Draws on decades of field work in the Pacific islands and other world regions to illuminate the degree to which modern society reflects traditional cultures from earlier and ancient time periods.
Social evolution
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Author:Diamond, Jared M.Summary: - Author:Raihani, NicholaSummary:
This program is read by the author. In the tradition of Richard Dawkins's The Selfish Gene, Nichola Raihani's The Social Instinct is a profound and engaging look at the hidden relationships underpinning human evolution, and...
- Author:Wilson, Edward O.Summary:
Wilson boldly addresses age-old questions (Where did we come from? What are we? Where are we going?) while delving into the biological sources of morality, religion, and the creative arts.
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Author:McGilchrist, IainSummary:Why is the brain divided? The difference between right and left hemispheres has been puzzled over for centuries. In this book, Iain McGilchrist draws on a vast body of recent brain research, illustrated with case histories, to reveal...
- Author:Rushkoff, DouglasSummary:
"A provocative, exciting, and important rallying cry to reassert our human spirit of community and teamwork."'Walter Isaacson Though created by humans, our technologies, markets, and institutions often contain an...
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Author:Wells, H. G.Summary:In the summer of 1921, a disenchanted journalist escapes the rat race for a drive in the country. But Mr. Barnstaple's trip exceeds his expectations when he and other motorists are swept 3,000 years into the future. The inadvertent...
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Author:Nowak, PeterSummary:Life for early humans wasn't easy. They may have been able to walk on two feet and create tools 4 million years ago, but they couldn't remember or communicate. Fortunately, people got smarter, and things got better. They remembered on-...
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Author:Diamond, Jared M.Summary:Most of this work deals with non-Europeans, but Diamond's thesis sheds light on why Western civilization became hegemonic: "History followed different courses for different peoples because of differences among peoples' environments, not...
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Author:Suzuki, David T.Summary:This book "takes an unflinching look at where we are at this unprecedented moment in history. It reveals that a clear and present environmental danger is staring us in the face - but there is good news. We still have time to avoid...
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Author:Hill, LawrenceSummary:Selected for The Globe 100 Books in 2013. With the 2013 CBC Massey Lectures, bestselling author Lawrence Hill offers a provocative examination of the scientific and social history of blood, and on the ways that it unites and divides us...
