Products specifications
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Author
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Steven Pinker |
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Pub Date
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03/11/2016 |
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Binding
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Paperback / softback |
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Pages
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128 |
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Country
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United Kingdom |
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Dewey
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303.4 |
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GBPPrice
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7.99 |
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Availability
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Available |
'It's just a brute fact that we don't throw virgins into volcanoes any more. We don't 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 world's most renowned thinkers take on one of the biggest debates of the modern era...
