A short history of progress
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New York :
Carroll & Graf Publishers,
2005.
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| 100 | 1 | |a Wright, Ronald, |d 1948- | |
| 245 | 1 | 2 | |a A short history of progress / |c by Ronald Wright. |
| 260 | |a New York : |b Carroll & Graf Publishers, |c 2005. | ||
| 300 | |a 211 pages ; |c 21 cm | ||
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| 500 | |a Originally published: Toronto : House of Anansi Press, 2004. | ||
| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-199) and index. | ||
| 520 | 1 | |a "A Short History of Progress is nothing less than a concise history of the world since Neanderthal times, elegantly written, brilliantly conceived, and stunningly clear in its warning to us now. Wright shows how human beings have a way of walking into "progress traps," beginning with the worldwide slaughter of big game in the Stone Age. The same pattern of overconsumption then took a new from, as many of the world's most creative civilizations - Mesopotamia, the Maya, the Roman Empire - fell victim to their own success."--Jacket. | |
| 505 | 0 | 0 | |g I. |t Gauguin's questions -- |g II. |t The great experiment -- |g III. |t Fools' paradise -- |g IV. |t Pyramid schemes -- |g V. |t The rebellion of the tools. |
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