STUDENTS of contemporary civilization may find an analysis of modern Germany a particularly fruitful and rewarding study. Nowhere will they discover the forces which contend for mastery in a modern ...

The 'True Nature of Civilization' Known as the Supply ChainIf civilization were to collapse once, what would be needed to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For the most part, history is more complicated and more nuanced than we give it credit for. Hindsight serves to soften and ...

As modern civilization’s shelf life expires, more scholars have turned their attention to the decline and fall of civilizations past. Their studies have generated rival explanations of why societies ...

Maybe we got it all wrong. Maybe civilizations aren’t the problem, as Samuel Huntington warned, but the answer. If so, we should be worried less about them clashing, and start thinking more about how ...

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The Well-Tempered City: What Modern Science, Ancient Civilizations and Human Nature Teach Us About the Future of Urban Life, by Jonathan F.P. Rose, Harper Wave, September 2016, 480 pages, $18.74.

Here, we explore six notable civilizations that have collapsed, shedding light on some of the causes behind their demise and ...