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PublisherBloomsbury Academic & Professional

ISBN-10147294352X

ISBN-139781472943521

eBay Product ID (ePID)23038780589

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Book TitleAge of Discovery : Navigating the Storms of Our Second Renaissance

Number of Pages552 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2017

TopicCivilization, Social Aspects, International / Economics, Globalization, Europe / Renaissance, Development / Economic Development

IllustratorYes

GenrePolitical Science, Technology & Engineering, Business & Economics, History

AuthorIan Goldin, Chris Kutarna

FormatUk-Trade Paper

Dimensions

Item Height1.1 in

Item Weight20.2 Oz

Item Length7.8 in

Item Width5.2 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

Dewey Edition23

Reviews'[A] lively account of both Renaissance and modern history...Maybe someone should send Mr. Trump a copy of this book; it might yield some thought-provoking tweets.

Dewey Decimal909.83

Table Of Content1. What's Past is Prologue Part I: The Facts of a Renaissance Age 2. The New World 3. New Tangles 4. Vitruvian Man Part II: Flourishing Genius 5. Copernican Revolutions 6. Cathedrals, Believers and Doubt Part III: Flourishing Risk 7. The Pox is Spreading, Venice is Sinking 8. Bonfires and Belonging Part IV: The Contest for our Future 9. David

SynopsisAge of Discovery looks at the world on the brink of a new Renaissance and asks the question, how do we avoid chaos and disruption, and share more widely the benefits of progress? Now is humanity's best moment. And our most fragile. Global health, wealth and education are booming. Scientific discovery is flourishing. But the same forces that make big gains possible for some of us deliver big losses to others--and tangle us together in ways that make everyone vulnerable. We've been here before. The first Renaissance, the time of Columbus, Copernicus, Gutenberg and others, redrew all maps of the world, liberated information and shifted Western civilization from the medieval to the early modern era. Such change came at a price: social division, political extremism, economic shocks, pandemics and other unintended consequences of human endeavour. Now is our second Renaissance. In the face of terrorism, Brexit, refugee crises and the global impact of a Trump presidency, we can flourish-if we heed the urgent lessons of history. Age of Discovery , revised and updated for this paperback edition, shows us how., Age of Discovery looks at the world on the brink of a new Renaissance and asks the question, how do we avoid chaos and disruption, and share more widely the benefits of progress? Now is humanity's best moment. And our most fragile. Global health, wealth and education are booming. Scientific discovery is flourishing. But the same forces that make big gains possible for some of us deliver big losses to others--and tangle us together in ways that make everyone vulnerable. We've been here before. The first Renaissance, the time of Columbus, Copernicus, Gutenberg and others, redrew all maps of the world, liberated information and shifted Western civilization from the medieval to the early modern era. Such change came at a price: social division, political extremism, economic shocks, pandemics and other unintended consequences of human endeavour. Now is our second Renaissance. In the face of terrorism, Brexit, refugee crises and the global impact of a Trump presidency, we can flourish--if we heed the urgent lessons of history. Age of Discovery , revised and updated for this paperback edition, shows us how., Age of Discovery looks at the world on the brink of a new Renaissance and asks the question, how do we avoid chaos and disruption, and share more widely the benefits of progress?

LC Classification NumberCB19