Burke, James

Burke, examines the ideas, inventions, and coincidences that have culminated in the major technological achievements of the modern world. With dazzling insight, Burk untangles the pattern of interconnecting events: the accidents of time, circumstance and place that gave rise to the major change agents of our world.

Examines the connections the original fifty-six men who signed the Declaration of Independence have to twenty-first-century American culture.

A collection of real world stories which investigate the nature of change and the unlikely origins of many aspects of contemporary life.

Examines the course of man's beliefs from the Middle Ages to today, focusing on the critical periods in history when the ideas and institutions that have transformed man's understanding of the world were born.