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ISBN10: 0374290024, ISBN13: 9780374290023, [publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, N.Y.] Hardcover 750 pages. The dust jacket has a little wear. The page edges are lightly tanned and foxed. The front endpaper has a name sticker and a small inscription from a previous owner. Books listed here are not stored at the shop. Please contact us if you want to pick up a book from Newtown. [Newtown, Sydney, NSW, Australia] [Publication Year: 2010]
Signed, First Edition, Mint Condition/CollectibleBook appears to be untouched/unread.Dust jacket in prisitne, mint condition and protected in Mylar.Binding is tight. Signed and dated by the author, Ian Morris: "Ian Morris. October 29, Date: 2010"First edition print. A New York Times Notable Book for 2011Sometime 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 twentieth century secured its global supremacy. Now, at the beginning of the twenty-first century, many worry that the emerging economic power of China and India spells the end of the West as a superpower. In order to understand this possibility, we need to look back in time. Why has the West dominated the globe for the past two hundred years, and will its power last?Describing the patterns of human history, the archaeologist and historian Ian Morris offers surprising new answers to both questions. It is not, he reveals, differences of race or culture, or even the strivings of great individuals, that explain Western dominance. It is the effects of geography on the everyday efforts of ordinary people as they deal with crises of resources, disease, migration, and climate. As geography and human ingenuity continue to interact, the world will change in astonishing ways, ...
New York, N.Y.: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Date: 2010 750 pages. The dust jacket has a little wear. The page edges are lightly tanned and foxed. The front endpaper has a name sticker and a small inscription from a previous owner. Books listed here are not stored at the shop. Please contact us if you want to pick up a book from Newtown.. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 2010. Farrar, Straus and Giroux ISBN 0374290024 9780374290023 [AU]
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, Date: 2010. Hardcover. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed. 2010. Farrar, Straus & Giroux ISBN 0374290024 9780374290023 [US]
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, Date: 2010. 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. 2010. Farrar, Straus & Giroux ISBN 0374290024 9780374290023 [US]
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