Ideas: A history from fire to Freud by Watson, Peter - 2005-05-12

Orion Publishing Group, Limited. Used - Good. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

Weidenfeld & Nicolson. Hardcover. Used - Good.

Orion Pub Co, 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.

Hardback. Very Good.

Hardback. Good.

Orion Publishing Group, Limited. Used - Good. Ships from the UK. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

Orion Publishing Group, Limited. Used - Very Good. Ships from the UK. Used book that is in excellent condition. May show signs of wear or have minor defects.

Orion Pub Co, 2005-05-01. Hardcover. Very Good. 9x7x2. Book and dust jacket are in very good condition with no marking or highlighting. Not ex-library.

Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2005. hardcover. Very Good. 7x1x9. Unmarked hardcover in unclipped jacket. A few tiny spots on the front jacket.

Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 2005. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. In this hugely ambitious and exciting book Peter Watson tells the history of ideas from prehistory to the present day, leading to a new way of telling the history of the world. The book begins over a million years ago with a discussion of how the earliest ideas might have originated. Looking at animal behaviour that appears to require some thought – tool-making, territoriality, counting, language (or at least sounds), pairbonding – Peter Watson moves on to the apeman and the development of simple ideas such as cooking, the earliest language, the emergence of family life. All the core areas are tackled – the Ancient Greeks, Christian theology, the ideas of Jesus, astrological thought, the soul, the self, beliefs about the heavens, the ideas of Islam, the Crusades, humanism, the Renaissance, Gutenberg and the book, the scientific revolution, the age of discovery, Shakespeare, the idea of… Read More