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A Foot in the River
Why Our Lives Change -- And the Limits of Evolution
Taschenbuch von Felipe Fernandez-Armesto
Sprache: Englisch

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Compared to other animals, the way humans live ¿ our manners, morals, habits, experiences, relationships, technology, values ¿ changes at a bewildering speed. Why is this? Felipe Fern¿ez-Armesto offers some revolutionary answers to this fundamental question about our species - and speculates on what they mean for our future.
Compared to other animals, the way humans live ¿ our manners, morals, habits, experiences, relationships, technology, values ¿ changes at a bewildering speed. Why is this? Felipe Fern¿ez-Armesto offers some revolutionary answers to this fundamental question about our species - and speculates on what they mean for our future.
Über den Autor
Felipe Fernández-Armesto is the William P. Reynolds Professor of Arts and Letters at the University of Notre Dame. His work has been recognized as pioneering across a very wide range of fields, including global history, environmental history, colonial history, maritime history, religious history, art history, the history of ideas, Mediterranean history, Spanish history, American history, the history of cartography, and the history of language. He has published numerous best-selling history books, including Civilizations (Macmillan, 2000), Millennium (Bantam, 1995), 1492: The Year Our World Began (Bloomsbury, 2010) , and Pathfinders: A Global History of Exploration (2006), also published by Oxford University Press, which was awarded the World History Association Prize.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
  • Introduction: The Weird Planet

  • 1: Challenging Change

  • 2: The Frustration of Science

  • 3: The Great Re-Convergence

  • 4: The Chimpanzees' Tea Party

  • 5: The Limits of Evolution

  • 6: The Imaginative Animal

  • 7: Facing Acceleration

  • 8: Towards the Planet of the Apes

  • In the Vatican Garden: Afterword and Acknowledgements

  • Notes

  • Index

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
Fachbereich: Allgemeines
Genre: Geschichte
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Thema: Lexika
Medium: Taschenbuch
Seiten: 304
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9780198806806
ISBN-10: 0198806809
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Fernandez-Armesto, Felipe
Hersteller: Oxford University Press, USA
Maße: 213 x 135 x 18 mm
Von/Mit: Felipe Fernandez-Armesto
Erscheinungsdatum: 24.10.2017
Gewicht: 0,363 kg
preigu-id: 108783778
Über den Autor
Felipe Fernández-Armesto is the William P. Reynolds Professor of Arts and Letters at the University of Notre Dame. His work has been recognized as pioneering across a very wide range of fields, including global history, environmental history, colonial history, maritime history, religious history, art history, the history of ideas, Mediterranean history, Spanish history, American history, the history of cartography, and the history of language. He has published numerous best-selling history books, including Civilizations (Macmillan, 2000), Millennium (Bantam, 1995), 1492: The Year Our World Began (Bloomsbury, 2010) , and Pathfinders: A Global History of Exploration (2006), also published by Oxford University Press, which was awarded the World History Association Prize.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
  • Introduction: The Weird Planet

  • 1: Challenging Change

  • 2: The Frustration of Science

  • 3: The Great Re-Convergence

  • 4: The Chimpanzees' Tea Party

  • 5: The Limits of Evolution

  • 6: The Imaginative Animal

  • 7: Facing Acceleration

  • 8: Towards the Planet of the Apes

  • In the Vatican Garden: Afterword and Acknowledgements

  • Notes

  • Index

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
Fachbereich: Allgemeines
Genre: Geschichte
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Thema: Lexika
Medium: Taschenbuch
Seiten: 304
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9780198806806
ISBN-10: 0198806809
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Fernandez-Armesto, Felipe
Hersteller: Oxford University Press, USA
Maße: 213 x 135 x 18 mm
Von/Mit: Felipe Fernandez-Armesto
Erscheinungsdatum: 24.10.2017
Gewicht: 0,363 kg
preigu-id: 108783778
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