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Civilization: The Six Killer Apps of Western Power by Niall Ferguson
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
This title was selected for the "Daily Telegraph" Books Of The Year. If in the year 1411 you had been able to circumnavigate the globe and compare the dazzling civilizations of the Orient with Europe and North America, the idea that the West would dominate the Rest for most of the next half millennium w ...Show more
Doom - The Politics of Catastrophe by Niall Ferguson
Category: Politics | Reading Level: very good
Disasters are by their very nature hard to predict. Pandemics, like earthquakes, wildfires, financial crises and wars, are not normally distributed; there is no cycle of history to help us anticipate the next catastrophe. But when disaster strikes, we ought to be better prepared than the Romans were whe ...Show more
The Square and the Tower by Niall Ferguson
Category: Society & Culture | Reading Level: good-very good
The instant New York Times bestseller. A brilliant recasting of the turning points in world history, including the one we're living through, as a collision between old power hierarchies and new social networks. "Captivating and compelling." --The New York Times "Niall Ferguson has again written a ...Show more
The Square and the Tower: Networks, Hierarchies and The Struggle for Global Power by Niall Ferguson
Category: Society & Culture | Reading Level: very good
The instant New York Times bestseller. A brilliant recasting of the turning points in world history, including the one we're living through, as a collision between old power hierarchies and new social networks. "Captivating and compelling." --The New York Times "Niall Ferguson has again written a ...Show more
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