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	Why the West Rules—for Now: The Patterns of History, and What They Reveal About the Future 4.11 avg rating — 6,002 ratings — published 2010	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	War! What Is It Good For?: Conflict and the Progress of Civilization from Primates to Robots 3.95 avg rating — 1,566 ratings — published 2014	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Geography Is Destiny: Britain and the World: A 10,000-Year History 3.98 avg rating — 325 ratings — published 2022	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Foragers, Farmers, and Fossil Fuels: How Human Values Evolve (The University Center for Human Values Series) by Ian Morris, Richard Seaford (Commentary), Jonathan D. Spence (Commentary) 3.68 avg rating — 336 ratings — published 2015 — 18 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Greeks: History, Culture, and Society 3.74 avg rating — 126 ratings — published 2005 — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Measure of Civilization: How Social Development Decides the Fate of Nations 3.60 avg rating — 113 ratings — published 2013 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Teaching Happiness and Well-Being in Schools: Learning to ride elephants 4.02 avg rating — 51 ratings — published 2009 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Dynamics of Ancient Empires: State Power from Assyria to Byzantium by Ian Morris, Walter Scheidel, Peter R. Bedford 3.65 avg rating — 43 ratings — published 2008 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Death-Ritual and Social Structure in Classical Antiquity 3.59 avg rating — 29 ratings — published 1992 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A New Companion to Homer by Ian Morris, Barry B. Powell (Goodreads Author) (Editor) 4.25 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 1997 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“History, n. An account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools.”
― Ian Matthew Morris, Why the West Rules—for Now: The Patterns of History, and What They Reveal About the Future

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“It is not that there is no food,” one commissar insisted. “There is plenty of grain, but 90 percent of the people have ideological problems.”
― Ian Morris, Why the West Rules—for Now: The Patterns of History, and What They Reveal About the Future

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“We are not going to reduce energy capture unless catastrophe forces us to—which means that the only way to avoid running out of resources, poisoning the planet, or both, will be by tapping into renewable, clean power.”
― Ian Morris, Why the West Rules—for Now: The Patterns of History, and What They Reveal About the Future

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