The Dream of Europe: Travels in the Twenty-First Century
by Geert Mak · 27 Oct 2021 · 722pp · 223,701 words
politics. They need to think globally and very much long-term. They need to develop a headstrong, liberated mentality that’s open to a completely different worldview and a completely different political culture. Above all, they need to convince others to do the same. At first the solution was sought, in part
Machine: A White Space Novel
by Elizabeth Bear · 5 Oct 2020 · 537pp · 146,610 words
glibly. And then, “We have a job to do. We are adults who know how to get along with other sentients who may have very different worldviews than our own. Diversity is a strength of the Synarche, and diverse perspectives offer a chance at discovering novel solutions to problems. Also… rightminding.” “Are
The Techno-Human Condition
by Braden R. Allenby and Daniel R. Sarewitz · 15 Feb 2011
At Level III, however, all worldviews, even the most privileged, such as the science discourse and liberal democracy, are partial, and a failure to explore different worldviews and identify appropriate options can rapidly become ineffective or even fatal. So long as the Greenland weather behaved like European weather, the Christian and European
What We Owe the Future: A Million-Year View
by William MacAskill · 31 Aug 2022 · 451pp · 125,201 words
of and cooperated and traded in order to build a society that is sufficiently good for everyone. The resulting society would be a compromise among different worldviews in which everyone gets most of what they want. Even if no one has a positive moral vision at all but just wants what’s
The Great Turning: From Empire to Earth Community
by David C. Korten · 1 Jan 2001
different images and suggest quite different relationships between humans and the sacred. These metaphors spring from contrasting voices within the biblical tradition and reflect sharply different worldviews.5 One affirms the dominator 258 PART IV: THE GREAT TURNING relations of Empire and the other the partnership relations of Earth Community. The first
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struggle, and electoral and legislative victories will follow naturally. A key to success is to recognize that the different orders of human consciousness operate from different worldviews and differ in their capacities for compassion and understanding. Messages easily understood by a higher order of consciousness may seem illogical or even absurd to
How to Talk to a Science Denier: Conversations With Flat Earthers, Climate Deniers, and Others Who Defy Reason
by Lee McIntyre · 14 Sep 2021 · 407pp · 108,030 words
asking subjects about their agreement with statements like “The free market system is likely to promote unsustainable consumption” have to do with GMOs? Perhaps a different worldview question for GMOs—such as “I think that big corporations cannot be trusted to look out for our health and safety”—might have yielded a
The Vanishing Neighbor: The Transformation of American Community
by Marc J. Dunkelman · 3 Aug 2014 · 327pp · 88,121 words
’t able to withstand the impulse to lash out at a disagreeable acquaintance are unlikely to bond in any depth with someone who has a different worldview, if only because they’re unlikely to be able to stifle the impulse to lash out or talk back. And so, if the challenges that
Reinventing Organizations: A Guide to Creating Organizations Inspired by the Next Stage of Human Consciousness
by Frederic Laloux and Ken Wilber · 9 Feb 2014 · 436pp · 141,321 words
time has come. Victor Hugo Up to this point in history, humanity has experienced four ways to collaborate in organizational settings, based on four very different worldviews: Impulsive-Red, Conformist-Amber, Achievement-Orange, and Pluralistic-Green. Each of these organizational models has brought about major breakthroughs, and allowed us to tackle more
Conflicted: How Productive Disagreements Lead to Better Outcomes
by Ian Leslie · 23 Feb 2021 · 280pp · 82,393 words
natural way to see things. Seeing your own culture isn’t just a challenge for professional negotiators, but for everyone who interacts with people with different worldviews to our own. We all have our own gods, which seem entirely normal where we come from. * * * When he was a graduate student in anthropology
Head, Hand, Heart: Why Intelligence Is Over-Rewarded, Manual Workers Matter, and Caregivers Deserve More Respect
by David Goodhart · 7 Sep 2020 · 463pp · 115,103 words
be reading Iain McGilchrist’s remarkable book The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World, about the radically different worldviews of the left and right brain hemispheres.2 “The hidden story of Western culture, as told by the author, is about how the abstract, instrumental
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by Naomi Klein · 15 Sep 2014 · 829pp · 229,566 words
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The Euro and the Battle of Ideas
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You Are Not a Gadget
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The Zionist Ideas: Visions for the Jewish Homeland—Then, Now, Tomorrow
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Using Open Source Platforms for Business Intelligence: Avoid Pitfalls and Maximize Roi
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What the Dormouse Said: How the Sixties Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer Industry
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The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
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The Dawn of Eurasia: On the Trail of the New World Order
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The Costs of Connection: How Data Is Colonizing Human Life and Appropriating It for Capitalism
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Digital Empires: The Global Battle to Regulate Technology
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My Life as a Goddess: A Memoir Through (Un)Popular Culture
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Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst
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The Global Citizen: A Guide to Creating an International Life and Career
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The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding of Facebook: A Tale of Sex, Money, Genius and Betrayal
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Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies
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Blue Mars
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A Thousand Brains: A New Theory of Intelligence
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Rethinking Money: How New Currencies Turn Scarcity Into Prosperity
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Think Like a Rocket Scientist: Simple Strategies You Can Use to Make Giant Leaps in Work and Life
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The Upswing: How America Came Together a Century Ago and How We Can Do It Again
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So You've Been Publicly Shamed
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Lifestyle Entrepreneur: Live Your Dreams, Ignite Your Passions and Run Your Business From Anywhere in the World
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Split-Second Persuasion: The Ancient Art and New Science of Changing Minds
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Inside the Nudge Unit: How Small Changes Can Make a Big Difference
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Autism Adulthood: Strategies and Insights for a Fulfilling Life
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This Is Service Design Doing: Applying Service Design Thinking in the Real World: A Practitioners' Handbook
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Boom and Bust: A Global History of Financial Bubbles
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Belt and Road: A Chinese World Order
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Power, for All: How It Really Works and Why It's Everyone's Business
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The Misfit Economy: Lessons in Creativity From Pirates, Hackers, Gangsters and Other Informal Entrepreneurs
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The Hostage's Daughter
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The People: The Rise and Fall of the Working Class, 1910-2010
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The Economics of Enough: How to Run the Economy as if the Future Matters
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Dreaming in Public: Building the Occupy Movement
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Triumph of the City: How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier, and Happier
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Small Change: Why Business Won't Save the World
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Leviathan Wakes
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The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
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Blueprint: The Evolutionary Origins of a Good Society
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How Everything Became War and the Military Became Everything: Tales From the Pentagon
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The Case for Israel
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Team Topologies: Organizing Business and Technology Teams for Fast Flow
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Why Europe Will Run the 21st Century
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Augmented: Life in the Smart Lane
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How Markets Fail: The Logic of Economic Calamities
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