A new book argues that civilizations built on centralized wealth and power contain the seeds of their own destruction.

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PBS and BBC have teamed on Civilizations, a global nine-part series that tells the story of art from the beginning of human history to the present day, for premiere this spring on PBS. The series was ...

Squares are dead! Long live hexes! A storm was brewing at Firaxis, and it was undeniably hex-shaped. Since 1991, the series had used square grids, while more and more 4X and wargames gravitated ...