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The penultimate volume of the History edition opens up a vast panorama of world history from 1190 to the present day, encompassing the Middle Ages, the Modern Age, and the Modern Era.
Michael A. Cook, Princeton professor of Islamic history, provides an overview of human history from the Neolithic to the fall of the Twin Towers in 2001 in this witty and intelligent synthesis, asking the key question: why did everything happen exactly th
British author Adrian Gilbert (co-author of The Mayan Prophecies from 1995) in The End of Time offers the most thorough and sober modern interpretation of the Mayan calendar and the so-called "2012 prophecy", completely rejecting New Age hysteria.
British historian Ian Wilson (known for his books on the Shroud of Turin and Jesus) offers the most thorough defense of the thesis that the biblical flood was a real historical event, not just a myth, in his work Before the Flood.
Anthology of Latin Fragments of Pliny the Elder with Croatian Explanations (Golik, 1909) presents ancient views on nature, man and the world, with brief comments for understanding and teaching.