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    A Short History of Progress
    A Short History of Progress
    Each time history repeats itself, so it's said, the price goes up. The twentieth century was a time of runaway growth in human population, consumption, and technology, placing a colossal load on all natural systems, especially earth, air, and water - the very elements of life. The most urgent questions of the twenty - first century are: where will this growth lead? can it be consolidated or sustained? and what kind of world is our present bequeathing to our future?In his No.1 bestseller <i>A Short History of Progress</i> Ronald Wright argues that our modern predicament is as old as civilization, a 10,000 - year experiment we have participated in but seldom controlled. Only by understanding the patterns of triumph and disaster that humanity has repeated around the world since the Stone Age can we recognize the experiment's inherent dangers, and, with luck and wisdom, shape its outcome.
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    Book Author
    Ronald Wright
    Genre History , Nature , Social Science
    Binding
    PERFECT BINDING (PAPERBACK)
    Format
    Large Print 16 Pt Edition (Standard Large Print)
    ISBN
    9781459664814
    Publisher
    House of Anansi Press
    Age Range
    General
    Approximate delivery

    Up to 20 business days (?)

    Publication Date
    06-May-2013

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