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A Biography of World Civilizations is an essential guide for anyone who wants to broaden their knowledge. Explore the History of Egypt, Greece, Sumer/ Mesopotamia, Persia,Europe, Middle East, Rome, India, China, all in one Book. Take a journey through the defining moments of our global story and know about the thinkers, leaders, ideas; development of art, science, mathematics, calendars, inventions, wars and peace that have shaped our world. This is a unique book that tells the stories of all civilizations on Earth, connecting historical events of all major civilizations providing significant characteristics and influences of each country. Jaya Nagendra provides both comprehensive and energetic attention to the individual nation and to the human history. Dozens of pictures provide a clear representation of great events giving the reader an ongoing sense of the passage of years and cultural interconnection. The result is an absorbing embroidery of human behavior from which we can conclude about the direction of world events and the causes behind them. Jaya S. Nagendra is from Bangalore, India, now living in the U.S.A. Formerly she was a Software Engineer and worked in different companies in the USA. Her interests are multifaceted and versatile. She passionately studies many areas such as linguistics, history, science, technology and so on. She has published three books: India at a Glance, A Brief History of Languages, and translated Charles Dickens book 'A Christmas Carol.' She honestly aspires to convey people that her book A Biography of the World Civilizations is an essential guide for anyone who wants to broaden their knowledge because this book covers world's most important turning points, from our earliest human ancestors of prehistory to social, political, and scientific events of the modern world.