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  • The Dawn of Everything

    A New History of Humanity

    INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA dramatically new understanding of human history, challenging our most fundamental assumptions about social evolution—from the development of agriculture and cities to the origins of the state, democracy, and inequality—and revealing new possibilities for human emancipation.For generations, our remote ancestors have been cast as primitive and childlike—either free ... Read more

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  • Cognition Switch #2

    Series Book 2 - Cognition Switch
    Cognition Switch: An Artefact for the Transmission of New IdeasIssue #2: January 2019Featuring Ideas by:Michael Shermer, Peter Staudenmaier, Sabine Hossenfelder, Kate Raworth, Benjamin G Martin, Noah Charney, David Wengrow, Kimberley Brownlee, Tali Sharot, Robert Simpson, Thea Bechshoft, Martin Rees, Jon Butterworth, Bill Nye, Huw Price, and Henry Cowles ... Read more

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  • The origins of civic life – a global perspective

    Published in Origini n. XLII/2018. Rivista annuale del Dipartimento di Scienze dell’Antichità – “Sapienza” Università di Roma | Preistoria e protostoria delle civiltà antiche – Prehistory and protohistory of ancient civilizations

    by David Wengrow ...
    Comparing early phases of urban development in four regions – the Indus Valley, Mesopotamia, China, and Mesoamerica – this essay offers a global perspective on the origins of civic life. While we may never be able to reconstruct the unwritten constitutions of these earliest cities, or the reforms undergone in their first centuries, we can hardly doubt that these existed. Consideration of ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • The Origins of Monsters

    Image and Cognition in the First Age of Mechanical Reproduction

    by David Wengrow ...
    Series series The Rostovtzeff Lectures
    It has often been claimed that "monsters"--supernatural creatures with bodies composed from multiple species--play a significant part in the thought and imagery of all people from all times. The Origins of Monsters advances an alternative view. Composite figurations are intriguingly rare and isolated in the art of the prehistoric era. Instead it was with the rise of cities, elites, and ... Read more

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  • Audiobook

    The Dawn of Everything

    A New History of Humanity

    Narrated by Mark Williams ...

    Unabridged

    24 hours 19 min

    "An all-encompassing treatise on modern civilization, offering bold revisions to canonical understandings in sociology, anthropology, archaeology and political philosophy that led to where we are today." - The New York TimesA dramatically new understanding of human history, challenging our most fundamental assumptions about social evolution—from the development of agriculture and cities to the ... Read more

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  • Cultures of Commodity Branding

    Edited by Andrew Bevan, David Wengrow ...
    Series series UCL Institute of Archaeology Publications
    Commodity branding did not emerge with contemporary global capitalism. In fact, the authors of this volume show that the cultural history of branding stretches back to the beginnings of urban life in the ancient Near East and Egypt, and can be found in various permutations in places as diverse as the Bronze Age Mediterranean and Early Modern Europe. What the contributions in this volume also ... Read more

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  • Origini - XLII

    Preistoria e Protostoria delle Civiltà Antiche - Prehistory and Protohistory of Ancient Civilizations

    THEMATIC ISSUE: RETHINKING URBANIZATION AND ITS LIVING LANDSCAPES FROM THE INSPIRING PERSPECTIVE OF A GREAT “MAESTRO” Edited by Marcella Frangipane and Linda Manzanilla INTRODUCTION. THE MANY DIMENSIONS OF THE “CITY” IN EARLY SOCIETIES Marcella Frangipane THE ORIGINS OF CIVIC LIFE – A GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE David Wengrow MESOPOTAMIA AND NEIGHBOURING REGIONS SIXTY YEARS AFTER CITY INVINCIBLE, SURVEYS ... Read more

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    Cognition Switch: An Artefact for the Transmission of New IdeasIssue #4: March 2019Featuring Ideas by: James Q Whitman, Costica Bradatan, Angela Kennedy, Matthew Francis, David Munns, Chris Kempes, Van Savage, Neil Levy, Stefani Engelstein, Walter Vannini, Tom Winterbottom, Lori Miller Kase, Matthew Karp, Philip Goff, and Scott Aaronson ... Read more

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  • Cognition Switch #3

    Series Book 3 - Cognition Switch
    Cognition Switch: An Artefact for the Transmission of New IdeasIssue #3: February 2019Featuring Ideas by: Anne Hilborn, Justin Tosi, Brandon Warmke, Daegan Miller, Samuel Levin, Sam Dresser, Kyle Arnold, Marc Lewis, Shaun Shelly, Omnia El Shakry, Richard Stevens, Skye Cleary, Thony Christie, Nancy Kwak, Jason Stahl, Claire Fuller, Nathan Schneider, and Stuart Clark ... Read more

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  • Cognition Switch #1

    Series Book 1 - Cognition Switch
    Cognition Switch: An Artefact for the Transmission of New IdeasIssue #1: December 2018Featuring Ideas by: Peter Harrison, Marcel Zentner, George Zarkadakisis, Danielle Celermajer, Paul Raeburn, Scott Samuelson, Nicolas Langlitz, Andrew Taggart, Donald S Lopez Jr, and Regina Rini ... Read more

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  • Debt

    The First 5,000 Years,Updated and Expanded

    by David Graeber ...
    Now in paperback, the updated and expanded edition: David Graeber’s “fresh . . . fascinating . . . thought-provoking . . . and exceedingly timely” (Financial Times) history of debtHere anthropologist David Graeber presents a stunning reversal of conventional wisdom: he shows that before there was money, there was debt. For more than 5,000 years, since the beginnings of the first agrarian empires, ... Read more

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  • Bullshit Jobs

    A Theory

    by David Graeber ...
    From David Graeber, the bestselling author of The Dawn of Everything and Debt—“a master of opening up thought and stimulating debate” (Slate)—a powerful argument against the rise of meaningless, unfulfilling jobs…and their consequences.Does your job make a meaningful contribution to the world? In the spring of 2013, David Graeber asked this question in a playful, provocative essay titled “On the ... Read more

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