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Title details for Do Humankind's Best Days Lie Ahead? by Steven Pinker - Available

Do Humankind's Best Days Lie Ahead?

by Steven Pinker
Matt Ridley
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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...
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Publisher: Oneworld Publications

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  • ISBN: 9781786070777
  • File size: 418 KB
  • Release date: February 5, 2017

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  • ISBN: 9781786070777
  • File size: 418 KB
  • Release date: February 5, 2017

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Philosophy Politics Sociology Nonfiction

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English

'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...
Expand title description text
Philosophy Politics Sociology Nonfiction