"In his most important book to date, award-winning author Timothy Ferris -- "the best popular science writer in the English language today" (Christian Science Monitor) -- makes a passionate case for science as the inspiration behind the rise of liberalism and democracy ..."@en
"Makes a case for science as the inspiration behind the rise of liberalism and democracy, arguing that just as the scientific revolution rescued billions from poverty and disease, the Enlightenment values it inspired have swelled the number of free democratic societies."@en
"Timothy Ferris makes a passionate case for science as the inspiration behind the rise of liberalism and democracy. Ferris argues that, just as the scientific revolution rescued billions from poverty, fear, hunger, and disease, the Enlightenment values it inspired have swelled the number of persons living in free and democratic societies from less than one percent of the world population four centuries ago to more than a third today."@en