Universal History

What if I told you that the world is on the cusp of such a radical transformation that all the anxieties which now incessantly crowd your mind are about to die away like the jabbering of monkeys upon the entrance of a roaring lion? That all that now worries and depresses you is about to melt away like a dream upon the blessed intrusion of a new reality you hitherto scarcely could have comprehended? Well, that is a reality. The Era is coming. Nothing and no one can stop it. But it is coming like a freight train, and you do not want to be on the wrong side of its arrival.

In 1931 Universal Studios released Dracula starring Bela Lugosi. This box office success was followed by a string of films featuring macabre characters and chilling atmospherics, including Frankenstein, The Mummy, and The Invisible Man. With each new film, Universal established its place in the...

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) is a landmark document in the history of human rights, and Eleanor Roosevelt played a significant role in its development. The UDHR was adopted by the United Nations General Assembly on December 10, 1948, in Paris. It was drafted by representatives from different legal and cultural backgrounds, including Eleanor Roosevelt, who chaired the United Nations Commission on Human Rights.

In this era of government gridlock, economic and ecological devastation, and seemingly intractable global violence, our future is ever more ripe for - and in need of - fresh, creative reimagining. With her clear-eyed, inspiring, and sweeping vision of a possible global renaissance in the new millennium, Barbara Marx Hubbard shows us that our current crises are not the precursors of an apocalypse, but the natural birth pains of an awakened, universal humanity.  

A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice Shortlisted for the 2018 FT & McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award A brilliantly reported, global look at universal basic income—a stipend given to every citizen—and why it might be necessary in an age of rising inequality, persistent poverty...

This book is written for curious, educated readers who love ideas but do not want a dry academic textbook. If you enjoy history, science, philosophy, and the stories behind human brilliance, but feel overwhelmed by fragmented knowledge or overly technical writing, this book was created for you. Many readers sense that modern learning has become siloed and specialized, leaving little room to understand how ideas connect across disciplines. This book restores that bigger picture. The Greatest Polymaths of All Time explores how extraordinary thinkers across history refused to stay within one ...

The intimate and long-awaited autobiography of a legendary Carlos Santana, tracing youth in Mexico and early days as a promising guitarist through his influential collaborations with fellow Latin stars. In 1967 in San Francisco, just a few weeks after the Summer of Love, a young Mexican...

Ibn Khaldun (1332-1406) is generally regarded as the greatest intellectual ever to have appeared in the Arab world - a genius who ranks as one of the world's great minds. Yet the author of the Muqaddima, the most important study of history ever produced in the Islamic world, is not as well known as he should be, and his ideas are widely misunderstood. In this groundbreaking intellectual biography, Robert Irwin provides an engaging and authoritative account of Ibn Khaldun's extraordinary life, times, writings, and ideas.

A leading ecologist argues that if humankind is to survive on a fragile planet, we must understand and obey its iron laws Our species has amassed unprecedented knowledge of nature, which we have tried to use to seize control of life and bend the planet to our will. In A Natural History of the...

A thrilling celebration of a forgotten early American renegade, Not Your Founding Father reconsiders just how radical the American experiment could have been. Early in the morning of October 10, 1776—in the small farming community of Cumberland, Rhode Island, in a house surrounded by cherry...

Discover the man who dreamed of a world calculated by logic and powered by harmony. History remembers Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz as the co-discoverer of calculus, but he was far more: a spy, a diplomat, a librarian, and perhaps the last human being to command the sum of all earthly knowledge. In Leibniz: The Last Universal Genius, Cornelis van Houte pulls back the curtain on the most multifaceted mind of the Enlightenment. While his rival Isaac Newton looked at the stars, Leibniz looked at the connections between all things. From inventing the binary system that powers your smartphone today ...

The Universal Law: The Hidden Geometry of Truth Across Time by HRH Prince Gharios El Chemor of Ghassan What if wisdom, morality, and science all followed the same equation? For centuries, humanity has searched for the principle that unites all knowledge — from the philosophies of Aristotle and Confucius to the mathematics of Pythagoras and Einstein’s relativity. In The Universal Law, Prince Gharios El Chemor of Ghassan reveals that this principle has always existed: a triadic harmony that governs everything from the movement of galaxies to the choices of the human heart. Based on the ...

The preeminent doctor and health policy expert Ezekiel J. Emanuel gives an incisive tour of eleven health care systems across the globe in search of whose is best “Valuable… It’s hard to imagine anyone better suited to rank the world’s health care systems.” —The New York Review of...

Cao Dai Faith has reached its centennial landmark and deserves a deep reflection on its contribution to society and humanity. Written and translated by devoted Cao Dai followers, this book provides a new and more complete perspective on the history of Cao Dai Faith in its founding period. As history repeats itself, we hope to learn the past lessons and be able to recognize and solve the current issues to prepare for the future.

In his writing, Borges always combined high seriousness with a wicked sense of fun. Here he reveals his delight in re-creating (or making up) colorful stories from the Orient, the Islamic world, and the Wild West, as well as his horrified fascination with knife fights, political and personal...

Robert Benjamin Lewis (1802 - 1858) was an African American and Native American author, inventor, and entrepreneur. In the ethnological work Light and Truth, Lewis claims that Adam and Eve were people of color, as were the Egyptians and many great figures of the ancient world, including Julius Caesar and Plato. Denouncing notions of white superiority, he asserts that all humans have a common origin, and pointed to a shared cultural history between Africans and Native Americans.

Rabindranath Tagore Explained: Poetry, Spiritual Humanism, Bengali Renaissance, Education Reform, National Identity, and the Universal Vision of Freedom and Creativity offers a powerful and accessible exploration of one of the most influential thinkers of the modern era. Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature and a central figure in global intellectual history, Tagore’s work spans poetry, philosophy, education, music, and social thought. This book presents a clear and engaging guide to his major ideas, revealing how his vision continues to shape conversations about culture, identity, ...

On October 7th, the world changed forever. A line was drawn between those who celebrated darkness and those who stood with light. Out of this crisis emerged the most extraordinary alliance in human history-Jews and Christians uniting for a purpose far bigger than politics, prophecy, or even Israel itself. In Universal Zionism, Rabbi Tuly Weisz reveals the hidden story the headlines miss: how hundreds of millions of Christians and Jews are joining forces to shape the future of civilization. More than a history book, this is a call to action-and an invitation to be part of humanity's greatest...

Akashic Records Explained: Cosmic Memory, Universal Consciousness, Soul Evolution, Karmic Patterns, and the Hidden Library of Human Destiny What if the universe remembers everything? Across centuries of philosophy, mysticism, and spiritual exploration, thinkers have suggested that reality may contain a hidden record of every thought, action, and event that has ever occurred. Akashic Records Explained explores one of the most intriguing ideas in spiritual history: the possibility that the cosmos itself holds a vast archive of human experience. This book examines the origins, development, and...

The political upheaval of the mid-17th century has no parallel in English history. Other events have changed the occupancy and the powers of the throne, but the conflict of 1640-60 was more dramatic: the monarchy and the House of Lords were abolished, to be replaced by a republic and military rule. In this thoroughly enjoyable account, Blair Worden explores the events of this period and their origins.