{"product_id":"9781456840419","title":"Explaining Things:Inventing Ourselves and Our Worlds: Inventing Ourselves and Our Worlds","description":"\"This is a book about how we invent ourselves and our cultures by how we explain things. We invent our explanations, and then they invent us.\u003cbr\u003eIt is a book about how we create our virtual worlds â the habitat of our minds â by how we explain things.\u003cbr\u003eIt is a book about how our explanations get embedded in the stories we tell and ingest â from gossip to advertising to the pernicious âsocial media.â\u003cbr\u003eIt is a book about how everything we say or do or have is an explanation.\u003cbr\u003eWhatever we say or do or buy explains who we are. We multifariously explain ourselves to ourselves and to others.\u003cbr\u003eWe talk, we daydream, we do, we feel: all evolves from how we explain things.\u003cbr\u003eOur explanations are the seeds from which everything human and social sprouts and evolves. They are the sources and the sinks of how we live our lives.\u003cbr\u003eIt is a book that offers a non-biological and thus a superior theory of the human trajectory, of specifically human and social evolution.\u003cbr\u003eWe have turned our lives over to our pundits â our âexperts,â our celebrities, our advertisers and entertainers, and our fashionistas. We invite them to tell us whatâs what, and how to live. They are our predators.\u003cbr\u003eWe are their prey.\u003cbr\u003eIt is an unprecedented sea-change for civilization.\u003cbr\u003eAs our lives go, so goes our civilization. We evolve out of our explanations of things. But to what end?\"\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Xlibris Corporation","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47135244026096,"sku":"9781456840419","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781456840419_p0.jpg?v=1763864379","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781456840419","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}