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How the World Made the West

How the World Made the West tells the story of surprisingly complex relationships of contact, trade and competition among small city states around the Mediterranean and Middle East starting around 4,000 years ago. In doing so, Josephine Quinn challenges conventional ideas about how civilizations develop. Continue reading

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Our Moon

Our Moon is a fascinating book that explores how the Moon has inspired culture, religion and science for thousands of years. More than that, in this wide-ranging book, author Rebecca Boyle shows how the Moon also affected the formation of the Earth, and guided the evolution of life itself. Continue reading

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The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity

Everything you thought you knew about human history is wrong. And that’s a good thing. That’s the key message of The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity, a monumental work of scholarship by David Graeber and David Wengrow. … Continue reading

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