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A Foot in the River: Why Our Lives Change -- and the Limits of Evolution
Fernandez-Armes
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Description for A Foot in the River: Why Our Lives Change -- and the Limits of Evolution
Paperback. 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. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: CF; HBG; HBL; HBTB; HD; HP; HR; JF; JH; PD. Dimension: 216 x 135. .
We are a weird species. Like other species, we have a culture. But by comparison with other species, we are strangely unstable: human cultures self-transform, diverge, and multiply with bewildering speed. They vary, radically and rapidly, from time to time and place to place. And the way we live -- our manners, morals, habits, experiences, relationships, technology, values -- seems to be changing at an ever accelerating pace. The effects can be dislocating, baffling, sometimes terrifying. Why is this? In A Foot in the River, best-selling historian Felipe Fernández-Armesto sifts through the evidence and offers some radical answers ... Read more
We are a weird species. Like other species, we have a culture. But by comparison with other species, we are strangely unstable: human cultures self-transform, diverge, and multiply with bewildering speed. They vary, radically and rapidly, from time to time and place to place. And the way we live -- our manners, morals, habits, experiences, relationships, technology, values -- seems to be changing at an ever accelerating pace. The effects can be dislocating, baffling, sometimes terrifying. Why is this? In A Foot in the River, best-selling historian Felipe Fernández-Armesto sifts through the evidence and offers some radical answers ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780198806806
SKU
V9780198806806
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About Fernandez-Armes
Felipe Fernández-Armesto is the William P. Reynolds Professor of Arts and Letters 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 ... Read more
Reviews for A Foot in the River: Why Our Lives Change -- and the Limits of Evolution
Fernández-Armesto offers a fascinating guided tour through the intellectual landscape... enteraining and informing the reader with hundreds of side-lights on intellectual and cultural history.
Richard Milner, Minerva
A mix of wide and deep learning and rigorous argument, beautifully written ... [a] delightful and indispensable book.
John Gray, Literary Review
Everyone interested in the human animal and ... Read more
Richard Milner, Minerva
A mix of wide and deep learning and rigorous argument, beautifully written ... [a] delightful and indispensable book.
John Gray, Literary Review
Everyone interested in the human animal and ... Read more