TURNING BACK THE CLOCK - ECO, U.

"Book Summary After the Cold War, the 'Hot War' has made its comeback in Afghanistan and Iraq. Exhuming Kipling's ""Great

Game"", we have gone back to the clash between Islam and

Christianity. The ghost of the Yellow Peril has been resurrected, the nineteenth-century anti-Darwin debate has been reopened, right-wing governments predominate. It almost seems like history, tired of the big steps forward it has taken in the past two millennia, has gone into reverse. With his customary sharpness and wit, Eco proposes, not so much that we resume a forward march, but at the very least that we cease marching backwards. About the

Author Umberto Eco is the author of three bestselling novels, The

Name of The Rose, Foucault's Pendulum, and The Island of The Day

Before. His collections of essays also include Five Moral Pieces,

Kant and the Platypus, Serendipities, Travels In Hyperreality, and

How To Travel With a Salmon and Other Essays. A Professor of

Semiotics at the University of Bologna, Umberto Eco lives in

Italy."