Customer Review: With over 1,000 reviews on Amazon it is quite unlikely you will read anything different in my review than all the other five star reviews. I must say that Jared Diamond has written an extraordinary book. The question he tackles with GGS is, "Why and how did wealth and power develop in some areas and... more info
Customer Review: I read this book as a requirement of nursing school, but I thoroughly enjoyed it... It will captivate anyone with a heart/soul. I might even read it again later in my career- I really enjoyed the exposure to cultural competence.
Customer Review: Published over ten years ago and this book is still more relevant than ever. Whether or not you agree with Huntington, you cannot dispute that this is an excellent read. Those who agree that the West is at war with Islam will find much to like within these pages as Huntington offers much empirical... more info
Customer Review: Human history is full of tantalizing riddles. Some of the most fascinating of these arise from the appearance of ancient ruins in unlikely places, such as Easter Island, or the dense jungles of the Yucatan Peninsula. To the uninitiated, these ruins are the ghosts of phantom civilizations whose... more info
Customer Review: Along with Mithen's After The Ice, this is the most enjoyable book on European prehistory that I have read. Filled with colorful maps and photos that follow along with the text descriptions, written elegantly and with enough detail to not seem too "dumbed-down" for the layman. If every professor or... more info
Customer Review: "The Intellectual Devotional: Modern Culture edition" is a 16 CD set comprised of brief yet interesting segments on various historical figures and other cultural phenomenae. The set, like the other installments in the "Intellectual Devotional" series are designed to be read (or in this case,... more info
Customer Review: the book delivers history in a new way
short yet insightful
whole picture shows relationship of events and people's actions
makes you laugh, makes you think, helps you understand
Customer Review: it wasn't as new as I thought it would've been but it was still good condition. I was satisfied with duration of time it to be delivered to me and overall, i would say very good.
Customer Review: Freud didn't discover anything. The study of sex and aggression has been around a long, long time. What Freud 'discovered' is that there isn't anything such as Love, Beauty, Goodness, Justice, Wisdom or Art. Rather than add Freud subtracted. 'Civilization and It's Discontents' documents the Freudian... more info
