TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ferguson,Niall
TI  - Civilization: the west and the rest 
SN  - 9780143122067
U1  - 909.09821 22
PY  - 2012///
CY  - New York
PB  - The Penguin Group / Penguin Books
KW  - East and West
KW  - BUEsh
KW  - Comparative civilization
KW  - History, Modern
KW  - BUSADM
KW  - July2015
KW  - February2016
KW  - Reading book
N1  - Cover : " New York Times bestseller"; Cover : " "A dazzling history of Western ideas." ــــ The Economist"; Includes bibliographical references and index

N2  - What was it about the civilization of Western Europe that allowed it to trump the outwardly superior empires of the Orient? The answer, Niall Ferguson argues, was that the West developed six "killer applications"?that the Rest lacked: competition, science, democracy, medicine, consumerism and the work ethic. The key question today is whether or not the West has lost its monopoly on these six things. If so, Ferguson warns, we may be living through the end of Western ascendancy
ER  -