Straight arrow books 20 (1 risultati)

Soft Cover. Condizione: Very Good. Former owners name on the front free endpaper. 155 pp. Spine bumped. Some edge wear. There is a time in the span of civilizations when creative energy and the human spirit are wholly if briefly focussed. When this occurs culture in all its manifes- tations reaches its zenith. The moment passes; civilizations decline, only to be replaced by others. This process of life appears cyclic. Communities become tribes, turn into nations and become empires which, like suns, radiate their energy to the limits of their power, then decay and finally vanish, leaving behind only traces. This cycle, which may continue until our sun-or our planet-fails us, is the principal concern of my book. -Sätty.…