Dark age ahead / Jane Jacobs.

Main entry:

Jacobs, Jane, 1916-2006.

Title & Author:

Dark age ahead / Jane Jacobs.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publication:

Toronto : Random House Canada, 2004.

Description:

241 p. ; 22 cm.

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. The hazard -- 2. Families rigged to fail -- 3. Credentialing versus educating -- 4. Science abandoned -- 5. Dumbed-down taxes -- 6. Self-policing subverted -- 7. Unwiding vicious spirals -- 8. Dark age patterns.

Summary:

"A dark age is a culture's dead end. In North America, for example, we live in a virtual graveyard of lost and destroyed aboriginal cultures. In this book, author Jane Jacobs argues that we face the coming of our own dark age."--Jacket.

ISBN:

0679313095
9780679313090

Subject:

Regression (Civilization)
Civilization Philosophy.
Décadence.
Civilisation Philosophie.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 231663
Call No.: CB19 .J33 2004
Status: Available

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