TIME History's Greatest Events: 100 Turning Points That Changed the World: An Illustrated Journey - Couverture rigide

Knauer, Kelly; Editors Of TIME

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ISBN 10 : 1603201629 ISBN 13 : 9781603201629

Editeur : Time, 2010

Synopsis

Time: History's Greatest Events Helps discover history's important events and people: the rise and fall of great conquerors and kings, scientists, saints and artists who shaped their society and whose effects shaped all humanity. This book is suitable for everyone and anyone who hopes to understand how humankind got to where it is this day. Full description

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Join the editors of TIME in a fast-paced journey through the adventures of man on Planet Earth in this richly illustrated volume, which explores history's most important turning points. Here are the great religions: Buddhism, Christianity and Islam.

Here are the great empires, from the vanished civilization of the Minoans on Crete to the glories of Classical Greece and Rome to the mysterious collapse of the Maya culture in Mexico. Here are the visionary scientists who altered our view of nature's laws: Newton and Darwin, Copernicus and Einstein. Here are the great conquerors,including Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar, Genghis Khan and Napoleon. And here are the great clashes between cultures, as Christian knights besiege Muslim citadels in the Crusades, a handful of Spanish conquistadors topple the empires of the Aztecs and Incas, and Japan attacks the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor.

The book is arranged chronologically, rapidly accelerating in pace as it reports the development of the technologies that define the modern world, from the coming of the railroad and the telegraph to the advent of photography, the cinema and television and culminating in the invention of the transistor and the boot-up of the World Wide Web. And it offers fresh perspectives on cultures too often overlooked, from the Golden Age of Islam to the voyages of Viking mariners to China's renascence under the Ming dynasty.

Presented in a special oversized format, this beautifully illustrated volume also offers a sweeping panorama of man's greatest artistic achievements, from the cave paintings of Lascaux to marvelous medieval maps and on to the great paintings and sculptures of the Renaissance. As an illuminating guide to mankind's triumphs and sorrows, and as a gallery of human culture, science, art and architecture, it offers a dazzling and provocative encounter with the great turning points of history.

Biographie de l'auteur :

Kelly Knauer is a writer and editor for TIME Books in New York City, the book-publishing division of TIME Magazine. He has written and edited more than 30 TIME books on such subjects as Hurricane Katrina, the Middle East, great photojournalism, natural history, global warming, architecture, American history, and the life of Abraham Lincoln. He worked with TIME's longtime White House Correspondent, Hugh Sidey, on the book Hugh Sidey's Portraits of the Presidents. Among those who have written introductions for Mr.Knauer's books are former Presidents George H.W. Bush and Jimmy Carter and actor Tom Hanks.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Time
• Date d'édition: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1603201629
• ISBN 13: 9781603201629
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 160