Similarly, "Guns, Germs and Steel" (1997), by Jared Diamond, which won the Pulitzer prize for non-fiction, advances a speculative explanation for why Western Europe ended up colonising the rest of the world, rather than vice-versa.
He gradually advanced from being a speculative digger to the status of a man of substance with ambitious ideas on the future of the diamond industry.
These advances also pose a number of concomitant challenges.
Be speculative A speculative approach is particularly good if you're changing career or sector.
We therefore decline to embrace a view that would achieve a speculative and undoubtedly minimal advance in the deterrence of police misconduct at the expense of substantially impeding the role of the grand jury.
Annuities are long-term contracts, and since A.I.G. is currently paying what it owes, Ms. Harris appeared to be advancing "a theory of speculative and undefined future harm," the judge said.
By day's end, many professionals were even saying that last week's plunge, although painful, might have done some good by ending a speculative bubble and clearing the way for a steady, but slower, advance.
But an aesthetics of a speculative realism can produce scenarios that directly comment on our own moment in time through advancing a particular crisis into the near future.
Copy of a speculative sentence brought by Pilate against Jesus, in Italian, made public under Pope Innocent XII, dated Jan . 15 , 16922 leaves, numbered ff.
A Speculative Dictionary.
This study is not a speculative exercise.
