The Watchmans Rattle: Thinking Our Way Out of Extinction
Rebecca D. Costa
Tipo: seminovo/usado
Editora: Vanguard
Ano: 2010
Estante: Sociologia
Peso: 730g
Idioma: Inglês
Cadastrado em: 16 de agosto de 2016
Descrição: Why cant we solve our problems anymore? Why do threats such as the Gulf oil spill, worldwide recession, terrorism, and global warming suddenly seem unstoppable? Are there limits to the kinds of problems humans can solve?Rebecca Costa confronts - and offers a solution to - these questions in her highly anticipated and game-changing book, The Watchmans Rattle. Costa pulls headlines from todays news to demonstrate how accelerating complexity quickly outpaces that rate at which the human brain can develop new capabilities. With compelling evidenced based on research in the rise and fall of Mayan, Khmer, and Roman empires, Costa shows how the tendency to find a quick solution - leads to frightening long term consequence:... Encad. capa dura com sobrecapa. Possui grifos. Bom estado. 350p
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