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Item Details
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A SHORT HISTORY OF PROGRESS
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| By: |
Ronald Wright |
| Format: |
Hardback |
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£12.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1841957119 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781841957111 |
| Publisher: |
CANONGATE BOOKS LTD |
| Pub. date: |
1 September, 2005 |
| Pages: |
211 |
| Description: |
From Neanderthal man to the Sumerians to the Roman Empire, "A Short History of Progress" dissects the cyclical nature of humanity's development and demise, the 10,000-year-old experiment that people have unleashed but have yet to control. |
| Synopsis: |
Albert Einstein called progress 'the axe in the hand of the pathological criminal', and in this timely book Ronald Wright shows how the twentieth century's runaway growth in human population, consumption, and technology have placed a murderous burden on the planet. Asking where this growth lead, whether it can be consolidated or sustained and what kind of world the present bequeathing to the future, he argues that our modern predicament is as old as civilisation, a 10,000-year experiment we have participated in but seldom controlled. Only by understanding the patterns of triumph and disaster that humanity has repeated since the Stone Age can we recognise the experiment's inherent dangers, and, with luck and wisdom, shape its outcome. |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Canongate Books Ltd |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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