Books related to CivilizationCivilization: The West and the Rest
by Niall Ferguson
Description : Western civilization’s rise to global dominance is the single most important historical phenomenon of the past five centuries How did the West overtake its Eastern rivals? And has the zenith of Western power now passed? Acclaimed historian Niall Ferguson argues that beginning in the f...more..
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Civilizations of Africa: The History and Culture of the Mbuti (Pygmy)
by Charles River Editors
Description : *Explains the origins, history, religion, and social structure of the Mbuti*Includes ancient descriptions of pygmies and theories about their evolution. *Includes a Bibliography for further reading.*Includes a Table of Contents. "[T]heir eyes had an untameable wildness ...more..
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Immoderate Greatness: Why Civilizations Fail
by William Ophuls
Description : *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 w...more..
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Civilization and Its Discontents
by Sigmund Freud
Description : Reprint of the 1930 American edition. In this seminal book, Sigmund Freud enumerates the fundamental tensions between civilization and the individual. The primary friction stems from the individual's quest for instinctual freedom and civilization's contrary demand for conformity and instinctual repr...more..
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Civilization and Its Discontents (Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud)
by Sigmund Freud
Description : Freud’s seminal volume of twentieth-century cultural thought grounded in psychoanalytic theory, now with a new introduction by Christopher Hitchens.Written in the decade before Freud’s death, Civilization and Its Discontents may be his most famous and most brilli...more..
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Tiger Writing: Art, Culture, and the Interdependent Self (The William E. Massey Sr. Lectures in the History of American Civilization)
by Gish Jen
Description : For author Gish Jen, the daughter of Chinese immigrant parents, books were once an Outsiders’ Guide to the Universe. But they were something more, too. Through her eclectic childhood reading, Jen stumbled onto a cultural phenomenon that would fuel her writing for decades to come: the profound d...more..
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Vashti: Queen of the Ancient Medes (Airyanem Civilization)
by Alison Buckley
Description : In this narrative fictionalised tale of Vashti, Queen of the Medes, Alison Buckley and Hamma Mirwaisi deftly explore the courage of a woman facing an untenable moral dilemma. Facing betrayal from enemies in the palace she had a desperate choice—conform to her husband’s outrageous wishes or face ...more..
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Radical Abundance: How a Revolution in Nanotechnology Will Change Civilization
by K. Eric Drexler
Description : K. Eric Drexler is the founding father of nanotechnologythe science of engineering on a molecular level. In Radical Abundance, he shows how rapid scientific progress is about to change our world. Thanks to atomically precise manufacturing, we will soon have the power to produce radical...more..
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The Barbarous Years: The Peopling of British North America: The Conflict of Civilizations, 1600-1675
by Bernard Bailyn
Description : Bernard Bailyn gives us a compelling account of the first great transit of people from Britain, Europe, and Africa to British North America, their involvements with each other, and their struggles with the indigenous peoples of the eastern seaboard. They were a mix...more..
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How the Irish Saved Civilization: The Untold Story of Ireland's Heroic Role From the Fall of Rome to the Rise of Medieval Europe (The Hinges of History)
by Thomas Cahill
Description : The perfect St. Patrick's Day gift, and a book in the best tradition of popular history -- the untold story of Ireland's role in maintaining Western culture while the Dark Ages settled on Europe.Every year millions of Americans celebrate St. Patrick's Day, but they may not be aware of how gr...more..
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