Novelist and historian
Ronald Wright is the award-winning author of ten books published in 16 languages and more than 40 countries. His first novel,
A Scientific Romance, won the David Higham Prize for Fiction and was chosen a book of the year by
The New York Times, The Globe and Mail, and the
Sunday Times.
A Short History of Progress, his CBC Massey Lectures, won the Libris Award for Non-Fiction Book of the Year and inspired Martin Scorsese's 2011 film
Surviving Progress. Wright’s other books include
Stolen Continents and
Time Among the Maya. He lives on Canada’s west coast.
Now more relevant than ever, Ronald Wrights #1 national bestseller, A Short History of Progress. The fifteenth anniversary edition includes a new introduction warning of the accelerating patterns of progress and disaster.
Each time history repeats itself, so its 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?
In his #1 national bestseller A Short History of Progress 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 experiments 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.
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