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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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
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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Z213 by Dimitris LyacosYouth Without God by Ödön von HorváthThe Death of Ivan Ilych by Leo TolstoyOjo por ojo by J.K. FrankoThe Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu
Around the World Literature
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Brave New World and Brave New World Revisited by Aldous HuxleyThe War of the Worlds by H.G. WellsAround the World in Eighty Days by Jules VerneDanny the Champion of the World by Roald DahlBrave New World by Aldous Huxley
The World
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Oscar Wilde
We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell.
Oscar Wilde

Lauren Oliver
Sometimes I feel like if you just watch things, just sit still and let the world exist in front of you - sometimes I swear that just for a second time freezes and the world pauses in its tilt. Just for a second. And if you somehow found a way to live in that second, then you would live forever.
Lauren Oliver, Pandemonium

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