Letters to Lily On How the World Works Author:Alan Macfarlane Alan Macfarlane answers his granddaughter's questions about how the world works. Lily's enquiries range from the personal and moral to the political, social, and philosophical. In responding, Macfarlane, as a historian and anthropologist, ranges through history and across the world's cultures. Her questions are timeless. His answers add up to a ... more »classic.« less