Found 140,594 results for "Civilization--history"
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.
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...
A Study of History
by Arnold J. Toynbee, D.C Somervell
THE starting-point of this book was a search for fields of historical study which would be intelligible in themselves wi...
Folie et déraison; histoire de la folie
by Michel Foucault
AT the end of the Middle Ages, leprosy disappeared from the Western world.
Technics and civilization
by Lewis Mumford
During the last century the automatic or semi-automatic machine has come to occupy a large place in our daily routine; a...
The history of witchcraft and demonology
by Montague Summers
"SORCIER est celuy qui par moyens Diaboliques sciemment s'efforce de paruenir a quel que chose."
Geometry civilized
by J. L. Heilbron
signifies a preparatory science, a mental discipline, an abstract discourse, and the exemplar of rigorous reasoning. Geo...
Islam
by Seyyed Hossein Nasr
These days, the reality of Islam penetrates the consciousness of contemporary Westerners from nearly every direction.
Walden
by Henry David Thoreau
I do not propose to write an ode to dejection,* but to brag as lustily as chanticleer* in the morning, standing on his r...
