The modern world was created through the combination and complex interactions of five grand transitions. First, the demographic transition changed the total numbers, dynamics, structure, and residential pattern of populations. The...
Civilization, Modern
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Auteur:Smil, VaclavSommaire: - Auteur:Pinker, StevenSommaire:
The follow-up to Pinker's groundbreaking The Better Angels of Our Nature presents the big picture of human progress: people are living longer, healthier, freer, and happier lives, and while our problems are formidable, the...
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Auteur:Sommaire:This brief anthology provides readers with a ready means of exploring the ethics of war and terrorism. Supported with problem cases, and illuminating introductory essay, and study questions this text will engage students in one of the...
- Auteur:Ryan, ChristopherSommaire:
The New York Times bestselling coauthor of Sex at Dawn explores the ways in which "progress" has perverted the way we live: how we eat, learn, feel, mate, parent, communicate, work, and die. Most of us have instinctive...
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Auteur:Postman, NeilSommaire:In Building a Bridge to the Eighteenth Century Neil Postman revisits the Enlightenment, that great flowering of ideas that provided a humane direction for the future - ideas that formed our nation and that we would do well to embrace...
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Auteur:Goldin, IanSommaire:The present is a contest between the bright and dark sides of discovery. To avoid being torn apart by its stresses, we need to recognize the fact―and gain courage and wisdom from the past. Age of Discovery shows how. Now is the best...
- Auteur:Mishra, PankajSommaire:
The author of From the Ruins of Empire (DB 76629) and The Romantics (DB 52514) explores the origins of the great waves of paranoid hatred that persist throughout the world in the early twenty-first century. Also discusses historical...
- Auteur:Heying, Heather, Weinstein, BretSommaire:
A provocative exploration of the tension between our evolutionary history and our modern woes and what we can do about it. We are living through the most prosperous age in all of human history, yet we are listless, divided, and...
- Auteur:Lewicky, DannySommaire:
Sometimes it takes a unique perspective to see how stupid life can be. With 1001 observations on the ridiculousness of the Internet, social norms, relationships and more, Danny Lewicki calls out all the stupid we take for granted.
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