John Farndon

The World’s Greatest Idea

Notify me when the book’s added
To read this book, upload an EPUB or FB2 file to Bookmate. How do I upload a book?
  • Chahd B. Malekhas quoted3 years ago
    Ideas matter. They shape our experience of the world.
  • Володимир Гасичhas quoted3 years ago
    more than 1 in 10 people were fully enslaved in Medieval Europe, including many Slavic people who gave their very name to the practice.
  • Володимир Гасичhas quoted3 years ago
    remarkably foreseeing submarine
  • Володимир Гасичhas quoted3 years ago
    Interestingly, when America’s founders framed their Declaration of Independence, sometimes thought of as the starting point of modern democracy, not all of them focused on democratic ideals. They intended America to be primarily a republic that championed liberty and rights, not a democracy. ‘A democracy,’ wrote Thomas Jefferson, ‘is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine.’
  • Володимир Гасичhas quoted3 years ago
    The oldest signs of wine-drinking have been found at Shulaveri in the Caucasus Mountains in Georgia, where infrared spectroscopy has been used to identify wine residue in the form of tartaric acid on jars dating back to 6000 BC.
  • Володимир Гасичhas quoted3 years ago
    After the striking success of Keynes’s ideas in Roosevelt’s New Deal
fb2epub
Drag & drop your files (not more than 5 at once)