The authors show how accepted theories about the development of civilization first emerged in the eighteenth century as a reaction to indigenous critiques of European society. Drawing on path-breaking research in archaeology and anthropology, they suggest that these theories are wrong.
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Exercise for U3A Writing Circle. A reflection on the human propensity to constrain possibilities.
Read MoreIn Political Tribes, Amy Chua argues that we must rediscover an identity that transcends the tribalism we see in politics today.
Read MoreMeet the business anthropologists seeking to explain how we buy, sell, work and think.
From supermarkets to factories, trading floors to tech firms, their methods are revealing the hidden codes that define our lives.
The result is a wholly new way to see human behaviour: anthro-vision. — amazon.co.uk
Is the world essentially inert and mechanical – nothing but a collection of things for us to use? Are we ourselves nothing but the playthings of chance, embroiled in a war of all against all? Why, indeed, are we engaged in destroying everything that is valuable to us?
In his international bestseller, The Master and his Emissary, McGilchrist demonstrated that each brain hemisphere provides us with a radically different ‘take’ on the world, and used this insight to deliver a fresh understanding of the main turning points in the history of Western civilisation.
In this landmark new book, Iain McGilchrist addresses some of the oldest and hardest questions humanity faces – ones that, however, have a practical urgency for all of us today. — amazon.co.uk
