| 单词 | society |
| 例句 | Stonehenge dates to 2500 BC, and was built by a developed agricultural society. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Industrialization has played a large role in introducing the urban African to the perceptions of status common to white society. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z But tribal societies without intensive food production have no employment for slaves and do not produce large enough food surpluses to be able to yield much tribute. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Today, most people in industrial societies don’t need to know much about the natural world in order to survive. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Until then, it had supported the most distinctive human societies, and the least numerous human population, of any continent. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z All those differences among Polynesian societies developed, within a relatively short time and modest fraction of the Earth’s surface, as environmentally related variations on a single ancestral society. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Holding kids deemed menaces to society in a place that would be completely normal if not for the twelve-foot barbed-wire-topped fences seems like someone’s bad idea of a joke. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z A few days before, a letter had arrived from Benjamin Rush urging the society to help nurse the sick and attend to the dead. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z Societal This chapter will concentrate on the harmful social effects of innumeracy, with particular emphasis on the conflict between society and the individual. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The American war effort had made Johnson’s Great Society a myth, King said, and had created a “troubled and confused society.” Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z A man can trust his luck, but a society can’t; and cultural change, like random mutation, may make things chancier. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z But although Royal in name, the London-based society was a collection of private individuals with no official source of funding and no obligations to the government. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z “That boy is suffering for society and fun,” she said to herself. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z A grog shop was where criminals and the other dregs of society gathered to drink whiskey and fight. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The Hannover Orchestra will be visiting the camp to give us a concert, and they want our musical society to play with them. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z But in practice such a society could not long remain stable. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z But the same mathematics that makes direct pairwise conflict resolution inefficient in large societies makes direct pairwise economic transfers also inefficient. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Less and less did society target the criminal’s body; choices in that great land without walls. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z That way, blind people could get paid for being led around, and could be contributing members of our society, and we’d all be safer, too. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z Had I forgotten her? or was I so worthless as to have grown tired of her pure society? Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z I was the symbol of justice in the court of the oppressor, the representative of the great ideals of freedom, fairness, and democracy in a society that dishonored those virtues. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Populous native societies not thereby eliminated were destroyed in the same way the Aztecs and Incas had been—by full-scale wars, increasingly waged by professional European soldiers and their native allies. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z In our modern society, when a man works and succeeds at a skilled job, we expect it. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z And that was George Theodorakis, all right, dancing with her in the society page clippings. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z Some of them ran from responsibilities and some felt driven out of society by injustice. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z In most societies, 20 percent of criminals commit 80 percent of crimes. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z After all, in many respects, they are simply doing what black people did during the Jim Crow era—they are turning to each other for support and solace in a society that despises them. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Even with the modern availability of synthetic fertilizers produced by chemical factories, the major source of crop fertilizer today in most societies is still animal manure—especially of cows, but also of yaks and sheep. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z She didn’t care to be a queen of society now half so much as she did to be a lovable woman. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z Abandoning the quest for a colorblind society is easier said than done, of course. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z This time, the get-out-of-town threats came from a local hate society called The Black Legion. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z As a result, we have much more time in our day to do something else—to create, spend time with our families, play, build and improve societies. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Degeneracy, rather than signaling the downfall of a society, as it once did, will now signal peace for a troubled world. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z It seems like a perfectly controlled experiment in the evolution of human societies. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z We know very little about the later factors, concerning the evolution of intelligence or the lifetime of technical societies. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z I told him how I had found out that all of us who had been in the streets were victims of the white man’s society. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z How can they become a part of a new society when they have never dealt with the terrors of their past? How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z Those engaged in the development and manufacture of weapons of mass destruction are given salaries, perquisites of power and, where possible, public honors at the highest levels available in their respective societies. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Just an ordinary man who sometimes did the monstrous things his society said were legal and proper. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z "Indeed! With my plague! Half of Europe was decimated by the Black Death, forcing society to evolve! If not for that, you would still be digging for roots, a serf forever bound to your master." City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z Disease not only shattered the family bonds that were the underlying foundation of Indian societies, it wiped out the political superstructure at the top. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z We want education for our people that exposes the true nature of this decadent American society. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z Some burial societies poured buckets of water over the dead to ritually purify them, but ours had a mikveh built specifically for that purpose. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z So these people were considered and treated as the dregs of society, aliens in the land of their birth. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z “The large house, the society of so many girls, the walks about the city, the novelty of everything made the new life more enjoyable than I had anticipated,” Elizabeth recalled. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z It featured the lush tulips, roses, and lilies that had filled her childhood home and were still so popular in European society. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z I hand- scratched to them how the white man’s society was responsible for the black man’s condition in this wilderness of North America. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z As Jeremy Travis has observed, “In this brave new world, punishment for the original offense is no longer enough; one’s debt to society is never paid.” The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Large societies of food producers have not only more members but also higher population densities than do small bands of hunter-gatherers. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “If you had seen Yakov, you would understand. I’ve volunteered at the burial society for nearly a year now, and I’ve prepared more people than I can count. This was different.” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z It’s been hard to watch as carefully built, compassionate policies have been rolled back, as we’ve alienated some of our closest allies and left vulnerable members of our society exposed and dehumanized. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Born in Calcutta, Bechu was an orphan, which put him at the very bottom of society. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z Some other Eurasian societies, notably the Central Asian pastoralists and the reindeer-herding Lapps and Samoyeds of the Arctic, had domestic animals but little or no agriculture. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “Which would be a loss to society at large, yes? So sometimes it's ethical not to reveal a secret. Nicholas?” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z Writing empowered European societies by facilitating political administration and economic exchanges, motivating and guiding exploration and conquest, and making available a range of information and human experience extending into remote places and times. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The truth is that Aché society, like every human society, was very complex. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z True, anthropologists have long marveled that Andean societies did not make steel. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Except for Areida, I had little pleasure from the society at finishing school. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z All these origins of complex societies give us a rich database for understanding their development. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Upon arrival in the Himalaya, Pittman appeared to adhere as closely as possible to the proprieties of high society. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z Modern American society and the Fayu differ in the presence or absence of a professional police force, cities, money, distinctions between rich and poor, and many other political, economic, and social institutions. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z "No, a part of the whole is sacrificed—and will continue to be until a new society is formed." Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z All that medical magic would give me a new face that was more acceptable to society. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z They move in the best society, are valuable persons for us to know, and I wouldn’t fail to make a good impression there for anything.” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z In small societies with few pairs of members, the resulting necessary transfers of goods can be arranged directly between pairs of individuals or families, by reciprocal exchanges. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Compared to its brethren around the world, Clovis society, with its putative focus on massive, exterminating hunts, would have been an anomaly. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z You raise me from the dust by this kindness; and I trust that, by your aid, I shall not be driven from the society and sympathy of your fellow creatures.’ Frankenstein 1818-01-01T00:00:00Z A Scottish writer of the late 1700s noticed that tea had “become an economical substitute to the middle and lower classes of society for malt liquor,” which they could no longer afford. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z He saw the lack of respect white people accorded black people; the exclusiveness of white society; the injustices, mistreatments, and cruelties shown to blacks. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z By 1906, even the best-guarded political bastions had been stormed—twenty-nine seats in Parliament had fallen to the Labour Party—sending spasms of anxiety through English high society. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z This one never had a name, but it was spoken by the members of an imaginary agricultural society something like that of ancient Mesopotamia. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z The hall had been built as part of the national headquarters of the Daughters of the American Revolution, a patriotic society founded in 1890. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z Any such attempt to define stages of any evolutionary or developmental continuum—whether of musical styles, human life stages, or human societies—is doubly doomed to imperfection. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z What campus officials had implied about them—through the policy of affirmative action—the students came to believe, seizing upon the idea of belonging at once to academia and to the society of the disadvantaged. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z But it turns out that the actual reasons behind the more rapid development of Eurasian societies were not at all the straightforward ones that our imaginary archaeologist of 11,000 B.C. guessed. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The Andes, West Africa’s kingdoms, and the mouth of the Mississippi River lay only about 1,200, 1,500, and 700 miles, respectively, from societies with writing in Mexico, North Africa, and Mexico, respectively. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z That’s how they work it in polite society over there, at least they used to in the old days, and quite a business it was. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z But I found myself strongly drawn to the idea of a classless society, which, to my mind, was similar to traditional African culture where life was shared and communal. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Except for two Jewish families, they are ostracized from society in Hattiesburg. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z “What we have today, with the things that are happening in today’s society, is ...” She held my hand—we found each other’s hands through the like, the waterfall, and— .. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z It was odd that in the less primitive society, the more sinister note was struck. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z “There is no room in the wolf society for an animal who cannot contribute,” he had said. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z He spoke about the social injustices in our society and the way they mirrored those in the biblical books of Amos, Hosea, Micah, and others. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z She included her in the Friday sessions and raised her in the greatest intimacy with spirits, with the members of secret societies, and with the impoverished artists whose patroness she was. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Once writing had been invented by those few societies, it then spread, by trade and conquest and religion, to other societies with similar economies and political organizations. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Wolves were domesticated in Eurasia and North America to become our dogs used as hunting companions, sentinels, pets, and, in some societies, food. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Foraging societies there grouped into permanent villages and learned to cultivate and breed the area’s wild wheat and barley. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z In February 1562, Tycho left Denmark to complete his education abroad, part of the usual process intended to turn him into an adult fit for his position in society. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z Europe was overwhelmingly Christian, and society structured itself around the belief that God’s rule over mankind was absolute, as was a king’s rule over his realm and a husband’s rule over his household. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Most members of agricultural and industrial societies are domesticated animals. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Today, segments of Western society publicly repudiate racism. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The women of Raskova’s regiments, with Soviet society reinforcing their heterosexual standards, felt that marriage was acceptable; but affairs were not. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z With that as background, we shall finally return to the question of how a simpler society actually becomes more complex as the regional population increases. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z It doesn’t sit well with me, how much our society needs Erudite to function. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z Conversely, the same invention’s reception also varies greatly among contemporary societies. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z How there is a society of sorts that keeps track of the movement of the circus, notifying other rêveurs so they might travel from destination to destination. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Based around the Mississippi and its associated rivers, these societies scattered tens of thousands of mounds from southern Canada and the Great Plains to the Atlantic coast and the Gulf of Mexico. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Leonid Brezhnev, who succeeded Khrushchev as Soviet leader in 1964, had given the KGB nearly unlimited power over Soviet society. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z There is ample evidence that South Korean society makes it hard for defectors to fit in. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z River valleys of the southwestern United States eventually came to support irrigation agriculture and complex societies, but only after many of the developments on which those societies rested had been imported from Mexico. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The meetings with city and county officials, the back-channel support from polite Durham society, the swelling membership roles, the new Klavern hall—any one of these taken individually was a significant feather in C.P.’s hood. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Almost overnight, black men found themselves unnecessary to the American economy and demonized by mainstream society. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z But,’ said I, ‘to be quite honest, I do not think I can live without something of a musical society. I condition for nothing else; but without music, life would be a blank to me.’ Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z The ones that do adopt new crops, livestock, or technology may thereby be enabled to nourish themselves better and to outbreed, displace, conquer, or kill off societies resisting innovation. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z This is why the most dangerous creation of any society is that man who has nothing to lose. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z People in Paleolithic societies had led the unsettled life of the hunter and food gatherer, reaping where nature sowed and thus at the mercy of forces that they could neither understand nor control. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z But interhemispheric diffusion made no contribution to Native America’s complex societies, isolated from Eurasia at low latitudes by broad oceans, and at high latitudes by geography and by a climate suitable just for hunting-gathering. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “This society is unforgiving, relentless, and the competition is constant,” Andrew Eungi Kim, a sociology professor at Korea University, one of the country’s most elite schools, told me. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z I found that the burial societies, with some exceptions, were mostly “rackets.” Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z We know that goblin women fight and rule alongside their men—hulking, ugly beasts, dreadfully unlike the beauties of our own elfin aristocracy, who are bred for their delicacy to be ornaments to society. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z At first, she had enjoyed doing the features, interviewing society women in their homes, observing their lives and relearning old subtleties. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Hence moderate-sized agricultural societies are often organized in chiefdoms, and kingdoms are confined to large agricultural societies. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “Chairman Mao said, ‘In a class society everyone is a member of a particular class, and every kind of thinking, without exception, is stamped with the brand of a particular class.’ Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z “That’s what everyone does. You work out how loud you can talk, how you can sit, what things are okay to say and what’s rude. It’s called being a human in society.” Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z His view of the law was broad rather than narrow, for he believed that it was a tool that could be used to change society. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The Maya were universally regarded as the oldest advanced society in Mesoamerica. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Following the implications of the Maya fall, he asked, 'Are contemporary societies any better at controlling the drive toward ever greater use of resources and heavier pressure on the environment? 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z But the Americas, as we have seen, are broken up into “islands” of societies with tenuous connections to each other. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “I said a positive contribution to history or society.” Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z Then Lori heard about a scholarship sponsored by a literary society for the student who created the best work of art inspired by one of the geniuses of the English language. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z Or perhaps a complete urbanization, or a completely caste-ridden society, or complete anarchy, is the answer. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z And their private society remains only their family. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z For the Xhosa people, circumcision represents the formal incorporation of males into society. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Dear Diary, We just won an award from the American Jewish Committee, called the Micah Award, for fighting injustice in our society. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z Ours was in men with guns who could only view us with the same contempt as the society that sent them. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z Ergo, the explanation for the differences between Native Australian and European-Australian societies must lie in the different people composing them. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Something that made them think it’d be riskier to educate him than to sacrifice his possible contributions to society. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z And knowing that my mother in there was a statistic that didn’t have to be, that existed because of a society’s failure, hypocrisy, greed, and lack of mercy and compassion. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z The ability to marry and pass as a normal woman in society are also important goals, both of which will not be possible without feminizing surgery and hormone treatment. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z “The indifference of South Korean society to the issue of North Korean rights is so awful.” Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z He went so far as to become the society’s wine steward. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z Would a society a million years in advance of us be interested in colonization or interstellar spaceflight? Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z I believe that economic incentive is crucial as a motivator, especially in a consumer-driven society. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z The value of some resources, however, is assigned by the most powerful people in a society. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z Five areas of technology may be singled out: First, metals—initially copper, then bronze, and finally iron—were used for tools in all complex Eurasian societies as of 1492. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Many societies, or groups in a society, identify as Us or We and view people outside their group as They or Them. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z What further proof could be wanted to establish that the differences between Aboriginal Australian and European societies arose from differences between the peoples themselves? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The Khmer Rouge considers them uncorrupted model citizens for their new society. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Many of the living descendants of those Aborigines who survived the era of European colonization are now finding it difficult to succeed economically in white Australian society. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The archaeological community initially found it difficult to credit these findings, but one test after another confirmed both the early date of the structures and the pre-agricultural society of their builders. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z “Even the supernatural world has its secret societies,” says Maria. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z Franklin’s ancestors may have emigrated from Europe to escape oppressive rules, but colonial societies were still vastly more coercive and class- ridden than indigenous villages. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z But their code of law is dictated, in the last resort, by the people who organize society; Providence takes its cue from men.” Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z At lunchtime and immediately after work, I would go there to read pamphlets, books and magazines about American society. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Historically, fencing was a sport for society’s elite, which meant it was a predominantly white sport. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z In the usual experience of archaeologists, inventions are supposed to flow from mainlands to islands, and small peripheral societies aren’t supposed to contribute revolutionary advances to the rest of the world. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The Europeans couldn’t imagine a reasonable society failing to take that step, and it’s hard for us to imagine even now. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z “I’m not doing one of those stupid girl costumes that society is always trying to force on us, like a nurse in a miniskirt or a maid in fishnet stockings.” Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z Even so, it’s strange how one side of the road is so different from the other—high society on the left, grim and grisly on the right. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z The society set about purchasing boards and constructing coffins. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z In one society, homosexual relationships might have been accepted, while in the other they were taboo. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Marcus continues, “Therefore this day marks a happy occasion—the day on which we receive our new initiates, who will work with us toward a better society and a better world.” Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z “It’s males like you who have ruined the mortal world. The only harmonious society is one run by women. We are stronger, wise—” “More humble,” Percy said. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z Myriad laws, rules, and regulations operate to discriminate against people with criminal records and effectively prevent their reintegration into the mainstream society and economy. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Mainly because of the way it was integrated into the very fabric of society, which made it hard to see when a guy was being a total d-bag to you. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z She had spoken English all her life, led the debating society in secondary school, and always thought the American twang inchoate; she should not have cowered and shrunk, but she did. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z That’s a powerful combination for a man who has been existing in the mud of society. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z We talked about one of Morrie’s favorite subjects, compassion, and why our society had such a shortage of it. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z "For archaeology,” deFrance said, "what may be important” in the end is not the scope of the society 'Taut where it emerged from and the food supply. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Thirdly, the most notable characteristic of hunter-gatherer societies is how different they are one from the other. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z But a new kind of society also appeared in some places, based primarily on the exploitation of animals: tribes of pastoralist herders. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z The biggest difference in their social behavior is that females are dominant in hyena society, whereas males are dominant in the world of the chimp. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z With her soft white curls and graceful good manners, Stanton appeared harmless, but when she was at the podium she challenged her audiences with revolutionary ideas about divorce, religion, and women’s role in society. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z Compared with the tens of millions of people in ancient China or Mesoamerica, that meant that Australia had far fewer potential inventors, and far fewer societies to experiment with adopting innovations. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z While modern continental peoples included ones dependent on stone tools, as were Polynesians, South America also spawned societies expert in using precious metals, and Eurasians and Africans went on to utilize iron. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The year before the society had backed a costly flop called The History of Fishes, and they now suspected that the market for a book on mathematical principles would be less than clamorous. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z "Well, don't you see, Ma'am—it's an important occasion—returning to one's own country—entering society—the best society—it is so essential to make a good impression—not perhaps looking quite ourselves, yet, eh?" The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z Family, culture, race, religion, wealth, and education can all affect your social status, even in a society that makes an effort to ignore these things. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z Given this background, one could infer, if one did not know it already, the general structure of Oceanic society. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z An example relates to the role of racial stigma in our society. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z They were brought by Europeans and proceeded to transform the societies of Indian tribes that acquired them. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z You did not have friends nowadays, you had comrades; but there were some comrades whose society was pleasanter than that of others. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z Indeed, Mesoamerican societies during that time created more than a dozen systems of writing, some of which are known only from a single brief text. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z It became hard for me to get through a school day without someone after me to join this or head up that—the debating society, the Junior High basketball team, or some other extracurricular activity. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Rumour-mongers are the original fourth estate, journalists who inform society about and thus protect it from cheats and freeloaders. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Uniforms are everywhere in North Korea, the world’s most militarized society. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z First, Europeans have for thousands of years been living in densely populated societies with central governments, police, and judiciaries. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The wholesome and varied diet, the relatively short working week, and the rarity of infectious diseases have led many experts to define pre-agricultural forager societies as ‘the original affluent societies’. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Now, it seemed, Russia itself was being portrayed as a ‘primitive’ society, lodged in the Western mind as an archaic peasant culture. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Since we live in a society constructed around competition, we have a tendency to take competitive behaviour for granted as a universal aspect of social life. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Most others believe that recent Mexican immigrants will eventually take their place in society, and perhaps someday muster political clout commensurate with their numbers, though significant impediments are slowing their progress. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z They introduced them into society and took them to fancy parties. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z The result, with the arrival of Western technology, is that the more entrepreneurial societies are now exploiting Western technology to overwhelm their conservative neighbors. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Thus I have come a long way and returned and boomeranged a long way from the point in society toward which I originally aspired. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z The society, active in the preservation and marking of historic sites, was known for its conservative social and political policies. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z To become a climber was to join a self-contained, rabidly idealistic society, largely unnoticed and surprisingly uncorrupted by the world at large. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z For people of European ancestry, social class divisions were certainly more fluid in the United States than they had been in Europe, but the United States was never an entirely classless society. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z Maize swept into Africa as introduced disease was leveling Indian societies. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Birmingham’s white society did not like outsiders coming into their city and taking a look around. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z “I had once some thoughts of fixing in town myself—for I am fond of superior society; but I did not feel quite certain that the air of London would agree with Lady Lucas.” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z Oceanic society rests ultimately on the belief that Big Brother is omnipotent and that the Party is infallible. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z Ma and Pa would like Vincent to see Mauve not because he's a successful painter, but because he's successful and a member of good society. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z It was not entirely his fault that he lived in a society where a man’s death could be more profitable than his life had ever been. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z For attending Shabbos dinners and banquets hosted by the burial society, I had acquired a secondhand dress coat. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Over time, as inherited wealth smoothed the rough edges, their descendants morphed into American high society and evolved a signature style of living based on understatement and old- fashioned patrician values. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z Our starting point will be a comparison of Eurasian and Native American societies as of A.D. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “We want to establish a new society. One without factions.” Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z After this, whenever anyone requested help, the society sent a volunteer as quickly as possible. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z Thus, the difficulties historians face in establishing cause-and-effect relations in the history of human societies are broadly similar to the difficulties facing astronomers, climatologists, ecologists, evolutionary biologists, geologists, and paleontologists. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z In the long run, a hierarchical society was only possible on a basis of poverty and ignorance. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z A moody man, often competent, bad-tempered, wealthy, aspires to a place in Richmond society, frets and broods and fights with superiors. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z I have a job to do and will not get very far forward as one half of a mutual admiration society. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z Young people were rebelling against a society they thought was violent, corrupt, and immoral. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z In fact, in proportion to its available area of farmland, Japan is the most densely populated major society in the world. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z How could I condemn the evil landlords of the old society? Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z The instruction was intended to assimilate Mollie into white society and transform her into what the authorities conceived of as the ideal woman. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z How can we account for the empirical observation that band or tribal organization just does not work for societies of hundreds of thousands of people, and that all existing large societies have complex centralized organization? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The Mayan people were governed by a system in which the priesthood and the nobility shared the power to make and enforce laws that affected all of Mayan society. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z I never had one hour’s happiness in her society, and yet my mind all round the four-and-twenty hours was harping on the happiness of having her with me unto death. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z The convention consisted of six sessions, including several discussions of the role of women in society. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z At the time Galileo was born, the family had good connections and a respected place in society, but finding the money to maintain that position would always be a problem. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z As you know from previous chapters, Indigenous peoples had highly organized societies and systems of governance. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z Complex societies, however, separate music making and the music makers from everyone else, who become consumers or listeners. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z We want education that teaches our true history and our role in this present day society. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z There was no blending into an anonymous background, no neighboring society to shift toward. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z However, regular dog eating has been a last resort of meat-deprived human societies: the Aztecs had no other domestic mammal, and the Polynesians and ancient Chinese had only pigs and dogs. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Scientists attribute the significantly larger population in the Americas to a relatively disease-free society whose use of herbal medicine, surgery, dentistry, and hygienic and ritual bathing kept disease at bay. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z Much like he changed in the story, I have changed and will change as I commit myself to service toward society.” A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z While wheels are very useful in modern industrial societies, that has not been so in some other societies. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z What would a society of eunuchs achieve?—But of course they are not eunuchs, in somer, but rather more comparable to preadolescents: not castrate, but latent. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z “Why don’t you come back when you’re ready to behave like a functioning member of society.” Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z At most, some of them merely adopted Austronesian languages, possibly in order to communicate with the long-distance traders who linked societies. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Wells agreed with Galton’s impulses to manipulate heredity as a means to create a “fitter society.” The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z And most native societies in what is now the United States and Canada did not have the written languages, monumental architecture, or wide-ranging aesthetic traditions of their neighbors to the south. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z In Jane Austen’s novels there are star-crossed lovers who have impediments thrown in their way—by their parents, society, or their own doubts. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z “Plenty of things go wrong in society. There are plenty of things that are troubling to society, but you have to take your power seriously.” A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z “We’re going to do a little project that I like to call living history. Where we study the different generations that make up our society.” Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z “Black people, minorities, poor people. Everybody at the bottom in society.” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z “When I go out and hopefully have an impact on society, I will always remember that I don’t need praise, in fact, not only do I not need it, but I don’t want it.” A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Modern Indigenous nations and communities are societies shaped by their resistance to colonialism. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z One can point out that human societies and dinosaurs are extremely complex, being characterized by an enormous number of independent variables that feed back on each other. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “Let me show you. Did John ever neglect you, as you call it, while you made it a point to give him your society of an evening, his only leisure time?” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z The ANC has never at any period of its history advocated a revolutionary change in the economic structure of the country, nor has it, to the best of my recollection, ever condemned capitalist society. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The displacement of such peoples by colonists from industrialized societies exemplified the survival of the fittest. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Those details of typewriter, clock, and calendar design have not affected the competitive success of the societies adopting them. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Someday the authorities of our society will no doubt apprehend her for simply being herself. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The chief preaches and revers the achievements of the Angkar, the philosophy of the government to build this perfect agrarian society where there are no crimes, no deceit, no trickery, and no Western influence. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The Olmec were but the first of many societies that arose in Mesoamerica in this epoch. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Raizel believed that society as a whole was corrupt, and that true freedom and liberty would only be achieved once the power structure was dismantled completely and capitalism abolished. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z I realized I was in a unique position to transform the way society sees Muslim women and Black women in predominantly white sports, and the way we as ethnic and religious minorities see ourselves. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z I said what I was against was strait- jacketed thinking, and strait-jacketed societies. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z “If he wants our society, let him seek it. He knows where we live. I will not spend my hours in running after my neighbours every time they go away and come back again.” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z That problem grows astronomically as the number of people making up the society increases. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z One advertisement in particular grabs my attention: I sign my name on the list for the new camp musical society. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Most things that seem ridiculous to me are normal there, like when my humanities teacher asked, “Who are the invisible people in our community? Who are the people we, as a society, take for granted?” Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z The station wagon had been ordered originally by a wealthy society lady, black, without a speck of chrome, and with black leather upholstery, but when it came, it depressed her. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z Both Barbara and John were coming of age in a society in which antisemitism was common. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Let’s begin by comparing the acceptability of different inventions within the same society. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z In the new pure agrarian society, there is no place for disabled people. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The correlation is probably explained by the relative wealth of these societies, bringing about both increased milk consumption and more cancer due to greater longevity. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Slowly she’d adapted, though, and had become part of the bonobo society. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z Might all the societies of an entire continent be unreceptive, thereby explaining technology’s slow pace of development there? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z By choice I do not confine myself to Catholic society. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z A man is taken away from his experience of society, taken away from the experience of a living planet of living things, when he is sent to prison. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Notwithstanding the universal admiration for Offenbach’s comic operettas, the opulence of the Parisian experience of opera and its position in society still meant it was a luxury. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Doesn’t that constitute a perfectly controlled experiment in the evolution of human societies, forcing us to a simple racist conclusion? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z My relative, Chief Mdingi, suggested the name Zenani, which means “What have you brought to the world?” — a poetic name that embodies a challenge, suggesting that one must contribute something to society. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z In those societies each household made what it needed; there was little or no economic specialization. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z An individual who, without the blessing of society, or even its permission, permanently ends a human life? Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z There was much in such a society that was primitive and insecure and it certainly could never measure up to the demands of the present epoch. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z And while he has done cruel, evil things, our society is not divided into “good” and “bad.” Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z As was customary in their nineteen years of marriage, he left the grits on his plate untouched, an unexpressed but articulate declaration, rooted in geography, that the society he married into had not assimilated him. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Subsistence is a convenient facet of society with which to start, since it in turn affected other facets. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Among the supposedly conservative Aboriginal Australians as well, there are receptive societies along with conservative ones. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z It achieves racial segregation by segregating people in prison—the majority of whom are black and brown—from mainstream society. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z On reflection, these conclusions are precisely what one would expect if a society’s innovativeness is determined by many independent factors. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z But if they did not exist, the structure of world society, and the process by which it maintains itself, would not be essentially different. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z Nowadays, Islamic societies in the Middle East are relatively conservative and not at the forefront of technology. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z We have formed your society in a particular way in the hope that you will rediscover the moral sense most of us have lost. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z If you were not a democracy or a democratizing society, if you continued to hold fast to highly regulated or centrally planned economics, you were seen as being on the wrong side of history. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z What kind of cultures, societies and political structures would have emerged in a world where several different human species coexisted? Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Instead, the two societies split the region between them. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z So there were eyes on Guenever now—not the eyes of strong suspicion or of warm connivance, but the bored looks of calculation and the cold ones of society. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Over the past seventy- five years, they’ve learned to be self-sufficient, turned their citizens into an army, and built a new society with no help from anyone. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z The Slabs functions as the seasonal capital of a teeming itinerant society—a tolerant, rubber-tired culture comprising the retired, the exiled, the destitute, the perpetually unemployed. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z This view held that societies, like living organisms, grow, mature, and inevitably decay—a phenomenon for which history provided ready examples. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z I came to know Andre rather well; in fact, like Wilfred and his patrons at the ranch, abnormally well considering the type of society we were living in. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z “Everything else—all the heavily populated urbanized societies—was wiped out.” 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z They wished to be seen as individuals, full and equal citizens who could not be told to leave or treated as second-class members of society. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z Bars and walls keep hundreds of thousands of black and brown people away from mainstream society—a form of apartheid unlike any the world has ever seen. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z The larger she grew, the deeper Blanca sank into an Oriental placidity that dashed all her husband’s attempts to introduce her into society. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Australia thus provides a crucial test of theories about intercontinental differences in societies. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z He was active in the honor society and the school’s Hi-Y chapter. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Certainly, both the beliefs and the tensions remained prevalent in early-eighteenth-century society. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z That goes for societies as well as for individuals. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Remarkably, the overwhelming majority of people branded criminals and felons struggle mightily to play by the rules and to succeed in a society seemingly hell-bent on excluding them. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z He also stayed long enough in each town to form the most enthusiastic of his converts into religious societies, which in turn he subdivided into smaller classes of a dozen or so people. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z In other words, I operate in society as a man. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Thus, competition between societies at one level of complexity tends to lead to societies on the next level of complexity if conditions permit. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z They knew that there would be times and circumstances during which our society would be threatened by the acts of individuals. Monster 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z Her face looks worried. 0'BRIEN The State correctly says that the laws of a society provide protection for its citizens. Monster 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z New cultures and societies built on the remains of the old. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Women, patronized for millennia, traditionally denied real political and economic power, are gradually becoming, even in the most backward societies, equal partners with men. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Firstly, all forager societies that have survived into the modern era have been influenced by neighbouring agricultural and industrial societies. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Besides Sumerian cuneiform, the other certain instance of independent origins of writing in human history comes from Native American societies of Mesoamerica, probably southern Mexico. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z When two strangers in a tribal society want to trade, they will often establish trust by appealing to a common god, mythical ancestor or totem animal. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z We overlook just how large a role we all play—and by “we” I mean society—in determining who makes it and who doesn’t. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z Because chiefdoms and state societies have economic specialization, the defeated can be used as slaves, as commonly happened in biblical times. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z They had worked hard to eradicate customs that had begun to corrupt their society, banning even seemingly benign diversions such as a gaming machine, a simple gambling device that spit out candy to its winners. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Thus, food production, which increases population size, also acts in many ways to make features of complex societies possible. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Such societies might live to a prosperous old age, their lifetimes measured perhaps on geological or stellar evolutionary time scales. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z He was a handsome man who had a great deal of money but was not “society” and was overly aware of it and very touchy about it. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z No. Studies consistently indicate that drug markets, like American society generally, reflect our nation’s racial and socioeconomic boundaries. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Their status as precursors led archaeologists to believe that the subsequent emergence of other complex societies was due to their example—or their conquest. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Within twenty-four hours the small provincial society world knew that an authentic count had arrived in their midst. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z One way is that other societies see or learn of the invention, are receptive to it, and adopt it. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z And he added: “It just shows how society views this crime.” A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Nowhere is that observation more relevant in American society today than in an analysis of the culture of mass incarceration. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Those ladies are the creme de la creme of Baltimore society, and their brightly colored dresses are the height of fashion. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z Of course, such purposeful experiments cannot be carried out on human societies. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z In 1000 a.d., at the time of our imaginary overflight, both societies were reeling from a succession of terrible droughts. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The invention of writing makes a convenient landmark, for the absence of written records is surely one of the key differences between prehistoric and historic societies. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z At least compared to the music we have been making in our little musical society. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z And I wanted to hear the voices one truly never hears, the voices of guards— those on the front lines of our prison policies, society’s proxies. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z To him, American society is a “ladder with lots and lots of rungs.” Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z And I agreed with her that apathy was going to ruin this society. Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z People of many hunter-gatherer societies move frequently in search of wild foods, but farmers must remain near their fields and orchards. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z This is an odd-looking choice, especially since most human societies chose 5, 10, or 20 as their base number. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Mostly, pottery is owned by sedentary societies: what nomad wants to carry a collection of heavy pots, as well as weapons and the baby, every time he or she shifts camp? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z This so-called Indian business, as White discovered, was an elaborate criminal operation, in which various sectors of society were complicit. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Disaster is one thing, and a riot is another, but the total disintegration of society? Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z For any ranked society, whether a chiefdom or a state, one thus has to ask: why do the commoners tolerate the transfer of the fruits of their hard labor to kleptocrats? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z But, and it is a big ‘but’, although there are certain cross-cultural uniformities common to all human societies, this doesn’t help us very much, most of the time. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z And in the larger society, too, the cost of repression becomes another factor weighing against the expansion or restoration of needed services. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z The other societies illustrate the important point that distance as the crow flies is not an appropriate measure of isolation for humans. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z In the North, such a diversion from studies was unremarkable, but in the Jim Crow South, this was an act of revolution, an assault on the fundamental structure of Southern society. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z “Goodness knows what you’re up to when we leave you here. You need to see something of society if you’re ever going to work in any other household. Just be sure to hold your tongue.” Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Jefferson's version of a classless American society was therefore a pipe dream, because the source of the problem was not European feudalism but human nature itself. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z In the last twenty years, we've created a new class of "untouchables" in American society, made up of our most vulnerable mothers and their children. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z As recently as that very summer they had been shown their position in the Philadelphia society that was now pleading for their help. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z Those are the reasons why large societies cannot function with band organization and instead are complex kleptocracies. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z But the difficulties that linguists have in agreeing on groupings of Native American languages reflect the difficulties that complex Native American societies themselves faced in expanding within the New World. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z I thought of lecturing her on the respect due one's bedmate in our society, but I no longer deluded myself that I either knew the society or where I fitted into it. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z That’s the only way to make it in this world—to assimilate into the society in which we live. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The Angkar says our new society will produce many thousand kilograms of a rice surplus within two years. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Most such expansions appear to be attributable to the advantages that speakers of the ancestral language, belonging to food-producing societies, held over hunter-gatherers. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z I had been disrespectful of an elder, and that is very bad in our society. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z With almost a dozen immortal emperors jostling for position, high-level Inka society was characterized by ramose political intrigue of a scale that would have delighted the Medici. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Contributing to these differences among Polynesian societies were at least six sets of environmental variables among Polynesian islands: island climate, geological type, marine resources, area, terrain fragmentation, and isolation. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z His place in society now is a far cry from his days in the Bronx. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z Compared to the despotic societies that were the norm in Europe and Asia, Haudenosaunee was a libertarian dream. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Not philosophers but fretsawyers and stamp collectors compose the backbone of society’. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z A new society was emerging—one that had its roots in the dark history of slavery but was also moving into the future. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z “We as a society have been leaving the door wide open. Why wouldn’t the devil walk right in?” Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z They were merely tinkering in a technological society. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “Her parents are super conservative. My dad says they’re scared about the way society is changing. Maddy is with them all the time. She doesn’t know any better.” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z I wondered where and how I would fit in to a society that basically didn’t like me. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z Speaking of the increasing concentration of incomes, Alan Greenspan, the Federal Reserve chairman, warned in congressional testimony in 2004: “For the democratic society, that is not a very desirable thing to allow it to happen.” Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z We forget that North America also supported populous Indian societies in the most logical place, the Mississippi Valley, which contains some of our best farmland today. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The end result has been the elimination of populous Native American societies from most temperate areas suitable for European food production and physiology. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “He realized that I had been fair with him and was sincerely trying to help him establish himself as a member of ‘legitimate’ society.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Large majorities of black men in cities across the United States are once again subject to legalized discrimination effectively barring them from full integration into mainstream, white society. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Those who swelled their little unarmed strength into the reckoning one of leagues, clubs, societies, sisterhoods designed to hold or withhold, move or stay put, make a way, solicit, comfort and ease. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z “But you should want everybody to know that the society exists. Then maybe that would help stop it. What’s the secrecy for?” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z I decided to try to pass back into white society. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z The first and better known is Mesoamerica, where half a dozen societies, the Olmec first among them, rose in the centuries before Christ. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z More specifically, it addresses only the final stage in the evolution of complex societies. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Even those few Australians got to see only a fraction of Macassan culture and technology, rather than a full Macassan society with rice fields, pigs, villages, and workshops. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Over the course of his or her life, a typical member of a modern affluent society will own several million artefacts—from cars and houses to disposable nappies and milk cartons. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z This peculiar linking-together of opposites—knowl-edge with ignorance, cynicism with fanaticism—is one of the chief distinguishing marks of Oceanic society. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z The “working poor,” as they are approvingly termed, are in fact the major philanthropists of our society. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z So Nok's mother wheedled and cut deals with her society friends, and by a sheer miracle, she landed Nok's father an even better gig: Chief Law Commissioner. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z Pierre told a good story: one meeting of his secret society had, he assured Boyle, been disrupted by disgruntled employees who had blown up the castle in which the society was meeting. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Colonial societies could not become too oppressive, because their members—surrounded by examples of free life—always had the option to vote with their feet. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Since the unveiling of the bill, there had been phone calls and mail and huge editorials about invasion of privacy and people’s differing definitions of what a “threat” to society actually was. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z Atahuallpa remained entirely ignorant about Spain’s conquests of Central America’s most powerful and populous Indian societies. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z We are fundamentally opposed to the principle and practice of compulsory segregation in our American society, whether of races or classes or creeds. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z The theory is, when black individuals achieve power for themselves, black people as a group benefit, as does society as a whole. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z What has changed since the collapse of Jim Crow has less to do with the basic structure of our society than with the language we use to justify it. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z At the beginning of this chapter, I mentioned the failure of some food-producing societies with complex political organization to develop or adopt writing before modern times. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z It eats up the surplus of consumable goods, and it helps to preserve the special mental atmosphere that a hierarchical society needs. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z But those Norse visits had no discernible impact on Native American societies. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Nor that Hobbes’s source for his claim that the life of men outside society is “solitary, nasty, poor, brutal, and short” was “the savage people in many places of America.” 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z I am too young to understand Pol Pot’s strategies for creating a classless pure agrarian society. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z No one would lightly adopt such a name in contemporary Western society. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z “American society had come to resemble a shattered mirror still in its frame.” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Unitarians did not stand out in society as heretics, but the faith was easy to live with if you felt uncomfortable with a more serious, stricter branch of Christianity. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Nor were its several hundred thousand people organized into closely interacting societies. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z For instance, Native American societies became renowned for their mastery of horses, and in some cases of cattle and sheepherding, in parts of the Great Plains, the western United States, and the Argentine pampas. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Bands lack many institutions that we take for granted in our own society. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z In theory, goods are shared according to the level of contribution people make to a society, which means that hard work gets rewarded. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z Against that grim list, the sole crowd infectious diseases that can be attributed with certainty to pre-Columbian Native American societies were nonsyphilitic treponemas. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z We are surrounded by recent fundamental changes in society. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z In barely a decade membership grew to four hundred–still all gentlemen, of course–and the Geological was threatening to eclipse the Royal as the premier scientific society in the country. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z The thought comes that Western civilized, scientific, technologic society is a standing proof of human progress, in having risen above such imaginings. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z If they were for storing cotton, as Haas surmises, they would have been, in this textile-mad society, an emblem of state power and wealth, the ancient equivalent of Fort Knox. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z “We are proud of the U.K.A. and are ready to die if we must to see that our children and your children are not raised under a Communist, socialist society.” The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Through a web of laws, regulations, and informal rules, all of which are powerfully reinforced by social stigma, they are confined to the margins of mainstream society and denied access to the mainstream economy. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Look to the Southeast, where, as Taylor has noted, “colonial societies sustained a slave system more oppressive than anything practiced in Europe” and “the slave-owners relied on Indians to catch runaways.” 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Finally, there’s the thorny question of the role of war in forager societies. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z “Science is not the highest value in society,” Andrews says, pointing instead to things like autonomy and personal freedom. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z It was the “newest city” of the world, Twain had written—a place where scientists, writers, philosophers, and intellectuals were gathering in cafés and salons to forge a free and futuristic society. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Those outfits are associated with an undesirable, often dangerous element of society. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z But, in spite of the psychoanalysis, Malcolm will always be exactly who he is, whether or not we as a society ever succeed in figuring him out. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Xhosa society was a balanced and harmonious social order in which every individual knew his or her place. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Less and less did society target the criminal’s body; rather, what we wanted to punish was his mind. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z So here’s the question: What does the obvious change in the application of this phrase from 1776 to now tell us about how our society has evolved? Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z “I can not shoulder the responsibility of electing officers who publicly repudiate the principles of the society,” Foster said. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z Piggy and Ralph, under the threat of the sky, found themselves eager to take a place in this demented but partly secure society. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z “I recommend Batman especially, for he tends to transcend the abysmal society in which he’s found himself. His morality is rather rigid, also. I rather respect Batman.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z We avoid even our own society, so much as may be avoided when we must sit knee to knee. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z Moreover, this is what the rest of us are like in our inner selves, and we will all turn into Iks when the structure of our society comes all unhinged. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z He will be brought down by the woman, both in society and maybe in his own health. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z And ignorance of that alternative world is dangerous, sometimes putting both its citizens and society at peril. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Barack and I were committed to changing the perceptions about what made a young woman valuable to a society. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z This suggested to me the Optimal Fragmentation Principle: innovation proceeds most rapidly in a society with some optimal intermediate degree of fragmentation: a too-unified society is at a disadvantage, and so is a too-fragmented society. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z What they sought was not so much a radical restructuring of South African society as the removal of those features of apartheid that held back black initiative and enterprise. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z All these examples illustrate that wars, or threats of war, have played a key role in most, if not all, amalgamations of societies. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z "You read books and find statements that such and such a society or archaeological site is 20,000 years old," he remarked. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The temperature in the digging pits sometimes hit 130°F. Slowly peeling away the geological layers, Howard’s workers revealed that Blackwater Draw had hosted not one, but two ancient societies. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z At about that time, Andean societies were assailed by the first of several decades-long droughts, paradoxically interrupted by El Nino-induced floods. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z “He has not learned to be a responsible member of society. For this reason, I am canceling Wendell’s acceptance to attend your college in the fall semester.” While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Schools are supposed to be catacombed with secret societies and underground brotherhoods, and as far as they knew here was one which had just come to the surface. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z Population rose, as has happened time and time again when human societies make the transition from foraging to farming. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z That’s not to say that those societies without writing were totally isolated. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Hence nomadic hunter-gatherer societies have few or no such full-time specialists, who instead first appear in sedentary societies. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Instead, they enter a separate society, a world hidden from public view, governed by a set of oppressive and discriminatory rules and laws that do not apply to everyone else. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z “In society, people don’t want to stand up.” A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z In effect, the society was divided into hereditary chief and commoner classes, with Hawaiian chiefs themselves subdivided into eight hierarchically ranked lineages, each concentrating its marriages within its own lineage. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Even if they were society’s pariahs, they were going to be angels in a marble white heaven and sit on the right hand of Jesus, the Son of God. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Like their confreres elsewhere in the Americas, Indian societies had built up a remarkable body of knowledge about how to manage and improve their environment. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Maria—relieved to be away from the conventions of society and to reunite with her half brother Caspar—tried to embrace this structured, spiritual way of life. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Indeed, the master narrative led to such surprising conclusions about Native American societies before the arrival of Europeans that it stirred up an intellectual firestorm. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z In more primitive ages, when a just and peaceful society was in fact not possible, it had been fairly easy to believe in it. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z Naturally, I don’t subscribe to the obvious fallacy that every society promptly adopts every innovation that would be useful for it. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The discovery of the New World had fatally undermined any claim that there are some things on which all human beings can agree—here were societies practising nudity and cannibalism. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Neither could do without or do with the other; yet the constrictions of conscience and society, morality and ethos dictated a separation. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z ‘Yes, once they understand the workings of this society. But how do you propose to tell them?’ The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z His family arranged a special ceremony that allowed him to make the trip without giving up his place in society. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z What kind of society did he live in which allowed a black man to become rich and famous at the expense of whites, instead of the other way round? Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z There are many obvious reasons for these effects of history, such as that long experience of state societies and agriculture implies experienced administrators, experience with market economies, and so on. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Three hundred years ago, the Royal Society was set up: the first true scientific society in her world. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z In many New Guinean societies, the wealth of a person has traditionally been determined by the number of pigs he or she owns. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z He had discussion groups about dying, what it really meant, how societies had always been afraid of it without necessarily understanding it. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z I help her tote them back to her bedroom and then I stand very still outside her door to hear if she’ll call up the society ladies like she does every day. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z The Quakers’ goals were prevention of further harm to society, deterrence, and, by the early nineteenth century, encouragement of prisoners to en-gage in “penitent reflection,” which could result in their personal reformation. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He came out of his struggle integrated only slightly in the external society, but powerfully integrated within. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z They were a mutual admiration society of two, and Glerk could not bear it. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z Those cases, initially so puzzling to us moderns accustomed to viewing writing as indispensable to a complex society, included one of the world’s largest empires as of A.D. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “What is your opinion of a society that considers Turkey in the Straw’ to be one of the pillars, as it were, of its culture?” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Today, the society called New Zealand is composed of 4.5 million Sapiens and 50 million sheep. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z As Gal- lay has documented, indigenous societies cooperated fully with the slave-trading system, sending war captives to colonists for sale overseas. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Manure has been valuable, too, as a source of fuel for fires in traditional societies. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Each murder in band and tribal societies usually leads to an attempted revenge killing, starting one more unending cycle of murder and countermurder that destabilizes the society. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The day I begged bread from the city officials was the day that showed me I was not alone in my loneliness, society had cast millions of others with me. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z He wrote on February 21, 1894, “No one should be put to death no matter who it is, if it can be avoided, it is demoralizing to society to be barbarous.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Unlike Easter Island and other remote Polynesian islands, Greenland could not support a self-sufficient food-producing society, though it did support self-sufficient Inuit hunter-gatherer populations before, during, and after the Norse occupation period. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The relative importance of local invention and of borrowing depends mainly on two factors: the ease of invention of the particular technology, and the proximity of the particular society to other societies. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z In New York, of course, the papers stated that society had never been so gay; that the sale of jewels and fine fabrics and sundry baubles of high fashion had never been so great. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z Ninety minutes above the river, I crested a broad ridge, passed a matrix of rock-walled yak corrals, and abrupdy found myself in downtown Namche Bazaar, the social and commercial hub of Sherpa society. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z Ridiculed by the same society that grew wealthy on the labor of his kind, C.P. had at last found a measure of self-respect and meaning in the Klan. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z As a society, our collective understanding of racism has been powerfully influenced by the shocking images of the Jim Crow era and the struggle for civil rights. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z In contemporary Western society, buying a magazine on astrology—at a newsstand, say—is easy; it is much harder to find one on astronomy. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z To be fair to me, he said, to save me from being rejected by society, the operation should go ahead. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z Such a hypothesis accords as well with the animism found in ethnographic societies the world over. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z In general, societies that engaged in intense exchanges of crops, livestock, and technologies related to food production were more likely to become involved in other exchanges as well. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z In contrast, crops and animals moved easily between Eurasian societies thousands of miles apart but at the same latitude and sharing similar climates and day lengths. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z So accepted now around the world is the idea of the implicit equality and liberty of all people that it is hard to grasp what a profound change in human society it represented. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z For a few seconds I will hear it with pleasure, for it is now the sound of my society—a reminder of home. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Using today’s standards, it is easy to conclude that Washington had simply sold out to white society. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Lander traveled with one of the new abolitionist societies in New York, on a speaking tour of New England; they kept him busy. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z It was like I wanted to give up—because in society nobody wants to give us a helping hand. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z The variations among Polynesian societies associated with different population densities and sizes were as follows. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Group singing played a major role in society, for emotional expression, entertainment, social cohesion, and so forth. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z This is a color-blind society, my brethren...people are judged by the content of their character instead of the color of their skin.Kyle: Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z Bobby thought of himself as being totally aware and equated himself with Bhagwan’s concept of the Nietzschean “Superman” who transcends the constraints of society. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z If you live in an unworkable society you can make up one of your own, and this is what the Iks have done. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z My motive for investigating these geographic differences in human societies is not to celebrate one type of society over another but simply to understand what happened in history. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z I couldn’t have understood at the time that the signs were symbolic— and symptomatic—of deeper issues within our society. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Thus Bacon rejected the distinction, so deeply rooted in his society, between theory and practice. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z I certainly could not discover any principled reason for not becoming a criminal, and it is not my poor, God-fearing parents who are to be indicted for the lack but this society. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z Writing was never developed or even adopted by hunter-gatherer societies, because they lacked both the institutional uses of early writing and the social and agricultural mechanisms for generating the food surpluses required to feed scribes. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z When Indian societies disintegrated from disease and mistreatment, forest invaded savanna in Wisconsin, Illinois, Kansas, Nebraska, Wyoming, and the Texas hill country. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The two fought for the hearts and minds of black America—and, at least for Washington, for the blessings of white society. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z So India, as a society that actively explored the void and the infinite, accepted zero. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z She belonged to I don’t know how many different clubs; she was a leading light of local so-called ‘ ‘black society. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z William had a comfortable place in a settled society and suffered none of the hardships experienced by Kepler; he studied at the local grammar school, then went up to Cambridge in 1558. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z In human societies possessing domestic animals, livestock fed more people in four distinct ways: by furnishing meat, milk, and fertilizer and by pulling plows. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Because Jews did not believe in the divinity of Christ, they found themselves locked out of medieval society. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z If all the reforms mentioned above were actually adopted, a radical transformation in our society would have taken place. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z “What if it’s a criminal who helps society?” she presses. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z Out of the experience of an extraordinary human disaster that lasted too long, must be bom a society of which all humanity will be proud. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The huts were seclusion lodges, where we were to live isolated from society. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Some societies seem hopelessly conservative, inward looking, and hostile to change. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “Well, lust fades, and then there are children to raise and bills to pay. At some point it just becomes friendship with mutual self-interest for the benefit of society and the next generation.” The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z “Indeed, Harriet, it would have been a severe pang to lose you; but it must have been. You would have thrown yourself out of all good society. I must have given you up.” Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z The term sex refers to the biological and physiological characteristics that define men and women, while gender refers to society’s constructed roles, expectations, behaviors, attitudes, and activities that it deems appropriate for men and women. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z “Aside from the good of everyone in our society?” Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z A new social consensus must be forged about race and the role of race in defining the basic structure of our society if we hope ever to abolish the New Jim Crow. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Is it intensive food production that is the cause, triggering population growth and somehow leading to a complex society? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z It is influenced by trends in general education, society, culture, and politics. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z I should like to know how it affects her,’ and so on, as if he supposed we were constantly in each other’s society. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z One real estate dealer bluntly stated: “You people are not admitted to our society.” A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Does the capacity to repent, to atone, exist in a majority, in one-half, in even one-third of American white society? The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Yet these civil penalties, although not considered punishment by our courts, often make it virtually impossible for people who have been convicted of crimes to integrate into the mainstream society and economy upon release. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Considering this fact, it might be worthwhile to take a familiar question—why is there so much crime in modern society?—and stand it on its head: why isn’t there a lot more crime? Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z Moriori and Maori history constitutes a brief, small-scale natural experiment that tests how environments affect human societies. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z I don’t get it; how can a talent like that be a liability to our society? Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z While Vincent is rejoicing in poverty, shedding his clothes, his possessions, his membership in middle-class society, Theo is honing his talents as an art dealer and becoming more and more ambitious. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z He wasn’t shy about telling us where society was going wrong. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Their many societies had developed rigid social and economic class structures in which wealth and power were concentrated among monarchies, aristocracies, and the Catholic Church. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z Well, in the competitive American society, how can there ever be any white-black solidarity before there is first some black solidarity? The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z ‘Is it where he works - or a club or a society? Something he’s part of? Something that just might lead us to him?’ The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z Each begins its life as a rather abstract scientific concept, but grows to invade multiple human discourses—thereby transforming culture, society, politics, and language. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z These differences stemmed ultimately from Eurasia’s much longer history of densely populated, economically specialized, politically centralized, interacting and competing societies dependent on food production. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Thus, for countless poor people, particularly racial minorities targeted by the drug war, public housing was no longer available, leaving many of them homeless—locked out not only of mainstream society, but their own homes. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z All of these capabilities of centralized societies have fostered intensified food production and hence population growth throughout history. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Where does a woman go in a society where that is the norm? Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z To live factionless is not just to live in poverty and discomfort; it is to live divorced from society, separated from the most important thing in life: community. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z But in such a society are contained the seeds of revolutionary democracy in which none will be held in slavery or servitude, and in which poverty, want and insecurity shall be no more. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The modern United States is a European-molded society, occupying lands conquered from Native Americans and incorporating the descendants of millions of sub-Saharan black Africans brought to America as slaves. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Castro promised a more equitable society based on communist principles. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z It is as if there was an impulse in the fabric of society. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z He stated that I had no place in a society whose most fundamental rules I ignored and that I could not appeal to the same human heart whose elementary response I knew nothing of. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z The situation in Montgomery was so strange I decided to try passing back into white society. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z The colorblindness ideal is premised on the notion that we, as a society, can never be trusted to see race and treat each other fairly or with genuine compassion. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Today I hear bilingual educators say that children lose a degree of ‘individuality’ by becoming assimilated into public society. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z I remembered my mom telling me that a big reason for the bonobos’ peaceful society was how plentiful food is south of the Congo River. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z Each person was born into a “caste”—a role in society. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z When societies do adopt a new technology from the society that invented it, the diffusion may occur in many different contexts. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z These examples reemphasize that the same few suitable wild species attracted the attention of many different human societies. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Replace God with Marx, Satan with the bourgeoisie, Heaven with a classless society, the Church with the Party, and the form and purpose of the journey remained similar. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Every child is told from the day he or she is old enough to understand that the scythes provide a crucial service for society. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z Like a special code word, telling them I’m in their genetically healed society. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z Hence the Andes, West Africa, and the Mississippi Valley were effectively rather isolated from societies with writing. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z But the head of the volunteers, a society lady at our church, took one look at me and said, "You're on maternity." The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z Five thousand years after llamas had been domesticated in the Andes, the Olmecs, Maya, Aztecs, and all other native societies of Mexico remained without pack animals and without any edible domestic mammals except for dogs. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z He joined a literary society and the editorial board of the college magazine. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Other major features of North Chinese societies that spread southward were bronze technology, Sino-Tibetan languages, and state formation. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “Where else can you go? You fled finishing school, and you’ll be in better society here than you would find with me. Including me. Don’t run off again.” Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z Most lay people would describe as the most salient feature of Native Australian societies their seeming “backwardness.” Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z That outcome, with all of its momentous advantages for Eurasian societies, stemmed from three basic facts of mammalian geography, history, and biology. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Cultures rise and fall, but there is no other known time when a large-scale society disintegrated—and was replaced by nothing. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z In our society, those who have the best knowledge of what is happening are also those who are furthest from seeing the world as it is. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z As noted earlier, many whites during the Jim Crow era sincerely believed that African Americans were inferior, and that segregation was a sensible system for managing a society comprised of fundamentally different and unequal people. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Our society still had a long way to go, of course, but in the early days of September 1963, I felt a genuine hope about the future—about things improving between the races in Alabama. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z From the experience of southern blacks, a generation of Americans came to realize with new force that there are forms of oppression that touch all levels of a society. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Though the Aztecs lost control of Mexico, like the Mayans their descendants are part of today’s societies in Mexico and the US. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z I was the worst possible guardian for him—a black to watch over him in a society that considered blacks subhuman, a woman to watch over him in a society that considered women perennial children. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z Early farming villages worldwide were much less authoritarian places than later societies. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z I hope that in our future hours, we will find time to remember our responsibilities to others and resolve to give something back to our society. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z I’ll have a Point of View on serious subjects such as Immigration, the role of the Catholic Church in an increasingly secular society, the relative suckage of professional football teams. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z The claim that an alien society, if it had a sufficiently advanced technology, would come up with almost exactly the same figure as us for the speed of light is perfectly sound. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Instead, for practical purposes the collision of advanced Old World and New World societies began abruptly in A.D. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z I asked Haas and Creamer where a race of alien visitors in, say, 3000 B.C. would have landed if they were searching for earth’s most sophisticated society. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z “It’s as much of a thing as your ‘social awareness society’ or whatever you call it. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z The societies without writing that I just mentioned are ones that got a later start on food production than did Sumer, Mexico, and China. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Today, while events in neighboring South Africa command more of the world’s attention, Namibia as well is struggling to deal with its colonial past and establish a multiracial society. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Aborigines today form an underclass of Australian society. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Our society may be less creative, and not just in the arts. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z They naturally took comfort in each other’s society and were much together, riding, walking, dancing, or dawdling, for at Nice no one can be very industrious during the gay season. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z However, the society soon found that it could not enforce this segregated seating policy when black performers appeared in the hall. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z But scientific experimentation is manual labor, from which the slaveholders are preferentially distanced; while it is only the slaveholders—politely called “gentle-men” in some societies—who have the leisure to do science. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z In the past the need for a hierarchical form of society had been the doctrine specifically of the High. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z All the beliefs, habits, tastes, emotions, mental attitudes that characterize our time are really designed to sustain the mystique of the Party and prevent the true nature of present- day society from being perceived. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z At the cost of a few society members who die in battle as soldiers, the whole society becomes much more effective at conquering other societies or resisting attacks. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Should we try to change society by reducing prejudice, that is, by getting people to like one another? The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z The implication was that every Indian society in the hemisphere was descended from Clovis. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z In contrast, New Guineans have been living in societies where human numbers were too low for epidemic diseases of dense populations to evolve. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z This is hard for people in today’s prosperous societies to appreciate. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z It has produced laws of a cynicism scarcely believable in a civilized society. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Southern West Virginia society did not allow for barging in on strangers in the middle of the night, no matter what the situation. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Hence the effect on society is catastrophic when state government collapses, as happened in Britain upon the removal of Roman troops, administrators, and coinage between A.D. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Typical targets were women on the edges of society who exhibited odd behaviors such as talking to animals, wandering the countryside at night, or hoarding insects. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Smaller native societies were destroyed more casually, by small-scale raids and murders carried out by private citizens. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z I volunteered at our shul’s burial society, and every month, I found myself reciting the Song of Songs over a fresh corpse. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z A thousand years ago their society was at its height. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The chemical processes Black wanted didn’t seem so secret, and if the information could really help the Soviets build a better society, why not share it? Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z When asked to account for the cultural “backwardness” of Aboriginal Australian society, many white Australians have a simple answer: supposed deficiencies of the Aborigines themselves. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z For about two hundred years, it was the sole meeting ground of two of the Americas’ largest societies—societies similar in scale to, say, the Maya realm, but much less well known. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Though it seemed unlikely that they would marry—she was much more interested in society and dancing than he was, and she had many other suitors—Charles was definitely in love. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z All other societies that have become literate did so by the diffusion of writing systems or of the idea of writing from one of those few primary centers. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The system that kept the black race at the bottom of American society was so deeply rooted in the nation’s history that it was impervious to the country’s ideals of equality. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z The structure of their societies, the management of their industry, agriculture, commerce, the size of their settlements, the subjects of their stories, everything is shaped to fit the somer-kemmer cycle. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z On February 3, according to his journal, McCandless went to Los Angeles "to get a ID and a job but feels extremely uncomfortable in society now and must return to road immediately." Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z “This is volume three. And since Marysville’s public library is not so scrupulous as its historical society, this is the only volume that is missing any of its pages.” Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z When we pull back the curtain and take a look at what our so-called colorblind society creates without affirmative action, we see a familiar social, political, and economic structure—the structure of racial caste. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Such biographies prove common for so-called gentle tribespeople and contributed to the acceptance of centralized authority as tribal societies grew larger. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z So they do not realize that while one suffers a diminished sense of private individuality by becoming assimilated into public society, such assimilation makes possible the achievement of public individuality. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z For all societies except the few past ones that were completely isolated, much or most new technology is not invented locally but is instead borrowed from other societies. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z As children of their own societies, these early historians naturally emphasized the culture they knew best, the culture their readership most wanted to hear about. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z In a neighboring village, there was an African dance-hall known as Ntselamanzi, which catered to the cream of local black society and was off-limits to undergraduates. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “Class awareness and the class language is receding at the very moment that class has reorganized American society,” said Michael Hout, a professor of sociology at the University of California, Berkeley. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z “We don’t know all the reasons for Cole’s anger, but we do know he’s out of control. Any solution found by this Circle must protect society and make Cole totally responsible for his actions.” Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z In chimpanzee society, males are the dominant sex. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z In recent years a growing number of researchers has argued that Indian societies there had enormous environmental impacts. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z “I would not even consent that my wife should stay at home to rock the baby when she ought to be addressing a meeting or organizing a society.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z A humane society truly concerned about its children would worry less about oddballs, computer games, and clothing, and more about creating the kind of schools kids would never dream of blowing up. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z It is screaming out to us as a society: pay attention. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Flamenco dancing had no practical application in the closed society prevailing in the capital back then, but Nicolas ran a discreet announcement in the paper offering his services as a teacher of that fiery art. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z That was the whole point of the community—to allow us to escape the money-hungry rat race of modern society. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z But in his speeches, he tried to convince audiences that giving African Americans the rights of citizenship would undermine white society and safety. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z But some women continued to oppose their own suffrage, arguing that having the vote would threaten women’s role in society and in the home. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z Or so it seems to his father as, on a fan-cooled veranda, he entertains apocalyptic thoughts of marching armies, a new dynasty, the end of society as they know it. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z For me there were none of the gradations between public and private society so normal to a maturing child. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Besides justifying the transfer of wealth to kleptocrats, institutionalized religion brings two other important benefits to centralized societies. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Sixteen bucks and ten does made a happy enough society for a warren. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z "However, I prefer to use the names their parents gave them—the names that society will recognize them by when they return to become useful and hardworking members of society." Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z What a pitiful and horrendous idea to build a secret society around. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z Nowadays, when almost all societies on Earth are connected to each other, we cannot imagine a fad’s going so far that an important technology would actually be discarded. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Their society showed how disparate elements — French, Islamic, and African — can mingle to create a unique and distinctive culture. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s only in the last century that modern society has been able to match the health of its hunter-gatherer ancestors. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Much more extensive long-term information about band and tribal societies reveals that murder is a leading cause of death. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “What? No, uh, it matters, and it’s called Poets for Peace and Justice because we want to use our art to disrupt society and push against what’s happening in the world,” I say. Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z The latter desert separated advanced human societies of Mesoamerica from those of North America, while the isthmus separated advanced societies of Mesoamerica from those of the Andes and Amazonia. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z In addition to their germs and technology, Eurasian and Native American societies differed in their political organization. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z In short, Polynesia furnishes us with a convincing example of environmentally related diversification of human societies in operation. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Constrained by its punishing climate, poor soil, and lack of protein, these scientists argue, large-scale societies have never existed—can never exist—in the river basin. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Not long before, the previous inhabitants' society had disintegrated. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Race issues still scarred civil society, certainly, but one problem that Americans were happy to live without was the blight that ravaged Europe in the 1920s, ’30s and ’40s: militant nationalism. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z As Galton imagined it, a record of the best traits in the best families could be maintained by society—generating a human studbook, of sorts. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z That was King’s dream—a society that is capable of seeing each of us, as we are, with love. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z They want to live in an open, free society where they can walk with their heads up, like men, and women! The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z The importance of diffusion, and of geographic location in making it possible, is strikingly illustrated by some otherwise incomprehensible cases of societies that abandoned powerful technologies. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z To anyone interested in world history, human societies of East Asia and the Pacific are instructive, because they provide so many examples of how environment molds history. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z In the city’s everyday life, in nearly all venues, there was little of the racial tensions that marred society throughout the rest of the South. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z No responsible statesman in the revolutionary era had ever contemplated, much less endorsed, a biracial American society. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z If the members of a particular “society” never behave cooperatively, their lives are likely to be, in Thomas Hobbes’s words, “solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short.” Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z This was useful information in a terraced society. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z But none of these influences altered the basic character of Australian society. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z By accepting those values, I imagined, I would move into a society that would find me as wonderful as I found it, and together we would have achieved the state of being good. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z Let us remember what is so easy to forget in the mad intensity of wartime: that prejudice and hatred are never right and never to be accepted by a just society. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z She knew intimately that “something” Vivian spoke of—that sense of dignity and truth about society and self that Ann had experienced almost daily since joining Operation Breakthrough. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z In it, I attempted to trace the evolution of economic man from the earliest times up to the present, sketching out the path from ancient communal societies to feudalism to capitalism and socialism. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Descendants of those societies that achieved centralized government and organized religion earliest ended up dominating the modern world. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Hence, all other things being equal, technology develops fastest in large productive regions with large human populations, many potential inventors, and many competing societies. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z By enabling farmers to generate food surpluses, food production permitted farming societies to support full-time craft specialists who did not grow their own food and who developed technologies. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Angelina wrote a series of letters about women’s role in society that were published in the Liberator, an abolitionist newspaper. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z Farming enabled populations to increase so radically and rapidly that no complex agricultural society could ever again sustain itself if it returned to hunting and gathering. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Contrary to Rousseau, such amalgamations never occur by a process of unthreatened little societies freely deciding to merge, in order to promote the happiness of their citizens. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z On the map, the division line between slave and non-slave societies occurs in Virginia, broadly anticipating the Mason-Dixon line that later split slave states from free. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z To put the matter starkly: the current system of control permanently locks a huge percentage of the African American community out of the mainstream society and economy. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z In most farming societies people focused on plant cultivation; raising animals was a secondary activity. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z How would the acquisition and control of this knowledge—and its inevitable invasion of our private and public lives—alter the way we imagine our societies, our children, and ourselves? The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z We had already concluded that the formation of complex societies is somehow linked to population pressure, so we should now seek a link between population pressure and the outcome of war. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z When we in the United States think of the most populous New World societies existing in 1492, only those of the Aztecs and the Incas tend to come to our minds. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z As is always the case with a society, some arguing remained to be done. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z Their ability to own land made it seem that the new country was a more class-free and democratic society. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z Malthuss essay was about society, and about people, most especially about how poor people succumb in an environment where there are limited resources. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z I think because in polite American society, they care more if you seem happy than if you’re well. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z For all the reasons that we discussed in Chapters 13 and 14, the farmers and the fishing peoples were the ones to develop more-complex technology, societies, and political organization. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z They imagined themselves belonging to two very different societies. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The people who did create a society in Australia were Aboriginal Australians. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “It’s true, America is a country with a history of injustice, but can we learn from those injustices? Make sure our society is indeed democratic and fair to all who reside here?” Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z So through a complicated, haphazard, and constantly readjusted web of economic, social, and moral incentives, modern society does its best to militate against crime. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z In the past, also, war was one of the main instruments by which human societies were kept in touch with physical reality. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z But there are good reasons to be very careful in extrapolating from modern forager societies to ancient ones. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z “I think all of society is on this ship. I hear there’s even an Egyptian princess on board.” I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912 2010-06-01T00:00:00Z Hence a large society that continues to leave conflict resolution to all of its members is guaranteed to blow up. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Forager societies were hardly immune to natural disasters, and suffered from periods of want and hunger, but they were usually able to deal with such calamities more easily. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Archaeologists had always believed that in fundamental respects all human societies everywhere were alike, no matter how different they might appear on the surface. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z They both resented the marriage because it exposed—to each other, if not to society at large—their own immaturity, moral weaknesses, and intellectual shortcomings. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z It matters especially for women, for minorities, for anyone society is quick to overlook. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Even children’s art is subject to the taste and outlook of the society that shapes his or her personality. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z The study that founded modern biology was buried in the pages of an obscure journal of an obscure scientific society, read mostly by plant breeders in a declining Central European town. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z All the songs are about worshiping the powerful leader of the Angkar, Pol Pot, the glory of Angkar society, and the unbeatable Khmer soldiers. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Over the past 13,000 years the predominant trend in human society has been the replacement of smaller, less complex units by larger, more complex ones. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z But it was also clear that an all-round increase in wealth threatened the destruction—indeed, in some sense was the destruction—of a hierarchical society. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z They are too poor even to rise with the society, too impoverished by the ages to be able to ascend by using their own resources. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z John would have preferred his own fireside if it had not been so lonely, but as it was he gratefully took the next best thing and enjoyed his neighbor’s society. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z Mostly because he was too shy, and because also he had been brought up in a society where such invitations were often largely a matter of social course and not to be taken that seriously. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The only societies that survived more or less intact were those in areas of northern and western Australia useless to Europeans. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The war is waged by each ruling group against its own subjects, and the object of the war is not to make or prevent conquests of territory, but to keep the structure of society intact. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z Sprat was publishing seven years after the restoration of the monarchy and in support of a society founded under royal patronage. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z In the case of technological innovations and political institutions as well, most societies acquire much more from other societies than they invent themselves. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z But unlike Galton, Muller began to realize that positive eugenics was achievable only in a society that had already achieved radical equality. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z With the Greek conquest of all advanced societies from Greece east to India under Alexander the Great in the late fourth century B.C., power finally made its first shift irrevocably westward. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z My peculiarity had its challenges, but at least I could participate in society. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z Instead of a head teacher telling you you have to leave, it’s more that everybody in the rest of society acts like you don’t exist. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z It is, however, quite bad form in biological circles to put it the other way round, to imply that the operation of insect societies has any relation at all to human affairs. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z It was also nerve-racking, as there had been talk by some religious societies that the world was going to end on the first day of the millennium. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z Any society requires means to transfer goods between its members. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Still another alternative view holds that it is a matter not of individual inventiveness but of the receptivity of whole societies to innovation. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “She knows that would be illogical. Without each faction, society doesn’t function, because each faction trains its members for particular jobs. What she wants is control.” Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z It became possible, for the first time in human evolution, to develop economically specialized societies consisting of non-food-producing specialists fed by food-producing peasants. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The complexity of a society’s technology has little to do with its level of social complexity—something that we, in our era of rapidly changing, seemingly overwhelming technology, have trouble grasping. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Change in civil rights organizations, like change in society as a whole, will not come easy. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z It is clearly time for me to step boldly into our society, not in the boring, passive manner of the Myrna Minkoff school of social action, but with great style and zest. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Society adopts the solution if it is compatible with the society’s values and other technologies. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The resulting two societies lost awareness even of each other’s existence and did not come into contact again for many centuries, perhaps for as long as 500 years. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Having reviewed the stages in this transformation from bands to states, we now ask what impelled societies thus to transform themselves. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z My mind was feverishly trying to compare American society, the way Andre depicted it, with that of South Africa. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z They also vary over time within the same society. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Moore didn’t think much of the student leader of the society either. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z “Thirdly, it was ordained for the mutual society, help and comfort, that the one ought to have of the other...” Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z I feel Olly’s eyes on me when he thinks I’m not noticing, but we are a mutual admiration society—I’m secretly ogling him, too. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Virtually all other Eurasian societies engaged in agriculture as well as in herding animals. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z After at least 13,000 years of separate developments, advanced American and Eurasian societies finally collided within the last thousand years. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Its founding tenets were borrowed from Darwin—but they grafted the logic of natural selection onto human societies. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z White society hates to hear anybody, especially a black man, talk about the crime the white man has perpetrated on the black man. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Not only would domesticated animals have changed Indian societies, they might have created new zoonotic diseases. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z By the time I exit Lake Shore—six minutes to go—he's slurring his words and bawling, going on and on about Facebook and the death of polite society and whatever. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z They were working for the Man in an unequal, sometimes unjust society—I doubt that many would quibble with that description. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z My perspective on this controversy comes from 33 years of working with New Guineans in their own intact societies. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z To green activists, as the University of Wisconsin historian William Cronon has written, restoring this long-ago, putatively natural state is a task that society is morally bound to undertake. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z I wanted to make Joe less ignorant and common, that he might be worthier of my society and less open to Estella’s reproach. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z One of the society’s aims was to bring together scholars from various fields who might not otherwise have occasion to meet. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z “The industry is regressive. I mean, the portrayal of women? The films are more misogynistic than the society.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z As Woodward tells the story, the end of slavery created an extraordinary dilemma for Southern white society. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z There, too, the native groups, descended from Mississippian societies, were far more hierarchical and autocratically ruled than the Algonkian- and Iroquoian-speaking groups in the Northeast. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Like I’m some kind of superhero who uses his power for society. Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Of equal importance in wars of conquest were the germs that evolved in human societies with domestic animals. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z In the hands of Voltaire, say, or Jonathan Swiff, these accounts stimulated a new perspective on European society, forcing a reconsideration of that insular world. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z As striking as these effects of barriers on crop and livestock diffusion are the effects on other features of human societies. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z What I condemn are our system of values and the men who don’t acknowledge how great, difficult, but ultimately beautiful women’s share in society is. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z And now most of us are just doing what society wants us to do—contributing to the jail population, selling drugs, having babies, living on welfare. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The second is that societies lacking the invention find themselves at a disadvantage vis-a-vis the inventing society, and they become overwhelmed and replaced if the disadvantage is sufficiently great. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z In chapter 4 we reminded ourselves of the many ways in which big domestic mammals were crucial to those human societies possessing them. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z One can speculate that grieving parents were unable to let go of their children’s bodies in a society that viewed the spirit as adhering to the flesh. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Plato and Aristotle were comfortable in a slave society. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The man who figured out a safe, reliable way to accomplish the same thing with far less labor was himself a product of a slave society. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z Today we know that technologically sophisticated societies arose in Peru first—the starting date, to archaeologists' surprise, keeps getting pushed back. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z “Certainly, sir; and it has the advantage also of being in vogue amongst the less polished societies of the world.—Every savage can dance.” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z Through technological advances in communication our planet is in the final stages of being bound up at a breakneck pace into a single global society. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Let us now return to the main question with which we began this chapter: why did writing arise in and spread to some societies, but not to many others? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Frankie asked, when I told him about my work at the burial society. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z And you’re so angry that society is treating you like this that you take drugs and shoplift and form gangs in revenge. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z Here, I could be more than the settings applied to my life by society. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z It was possible, no doubt, to imagine a society in which wealth, in the sense of personal possessions and luxuries, should be evenly distributed, while power remained in the hands of a small privileged caste. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z This map does not depict it accurately, because these societies were not contemporaries—the Olmec vanished centuries before the Nudzahui and Zapotec began to reach their height, for example. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Once, long ago, unions had a place in American society, but they “no longer have much to offer workers,” which is why people are leaving them “by the droves.” Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z A well-known example involves the moderate correlation between milk consumption and the incidence of cancer in various societies. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Well, we can spend the next twenty years trying to address the fundamental problem of unconscious racism in our society. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z The human societies of those two formerly joined landmasses were in modern times very different from each other. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z In addition, they said that society depended on women maintaining the domestic sphere—the home—which provided a refuge from the stresses of the outside world. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z I am a man who trusts a society that is carefully ordered by figures of authority. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z But we were kids who had learned to crawl together, and no history, ethnicity, society, or religion was going to change that either. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z What is a person to do, I asked, when their obligations to their family conflict with other obligations—to friends, to society, to themselves? Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z “It is at work. The construction business is light-years behind the rest of society.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z This chapter and the next will explore how two different Indian societies, the Wampanoag and the Inka, reacted to the incursions from across the sea. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Liyana asked her mother, “Do they have a humane society here?” Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z “The fetus is the property of the entire society,” he proclaimed. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z Hunter-gatherer societies tend to be relatively egalitarian, to lack full-time bureaucrats and hereditary chiefs, and to have small-scale political organization at the level of the band or tribe. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z From her point of view, claiming that Amazonian societies could escape their environmental constraints was little more than a display of scientific ignorance, the archaeological version of try- ing to design perpetual-motion machines. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The society was reorganized under a new name—the American Equal Rights Association—with a goal of universal suffrage. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z “We’ll form a suicide society, and the membership requirement is one jump out of this tree.” A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z We can identify the chain of proximate factors that enabled Pizarro to capture Atahuallpa, and that operated in European conquests of other Native American societies as well. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z According to the beliefs of such societies, a child is not born from the sperm of a single man, but from the accumulation of sperm in a woman’s womb. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Sociologist Devah Pager explains that those sent to prison “are institutionally branded as a particular class of individuals” with major implications for their place and status in society. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z So when you don’t have any alternatives, I don’t know why society would be surprised at what happens in public housing today. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The great European thinkers of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries were much concerned with new ideas of liberty and the refashioning of society. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Moreover, most people in agricultural and industrial societies lived in dense, unhygienic permanent settlements—ideal hotbeds for disease. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z This painful trade-off is why ecologists argue that any attempt by tropical forest societies to grow beyond small villages has always been doomed to fail. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z My second student was a fifty-six-year-old “society photographer” from Windsor, Ontario, named R. Howard Ridgefield, who said that his wife had been after him for years to branch over into the painting racket. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z The problems and pressures faced by historic societies are very different from those that confronted peoples in the Paleolithic or Neolithic eras. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Investment bankers and speculators, as they saw it, made no productive contribution to society. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z That Beethoven changed the way society viewed composers should not cloud our judgement of his brilliant predecessor who sought and gave one thing: pleasure. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z All recognized famous inventors had capable predecessors and successors and made their improvements at a time when society was capable of using their product. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The society of Gethen, in its daily functioning and in its continuity, is without sex. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z The societies of the Caddo, on the Texas-Arkansas border, and the Coosa, in western Georgia, both disintegrated soon after. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Even the October Revolution in Russia in 1905, an event with thunderously far-reaching implications for society at large, had minimal impact on the contemporaneous upheavals in music. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z The river valleys of southeastern Australia remained occupied by tribal societies without agriculture. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z But that attitude severely limits the military options of tribes, compared with state societies. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Until then, the sole contacts between human societies of the Old and the New Worlds had involved the hunter-gatherers on opposite sides of the Bering Strait. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z She owned some property, he would say, and she was “in society.” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z However, the differential mortality from epidemic diseases in traditional European societies had little to do with intelligence, and instead involved genetic resistance dependent on details of body chemistry. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z We were a society dying, said Aunt Lydia, of too much choice. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z His great society, as he had explained it to me that day I first met him. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z How did small, noncentralized, kin-based societies evolve into large centralized ones in which most members are not closely related to each other? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z I could tell right away she was a society woman, because she talked about nothing but debutantes. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z Any society still more backward would not have radio astronomy at all. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z How can children be prepared to contribute and compete in a complex society? Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z The society has produced and nourishes a psychology which brings out the lowest, most base part of human beings. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z I wrote this book because I wanted to chronicle my quest to challenge society’s limited perceptions of what a Muslim woman, a Black woman, or an athlete can be. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z Piggy was so full of delight and expanding liberty in Jack's departure, so full of pride in his contribution to the good of society, that he helped to fetch wood. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z Again, the Chathams and the atolls had the simplest, most egalitarian societies. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Bands are the tiniest societies, consisting typically of 5 to 80 people, most or all of them close relatives by birth or by marriage. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z He picked a team full of allies, heedless of representing the breadth of farm society. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z “Our society is in pieces. So no, it’s not.” Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z A final consideration mandating complex organization for large societies has to do with population densities. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Paleolithic societies, too, had buried their dead, but we do not know what ideas they associated with the grave. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z I told them I was a South African nationalist, not a Communist, that nationalists came in every hue and color, and that I was firmly committed to a nonracial society. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Africans want a just share in the whole of South Africa; they want security and a stake in society. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The slicing of society’s pie is more unequal than it used to be, but most Americans have a bigger piece than they or their parents once did. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z That is, inventions supposedly arise when a society has an unfulfilled need: some technology is widely recognized to be unsatisfactory or limiting. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z We do not like the notion that there can be collective societies with the capacity to behave like organisms. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z And he did even knowing that the truth that would set him free would also set him adrift, untethered in a divided society that demanded to know, every day: “Which side are you on?” The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Third, Eurasian societies enjoyed a huge advantage in their sources of power to operate machines. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z In some cases, clients had already been in prison for decades and had very few, if any, support systems to help them re-enter society. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Indeed, virtually every element of society was complicit in the murderous system. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z “Yeah, it is cool, or it was cool. I mean, poetry is awesome, it’s a way to rage against society and...” Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z He had to read every column of it including the society section in which he couldn’t possibly be interested. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z He was half convinced if he told her he was dropping out of society and joining a tone cult, she’d say, If you think that’s best. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z I soon fell asleep before Wemmick’s fire, and the Aged and I enjoyed one another’s society by falling asleep before it more or less all day. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z Who becomes a social pariah and excommunicated from civil society and who trots off to college bears scant relationship to the morality of crimes committed. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z At some future date all of us may realize some additional revenues from the rental of this film to student organizations and other similarly appalling societies. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z It was the essential precondition for the new era of intellectual revolution, for it is a necessary concept which any society that saw itself as improving knowledge would have to develop. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z “If you’re going to live in a free society, you have to give people the liberty to do what they want.” A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Alphabets of ultimately eastern Mediterranean origin spread throughout all complex societies of Eurasia, from England to Indonesia, except for areas of East Asia where derivatives of the Chinese writing system took hold. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Radical genetic interventions could only be imagined in radically egalitarian societies. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z By around 8500 BCE, societies in all seven areas of settlement were domesticating and cultivating plants. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z Though it took enormous courage and virtue to risk your life in order to protect society, such selflessness also contained, at least from the vantage point of your loved ones, a hint of cruelty. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z "My guess is your god of rot will not be hiding in high society. He'll be among those less fortunate. The ones already struggling." City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z When the war began in July 1914, the United States was on the verge of changing dramatically to a more modern society. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z And they raised all their children not only to help those in need but also to revere culture, society, reputation, and all the niceties that came with it. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z I believe that God now is giving the world’s so-called “Christian” white society its last opportunity to repent and atone for the crimes of exploiting and enslaving the world’s non-white peoples. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z For instance, societies on small Polynesian islands were effectively rather similar to tribal societies with a big-man, except that the position of chief was hereditary. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z That was why archaeologists and anthropologists had come across the ruins of complex societies throughout Mesoamerica and the Andes, but saw only hunter- gatherers and slash-and-burners in Amazonia. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z In an ideal world, communism is supposed to create a society without class. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z You have closed your mind to both love and society. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The drought, possibly caused by a mega-Nino, pushed the society, already so close to the edge, over the cliff. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The system serves to redefine the terms of the relationship of poor people of color and their communities to mainstream, white society, ensuring their subordinate and marginal status. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Almost one out of ten people died from a sickness that in Western societies was just a childhood annoyance. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Given the charged relations between white societies and native peoples, inquiry into Indian culture and history is inevitably contentious. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Golf was a novelty, bringing the cream of society together around a tiny ball that was struck with a stick, just as the Indians had done two hundred years before in these same, places. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Indeed, everything that happened inside the DSS office was meant to hammer into these women the notion that society considered them criminals of a kind. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Why is it, then, that they evidently began causing amalgamations of societies only within the past 13,000 years? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Dear Lucia, Have you completely sold yourself to the materialism of the American society? The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z In their view, society should be concerned with individuals, not groups. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z I am a burden to society, and nobody’s responsibility. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z A major reason is that Aborigines remained hunter-gatherers, whereas, as we saw in Chapters 12-14, those developments arose elsewhere only in populous and economically specialized societies of food producers. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z This discussion does not exhaust the list of reasons proposed to explain why societies differ in their receptivity to new technology. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Those assertions are rooted in fear—fear that her daughter will be harmed by a society that still so often fears blackness. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z As a child, Blair had spent long hours imagining life in a truly just society. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z If they could learn to speak correct English and dress in proper clothes, if they could Anglicize and civilize themselves, one day they might be welcome in society. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z But the long-term trend has still been toward large, complex societies, culminating in states. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Some people might say our society is primitive, but I think it is the best, fairest system that I know. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z They believed that as part of their covenant with their god, they should create “godly” societies in the “New World.” An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z Is it necessary to spell out that societies mired in fratricidal chaos are vulnerable to conquest? 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Their love would have space and a society to grow in. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Dr. Legs explained that many people believe spoken communication evolved because human societies had become so complex that hand gestures and grunting were no longer enough. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Never mind that it is true whereas myths are not; it is filled with symbolism, and this is the way it has influenced the mind of society. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z But that doesn’t prove that food production and large populations make complex societies inevitable. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z She’s invited hundreds of society people whom she doesn’t even know, and insists that the food be French— pheasants and eels and God knows what else. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z In a letter to Thomas Jefferson, the aging John Adams recalled the Massachusetts of his youth as a multiracial society. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Attraction eludes control so stubbornly that whole societies designed to organize relationships among people cannot keep order, not even when they bind people to one another from childhood and raise them together. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Nuremberg society, like that of Frankfurt, would frown on a married woman gathering grubs and caterpillars. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Because a society has no chance of success if its women are uneducated, Laila. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z Two weeks earlier, Leslie had told me that I was to be “repatriated” and reinstated into normal society. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z In die old days their society had been all about impressive architecture, honor, and codes of chivalry. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z When someone is convicted of a crime today, their “debt to society” is never paid. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Of course, the society that they created was not a literate, food-producing, industrial democracy. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The wave of discontent that was stirring the people was beginning to strike at the heart of that oligarchic society. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Lastly, my mother began teaching me how to comport myself in polite society. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z These and other discoveries add details, which continue to fascinate me, to our understanding of how agriculture’s rise triggered the rise of agriculturally based complex societies in the ancient world. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “What a charming amusement for young people this is, Mr. Darcy! There is nothing like dancing after all. I consider it as one of the first refinements of polished societies.” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z Would not a rational society spend more on understanding and preventing, than on preparing for, the next war? Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Borrowing technology and ideas from the Midwest, the nomadic peoples of New England transformed their societies. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z These puzzles remind one of equally puzzling non-inventions, or else disappearances of inventions, in small isolated societies, including Aboriginal Tasmania, Aboriginal Australia, Japan, Polynesian islands, and the American Arctic. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Then we can examine why a large but simple society could not maintain itself. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z For both of those reasons, all developments of economically complex, socially stratified, politically centralized societies beyond the level of small nascent chiefdoms were based on food production. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z I know that societies often have killed the people who have helped to change those societies. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Andean societies were based on the widespread exchange of goods and services, but kin and government, not market forces, directed the flow. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Because intensive agriculture has been regarded a prerequisite for complex societies, it has long been claimed that civilizations can arise only in such farm-friendly places. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Large societies can function economically only if they have a redistributive economy in addition to a reciprocal economy. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The remaining type of variation among Polynesian societies to be considered involves tools and other aspects of material culture. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Even societies built on the idea of eliminating class have had stark differences in rank. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z Haiti would always be a desperately poor, corrupt, broken society. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z Though sexual liaisons were common, society tolerated them only as long as their details remained secret. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Then again, similar prejudices were among the reasons peculiars had withdrawn from society. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z “Lots of differences. But it’s not the differences that matter—it’s what unites us, holds together our society. That’s the question we answered.” Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z For instance, if all Aboriginal Australian societies were for some reason uniformly resistant to change, that might account for their continued use of stone tools after metal tools had appeared on every other continent. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Chaos had followed the fall of the South, just as war-ravaged societies always attract thieves and grifters. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z The effect was to convince the ruling groups of all countries that a few more atomic bombs would mean the end of organized society, and hence of their own power. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z Before adjourning, the chairman encouraged her to invite “the ladies of the land” to form their own anti-slavery societies. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z Afterward we asked them to make a contribution to a society for the protection of old horses—they were rescued from the butcher and put out to graze at Cherry Tree Farm. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z Modern Europe is not a society molded by sub-Saharan black Africans who brought millions of Native Americans as slaves. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Treating differences as a threat enables one society to dehumanize the other. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z Why not Mayan and Aztec societies, which were accomplished in astronomy and captivated, as the Indians were, by large numbers? Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z He once asked Ms. Langford why Hester in The Scarlet Letter didn’t run away from her town in basically a big F U to society. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z Paul Ellis told his son that there was a secret society of Southern men who would rise up someday and restore Dixie to her former greatness. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Scholars deduced that the Sungir mammoth-hunters lived in a hierarchical society, and that the dead man was perhaps the leader of a band or of an entire tribe comprising several bands. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Mary didn’t have the power to remove the limits that society imposed on her girls, but it was her duty, she felt, to help pry off the restrictions they might place on themselves. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z The names of the freshmen were read aloud—like the induction to some kind of society. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z The debate over the commercialization of human biological materials always comes back to one fundamental point: like it or not, we live in a market-driven society, and science is part of that market. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z “I am talking about the sin against society of which you are guilty.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “I think it best that we remove him from Muggle society for a while.” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z One way to remedy this is to look at modern forager societies. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z “Khalil said it’s about what society feeds us as youth and how it comes back and bites them later,” I say. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z They sent their children to school and went to church and attended meetings of the Masons and of forty-five other secret societies having lodges, kingdoms, and hives in the village. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z The backshifted Simone de Beauvoir noted that women faced discrimination is neutral as to whether such discrimination is a persistent feature of our society. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z The guard is mainstream society’s last representative; the inmate, its most marginal man. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z To us today, it is tempting to ask why societies with early writing systems accepted the ambiguities that restricted writing to a few functions and a few scribes. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Societies with effective conflict resolution, sound decision making, and harmonious economic redistribution can develop better technology, concentrate their military power, seize larger and more productive territories, and crush autonomous smaller societies one by one. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Tribal and band societies in Eurasia were largely confined to the Arctic reindeer herders, the Siberian hunter-gatherers, and the hunter-gatherer enclaves in the Indian subcontinent and tropical Southeast Asia. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z But, all other things being equal, more land and more people mean more competing societies and inventions, hence a faster pace of development. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Considering Egyptian society’s obsession with immortality, it’s not surprising that Egyptian art remained unchanged for 3,000 years. The Annotated Mona Lisa 1992-06-01T00:00:00Z Have we unwittingly exaggerated the importance of individuals succeeding within pre-existing structures of power, and thereby undermined King’s call for a “complete restructuring” of our society? The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z What can we learn from all of Polynesia about environmental influences on human societies? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z He was less interested in prehistory and in simpler, nonliterate societies. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Children from slum backgrounds are potential menaces to society. Twelve Angry Men 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Marx divided nineteenth-century societies into just two classes; Max Weber added a few more. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z As early societies developed, those acquiring centralized power gradually established themselves as an elite, perhaps originating as one of several formerly equal-ranked village clans that became “more equal” than the others. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z And, most chilling of all to Penelope’s ears: “Those awful children! No doubt they will be sent to the workhouse after this. They are not fit to live among civilized society!” The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z Those who are less idealistic embrace colorblindness simply because they find it difficult to imagine a society in which we see race and racial differences yet consistently act in a positive, constructive way. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z But can one readily dismiss the different Indian societies who lived in these places? 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z In that case, however, conquistadores contributed nothing directly to the societies’ destruction; Eurasian germs, spreading in advance, did everything. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Why would these young men openly endorse and perpetuate the very stereotypes that are invoked to justify their second-class status, their exclusion from mainstream society? The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z The next May, the president of the society remarked parenthetically that the past year had not yielded any particularly noteworthy discoveries. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z They have seen the Algonkian- and Iroquoian-speaking societies they encountered in the Northeast as too different from British societies to have exerted lasting changes on them. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z “What about the argument that there can be no normal sports in an abnormal society?” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Many Eurasian societies developed large sailing ships, some of them capable of sailing against the wind and crossing the ocean, equipped with sextants, magnetic compasses, sternpost rudders, and cannons. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Since my menu included mushrooms, I would need to learn yet another set of skills and join yet another club, the semi-secret society of wild mush- roomers. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z The language of their Mexican past sounded in counterpoint to the English of public society. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z “In these modern days, society cannot get along without French chefs,” he wrote. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z But it is an ominous sign of the direction that a society of people so vulnerable to sexual control might take. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z Now I turn to a parallel intellectual journey: the growth in understanding of the antiquity, diversity, complexity, and technological sophistication of Indian societies. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The black prisoner, he said, symbolized white society’s crime of keeping black men oppressed and deprived and ignorant, and unable to get decent jobs, turning them into criminals. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z The movie was about hypocrisy in our society and people’s prejudice. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z Finally, each society on a continent represents one more opportunity to invent and adopt a technology, because societies vary greatly in their innovativeness for many separate reasons. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z For the last 33 years my fieldwork as an evolutionary biologist has brought me into close contact with a wide range of human societies. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The experience is understood to define the terms of one’s relationship not only to the state but to society at large. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z In the Khmer Rouge agrarian society, only good workers are valuable, all others are expendable. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The papers were always talking about the debt owed to society. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z Cultural anthropologists attempting to describe the diversity of human societies often divide them into as many as half a dozen categories. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z After slavery, she continues, color persisted as the most obvious and so the most important criterion for establishing a social hierarchy in black society. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Some scholars imagine ancient hunter-gatherer societies as peaceful paradises, and argue that war and violence began only with the Agricultural Revolution, when people started to accumulate private property. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z He reminded the audience that a country couldn’t be carved up simply into red and blue, that we were united by a common humanity, compelled to care for the whole of society. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z But I would have delayed—for how long postponed?—having to learn the language of public society. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z “Our relationship with Erudite notwithstanding, we know better than any faction how essential their role in this society is,” she says. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z I’m on shaky ground here, because, considering the volatile nature of our society, if I get it wrong, I’m likely to offend. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z Royal scouted the city jail for runaways the lawyer might defend, ran messages between enigmatic persons, and distributed funds from antislavery societies to relocated fugitives. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z As for the most advanced native societies of North America, those of the U.S. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Hundreds of thousands of people are released from prison every year, only to find themselves locked out of the mainstream society and economy. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z But this would provide only the economic and not the emotional basis for a hierarchical society. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z At a society dinner in mid-September, he announced that he would put up $25,000 as forfeit money for a race between his colt and Seabiscuit. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z “People as far on the fringes as you can get, completely dehumanized by ‘normal’ society. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z New World societies had just begun making bronze artifacts and had not yet started making iron ones at the time when the arrival of Europeans truncated the New World’s independent trajectory. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z When I started my journey down the food chains of our society, I wanted to look at things as they really are. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z He speaks of the alienation of youth and the need for “connectedness” with the society around me. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z A moral pessimist, von Wright questioned whether the material and technological advances of modern society could really be considered “progress” at all. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Considerations of conflict resolution, decision making, economics, and space thus converge in requiring large societies to be centralized. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Accepting that indigenous societies influenced American culture opens up fascinating new questions. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z In capacity, speed, maneuverability, and seaworthiness, those Eurasian ships were far superior to the rafts that carried out trade between the New World’s most advanced societies, those of the Andes and Mesoamerica. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z First Avenue was where Indians—the cream of Alexandra’s quarantined society—lived, behind their sell-everything stores and produce stalls, which were the ghetto’s main shopping centre. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Furthermore, since perceptions tend to become realities, the natural tendency of the mass media to accentuate the anomalous, combined with an innumerate society’s taste for such extremes, could conceivably have quite dire consequences. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z I also joined the drama society and acted in a play about Abraham Lincoln that was adapted by my classmate Lincoln Mkentane. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Many other nations have now launched spacecraft, including Britain, France, Canada, Japan and China, the society that invented the rocket in the first place. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z For so long, society has told me that because of my neighborhood and the color of my skin, I would never amount to anything. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z One of her weaknesses was a desire to move in ‘our best society’, without being quite sure what the best really was. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z Can it be any wonder to anybody that such conditions make a man an outlaw of society? Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z As if by a flash of grim light, Indian villages became societies of widows, widowers, and orphans; parents lost their children, and children were suddenly alone. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Complex agricultural societies gradually arose in the Americas far to the south of that entry route, developing in complete isolation from the emerging complex societies of the Old World. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z It’s unlikely that C.P. would have been drawn to the racial mythologies of the Klan if “respectable” society hadn’t mirrored many of these same beliefs. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z “Six weeks, maybe more. Hell, in a society as backward as this, who knows whether the leg will heal at all?” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z But I told my girl this morning at breakfast that I ’m doing this for her—so she’ll have a place to stand in society. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z It took even longer before I understood their language of calls and gestures and the way they live in their society. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z “Do you...do you miss the society of other children?” The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z In the aisles of country churches and grand city cathedrals, witnessed by a whole society of approving family and friends, her heroines and heroes reached their innocent climaxes and needed to go no further. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z You were born into a society which spelled out with brutal clarity, and in as many ways as possible, that you were a worthless human being. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z The museum is located in the main room of an old schoolhouse that the local historical society saved from the wrecker's ball by having it declared an historical landmark. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z The system of communications used in science should provide a neat, workable model for studying mechanisms of information-building in human society. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z If his theory became well known, and popular, it could topple British society on its head. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z My brother tried to support me, but in our society, once word like that gets out, that’s it. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z The importance of isolation is most obvious for Hawaii and Tonga, both of which were separated by at least 4,000 miles of ocean from the nearest societies with writing. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z He bought books about secret societies, about horoscopes, and anything that had to do with the supernatural. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z There was a time or two over the course of the novel that I felt Swift had gone overboard and missed some opportunities to drive home his idea of what the ideal society should be. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z Soon after the Civil War, the Freedmen’s Bureau established schools for blacks, a task also undertaken by many churches and missionary societies. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z “People who believed things that were considered wrong by society,” Webb says. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z They live in permanent villages and tribal societies, often led by a big-man. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The idea of leaving one’s family at home and driving an hour to work at a factory to get paid by the hour struck Generose as a weird quirk of American society. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z “All societies have higher and lower, masters and slaves.” Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z Having sefcured their food supply, Mesoamerican societies turned to intellectual pursuits. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The need for nets, in Haas’s view, gave the inland cities the whip hand—Norte Chico was based on farming, like all other complex societies, although not on farming for food. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Our amateur drama society made its yearly offering at Christmas. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z After he removed his hat, as one had to do in church in polite society, his bald head got cold. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z But the problems of perpetuating a hierarchical society go deeper than this. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z What is concerning is the real possibility that we, as a society, will choose not to care. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Their reluctance was also part of a long tradition of misleading whites about the nature of relationships within black society. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z In these stela portraits, the king’s clothes, chosen to represent his critical spiritual role in the society’s prosperity, generally included a headdress with an ear of maize emblazoned on the front like a star. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Mesoamerican writing is believed to have arisen independently of Old World writing, because there is no convincing evidence for pre-Norse contact of New World societies with Old World societies possessing writing. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z This was to be Bateson’s fateful journey: by the time he reached the society’s office on Vincent Square, his mind was spinning. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z As, a man of means from South Africa, Mr. Blore felt that he could enter into any society unchallenged. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z We must be the most backward technical society in the Galaxy. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z If we are willing to contemplate nuclear war and the wholesale destruction of our emerging global society, should we not also be willing to contemplate a wholesale restructuring of our societies? Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z To control the practice of their trade, craftsmen banded together to form societies called guilds. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z I knew that in any society, a true leader is one who earns and deserves the following he enjoys. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z In a society where people believe girls are weak and not capable of anything except cooking and cleaning, you think, I have a talent. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z In the Adams formulation, aristocracies were to society as the passions were to the individual personality, permanent fixtures susceptible to disciplined containment and artful channeling, but never altogether removable. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z The Olmec, Maya, and other Mesoamerican societies were world pioneers in mathematics and astronomy—but they did not use the wheel. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Black leaders continued to nudge white society for small concessions while at the same time attempting to stifle the more urgent demands of a frustrated black poor. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z If we cannot understand how this works, we are not likely to get very far with human society at large. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “And what’s happened to you? I wonder you condescend to come back to such poor society as this, I am sure I do!” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z The conversation remained friendly, even though the tension between the two societies that Yali and I represented was familiar to both of us. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “An agricultural society with a handful of large landowners, multitudes of dirt farmers, and slaves.” Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z That man, who had a higher standing in society, was guilty before God for abandoning her to keep his social status. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z That contrast between the immediate virtues of wheat and barley and the difficulties posed by teosinte may have been a significant factor in the differing developments of New World and Eurasian human societies. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z As a society, we certainly appear to have an inordinate fondness for sheep and other livestock, to judge from the vast numbers of them that we keep. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The village, like many others in the region, was populated mainly by Yanomami Indians, a forest society on the Brazil-Venezuela border that is among the least Westernized on earth. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Over time, the Wampanoag, like other native societies in coastal New England, had learned how to manage the European presence. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Atahuallpa’s capture symbolizes the European conquest of the Americas, because the same mix of proximate factors that caused it was also responsible for European conquests of other Native American societies. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z I was on the debating society my first year and was chosen to represent the school in Afrikaans, Tsonga and English prose and poetry reading during inspection. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Hence a large society must be structured and centralized if it is to reach decisions effectively. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z It’s a collecting place for the filthy, smelly, sticky, and often sharp and jagged castoffs of a society run wild. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z Although we might not listen to it regularly or even at all, we all hold it in very high esteem, and an important part of a highly cultured society. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z All of those theories are essentially ways of saying that the criminal is a personality type — a personality type distinguished by an insensitivity to the norms of normal society. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Those labeled felons will continue to cycle in and out of prison, subject to perpetual surveillance by the police, and unable to integrate into the mainstream society and economy. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z But the correlations do not tell us precisely how population variables function in a chain of cause and effect whose outcome is a complex society. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The epistemological sloppiness that, in Western culture, characterizes references to experience before the Scientific Revolution is not a necessary characteristic of pre-scientific societies. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z With God at the top, British society was neat and ordered. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z The answer can be found by looking at other groups that society doesn’t protect as well. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z Olmec society was surprisingly unaffected by the collapse of its greatest polity. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z In contrast, the New World’s sole writing systems, those of Mesoamerica, never spread to the complex Andean and eastern U.S. societies that might have adopted them. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z He soon would start to ask whether “the collection of secret intelligence” could be reconciled “with the democratic ideals of a free and open society.” The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Thus, Moriori and Maori societies developed from the same ancestral society, but along very different lines. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z By doing so, they created a program called “Celebrating Diversity Through the Arts” geared toward teaching tolerance to kids who have been marginalized by society and don’t feel like they fit in. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z For an acquisitive society, were awfully careless about possessives. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z And how does our definition shape how we think about societies and the people in them? An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z But for the past few days the old gentleman had been upon Edna’s hands, and in his society she was becoming acquainted with a new set of sensations. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z In Japan, his mother’s paternal heritage included a long line of men of the sword—samurai—and these men held an honorable role in society. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z I didn’t have the maturity or perspective then to know that things can be changed in a society, that segregation wouldn’t last forever even though Wallace said it would. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z He called the colonists Sons of Liberty, a name Patriots adopted for an underground anti-England society. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Any society with a marked population explosion will be forced to devote all its energies and technological skills to feeding and caring for the population on its home planet. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The fall of Indian societies had everything to do with the natives themselves, researchers argue, rather than being religiously or technologically determined. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Farming societies have, until very recently, relied for the great bulk of their calorie intake on a small variety of domesticated plants. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z According to Gardar Sverrisson, Bobby talked with him about the transformation of society by creating harmony with one another, and then professed that he thought “the only hope for the world is through Catholicism.” Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z What this country needs is an active civil society. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Because the first-discovered Clovis site was a hunting camp, archaeologists have usually assumed that Clovis society was focused on hunting. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The United States has almost always had a racial undercaste—a group defined wholly or largely by race that is permanently locked out of mainstream, white society by law, custom, and practice. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Her mother belonged to a secret women’s society in Ville Rose, where the women had to question each other before entering one another’s houses. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z You were born into a society which spelled out with brutal clarity, and in as many ways as possible, that you were a worthless human being. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z We shall see that ancient Japanese societies were among the most remarkable in the world. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Some seek him out, and the meetings and dinners that follow herald the formation of a kind of club, a society of lovers of the circus. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z To safeguard our society, a system of laws has been created. Monster 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z “The two great divisions of society are not the rich and poor, but white and black,” said the great South Carolina senator John C. Calhoun. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z He believed that her destiny was marriage and a brilliant life in society, where the ability to converse with the dead, if kept on a frivolous level, could be an asset. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The houses they passed were many-tiered, exquisitely simple, and superbly crafted remnants of a lost society. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z We avoid talking about caste in our society because we are ashamed of our racial history. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z And we both agreed that if racism could be removed, America could offer a society where rich and poor could truly live like human beings. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z They may be as essential for society as mythology itself, as loaded with symbols, and as necessary for the architecture of our collective unconscious. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z In any case, practically overnight, Bobby turned himself from a dead stockbroker and incapacitated bon vivant into a live, if somewhat unqualified, agent-appraiser for a society of independent American art galleries and fine arts museums. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z Leaders of little societies, as of big ones, are jealous of their independence and prerogatives. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Preferring the less glorious and supposedly less influential position of cihuacoatl, head of internal affairs, he ruled from behind the scenes, dominating the Alliance for more than fifty years and utterly reengineering Mexica society. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Finally, there is Hamilton’s enshrinement of the urban elite—the merchants, bankers, and business leaders—as the central figures in the emergent American society. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z The master of ceremonies asked people to say what they thought the function of the novel might be in modern society, and one critic said, “To provide touches of color in rooms with all-white walls.” Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Then they encountered European society and for the first time their history acquired a narrative flow. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z People in Andean societies viewed themselves as belonging to family lineages. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z As my husband and I began to raise our family, and as I sought for ways to live agreeably in Anglo-American society, my memories of Manzanar, for many years, lived far below the surface. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z Maybe if we lived in a paperless society, which lots of scientists say we’ll probably live in one day soon, Dad would still be alive. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z Hence hunter-gatherers usually don’t have pottery, because most sedentary societies elsewhere in the world arose only with the adoption of agriculture. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z I’ve asked myself, What change in our society today permits the reevaluation of my father’s convictions or his stance on the human injustices that plagued the international landscape? The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z “It is about things that impact some of the deepest, most ingrained aspects of society right down to the nature of the social contract,” added Rothkopf. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z That discussion with the ambassador gave me a new insight- one which I like: that the white man is not inherently evil, but America’s racist society influences him to act evilly. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Perhaps the sane people stayed in China to build the new, sane society. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z These young men are part of a growing undercaste, permanently locked up and locked out of mainstream society. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z The resulting western European farming societies domesticated the poppy, which subsequently spread eastward as a crop. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z In traditional societies, music would normally be part of everyday work, worship, and leisure. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z Chicago society, however, was just getting warmed up. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Or the people could have united in larger and more disciplined social units for the sake of ambitious group efforts that no loosely organized tribal society would have been able to achieve. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Not all agricultural societies were this cruel to their farm animals. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Partly because it took generations for the small changes to accumulate and transform society and, by then, nobody remembered that they had ever lived differently. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z “Oh my God. That was so sad. They love each other so much and they can’t help it. And society will never understand.” Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z Despite society’s misconceptions about my abilities as an African-American Muslim woman who wears hijab, I defied the odds. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z If they had lived in another kind of society, their exceptional mathematical talents might have been better used. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Agricultural societies are ravaged by famine when drought, fire or earthquake devastates the annual rice or potato crop. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z According to the skeptics, Maya society was divided into a small number of blocs, each controlled by a dominant city, each striving to achieve some semblance of empire. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The elder Randall had been a revered member of planter society. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Some odd optical property of our highly polarized and unequal society makes the poor almost invisible to their economic superiors. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z American society just wasn't ready...or at least those who made the decisions weren't ready. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z The two societies mingled in a way that is difficult to imagine now. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z At the end of our seclusion, the lodges and all their contents were burned, destroying our last links to childhood, and a great ceremony was held to welcome us as men to society. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Venkatesh soon encountered another anomalous young Fellow, one who also failed the society stereotype. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z Viewed from this perspective, the so-called underclass is better understood as an undercaste—a lower caste of individuals who are permanently barred by law and custom from mainstream society. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Once you have that felony stamp, your hope for employment, for any kind of integration into society, it begins to fade out. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Some historians argue it was nevertheless too traditionalist a society, too unwilling to adopt innovations. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Anthropologists formerly idealized band and tribal societies as gentle and nonviolent, because visiting anthropologists observed no murder in a band of 25 people in the course of a three-year study. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z A Muslim is a follower of laws—the laws of God and the laws of the society he or she lives in. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z While all those types of information were also transmitted by other means in preliterate societies, writing made the transmission easier, more detailed, more accurate, and more persuasive. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z In contemporary hunting and gathering societies, anthropologists have learned, gathering by women usually supplies most of the daily diet. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The Olmec, he thought, were the Romans of Mesoamerica, a magisterial society that “established the pattern which, through the centuries, was to be followed by other expansionist Mesoamerican cultures.” 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z In some ways, I decided, women are showpieces in American society, too. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Toothless old people, the repositories of information in a preliterate society, could now be fed and live longer. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z We hanker to go on, even in the face of plain evidence that long, long lives are not necessarily pleasurable in the kind of society we have arranged thus far. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “Politics, religion, society. I think a well-drawn cartoon can say more than words ever could, you know? It could change minds.” Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z Their wealth is washing over the upper reaches of society as it did a century ago, bringing cultural and political clout as they take up positions on museum boards and organize presidential campaign fund-raising dinners. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z In a civil and humane society, each man is able to fulfill those obligations according to his own inclinations and abilities. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Such spatial realities require that densely populated regions support large and complexly organized societies. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z And to be nonwhite in this society was indeed to need education, accomplishment — some source of dignity. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z It reflected his genuine conviction that England was an inherently corrupt society, the bastion of monarchical power, aristocratic privilege, and courtly intrigue. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z When societies were simpler, the class landscape was easier to read. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z Military secrecy makes the military the most difficult sector of any society for the citizens to monitor. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The Supreme Court shackles the police, compounds confusion in the legislatures of the states, and turns loose murderers and rapists to repeat their evil deeds upon the innocent and law-abiding members of society. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z In this system of control, like the one that prevailed during Jim Crow, one’s “debt to society” often reflects the cost of imprisonment. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Questions that emerge from worldwide comparisons of human societies formerly attracted much attention from historians and geographers. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Among the many crimes that exist in the Khmer Rouge society, bartering for food is viewed as an act of treason. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z But what they didn’t say was that prison was also a microcosm of a totalitarian society, a nearly pure example of the police state. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Big domestic mammals further revolutionized human society by becoming our main means of land transport until the development of railroads in the 19th century. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Why did all those societies fail to acquire writing, despite their sharing prerequisites with societies that did do so? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Those terms have special meaning to societies in which Christianity is the dominant religion and are commonly used even in places where it is not. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z By far the largest group of blacks was working class, a layer of society Drake sometimes referred to as the Respectables. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z “The way young people speak about one another’s bodies says a great deal about our society. In today's world, boys are much more likely to objectify girls’ bodies than the other way around. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z So they had language, and they had fire, and they had society. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z After reading your last letter, I worry so much about you living in that capitalist society. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z Its east—west major axis permitted many inventions adopted in one part of Eurasia to spread relatively rapidly to societies at similar latitudes and climates elsewhere in Eurasia. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Lightly hitched to society, he imagined himself bound to grander forces. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z “The country,” said Darcy, “can in general supply but few subjects for such a study. In a country neighbourhood you move in a very confined and unvarying society.” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z We rolled our eyes at every high school convention that society tried to shove down our throats. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z The Honorable Judge Edmund Harrison of Maryland issued a warrant for his arrest, accusing him of “promulgating an infernal orthodoxy that imperils the fabric of good society.” The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z The whole fabric of honey bee society depends on communication— on an innate ability to send and receive messages, to encode and decode information. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z In the current political climate, conservatives extol marriage as the solution to many of society’s ills, while liberals argue that it alone cannot compensate for the effects of imperiled neighborhoods and failing schools. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z Saving society money is a travesty if the cost of that savings is in human lives. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z The economic basis of Polynesian societies consisted of more or less self-sufficient households, but some islands also supported guilds of hereditary part-time craft specialists. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Students rushed to assume, without irony, the role of society’s victims. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z He seemed a druggist in name only; he more closely fit the prevailing ideal of the self-made man who through hard work and invention pulled himself rung by rung into the upper strata of society. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Others claim that inner-city residents no longer share the same value system as mainstream society, and therefore are not stigmatized by criminality. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z From lessons on royal society, I know Gabrielle advises the princess and oversees the other ladies. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z A product of upper-tier English society, he was also an aesthete and idealist with decidedly romantic sensibilities. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z By Tuesday afternoon, the first loads of lumber were being delivered to the relief society. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z Any society goes through social movements or fads, in which economically useless things become valued or useful things devalued temporarily. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z He figures it’s because he’s lived for so long outside of “society.” Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z The development of writing in Zapotec society went hand-in-hand with growing urbanization. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z I became obsessed with their ideas about the family—with how a person ought to weigh their special obligations to kin against their obligations to society as a whole. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Though he thought the city was fascinating, the society, in his opinion, was somewhat provincial. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z In practice, the range of beliefs that can come to be generally shared and effectively unquestioned within a society is enormous. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z How do differences in receptivity among societies arise? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The shot that Travis Burdow fired over Rob Nelson’s team that night was a shot fired at a society that had kicked a boy from childhood on because he bore his grandfather’s name. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z As we shall see, the prerequisites for those developments consisted of several features of human society that determined whether a society would find writing useful, and whether the society could support the necessary specialist scribes. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z It was no small thing to try to restructure a society, to find the pus boiling away under the scabs, to peel back the hardened flesh to let it out. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z Why did Australia not develop metal tools, writing, and politically complex societies? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z After the revolutionary period of the Fifties and Sixties, society regrouped itself, as always, into High, Middle, and Low. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z Why should wars tend to cause amalgamations of societies when populations are dense but not when they are sparse? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z At the end of the last Ice Age, much of the world’s population lived in societies similar to that of the Fayu today, and no people then lived in a much more complex society. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “Some authority of society is probably hot on the scent of your suffocating hair tonic right now. Where did you come from? Why are you following me?” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Depending on their geographic location, societies differ in how readily they can receive technology by diffusion from other societies. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Even so, we find it hard to avoid the conclusion that Atahuallpa “should” have been more suspicious, if only his society had experienced a broader range of human behavior. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Brij and Matthew were arguing loudly about cryptocurrencies and Skid and Aaron were debating which was more important to society, botany or music, but I could barely hear them. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z Every week, Nok's mother's society friends gathered around her family's dining table for cards, dealing out gossip as they dealt out their hands. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z In addition, food production contributes in at least three ways to specific features of complex societies. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z But we are still left with the question of how small, simple societies actually evolve or amalgamate into large, complex ones. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z What might Malthuss ideas mean—for better or for worse—to society? Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z The red star on the album’s cover was the symbol of the Solar Federation, the oppressive interstellar society in the story. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z “Don’t know the manners of good society, eh?” he says to the character of the busybody, Mrs. Mountchessington, who has insulted him before exiting the stage. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z In general, people who felt England needed a new social order found Vestiges appealing; those who wanted society to remain as it was hated the book. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z However, all such peoples either practice at least some food production or are the partly acculturated last remnants of the world’s former hunter-gatherer societies. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Each society and each individual usually explore only a tiny fraction of their horizon of possibilities. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Perhaps the histories of Native American wheels and writing exemplify the principles illustrated in a more extreme form by true island societies. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The Haanebeeks will be a good influence on Theo, they think, as he makes his way into the society of The Hague. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z James Baldwin said, ‘The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.’ Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z In 1936 he began a series of random arrests and executions that touched every aspect of Soviet society. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z Eventually Huxley managed to do to Owen what Owen had done to so many others: he had him voted off the councils of the Zoological and Royal societies. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z He was an English gentleman to the outside world, and he did not want to ruin his reputation by breaking the rules of society. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z It said, “These women, who constitute the active members of the Anti-Suffrage majority, have realized that strength lies in organization and, therefore, they have formed themselves into societies to engage in active preventive measures.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z The valiant efforts to abolish slavery and Jim Crow and to achieve greater racial equality have brought about significant changes in the legal framework of American society—new “rules of the game,” so to speak. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z The few researchers who did examine Andean societies were often sidetracked into ideological warfare. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Thus is created a virginal society on which the author can wreak whatever literary havoc he chooses. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z What better way to defang a secret society than to make public its most secret information? Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z As a society, we place enormous faith in tests because we think that they are a reliable indicator of the test taker’s ability and knowledge. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z These correlations suggest strongly that regional population size or population density or population pressure has something to do with the formation of complex societies. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z People who have been convicted of felonies almost never truly re-enter the society they inhabited prior to their conviction. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Or are large populations and complex societies instead the cause, somehow leading to intensification of food production? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z It not only offered an escape from society but also was an ideal stage for the Romantic individual to exercise the cult that he frequently made of his own soul. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z “I withdrew from all human society and devoted myself to my studies.” The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z “Every single one gets a little slap on the wrist and goes right back into society, like it’s all good. Black folks or poor folks get on drugs?” On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z “Like society kicked me out. They’re like, ‘Okay, the criminal element, we don’t want them in society, we’re going to put them in prisons.’ The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z At its most basic, class is one way societies sort themselves out. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z In addition one might note that Mesoamerican societies were not alone in their wheel-blindness. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z His response was to submit to the society a comprehensive paper on light and colours. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z We both agreed that American society makes it next to impossible for humans to meet in America and not be conscious of their color differences. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z We have become, in our society, overwhelmed by people clamoring for our attention. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Many other human societies besides those of the Sumerians and early Mexicans—such as those of ancient India, Crete, and Ethiopia—evolved these prerequisites. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “Basically, I really need them, and one way or the other, Pm going to get them. Only in today’s sick society can a man be persecuted for reading too many books.” I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z As her family continued to squabble over money, she grew impatient with the world of human society—so full of suspicion, prejudice, and greed. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z But such fads can persist in isolated societies. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Such foundries were not unknown to the Inka, but Andean societies vastly preferred to hammer metal into thin sheets, form the sheets around molds, and solder the results. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z On any continent, at any given time, there are innovative societies and also conservative ones. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z In this view, Americans care less about emulating the top tier than about simply having a fair share of the bounty and a chance to carve out a place for themselves in society. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z Why would a foraging society build such structures? Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z I’d look like a princess, and it would have been my official introduction into Cuban society. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z I was already considered an adult—that happens at age fourteen in our society. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Farming, the cornerstone of the complex societies in the rest of the world, was in Peru an afterthought. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z It was his mission to upset, mash, and draw out the metal into the useful things that made society operate: nails, horseshoes, plows, knives, guns. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z The new arrivals might be a different sort of colonial society. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Where does a woman go when she’s single with three kids and she lives in a society that makes her a pariah for being a manless woman? Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z With them I normally will observe the politesse of secular society concerning religion—say nothing about it. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The term, after all, is not found in every society. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z In the early years, yes, the converts from society’s lowest levels were a sizable part of the Nation’s broad base of membership. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z It had the most distinctive environment, and also the most distinctive societies. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The separate nations of Europe were linguistically and culturally different one from another; native societies were astonishingly diverse. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z In these societies technology developed most rapidly, because they accumulated not only their own inventions but also those of other societies. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Let’s examine the ranges of these factors, before considering their specific consequences for Polynesian societies. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Once an inventor has discovered a use for a new technology, the next step is to persuade society to adopt it. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z In these two ways, independent Aboriginal societies were eliminated in all areas suitable for European food production. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z These all look like signs that inmates, though segregated in prison, still considered themselves a part of mainstream society in some way. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Being white in this class is not going to give him the same status that he gets in society. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z To prevent confusion, Mesoamerican societies created the third calendar, the Long Count. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z In a sense I have always felt something of a kinship with the colored race because its position is the same as mine: we both exist outside the inner realm of American society. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The continent’s quarrelsome societies helped them siphon off millions of people. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z In society, we do horrible things to one another because we don’t see the person it affects. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z My wife’s and my experience at Menindee, and the fate of Burke and Wills, made vivid for me the difficulties of building a human society in Australia. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z She went on, “Make you a young lady of society. Instead of a scarecrow.” The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z So Clarkson immediately issued a statement expressing his complete support for the efforts of the society. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z She thinks of joining a bird-watching society, but who would take care of the bakery in her absence? Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Maybe the one positive legacy the Trenchcoat Mafia left was to ensure that this message got heard by a society that seems desperate not to hear it. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z In the Italian hospital we were going to form a society. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z As in some radical retelling of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, society’s normally invisible workings had been made briefly visible. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Poor people of color, like other Americans—indeed like nearly everyone around the world—want safe streets, peaceful communities, healthy families, good jobs, and meaningful opportunities to contribute to society. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z These laws operate collectively to ensure that the vast majority of people convicted of crimes will never integrate into mainstream, white society. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z London's fervent condemnation of capitalist society, his glorification of the primordial world, his championing of the great unwashed—all of it mirrored McCandless s passions. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z A society, almost necessarily, begins every success story with the chapter that most advantages itself, and in America, these precipitating chapters are almost always rendered as the singular action of exceptional individuals. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z I said at the outset of this chapter that societies classified in the same category are not all identical to each other, because humans and human groups are infinitely diverse. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z First, except for the decorations on the pots, the pots themselves and their associated cultural paraphernalia are similar to the cultural remains found at Indonesian and Philippine sites ancestral to modern Austronesian-speaking societies. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z It is true that my public society today is often impersonal. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z “Every society has its own problems,” Morrie said, lifting his eyebrows, the closest he could come to a shrug. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Southwest, past desert farms and cliff dwellings, to the Mississippian societies in the Midwest. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z An indefatigable seeker of public attention, Sandy made her name and picture regular fare in New York society columns. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z Genuine equality for black people, King reasoned, demanded a radical restructuring of society, one that would address the needs of the black and white poor throughout the country. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z On that Thursday the elders of the society assembled to consider something extraordinary: Would they use their association members and their skills to help their struggling white neighbors? An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z I would absorb such rejections and keep on looking, because for some reason the scholarship society and the athletic league and the yearbook staff didn’t satisfy me, were never quite enough. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z The church was an integral part of British society, and it dictated the rules of the class-ordered society that they all lived in. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z In order to heal a family, the next generation, or society, she argues, “It’s vital to make the connecting thread between the past and the present.” A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Even as the fire burned on Monday, Mayor Mason officially established a relief society and appointed O.W. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z Those historical inequalities have cast long shadows on the modern world, because the literate societies with metal tools have conquered or exterminated the other societies. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z His error was understandable, because all the societies with which he would have been acquainted—Greek societies of the fourth century B.C.—were states. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z It said Khrushchev wanted to take over the Belgian Congo and deprive the innocent savages of becoming a free society, as part of his plan for world domination. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Since then, I have been involved mostly in work on other projects, especially on my next book about collapses of societies. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z America seemed a society moving rapidly toward a greater accommodation of its diverse population; South Africa on the other hand was moving with equal speed, if not more, toward a total separation of all races. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z The churning of African Americans in and out of prisons today is hardly surprising, given the strong message that is sent to them that they are not wanted in mainstream society. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z “Did you see her often at Weymouth? Were you often in the same society?” Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z To that end, Cope willed his bones to the Wistar Institute, a learned society in Philadelphia endowed by the descendants of the seemingly inescapable Caspar Wistar. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z “Polish up my other talents, and be an ornament to society, if I get the chance.” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z We are not allowed as a society to criticize a person for topless selfies anymore. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z Early upon the morning following those hours passed in Arobin’s society, Edna set about securing her new abode and hurrying her arrangements for occupying it. The Awakening 1899-04-22T00:00:00Z My mother placed my first trophy next to a new plastic chess set that the neighborhood Tao society had given to me. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Most important, neither society should be judged—or in the event judged each other— entirely by its brutality. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z In any society built on institutionalized racism, race-mixing doesn’t merely challenge the system as unjust, it reveals the system as unsustainable and incoherent. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z Days, I spend most of the time in school, in rehearsal with the musical society, or in the crowd surrounding Michah and his maps. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z The other mode of formation of complex societies, besides merger under threat of external force, is merger by conquest. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The fear was that if the bomb failed, government support for all other work in the field would cease, and research into the atom’s benefits to society would go fallow. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z What they wanted to do was truly revolutionary: They wanted to redefine the status of women in society. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z Mr. Wickham’s society was of material service in dispelling the gloom which the late perverse occurrences had thrown on many of the Longbourn family. Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z The speeches fired up the Klansmen, but as a secret society standing outside of the mainstream, with no well-thought-out plan of action, the Klan had little influence in Durham’s affairs. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z It was cool to see an adult man not caring about society’s artificial rules for masculinity, though. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z The color of police chiefs across the country has changed, but the role of the police in our society has not. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z A dozen Kansas women organized a women’s rights society to advocate for full female suffrage, and Lucy Stone and Henry Blackwell went to Kansas to work on the campaign. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z Fayu bands and modern states represent opposite extremes along the spectrum of human societies. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z I wanted to learn more about where my people came from, where I came from, and all the great contributions Black people had made to American civilization and society. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z Such differences in food production constituted a major ultimate cause of the disparities between Eurasian and Native American societies. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z How do you balance your feelings with the way you look to society? Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Andean societies primarily used it as a token of wealth, power, and community affiliation. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z After that brief look at Polynesia’s varying environments, let’s now see how that variation influenced Polynesian societies. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Nor that the young Rousseau should put some of his earliest thoughts about society and the individual in an operetta about Columbus and the Indians. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z In a more rational society, an ability to write would be of great help to her. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z Let us consider the distinctive features of chiefdoms, very different from modern European and American states and, at the same time, from bands and simple tribal societies. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z We formed an exclusive—eccentric!—society, separated from others who would never care or be able to share our concerns. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Within a few millennia that single ancestral Polynesian society had spawned on those diverse islands a range of diverse daughter societies, from hunter-gatherer tribes to proto-empires. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z That factor alone would explain why societies of thousands can exist only if they develop centralized authority to monopolize force and resolve conflicts. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “In this income data I see a snapshot of a very innovative society,” said Tim Kane, an economist at the Heritage Foundation. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z The structure and organization of early African societies in this country fascinated me very much and greatly influenced the evolution of my political outlook. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Did the word disappear from the finch language, from finch society? The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z After all, every society in Eurasia eventually employed pottery wheels and mill wheels. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Military training, I said, must go hand in hand with political training, for a revolution is not just a question of pulling a trigger; its purpose is to create a fair and just society. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z "How do I know it's legitimate? The boys in my custody have proven themselves dangerous to society. Am I supposed to just turn them loose any time someone hands me a piece of paper?" Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z Popper was right to think that science can flourish only in an open society. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Hadn't I grown up around gambler-politicians, bootlegger-judges and sheriffs who were burglars; yes, and Klansmen who were preachers and members of humanitarian societies? Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z So why should they not meet in the proverbial secrecy of their society? Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Evil forces once again endangered the Motherland from without, while homegrown traitors gnawed away at society's foundation from within. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z First and most directly, domestic animals became the societies’ major source of animal protein, replacing wild game. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Muller was sick of America—its dirty science, ugly politics, and selfish society. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z We should work hard to improve the prisons in our society—take up the unfinished work of Thomas Mott Osborne and transform these scrap heaps into repair shops, to paraphrase the great reformer. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z We live in societies that mass-produce facts: packages are marked with weights, road signs tell you distances and, in some countries, the populations of the towns you are passing through. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z When a widely useful invention does crop up in one society, it then tends to spread in either of two ways. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z As societies grew increasingly complex, the old classes became more heterogeneous. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z The Tasmanians had no contact with other societies for 10,000 years and acquired no new technology other than what they invented themselves. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z In most agricultural societies at least one out of every three children died before reaching twenty. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z How much grander would have been the tumult if Indian societies had survived in full splendor! 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Southwest and Mississippi Valley to the modern American breadbaskets of California and Oregon, where Native American societies remained hunter-gatherers merely because they lacked appropriate domesticates. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The society was composed of a group of white-haired American missionary ladies from the First Chinese Baptist Church. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Even the most “primitive” ethnographic art represents a late stage of development within a stable society. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z It turns out that countries in regions with long histories of state societies or agriculture have higher per-capita GNP than countries with short histories, even after other variables have been controlled. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “You are better society than they are,” I said. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z The existence of such elites goes against the most fundamental principles of natural selection, since these dominant members of society willingly give up procreation. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z “I believe the wrong that I have done, in the eyes of society, this might make a right on it.” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z One of the first things he did was to ask the country’s most prestigious medical society, the College of Physicians, to assemble on that rainy Sunday, August 25. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z Somewhere in here was the hidden history of her grandfather’s weird secret society, she was sure of it. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z Thus, the development and reception of inventions vary enormously from society to society on the same continent. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Some productive hunter-gatherer societies reached the organizational level of chiefdoms, but none reached the level of states: all states nourish their citizens by food production. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z I did not deny that I was attracted by the idea of a classless society, or that I had been influ-enced by Marxist thought. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Ever since the end of the nineteenth century, the problem of what to do with the surplus of consumption goods has been latent in industrial society. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z Cicero was literate in both Latin and Greek—a mark of cultivation and an entry to Roman high society. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z Both were fond of high society and preferred to spend time with the social elite—a category that didn’t include Elizebeth. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z So the task of building a new society—with the many opportunities it embodied—fell to the coloreds as well. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z Why did the human societies of the larger landmass derived from Pleistocene Greater Australia remain so “backward” in their development, while the societies of the smaller landmass “advanced” much more rapidly? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Further, they stated that the money their society had collected for making coffins and burying the dead “has not defrayed the expense of wages which we had to pay to those whom we employed.” An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z Sheep acquired from Spaniards similarly transformed Navajo Indian society and led to, among other things, the weaving of the beautiful woolen blankets for which the Navajo have become renowned. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z And just as the conflicted relationship among Athens and Sparta was a leitmotif of Greek life, so Maya society resounded for centuries with the echoes of the struggle between Mutal and Kaan. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z I swipe through their website about clubs and societies and after-school activities. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z It is true that our society is stratified, and very rigidly stratified, on what at first sight appear to be hereditary lines. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z In his spare time, Louie crashed society weddings, worked as a movie extra, and harassed his housemates with practical jokes, replacing their deviled ham with cat food and milk with milk of magnesia. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z Compared with later eras, what is impressive about Jomon Japan is not that some contact with the outside world did occur but that it had so little influence on Jomon society. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z ‘I was afraid if I said anything, I'd be next, sir.' Well, if this spinelessness is the future of British society, heaven help us.” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z Brought up in the wide-open, freewheeling society of Earth, I would never master the protocol, or the impassivity, so valued by Karhiders. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z Traditional notions of the king in society, after all, brooked no possibility of “exploitation” in the modern sense. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z Their value to society lay in their roles as wife and mother. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z It was a remarkable achievement that Japan, unlike so many other non-European countries, preserved its political independence and culture while emerging from isolation and creating an industrialized society in the late 19th century. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Ever since that day I’ve tried not to accept society’s labels, but to fight against them. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z It may be impossible to overstate the significance of race in defining the basic structure of American society. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Given enough time, the societies lacking writing might also have eventually developed it on their own. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z To rejoin society as a new and improved person. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z Ordinary people would take life without the permission of society. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z There were Bibles in the dresser drawers, put there by some charitable society, though probably no one read them very much. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z Aristotle considered states the natural condition of human society, requiring no explanation. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z What if he’s part of some secret society? Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z Many other previously uncontacted groups of New Guineans and Amazonian Indians have similarly owed to missionaries their incorporation into modern society. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The caricature of the Sapphire has been said to act as a warning or punishment for going against society's norm that women should be passive, nonthreatening, and unseen. Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z The discovery enterprise is no more universal than cricket or baseball or soccer; it is peculiar to the post-Columbus world, and it can only survive within a society which fosters competition. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Outside the house was public society; inside the house was private. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The society was to defer to the word of no authority but stick to the facts. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Hit said thangs like ‘A female by one transgression forfeits her place in society forever.’ Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z “You volunteer at a burial society. I’d think that this wouldn’t bother you.” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Easter Island and the Chathams are small and so remote from other islands that, once they were initially colonized, the societies thus founded developed in total isolation from the rest of the world. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z It's what makes the nice girls from polite society great hostesses, and the girls at Tatica's such obliging lovers. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z “Because they hate everyone else more. Their bratty kids are their revenge on a society that has denied them the riches they so rightly deserve.” We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z My field of sunflowers looks like a toxic waste dump, which might turn out to be a cool statement on society’s unthinking gluttonous exploitation of our planet’s natural resources. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z Maybe it was because I had been raised by men; I hadn’t grown up around women and had never been exposed firsthand to the double standard with which Afghan society sometimes treated them. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z They were, according to the book, disowned by their families, snubbed by their friends and ostracized from every society. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Even as genetics was being used to justify sweeping changes in law and society, the gene itself had remained a doggedly abstract entity, a ghost lurking in the biological machine. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z The neuropsychologist James W. Prescott has performed a startling cross-cultural statistical analysis of 400 preindustrial societies and found that cultures that lavish physical affection on infants tend to be disinclined to violence. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z After all, Egypt by 3000 B.C. was undoubtedly the site of Africa’s most complex society, and one of the world’s earliest centers of writing. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Gethenians do not share their earth as Terrans do with those older societies, those innumerable cities of little sexless workers possessing no instinct but that of obedience to the group, the whole. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z Yet the compression brings a compensating benefit: long-term comparisons of regions yield insights that cannot be won from short-term studies of single societies. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z How could the schools valorize men and women whose values society actively scorned? Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z Anyone knowledgeable about human societies can cite innumerable examples of societies that refused crops, livestock, and other innovations that would have been productive. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Uto'pian, ideal, fanciful, chimerical: from "Utopia"—an imaginary island, represented by Sir Thomas More, in a work called "Utopia," as enjoying the greatest perfection in politics laws, and society. New Word-Analysis 1871-01-01T00:00:00Z I have often wondered what I might have become in life had society’s doors been more open to me—a child and youth of color—in the 1950s and 1960s. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Myriad laws, rules, and regulations discriminate against people with criminal records and effectively prevent their meaningful reintegration into the mainstream economy and society. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Shin was attempting to find his way in a society that is singularly overworked, insecure, and stressed out. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z If it had not already been so, race became the sine qua non of South African society. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The bilingualists insist that a student should be reminded of his difference from others in mass society, his heritage. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Secondly, modern forager societies have survived mainly in areas with difficult climatic conditions and inhospitable terrain, ill-suited for agriculture. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z He introduced him to the cream of goblin society, and to dancers, singers, painters, schoolteachers, and merchants with an amateur love of history, the kindest and most curious people he knew in Tenebrion. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z In addition, Native American armies had no animals to oppose to horses, whose value for assaults and fast transport gave Europeans an overwhelming advantage until some Native American societies themselves adopted them. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z We are all familiar with the supposed generalization that rural Third World societies are less receptive to innovation than are Westernized industrial societies. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Every other day, I hear Miss Celia on the phone in her room, calling and calling the society ladies. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z Repressive societies always seemed to understand the danger of “wrong” ideas. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z By then, what was to become the longest continuously enduring scientific society in the world had already begun to meet in London. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z Who would have thought it would be that lazy substrata of society that would save us? Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z The structure they created formed the basis of one of the harshest, most inhumane societies the world has ever known. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The unfortunate reality we must face is that racism manifests itself not only in individual attitudes and stereotypes, but also in the basic structure of society. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Larger populations mean more inventors and more competing societies. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The Indians, he grumbled, “believe what they please and no more”—a practice dangerous, in Hennepin’s view, to a well-ordered society. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z What differences among societies on different Polynesian islands need to be explained? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Back then, these grandmasters commanded as much prestige in Soviet society as a movie star or an Olympic athlete does in contemporary America. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z In our state society, for instance, school principals are likely to know all their students by name if the school contains a few hundred children, but not if it contains a few thousand children. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Though they lived better lives than most people in agricultural and industrial societies, their world could still be harsh and unforgiving. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z They had strong castles and wicked retainers, who found more opportunity for wickedness under their leadership than they would have found in a settled state of society. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z In the dialogues he wrote he describes himself as mixing with the elite of English society, but he later claimed this was fiction not fact. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z That is, in mental ability New Guineans are probably genetically superior to Westerners, and they surely are superior in escaping the devastating developmental disadvantages under which most children in industrialized societies now grow up. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z On every other continent as well, certain native societies have proved very receptive, adopted foreign ways and technology selectively, and integrated them successfully into their own society. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z But Haas argues that these peoples knew of the existence of hierarchical, structured societies with strong central leaders, and could pattern their societies after them. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z For decades, civil rights leaders have been saying things like “we all want a colorblind society, we just disagree how to get there” in defense of race-conscious programs like affirmative action or racial data collection. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Hence writing brings power to modern societies, by making it possible to transmit knowledge with far greater accuracy and in far greater quantity and detail, from more distant lands and more remote times. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z In their subsistence modes, Polynesians ranged from the hunter-gatherers of the Chathams, through slash-and-burn farmers, to practitioners of intensive food production living at some of the highest population densities of any human societies. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Their societies were destroyed by weapons their opponents could not control and did not even know they had. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The author must understand from firsthand experience a range of human societies, from hunter-gatherer societies to modern space-age civilizations. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Hence I have no mercy or compassion in me for a society that will crush people, and then penalize them for not being able to stand up under the weight. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z |
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