Ideas: A History of Thought and Invention, from Fire to Freud by Peter Watson

Ideas: A History of Thought and Invention, from Fire to Freud

Peter Watson

848 pages • first pub 2005 (editions)

nonfiction history philosophy science challenging informative slow-paced
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Peter Watson's hugely ambitious and stimulating history of ideas from deep antiquity to the present day—from the invention of writing, mathematics, science, and philosophy to the rise of such concepts as the law, sacrifice, democracy, and the soul...

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