Do Humankind's Best Days Lie Ahead?
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- ISBN 9781786070760
- Categories BX, BXOS, Must Read Books, NF REF, Non-Fiction, Non-Fiction: Personal Development, Philosophy & psychology, Reference, RM 10 - RM 19.99
- Author(s) Steven Pinker
- Publisher Oneworld
- Pages 128
- Format Paperback
- Dimensions 11.0cm x 0.9cm x 17.8cm
- Weight 0.11 kg
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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 Gladwell
In a world driven by technology and globalization, is humanity approaching a Golden Age or is the notion of progress a Western delusion? Four of the world’s most renowned thinkers take on one of the biggest debates of the modern era…
