Self and Society: Studies in the Evolution of Cutlture, Second Enlarged Edition (Societas Book 49)

A series of essays on the evolution of culture, dealing with topics including the city and consciousness, evolution of the afterlife, literary and mathematical archetypes, machine consciousness and the implications of 9/11, and the invasion of Iraq.

The enlarged new edition contains extra essays and brings the author's comments on current affairs up to date with coverage of the election of Barack Obama as US President.

• Transforming History: A New Curriculum for a Planetary Culture
• A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived: The Human Story Retold Through Our Genes
• The Origins of Creativity
• Snow Crash: A Novel