- Civilization, Human ecology, Philosophy, Forecasting
In Beyond Civilization, Daniel Quinn thinks the unthinkable. We all know there's no one right way to build a bicycle, no one right way to design an automobile, no one right way to make a pair of shoes, but we're convinced that there must be only one right way to live -- and the one we have is it, no matter what.
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Earnest, contemporary, spare and classical in form.
- earnestironic
- contemporarynostalgic
- sparerichly built
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
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About the book
- Author
- Daniel Quinn
- First published
- 1999
- Pages
- 205
- Publisher
- Crown Publishing Group, Harmony Books, Three Rivers Press
- Editions
- 3
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780609805367
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