01774nam a2200337 i 4500003000900000005001700009008004100026020001800067040004300085082002300128100003700151245006100188264005800249300005800307336002600365337002800391338002700419500004200446500007800488504005200566520048600618650003301104650003701137650002701174651001001201653003501211655001701246942001201263999001701275952014401292EG-ScBUE20230713105149.0150705s2012    nyua   f b    001 0 eng d  a9780143122067  aEG-ScBUEbengerdacEG-ScBUEdEG-ScBUE04a909.09821bFER2221 aFerguson, Niall,eauthor.93687610aCivilization :bthe west and the rest /cNiall Ferguson. 1aNew York :bThe Penguin Group / Penguin Books,c2012.  axxx, 402 pages :billustrations (some color) ;c25 cm  2rdacontentatextbtxt  2rdamediaaunmediatedbn  2rdacarrieravolumebnc  aCover : " New York Times bestseller".  aCover : " "A dazzling history of Western ideas." ــــ The Economist".  aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
  aWhat 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. 7aEast and West.2BUEsh937081 7aComparative civilization.2BUEsh 7aHistory, Modern2BUEsh  2BUEsh  bBUSADMcJuly2015cFebruary2016  vReading book  2ddccBB  c20181d20153  00102ddc40708BaccahaMAINbMAINc2NDd2015-07-05ePurchaseg129.00h22696l0o909.09821 FERp000038901r2025-07-15 00:00:00v161.00yBB