THE WATCHMAN'S RATTLE: Thinking Our Way Out of Extinction.
by Costa, Rebecca D
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- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very near fine in a fine dustjacket (as new, but tanning to edges of textblock)/fine
- ISBN 10
- 1593156057
- ISBN 13
- 9781593156053
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About This Item
New York:: Vanguard,, (2010). SIGNED hardcover first edition -. Very near fine in a fine dustjacket (as new, but tanning to edges of textblock). First printing. A book which is described as part history, part social science, part biology. Costa uses "todays news to demonstrate how accelerating complexity quickly outpaces that rate at which the human brain can develop new capabilities.. . the tendency to find a quick solutions- leads to frightening long term consequence: Societys ability to solve its most challenging, intractable problems becomes gridlocked, progress slows, and collapse ensues." Foreword by Edward O. Wilson. SIGNED on the half title page. Notes, index. xvii, 346 pp.
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- Title
- THE WATCHMAN'S RATTLE: Thinking Our Way Out of Extinction.
- Author
- Costa, Rebecca D
- Format/Binding
- SIGNED hardcover first edition -
- Book Condition
- New
- Jacket Condition
- fine
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 1593156057
- ISBN 13
- 9781593156053
- Publisher
- Vanguard,
- Place of Publication
- New York:
- Date Published
- (2010)
- Bookseller catalogs
- History: USA;
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