Age of discovery : navigating the risks and rewards of our new renaissance
INITIAL_TITLE_SRCH:
Age of discovery : navigating the risks and rewards of our new renaissance
AUTHOR:
Goldin, Ian, 1955-
Kutarna, Chris.
ISBN:
9781250085092
EDITION:
First Edition.
PUBLICATION_INFO:
New York : St. Martin's Press, 2016.
PHYSICAL_DESC:
xiv, 304 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm
ABSTRACT:
What's past is prologue -- Part I. The facts of a renaissance age -- The new world -- New tangles -- Vitruvian man -- Part II. Flourishing genius -- Copernican revolutions -- Cathedrals, believers and doubt -- Part III. Flourishing risk -- The pox is spreading, Venice is sinking -- Bonfires and belonging -- Part IV. The contest for our future -- David.
SUBJECT:
| Civilization, Modern -- 21st century. |
| Civilization, Modern -- 21st century -- Forecasting. |
| Progress -- Forecasting. |
| Renaissance. |
BIBSUMMARY:
What's past is prologue -- Part I. The facts of a renaissance age -- The new world -- New tangles -- Vitruvian man -- Part II. Flourishing genius -- Copernican revolutions -- Cathedrals, believers and doubt -- Part III. Flourishing risk -- The pox is spreading, Venice is sinking -- Bonfires and belonging -- Part IV. The contest for our future -- David.