The primary goal of World Civilizations is to present a truly global history since the development of agriculture and herding to the present. Using a unique periodization, this book divides the main periods of human history according to changes in the nature and extent of global contacts. This global world history text emphasizes the major stages ...
Using the techniques Peter Schwartz presents for the first time in The Art of the Long View, can begin to chart the course of their own future or their company's, not with hard numbers, but with intangibles: belief in the company, their own hopes and fears, and their reaction to events. Among Schwartz' clients are the White House, Disney, Nissan, ...
In the tumultuous late 60s and early 70s, a social movement known as the "New Left" emerged as a major cultural influence, especially on the youth of America. It was a movement that embraced "flower-power" and psychedelic "consciousness-expansion", that lionized Ho Chi Minh and Fidel Castro and launched the Black Panthers and the Theater of the ...
Lying-For Better or Worse Everybody lies. Friends lie to friends. Children lie to their parents. Politicians lie to constituents. And, inevitably, husbands and wives lie to each other. Lies between lovers have tremendous potential to both nurture and destroy a relationship. It is easy to underestimate the power that lies-even seemingly harmless ...
The primary goal of World Civilizations is to present a truly global history-since the development of agriculture and herding to the present. Using a unique periodization, this book divides the main periods of human history according to changes in the nature and extent of global contacts. This global world history text discusses both the ...
Bader and Pearson, a married psychologist couple and co-founders of the Couples Institute, provide an analysis of lying and the damaging effect it can have on relationships. They also include tips for working through the idea that "everybody lies" in order to maintain a strong marriage.
Culled from sixteen informal lectures Ayn Rand delivered to a select audience in the late 1960s, this remarkable work offers indispensable guidance to the aspiring writer of nonfiction while providing readers with a fascinating discourse on art and creation. Based on the concept that the ability to create quality nonfiction is a skill that can be ...
Turbulent Passage, Fourth Edition, is a truly global text with a strong emphasis on social and cultural history. Focusing on the major international themes and historical processes that shaped the twentieth century, this text looks at the historical antecedents of current issues and challenges students to compare and draw parallels between ...
Schwartz, author of THE ART OF THE LONG VIEW, returns to his prognostications to offer a revised view of our future. INEVITABLE SURPRISES touches on many aspects of life in the near tomorrow, while noting that, with the outcome of several grave situations still undecided, few certain conclusions can be reached.
This is the first book to present a comprehensive review of the archaeology of Syria from the end of the Paleolithic period to 300 BC. Syria has become a prime focus of field archaeology in the Middle East in the past thirty years, and Peter Akkermans and Glenn Schwartz discuss the results of this intensive fieldwork, integrating them with earlier ...
With a strong emphasis on social and cultural history, this book focuses on the major international themes and historical processes that shaped the 20th century. Turbulent Passage is a truly global text that looks at the historical antecedents of current issues, and challenges students to make connections and draw parallels between historical and ...
A renowned visionary in the field of scenario planning, Schwartz argues that, despite the volatility in the world today, the future is foreseeable, and that by examining the dynamics at work today we can predict the "inevitable surprises" of tomorrow.
A powerful vision of how converging technological, economic, political, and social forces are shaping our world and our future and how our choices today can lead to a new age of prosperity.. The Washington Post called The Long Boom "a future-history and a challenge"-and that is exactly what it is: the story of the world's future, powered by ...
How converging technological, economic, political, and social forces are shaping our world and our future-and how our choices today can lead to a new age of prosperity.. The Washington Post called The Long Boom "a future-history and a challenge"-and that is exactly what it is: the story of the world's future, powered by emerging technologies, and ...
A good reputation is certainly an asset for any company, but to a public that has raised its expectations of business' responsibility to society, being good just isn't good enough. More than public relations posturing or kowtowing to political correctness, social responsibility in corporations is proving essential to the long-term success of ...
As it emerges from centuries of social, military, and political strife, China--which represents one fifth of the world's population and its third largest economy--is poised to play a major role in global business. But what will that role be? In this book, two experts, who have created business scenarios for some of the world's largest ...
"Artful scenario spinning is a form of convergent thinking about divergent futures. It ensures that you are not always right about the future but—better—that you are almost never wrong about the future. The technology is powerful, simple, and enjoyable, and so is Schwartz’s book." —Stewart Brand What increasingly ...
Scenario planning techniques enable people to think about uncertainty in a structured way. This allows people to plan by encompassing the ranges of uncertainty by looking for early indicators of directions and by identifying possible courses of action. This book aims to provide an account of scenario planning and make area accessible to business ...
The primary goal of World Civilizations is to present a truly global history-since the development of agriculture and herding to the present. Using a unique periodization, this book divides the main periods of human history according to changes in the nature and extent of global contacts. This global world history text discusses both the ...
The fourth volume in this series deals with one of the ubiquitous higher and further education subjects. With a practice-based approach, the text avoids being overly academic and instead uses a case study format to detail a wide range of approaches to assessment. In addition, the book covers new assessment techniques, such as assessment by ...
Test pilot Hal Jordan was chosen by the Guardians of the Universe to become Earth's Green Lantern, an intergalactic hero who protects our world from the forces of evil, armed with a power ring that can create anything its wearer can imagine. Over 500 pages of black-and-white comics are included in this fast-paced collection featuring the Emerald ...
The authors begin at what they see as the birth of modern technology - 1980 - and chart the story of the furture through to 2020 in a captivating narrative format, inter-linked with material from a documentary produced in the year 2050 and a series of letters from a fictional character written in ten-year intervals beginning in 1980. The authors ...
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