EBookClubs

Read Books & Download eBooks Full Online

EBookClubs

Read Books & Download eBooks Full Online

Book War and Human Progress

    Book Details:
  • Author : John U. Nef
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1950
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 464 pages

Download or read book War and Human Progress written by John U. Nef and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book War and Human Progress

Download or read book War and Human Progress written by John Ulric Nef and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book War and Human Progress

Download or read book War and Human Progress written by John Ulric Nef and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Donated by Sydney Harris.

Book War and Human Progress  An Essay on the Rise of Industrial Civilization

Download or read book War and Human Progress An Essay on the Rise of Industrial Civilization written by John Ulric NEF (the Younger.) and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Open

    Book Details:
  • Author : Johan Norberg
  • Publisher : Atlantic Books
  • Release : 2020-09-03
  • ISBN : 1786497174
  • Pages : 431 pages

Download or read book Open written by Johan Norberg and published by Atlantic Books. This book was released on 2020-09-03 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: AN ECONOMIST BOOK OF THE YEAR Humanity's embrace of openness is the key to our success. The freedom to explore and exchange - whether it's goods, ideas or people - has led to stunning achievements in science, technology and culture. As a result, we live at a time of unprecedented wealth and opportunity. So why are we so intent on ruining it? From Stone Age hunter-gatherers to contemporary Chinese-American relations, Open explores how across time and cultures, we have struggled with a constant tension between our yearning for co-operation and our profound need for belonging. Providing a bold new framework for understanding human history, bestselling author and thinker Johan Norberg examines why we're often uncomfortable with openness - but also why it is essential for progress. Part sweeping history and part polemic, this urgent book makes a compelling case for why an open world with an open economy is worth fighting for more than ever.

Book War  What Is It Good For

Download or read book War What Is It Good For written by Ian Morris and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2014-04-15 with total page 513 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction: Friend to the undertaker. - The wasteland? : war and peace in ancient Rome. - The barbarians strike back : the counterproductive way of war, A.D. 1-1415. - The five hundred years' war : Europe (almost) conquers the world, 1415-1914. - Storm of steel : the war for Europe, 1914-1980s. - Red in tooth and claw : why the chimps of Gombe went to war. - The last best hope of Earth : American empire, 1989-?

Book The Stupidity of War

    Book Details:
  • Author : John Mueller
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2021-03-04
  • ISBN : 1108843832
  • Pages : 343 pages

Download or read book The Stupidity of War written by John Mueller and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-03-04 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This innovative argument shows the consequences of increased aversion to international war for foreign and military policy.

Book War and Human Progress

Download or read book War and Human Progress written by James Bryce Bryce (Viscount) and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 27 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book War and Human Progress

    Book Details:
  • Author : James Bryce
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1916
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 27 pages

Download or read book War and Human Progress written by James Bryce and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 27 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Worth of War

    Book Details:
  • Author : Benjamin Ginsberg
  • Publisher : Prometheus Books
  • Release : 2014-09-02
  • ISBN : 1616149515
  • Pages : 258 pages

Download or read book The Worth of War written by Benjamin Ginsberg and published by Prometheus Books. This book was released on 2014-09-02 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although war is terrible and brutal, history shows that it has been a great driver of human progress. So argues political scientist Benjamin Ginsberg in this incisive, well-researched study of the benefits to civilization derived from armed conflict. Ginsberg makes a convincing case that war selects for and promotes certain features of societies that are generally held to represent progress. These include rationality, technological and economic development, and liberal forms of government. Contrary to common perceptions that war is the height of irrationality, Ginsberg persuasively demonstrates that in fact it is the ultimate test of rationality. He points out that those societies best able to assess threats from enemies rationally and objectively are usually the survivors of warfare. History also clearly reveals the technological benefits that result from war—ranging from the sundial to nuclear power. And in regard to economics, preparation for war often spurs on economic development; by the same token, nations with economic clout in peacetime usually have a huge advantage in times of war. Finally, war and the threat of war have encouraged governments to become more congenial to the needs and wants of their citizens because of the increasing reliance of governments on their citizens’ full cooperation in times of war. However deplorable the realities of war are, the many fascinating examples and astute analysis in this thought-provoking book will make readers reconsider the unmistakable connection between war and progress.

Book The Mainspring of Human Progress

    Book Details:
  • Author : Henry Grady Weaver
  • Publisher : Ludwig von Mises Institute
  • Release : 1947
  • ISBN : 1610164024
  • Pages : 280 pages

Download or read book The Mainspring of Human Progress written by Henry Grady Weaver and published by Ludwig von Mises Institute. This book was released on 1947 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book War  How Conflict Shaped Us

Download or read book War How Conflict Shaped Us written by Margaret MacMillan and published by Random House. This book was released on 2020-10-06 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is peace an aberration? The New York Times bestselling author of Paris 1919 offers a provocative view of war as an essential component of humanity. NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW “Margaret MacMillan has produced another seminal work. . . . She is right that we must, more than ever, think about war. And she has shown us how in this brilliant, elegantly written book.”—H.R. McMaster, author of Dereliction of Duty and Battlegrounds: The Fight to Defend the Free World The instinct to fight may be innate in human nature, but war—organized violence—comes with organized society. War has shaped humanity’s history, its social and political institutions, its values and ideas. Our very language, our public spaces, our private memories, and some of our greatest cultural treasures reflect the glory and the misery of war. War is an uncomfortable and challenging subject not least because it brings out both the vilest and the noblest aspects of humanity. Margaret MacMillan looks at the ways in which war has influenced human society and how, in turn, changes in political organization, technology, or ideologies have affected how and why we fight. War: How Conflict Shaped Us explores such much-debated and controversial questions as: When did war first start? Does human nature doom us to fight one another? Why has war been described as the most organized of all human activities? Why are warriors almost always men? Is war ever within our control? Drawing on lessons from wars throughout the past, from classical history to the present day, MacMillan reveals the many faces of war—the way it has determined our past, our future, our views of the world, and our very conception of ourselves.

Book War and Human Progress  Western Civilization Since the Renaissance  Peace  War  Industry and the Arts  A Reduced Photographic Reprint  with an Additional Introduction  of the Edition of 1950 Entitled  War and Human Progress

Download or read book War and Human Progress Western Civilization Since the Renaissance Peace War Industry and the Arts A Reduced Photographic Reprint with an Additional Introduction of the Edition of 1950 Entitled War and Human Progress written by John Ulric NEF (the Younger.) and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The War as a Factor in Human Progress

Download or read book The War as a Factor in Human Progress written by Graham Hutton and published by . This book was released on 1942 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Slavery and Human Progress

Download or read book Slavery and Human Progress written by David Brion Davis and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pulitzer Prize-winner David Brion Davis here provides a penetrating survey of slavery and emancipation from ancient times to the twentieth century. His trenchant analysis puts the most recent international debates about freedom and human rights into much-needed perspective. Davis shows that slavery was once regarded as a form of human progress, playing a critical role in the expansion of the western world. It was not until the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries that views of slavery as a retrograde institution gained far-reaching acceptance. Davis illuminates this momentous historical shift from "progressive" enslavement to "progressive" emancipation, ranging over an array of important developments--from the slave trade of early Muslims and Jews to twentieth-century debates over slavery in the League of Nations and the United Nations. In probing the intricate connections among slavery, emancipation, and the idea of progress, Davis sheds new light on two crucial issues: the human capacity for dignifying acts of oppression and the problem of implementing social change.

Book War and Human Progress

    Book Details:
  • Author : James Bryce
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2013-05
  • ISBN : 9781258717445
  • Pages : 34 pages

Download or read book War and Human Progress written by James Bryce and published by . This book was released on 2013-05 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprinted From The Atlantic Monthly, September, 1916.

Book The Plague Cycle

    Book Details:
  • Author : Charles Kenny
  • Publisher : Simon and Schuster
  • Release : 2021-01-19
  • ISBN : 1982165359
  • Pages : 194 pages

Download or read book The Plague Cycle written by Charles Kenny and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-01-19 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A vivid, sweeping, and “fact-filled” (Booklist, starred review) history of mankind’s battles with infectious disease that “contextualizes the COVID-19 pandemic” (Publishers Weekly)—for readers of the #1 New York Times bestsellers Yuval Harari’s Sapiens and John Barry’s The Great Influenza. For four thousand years, the size and vitality of cities, economies, and empires were heavily determined by infection. Striking humanity in waves, the cycle of plagues set the tempo of civilizational growth and decline, since common response to the threat was exclusion—quarantining the sick or keeping them out. But the unprecedented hygiene and medical revolutions of the past two centuries have allowed humanity to free itself from the hold of epidemic cycles—resulting in an urbanized, globalized, and unimaginably wealthy world. However, our development has lately become precarious. Climate and population fluctuations and factors such as global trade have left us more vulnerable than ever to newly emerging plagues. Greater global cooperation toward sustainable health is urgently required—such as the international efforts to manufacture and distribute a COVID-19 vaccine—with millions of lives and trillions of dollars at stake. “A timely, lucid look at the role of pandemics in history” (Kirkus Reviews), The Plague Cycle reveals the relationship between civilization, globalization, prosperity, and infectious disease over the past five millennia. It harnesses history, economics, and public health, and charts humanity’s remarkable progress, providing a fascinating and astute look at the cyclical nature of infectious disease.