04312cam a2200757 4500 351619125 TxAuBib 20180718120000.0 ||||||s2018||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780698177888 0698177886 B073TJBYTB Amazon d20fa27b-9546-4d84-8a94-e70594e47e75 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 3348733 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Pinker, Steven, 1954- Enlightenment Now [Libby eBook] : The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress. Penguin Publishing Group, 2018. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 11MB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read, Filesize: 11MB. best sellers list new york times 2018. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. better angels of our nature. personal development books. self help books for women. books best sellers. Social Psychology. Cognitive science. best sellers 2018. counterintuitive. philosophy books. psychology books. self help books. political books. sociology books. social science. stephen pinker. history books. science books. steve pinker. philosophy. psychology. democracy. Sociology. tribalism. politics. optimism. Religion. progress. Science. History. health. Reason. tribes. Hope. HTML:<b>INSTANT <i>NEW YORK TIMES</i> BESTSELLER<br /> <br /> "My new favorite book of all time." —Bill Gates<br /> If you think the world is coming to an end, think again: 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. Psychology. Nonfiction. Sociology. Science. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2018-07-17 22:00:02. 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) TXMLR