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History of western civilization
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William Hardy McNeill |
Renowned historian William H. McNeil provides a brilliant narrative chronology of the development of Western civilization, representing its socio-political as well as cultural aspects. This sixth edi… |
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Framing history
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Bhupendra Yadav |
FINALLY, a book from India that is readable, informative and provides one of the most comprehensive understandings of the art and craft of history and the changes therein.
The modern discipline of h… |
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Age of Anger
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Pankaj Mishra |
From Goodreads (edited by me though): **One of our most important public intellectuals reveals the hidden history of our current global crisis**
Modernity, secularism, development, and progress ha… |
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Look what came from Africa
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Miles Harvey |
Describes many things that originally came from Africa, including music, dance, foods, animals, fashion, and art. |
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Western Civilization in the 21st Century
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Andrew Targowski |
xii, 271 pages : 26 cm |
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Towards the light
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A. C. Grayling |
"In Towards the Light, A.C. Grayling tells the story of the long and difficult battle for freedom in the West, from the Reformation to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, from the battle for t… |
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The gales of chance
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Gordon Donnell |
Off-shore oil platforms controlled by vulnerable software and sitting atop millions of gallons of pressurized fire and pollution have caught the eye of an immensely wealthy zealot determined to retur… |
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Mastering the Infinite Game
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Fons Trompenaars,Charles Hampden-Turner |
v, 353 p. ; 26 cm |
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Classical influences on Western thought A.D. 1650-1870
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International Conference on Classical Influences King's College, Cambridge, Eng. 1977. |
xiii, 394 pages ; 24 cm |
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Tyrannie de la pénitence
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Pascal Bruckner |
Fascism, communism, genocide, slavery, racism, imperialism - the West has no shortage of reasons for guilt. And, indeed, since the Holocaust and the end of World War-II, Europeans in particular have … |
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