The invention of yesterday : a 50,000-year history of human culture, conflict, and connection
(Book)

Includes bibliographical references (pages 409-418) and index.

"A sweeping global human history that describes the separate beginnings of the world's major civilizations and cultural movements -- Confuscianism, Islam, Judeo-Christianity, Hinduism, Buddhism and Nomadism -- and the dramatic, sometimes ruinous, sometimes transformative effects of their ever closer intertwinement that has brought us to where we are today"--,Provided by publisher.