Free trial account for registered user. Brittney I dislike writing reviews on books I had a hard time putting it down. Very well written, great characters and I loved the setting! Going to look for more books by this author! Justyna A short but with lovely book for fans of both authors, but also a lot of insight into freedom of speach, creativity and the importance of libraries. Some words to take to heart, some words to live by, some words to get more liberated in the pursuit of artistic endeavours.
Definitely a good thing to read. You don't know it yet, but it's likely you need this book. Emily May I was hesitant to buy The Lucifer Principle: A Scientific Expedition into the Forces of Historythis release based on some of the reviews but finally decided to pull the trigger. It is astonishing that a book of such importance could be such a pleasure to read.
Loftus, author of Memory. Bloom Publisher: ISBN: X Category: Civilization, Modern Page: View: First published in the US, this exploration of the relationships between genetics, human behaviour and culture argues that 'evil is a by-product of nature's strategies for creation and is woven into our most basic biological fabric'.
Discusses topics such as women and violence, self-destruction, and the lust for power. Includes references, a bibliography and an index. The author has published extensively in the US. Is the era of American leadership over?
Has the West begun a decline into a new Dark Age? That hidden imperative can lift us from economic crisis, can make us a leader in the next-generation economy, and can dramatically upgrade our ability to empower our fellow human beings.
In more than eighty short, fast chapters, insights appear suddenly, like the quick bursts of flashbulbs, taking the reader on a sweeping tour of human history, from the Stone Age to the present. Every chapter conveys a radically new way to see the astonishing mechanism we call "Western Civilization. He shows how we've produced material miracles based on immaterial things—passion, persistence, and fantasy.
He shows that what many regard as the end is just the beginning. The beginning of something you've never before imagined. The key to next-generation capitalism lies in a big-picture view that's utterly unlike anything you've previously perceived.
A big-picture view that will startle you. A big-picture view with which you can ignite the world, get a new handle on your life, and help transform society. This brilliant, inspirational work of daring ideas and breathtaking research offers more than hope. It offers unseen levels of understanding. Understanding that can literally redefine what it means to be a human being. Embarking on a great journey that took him from his home in Buffalo, NY, to Washington, to California, to Israel, to New York City, along the way learning much and gaining in experience--some of that experience crushing the morals and mores of the previous generation--and most importantly, he gained insight.
As someone who has spent forty years in psychology with a long-standing interest in evolution, I'll just assimilate Howard Bloom's accomplishment and my amazement.
He shows how plants and animals including humans have evolved together as components of a worldwide learning machine. He describes the network of life on Earth as one that is, in fact, a complex adaptive system, a global brain in which each of us plays a sometimes conscious, sometimes unknowing role, and he reveals that the World Wide Web is just the latest step in the development of this brain.
As he brings us back via surprising routes, we see how our earliest bacterial ancestors built multitrillion-member research and development teams a full 3. We watch him unravel the previously unrecognized strands of interconnectedness woven by crowds of trilobites, hunting packs of dinosaurs, feathered flying lizards gathered in flocks, troops of baboons making communal decisions, and adventurous tribes of protohumans spreading across continents but still linked by primitive forms of information networking.
We soon find ourselves reconsidering our place in the world. Along the way, Bloom offers us exhilarating insights into the strange tricks of body and mind that have organized a variety of life forms: spiny lobsters, which, during the Paleozoic age, participated in communal marching rituals; and bees, which, during the age of dinosaurs, conducted collective brainwork.
This fascinating tour continues on to the sometime brutal subculture wars that have spurred the growth of human civilization since the Stone Age. Bloom shows us how culture shapes our infant brains, immersing us in a matrix of truth and mass delusion that we think of as reality.
Global Brain is more than just a brilliantly original contribution to the ongoing debate on the inner workings of evolution.
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