The 9/11 Wars
by Jason Burke · 1 Sep 2011 · 885pp · 271,563 words
for this was the lack of a legal framework to deal with an amorphous, dynamic and fragmented movement based more on personal relations and a shared worldview than on formal membership of an organization. So when in 2001 the perpetrators of the 1998 embassy bombings went on trial in New York, al
The Great Turning: From Empire to Earth Community
by David C. Korten · 1 Jan 2001
understand, and possibly dangerous. Through extended intercultural experience, however, we come to see the deeper truth of culture as an organizing construct that defines a shared worldview essential to social coherence. Coming to understand the nature of culture is the essence of the critical transition from Socialized Consciousness to Cultural Consciousness described
Doppelganger: A Trip Into the Mirror World
by Naomi Klein · 11 Sep 2023
the discrediting of the MMR vaccine.) In this convergence of worlds, we can see more than a shared infrastructure of misinformation: there is also a shared worldview, a shared mindset, a shared way of seeing people as either normal or deviant, pure or tainted, successes or failures. And even, as in all
The Outsiders: Eight Unconventional CEOs and Their Radically Rational Blueprint for Success
by William Thorndike · 14 Sep 2012 · 330pp · 59,335 words
; for Bill Anders, it was divesting noncore businesses; for Warren Buffett, it was the generation and deployment of insurance float. At the core of their shared worldview was the belief that the primary goal for any CEO was to optimize long-term value per share, not organizational growth. This may seem like
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faced the inherent uncertainty of the business world with a patient, rational, pragmatic opportunism, not a detailed set of strategic plans. TABLE 9-1 A shared worldview Their specific actions stemmed from a broader, shared mindset and added up to nothing less than a new model for CEO success, one centered on
Why Liberalism Failed
by Patrick J. Deneen · 9 Jan 2018 · 215pp · 61,435 words
it is far less than it seems—and indeed that the apparent unbridgeability of the chasm separating the two sides merely masks a more fundamental, shared worldview. The project of advancing the liberal order takes the superficial form of a battle between seemingly intractable foes, and the energy and acrimony of that
The Soul of Wealth
by Daniel Crosby · 19 Sep 2024 · 229pp · 73,085 words
with you! But if we delve beyond this superficial and cynical perspective, we uncover a surprising amount of common ground rather than disagreement in our shared worldviews. Ideas like compassion, kindness, justice, integrity, and nonviolence are shared by most cultures and creeds, although their expressions of these tenets come from different philosophical
Sleeping Giant: How the New Working Class Will Transform America
by Tamara Draut · 4 Apr 2016 · 255pp · 75,172 words
old-fashioned consciousness-raising, and for the progressive movement, the loss of unions playing this role is a severe blow to building the kind of shared worldview among the working class critical for rebuilding political power. And that kind of work is gaining more traction across the labor movement. In February 2015
The Human Swarm: How Our Societies Arise, Thrive, and Fall
by Mark W. Moffett · 31 Mar 2019 · 692pp · 189,065 words
’t know them. As for societies, markers add up to an indelible awareness of who we are, yoking people who haven’t met to a shared worldview even when those traits do not require our attention. During the average moment, our markers are so familiar and expected that we notice them no
Set Boundaries, Find Peace: A Guide to Reclaiming Yourself
by Nedra Glover Tawwab · 16 Mar 2021 · 325pp · 67,076 words
, and clothed take energy, time, and resolve. In an effort to keep the family running smoothly, parents discuss carpool pickups and grocery runs instead of sharing worldviews or their thoughts on presidential elections. Questions about their day are replaced with questions about whether the diaper looks full. These changes can be more
The Death of Truth: Notes on Falsehood in the Age of Trump
by Michiko Kakutani · 17 Jul 2018 · 137pp · 38,925 words
heavily on this “insulated knowledge community,” which uses “social media as a backbone to transmit a hyper-partisan perspective to the world” and reinforces users’ shared worldview while poisoning them against mainstream journalism that might challenge their preconceptions. The result: an environment in which the president can allude to a terrorist event
The Global Auction: The Broken Promises of Education, Jobs, and Incomes
by Phillip Brown, Hugh Lauder and David Ashton · 3 Nov 2010 · 209pp · 80,086 words
The Organized Mind: Thinking Straight in the Age of Information Overload
by Daniel J. Levitin · 18 Aug 2014 · 685pp · 203,949 words
Transcending the Cold War: Summits, Statecraft, and the Dissolution of Bipolarity in Europe, 1970–1990
by Kristina Spohr and David Reynolds · 24 Aug 2016 · 627pp · 127,613 words
A Modern History of Hong Kong: 1841-1997
by Steve Tsang · 14 Aug 2007 · 691pp · 169,563 words