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Best-selling historian and philosopher Will Durant devoted his entire life to studying the most significant eras, individuals, and achievements of human history. Here is a summation of Durant's work, as he presents the best of world history. Filled with Durant's renowned wit, knowledge, and unique ability to explain events in simple and exciting terms, it is a concise liberal arts education.

At Will Durant's death at 96, in 1981, his personal papers were dispersed among relatives, collectors, and archive houses. Twenty years later, scholar John Little discovered the previously unknown manuscript of Heroes of History in Durant's granddaughter's garage. Written shortly before he died, these 21 essays serve as an abbreviated version of Durant's best-selling, 11-volume series, The Story of Civilization.

Du haut de la tour de Pise, Galilée précipite des melons, des citrouilles, et même des melons-citrouilles, grâce auxquels il réfute les anciennes idées d'Aristote. Mais il pratique aussi la science dans les tavernes, où la rencontre d'un derviche tourneur lui inspire une théorie audacieuse : et si, contrairement à toute évidence, la Terre n'était pas au centre du monde ? Un tote-bag collector offert pour toute commande de ce nouveau titre !