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Bate'sKeats culminates twenty-five years of loving scholarship, beginning with his undergraduate thesis at Harvard. It represents a classic synthesis of the two major styles of modern biography. With few exceptions, scholarly biography in the twentieth century has been characterized either by massive detail (what Sinclair Lewis, for example...
The Guide of the Perplexed, written in Arabic and published in 1190, was an attempt to resolve the intellectual difficulties of Jews confronted with the work of Islamic sages, who had discovered Aristotle and grafted his ideas onto the prevailing Neoplatonism of the age. This synthesis seemed so reasonable that...
Laboratory synthesis of ATP, adenosine triphosphate, marking a major break-through in the investigation of the origin of life, was announced Sunday by the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory. The experimental results have just been published in the British journal Nature by Carl Sagan, assistant professor of Astronomy and a member of...
Remarkable Synthesis. Eventually, the balance was upset. Beginning about A.D. 1500, Western Europe exploited a radically improved seafaring technology to become the new pivot point and center of civilization. In the process, McNeill sees the original Eurasian ecumene absorbed and replaced by a new globe-girdling and all-embracing community...
These, in brutal brevity, are the organizing ideas of a remarkable new synthesis of world history from 6000 B.C. to the present day. And the stress is on "world," for Author McNeill, chairman of the history department at the University of Chicago, comes amazingly close to getting it all in...