The Discovery of the Mind represents a pivotal situation —

represents a pivotal situation — a scenario in which a different outcome would have resulted in a radically changed world

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as well as photographs of the tools and processes involved

you-are-there sensation imparted by the photos and Ulrich Keller's exceptionally informed text and meticulous captions

The Discovery of the Mind represents a pivotal situation —"An illuminating and convincing account of the enormous change in the whole conception of morals and human personality which took place during the centuries covered by Homer, the early lyric poets, the dramatists, and Socrates." The Times (London) Literary Supplement. European thinking began with the Greeks. Science, literature, ethics, philosophy all had their roots in the extraordinary civilization that graced the shores of the Mediterranean a few