Most Read This Week In The World

The world is a common name for the whole of human civilization, or for the planet Earth and all life upon it. In terms such as world map and world climate, world is used in the sense detached from human culture or civilization, referring to the planet Earth physically.

In a philosophical context the term may refer to the whole of the physical Universe, or an ontological world, described by Martin Heidegger as world disclosure.

In a theological context, world usually refers to the material or the profane sphere, as opposed to the celestial, spiritual, transcendent or sacred. The "end of the world
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Most Read This Week Tagged "The World"

No es un río
Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization
The Pole
Hermanito
How to Love Your Daughter
Numbers Don't Lie: 71 Things You Need to Know About the World
Merking
Leadership : Six Studies in World Strategy
Retrospective
The Wolf Hunt
The New Map: Energy, Climate, and the Clash of Nations
The End of Everything: How Wars Descend into Annihilation
The New China Playbook: Beyond Socialism and Capitalism
How the World Made the West: A 4,000 Year History
Chokepoints: American Power in the Age of Economic Warfare
The Great Reclamation
The Lost Man of Bombay (Malabar House #3)
Wasteland: The Secret World of Waste and the Urgent Search for a Cleaner Future
Knowing What We Know: The Transmission of Knowledge: From Ancient Wisdom to Modern Magic
Disunited Nations: Succeeding in a World Where No One Gets Along
The War Below: Lithium, Copper, and the Global Battle to Power Our Lives
Spice: The 16th-Century Contest that Shaped the Modern World
The Age of Wood: Our Most Useful Material and the Construction of Civilization
The Hungry Road
The Year 1000: When Explorers Connected the World—and Globalization Began
Can We Talk About Israel?: A Guide for the Curious, Confused, and Conflicted
The Glass Kingdom
Around the World in Eighty Games: From Tarot to Tic-Tac-Toe, Catan to Chutes and Ladders, a Mathematician Unlocks the Secrets of the World's Greatest Games
The Book of Roads and Kingdoms
Ocean: A History of the Atlantic Before Columbus
Okinawa
The Fisherman King
The Loom of Time: Between Empire and Anarchy, from the Mediterranean to China
Nomads: The Wanderers Who Shaped Our World
We Are Not Numbers: The Voices of Gaza’s Youth
Invention and Innovation: A Brief History of Hype and Failure
Fresh Dirt From the Grave
The Withdrawal: Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan, and the Fragility of U.S. Power
Praiseworthy
Barefoot Dreams of Petra Luna (Petra Luna, #1)
Parfit: A Philosopher and His Mission to Save Morality
Things They Lost
The Book: The Ultimate Guide To Rebuilding Civilization
Island Dreams: Mapping an Obsession
The Golden Maze
Ghost Season
The India Way: Strategies for an Uncertain World
COVID-19: The Great Reset
So Distant From My Life
Twin Cities
Land: How the Hunger for Ownership Shaped the Modern World
Pleasantview
The Pleasure of Drowning
Davos Man: How the Billionaires Devoured the World
China's Gilded Age: The Paradox of Economic Boom and Vast Corruption
You Can Be the Last Leaf: Selected Poems
The Far Edges of the Known World: Life Beyond the Borders of Ancient Civilization
The Backstreets
After Eden: A Short History of the World
Blood Feast: The Complete Short Stories of Malika Moustadraf
Fallen Idols: Twelve Statues That Made History
Homecoming: The Path to Prosperity in a Post-Global World
The Fifth Act: America's End in Afghanistan
Open: The Story of Human Progress
The Call: Inside the Global Saudi Religious Project
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I Am Not Your Slave: A Memoir
The Folly and the Glory: America, Russia, and Political Warfare 1945–2020
The American War in Afghanistan: A History
The West: A New History in Fourteen Lives
Falling Felines and Fundamental Physics
Wat iedereen zou moeten weten over klimaatverandering

Roald Dahl
And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don't believe in magic will never find it. ...more
Roald Dahl

Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.
Rumi

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