{"product_id":"a-short-history-of-progress-fifteenth-anniversary-edition-9781487006983","title":"A Short History of Progress: Fifteenth Anniversary Edition","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNow more relevant than ever, Ronald Wright's #1 national bestseller, \u003ci\u003eA Short History of Progress\u003c\/i\u003e. The fifteenth anniversary edition includes a new introduction warning of the accelerating patterns of progress and disaster.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEach time history repeats itself, so it's said, the price goes up. The twentieth century was a time of runaway growth in human population, consumption, and technology, placing a colossal load on all natural systems, especially earth, air, and water -- the very elements of life. The most urgent questions of the twenty-first century are: Where will this growth lead? Can it be consolidated or sustained? And what kind of world is our present bequeathing to our future?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn his #1 national bestseller \u003ci\u003eA Short History of Progress\u003c\/i\u003e Ronald Wright argues that our modern predicament is as old as civilization, a 10,000-year experiment we have participated in but seldom controlled. Only by understanding the patterns of triumph and disaster that humanity has repeated around the world since the Stone Age can we recognize the experiment's inherent dangers, and, with luck and wisdom, shape its outcome. In his new introduction to the fifteenth anniversary edition, Wright looks at the past fifteen years of human innovation -- and asks whether we can still get the future right.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWright, Ronald:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003eRONALD WRIGHT is an award-winning historian, essayist, and the author of ten books of fiction and nonfiction published in sixteen languages and more than forty countries. His 2004 CBC Massey Lectures, \u003cem\u003eA Short History of Progress\u003c\/em\u003e, was a #1 national bestseller, won the Libris Award for Nonfiction Book of the Year, and was the basis for the Martin Scorsese-produced documentary \u003cem\u003eSurviving Progress\u003c\/em\u003e. His other bestselling nonfiction books include the BC Book Prize-winning history \u003cem\u003eWhat Is America?\u003c\/em\u003e; \u003cem\u003eStolen Continents\u003c\/em\u003e, which won the Gordon Montador Award; and \u003cem\u003eAmong the Maya\u003c\/em\u003e. His first novel, \u003cem\u003eA Scientific Romance\u003c\/em\u003e, won the 1997 David Higham Prize for Fiction and was a \u003cem\u003eGlobe and Mail\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e book of the year.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"House of Anansi Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50647159898386,"sku":"9781487006983","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_327da8db-2b1a-4e83-b936-8141fc787871.jpg?v=1733196767","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/a-short-history-of-progress-fifteenth-anniversary-edition-9781487006983","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}