Oded Galor examines the drivers of progress and innovation, and the reasons for inequality. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2022-04-29 12:00:53 UTC ]
The Bodley Head has pre-empted a "landmark" account of human history by Oded Galor. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-11-18 09:20:49 UTC ]
Kassia St. Clair explains the essential role of fabric, from ancient Egypt to outer space. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2020-01-09 12:28:19 UTC ]
Transworld has acquired Iranian-American author Reza Aslan’s "most personal book yet": God, A Human History. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-07-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
Fast Company talks with author Yuval Noah Harari, whose new book looks ahead and hazards a few guesses on what's next for humanity. Fast Company talks with author Yuval Noah Harari, whose new book looks ahead and hazards a few guesses on what's next for humanity.Yuval Noah... Continue reading >> [ Source: Fast Company | 2017-02-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
UNESCO has called the destruction of libraries and books in Mosul 'one of the most devastating acts of destruction of library collections in human history.' Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2015-02-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
Jared Diamond is a master of cultural and historical bricolage. His books weave epic stories about the human condition from the disparate cultural practices of a wide range of people living in different environments. In his Pulitzer Prize–winning Guns, Germs, and Steel, Diamond used this... Continue reading >> [ Source: Slate | 2013-02-18 00:00:00 UTC ]