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Why the West Rules--for Now
Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2010; US$ 21.99A New York Times Notable Book for 2011 Sometime around 1750, English entrepreneurs unleashed the astounding energies of steam and coal, and the world was forever changed. The emergence of factories, railroads, and gunboats propelled the West?s rise to power in the nineteenth century, and the development of computers and nuclear weapons in the... more...
Why The West Rules For Now
Profile 2010; US$ 30.00Why did British boats shoot their way up the Yangzi in 1842, rather than Chinese ones up the Thames? Why do Easterners use English more than Europeans speak in Mandarin or Japanese? To put it bluntly, why does the West rule? There are two schools of thought: the Long-Term Lock-In theory, suggesting some sort of inevitability, and the Short-Term... more...
Death-Ritual and Social Structure in Classical Antiquity
Cambridge University Press 1992; US$ 31.00Shows how the excavated remains of burials are a major source of evidence for social historians of the ancient Graeco-Roman world. more...
Why the West Rules - For Now
McClelland & Stewart 2011; US$ 26.99Why does the West rule? In this magnum opus, eminent Stanford polymath Ian Morris answers this provocative question, drawing on 50,000 years of history, archeology, and the methods of social science, to make sense of when, how, and why the paths of development differed in the East and West ? and what this portends for the 21st century. There are two... more...
Teaching Happiness and Well-Being in Schools
Continuum International Publishing 2009; US$ 140.00There has recently been an explosion of interest in positive psychology and the teaching of well-being and ‘happiness’ in the PSHE world in schools and many teachers are looking for clear information on how to implement these potentially life-changing ideas in the classroom. This book provides an introduction to the theory of positive psychology... more...
The Measure of Civilization
Princeton University Press 2013; US$ 29.95In the last thirty years, there have been fierce debates over how civilizations develop and why the West became so powerful. The Measure of Civilization presents a brand-new way of investigating these questions and provides new tools for assessing the long-term growth of societies. Using a groundbreaking numerical index of social development that... more...
The Measure of Civilisation
Profile 2013; US$ 40.00In Why the West Rules - For Now Ian Morris argues that to understand the development of East and West, we need to look beyond 'long-term lock-in' theories (that suggest it was inevitable) and 'short-term accident' theories. Instead, we need to measure social development - a group's ability to master its environment to get things... more...
The Dynamics of Ancient Empires
Oxford University Press, USA 2009; US$ 28.99Preface. 1. Ancient States, Empires, and Exploitation: Problems and Perspectives, Jack Goldstone and John Haldon. 2. The Neo-Assyrian Empire, Peter Bedford. 3. The Achaemenid Empire, Josef Wiesehofer. 4. The Greater Athenian State, Ian Morris. 5. The Political Economy of the Roman Empire, Keith Hopkins. 6. The Byzantine Empire, John Haldon. 7. Sex... more...
The Wild Blue Yonder and Beyond
Potomac Books Inc. 2011; US$ 39.95The 95th Bomb Group (Heavy), the most highly decorated bomb group of World War II, participated in every major mission of the war from May 1943 through the wars end and won an unprecedented three Presidential Unit Citations (known as the Distinguished Unit Citation before 1966). Flying the celebrated B-17 Flying Fortress, the 95th was the first... more...
Effective School Management
SAGE Publications 2004; US$ 49.00This popular book has been thoroughly updated for its Fourth Edition , targeting the contents directly to the needs of today's school manager. more...









