Against The Grain

Name: Against The Grain
Brand: North Point Pr
SKU: 9780865477131
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How Agriculture Has Hijacked Civilization

Autor: Richard Manning

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Väzba: Brožovaná

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In this provocative, wide-ranging book, Richard Manning offers a dramatically revisionist view of re...

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Autor

Richard Manning

Jazyk

Angličtina

Väzba

Kniha - Brožovaná

Vydalo

2005

Stránok

232

EAN

9780865477131

ISBN

0865477132

Enbook ID

11035255

Vydavateľ

North Point Pr

Hmotnosť

227

Rozmery

140 x 210 x 13

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In this provocative, wide-ranging book, Richard Manning offers a dramatically revisionist view of recent human evolution, beginning with the vast increase in brain size that set us apart from our primate relatives and brought an accompanying increase in our need for nourishment. For 290,000 years, we managed to meet that need as hunter-gatherers, a state in which Manning believes we were at our most human: at our smartest, strongest, most sensually alive. But our reliance on food made a secure supply deeply attractive, and eventually we embarked upon the agricultural experiment that has been the history of our past 10,000 years. The evolutionary road is littered with failed experiments, however, and Manning suggests that agriculture as we have practiced it runs against both our grain and nature's. Drawing on the work of anthropologists, biologists, archaeologists, and philosophers, along with his own travels, he argues that not only our ecological ills-overpopulation, erosion, pollution-but our social and emotional malaise are rooted in the devil's bargain we made in our not-so-distant past. And he offers personal, achievable ways we might re-contour the path we have taken to resurrect what is most sustainable and sustaining in our own nature and the planet's.

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