Civilized to Death
The Price of Progress
$30.39
- Paperback
304 pages
- Release Date
1 October 2019
Summary
The New York Times bestselling coauthor of Sex at Dawn explores the ways in which “progress” has perverted the way we live: how we eat, learn, feel, mate, parent, communicate, work, and die.
Most of us have instinctive evidence the world is ending—balmy December days, face-to-face conversation replaced with heads-to-screens zomboidism, a world at constant war, a political system in disarray. We hear some myths and lies so frequently that they feel like truths: Ci…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781982135652 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1982135654 |
| Author: | Christopher Ryan |
| Publisher: | Simon & Schuster |
| Imprint: | Avid Reader Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 304 |
| Release Date: | 1 October 2019 |
| Weight: | 322g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm x 18mm |
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About The Author
Christopher Ryan
Christopher Ryan, PhD, and his work have been featured just about everywhere, including: MSNBC, Fox News, CNN, NPR, The New York Times, The Times of London, Playboy, The Washington Post, Time, Newsweek, The Atlantic, Outside, El Pais, La Vanguardia, Salon, Seed, and Big Think. A featured speaker from TED to The Festival of Dangerous Ideas at the Sydney Opera House to the Einstein Forum in Pottsdam, Germany, Ryan has consulted at various hospitals in Spain, provided expert testimony in a Canadian constitutional hearing, and appeared in well over a dozen documentary films. The author of Civilized to Death and the coauthor of the New York Times bestseller Sex at Dawn, Ryan puts out a weekly podcast, called Tangentially Speaking, featuring conversations with interesting people, ranging from famous comics to bank robbers to drug smugglers to porn stars to authors to plasma physicists.
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