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history’s choices are not made for the benefit of humans.
Yuval Noah Harari • Sapiens
Manichaeism might have been extinguished from Europe, but the name lived on as a byword for dualist, heretic or merely a political opponent. (Indeed, the word ‘maniac’ derives from a derogatory term for Manichaean.)
Sean Martin • The Cathars: The Most Successful Heresy of the Middle Ages
Joseph Henrich uses leading-edge research in anthropology, psychology, economics and evolutionary biology to explore how changing family structures, marriage practices and religious beliefs in the Middle Ages shaped the Western mind, laying the foundations for the world we know today.
Joseph Henrich • The Weirdest People In The World: How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous
Um terço do nosso povo morreu à toa. Não por território, nem por religião, nem por ideologia, nem por dinheiro ou algo material”
Leonardo Cendamo (Getty Images) • Abraham B. Yehoshua: “O esquecimento liberta os judeus da tirania da memória”
History tends to be a facade of faded picturesqueness for most of those who have not specially studied it: a more or less monochrome background for the drama of their own day.
G. K. Chesterton • The G. K. Chesterton Collection [50 Books]
Different Voices
Steven Hayes • A Liberated Mind: The essential guide to ACT
In 1997, Malcolm Gladwell published his piece The Coolhunt, investigating the process of looking for new fashion trends at street level.
According to Gladwell, the coolhunter plays a major social role in spreading trends. Coolhunters were “the first to realize... that social status didn’t lay where Madison Avenue had said it lay in the 1950s and... See more
According to Gladwell, the coolhunter plays a major social role in spreading trends. Coolhunters were “the first to realize... that social status didn’t lay where Madison Avenue had said it lay in the 1950s and... See more
Gaby Goldberg • Curators All the Way Down
A coletividade humana conhece, hoje, muito mais do que os bandos antigos. Mas, no nível individual, os antigos caçadores-coletores foram o povo mais conhecedor e habilidoso da história.
Janaína Marcoantonio • Sapiens: Uma breve história da humanidade (Portuguese Edition)
The Ides of March