Through a vivid and dramatic interrogation of the past, this work examines and illuminates the nature of Western civilization from its earliest incarnations.
Through a vivid and dramatic interrogation of the past, this work examines and illuminates the nature of Western civilization from its earliest incarn...
Explores the uncertain line where myth is dissolved into science, and belief gives way to knowledge. This title offers different episodes that show how a stone falling from the sky near this same coast changed the minds of all the natural philosophers of Europe; and how a new science was born on the top of the tower of York Minster.
Explores the uncertain line where myth is dissolved into science, and belief gives way to knowledge. This title offers different episodes that show ho...
A fascinating and erudite history of the world's democracies--past and present--and the people who fought to bring democracy about
"Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time." Churchill had more reason than most to rue the power of democracy, having been thrown out of office after leading Britain to victory in 1945. Democracy, when viewed from above, has always been a fickle master; from below it is a powerful but fragile friend. Most books on democracy focus on political theory and analysis, in a...
A fascinating and erudite history of the world's democracies--past and present--and the people who fought to bring democracy about
A fresh look at the decades when British ingenuity and technological innovation changed the course of human history and ushered in the modern world. In late eighteenth-century Britain a handful of men brought about the greatest transformation in human history. Inventors, industrialists and entrepreneurs ushered in the age of powered machinery and the factory, and thereby changed the whole of human society, bringing into being new methods of social and economic organisation, new social classes, and new political forces. The Industrial Revolution also dramatically altered humanity's...
A fresh look at the decades when British ingenuity and technological innovation changed the course of human history and ushered in the modern world.
