Enlightenment now : the case for reason, science, humanism, and progress / Steven Pinker.
Enlightenment now : the case for reason, science, humanism, and progress / Steven Pinker.
Enlightenment now : the case for reason, science, humanism, and progress / Steven Pinker.
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New York, New York : Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, [2018]
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G 2018/2122
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English
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Physical content
xix, 556 pages : illustrations, charts ; 25 cm
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text
still image
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unmediated
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volume
Contents
Part I: Enlightenment. Dare to understand! -- Entro, evo, info -- Counter-enlightenments -- Part II: Progress. Progressophobia -- Life -- Health -- Sustenance -- Wealth -- Inequality -- The environment -- Peace -- Safety -- Terrorism -- Democracy -- Equal rights -- Knowledge -- Quality of life -- Ha...
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New York, New York : Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, [2018]
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New York (State)
Date Published
[2018]
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Summary
Is the world really falling apart? Is the ideal of progress obsolete? Cognitive scientist Steven Pinker urges us to step back from the gory headlines and prophecies of doom, which play to our psychological biases. Instead, follow the data. In seventy-five graphs, Pinker shows that life, health, prosperity, safety, peace, knowledge, and happiness ar...
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Enlightenment now : the case for reason, science, humanism, and progress / Steven Pinker.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 455-524) and index.
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G 2018/2122
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74VKVopNGjm3
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0525427570 (hardcover)
9780525427575 (hardcover)
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303.44
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991024164895702626
