A Short History Of Progress
A Short History Of Progress
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Summary
Many of the great ruins that grace the deserts and jungles of the earth are monuments to progress traps, the headstones of civilisations which fell victim to their own succee.
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A Short History Of Progress by Ronald Wright
Many of the great ruins that grace the deserts and jungles of the earth are monuments to progress traps, the headstones of civilisations which fell victim to their own succee. In the fate of such societies - once mighty, complex and brilliant - lie the most instructive lessons of our own. The twentieth century's runaway growth in human population, consumption and technology has placed a mysterious burden on the planet. In A Short History of Progress, prize-winning novelist and historian Ronald Wright aregues that this modern predicament is, in fact, as old as civilisation, a 10,000-year experiment we unleashed but have seldom controlled. Only by understanding the patterns of progress 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.
A compelling work of distilled wisdom* * TLS * *
Wright is both trained academic and an acclaimed novelist and he has used these skills to page-turning effect in this work of non-fiction. * * Morning Star * *
The author sifts the findings of archaeology and anthropology with thoughtful grace to build a potent argument. * * Guardian * *
Wright is both trained academic and an acclaimed novelist and he has used these skills to page-turning effect in this work of non-fiction. * * Morning Star * *
The author sifts the findings of archaeology and anthropology with thoughtful grace to build a potent argument. * * Guardian * *
Ronald Wright is a prize-winning novelist, historian and essayist, published in ten languages. His non-fiction includes the number-one bestseller Stolen Continents, winner of the Gordon Montador Award and chosen as a book of the year by the Independent and the Sunday Times. Hi first novel, A Scientific Romance, won the 1997 David Higham Prize for Fiction and was chosen as a book of the year by the Globe and Mail, the Sunday Times and the New York Times. His latest book is the novel Henderson's Spear. He was born in England, educated at Cambridge and now lives in British Columbia, Canada.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781841957111 |
| ISBN 10 | 1841957119 |
| Title | A Short History Of Progress |
| Author | Ronald Wright |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Canongate Books |
| Year published | 2005-09-01 |
| Number of pages | 224 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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