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

ISBN: 0060935642

Author: Watson, Peter

Condition: new

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-offers an illuminated path to a greater understanding of our world and ourselves.