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Cover for Society in Crisis : Our Capacity for Adaptation and Reorientation
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Non-Fiction

Wars, revolutions and pandemics are recurring phenomena in human history. In this anthology twenty-five world-leading scholars describe and analyse how different societies handle these situations, and highlight humanity s unprecedented capacity for adaption and reorientation. A crisis entails problems, but also opportunities. The anthology is published in a richly illustrated clothbound edition.

© 2022 Bokförlaget Stolpe (Ebook): 9789189069879

Release date

Ebook: 5 April 2022

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