The Book of Humanity
Author | : Paraskevas Paraskevopoulos |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 752 |
Release | : 2011-12-15 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781592322749 |
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Author | : Paraskevas Paraskevopoulos |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 752 |
Release | : 2011-12-15 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781592322749 |
Author | : Robert Briffault |
Publisher | : London : G. Allen & Unwin |
Total Pages | : 384 |
Release | : 1919 |
Genre | : Civilization |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Richard Weikart |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 270 |
Release | : 2016-04-04 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1621575624 |
A book to challenge the status quo, spark a debate, and get people talking about the issues and questions we face as a country!
Author | : Sam Dubal |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 294 |
Release | : 2018-02-13 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0520296095 |
Introduction : against humanity -- How violence became inhuman : the making of modern moral sensibilities -- Gorilla warfare : life in and beyond the bush -- Beyond reason : magic and science in the LRA -- Interlude : Re-turn and dis-integration -- Rebel kinship beyond humanity : love and belonging in the war -- Rebels and charity cases : politics, ethics, and the concept of humanity -- Conclusion : beyond humanity, or how do we heal?
Author | : Jonathan Glover |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 492 |
Release | : 2012-09-11 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0300186401 |
A study of history and morality in the twentieth century, this text examines the psychology which made possible Hiroshima, the Nazi genocide, the Gulag, the Chinese Cultural Revolution, Pol Pot's Cambodia, Rwanda and Bosnia.
Author | : Patrick Manning |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 379 |
Release | : 2020-02-27 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1108804187 |
Humanity today functions as a gigantic, world-encompassing system. Renowned world historian, Patrick Manning traces how this human system evolved from Homo Sapiens' beginnings over 200,000 years ago right up to the present day. He focuses on three great shifts in the scale of social organization - the rise of syntactical language, of agricultural society, and today's newly global social discourse - and links processes of social evolution to the dynamics of biological and cultural evolution. Throughout each of these shifts, migration and social diversity have been central, and social institutions have existed in a delicate balance, serving not just their own members but undergoing regulation from society. Integrating approaches from world history, environmental studies, biological and cultural evolution, social anthropology, sociology, and evolutionary linguistics, Patrick Manning offers an unprecedented account of the evolution of humans and our complex social system and explores the crises facing that human system today.
Author | : Julian Simon |
Publisher | : Wiley-Blackwell |
Total Pages | : 708 |
Release | : 1996-01-09 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9781557865854 |
This book provides a comprehensive and balanced assessment of the state of the Earth and its inhabitants at the close of the twentieth century. More than fifty scholars from all over the world present new, concise and accessible accounts of the present state of humanity and the prospects for its social and natural environment. The subjects range from deforestation, water pollution and ozone layer depletion to poverty, homelessness, mortality and murder. Each contributor considers the present situation, historical trends, likely future prospects, and the efficacy or otherwise of current activity and policy. The coverage is worldwide, with a particular emphasis on North America. The State of Humanity is a magnificent and eye-opening synthesis of cultural, social, economic and environmental perspectives. It will interest all those - including geographers, economists, sociologists and policy makers - concerned to understand some of the most pressing problems of our time.
Author | : Theodore Zeldin |
Publisher | : Random House |
Total Pages | : 498 |
Release | : 2012-12-31 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1448161991 |
'The book that changed my life... a constant companion' Bill Bailey 'Extraordinary and beautiful...the most exciting and ambitious work of non-fiction I have read in more than a decade' The Daily Telegraph This extraordinarily wide-ranging study looks at the dilemmas of life today and shows how they need not have arisen. Portraits of living people and historical figures are placed alongside each other as Zeldin discusses how men and women have lost and regained hope; how they have learnt to have interesting conversations; how some have acquired an immunity to loneliness; how new forms of love and desire have been invented; how respect has become more valued than power; how the art of escaping from one's troubles has developed; why even the privileged are often gloomy; and why parents and children are changing their minds about what they want from each other.
Author | : Siep Stuurman |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 429 |
Release | : 2017-02-20 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0674977513 |
For much of history, strangers were routinely classified as barbarians and inferiors, seldom as fellow human beings. The notion of a common humanity was counterintuitive and thus had to be invented. Siep Stuurman traces evolving ideas of human equality and difference across continents and civilizations from ancient times to the present. Despite humans’ deeply ingrained bias against strangers, migration and cultural blending have shaped human experience from the earliest times. As travelers crossed frontiers and came into contact with unfamiliar peoples and customs, frontier experiences generated not only hostility but also empathy and understanding. Empires sought to civilize their “barbarians,” but in all historical eras critics of empire were able to imagine how the subjected peoples made short shrift of imperial arrogance. Drawing on the views of a global mix of thinkers—Homer, Confucius, Herodotus, the medieval Muslim scholar Ibn Khaldun, the Haitian writer Antenor Firmin, the Filipino nationalist Jose Rizal, and more—The Invention of Humanity surveys the great civilizational frontiers of history, from the interaction of nomadic and sedentary societies in ancient Eurasia and Africa, to Europeans’ first encounters with the indigenous peoples of the New World, to the Enlightenment invention of universal “modern equality.” Against a backdrop of two millennia of thinking about common humanity and equality, Stuurman concludes with a discussion of present-day debates about human rights and the “clash of civilizations.”