Intro -- In Search of a True World View -- About the Author -- Dedication -- Copyright Information © -- Acknowledgement -- Preface -- Autocrats are Deadlier Than Virus -- Autocrats after the communism -- Autocrats with legitimacy from religion -- The Western world is not immune -- The most murderous autocrats in history -- The age of democracy has just begun -- Google's and Facebook's temporary monopoly -- The Human was Born with Fire and Ice -- The brain is built layer on layer -- All brains are individual -- Understanding a whole group -- An intuitive protectionist supply model -- The importance of fire -- The Tribes Conquered the Entire Planet -- Between dream and reality -- The power of rituals -- Towards solid settlements -- How we became big game hunters -- Farmers Challenged by Climate Changes -- The strenuous life of farmers -- The cattle people of the steppe -- The flood of Sin -- The heavenly mathematic -- The Heavenly Power of Herders -- Bronze age with plague, famine and migration -- The first written language -- Collapses in the Sumerian land -- The Egyptian time capsules -- Commandments for property rights -- Looking for a Harmonious Power Order -- The style forming Persian empire -- Time for new religions and philosophies -- The freethinking Greeks -- Coins and interest rates changed business -- Empires Lasted over a Long Warm Period -- The rise of India -- The new Chinese empire -- The Roman shaping of Europe -- The medieval climate catastrophe -- Emperors love of magnificent projects -- Two Abrahamic Religions Defined Europe -- The rival European Christianity -- Pope, markets and socialism -- The caravan trade of Islam -- The Western Europe emerges -- The growing trade cities -- When Islam came to India -- China took over the economic lead -- Ships for distant trading -- The Prodigal Western Pupil -- The power of trade.

Optics and perspectives in art -- Freemasons' lofty vaults -- The devastating black death -- China decided to burn the ships -- The new expansion of Islam -- The power of European finance families -- The merchants, the bankers and the trust -- How Europeans Could Rule the Seas -- The American civilisations -- The split of the Roman church -- Europe's diversity of kingdoms -- Constant threats from Istanbul and Russia -- European power struggle -- Religious war and real cold weather -- How Japan and China turned inwards -- Firearms shifted the balance of power -- England from Dictator to Parliamentarism -- The long-lived French kings -- The Spanish Succession War -- A German sphere defined by culture -- Russia new Nordic superpower -- The life in the isolated Japan -- The financial bubbles of colonial goods -- The Vulcanic and Political Eruptions -- Freedom and slavery -- The rise of Great Britain -- Liberal and nationalist unrest -- A global transport system -- The demanding British warships -- The Power of the Second Industrialisation -- The heyday of Victorian England -- Protectionism but also science and innovations -- A fertile soil for new thinking -- The new trust companies -- Heavenly Princes and Utopian Dictators -- The tsars and the sultans -- Four young men with utopian ideas -- The ominous peace treaty -- The Americans turned the war again -- The car's new society -- America, Soviet and Mao's China -- The revolutionary logistics of the war -- The American economic evolution -- The glorious European decades -- India started decolonisation -- Demographic explosions and liberations -- The shrinking part of the "white" powers -- The Communist colonial world -- The new information industry -- The Fatal Consequences of Coal and Oil -- The most dangerous threat was missed -- The curse of free resources -- Southeast Asia's economic rise.

The rapidly changing global corporation -- The style-forming European project -- When China Rocked the World Economy -- The disappointments of Spanish transformation -- The lure of the big cities -- The workers era is long gone -- The growing economy of entertainment and care -- The business of financial safety and of care -- The challenges of the new elite -- Money for nothing and risk for free -- Living standards rise among the sophisticated economies -- What is a robot and what is work? -- Problems with the Western model -- Reckless experiments of Republicans and Tories -- The difference between nation and company -- The meaning of cultural differences -- The horrors of the Middle East -- The different dangers of rent seeking -- Back to Africa and the Future -- The accelerating growth of mankind -- The dream of a sustainable civilisation? -- The wonder of being human -- Biotech to ward off diseases -- Man's timeline, what does it say about the future? -- List of Sources -- Short Subjects and Names Index.