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Intro -- Written for Faith -- About the Author -- Copyright Information © -- Chapter 1 -- Introduction -- Chapter 2 -- What's the Problem? -- Conventional academic view -- "The fourth Gospel" -- By what authority? -- Dating the Gospel -- Differences from the Synoptics -- A Book of Signs? -- References -- Chapter 3 -- What is the purpose of the Gospels? -- How did the Gospels come to be written? -- By word of mouth -- "Tell me the stories of Jesus" or tell me about Jesus? -- Jesus is the Christ -- The need for history -- Expressing the divine nature -- Paul's message about Jesus -- Relationship between Synoptics and John -- References -- Chapter 4 -- John's Gospel: The One with Problems? -- Are the Synoptics less problematic? -- References -- Chapter 5 -- What is the Source of the Gospel? -- Identity of Beloved Disciple -- Who wrote the Gospel? -- Could John be early: external evidence -- Could John be early: internal evidence -- Eucharist -- Chronology -- References -- Chapter 6 -- Jesus Speaks -- Amen -- Parables -- I am -- References -- Chapter 7 -- Jesus Is Unique -- Jesus' insight into people's personality -- Miracles -- Turning water into wine -- Feeding the five thousand -- The man born blind -- The pool at Bethesda -- Raising of Lazarus -- Chapter 8 -- Some Features of John -- Reaction of Disciples -- 'The Jews' -- Puzzles and questions -- Seeing -- Everlasting Life -- Chapter 9 -- Special Passages in John -- Prologue -- The Samaritan Woman -- Cleansing the temple -- The anointing of Jesus -- What more is there to say? -- References -- Chapter 10 -- The End and the Beginning -- The arrest and trial -- The Crucifixion -- The Resurrection -- The epilogue -- References -- Conclusion.

Introduction: Friend to the undertaker -- The wasteland? : war and peace in ancient Rome -- The barbarians strike back : the counterproductive way of war, A.D. 1-1415 -- The five hundred years' war : Europe (almost) conquers the world, 1415-1914 -- Storm of steel : the war for Europe, 1914-1980s -- Red in tooth and claw : why the chimps of Gombe went to war -- The last best hope of Earth : American empire, 1989-?

War! What is it good for? Absolutely nothing - heißt es in einem legendären Antikriegssong. Stimmt nicht, sagt Stanford-Historiker Ian Morris. Seine umfassende Globalgeschichte enthüllt eine ungeheuerliche Wahrheit: Zu allen Zeiten hat Krieg Leben vernichtet - aber auch Innovationen gebracht, Gesellschaften erneuert, Frieden und Fortschritt vorangetrieben. Der Krieg hat etwas Gutes, lautet die kontroverse These vom Meister des "Big Picture". Ist Krieg als Triebfeder des Fortschritts sogar notwendig - auch heute noch? Morris riskiert nicht nur eine provokante Frage, er ist auch in der Lage, sie zu beantworten.

In the last thirty years, there have been fierce debates over how civilizations develop and why the West became so powerful. The Measure of Civilization presents a brand-new way of investigating these questions and provides new tools for assessing the long-term growth of societies. Using a groundbreaking numerical index of social development that compares societies in different times and places, award-winning author Ian Morris sets forth a sweeping examination of Eastern and Western development across 15,000 years since the end of the last ice age. He offers surprising conclusions about when and why the West came to dominate the world and fresh perspectives for thinking about the twenty-first century. Adapting the United Nations' approach for measuring human development, Morris's index breaks social development into four traits--energy capture per capita, organization, information technology, and war-making capacity--and he uses archaeological, historical, and current government data to quantify patterns. Morris reveals that for 90 percent of the time since the last ice age, the world's most advanced region has been at the western end of Eurasia, but contrary to what many historians once believed, there were roughly 1,200 years--from about 550 to 1750 CE--when an East Asian region was more advanced. Only in the late eighteenth century CE, when northwest Europeans tapped into the energy trapped in fossil fuels, did the West leap ahead. Resolving some of the biggest debates in global history, The Measure of Civilization puts forth innovative tools for determining past, present, and future economic and social trends.

La seule façon de comprendre la dynamique des relations euro- asiatiques est en regardant l'histoire à long terme. Au cours des 15 000 dernières années, la géographie a vu croître le développement social à des vitesses différentes selon les différentes parties du monde ; mais en même temps, le développement social croissant a constamment changé la perception de la géographie. Au cours des 15 000 dernières années, l'Europe a surtout été une simple périphérie des grands centres de pouvoir en Asie. C'est seulement au xv e siècle que la croissance de développement donne à l'Europe des avantages géographiques cruciaux, et entre 1500 et 1900, que l'Europe arrive à dominer le monde. Son succès, cependant, a modifié le sens de la géographie une fois de plus, et en 1900, la richesse et le pouvoir se sont déplacés au-delà de l'Atlantique en Amérique du Nord – pour que la domination américaine change le sens de la géographie encore plus loin, et que la richesse et le pouvoir traverse le Pacifique vers l'Asie de l'Est. La paix et la prospérité actuelle de l'Europe dépendent de sa position au sein de l'ordre mondial dominé par les Américains, et la montée en puissance de l'Asie de l'Est au xxi e siècle amène l'Europe à faire face à des choix stratégiques extrêmement difficiles.

The solidarity of the G‐20 nations in staving off global financial crisis two years ago has deteriorated into a brawl over currency valuations, trade imbalances and sovereign debt, reflecting the great powershift from the West to the East and the emerging economies.In this section, we invited comments from historians, a former head of state who successfully navigated the Asian financial crisis and a prominent Chinese dissident.