12 Books That Changed the World

12 Books That Changed the World

2006 • 372 pages

Throughout history there have been moments of vital importance that have taken place not on the battlefield, or in the palaces of power, or even in the violence of nature, but between the pages of a book. Here are famous books by Darwin, Newton and Shakespeare plus Marie Stopes, Mary Wollstonecraft, and the rules to an obscure ball game ...


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