Felipe Fernandez-Armesto

Foot in the River

Why Our Lives Change -- And the Limits of Evolution

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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 Fernandez-Armesto offers some revolutionary answers to this fundamental question about our species - and speculates on what they mean for our future.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press (UK)
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 139mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 487g
• ISBN-13: 9780198744429
• ISBN-10: 0198744420
• Artikelnr.: 42601625

Autorenporträt

Felipe Fernández-Armesto is the William P. Reynolds Professor of History 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, Millennium, 1492: The Year Our World Began, and Pathfinders: A Global History of Exploration, also published by Oxford University Press, which was awarded the World History Association Prize.

Inhaltsangabe

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
Afterword: In the Vatican Garden
Notes
Index