Global Challenge of the Global Challenge

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Global Challenge of the Global Challenge (Non-Kairos references)

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Beer, Stafford.  Platform for Change. John Wiley, 1978.

Beer, Stafford.  Beyond Dispute: The Invention of Team Syntegrity. John Wiley, 1994.

Bohm, David.  Wholeness and the Implicate Order. Routledge, 1980.

Bornstein, David.  How to Change the World: social entrepreneurs and the power of new ideas. Oxford University Press, 2007.

Cerulo, Karen A.  Never Saw It Coming: cultural challenges to envisioning the worst. University of Chicago Press, 2006.

Diamond, Jared M.  Collapse: how societies choose to fail or succeed. Penguin, 2005.

Dror, Yehezkel.  Avant-Garde Politician: Leaders for a New Epoch. Westphalia Press, 2014.

Dror, Yehezkel.  The Capacity to Govern. Frank Cass Publishers, 2001.

Ehrenreich, Barbara.  Bright-sided: how the relentless promotion of positive thinking has undermined America. Metropolitan Books, 2009.

Ehrenreich, Barbara.  Smile Or Die: how positive thinking fooled America and the world. Granta Books, 2010. [summary]

Elkington, John.  The Chrysalis Economy: How citizen CEOs and corporations can fuse values and value creation. John Wiley and Sons, 2001. [contents]

Fuller, R. Buckminster  (in collaboration with E. J. Applewhite).    Synergetics: Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking. Macmillan, vol. 1, 1975.

Fuller, R. Buckminster  (in collaboration with E. J. Applewhite).    Synergetics: Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking. Macmillan, vol. 2, 1979.

Galtung, Johan.  Towards a GPID World Model: Some Basic Considerations. [text]

Galtung, Johan.  The GPID(L) World Model: Some Basic Aspects. [text]

Galtung, Johan.  Goals and Processes of Development: An Integrated View. [text]

Galtung, Johan.  Global Processes and the World in the 1980s: Prolegomenon I for a GPID World Model. [text]

Handy, Charles B.  The Age of Unreason: new thinking for a new world. Random House, 1989.

Handy, Charles B.  The Empty Raincoat: making sense of the future. Random House, 1995.

Homer-Dixon, Thomas.  The Upside of Down: catastrophe, creativity and the renewal of civilization. Island Press, 2006.

Klose, Alexander.  The Container Principle: how a box changes the way we think. MIT Press, 2015.

Lakoff, George / Johnson, Mark.  Metaphors We Live By. University of Chicago Press, 1980.

Lakoff, George / Johnson, Mark.  Philosophy In The Flesh: the embodied mind and its challenge to Western thought. Basic Books, 1999.

Michael, Donald N.  Learning to Plan and Planning to Learn. Miles River Press, 1997.

Oreskes, Naomi / Conway, Erik M.  Merchants of Doubt: how a handful of scientists obscured the truth on issues from tobacco smoke to global warming. Bloomsbury Press, 2010.

Ormerod, Paul.  Why Most Things Fail: evolution, extinction and economics. Wiley, 2005. [extracts]

Pigman, Geoffrey Allen.  The World Economic Forum: a multi-stakeholder approach to global governance. Routledge, 2007.

Ramo, Joshua Cooper.  The Age of the Unthinkable: Why the New World Disorder Constantly Surprises Us And What We Can Do About It. Little, Brown and Company, 2009.

Rockström, Johan.  Planetary Boundaries: Exploring the Safe Operating Space for Humanity. Ecology and Society, 14, 2009, 2.

Rockström, Johan.  Big World, Small Planet: Abundance within Planetary Boundaries. Yale University Press, 2015.

Rodin, Judith.  The Resilience Dividend: managing disruption, avoiding diaster and growing stronger in an unpredictable world. Profile, 2015.

Rothkopf, David J.  Superclass: the global power elite and the world they are making. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008.

Saul, John Ralston.  The Unconscious Civilization. Free Press, 1995.

Sen, Jai / Waterman, Peter  (Eds.).    World Social Forum: Challenging Empires. Black Rose Books, 2007. [summary]

Taleb, Nassim Nicholas.  Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder. Random House. 2012. [commentary]

Taleb, Nassim Nicholas.  The Black Swan: the impact of the highly improbable. Random House, 2007. [commentary]

Thom, René.  Structural Stability and Morphogenesis. W. A. Benjamin, 1972.

Thom, René.  Semio Physics: A Sketch. Addison Wesley, 1990.

Vickers, Geoffrey.  Freedom in a Rocking Boat: changing values in an unstable society. 1972.

Waterman, Peter.  World Social Forum: the secret of fire. 2003. [text]