![]() ![]() ![]() You will never see the twentieth century in the same way again.Äownload An Alternate History of the 21st Century Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle In this brilliantly written and original book, John Higgs explores, with great clarity and wit, the extremes of twentieth century thought, and in doing so shows how a world of empires became a world of individuals. In this company we take a tour through ideas as strange as general relativity, DNA, the subconscious, Gaia theory, and Dada. Its cast includes well-known geniuses such as Albert Einstein, Francis Crick, and Pablo Picasso, lesser known geniuses like Edward Lorenz, Sergey Korolyov, or Shigeru Miyamoto, and infamous but influential ne'er-do-wells like Timothy Leary, Aleister Crowley and Keith Richards. This is the story of that confusing century as told through the ideas produced at the furthest fringes of our sciences, arts, and culture. ![]() The twentieth century, by contrast, gave us quantum entanglement, cubism, relativity, psychedelics, postmodernism, chaos maths, and the Somme. People understand innovations like the steam engine, agriculture, or electricity. Before 1900, history was an account of great discoveries that actually made sense. For readers of Bryson's A Short History of Nearly Everything. The extraordinary story of the 20th century, as told from the furthest fringes of science, art and culture. Download Stranger Than We Can Imagine Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle ![]()
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