The Invention of Yesterday - A 50,000-Year History of Human Culture, Conflict, and Connection

A sweeping global human history that describes the separate beginnings of the world's major civilizations and cultural movements-Confucianism, 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.