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"Bringing his cosmic perspective to civilization on Earth, Neil deGrasse Tyson shines new light on the crucial fault lines of our time--war, politics, religion, truth, beauty, gender, and race--in a way that stimulates a deeper sense of unity for us all"--Publisher.
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A captivating history of the universe - from before the dawn of time through the far reaches of the distant future. Most historians study the smallest slivers of time, emphasizing specific dates, individuals, and documents. But what would it look like to study the whole of history, from the big bang through the present day, and even into the remote future? How would looking at the full span of time, change the way we perceive the universe, the earth,...
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Jane Jacobs argues that we face a dark age, that is a cultural dead-end. As we move from agrarianism to a technology-based future, we risk losing our culture as we shift our whole way of life. It is pointed out that we still have time to avoid a dark age, if we follow the examples of Ireland and Japan, but we must recognize the danger first. 2004.
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For generations, our remote ancestors have been cast as primitive and childlike--either free and equal innocents, or thuggish and warlike. Civilization, we are told, could only be achieved by sacrificing those original freedoms, or alternatively, by taming our baser instincts. Graeber and Wengrow show how such theories first emerged in the eighteenth century as a conservative reaction to powerful critiques of European society posed by Indigenous observers...
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