01619nam a2200325 i 4500 EG-ScBUE 20230713105149.0 150705s2012 nyua f b 001 0 eng d 9780143122067 EG-ScBUE eng rda EG-ScBUE EG-ScBUE 909.09821 FER 22 Ferguson, Niall, author. 36876 Civilization : the west and the rest / Niall Ferguson. New York : The Penguin Group / Penguin Books, 2012. xxx, 402 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm rdacontent text txt rdamedia unmediated n rdacarrier volume nc Cover : " New York Times bestseller". Cover : " "A dazzling history of Western ideas." ــــ The Economist". Includes bibliographical references and index. What was it about the civilization of Western Europe that allowed it to trump the outwardly superior empires of the Orient? The answer, Niall Ferguson argues, was that the West developed six "killer applications"?that the Rest lacked: competition, science, democracy, medicine, consumerism and the work ethic. The key question today is whether or not the West has lost its monopoly on these six things. If so, Ferguson warns, we may be living through the end of Western ascendancy. East and West. BUEsh 37081 Comparative civilization. BUEsh History, Modern BUEsh BUEsh BUSADM July2015 February2016 Reading book ddc BB 20181 20153 0 0 ddc 0 0 Baccah MAIN MAIN 2ND 2015-07-05 Purchase 129.00 22696 0 909.09821 FER 000038901 2025-07-15 00:00:00 161.00 BB