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GLOBAL FORESIGHT BOOKS
A Catalog of New and Forthcoming Books on Current Affairs
Assisting and Accelerating
The Great Rethinking of the Early 21st Century
Discover the vast world of important new ideas to understand our complex world and shape better futures. Ignorance is costly -- for governments, businesses, planners, and individuals!
May 2012 Recent Adds: Spring 2012 titles from Basic Books, Brookings, Chicago, Harvard, MIT, National Academies, Norton, Oxford, Palgrave Macmillan, Public Affairs, Prometheus, Rutgers, Stanford, Transaction, Yale, Zed Books; also 40 recent reports from OECDUpcoming: Important spring titles from Cambridge, Columbia, Earthscan, Johns Hopkins, Pennsylvania, Pluto, Princeton, and Routledge; also 20 new reports from OECD
What GFB offers:
* Brief abstracts of more than 3,000 titles published in 2009, 2010, 2011, and early 2012.
* Easy access to summaries by Search Books, or by browsing authors, publishers, specific subjects, and 25 generic, overlapping categories* A long review by Michael Marien of an important and broad-ranging Book of the Month* A special listing of Recommended Books in areas such as climate, sustainability, development, security, food, health, education, crime, cities, technology, methods, and more * A list of Paradigm-Breaking Books that view important matters in a different light * A special catalog of more than 100 books and articles on " Appropriate Economics for the 21st Century"--a major instance of needed paradigm change GFB Purposes:
* To help individuals and organizations identify and choose new futures-relevant books on current affairs, planning, and public policy
* To enable an overview of current thinking in complex problem areas such as environment, governance, the economic crisis, job creation, poverty reduction, higher education, energy, new technology, terrorism, nuclear weapons, human rights, the Internet, water scarcity, etc.
* To provide a concise cross-disciplinary overview of all trends, issues, and informed proposals for betterment and reform
* To emphasize the need for ongoing synthesis, integration, and collective intelligence in all areas.
* To map the unexplored realm of "current affairs" books and promote their visibility in public discourse.
Dr. Michael Marien , director of Global Foresight Books, edited Future Survey for 30 years.
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