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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.04 — 459,118 ratings — published 1997
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.33 — 1,268,345 ratings — published 2011
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.94 — 74,787 ratings — published 2004
21 Lessons for the 21st Century (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.15 — 178,105 ratings — published 2018
Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow (ebook)
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avg rating 4.18 — 288,393 ratings — published 2015
Debt: The First 5,000 Years (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.21 — 27,028 ratings — published 2011
India that is Bharat: Coloniality, Civilisation, Constitution (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.42 — 1,626 ratings — published 2021
Civilisation (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.25 — 1,886 ratings — published 1969
Brave New World (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.99 — 2,084,906 ratings — published 1932
Why the West Rules—for Now: The Patterns of History, and What They Reveal About the Future (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.11 — 5,937 ratings — published 2010
مذكرات شاهد للقرن (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.14 — 589 ratings — published 2004
Energy: A Beginner's Guide (Beginner's Guides)
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avg rating 3.98 — 1,463 ratings — published 2006
Power and Plenty: Trade, War, and the World Economy in the Second Millennium (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.16 — 360 ratings — published 2007
Rivers of Power: How a Natural Force Raised Kingdoms, Destroyed Civilizations, and Shapes Our World (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.86 — 401 ratings — published 2020
العفن - الجزء الأول 1932 - 1940 (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.24 — 205 ratings — published
Inventing the Individual: The Origins of Western Liberalism (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.10 — 702 ratings — published 2014
Stone Age Economics (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.92 — 532 ratings — published 1974
Energy and Civilization: A History (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.09 — 4,137 ratings — published 2017
Ravenna: Capital of Empire, Crucible of Europe (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.91 — 949 ratings — published 2016
The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.78 — 14,093 ratings — published 1996
Capital in the Twenty First Century (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.06 — 34,655 ratings — published 2013
Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics (Politics of Place, #1)
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avg rating 4.19 — 117,737 ratings — published 2015
Civilization and Its Discontents (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.80 — 44,713 ratings — published 1930
Civilization and Capitalism 15th-18th Century, Vol. 1: The Structures of Everyday Life (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.36 — 1,768 ratings — published 1979
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.09 — 63,398 ratings — published 2012
A Theory of Justice (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.95 — 13,614 ratings — published 1971
The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.19 — 7,052 ratings — published 2017
The Open Society and Its Enemies - Volume Two: Hegel and Marx (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.08 — 2,345 ratings — published 1945
The Open Society and Its Enemies - Volume One: The Spell of Plato (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.16 — 2,881 ratings — published 1945
World-Systems Analysis: An Introduction (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.93 — 1,684 ratings — published 2004
The Great Transformation: The Political and Economic Origins of Our Time (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.21 — 5,350 ratings — published 1944
The Great Degeneration (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.53 — 2,842 ratings — published 2012
Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.24 — 37,095 ratings — published 1975
The Social Contract (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.78 — 58,101 ratings — published 1762
Utopia (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.55 — 83,477 ratings — published 1516
A Brief History Of The Incas: From Rise, Through Reign, To Ruin (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.36 — 25 ratings — published 2010
The Decline of the West (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.06 — 2,238 ratings — published 1918
Civilizations: Culture, Ambition, and the Transformation of Nature (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.89 — 383 ratings — published 2000
Why America Is Not a New Rome (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.53 — 119 ratings — published 2010
The Years of Rice and Salt (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 3.77 — 15,599 ratings — published 2002
Conquistadors (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.99 — 971 ratings — published 2000
Atlas of World History (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.21 — 102 ratings — published 1999
In Search of the First Civilizations (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.80 — 204 ratings — published 1992
Islam: A Thousand Years of Faith and Power (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.43 — 126 ratings — published 2000
Origins: The roots of European civilisation (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.67 — 3 ratings — published 1988
The Discovery of India (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.09 — 8,634 ratings — published 1946
The Builder’s Stone: How Jews and Christians Built the West—and Why Only They Can Save It (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.41 — 70 ratings — published
From Byzantine to Islamic Egypt: Religion, Identity and Politics after the Arab Conquest (Library of Middle East History)
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avg rating 4.21 — 19 ratings — published 2012
The End of Money and the Future of Civilization (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.72 — 79 ratings — published 2009
1984 (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.20 — 5,493,625 ratings — published 1948
“This week, Zuma was quoted as saying, 'When the British came to our country, they said everything we are doing was barbaric, was wrong, inferior in whatever way.' But the serious critique of Zuma is not about who is a barbarian and who is civilised. It is about good governance, and this is a universal value, as relevant to an African village as it is to Westminster. If you are unable to keep your appetites in check, you are inevitably going to live beyond your means. And this means you are going to become vulnerable to patronage and even corruption. That is why Jacob Zuma's 'polygamy' is his achilles heel.”
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“Both for society as well as for the individual there is a gulf between merely living and living worthily. In order that one may live worthily one must first live. How then can a life of culture be made possible? It is not possible unless there is sufficient leisure. For it is only when there is leisure that a person is free to devote himself to a life of culture. The problem of all problems which human society has to face is how to provide leisure to every individual. What does leisure mean? Leisure means the lessening of the toil and effort necessary for satisfying the physical wants of life. How can leisure be made possible? Leisure is quite impossible unless some means are found whereby the toil required for producing goods necessary to satisfy human needs is lessened. What can lessen such toil? Only when machine takes the place of man. There's no other means of producing leisure. Machinery and modern civilization are thus indispensable for emancipating man from leading the life of a brute, and providing him with leisure and making a life of culture possible. The man who condemns machinery and modern civilization simply does not understand their purpose and the ultimate aim which human society must strive to achieve.”
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