The Dawn of Everything - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Dawn of Everything write by David Graeber. This book was released on 2021-11-09. The Dawn of Everything available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A dramatically new understanding of human history, challenging our most fundamental assumptions about social evolution—from the development of agriculture and cities to the origins of the state, democracy, and inequality—and revealing new possibilities for human emancipation. For generations, our remote ancestors have been cast as primitive and childlike—either free and equal innocents, or thuggish and warlike. Civilization, we are told, could be achieved only by sacrificing those original freedoms or, alternatively, by taming our baser instincts. David Graeber and David Wengrow show how such theories first emerged in the eighteenth century as a conservative reaction to powerful critiques of European society posed by Indigenous observers and intellectuals. Revisiting this encounter has startling implications for how we make sense of human history today, including the origins of farming, property, cities, democracy, slavery, and civilization itself. Drawing on pathbreaking research in archaeology and anthropology, the authors show how history becomes a far more interesting place once we learn to throw off our conceptual shackles and perceive what’s really there. If humans did not spend 95 percent of their evolutionary past in tiny bands of hunter-gatherers, what were they doing all that time? If agriculture, and cities, did not mean a plunge into hierarchy and domination, then what kinds of social and economic organization did they lead to? The answers are often unexpected, and suggest that the course of human history may be less set in stone, and more full of playful, hopeful possibilities, than we tend to assume. The Dawn of Everything fundamentally transforms our understanding of the human past and offers a path toward imagining new forms of freedom, new ways of organizing society. This is a monumental book of formidable intellectual range, animated by curiosity, moral vision, and a faith in the power of direct action. Includes Black-and-White Illustrations
A Small Farm Future
A Small Farm Future - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Small Farm Future write by Chris Smaje. This book was released on 2020-10-22. A Small Farm Future available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A modern classic of the new agrarianism "Chris Smaje...shows that the choice is clear. Either we have a small farm future, or we face collapse and extinction."—Vandana Shiva "Every young person should read this book."—Richard Heinberg In a groundbreaking debut, farmer and social scientist Chris Smaje argues that organizing society around small-scale farming offers the soundest, sanest and most reasonable response to climate change and other crises of civilisation—and will yield humanity’s best chance at survival. Drawing on a vast range of sources from across a multitude of disciplines, A Small Farm Future analyses the complex forces that make societal change inevitable; explains how low-carbon, locally self-reliant agrarian communities can empower us to successfully confront these changes head on; and explores the pathways for delivering this vision politically. Challenging both conventional wisdom and utopian blueprints, A Small Farm Future offers rigorous original analysis of wicked problems and hidden opportunities in a way that illuminates the path toward functional local economies, effective self-provisioning, agricultural diversity and a shared earth. Perfect for readers of both Wendell Berry and Thomas Piketty, A Small Farm Future is a refreshing, new outlook on a way forward for society—and a vital resource for activists, students, policy makers, and anyone looking to enact change.
Dawn of the New Everything
Dawn of the New Everything - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Dawn of the New Everything write by Jaron Lanier. This book was released on 2017-11-21. Dawn of the New Everything available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Microsoft interdisciplinary scientist largely credited with popularizing virtual reality reflects on his lifelong relationship with technology, showing VR's ability to illuminate and amplify our understanding of our species and how the brain and body connect to the world. By the author of You Are Not a Gadget. --Publisher.
Gender Through Time in the Ancient Near East
Gender Through Time in the Ancient Near East - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Gender Through Time in the Ancient Near East write by Diane Bolger. This book was released on 2008. Gender Through Time in the Ancient Near East available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This is the first book to consider issues of gender and social identity across a broad temporal and geographical range of civilizations in the ancient Near East.
Dawn of the New Everything
Dawn of the New Everything - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Dawn of the New Everything write by Jaron Lanier. This book was released on 2018. Dawn of the New Everything available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The father of virtual reality explains its dazzling possibilities by reflecting on his own lifelong relationship with technology. Bridging the gap between tech mania and the experience of being inside the human body, Jaron Lanier has written a three-pronged adventure into 'virtual reality', by exposing its ability to illuminate and amplify our understanding of our species.
