04644cam a2200817 4500 340872710 TxAuBib 20180228120000.0 ||||||s2018||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780698177888 0698177886 B073TJBYTB Amazon d20fa27b-9546-4d84-8a94-e70594e47e75 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 3348733 OverDrive (Product ID) 3348733 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Pinker, Steven. Enlightenment Now [Libby] : The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress. Penguin Publishing Group, 2018. Education. optimism. health. cognition. brain. Hope. internet. Social Psychology. Neuroscience. philosophy. Religion. behavior. Reason. tribes. democracy. ethics. psychology. self help. Cognitive science. Self Improvement. self help books. progress. Personality. Emotions. Sociology. social science. Human Behavior. tribalism. counterintuitive. science books. philosophy books. psychology books. self help books for women. personal development books. better angels of our nature. cognitive science books. stephen pinker. steve pinker. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 11MB. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read, Filesize: 11MB. Psychology. Science. Sociology. Nonfiction. HTML:<b>"My new favorite book of all time." —Bill Gates<br /> <br /> "A terrific book...[Pinker] recounts the progress across a broad array of metrics, from health to wars, the environment to happiness, equal rights to quality of life." —<i>The New York Times</i><br /> The follow-up to Pinker's groundbreaking <i>The Better Angels of Our Nature</i> presents the big picture of human progress: people are living longer, healthier, freer, and happier lives, and while our problems are formidable, the solutions lie in the Enlightenment ideal of using reason and science.</b><br /> Is the world really falling apart? Is the ideal of progress obsolete? In this elegant assessment of the human condition in the third millennium, cognitive scientist and public intellectual Steven Pinker urges us to step back from the gory headlines and prophecies of doom, which play to our psychological biases. Instead, follow the data: In seventy-five jaw-dropping graphs, Pinker shows that life, health, prosperity, safety, peace, knowledge, and happiness are on the rise, not just in the West, but worldwide. This progress is not the result of some cosmic force. It is a gift of the Enlightenment: the conviction that reason and science can enhance human flourishing.<br /> Far from being a naïve hope, the Enlightenment, we now know, has worked. But more than ever, it needs a vigorous defense. The Enlightenment project swims against currents of human nature—tribalism, authoritarianism, demonization, magical thinking—which demagogues are all too willing to exploit. Many commentators, committed to political, religious, or romantic ideologies, fight a rearguard action against it. The result is a corrosive fatalism and a willingness to wreck the precious institutions of liberal democracy and global cooperation.<br /> With intellectual depth and literary flair, <i>Enlightenment Now</i> makes the case for reason, science, and humanism: the ideals we need to confront our problems and continue our progress. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2018-02-28 22:00:03. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=d20fa27b-9546-4d84-8a94-e70594e47e75&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=d20fa27b-9546-4d84-8a94-e70594e47e75&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=d20fa27b-9546-4d84-8a94-e70594e47e75&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read) CCTYL