Five books that shaped our world | BBC Ideas

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  • Опубликовано: 6 авг 2024
  • Books inspire, entertain and help us escape into new worlds - but some have also had profound and lasting impacts on society.
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  • @bbcideas
    @bbcideas  2 года назад +4

    What are some of your favourite books? Let us know in the comments below 👇and if you enjoyed this video, you might also like to find out how stories shape our minds 👉ruclips.net/video/vyZMSZG2Dmk/видео.html

  • @arghyachakraborty
    @arghyachakraborty 2 года назад +75

    Here you go ~
    1. The Anatomy of Melancholy [Robert Burton]
    2. The Feminine Mystique [Betty Friedan]
    3. The End of Nature [Bill McKibben]
    4. Things Fall Apart [Chinua Achebe]
    5. A Book on Mediterranean Food [Elizabeth David]
    Thank you BBC Ideas. 🌻

  • @TheSoulBlossom
    @TheSoulBlossom 2 года назад +29

    there's only one book that's shaping everyone's life now - "1984".

  • @VirendraPanwar95
    @VirendraPanwar95 2 года назад +45

    Is there anyone like me who never heard about any of the above books😅

    • @Ryccee
      @Ryccee 7 месяцев назад +1

      🔇

  • @singing-sands
    @singing-sands 2 года назад +17

    "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson -- written in 1962 , has remained amazingly prescient. A marine biologist and environmentalist, she had an impact on a generation that promptly "forgot" her warnings.

  • @MariaMartinez-researcher
    @MariaMartinez-researcher 2 года назад +46

    Wrong title. Unless you meant "our British contemporary-very-local-world." Chilean librarian here. I thought we were going to see the influence of the Bible, Principia, On the Origin of Species, Shakespeare, Cervantes, Confucius and such. The only book you mention I had known something about was The Feminine Mystique. And I am a librarian...

    • @juliaconnell
      @juliaconnell 2 года назад +8

      I agree - from New Zealand - (my mother was a librarian) - I agree with your list far from than theirs - these books - what?!? Bible yes, Principia yes were on my list along with Shakespeare - and Darwin - instead a fricking FOOD book!!! I'm completely confused about who made this list and how they choose these random unlikely books

    • @IndianJone
      @IndianJone 2 года назад +2

      I wish to become a librarian, could you please tell me what I need to do?

    • @Anna_Rozanska
      @Anna_Rozanska Год назад +3

      I was mighty surprised, too. Being a doctor of Applied Linguistics, I am not strictly an expert in history or literature, so I hoped to learn something new and interesting, but then I suspected I would recognize a title or two... I thought, like others, of the Bible and the Quran, but also of Copernicus' "De revolutionibus orbium coelestium", Platon or Homer (not strictly books, I know, but Illiad and Odyssey have been published since). Maybe even The Code of Hammurabi. Books that have changed the world, not a generation. The title is most certainly misleading and the task of choosing just 5 books that have changed the world (rather than 10, perhaps) - too ambitious.

    • @MariaMartinez-researcher
      @MariaMartinez-researcher Год назад +1

      @@IndianJone Greetings. Sorry for the delay, I didn't get a notification. Well, to become a librarian you must do what most people does to become a professional, go to college/university and get your degree. It depends on where you live and the possibilities to access to high education, of course. Two things:
      -If you really want to be a librarian, you can afford the career (or get a scholarship, whatever available) and where you live there are several entities that offer the courses, first think if you are interested more in the cultural aspects or in the administrative aspects of a library. Different schools offer different approaches to the subject; get the one that better suits you.
      -If, for whatever reason, you cannot get the title of librarian by the usual way, go to the libraries in your city and ask the people what they do and how they got the job. There are plenty of teachers, journalists, secretaries and others who learned the ropes of the profession while working at a library, sometimes they can validate their experience for the title. At least, you could get a job in a library and start from there, if there is possibilities of advancement. But don't forget, this is a profession, and there's lots of technical things to learn, even more now with all the computers and the Internet.
      Good luck ✌

    • @PLyanaz
      @PLyanaz 6 месяцев назад

      rel

  • @pk2030
    @pk2030 2 года назад +7

    The 5 books that have impacted me: Shantaram, The Alchemist, The Kite Runner, The collected short stories of Roald Dahl and Nirmala by Premchand (Hindi).

  • @kanishkchowdary9160
    @kanishkchowdary9160 2 года назад +36

    It's over generalisation to say 'world' . What we see here is a classic colonial attitude. Where the knowledge systems of other cultures are discredited .

    • @End-Result
      @End-Result 2 года назад

      You said it 👏🏼

    • @Guernsey576
      @Guernsey576 2 года назад

      Things Fall Apart is from Africa

  • @AaaBBB-th7ok
    @AaaBBB-th7ok 2 года назад +3

    How did you do this classification?!

  • @nhungcute8888
    @nhungcute8888 2 года назад +24

    Wonderful! Hope BBC ideas have more useful and interesting lessons! I love the channel so much.

    • @bbcideas
      @bbcideas  2 года назад +3

      Thank you very much - we're so happy to hear you're enjoying our videos! 🧡

  • @michaelsinanan6175
    @michaelsinanan6175 2 года назад +4

    Five books on issues discussed in our wold today.

  • @user-sm2eo2kk7s
    @user-sm2eo2kk7s Год назад +2

    Me who didn't know all these books before😂 thank you for your great recommendations. I really got excited about some books you mentioned so I'm going to read them.

  • @pauljonathanpeters8125
    @pauljonathanpeters8125 2 года назад +1

    One of my fave books was The Outsiders. We studied it at school.

  • @tanishka707
    @tanishka707 2 года назад +4

    I love books more than people

  • @thelife8836
    @thelife8836 2 года назад +1

    Thank you bbc ideas learned a lot.❤❤❤

  • @pulkitagrawalCFA
    @pulkitagrawalCFA 2 года назад +33

    The Bible, the Koran, the Torah, Das Capital, The Bhagavad-Gita???

    • @gf4453
      @gf4453 8 месяцев назад +3

      The Origin of Species!

  • @Infiniteemptiness
    @Infiniteemptiness 2 года назад +20

    This is just way to push propaganda rather than real books
    Not even one book mentioned here I ever heard of despite being eager reader

  • @user-qm4mb4go8y
    @user-qm4mb4go8y 10 месяцев назад +1

    Books are medicine value and knowledge is derived from every book. So read at least one book every day

  • @taciturndave6783
    @taciturndave6783 2 года назад +2

    The obligatory RIGHT choice of books but not the CORRECT choices.

  • @juliaconnell
    @juliaconnell 2 года назад +8

    You have a fricking COOK BOOK on this list?!? - as for the rest *WHAT* ?!? I majored in history- more specially history of *change* - and *these* books?!? Irrelevant!!!

  • @wahafung9374
    @wahafung9374 2 года назад

    Interesting!CLS!

  • @Engr.Faisal
    @Engr.Faisal 2 года назад +9

    Five books that shaped our (our means bbc ideas) world.

    • @hemlatavvarshney
      @hemlatavvarshney 2 года назад +1

      Agree

    • @spartan2238
      @spartan2238 2 года назад

      Kuran must be there for u

    • @VikramSingh-vg7gv
      @VikramSingh-vg7gv Год назад +3

      If really apply title it has to be....The Bible,the Koran, the Bhagvat Gita and Das capital ( communist manifesto)

  • @malafanai4026
    @malafanai4026 2 года назад +1

    Piling them up on to my amazon card already, thank you BBC IDEAS
    Edit: cart*

  • @floating_ghost
    @floating_ghost 2 года назад +2

    What about Ramayana and Mahabharatha?

  • @mariemac5347
    @mariemac5347 2 года назад

    Love it! Thank you

  • @pargevkarapetyan2251
    @pargevkarapetyan2251 Год назад +1

    Thank you BBC for great educational videos ❤️👏👏👏

  • @vilasshinde168
    @vilasshinde168 2 года назад +2

    best way to advertise books

  • @sumailmahmood7569
    @sumailmahmood7569 Год назад +4

    aboslute rubbish! thought you guys are neutral ! you post a video naming " five books that shaped our ourl and don't include Bible,Quran in the list..... IRONY

  • @moyeenm.bhuiyan6249
    @moyeenm.bhuiyan6249 9 месяцев назад +1

    so no 1984 then?

  • @VikramSingh-vg7gv
    @VikramSingh-vg7gv Год назад +2

    To really giving justice to the title it has to be..
    1. The Bible
    2. The Koran
    3. The Bhagvat Gita
    5.Das capital (Communist manifesto).

  • @maheshmarathe2791
    @maheshmarathe2791 2 года назад +4

    Hi, In India there are 2 epic books that changed the entire world more than 4000 years ago…
    1) Mahabharata 2) Bhagvada Gita
    & the craze is still growing strongly even after so many years.

  • @ianslater453
    @ianslater453 2 года назад +1

    10 months and only 18k views.....does not seem many people are interested in what you think

  • @Chronicler92
    @Chronicler92 5 месяцев назад

    Das Capital, Origin of Species, Wealth of Nations..

  • @jeffreyswamiraja8122
    @jeffreyswamiraja8122 2 года назад +4

    The Bible

  • @user-si2tt7dv7q
    @user-si2tt7dv7q 5 месяцев назад

    Who’s here for school?

  • @ishanvidyarthi7340
    @ishanvidyarthi7340 2 года назад +2

    Hey first one to comment

  • @changetobelieve7496
    @changetobelieve7496 2 года назад +16

    I've never heard about these books, and don't know how these shaped our world.
    Pathetic video!

  • @HarryVuPhuongTran
    @HarryVuPhuongTran Год назад +1

    a comercial video!

  • @abraao.maximo
    @abraao.maximo 7 месяцев назад

    The Bible.