Challenges conventional visions of the future by suggesting a new course for society based on humanity's responsibilities to the living earth

Biosphere Politics: A Cultural Odyssey from the Middle Ages to the New Age

Politics & Social Sciences

RIFKIN, Jeremy

Social Sciences

Harpercollins

Examines the background, transformations, and present and future implications of genetic engineering and the biological revolution and argues that we are on the verge of a shift more profound than the Industrial Revolution

Algeny: A New Word--A New World

Engineering & Transportation

Automotive

Viking Pr

Jeremy Rifkin argues that we are entering a new phase in history - one characterized by the steady and inevitable decline of jobs. The world, says Rifkin, is fast polarizing into two potentially irreconcilable forces: on one side, an information elite that controls and manages the high-tech global economy; and on the other, the growing numbers displaced workers, who have few prospects and little hope for meaningful employment in an increasingly automated world. The end of work could mean the demise of civilization as we have come to know it, or signal the beginning of a great social transformation and a rebirth of the human spirit.

The End of Work : The Decline of the Global Labor Force and the Dawn of the Post Market Era

Business & Money

Economics

Penguin

THE AGE OF ACCESS: HOW THE SHIFT FROM OWNERSHIP TO ACCESS IS TRANSFORMING MODERN LIFE (PENGUIN BUSINESS LIBRARY)

Penguin??Books

The Industrial Revolution, powered by oil and other fossil fuels, is spiraling into a dangerous endgame. The price of gas and food are climbing, unemployment remains high, the housing market has tanked, consumer and government debt is soaring, and the recovery is slowing. Facing the prospect of a second collapse of the global economy, humanity is desperate for a sustainable economic game plan to take us into the future.
Here, Jeremy Rifkin explores how Internet technology and renewable energy are merging to create a powerful "Third Industrial Revolution." He asks us to imagine hundreds of millions of people producing their own green energy in their homes, offices, and factories, and sharing it with each other in an "energy internet," just like we now create and share information online.
Rifkin describes how the five-pillars of the Third Industrial Revolution will create thousands of businesses, millions of jobs, and usher in a fundamental reordering of human relationships, from hierarchical to lateral power, that will impact the way we conduct commerce, govern society, educate our children, and engage in civic life.
Rifkin's vision is already gaining traction in the international community. The European Union Parliament has issued a formal declaration calling for its implementation, and other nations in Asia, Africa, and the Americas, are quickly preparing their own initiatives for transitioning into the new economic paradigm.
The Third Industrial Revolution is an insider's account of the next great economic era, including a look into the personalities and players ― heads of state, global CEOs, social entrepreneurs, and NGOs ― who are pioneering its implementation around the world.

The Third Industrial Revolution: How Lateral Power Is Transforming Energy, the Economy, and the World

St.Martin's Press

The Industrial Revolution, powered by oil and other fossil fuels, is spiraling into a dangerous endgame. The price of gas and food are climbing, unemployment remains high, the housing market has tanked, consumer and government debt is soaring, and the recovery is slowing. Facing the prospect of a second collapse of the global economy, humanity is desperate for a sustainable economic game plan to take us into the future.
Here, Jeremy Rifkin explores how Internet technology and renewable energy are merging to create a powerful "Third Industrial Revolution." He asks us to imagine hundreds of millions of people producing their own green energy in their homes, offices, and factories, and sharing it with each other in an "energy internet," just like we now create and share information online.
Rifkin describes how the five-pillars of the Third Industrial Revolution will create thousands of businesses, millions of jobs, and usher in a fundamental reordering of human relationships, from hierarchical to lateral power, that will impact the way we conduct commerce, govern society, educate our children, and engage in civic life. Rifkin's vision is already gaining traction in the international community. The European Union Parliament has issued a formal declaration calling for its implementation, and other nations in Asia, Africa, and the Americas, are quickly preparing their own initiatives for transitioning into the new economic paradigm. The Third Industrial Revolution is an insider's account of the next great economic era, including a look into the personalities and players ― heads of state, global CEOs, social entrepreneurs, and NGOs ― who are pioneering its implementation around the world.

St. Martin's: Griffin

Argues that a spiritual awakening that already has adherents among the Charismatics and the Evangelicals will bring man to the threshold of a brave new world or provide the basis for an emerging fascism

The Emerging Order

Religion & Spirituality

Ballantine Books

An indispensable political handbook for evaluating candidates' "green quotient" in the 1992 elections. The book includes a list of the most important legislation that has been introduced in the past few years; details the voting record of each member of Congress; and includes a questionnaire designed to determine candidates' allegiance to the green agenda.

Voting Green: Your Complete Environmental Guide to Making Political Choices in the 90s

Main Street Books

The 1960s represented a giant Wood-stock of doomsaying," writes this wry critic. I am quite sure that some of the people who were so eminently quotable in the Sixties would just as soon forget what they said or wrote. The greatest lesson in responsibility, however, is to be held responsible for one's statements." All the prophets of political, social and ecological doom get their turn to squirm. Metropolitan newspapers, the campus and underground press, college professors, public officials - they all had their fling in this orgy of rhetorical brinkmanship: Dave Dellinger (and so many others), "who left prophecies of doom wherever he could find a paying college audience." ? The New York Times, whose "Op Ed page alone was loaded with so many predictions of gloom for the future that one must almost feel, as Keats put it, 'half in love with easeful death.' The Wandervogel, those "sad-faced, humorless children of the urban middle class" who "are really incipient George Apleys of the future. One can see them now - telling their children about those hard days of the 1960s." Eugene McCarthy, whose 1960 definition of a liberal (as a person given to "more subtle or sophisticated explanations") almost immediately became outdated. "There was, to play upon the words of Eugene McCarthy, hardly anything sophisticated about the attempts to blow up the Statue of Liberty, the Liberty Bell, the Capitol in Washington, or hundreds of university structures throughout the land." Mr. Hicken dips into our history, finds striking similarities between the Jacksonian period and the 1960s: communal experiments, women's lib, civil rights, penal reform, religious exoticism, college riots, ecology, even "natural food" movements. He brings to light the real causes of Sixties tumult, rescuing Vietnam from its convenient role as scapegoat. The author concludes that both liberals and radicals must share the blame for the excesses of the Sixties, and shows why.

Howard, T.

Literature & Fiction

Penguin Adult HC/TR

Explains the nature of recombinant DNA and provides an historical review of the heated controversy surrounding eugenics and genetic engineering

Who Should Play God

Philosophy

Laurel

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Biosphere Politics: A Cultural Odyssey from the Middle Ages to the New Age

Algeny: A New Word--A New World

The End of Work : The Decline of the Global Labor Force and the Dawn of the Post Market Era

THE AGE OF ACCESS: HOW THE SHIFT FROM OWNERSHIP TO ACCESS IS TRANSFORMING MODERN LIFE (PENGUIN BUSINESS LIBRARY)

The Third Industrial Revolution: How Lateral Power Is Transforming Energy, the Economy, and the World

The Third Industrial Revolution: How Lateral Power Is Transforming Energy, the Economy, and the World

The Emerging Order

Voting Green: Your Complete Environmental Guide to Making Political Choices in the 90s

The Emerging Order

Who Should Play God