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Author mixes topics together, presenting as a linked whole. Some topics have only one reasonable side, others are quite debatable. For instance:
Study of prior scientific achievement may lead to breakthroughs, but is that necessarily so with study of prior artistic achievements? What about other skills and studies?
A good overview on the general decline of literacy and competency, regardless.

A good history - I liked it.

As good as any Alan Dean Foster novelization, with the added bonus of finding out what happened to Admiral Archer's dog.

What is death, and beyond death? I think the Catholic characters were not righteously indignant enough.

A good history of bicycles versus cars and a great overview of many cities and European countries (only the merest mention of China).