100 Books That Changed the World

A thought-provoking chronological timeline of the worldΓÇÖs most influential books. Many books have become classics,must-readsor overnight publishing sensationsbut how many can genuinely claim to have changed the way we see and think? In 100 Books that Changed the Worldauthors Scott Christianson and Colin Salter bring together an exceptional collection of truly ground-breaking booksΓÇöfrom scriptures that founded religionsto scientific treatises that challenged beliefsto novels that kick-started literary genres. This elegantly designed bookfirst published in 2018 but updated with an exciting new coveroffers a chronological timeline of three millennia of human thought distilled in printfrom the earliest illuminated manuscripts to the age of eBooks and audiobooks. Entries include: The Iliad and The OdysseyHomer (750 BC) ShakespeareΓÇÖs First Folio (1623) A Vindication of the Rights of WomanMary Wollstonecraft (1792) Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (1845) The Diary of a Young GirlAnne Frank (1947) Things Fall ApartChinua Achebe (1958) A Brief History of TimeStephen Hawking (1988)