$48.82
- Paperback
1152 pages
- Release Date
6 September 2006
Summary
In this hugely ambitious and exciting book, Peter Watson tells the history of ideas from prehistory to the present day, leading to a new way of telling the history of the world.
The book begins over a million years ago with a discussion of how the earliest ideas might have originated. Looking at animal behaviour that appears to require some thought - tool-making, territoriality, counting, language (or at least sounds), pairbonding - Peter Watson moves on to the apeman and the developm…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780753820896 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0753820897 |
| Author: | Peter Watson |
| Publisher: | Orion Publishing Co |
| Imprint: | Weidenfeld & Nicolson |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 1152 |
| Release Date: | 6 September 2006 |
| Weight: | 1.36kg |
| Dimensions: | 214mm x 134mm x 68mm |
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Here is an original perspective on the history of the world… All the important ideas are discussed, from the Ancient Greeks right up to the present day and the internet. - Sunday Telegraph
Here is an original perspective on the history of the world… All the important ideas are discussed, from the Ancient Greeks right up to the present day and the internet. - Sunday Telegraph
About The Author
Peter Watson
Peter Watson was born in 1943 and educated at the universities of Durham, London and Rome. He was deputy editor of New Society and spent four years as part of the ‘Insight’ team of The Sunday Times. He was New York correspondent of The Times and has written for the Observer, the New York Times, Punch and the Spectator. He is the author of thirteen books and has presented several television programs about the arts. Since 1998 he has been a Research Associate at the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, at the University of Cambridge.
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