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Ronald Wright

A Short History of Progress: Fifteenth Anniversary Edition

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Now more relevant than ever, Ronald Wright's #1 national bestseller, A Short History of Progress. The fifteenth anniversary edition includes a new introduction warning of the accelerating patterns of progress and disaster.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… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-1-4870-0698-3
  • EAN: 9781487006983
  • Produktnummer: 34859605
  • Verlag: House Of Anansi Pr
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
  • Seitenangabe: 232 S.
  • Masse: H20.1 cm x B12.7 cm x D1.5 cm 249 g
  • Gewicht: 249

Über den Autor


RONALD WRIGHT is an award-winning historian, essayist, and the author of ten books of fiction and nonfiction published in sixteen languages and more than forty countries. His 2004 CBC Massey Lectures, A Short History of Progress, was a #1 national bestseller, won the Libris Award for Nonfiction Book of the Year, and was the basis for the Martin Scorsese-produced documentary Surviving Progress. His other bestselling nonfiction books include the BC Book Prize-winning history What Is America?; Stolen Continents, which won the Gordon Montador Award; and Among the Maya. His first novel, A Scientific Romance, won the 1997 David Higham Prize for Fiction and was a Globe and Mail, Sunday Times, and New York Times book of the year.

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