Acknowledged as one of the greatest achievements of modern scholarship, Arnold Toynbee's A Study of History is a ten-volume analysis of the rise and fall of human civilizations. Contained in two volumes, D.C. Somervell's abridgement of this magnificent enterprise preserves the method, atmosphere, te[...]

Will disaster ensue if it pursues its present course towards self-destruction and despoliation of the environment? While recognising that our survival is threatened by the imbalance between human immaturity and technological achievement, the message of this classic is that man-made evils have a man-[...]

The author surveys the development of Hellenism-- Graeco-Roman Culture--from its earliest beginnings at the end of the second millennium B.C. until its decline in the seventh century of the Christian era--a period of some 1800 years.[...]