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271580
Bok
Utgivningsår: 2016
Språk: Engelska
Hylla: Kt
Medietyp: Bok
Resurstyp: Fysiskt material
"We live in a culture of casual certitude. This has always been the case, no matter how often that certainty has failed. Though no generation believes there's nothing left to learn, every generation unconsciously assumes that what has already been defined and accepted is (probably) pretty close to how reality will be viewed in perpetuity. And then, of course, time passes. Ideas shift. Opinions invert. What once seemed reasonable eventually becomes absurd, replaced by modern perspectives that feel even more irrefutable and secure--until, of course, they don't. But What If We're Wrong? visualizes the contemporary world as it will appear to those who'll perceive it as the distant past. Chuck Klosterman asks questions that are profound in their simplicity: How certain are we about our understanding of gravity? How certain are we about our understanding of time? What will be the defining memory of rock music, five hundred years from today? How seriously should we view the content of our dreams? How seriously should we view the content of television? Are all sports destined for extinction? Is it possible that the greatest artist of our era is currently unknown (or--weirder still--widely known, but entirely disrespected)? Is it possible that we "overrate" democracy? And perhaps most disturbing, is it possible that we've reached the end of knowledge? Kinetically slingshotting through a broad spectrum of objective and subjective problems, But What If We're Wrong? is built on interviews with a variety of creative thinkers--George Saunders, David Byrne, Jonathan Lethem, Kathryn Schulz, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Brian Greene, Junot Díaz, Amanda Petrusich, Ryan Adams, Nick Bostrom, Dan Carlin, and Richard Linklater, among others--interwoven with the type of high-wire humor and nontraditional analysis only Klosterman would dare to attempt. It's a seemingly impossible achievement: a book about the things we cannot know, explained as if we did. It's about how we live now, once "now"
has become "then.""--
339139
Bok
Utgivningsår: 2012
Språk: Engelska
Hylla: K
Medietyp: Bok
Förlag: Penguin Books
Resurstyp: Fysiskt material
Deals with the history of humanity, using objects which previous civilisations have left behind them, often accidentally, as prisms through which we can explore past worlds and the lives of the men and women who lived in them
284872
Bok
Utgivningsår: 2017
Språk: Engelska
Hylla: K.6
Medietyp: Bok
Resurstyp: Fysiskt material
328743
Bok
Utgivningsår: 2018
Språk: Engelska
Hylla: K.4
Medietyp: Bok
Förlag: Head of Zeus Ltd
Resurstyp: Fysiskt material
304199
Bok
Utgivningsår: 2010
Språk: Engelska
Hylla: K.2
Medietyp: Bok
Upplaga: 1st ed.,
Förlag: Vintage Books
Resurstyp: Fysiskt material
363203
Bok
Utgivningsår: 2011
Språk: Engelska
Hylla: K
Medietyp: Bok
Resurstyp: Fysiskt material
A history of Western civilization's rise to global dominance offers insight into the development of such concepts as competition, modern medicine, and the work ethic, arguing that Western dominance is being lost to cultures who are more productively utilizing Western techniques.
359625
Bok
Utgivningsår: 2019
Språk: Engelska
Hylla: Cj
Medietyp: Bok
Resurstyp: Fysiskt material
Christianity is the most enduring and influential legacy of the ancient world, and its emergence the single most transformative development in Western history. Even the increasing number in the West today who have abandoned the faith of their forebears, and dismiss all religion as pointless superstition, remain recognisably its heirs. Seen close-up, the division between a sceptic and a believer may seem unbridgeable. Widen the focus, though, and Christianity's enduring impact upon the West can be seen in the emergence of much that has traditionally been cast as its nemesis: in science, in secularism, and yes, even in atheism. That is why DOMINION will place the story of how we came to be what we are, and how we think the way that we do, in the broadest historical context. Ranging in time from the Persian invasion of Greece in 480 BC to the on-going migration crisis in Europe today, and from Nebuchadnezzar to the Beatles, it will explore just what it was that made Christianity so revolutionary and disruptive; how completely it came to saturate the mind-set of Latin Christendom; and why, in a West that has become increasingly doubtful of religion's claims, so many of its instincts remain irredeemably Christian. The aim is twofold: to make the reader appreciate just how novel and uncanny were Christian teachings when they first appeared in the world; and to make ourselves, and all that we take for granted, appear similarly strange in consequence. We stand at the end-point of an extraordinary transformation in the understanding of what it is to be human: one that can only be fully appreciated by tracing the arc of its parabola over millennia.
330104
Bok
Utgivningsår: 2003
Språk: Engelska
Hylla: Be
Medietyp: Bok
Resurstyp: Fysiskt material
343484
Bok
Utgivningsår: 2019
Språk: Engelska
Hylla: Koa
Medietyp: Bok
Resurstyp: Fysiskt material
This kaleidoscopic book covers almost 3,000 years of Arab history and shines a light on the footloose Arab peoples and tribes who conquered lands and disseminated their language and culture over vast distances. Tracing this process to the origins of the Arabic language, rather than the advent of Islam, Tim Mackintosh-Smith begins his narrative more than a thousand years before Muhammad and focuses on how Arabic, both spoken and written, has functioned as a vital source of shared cultural identity over the millennia. Mackintosh-Smith reveals how linguistic developments-from pre-Islamic poetry to the growth of script, Muhammad's use of writing, and the later problems of printing Arabic-have helped and hindered the progress of Arab history, and investigates how, even in today's politically fractured post-Arab Spring environment, Arabic itself is still a source of unity and disunity.
288210
Bok
Utgivningsår: 2017
Språk: Engelska
Hylla: Ocf
Medietyp: Bok
Resurstyp: Fysiskt material
315165
Bok
Utgivningsår: 2018
Språk: Engelska
Hylla: D
Medietyp: Bok
Förlag: Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Resurstyp: Fysiskt material
The follow-up to Pinker's groundbreaking The Better Angels of Our Nature presents the big picture of human progress: people are living longer, healthier, freer, and happier lives, and while our problems are formidable, the solutions lie in the Enlightenment ideal of using reason and science. Far from being a naïve hope, the Enlightenment, we now know, has worked. But more than ever, it needs a vigorous defense. The Enlightenment project swims against currents of human nature--tribalism, authoritarianism, demonization, magical thinking--which demagogues are all too willing to exploit. Many commentators, committed to political, religious, or romantic ideologies, fight a rearguard action against it. The result is a corrosive fatalism and a willingness to wreck the precious institutions of liberal democracy and global cooperation
444023
Bok
Utgivningsår: 2010
Språk: Engelska
Hylla: Kqa
Medietyp: Bok
Resurstyp: Fysiskt material
"In America, France's leading philosopher of postmodernism took to the freeways to produce a collection of traveler's tales from the land of hyperreality. From the sierras of New Mexico to the streets of New York and LA by night-- a sort of luminous, geometric, incandescent immensity"--Baudrillard mixes apercus and observations with a wicked sense of fun to provide a unique insight into the country that dominates the world. In this new edition, leading cultural critic and novelist Geoff Dyer offers a thoughtful and perceptive take on the continuing resonance of Baudrillard's book in Obama's America." --
306312
Bok
Utgivningsår: 2018
Språk: Engelska
Hylla: Kqa
Medietyp: Bok
Upplaga: First edition
Resurstyp: Fysiskt material
44095
Bok
Utgivningsår: 2006
Språk: Engelska
Hylla: K
Medietyp: Bok
Upplaga: 7. ed.
Förlag: Houghton Mifflin
Resurstyp: Fysiskt material
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49558
Bok
Utgivningsår: 1983
Språk: Engelska
Hylla: K
Medietyp: Bok
Förlag: Hamilton
Resurstyp: Fysiskt material
52077
Bok
Utgivningsår: 1984
Språk: Engelska
Hylla: K(x)
Medietyp: Bok
Upplaga: [New ed.]
Förlag: Thames & Hudson
Resurstyp: Fysiskt material
197500
Bok
Utgivningsår: 2000
Språk: Engelska
Hylla: K
Medietyp: Bok
Förlag: Oxford University Press
Resurstyp: Fysiskt material
304004
Bok
Utgivningsår: 2013
Språk: Engelska
Hylla: Oa
Medietyp: Bok
Upplaga: 2. ed.
Resurstyp: Fysiskt material
111185
Bok
Utgivningsår: 2000
Språk: Engelska
Hylla: Kr
Medietyp: Bok
Förlag: Blackwell
Resurstyp: Fysiskt material
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