{"product_id":"history-for-busy-people-the-big-events-big-ideas-and-big-turning-points-that-shaped-the-modern-world-9798199575829","title":"History for Busy People: The Big Events, Big Ideas, and Big Turning Points That Shaped the Modern World","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Noah K. Harrington\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: World - General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMost of us carry history as a fog: a few dates, a documentary or two, and no clear sense of how any of it connects. This book hands you a map instead.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHistory for Busy People is not a textbook, and it does not try to cover everything. It does the opposite. It distills the entire human story into the handful of turning points and the four deep forces that actually explain the world we live in, so you can finally connect the dots between wars, revolutions, empires, ideas, and the present. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn short, fast, readable chapters, Noah K. Harrington moves from the first farms to artificial intelligence, stopping only at the moments that changed everything. Each chapter delivers one turning point and one durable takeaway, the single line to remember, so the map stays in your head long after you close the book. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eInside this book: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe four threads that run through all of history: technology, power, ideas, and connection\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe true turning points: farming, writing, the printing press, 1492, the Scientific and Industrial Revolutions, and more\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWhy the West rose late and by accident, not destiny, and why that matters now\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe century of extremes: the world wars, the totalitarian temptation, the Cold War, and the fall of the empires\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe forces shaping our future: great-power competition, demography, energy, climate, and the AI turn\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHow to use history as a map: reading the present and the future with patterns, not prophecies\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis is for the intelligent, time-poor reader who wants the big picture, told ambitiously but plainly, and honestly about what is known and what is still debated. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eYou do not need ten thousand facts. You need a map, and this is it.\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Independently Published","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47968620937367,"sku":"9798199575829","price":1518.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9798199575829.webp?v=1782918805","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/history-for-busy-people-the-big-events-big-ideas-and-big-turning-points-that-shaped-the-modern-world-9798199575829","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}