New York: Vanguard, (2010) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A book which is described as part history, part social science, part biology. Costa uses "todays news to demonstrate how accelerating complexity quickly outpaces that rate at which the human brain can develop new capabilities.. . the tendency to find a quick solutions- leads to frightening long term consequence: Societys ability to solve its most challenging, intractable problems becomes gridlocked, progress slows, and collapse ensues." Foreword by Edward O. Wilson. SIGNED on the half title page. Notes, index. xvii, 346 pp. ISBN: 978-1593156053.