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• ISBN: 006019247X
• ISBN: 9780060192471
• Physical Description: print
  xx, 668 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 24 cm
• Edition: First edition
• Publisher: New York : HarperCollins Publishers, [2003]
• Copyright: ©2003

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Part 1 A Sense of Accomplishment 1 -- 1. A Sense of Time 3 -- 2. A Sense of Mystery 13 -- 3. A Sense of Place 25 -- 4. A Sense of Wonder 53 -- Part 2 Identifying the People and Events That Matter 57 -- 5. Excellence and Its Identification 59 -- 6. Lotka Curve 87 -- 7. People Who Matter I: Significant Figures 107 -- 8. People Who Matter II: The Giants 119 -- 9. Events That Matter I: Significant Events 155 -- 10. Events That Matter II: Meta-Inventions 209 -- Part 3 Patterns and Trajectories 245 -- 11. Coming to Terms with the Role of Modern Europe 247 -- 12. ... and of Dead White Males 265 -- 13. Concentrations of European and American Accomplishment 295 -- 14. Taking Population into Account: The Accomplishment Rate 309 -- 15. Explanations I: Peace and Prosperity 331 -- 16. Explanations II: Models, Elite Cities, and Freedom of Action 353 -- 17. What's Left to Explain? 379 -- Part 4 On the Origins and Decline of Accomplishment 383 -- 18. Aristotelian Principle 385 -- 19. Sources of Energy: Purpose and Autonomy 391 -- 20. Sources of Content: The Organizing Structure and Transcendental Goods 409 -- 21. Is Accomplishment Declining? 427 -- 22. Summation 449 -- 1. Statistics for People Who Are Sure They Can't Learn Statistics 461 -- 2. Construction of the Inventories and the Eminence Index 475 -- 3. Inventory Sources 491 -- 4. Geographic and Population Data 505 -- 5. Roster of the Significant Figures 513.

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