deadliest Predator

    **The instant New York Times bestseller***An international bestseller* "Hugely impressive, a major work."--NPRA pioneering and groundbreaking work of narrative nonfiction that offers a dramatic new perspective on the history of humankind, showing how through millennia, the mosquito has been the single most powerful force...
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  • The Decline of the West, Vol. II: Perspectives of World-History by Spengler, Oswald
    Oswald Spengler

    The Decline of the West, Vol. II: Perspectives of World-History

    "The decline of the West, which at first sight may appear, like the corresponding decline of the Classical Culture, a phenomenon limited in time and space, we now perceive to be a philosophical problem that, when comprehended in all its gravity, includes within itself...
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  • The Book That Made Your World: How the Bible Created the Soul of Western Civilization by Mangalwadi, Vishal
    Vishal Mangalwadi

    The Book That Made Your World: How the Bible Created the Soul of Western Civilization

    Whether you're an avid student of the Bible or a skeptic of its relevance, The Book That Made Your World will transform your perception of its influence on virtually every facet of Western civilization.Indian philosopher Vishal Mangalwadi reveals the personal motivation that fueled his...
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  • China: A History by Keay, John
    John Keay

    China: A History

    An authoritative account of five thousand years of Chinese history Many nations define themselves in terms of territory or people; China defines itself in terms of history. Taking into account the country's unrivaled, voluminous tradition of history writing, John Keay has composed a vital...
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  • Critical Path by Fuller, R. Buckminster
    R. Buckminster Fuller

    Critical Path

    Critical Path marks the masterwork of one of the finest minds and most significant thinkers of the modern age R. Buckminster Fuller is regarded as one of the most important figures of the 20th century, renowned for his achievements as an inventor, designer, architect,...
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  • A Thousand Small Sanities: The Moral Adventure of Liberalism by Gopnik, Adam
    Adam Gopnik

    A Thousand Small Sanities: The Moral Adventure of Liberalism

    A stirring defense of liberalism against the dogmatisms of our time from an award-winning and New York Times bestselling author.Not since the early twentieth century has liberalism, and liberals, been under such relentless attack, from both right and left. The crisis of democracy in...
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  • Cuneiform: Ancient Scripts by Finkel, Irving
    Irving Finkel

    Cuneiform: Ancient Scripts

    Cuneiform script on clay tablets is, as far as we know, the oldest form of writing in the world. The resilience of clay has permitted these records to survive for thousands of years, providing a fascinating glimpse into the political, economic, and religious institutions...
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  • Animal, Vegetable, Junk: A History of Food, from Sustainable to Suicidal by Bittman, Mark
    Mark Bittman

    Animal, Vegetable, Junk: A History of Food, from Sustainable to Suicidal: A Food Science Nutrition History Book

    From hunting and gathering to GMOs and ultra-processed foods, this expansive tour of human history rewrites the story of our species and points the way to a better future. The history of Homo sapiens is usually told as a story of technology or economics....
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  • Babylon: A Captivating Guide to the Kingdom in Ancient Mesopotamia, Starting from the Akkadian Empire to the Battle of Opis Aga by History, Captivating
    Captivating History

    Babylon: A Captivating Guide to the Kingdom in Ancient Mesopotamia, Starting from the Akkadian Empire to the Battle of Opis Aga

    Explore the Captivating History of BabylonThe Babylonian influence upon its successors and even modern society knows no bounds. One of the leading civilizations of Mesopotamia, the Babylonians provided the fundamentals of mathematics, agriculture, architecture, metallurgy, and other influential and necessary fields required to develop...
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  • Desire of the Everlasting Hills: The World Before and After Jesus by Cahill, Thomas
    Thomas Cahill

    Desire of the Everlasting Hills: The World Before and After Jesus

    NATIONAL BESTSELLER - From the bestselling author of How the Irish Saved Civilization comes a compelling historical narrative about Jesus--an obscure rabbi from a backwater of the Roman Empire who became the central figure in Western Civilization. "Divertingly instructive...gratifying...[Cahill] makes Jesus a still-living literary...
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  • The Peloponnesian War by Kagan, Donald
    Donald Kagan

    The Peloponnesian War

    For three decades in the fifth century b.c. the ancient world was torn apart bya conflict that was as dramatic, divisive, and destructive as the world wars of the twentieth century: the Peloponnesian War. Donald Kagan, one of the world's most respected classical, political,...
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  • The Human Story: Our History, from the Stone Age to Today by Davis, James C.
    James C. Davis

    The Human Story: Our History, from the Stone Age to Today

    "A brisk and cheerfully traditional trip through our history, from homo erectus to George W. Bush." --Kirkus ReviewsIn The Human Story, James C. Davis takes us on a journey to ancient times, telling how peoples of the world settled down and founded cities, conquered...
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  • Great City Maps: A Historical Journey Through Maps, Plans, and Paintings by DK
    DK

    Great City Maps: A Historical Journey Through Maps, Plans, and Paintings

    Journey back in time and take a walk through the historic streets of the world's greatest cities. Great City Maps is the companion title to DK's Great Maps and takes a focused look at over 70 gorgeously illustrated historical maps and plans of cities...
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  • The City of Babylon: A History, C. 2000 BC - Ad 116 by Dalley, Stephanie
    Stephanie Dalley

    The City of Babylon

    The 2000-year story of Babylon sees it moving from a city-state to the centre of a great empire of the ancient world. It remained a centre of kingship under the empires of Assyria, Nebuchadnezzar, Darius, Alexander the Great, the Seleucids and the Parthians. Its...
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  • The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volumes 1 to 6 by Gibbon, Edward
    Edward Gibbon

    The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volumes 1 to 6

    Edward Gibbon's classic timeless work of ancient Roman history in 6 volumes collected into 2 box sets, in beautiful, enduring hardcover editions with elegant cloth sewn bindings, gold stamped covers, and silk ribbon markers. Easily the most famous historical chronicle in English, Gibbon's account...
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  • The Penguin History of the World by Roberts, J. M.
    J. M. Roberts

    The Penguin History of the World

    The completely updated edition of J. M. Roberts and Odd Arne Westad's widely acclaimed, landmark bestseller The Penguin History of the World For generations of readers The Penguin History of the World has been one of the great cultural experiences - the entire story...
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  • Babylon: Mesopotamia and the Birth of Civilization by Kriwaczek, Paul
    Paul Kriwaczek

    Babylon: Mesopotamia and the Birth of Civilization

    Civilization was born eight thousand years ago, between the floodplains of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, when migrants from the surrounding mountains and deserts began to create increasingly sophisticated urban societies. In the cities that they built, half of human history took place. In...
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  • The Inheritance of Rome: Illuminating the Dark Ages, 400-1000 by Wickham, Chris
    Chris Wickham

    The Inheritance of Rome: Illuminating the Dark Ages, 400-1000

    "The breath of reading is astounding, the knowledge displayed is awe-inspiring and the attention quietly given to critical theory and the postmodern questioning of evidence is both careful and sincere."--The Daily Telegraph (UK) "A superlative work of historical scholarship."--Literary Review (UK) A unique and...
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  • Forgotten Peoples of the Ancient World by Matyszak, Philip
    Philip Matyszak

    Forgotten Peoples of the Ancient World

    The ancient world of the Mediterranean and the Near East saw the birth and collapse of great civilizations. While several of these are well known, for all those that have been recorded, many have been unjustly forgotten. Our history is overflowing with different cultures...
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  • The Invention of Yesterday: A 50,000-Year History of Human Culture, Conflict, and Connection by Ansary, Tamim
    Tamim Ansary

    The Invention of Yesterday: A 50,000-Year History of Human Culture, Conflict, and Connection

    From language to culture to cultural collision: the story of how humans invented history, from the Stone Age to the Virtual AgeTraveling across millennia, weaving the experiences and world views of cultures both extinct and extant, The Invention of Yesterday shows that the engine...
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  • The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Gibbon, Edward
    Edward Gibbon

    The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

    Edward Gibbon's six-volume History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (1776-88) is among the most magnificent and ambitious narratives in European literature. Its subject is the fate of one of the world's greatest civilizations over thirteen centuries - its rulers, wars...
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  • The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam by Tuchman, Barbara W.
    Barbara W. Tuchman

    The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam

    Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Barbara W. Tuchman, author of the World War I masterpiece The Guns of August, grapples with her boldest subject: the pervasive presence, through the ages, of failure, mismanagement, and delusion in government. Drawing on a comprehensive array of examples, from Montezuma's...
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  • The Empires of Atlantis: The Origins of Ancient Civilizations and Mystery Traditions Throughout the Ages by Vigato, Marco M.
    Marco M. Vigato

    The Empires of Atlantis: The Origins of Ancient Civilizations and Mystery Traditions Throughout the Ages

    Establishes the historical and geological reality of Atlantis and reveals its continuing influence around the world - Traces the course of Atlantean civilization through its three empires, as well as the colonies and outposts formed by its survivors in Egypt, Gekli Tepe, India, Mesopotamia,...
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  • The Fifth Beginning: What Six Million Years of Human History Can Tell Us about Our Future by Kelly, Robert L.
    Robert L. Kelly

    The Fifth Beginning: What Six Million Years of Human History Can Tell Us about Our Future

    "I have seen yesterday. I know tomorrow." This inscription in Tutankhamun's tomb summarizes The Fifth Beginning. Here, archaeologist Robert L. Kelly explains how the study of our cultural past can predict the future of humanity. In an eminently readable style, Kelly identifies four key...
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  • A Brief History of Vice: How Bad Behavior Built Civilization by Evans, Robert
    Robert Evans

    A Brief History of Vice: How Bad Behavior Built Civilization

    A celebration of the brave, drunken pioneers who built our civilization one seemingly bad decision at a time, A Brief History of Vice explores a side of the past that mainstream history books prefer to hide. History has never been more fun--or more intoxicating....
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  • Osman's Dream: The History of the Ottoman Empire by Finkel, Caroline
    Caroline Finkel

    Osman's Dream: The History of the Ottoman Empire

    The definitive history of the Ottoman Empire The Ottoman Empire was one of the largest and most influential empires in world history. Its reach extended to three continents and it survived for more than six centuries, but its history is too often colored by...
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  • Revolutionary Monsters: Five Men Who Turned Liberation Into Tyranny by Critchlow, Donald T.
    Donald T. Critchlow

    Revolutionary Monsters: Five Men Who Turned Liberation Into Tyranny

    Lenin. Mao. Castro. Mugabe. Khomeini. All sparked movements in the name of liberating their people from their oppressors--capitalists, foreign imperialists, or dictators in their own country. These revolutionaries rallied the masses in the name of freedom, only to become more tyrannical than those they...
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  • A War Like No Other: How the Athenians and Spartans Fought the Peloponnesian War by Hanson, Victor Davis
    Victor Davis Hanson

    A War Like No Other: How the Athenians and Spartans Fought the Peloponnesian War

    One of our most provocative military historians, Victor Davis Hanson has given us painstakingly researched and pathbreaking accounts of wars ranging from classical antiquity to the twenty-first century. Now he juxtaposes an ancient conflict with our most urgent modern concerns to create his most...
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  • Latitude: The True Story of the World's First Scientific Expedition by Crane, Nicholas
    Nicholas Crane

    Latitude: The True Story of the World's First Scientific Expedition

    Latitude is a gloriously exciting tale of adventure and scientific discovery that has never been told before. Crane, the former president of the Royal Geographic Society, documents the remarkable expedition undertaken by a group of twelve European adventurer-scientists in the mid-eighteenth century. The team...
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  • Great Cities: The Stories Behind the World's Most Fascinating Places by DK
    DK

    Great Cities: The Stories Behind the World's Most Fascinating Places

    Explore the social and cultural history of 100 of the world's most important cities. This illustrated history book provides a fascinating insight into the events, movements, and people throughout history who have shaped the cities where we live. Written in a "biography" format, it...
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  • The End Is Always Near: Apocalyptic Moments from the Bronze Age Collapse to Nuclear Near Misses by Carlin, Dan
    Dan Carlin

    The End Is Always Near: Apocalyptic Moments from the Bronze Age Collapse to Nuclear Near Misses

    Now a New York Times Bestseller.The creator of the wildly popular award-winning podcast Hardcore History looks at some of the apocalyptic moments from the past as a way to frame the challenges of the future.Do tough times create tougher people? Can humanity handle the...
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  • The Decline of the West by Spengler, Oswald
    Oswald Spengler

    The Decline of the West

    Since its first publication more than eighty years ago, The Decline of the West has ranked as one of the most widely read and talked about books of our time. A sweeping account of Western culture by a historian of legendary intellect, it is...
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  • The Eternal Decline and Fall of Rome: The History of a Dangerous Idea by Watts, Edward J.
    Edward J. Watts

    The Eternal Decline and Fall of Rome: The History of a Dangerous Idea

    As this book intriguingly explores, for those who would make Rome great again and their victims, ideas of Roman decline and renewal have had a long and violent history.The decline of Rome has been a constant source of discussion for more than 2200 years....
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  • The Crooked Timber of Humanity: Chapters in the History of Ideas - Second Edition by Berlin, Isaiah
    Isaiah Berlin

    The Crooked Timber of Humanity: Chapters in the History of Ideas - Second Edition

    "Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made."--Immanuel Kant Isaiah Berlin was one of the most important philosophers of the twentieth century--an activist of the intellect who marshaled vast erudition and eloquence in defense of the endangered values of...
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  • The Civilizations of Africa: A History to 1800 by Ehret, Christopher
    Christopher Ehret

    The Civilizations of Africa: A History to 1800

    Since its initial publication, The Civilizationsof Africa has established itself as the most authoritative text available on early African history. Addressing the glaring lack of works concentrating on earlier African eras, Christopher Ehret's trailblazing book has been paired with histories of Africa since 1800...
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  • Wars of the Anunnaki: Nuclear Self-Destruction in Ancient Sumer by Hardy, Chris H.
    Chris H. Hardy

    Wars of the Anunnaki: Nuclear Self-Destruction in Ancient Sumer

    Examines the Anunnaki gods' evolving relationships with humanity, their power struggles, and the details of their nuclear war on Earth - Analyzes the crisis and rationale behind the Anunnaki decision to nuke 5 cities in the Jordan plain, resulting in the obliteration of Sumerian...
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  • Islamic Empires: The Cities That Shaped Civilization: From Mecca to Dubai by Marozzi, Justin
    Justin Marozzi

    Islamic Empires: The Cities That Shaped Civilization: From Mecca to Dubai

    A history of the rich and diverse civilizations over fifteen centuries of Islam seen through its greatest cities. Islamic civilization was once the envy of the world. From a succession of glittering, cosmopolitan capitals, Islamic empires lorded it over the Middle East, North Africa,...
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  • Immoderate Greatness: Why Civilizations Fail by Ophuls, William
    William Ophuls

    Immoderate Greatness: Why Civilizations Fail

    *Immoderate Greatness* explains how a civilization's very magnitude conspires against it to cause downfall. Civilizations are hard-wired for self-destruction. They travel an arc from initial success to terminal decay and ultimate collapse due to intrinsic, inescapable biophysical limits combined with an inexorable trend toward...
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  • The Gifts of the Jews: How a Tribe of Desert Nomads Changed the Way Everyone Thinks and Feels by Cahill, Thomas
    Thomas Cahill

    The Gifts of the Jews: How a Tribe of Desert Nomads Changed the Way Everyone Thinks and Feels

    NATIONAL BESTSELLER - The author of the runaway bestseller How the Irish Saved Civilization takes us on another "captivating...persuasive as well as entertaining" journey into history (The New York Times), recreating a time when the actions of a small band of people had repercussions...
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  • Civilization: The West and the Rest by Ferguson, Niall
    Niall Ferguson

    Civilization: The West and the Rest

    From the bestselling author of The Ascent of Money and The Square and the Tower "A dazzling history of Western ideas." --The Economist "Mr. Ferguson tells his story with characteristic verve and an eye for the felicitous phrase." --Wall Street Journal "[W]ritten with vitality...
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  • America Before: The Key to Earth's Lost Civilization by Hancock, Graham
    Graham Hancock

    America Before: The Key to Earth's Lost Civilization

    The Instant New York Times Bestseller! Was an advanced civilization lost to history in the global cataclysm that ended the last Ice Age? Graham Hancock, the internationally bestselling author, has made it his life's work to find out--and in America Before, he draws on...
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  • A Little History of Science by Bynum, William
    William Bynum

    A Little History of Science

    A spirited volume on the great adventures of science throughout history, for curious readers of all ages Science is fantastic. It tells us about the infinite reaches of space, the tiniest living organism, the human body, the history of Earth. People have always been...
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  • Ethiopia and the Origin of Civilization by Jackson, John G.
    John G. Jackson

    Ethiopia and the Origin of Civilization

    2017 Reprint of 1939 Edition. This essay is an effort to highlight the influence of Ethiopia in the history of Civilization. It also devotes consider time to suggesting that Ethiopia's contribution has been either misunderstood or intentionally ignored by mainstream historians and scholars. Jackson...
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  • Europe's Babylon: The Rise and Fall of Antwerp's Golden Age by Pye, Michael
    Michael Pye

    Europe's Babylon: The Rise and Fall of Antwerp's Golden Age

    A revelatory history of Antwerp--from its rise to a world city to its fall in the Spanish Fury--by the New York Times Notable author of The Edge of the World. Before Amsterdam, there was a dazzling North Sea port at the hub of the...
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  • The History of the Ancient World: From the Earliest Accounts to the Fall of Rome by Bauer, Susan Wise
    Susan Wise Bauer

    The History of the Ancient World: From the Earliest Accounts to the Fall of Rome

    This is the first volume in a bold series that tells the stories of all peoples, connecting historical events from Europe to the Middle East to the far coast of China, while still giving weight to the characteristics of each country. Susan Wise Bauer...
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  • Burning the Books: A History of the Deliberate Destruction of Knowledge by Ovenden, Richard
    Richard Ovenden

    Burning the Books: A History of the Deliberate Destruction of Knowledge

    A Wolfson History Prize FinalistA New Statesman Book of the YearA Sunday Times Book of the Year "Timely and authoritative...I enjoyed it immensely."--Philip Pullman "If you care about books, and if you believe we must all stand up to the destruction of knowledge and...
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  • The Cave and the Light: Plato Versus Aristotle, and the Struggle for the Soul of Western Civilization by Herman, Arthur
    Arthur Herman

    The Cave and the Light: Plato Versus Aristotle, and the Struggle for the Soul of Western Civilization

    The definitive sequel to New York Times bestseller How the Scots Invented the Modern World is a magisterial account of how the two greatest thinkers of the ancient world, Plato and Aristotle, laid the foundations of Western culture--and how their rivalry shaped the essential...
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