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We are a weird species. Like other species, we have a culture. But by comparison with other species, we are strangely unstable: human cultures self-transform, diverge, and multiply with bewildering speed. They vary, radically and rapidly, from time to time and place to place. And the way we live - our manners, morals, habits, experiences, relationships, technology, values - seems to be changing at an ever accelerating pace. The effects can be dislocating, baffling,sometimes terrifying. Why is this? In A Foot in the River, best-selling historian Felipe Fernández-Armesto sifts through the evidence.
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A Foot in the River, Felipe Fernández-Armesto
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- Released
- 2015
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- Title
- A Foot in the River
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Felipe Fernández-Armesto
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Released
- 2015
- Format
- Hardcover
- Pages
- 294
- ISBN10
- 0198744420
- ISBN13
- 9780198744429
- Series
- Rating
- 3.05 out of 5
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- We are a weird species. Like other species, we have a culture. But by comparison with other species, we are strangely unstable: human cultures self-transform, diverge, and multiply with bewildering speed. They vary, radically and rapidly, from time to time and place to place. And the way we live - our manners, morals, habits, experiences, relationships, technology, values - seems to be changing at an ever accelerating pace. The effects can be dislocating, baffling,sometimes terrifying. Why is this? In A Foot in the River, best-selling historian Felipe Fernández-Armesto sifts through the evidence.