World Heritage Books
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Our publications address notable and beneficial yet often absent or underrepresented subjects, issues, phenomena and approaches. Fresh perspectives and insights are provided.
Contribution
Through critical and pioneering engagement, our titles and projects contribute to knowledge and understanding. Broaden horizons, journey to new avenues, depths and places.
Connections
Connecting you to the wider and dynamic human story, a vital effort in the cosmopolitan twenty-first century whilst acknowledging and celebrating the particular in time, place and phenomena.
Pioneering
Our publications address notable and beneficial yet often absent or underrepresented subjects, issues, phenomena and approaches. Fresh perspectives and insights are provided.
Innovative
Through critical and pioneering engagement, our titles and projects contribute to knowledge and understanding. Broaden horizons, journey to new avenues, depths and places.
Pluralism
Connecting you to the wider and dynamic human story, a vital effort in the cosmopolitan twenty-first century whilst acknowledging and celebrating the particular in time, place and phenomena.
Harmony
Engaging with a broader scope, depth and dynamics of the past with special reference to positive links of cultures and civilizations contributes to knowledge and understanding. This endeavour enthuses harmony in mind and heart and in society and the broader world. Vital and valuable connections are established and nurtured.
Connecting you to the wider and dynamic human story, a vital effort in the cosmopolitan twenty-first century whilst acknowledging and celebrating the particular in time, place and phenomena.
“Here are presented the results of the enquiry carried out by Herodotus of Halicarnassus. The purpose is to prevent the traces of human events from being erased from time, and to preserve the fame of the important and remarkable achievements produced by both Greeks and non-Greeks.”
Herodotus (b. Halicarnassus, present-day Turkey c. 484-c. 425 BCE/BC), preface of Historíai (The Histories).
“By composing these works on universal history and collecting such facts as have been bequeathed by time concerning the prophets, the kings and their regions, the different nations and their places on the globe, we have sought to follow the path beaten by wise and learned men and have tried to leave to posterity a solid memorial built with art and skill.”
Abū al-Hassan ‘Alī ibn Al-Hussain ibn ‘Alī al-Mas‘ūdī (b. Baghdād, 896-956 CE/AD), Al-Murūj ad-Dahab wa-Maʿādin al-Jawhar (The Meadows of Gold and Mines of Gems).
“That you are patriotic will be praised by many and easily forgiven by everyone; but in my opinion it is wiser to treat men and things as though we held this world the common fatherland of all.”
Desiderius Erasmus (b. Gerrit Gerritszoon, Netherlands, 1466-1536), letter to (friend) Guillaume Bude.