Genre: | Children |
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Language : | English |
Published: | November 03, 2016 |
Edition: | 5th |
Paperback | |
ISBN13: | 9781786070760 |
ISBN10: | 1786070766 |
Pages: | 128 |
Dimensions: | 4.35 x 7.0 x 0.35 inches |
Weight: | 1047.8 g |
‘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…