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1) The cave and the light: Plato versus Aristotle and the struggle for the soul of Western civilization
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
A history of the influential rivalry between Plato and Aristotle traces the Western world's ongoing battle of ideas to their competing philosophies, demonstrating how their contrasting views on everything from religion and government to science and technology became the twin fountainheads of Western culture.
Author
Publisher
Harper Collins
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
Recounts how Britain's Royal Navy allowed one nation to rise to a level of power unprecedented in history. From its beginnings under Henry VIII and adventurers like John Hawkins and Francis Drake, the Royal Navy toppled one world economic system, built by Spain and Portugal after Columbus, and ushered in another--the one in which we still live today. Follows its historiy from the defeat of the Spanish Armada, through the seventeenth century, when...
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