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The Ascent of Man

Jacob Bronowski

Paperback | Pages: 520 pages

Rating: 4.19 | 5623 Users | 217 Reviews

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Title	:	The Ascent of Man
Author	:	Jacob Bronowski
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 520 pages
Published	:	September 1st 1976 by Little Brown and Company (first published 1973)
Categories	:	Science. History. Nonfiction. Philosophy. Anthropology

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Lauded by critics & devoured by readers, this companion to the BBC series traces the development of science as an expression of the special gifts that characterize humans & make us preeminent animals. Bronowski's exciting, illustrated investigation offers a perspective not just on science, but on civilization itself. Lower than the angels Foreword The harvest of the seasons The grain in the stone The hidden structure The music of the spheres The starry messanger The majestic clockwork The drive for power The ladder of creation World within world Knowledge or certainty Generation upon generation The long childhood Bibliography Index

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Original Title:	The Ascent of Man
ISBN:	0316109339 (ISBN13: 9780316109338)
Edition Language:	English
Literary Awards:	California Book Award for Nonfiction (Gold) (1974)

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Excellent book about the story of mankind not too dissimilar from Jared diamonds guns germs and steel. the book starts off with the evolution of man from basic mini monkey types like the Limur (king Julian!) through to homo erectus, Neanderthal and finally homo sapien around 100,000 years ago. Then the book really begins by exploring a whole whose of subjects like: food, nomad cultures, structures and architecture, fire, metals, numbers, islam and the rise of Europe through the renaissance and

'Knowledge is our destiny. Self-knowledge, at last bringing together the experience of the arts and the explanations of science, waits ahead of us.'Copy found while wasting time in Bloomsbury's Skoob Books.

Writing is a revitalizing experience. It changes your mind, and it turns your body into a magical soul. Although I dont believe in spiritualisms, I am truly confident that the human condition is perpetuated by our own behaviours. In the end, it isnt really important the way we lived, but why we lived. Did we populate the Earth to reproduce and eat, like 99 percent of all other species? Or were we born in order to shift the perspective of our universe? By reading the immensely significant

This book was assigned for a college course I took about a thousand years ago. The instructor was obsessed with Jacob Bronowski, so he played many, if not all of the documentary episodes that went along with the book, probably so he could sit in the corner and hide his boner (c'mon, the course was called "The Ascent of Man" fer chrissakes. It should have been called "The Life and Times of Jacob Bronowski Plus Some Stuff That Might Make You Ungrateful Wankers Appreciate Not Living in Mud Huts."

Definitely, I know why Carl Sagan recommended it. The book is an ode to scientific progress, thus human civilization. Bronowski, I feel he doesn't share the concept of misanthropy, however, he really points out the fact that there are demons to hunt, those that are inside our heads, human heads. The book is a mix between history and science. Everyone who loves a little bit about science is going to love it. He writes so passionately about the ancient man, and every little achievement that ever

One of those books everyone really should read. A good counterpoint to Ishmael.

"It's said that science will dehumanize people and turn them into numbers. That's false, tragically false. Look for yourself. This is the concentration camp and crematorium at Auschwitz. This is where people were turned into numbers. Into this pond were flushed the ashes of some four million people. And that was not done by gas. It was done by arrogance, it was done by dogma, it was done by ignorance. When people believe that they have absolute knowledge, with no test in reality, this is how