Foresight Paperback / softback
Edited by Lawrence W. (Darwin College, Cambridge) Sherman, David Allan (Darwin College, Cambridge) Feller
Part of the Darwin College Lectures series
Paperback / softback
Description
How do attempts to foresee the future actually change it?
For thousands of years, humans have called upon foresight to shape their own actions in order to adapt and survive; as Charles Darwin revealed in his theory of natural selection, the capacity to do just that is key to the origin of species.
The uses of foresight, however, can also be applied to help us further our understanding across a variety of realms in everything from warfare, journalism and music, to ancient civilizations, space weather and science.
In a thought-provoking new addition to the Darwin College Lecture Series, eight distinguished authors each present an essay from their area of expertise devoted to the theme of 'foresight'.
This provocative read reveals foresight as a process that can be identified across all areas of human endeavour, an art which can not only predict the future, but make it anything but inevitable.
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:192 pages, 1 Maps; 10 Halftones, black and white; 13 Line drawings, black and white
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:13/10/2016
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- ISBN:9781107512368
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:192 pages, 1 Maps; 10 Halftones, black and white; 13 Line drawings, black and white
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:13/10/2016
- Category:
- ISBN:9781107512368
