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

Peter Watson
HarperCollins
9780060935641
0-06-093564-2

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.

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as the law, sacrifice, democracy, and the soul—offers an illuminated path to a greater understanding of our world and ourselves.