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A road map for discovering history, science, civilization, and the human condition, the author recommends must-read books. Flynn begins by offering 5 novels he believes will convince anyone to make reading a habit.

If only she weren't also dealing with a bevy of Middle Eastern princesses, a Pakistani servant girl yearning for freedom, a teenager who just wants The Torchlight List: Around the World in 200 Books download epub to fit in, and an elderly neighbor demanding that Piper find her very dead husband. And then there's Cooper Graham, a legendary sports hero who always gets what he wants-even if what he wants just might be an intrepid detective hell- bent on proving she's as tough as he is. From the bustling streets of Chicago to a windswept lighthouse on Lake Superior to the glistening waters of Biscayne Bay, two people who can't stand to lose will test themselves and each other to discover what matters most. Da Vinci, Galileo, Copernicus, Raphael, Michelangelo. These names recall an era in which an unprecedented rush of discovery broke through long-standing barriers of ignorance and connected the whole world, politically and economically, for the first time. We still think of such surges of human ingenuity as rare. But they don't have to be. Today, for instance, our resources are better, our education is more advanced, and the pace of breakthrough innovation is doubling every two years. The same forces that converged then to spark genius and upend social order - great leaps in science, trade, migration and technology - are present again in our lifetime, with potentially even greater results.In "Age of Discovery, "Oxford Professor Ian Goldin and doctoral candidate Chris Kutarna show how we can achieve our own golden age, given the will. But many of the factors that undid the first Renaissance are rising once again: warring ideologies, fundamentalism, climate change, pandemics. Can we weather the crises and seize the moment to leave the world a legacy it will still celebrate, 500 years later?

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Author: Jim Flynn
Number of Pages: 200 pages
Published Date: 01 Dec 2010
Publisher: Awa Press
Publication Country: Wellington, New Zealand
Language: English
ISBN: 9780958291699
Download Link: Click Here
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