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A Study of History
by Arnold J. Toynbee, D.C Somervell
HISTORIANS generally illustrate rather than correct the ideas of the communities within which they live and work, and th...
Philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica
by Sir Isaac Newton
If you deny it, suppose them to be ultimately unequal, and let D be their ultimate difference.
The Book of Tea
by Okakura Kakuzō, Okakura Kakuzō
Tea began as a medicine and grew into a beverage.
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Complete...
by Edward Gibbon
After the fall of the Roman empire in the West, an interval of fifty years, till the memorable reign of Justinian, is fa...
Candide
by Voltaire
Chapitre I. Comment candide fut élevé dans un beau château, et comment il fut chassé d'icelui. Il y avait en Vestp...
Sapiens
by Yuval Noah Harari
About 14 billion years ago, matter, energy, time and space came into being in what is known as the Big Bang.
Guns, germs, and steel
by Jared M. Diamond
A suitable starting point from which to compare historical developments on the different continents is around 11,000 B.C...
Charles Darwin's The Voyage of the Beagle:
by Charles Darwin
After having been twice driven back by heavy southwestern gales, Her Majesty's ship Beagle, a ten-gun brig, under the co...
Future shock
by Alvin Toffler
In the three short decades between now and the twenty-first century, millions of ordinary, psychologically normal people...
The discovery of India
by Jawaharlal Nehru
IT IS MORE THAN TWENTY MONTHS SINCE WE WERE BROUGHT HERE, more than twenty months of my ninth term of imprisonment.
A People's History of the United States
by Howard Zinn
Arawak men and women, naked, tawny, and full of wonder, emerged from their villages onto the island's beaches and swam o...