Thoughts for the advancement of mankind. Positing that modern society is an adolescent culture, driven by greed and power and lying on the cusp of an era of spiritual growth and shifting values, this book explores mythic themes in various historical eras to explain the past, present, and future of the human experience. It suggests that the world is facing a rite of passage into adulthood and that a time of cooperation, stabilization, and sharing is...

With the tremendous success of his book, A People's History of the United States, Howard Zinn radically changed the way Americans see themselves. His friend Noam Chomsky says that Zinn litteraly transformed a generation's conscience. Zinn talks about those who have no voice in the official History : Slaves, Indians, deserters, textile workers, union men.Between 1900 and 1920, more than 14 million immigrants arrived in the United States. They came...

Is the world really falling apart? Is the ideal of progress obsolete? Cognitive scientist Steven Pinker urges us to step back from the gory headlines and prophecies of doom, which play to our psychological biases. Instead, follow the data. In seventy-five graphs, Pinker shows that life, health, prosperity, safety, peace, knowledge, and happiness are on the rise, not just in the West, but worldwide. This progress is not the result of some cosmic force....

"From a New York Times best-selling historian and Pulitzer Prize finalist, a sweeping epic of how the Vikings and their descendants have shaped history and America"--

"An epic novel that spans thirty years in the lives of a farm family in Iowa, telling a parallel story of the changes taking place in America from 1920 through the early 1950s"--Provided by publisher.

An Affectionate Portrait Of Southern Mexico And Its 3000 Year Old Culture. "This engrossing study of southern Mexico, an area fabulous for what it has already yielded to devoted archaeologists, haunting for what it has not yet revealed, centers about the Zapotec as the matrix of the Oaxaca peoples and builders of a glorious ancient culture. First we come to know the peoples of Oaxaca as they are today- the fifteen tribes, their fiestas and ways of...

Diasporas comprise an inescapable part of the human experience and few are more interesting and diverse than African diasporas. By providing a panoramic view across time and geographical space this collection of essays illustrates the inherent variability of African, European and Asian diasporic formation. Even when such communities share a common origin, diasporas behave like living organisms that respond sensitively to specific geographical locations...

Il y a beaucoup de gens partout dans le monde -qui remettent en question l'histoire du monde et de nombreux chercheurs ont affirmé que l'histoire est un mensonge total. Ce livre tentera de vous aider à décider si l'histoire est un mensonge ou non. L'auteur David Ewing Jr a voyagé dans plus de 2000 villes et endroits dans le monde et a fait beaucoup de recherches historiques sur 20 ans et possède une grande connaissance de l'histoire du monde. Ce...

THE division of history into periods may be very misleading if its true purport be not understood. One age can no more be isolated from the universal course of history than one generation from another. The ideas, the principles, the aims of man change indeed, but change slowly, and in their very change are the outcome of the past. The old generation melts into the new, as the night melts into the day. None the less, just as the night differs from...

There are many people all over the world - who question world history and many researchers have made the claim that history is a total lie. This book will try to make it easy for you to decide if history is a lie or not. The author David Ewing Jr has travelled to over 2000 cities and places worldwide and has done much historical research over 20 years and has great knowledge of world history. This book will show some of the research that Anatoly Fomenko...