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“By the mid-seventeenth century, the visible image has assumed far greater reality than the invisible thought.”
― How the Irish Saved Civilization: The Untold Story of Ireland's Heroic Role from the Fall of Rome to the Rise of Medieval Europe
― How the Irish Saved Civilization: The Untold Story of Ireland's Heroic Role from the Fall of Rome to the Rise of Medieval Europe
“History is subject to geology.”
― The Lessons of History
― The Lessons of History
“Like the Jews before them, the Irish enshrined literacy as their central religious act.”
― How the Irish Saved Civilization: The Untold Story of Ireland's Heroic Role from the Fall of Rome to the Rise of Medieval Europe
― How the Irish Saved Civilization: The Untold Story of Ireland's Heroic Role from the Fall of Rome to the Rise of Medieval Europe
“Greek philosophers knew then that governments could warp men, just as men can warp governments. "People are the same everywhere, only governments try to make them different." Who was it who had said that? It could have been Socrates, but it wasn't. We recalled the engineering student in northern Iraq who had.”
― Thank you, Marco Polo: The Story of the First Around-the-World Trailer Caravan
― Thank you, Marco Polo: The Story of the First Around-the-World Trailer Caravan
“I thought, If only the whole nation of Israel—and the whole world—could understand that Jews and Palestinians can get along when they begin to treat each other with dignity.”
― Blood Brothers: The Dramatic Story of a Palestinian Christian Working for Peace in Israel
― Blood Brothers: The Dramatic Story of a Palestinian Christian Working for Peace in Israel
Around the World in 80 Books
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Reading takes you places. Where in the world will your next book take you? If you love world literature, translated works, travel writing, or explorin ...more
Human Origins—Explorations and Discussions in Anthropology, Biology, Archaeology, and Geology
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An informal on-line “bulletin-board” resource for readers interested in staying abreast of the current state-of-knowledge and the latest books, techni ...more
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