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822 pages • first pub 2005 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780060935641
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Publication date: 26 September 2006
Description
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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822 pages • first pub 2005 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780060935641
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Publication date: 26 September 2006
Description
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...