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Critical Path is a book written by US author and inventor R. Buckminster Fuller with the assistance of Kiyoshi Kuromiya.First published in 1981, it is alongside Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth one of Fuller's best-known works.
The book focuses on Cline's hypothesis for the Late Bronze Age collapse of civilization, a transition period that affected the Egyptians, Hittites, Canaanites, Cypriots, Minoans, Mycenaeans, Assyrians and Babylonians; varied heterogeneous cultures populating eight powerful and flourishing states intermingling via trade, commerce, exchange and "cultural piggybacking," despite "all the ...
The authors open the book by suggesting that current popular views on the progress of western civilization, as presented by Francis Fukuyama, Jared Diamond, Yuval Noah Harari, Charles C. Mann, Steven Pinker, and Ian Morris, are not supported by anthropological or archaeological evidence, but owe more to philosophical dogmas inherited unthinkingly from the Age of Enlightenment.
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (titled Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Survive for the British edition) is a 2005 book by academic and popular science author Jared Diamond, in which the author first defines collapse: "a drastic decrease in human population size and/or political/economic/social complexity, over a considerable area, for an extended time."
[8] A review in The Buffalo News described the book as "a brilliant history of Western Civilization's essential polemic". [9] The reviewer for the Knoxville News Sentinel wrote "this is an important book for anyone interested in the history of thought". [ 10 ]
Carroll Quigley (/ ˈ k w ɪ ɡ l i /; November 9, 1910 – January 3, 1977) was an American historian and theorist of the evolution of civilizations.He is remembered for his teaching work as a professor at Georgetown University, and his seminal works, The Evolution of Civilizations: An Introduction to Historical Analysis, and Tragedy And Hope; A History Of The World In Our Time, in which he ...
you're reading it now, then now's the time to answer the questions, believe you can do it, and get on with it. This book is divided into three parts: Part One An introduction to the principles on which Best Year Yet is based, as well as sharing the experiences of many people who have participated in the process over the years.
The Eastern Origins of Western Civilisation, written by the political scientist John M. Hobson in 2004, is a book that argues against the historical theory of the rise of the West after 1492 as a "virgin birth", [1] but rather as a product of Western interactions with a more technically and socially advanced Eastern civilization.