In summary, this is a must book for all those curious about the greatest ideas of humankind. The links didn't work! How disappointing.Amazon please make sure the links work before releasing the Kindle versions.argh. I didn't quite understand Freud's impact.Ĥ. It's expected that some topics will be covered better than others.ģ. Uncanny ability to introduce a new topic just when you have exhausted the existing one.Ģ. A wide and I mean wide range of topics.ħ. It's encyclopedic work condensed in a book.Ħ. Evolution of civilization has never been taught better, great job.Ĥ. Interesting tidbits throughout and I enjoyed how the author ties things together.ģ. Watson who's incredible dedication and scholarly work make it so worth my time.ġ. It's a quest for knowledge and journey through time and inventions.I'm so thankful for authors like Mr. I can't remember the last time, I've learned so much from one book.

The author jumps from one interesting topic to another with mastery: language, science, weaponry, religion, society, economics, inventions, music. How can anyone tackle such an ambitious topic in one book? Well, somehow someway Peter Watson does exactly that. This is a book about the history of ideas. Wow! It doesn't get more ambitious than this. Peter Watson has lectured at the following venues: Gold Dagger – Crime Writers’ Association of Great Britainīeacon Award – SAFE Award – Saving Antiquities for Everyone Time Magazine, for The Medici Conspiracy, 2006Ĭopy from Patrick Meehan after I had written a series of articles which brought about his release from prison after he had been wrongly convicted of murder, 1976. Times Literary Supplement, for Ideas, 2005 Independent on Sunday, for A Terrible Beauty, 2000 Psychology Today Magazine, 1978, for War on the Mindĭaily Mail, 1990, for Wisdom and Strength

To study the psychiatric profession and its links to the administration of justice United States Government Bursary “for future world leaders” He lives in London where his interests include theatre, opera and fishing. He has published twelve books of non-fiction and seven novels, some under the pen name of Mackenzie Ford. He has published three exposes in the world of art and antiquities and from 1997 to 2007 was a Research Associate at the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research at the University of Cambridge. He returned to London to write a column about the art world for the Observer and then at The Sunday Times. He wrote the daily Diary column of the London Times before becoming that paper’s New York correspondent.

Peter Watson was educated at the universities of Durham, London and Rome, and was awarded scholarships in Italy and the United States.Īfter a stint as Deputy Editor of New Society magazine, he was for four years part of the Sunday Times ‘Insight’ team of investigative journalists.

Ideas book by peter watson