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Story of civilization volume 9
Publisher
Simon and Schuster
Pub. Date
1965
Language
English
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English
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"One of The New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2015" "One of Bloomberg Businessweek's Best Books of 2015, chosen by Diana Farrell" "One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2016"
How four revolutionary ideas from the Enlightenment shaped today's world
This panoramic book tells the story of how revolutionary ideas from the Enlightenment about freedom, equality, evolution, and democracy have reverberated through modern history and shaped...
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Publisher
Crossway
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
""This book is perhaps the most significant analysis and evaluation of Western culture written by a Protestant during the past fifty years." - Bruce Riley Ashford , Professor of Theology and Culture, Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary Modern culture is obsessed with identity. Since the landmark Obergefell v. Hodges Supreme Court decision in 2015, sexual identity has dominated both public discourse and cultural trends-yet no historical phenomenon...
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Publisher
Portfolio/Penguin
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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"For evolutionary biologists Heather Heying and Bret Weinstein, the cause of many modern woes is clear: the world is out of sync with humans' ancient brains and bodies. The authors cut through the disputes surrounding issues like sex, gender, diet, parenting, sleep, education, and more to outline a science-based worldview that will empower the reader to live a better, wiser life. They distill more than twenty years of research and first-hand accounts...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
In this important lecture, which is particularly relevant to the "War on Terrorism," Edward Said challenges the ideological assumption that the contemporary world is characterized by conflicts between different and "clashing" civilizations (Western, Islamic, Confucian).
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Publisher
Avery, an imprint of Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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"In this revolutionary book, renowned physician Gabor Maté eloquently dissects how in Western countries that pride themselves on their healthcare systems, chronic illness and general ill health are on the rise. Nearly 70 percent of Americans are on at least one prescription drug; more than half take two. In Canada, every fifth person has high blood pressure. In Europe, hypertension is diagnosed in more than 30 percent of the population. And everywhere,...
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English
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A bestselling historian shows how the British Empire created the modern world, in a book lauded as "a rattling good tale" (Wall Street Journal) and "popular history at its best" (Washington Post)
The British Empire was the largest in all history: the nearest thing to global domination ever achieved. The world we know today is in large measure the product of Britain's Age of Empire. The global spread of capitalism, telecommunications, the English...
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Publisher
Lexham Academic
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
How modernity creates atheists-and what the church must do about it.
Millions of people in the West identify as atheists. Christians often respond to this reality with proofs of God's existence, as though rational arguments for atheism were the root cause of unbelief. In Bulwarks of Unbelief, Joseph Minich argues that a felt absence of God, as experienced by the modern individual, offers a better explanation for the rise in atheism. Recent technological...
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English
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On February 12, 1809, two men were born an ocean apart: Abraham Lincoln in a one-room Kentucky log cabin; Charles Darwin on an English country estate. Each would see his life's work inspire a stark change in mankind's understanding of itself. In this bicentennial twin portrait, Adam Gopnik shows how these two giants, who never met, altered the way we think about death and time--about the very nature of earthly existence.
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