Label
Civilization, Modern
Incoming Resources
- Numbers don't lie, 71 stories to help us understand the modern world, Vaclav Smil
- Civilisation, a personal view by Lord Clark, written and narrated by Kenneth Clark ; produced by Michael Gill and Peter Montagnon ; BBC TV, The complete series
- Motel of the mysteries, David Macaulay
- Numero zero, Umberto Eco ; translated from the Italian by Richard Dixon
- Why the West rules--for now, the patterns of history, and what they reveal about the future, Ian Morris
- It's better than it looks, reasons for optimism in an age of fear, Gregg Easterbrook
- The story of more, how we got to climate change and where to go from here, Hope Jahren
- National Geographic almanac of world history, Patricia S. Daniels and Stephen G. Hyslop ; foreword by Douglas Brinkley
- Thank you for being late, an optimist's guide to thriving in the age of accelerations, Thomas L. Friedman