Immoderate Greatness: Why Civilizations Fail
9 best books like Immoderate Greatness: Why Civilizations Fail (William Ophuls): Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress, The Formula: The Universal Laws of Success, The Limits to Growth: The 30-Year Update, Overshoot: The Ecological Basis of Revolutionary Change, The Life and Death of Planet Earth: How the New Science of Astrobiology Charts the Ultimate Fate of Our World, United States: Essays 1952-1992, Comeback America: Turning the Country Around and Restoring Fiscal Responsibility, The Headspace Guide to Meditation & Mindfulness, The Lessons of History
Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
| Author | Steven Pinker |
| ISBN | 0525427570 |
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.
Is the world really falling apart? Is the ideal of progress...
The Formula: The Universal Laws of Success
| Author | Albert-László Barabási |
| ISBN | 0316505498 |
In this pioneering examination of the scientific principles behind success, a leading researcher reveals the surprising ways in which we can turn achievement into success.
Too often, accomplishment does not equate to success. We did the work but didn't get the promotion; we played hard...
The Limits to Growth: The 30-Year Update
In 1972, three scientists from MIT created a computer model that analyzed global resource consumption and production. Their results shocked the world and created stirring conversation about global 'overshoot,' or resource use beyond the carrying capacity of the planet. Now, preeminent environmental...
| Author | William R. Catton Jr. |
| ISBN | 0252009886 |
I've been reading books on “the Problem of Civilization” for several years now. I'm constantly seeking to refine my conceptualization of the way humans interact with each other and their environment. Contrary to what one reviewer says (that most of Catton's book is “common knowledge for any...
| Author | Peter D. Ward |
| ISBN | 0805075127 |
"They deftly bring together findings from many disparate areas of science in a book that science buffs will find hard to put down." --Publishers Weekly
Science has worked hard to piece together the story of the evolution of our world up to this point, but only recently have we developed the understanding...
| Author | Gore Vidal |
| ISBN | 0767908066 |
From the age of Eisenhower to the dawning of the Clinton era, Gore Vidal’s United States offers an incomparably rich tapestry of American intellectual and political life in a tumultuous period. It also provides the best, most sustained exposure possible to the most wide-ranging, acute, and original...
Comeback America: Turning the Country Around and Restoring Fiscal Responsibility
| Author | David M. Walker |
| ISBN | 1400068606 |
If you’ve seen David Walker anywhere, you’ll remember him as a straight talkin’, former Comptroller General of the United States who is really REALLY worried about the financial deficits of the US. He’s been on 60 Minutes, written several books, has a movie (IOUSA). All of which seek to drive...
The Headspace Guide to Meditation & Mindfulness
| Author | Andy Puddicombe |
| ISBN | 1250104904 |
Quiet the mind, feel less stressed, less tired, and achieve a new level of calm and fulfillment in just ten minutes a day
Andy Puddicombe, a former Buddhist monk, the Voice of Headspace, and the UK’s foremost mindfulness expert, is on a mission: to get people to take 10 minutes out of their day...
| Author | Will Durant |
| ISBN | 1567310249 |
In this illuminating and thoughtful book, Will and Ariel Durant have succeeded in distilling for the reader the accumulated store of knowledge and experience from their four decades of work on the ten monumental volumes of "The Story of Civilization." The result is a survey of human history, full of...
