Do Humankind''s Best Days Lie Ahead?

Name: Do Humankind''s Best Days Lie Ahead?
Brand: Oneworld Publications
SKU: 9781786070760
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By (author): Alain de Botton Malcolm Gladwell Matt Ridley Steven Pinker

Its just a brute fact that we dont throw virgins into volcanoes any more. We dont execute people for shoplifting a cabbage. And we used to.
Steven Pinker

The idea that because things have gotten better in the past they will continue to do so in the future is a fallacy I would have thought confined to the lower reaches of Wall Street.
Malcolm Gladwell

In a world driven by technology and globalization, is humanity approaching a Golden Age or is the notion of progress a Western delusion? Four of the worlds most renowned thinkers take on one of the biggest debates of the modern era

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Dimensions: 111 x 178mm
Publication Date: 03 Nov 2016
Publisher: Oneworld Publications
Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781786070760

About Alain de BottonMalcolm GladwellMatt RidleySteven Pinker

STEVEN PINKER is a pioneering cognitive scientist who has written a number of of bestselling and award-winning books. He is Johnstone Family Professor of Psychology at Harvard and has been named by Time magazine as one of the 100 Most Influential People in the World. MATT RIDLEYs books have been finalists for nine major literary prizes and sold over one million copies. He was appointed to the House of Lords in 2013 and is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and the Academy of Medical Sciences. ALAIN DE BOTTON is a philosopher who has written about love travel architecture and literature. His books have been bestsellers in thirty countries. De Botton also started and helps to run the London-based School of Life. MALCOLM GLADWELL is a Canadian journalist and the author of five New York Times bestsellers. He has been named one of the 100 Most Influential People in the World by Time magazine and one of Foreign Policy magazine's Top 100 Global Thinkers.