Stranger Than We Can Imagine An Alternative History Of The 20th Century John Higgs by John Higgs 9780771038471, 077103847X instant download after payment.

The extraordinary story of the 20th century, as told from the furthest fringes of science, art & culture. For readers of Bryson's A Short History of Nearly Everything.
     Before 1900, history was an account of great discoveries that actually made sense. People understand innovations like the steam engine, agriculture, or electricity. The twentieth century, by contrast, gave us quantum entanglement, cubism, relativity, psychedelics, postmodernism, chaos maths, & the Somme.
     This is the story of that confusing century as told through the ideas produced at the furthest fringes of our sciences, arts, & culture. Its cast includes well-known geniuses such as Albert Einstein, Francis Crick, and Pablo Picasso, lesser known geniuses like Edward Lorenz, Sergey Korolyov, or Shigeru Miyamoto, & infamous but influential ne'er-do-wells like Timothy Leary, Aleister Crowley & Keith Richards. In this company we take a tour through ideas as strange as general relativity, DNA, the subconscious, Gaia theory, & Dada.
     In this brilliantly written & original book, John Higgs explores, with great clarity & wit, the extremes of twentieth century thought, and in doing so shows how a world of empires became a world of individuals. You will never see the twentieth century in the same way again.  

John Higgs is the author of I Have America Surrounded: The Life of Timothy Leary; The KLF: Chaos, Magic and the Band Who Burned A Million Pounds; Stranger Than We Can Imagine: Making Sense of the Twentieth Century; & the novels The Brandy of the Damned and The First Church on the Moon. He lives in Brighton with his partner & their two children.

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