The World

The world is a common name for the whole of human civilization, or for the planet Earth and all life upon it. In terms such as world map and world climate, world is used in the sense detached from human culture or civilization, referring to the planet Earth physically.

In a philosophical context the term may refer to the whole of the physical Universe, or an ontological world, described by Martin Heidegger as world disclosure.

In a theological context, world usually refers to the material or the profane sphere, as opposed to the celestial, spiritual, transcendent or sacred. The "end of the world
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No es un río
Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization
The Pole
Hermanito
How to Love Your Daughter
Numbers Don't Lie: 71 Things You Need to Know About the World
Merking
Leadership : Six Studies in World Strategy
Retrospective
The Wolf Hunt
The New Map: Energy, Climate, and the Clash of Nations
The End of Everything: How Wars Descend into Annihilation
The New China Playbook: Beyond Socialism and Capitalism
How the World Made the West: A 4,000 Year History
Chokepoints: American Power in the Age of Economic Warfare
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
The Kite Runner
A Short History of Nearly Everything
The Book Thief
Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think
Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow
Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics (Politics of Place, #1)
Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
A Thousand Splendid Suns
Slaughterhouse-Five
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Night
21 Lessons for the 21st Century
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. LewisAlice in Wonderland by Jane CarruthHarry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. RowlingCoraline by Neil GaimanThe Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
"Down The Rabbithole" Books
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Out of Africa by Isak DinesenWest with the Night by Beryl MarkhamThe Flame Trees of Thika by Elspeth HuxleyThe Constant Gardener by John le CarréBorn Free by Joy Adamson
Books Set in Kenya
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The God of Small Things by Arundhati RoyA Fine Balance by Rohinton MistryThe White Tiger by Aravind AdigaMidnight’s Children by Salman RushdieThe Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
Best Indian Fiction Books
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Smoke and Mirrors by Neil GaimanFragile Things by Neil GaimanThe Martian Chronicles by Ray BradburyThe Ladies of Grace Adieu and Other Stories by Susanna ClarkeThe Bloody Chamber and Other Stories by Angela Carter
Best Fantasy Short Story Collections
526 books — 296 voters

The Kite Runner by Khaled HosseiniA Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled HosseiniOne Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezThe Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-ExupéryThe Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
Favorite World Fiction & Literature
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Cutting for Stone by Abraham   VergheseBeneath the Lion's Gaze by Maaza MengisteThe Emperor by Ryszard KapuścińskiThe Hospital by the River by Catherine HamlinThe Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears by Dinaw Mengestu
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Albert Einstein
The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.
Albert Einstein

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