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Title: Move UP: Why Some Cultures Advance While Others Don’t
Author: RAPAILLE CLOTAIRE/ROEMER ANDRES
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 27/06/2016
Imprint: PENGUIN
Price: $25.00
Publishing status: Active
With an abundance of data and evidence, Move UP explores the societal and biological factors that determine whether cultures are able to ascend socially, economically and intellectually. This provocative, ambitious and entertaining book devises a formula that will allow countries and individuals to assess their own potential for upward mobility. Drawing on science and statistics as much as on human instinct and emotion, Move UP reconsiders the modern world with a motion to improving it.
This is the question for the ages: why are some nations and people rich and successful, while others are poor and a failure? Many have tried to address small pieces of this great puzzle, but Rapaille and Roemer are the first to attempt a comprehensive answer to this eternal question.’ Michio Kaku
‘An ambitious and provocative book that tackles head-on the really Big Questions . . . will stir controversy.’ Carl Honoré
‘An entertaining and important counterweight to the ideology and cynicism that surrounds discussions of world problems today.’ Steven Pinker
‘A provocative synthesis.’ Nature
‘Not since The Naked Ape have I seen a book that so gleefully revels in tweaking the nose of conventional sensitivities.’ Richard Dawkins
‘Move UP is a splendid book, totally engaging from start to finish.’ David M. Buss
ISBN: 9780141980409
Pages: 336