Binding: Paperback
EAN: 9781841958309
ISBN: 1841958301
Label: Canongate Books
Manufacturer: Canongate Books
Number Of Pages: 224
Publication Date: September 28, 2006
Publisher: Canongate Books
Sales Rank: 8610
Studio: Canongate Books

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Rating: - Of "Progress Traps" and inflexible thinking
A concise, readable, and punchy description of the manner in which a number of historical societies rendered their way of life obsolete and destroyed themselves by failing to adapt and to think ahead.

He describes as "progress traps" the apparent improvements of technology or culture which are too effective for the survival of the society which deploys them. For example, when hunting societies moved from catching individual animals to wiping out whole herds by driving them over cliffs ... Read More

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Rating: - Excellent
brilliant. enlightening. entertaining.
Page upon page of eminently quotable nuggets of distilled wisdom.
this is a must read

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Rating: - Really interesting book!
This is one of those books that you can't stop reading!

In this book, Ronald Wright gives us an overall view of the history of mankind so far, and the several and repeated mistakes and errors we have been doing ever since... With detailed views on the Easter Island, Sumerians, the Romans and the ancient civilizations of South America, it traces back the history of human civilization and shows us how these civilizations seem to have disappeared simply because they couldn't (or didn't want ... Read More

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