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Author : Lee McIntyre
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 45,99 MB
Release : 2009-02-13
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0262263874

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Why the prejudice against adopting a scientific attitude in the social sciences is creating a new 'Dark Ages' and preventing us from solving the perennial problems of crime, war, and poverty. During the Dark Ages, the progress of Western civilization virtually stopped. The knowledge gained by the scholars of the classical age was lost; for nearly 600 years, life was governed by superstitions and fears fueled by ignorance. In this outspoken and forthright book, Lee McIntyre argues that today we are in a new Dark Age—that we are as ignorant of the causes of human behavior as people centuries ago were of the causes of such natural phenomena as disease, famine, and eclipses. We are no further along in our understanding of what causes war, crime, and poverty—and how to end them—than our ancestors. We need, McIntyre says, another scientific revolution; we need the courage to apply a more rigorous methodology to human behavior, to go where the empirical evidence leads us—even if it threatens our cherished religious or political beliefs about human autonomy, race, class, and gender. Resistance to knowledge has always arisen against scientific advance. Today's academics—economists, psychologists, philosophers, and others in the social sciences—stand in the way of a science of human behavior just as clerics attempted to block the Copernican revolution in the 1600s. A scientific approach to social science would test hypotheses against the evidence rather than find and use evidence only to affirm a particular theory, as is often the practice in today's social sciences. Drawing lessons from Galileo's conflict with the Catholic church and current debates over the teaching of "creation science," McIntyre argues that what we need most to establish a science of human behavior is the scientific attitude—the willingness to hear what the evidence tells us even if it clashes with religious or political pieties—and the resolve to apply our findings to the creation of a better society.

Author : Pierce Brown
Publisher : Del Rey
Page : 907 pages
File Size : 14,69 MB
Release : 2019-07-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0425285952

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The bestselling author of Morning Star returns to the Red Rising universe with the thrilling sequel to Iron Gold. “Brown’s plots are like a depth charge of nitromethane dropped in a bucket of gasoline. His pacing is 100% him standing over it all with a lit match and a smile, waiting for us to dare him to drop it.”—NPR (Best Books of the Year) He broke the chains. Then he broke the world…. A decade ago Darrow led a revolution, and laid the foundations for a new world. Now he’s an outlaw. Cast out of the very Republic he founded, with half his fleet destroyed, he wages a rogue war on Mercury. Outnumbered and outgunned, is he still the hero who broke the chains? Or will he become the very evil he fought to destroy? In his darkening shadow, a new hero rises. Lysander au Lune, the displaced heir to the old empire, has returned to bridge the divide between the Golds of the Rim and Core. If united, their combined might may prove fatal to the fledgling Republic. On Luna, the embattled Sovereign of the Republic, Virginia au Augustus, fights to preserve her precious demokracy and her exiled husband. But one may cost her the other, and her son is not yet returned. Abducted by enemy agents, Pax au Augustus must trust in a Gray thief, Ephraim, for his salvation. Far across the void, Lyria, a Red refugee accused of treason, makes a desperate bid for freedom with the help of two unlikely new allies. Fear dims the hopes of the Rising, and as power is seized, lost, and reclaimed, the worlds spin on and on toward a new Dark Age. Don’t miss any of Pierce Brown’s Red Rising Saga: RED RISING • GOLDEN SON • MORNING STAR • IRON GOLD • DARK AGE • LIGHT BRINGER

Author : Michael Wood
Publisher : Random House
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 29,24 MB
Release : 2015-05-14
Category : History
ISBN : 1448141516

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Updated with the latest archaeological research new chapters on the most influential yet widely unrecognised people of the British isles, In Search of the Dark Ages illuminates the fascinating and mysterious centuries between the Romans and the Norman Conquest of 1066. In this new edition, Michael Wood vividly conjures some of the most important people in British history such as Hadrian, a Libyan refugee from the Arab conquests and arguably the most important person of African origin in British history, to Queen Boadicea, the leader of a terrible war of resistance against the Romans. Here too, warts and all, are the Saxon, Viking and Norman kings who laid the political foundations of England: Offa of Mercia, Alfred the Great, Athelstan, and William the Conqueror, whose victory at Hastings in 1066 marked the end of Anglo-Saxon England. Reflecting the latest historical, textual and archaeological research, this revised and updated edition of Michael Wood's classic book overturns preconceptions of the Dark Ages as a shadowy and brutal era, showing them to be a richly exciting and formative period in the history of Britain.

Author : Shawn Jacobs
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 38,35 MB
Release : 2012-05-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781462000999

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History has repeated itself and the Dark Ages of man are upon us once again. Several hundred years after the end of the worlds second ice-age and the near extinction of the human race, mankind is in a state of rebuilding. The technology that we once took for granted, and believed would usher us into the future, has become nothing more than a myth to a species that is once again on the brink of destruction. War looms on the horizon, a war that has been going on since the dawn of creation. Now it would seem that the final pieces of a dark, menacing plan have been put into play, and mankinds darkest hour is at hand. But all this is irrelevant to one woman. Luna Ayala-Kin, Infantry General of the once prominent Tereye army, has embarked on a murderous quest for revenge after having everything that she once cherished violently stripped away. The loss of her young child has driven her to the point of utter madness, and she has vowed to stop at nothing until her blade is coated in the blood of the one that took her daughters life. Her three year journey has left nothing but devastation in her wake, and still she has not found the answers that she seeks, answers that could lead her to the kingdom of Golgotha, and her quests end. With hope and sanity rapidly dwindling, at her most vulnerable state, a dark and magical being from her past has offered her the key to her success, at a price that may be too steep. The temptation will change everything. Will Luna be prepared to sell her soul for revenge, or will she continue on her bloodthirsty path of destruction alone, blind, and in the dark.

Author : Charles William Chadwick Oman
Publisher : Sagwan Press
Page : 546 pages
File Size : 40,14 MB
Release : 2018-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781376454888

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Author : Anonymous
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,84 MB
Release : 2022-10-27
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ISBN : 9781016007948

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