Do Humankind's Best Days Lie Ahead?

Paperback • 2016 • 1. edition

Do Humankind's Best Days Lie Ahead?

By Steven Pinker, Matt Ridley, Alain de Botton, Malcolm Gladwell

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`It's just a brute fact that we don't throw virgins into volcanoes any more. We don't execute people for shoplifting a cabbage. And we used to.' -Steven Pinker`The idea that because things have gotten better in the past they will continue to do so in the future is a fallacy I would have thought confined to the lower reaches of Wall Street.' -Malcolm GladwellIn a world driven by technology and globalization, is humanity approaching a Golden Age or is the notion of progress a Western delusion? Fou...Show more

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9781786070760

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Oneworld Publications

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2016

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Do Humankind's Best Days Lie Ahead?

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