In this enlightening and profound book, Will and Ariel Durant have managed to condense for the reader their accumulated knowledge and experience from their five-decade-long work on the eleven monumental volumes of The Story of Civilization. The result is a review of human history, filled with triumphant insights about the nature of human experience, the evolution of civilization, and human culture. As they complete their life's work, they look back and ask what history has to say about human nature, behavior, and prospects, seeking in the great lives, great ideas, and great events of the past the meaning of mankind's long journey through war, conquest, and creation - and on the great themes that can help us understand our own era. Pages: 128, Dimensions: 14x14cm