Search Results: The Watchman's Rattle by Rebecca D Costa

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New York: Vanguard Press, 2010. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth and boards. Like New/Like New. Tall 8vo, black quarter cloth with scarlet lettering over white boards, ardhival mylar-protected lettered dust jacket (unclipped), Index, 347 pages. Weight: 1.4 lbs. Rebecca Dazai Costa (born 1955) is an American sociobiologist, futurist, and author. She is expert in the field of "fast adaptation." Here she proposes ways to solve/resolve societal threats such as the Gulf oil spill, worldwide recession, terrorism, and global warming.<br /> <br /> EXCEPTIONAL COPY: Very tight, bright, and clean. No previous owner or remainder marks.

New York:: Vanguard,, (2010). SIGNED hardcover first edition -. Very near fine in a fine dustjacket (as new, but tanning to edges of textblock). First printing. A book which is described as part history, part social science, part biology. Costa uses "todays news to demonstrate how accelerating complexity quickly outpaces that rate at which the human brain can develop new capabilities.. . the tendency to find a quick solutions- leads to frightening long term consequence: Societys ability to solve its most challenging, intractable problems becomes gridlocked, progress slows, and collapse ensues." Foreword by Edward O. Wilson. SIGNED on the half title page. Notes, index. xvii, 346 pp.

USA: Vanguard Press, 2010 347 pages. Books listed here are not stored at the shop. Please contact us if you want to pick up a book from Newtown.. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.