Dark Age Ahead por Jane Jacobs - 2004

Random House, May 2004. Hardcover. Used - Very Good. A dark age is a culture’s dead end. In North America, for example, we live in a virtual graveyard of lost and destroyed aboriginal cultures. In this powerful and provocative book, renowned author Jane Jacobs argues convincingly that we face the coming of our own dark age.Throughout history, there have been many more dark ages than the one that occurred between the fall of the Roman Empire and the dawn of the Renaissance. Ten thousand years ago, our ancestors went from hunter-gatherers to farmers and, along the way, lost almost all memory of what existed before. Now we stand at another monumental crossroads, as agrarianism gives way to a technology-based future. How do we make this shift without losing the culture we hold dear—and without falling behind other nations that successfully master the transition?First we must concede that things are awry. Jacobs identifies five central pillars of our society that show serious signs of decay:… Ler mais

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NY: Random House, 2004. 1st printing; dj w/unclipped price, in mylar;241 clean, unmarked pages/index. 1st. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 12 vo.