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UsedGood. All orders ship by next business day! This is a used hardcover book. Has no markings on pages. Pages have moderate wear. Dust jacket (if applicable) is not included. The cover/boards have moderate wear. Spine has been opened/creased. For USED books, we cannot guarantee supplemental materials such as CDs, DVDs, access codes and other materials. We are a small company and very thankful for your business! ISBN 006621064X 9780066210643 [US]
HarperCollins Publishers, Date: 2005. Hardcover. Acceptable. Disclaimer:A readable copy. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact. Pages can include considerable notes-in pen or highlighter-but the notes cannot obscure the text. An ex-library book and may have standard library stamps and/or stickers. At ThriftBooks, our motto is: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed. 2005. HarperCollins Publishers ISBN 006621064X 9780066210643 [US]
HarperCollins Publishers, Date: 2005. Hardcover. Acceptable. Disclaimer:A readable copy. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact. Pages can include considerable notes-in pen or highlighter-but the notes cannot obscure the text. The dust jacket is missing. At ThriftBooks, our motto is: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed. 2005. HarperCollins Publishers ISBN 006621064X 9780066210643 [US]
HarperCollins Publishers, Date: 2005. Hardcover. Good. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed. 2005. HarperCollins Publishers ISBN 006621064X 9780066210643 [US]
Harper, Date: 2005. Hardcover. Good. Former library book; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed. 2005. Harper ISBN 006621064X 9780066210643 [US]
New York: HarperPerennial, Date: 2005. (2005), 822pp, illus., slight shelfwear to cover, some soiling to pg edges, contents clean.. Soft Cover. Very Good -/No Jacket. 2005. HarperPerennial ISBN 006621064X 9780066210643 [US]
New York: HarperCollins Publishers, Date: 2005. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. 822 pgs. A hardcover book in fine condition with like dust jacket. 2005. HarperCollins Publishers ISBN 006621064X 9780066210643 [US]
ISBN10: 006621064X, ISBN13: 9780066210643, [publisher: HarperCollins Publishers, New York] Hardcover First Edition 822 pgs. A hardcover book in fine condition with like dust jacket. [Dayton, OH, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2005]
ISBN10: 006621064X, ISBN13: 9780066210643, [publisher: harpe1] Hardcover In this hugely ambitious and stimulating book, Peter Watson describes the history of ideas, from deep antiquity to the present day, leading to a new way of understanding our world and ourselves. The narrative begins nearly two million years ago with the invention of hand-axes and explores how some of our most cherished notions might have originated before humans had language. Then, in a broad sweep, the book moves forward to consider not the battles and treaties of kings and prime ministers, emperors and generals, but the most important ideas we have evolved, by which we live and which separate us from other animals. Watson explores the first languages and the first words, the birth of the gods, the origins of art, the profound intellectual consequences of money. He describes the invention of writing, early ideas about law, why sacrifice and the soul have proved so enduring in religion. He explains how ideas about time evolved, how numbers were conceived, how science, medicine, sociology, economics, and capitalism came into being. He shows how the discovery of the New World changed forever the way that we think, and why Chinese creativity faded after the Middle Ages. In the course of this commanding narrative, Watson reveals the linkages down the ages in the ideas of many apparently disparate philosophers, astronomers, religious leaders, biologists, inventors, poets, jurists, and scores of ...
Harper, Date: 2005-08-30. Hardcover. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! 2005. Harper ISBN 006621064X 9780066210643 [US]
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