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Britain, America, and the Making of the Modern World
by Walter R. Mead
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by A.C. Grayling
Published May 2017
Read ReviewsOut of a 'fractured and fractious time,' the author asserts persuasively, the medieval mind evolved into the modern. Another thought-provoking winner from Grayling." - Kirkus
by Naomi Klein
Published Jun 2008
Read ReviewsThe bestselling author of No Logo exposes the rise of "disaster capitalism" and destroys the myth of the global "free market".
by Karen Armstrong
Published Apr 2007
Read ReviewsIn the ninth century BCE, the peoples of four distinct regions of the civilized world created the religious and philosophical traditions that have continued to nourish humanity to the present day: Confucianism and Daoism in China, Hinduism and Buddhism in India, monotheism in Israel, and philosophical rationalism in Greece. Now, ...
by Melvyn Bragg
Published Sep 2006
Read ReviewsAn enthralling story not only of power, religion, and trade but also of people and how they changed, and continue to change the extraordinary language that is English.
by Jared Diamond
Published Apr 1999
Read Reviews'Diamond has written a book of remarkable scope . . . one of the most important and readable works on the human past published in recent years.'
by Samuel P. Huntington
Published Jun 1998
Read ReviewsSuggests that global politics has become multipolar and multicivilizational; and that there are now seven or eight major civilizations which have have replaced nations and ideologies as the driving force in global politics.
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