A tour through the contemporary social-cultural-political landscape, making sense of everything from punk rock to terrorism to New Age religions, to give a new view of what is happening in our time.
"The first responsible account of an important, uniquely American happening - worthwhile reading for anyone who wants to piece together the social undercurrents of the '60s" --Robert Marquand, Christian Science Monitor "A charming, gossipy multiple biography of the curious gurus who spawned Esalen . . . a complex story, but a sequential one ...
A 21st-century primer on Western enlightenment movements--past, present, and emerging--treats eastern religious traditions as no less important to the study than Western philosophy, pop culture, psychology, and even biology.
This work looks at current technology and biological advances, which serves to highlight how rapidly we have progressed as a species. The book has a futurist outlook, exploring the ethical and political implications "for our time", based upon trends now underway. Perspectives are offered on a variety of issues including unibombers, cloning, cult ...
A new examination of our philosophical assumptions about identity and the concept of "self," based on the latest trends in philosophy and psychology, that shows how traditional notions of individuality are being challenged and new ones are being erected in their place.
A vivid description of the cultural, political, economic, and environmental changes that globalization will bring to our world. Going beyond the narrow economic focus common to most books about globalization, All Together Now describes four kinds of global change - economic, political, cultural, biological - all of which are now accelerating, ...
It has been over 150 years since pioneers first went west from Missouri, across Kansas, Nebraska, Wyoming, and Nevada into California, across the vast plains, formidable mountains, and desert. Although the route known as the California Emigrant Trail is mostly unmarked today, much evidence remains. Photographer Greg MacGregor has researched the ...
Going beyond the narrow economic focus common to most books about globalization, All Together Now describes four kinds of global change - economic, political, cultural, biological - all of which are now accelerating, driven by the increasing mobility of symbols, goods, people, and non-human life forms. Anderson describes how we are entering an ...
This work argues that humans are converging with technology and vice versa, using genetic engineering and biotechnology, computer devices and human information systems as examples. Themes examined include: eugenics, ecology, Greening industry, and moving into the bio-information society.
The accelerating technological transformation in learning has necessitated an ability to search and differentiate among the one billion web pages, libraries, databases, books, newspapers, magazines, radio and television stations, and opinion columns available online. This volume focuses on the normative challenges that the current technological ...
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