Sentences with phrase «how other civilizations»

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His biography contains elements of an epic novel: growing up the son of a jailed Trotskyist labor leader in whose Chicago home he met Rosa Luxembourg's and Karl Liebknecht's colleagues; serving as a young balance of payments analyst for David Rockefeller whose Chase Manhattan Bank was calculating how much interest the bank could extract on loans to South American countries; touring America on Vatican - sponsored economics lectures; turning after a riot at a UN Third World debt meeting in Mexico to the study of ancient debt cancellation practices through Harvard's Babylonian Archeology department; authoring many books about finance from Super Imperialism: The Economic Strategy of American Empire [1972] to J is For Junk Economics: A Guide to Reality in an Age of Deception [2017]; and lately, among many other ventures, commuting from his Queens home to lecture at Peking University in Beijing where he hopes to convince the Chinese to avoid the debt - fuelled economic model off which Western big bankers feast and apply lessons he and his colleagues have learned about the debt relief practices of the ancient civilizations of Mesopotamia.

Indeed our memories of our own Christian tradition will show us how extensively we have already assimilated other histories into our Christian memory, especially the history of Greco - Roman civilization.

The fascinating story of how medieval Irish monks» practices of reading and writing, along with their efforts to teach others to do the same, saved Western civilization as we know it.

Quite the contrary, their motivation seems to be a kind of Rousseauian primitivism: no civilization can dare be regarded as superior to any other on the globe, no matter how remarkable its achievements or beneficial its legacy.

First, no matter how devastating an extraterrestrial impact might be, are we to believe that after centuries of flourishing every last tool, potsherd, article of clothing, and, presumably from an advanced civilization, writing, metallurgy and other technologies — not to mention trash — was erased?

Looking at the rise and fall of civilizations in terms of their planetary impacts can also affect how researchers approach future explorations of other planets.

What is the possibility of other intelligent life in the universe and how might we detect signals from alien civilizations?

Also included is a detailed discussion of nutrition and the diseases of civilization based on scientific research, information on stress management and preventive medicine, recommendations on vitamin and supplement use, tips on how to make your fitness program succeed where others have failed, tips on food shopping and preparation, sample meals, and more.

Because it's a LaBute picture, closer to the truth that Lakeview Terrace is a film about misanthropy — that no matter the cloth, the uniform is the general shittiness with which we treat each other — and, more, how easily we shed the raiments of civilization when confronted with the brute, caveman essence of competing for sex.

The assumption of many is that an external force (the humans for the apes and vice versa) will be the death knell of a civilization, but here we see how that very fear of «the other» sows seeds of suspicion within the society that are ultimately its undoing.

Currently airing its second season on TNT on Sunday nights at 9 / 8c, the series showcases how Lourdes and the other survivors of an alien invasion on Earth cope with losing their families and civilization as they know it.

Players familiar with the other editions of this game know what to expect, but if this is your first full - fledged Civilization, be prepared to spend your first hours with it trying to get your head around just how much detail there is in the game.

In painting and print, she layers architectural plans, maps and other schemata to invoke the histories of cities and civilizations, while heightening our awareness of how we make sense of the world.

Branzi's theoretical approach, as well as his designs, expose the links between seemingly opposing concepts of nature vs. technology, landscape vs. architecture, wilderness vs. civilization, derived from a longtime fascination with how humans interact with each other and with their physical surroundings, especially in urban centers.

Looking at the rise and fall of civilizations in terms of their planetary impacts can also affect how researchers approach future explorations of other planets.

As digital technology has pervaded every aspect of our civilization, it has set forth a revolution not only in how we store and transmit recorded knowledge, historical records, and a host of other kinds of communication but also in how we seek and gain access to these materials.»