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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Tantor Media Inc
Publication date
November 29, 2010
Binding
CD/Spoken Word
Edition
Mp3 una
Book category
Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13
9781400169986
ISBN-10
1400169984
Dimensions
0.50 by 5.25 by 7.50 in.
Weight
0.30 lbs.
Original list price
$39.99
Other format details
audio
Summaries and Reviews
Amazon.com description: Product Description: Sometime around 1750, English entrepreneurs unleashed the astounding energies of steam and coal, and the world was forever changed. The emergence of factories, railroads, and gunboats propelled the West's rise to power in the nineteenth century, and the development of computers and nuclear weapons in the twentieth century secured its global supremacy. Now, at the beginning of the twenty-first century, many worry that the emerging economic power of China and India spells the end of the West as a superpower. In order to understand this possibility, we need to look back in time. Why has the West dominated the globe for the past two hundred years, and will its power last? Describing the patterns of human history, the archaeologist and historian Ian Morris offers surprising new answers to both questions. It is not, he reveals, differences of race or culture, or even the strivings of great individuals that explain Western dominance. It is the effects of geography on the everyday efforts of ordinary people as they deal with crises of resources, disease, migration, and climate. As geography and human ingenuity continue to interact, the world will change in astonishing ways, transforming Western rule in the process. Deeply researched and brilliantly argued, Why the West Rulesâfor Now spans fifty thousand years of history and offers fresh insights on nearly every page. The book brings together the latest findings across disciplinesâfrom ancient history to neuroscienceânot only to explain why the West came to rule the world but also to predict what the future will bring in the next hundred years.
Editions
Hardcover
With Hugh Stephenson, Laurence Lustgarten, E. M. Barendt (other contributor), Kenneth Norrie |
from Oxford Univ Pr on Demand (December 1, 1996); titled "Libel Law and the Media: The Chilling Effect"
9780198262343 | details & prices | List price $90.00
This edition also contains Libel Law and the Media: The Chilling Effect
This edition also contains Libel Law and the Media: The Chilling Effect
CD/Spoken Word
With Antony Ferguson (other contributor) |
Unabridged edition from Tantor Media Inc (November 29, 2010)
9781400119981 | details & prices | 6.50 × 5.50 × 1.75 in. | 1.10 lbs | List price $59.99
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Mp3 una edition from Tantor Media Inc (November 29, 2010)
9781400169986 | details & prices | 5.25 × 7.50 × 0.50 in. | 0.30 lbs | List price $39.99
About: Sometime around 1750, English entrepreneurs unleashed the astounding energies of steam and coal, and the world was forever changed.
About: Sometime around 1750, English entrepreneurs unleashed the astounding energies of steam and coal, and the world was forever changed.
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