The title is a double pun. (Aside from the obvious, it also refers to China's ancient Spring and Autumn annals.) Includes ancient India and its religions (but not, alas, anything about India's neglected atheist traditions—sorry!), the beginning of Buddhism, origin of Chinese civilization, some of the Chinese philosophers, Chin and Han Dynasties, the Roman Republic, the life and times of Jesus, the Roman Empire, the early Church, and the collapse of Rome and China.

Doubleday, 300+ pages, paper.

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