Camus (Writers and critics)

King, Adele

Literature & Fiction

Capricorn Books

Phenomenology and existentialism (Capricorn books)

Politics & Social Sciences

Richard Zaner and Don Ihde

Philosophy

<p>At the historic moment when the crisis of resource depletion, especially energy, has become the overwhelming anxiety of mankind, a book appears by the world's foremost thinkers and scientists focused directly on the subject.  "On Growth" is the creation of some seventy intellectuals who discuss every conceivable aspect of the crisis, with emphases that range from despair to high optimism.  What is so invaluable here is the lucidity of their presentations - a tribute to the skilled interviewing techniques of Editor Willem Oltmans - and the fact that this book touches every one of us.  For all of us are implicated.  Each of our individual lives is about to be decisively affected by the momentous transformation of the globe we have hitherto taken for granted.  The pressure of an exploding world population now coincides with a cataclysmic growth in the per capita consumption of energy and finite raw materials.  When MIT Professor Jay W. Forester's study team produced the report "The Limits of Growth" on the world's dynamic pattern of population growth and resource use based upon a sophisticated computerized model, it was an immediate best seller.  It provoked worldwide controversial discussion throughout 1971 and 1972.  "On Growth" is the sequel a concerned world has been waiting for, at a time when comprehension of the issues of growth and the implications of the energy crisis may be crucial to our standard of living for generations to come.</p>

On Growth: The Crisis of Exploding Population and Resource Depletion

The major issue of our time has become the imminent threat of disaster owing to accelerating population growth and the rapid exhaustion of the earth's natural resources.  When, in 1972, the Club of Rome report "The Limits of Growth" became an international best-seller, certain of its premises met with worldwide disagreement.  But its predictions suddenly seemed all too possible when the energy crisis and world economic strife surfaced in ensuing months.  Then, in 1974, Putnam's published "On Growth," a response to the Club of Rome's report, which Library Journal termed "a needed antidote for any library with 'The Limits of Growth' on its shelf."  And now the debate continues with Putnam's publication of "On Growth II."  In "On Growth II," Editor Willem L. Oltmans has collected the reactions of noted foreign authorities, all from the Third World socialist and Eastern countries.  Some forty-eight scientists, historians, philosophers, statesmen, and economists are interviewed in depth, updating and evaluating from the perspective of recent events, in discussions permeated with a consciousness of social and political planning and structure.  The result is a book of searching criticism, an invaluable study for everyone concerned with the problems of growth, resources, and sociopolitical and industrial development, an essential counterpart to the Club of Rome.

On Growth II: The Crisis of Exploding Population and Resource Depletion

Political Science, Current Events, Philosophy

All We Are Saying., The Philosophy of the New Left

LOTHSTEIN, Arthur--Editor

Eminent Victorians: Cardinal Manning, Florence Nightingale, Dr. Arnold, General Gordon

Biographies & Memoirs

Strachey,Lytton

Community & Culture

The twentieth century has witnessed the blossoming of Western culture: new technology; communications and transportation systems; social, political, educational, agricultural, and medical advances. But with these changes have come the strains and tensions of conflicting interests, desires, and values within the community. John Dewey, one of America's most prolific writers of popular philosophy, believed that humankind could keep a firm hold on its destiny only if the critical intelligence of scientific method and its democratic counterpart were emphasized and promoted. Freedom of inquiry, tolerance of diverse ideas and opinions, cultural pluralism, free speech, and a willingness to cooperate in pursuit of shared values and ideals would be the springboard for social development.

Freedom and Culture

John, Dewey

<p>These diaries concern his daily life, his relations with the Indians, the treatment of his slaves, his sexual and emotional life, and the growth of his community.</p>

The Great American Gentleman: William Byrd of Westover in Virginia--His Secret Diary for the Years 1709-1712

Byrd, William

Louis B Wright Editor

Marion Tinling (editor)

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History of the Islamic Peoples

Religion & Spirituality

Carl Brockelmann

Islam

An illustrated history of the Horror Film through 1968

An Illustrated History of the Horror Films

Carlos CLARENS

Genre Fiction

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