Great Books of the Western World

Maalouf The great Crusade started in the second half of the 11th Century after Pope Urban II appealed to followers to reconquer the Holy Land from Muslims. Most Turks had converted to Islam, which was a concern for Alexios who was the Byzantine emperor of the Middle East region. The first war was to retake the Holy Land from Muslims, but it was realized that the Crusaders (or the Franj as referred by Muslims) had other intentions of conquering the territory of the Muslims. The book “Crusades…

Before its decline in the 20th century, the west was a powerful surge that had the rest of the world scrambling for westernization within its society. Westernization is the expanding and adopting of western culture. Russia, Asia, and Africa after the were byproducts of Westernization. They were kind of forced to adapt to the life of western peoples because of this sudden infatuation in western policies. The whole surge for westernization was partly because of religion, which at this time was a…

The book entitled “Sophie’s World” was written by Jostein Gaarder, who was born in Oslo, Norway, in 1952. He was an intellectual author that teaches high school Philosophy. Gaarder often writes about Philosophy and its main Contribution to the society and oneself. He published his first book in year 1986 and one of his best-sellers is the Sophie’s world that was published in year 1991. Sophie’s world is a novel that talks about a girl named Sophie who explored through the History of Western…

Kenneth Pomeranz goes into excruciating detail of the economic separation of the Western and Eastern world in his book, The Great Divergence: China, Europe, and the Making of the Modern World Economy. While the book is intended to cover the entire Western and Eastern world, Pomeranz primarily focuses on the similarities of England and China, yet England was able to make a “great divergence” economically. Nevertheless, Europe and Asia seem to have economically separated due to a surplus of…

J. Mearsheimer in his book ‘The Tragedy of Great Power Politics’ analyses this statement through and through using the lens of offensive realism. Mearsheimer uses his years of experience in the military to theorize about international politics. ‘He feels that international politics has always been a ruthless and dangerous business’. In this book he takes the cases of different great powers in history to analyze their rise and fall. This is used to predict the future of world politics and what…

Cannon refers to a list of books containing names of important books serves as a guide for reading. The notion of a canon of religious texts is not absolutely rigorous , and in relation to literary and musical works it is more fluid still. Canon has a very particular meaning in music , where it is…

Showing the not so distant future, where books have been banned and everyone gets information from television, this film revolved around Guy Montag, a fireman. When someone was caught with books, firemen were assigned to burn them. However, when Clarisse asks him why he does his job, and if he is happy, Montag becomes curious as to why books are so dangerous. From there on it was a battle between choosing sides. As I would like to think, this…

Noll and Carolyn Nystrom's book, Clouds of Witness: Christian Voices from Africa and Asia, is a compilation of 17 biographical sketches of significant African and Asian Christians. Each of these inspirational people played a key role in establishing churches and driving Christian movements and renewals within their respective countries. These lesser-known disciples of the 19th and 20th centuries, are proof that Christianity is not restricted to European nations. While Western Christianity had…

of the Crusades such as Professor Rodney Stark argue that the religiously-fueled wars were justified because the Christian (specifically Catholic) people of the time were “provoked” by the Islamic world. The publisher of God’s Battalions: A Case For the Crusades, just one of over two dozen of Stark’s books, reiterates his belief of this incitement stating, “the Crusades were precipitated by Islamic provocations, centuries of bloody attempts to colonize the West, and sudden attacks on Christian…

The 1923 silent movie, East and West, is a great depiction of how customs and life in general differed in the traditional polish town, compared to the more westernized American family and the capital Vienna. Throughout the movie, the viewer can make distinction of how different East and West are portrayed; by their looks and even the very different values, that each of the worlds has, as well as how coming in contact with the West affects the East. In East and West there is a clear distinction…