Holding up a Mirror 
Subtitle: How Civilizations Decline
Edition: 2Rev Ed edition
Publisher: Imprint Academic
Published: May 1, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 652
ISBN-13: 9780907845607
Subjects: Social & cultural anthropology; World history; History / Civilization; History - General History; History: World; Civilization; World - General; History; Idea (Philosophy); Intellectual life; Social Change; Western civilization; History / General History; History / World; History/Civilization
First sentence: Is there any reality other than the one we can hear and see and smell and touch?