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100 1  Pinker, Steven. 
245 10 Enlightenment now|h[OverDrive/Libby electronic resource]
       |bthe case for reason, science, humanism, and progress /
       |cSteven Pinker. 
250    Unabridged. 
260    New York :|bPenguin Audio,|c2018. 
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500    Unabridged. 
511 0  Narrator: Arthur Morey. 
520    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.  
       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.   With 
       intellectual depth and literary flair, Enlightenment Now 
       makes the case for reason, science, and humanism: the 
       ideals we need to confront our problems and continue our 
       progress.  
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650  0 Progress.|vSound recordings. 
650  0 Civilization, Modern|y21st century.|vSound recordings. 
650  0 Social change.|vSound recordings. 
650  0 Quality of life.|vSound recordings. 
650  0 Humanism.|vSound recordings. 
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