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The Knowledge: How to Rebuild Civilization in the Aftermath of a Cataclysm

byLewis Dartnell

Lewis Dartnell uses The Knowledge to investigate how to Rebuild Civilization in the Aftermath of a Cataclysm through a carefully framed science narrative. The narrative identifies the people, decisions, and pressures that shaped the subject, then places those developments within the connected fields of science and self – help. The result avoids a single easy lesson, emphasizing instead how circumstances, institutions, and individual choices interacted over time. The book ultimately clarifies what made these developments possible, who experienced their effects, and why the story remains significant.

Publisher

Penguin Books

Publication date

Mar 10, 2015

Format

Print edition

Pages

352

ISBN

9780143127048