From Lao Tzu to Aristotle, Charles Darwin to Jomo Kenyatta, <em>Reading the World</em> is a collection of 79 texts by some of the world's great thinkers. And because ideas have long been expressed visually as well as verbally, the collection includes 15 drawings, paintings, photographs, and other visual works. Organized around universal themes, and featuring a wide selection of both Western and non-Western texts, <em>Reading the World</em> presents a diversity of views on ideas that matter.