THE CHAOS POINT THE WORLD AT THE CROSSROADS ERVIN LASZLO PIATKUS BOOKS 2006 PART II PART ONE: THE TIDES OF TRANSFORMATION Chapter 1: New Thinking for a New World Einstein told us that we cannot solve the significant problems we face at the same level of thinking at which we were when …
THE INNER LIMITS OF MANKIND HERETICAL REFLECTIONS ON TODAY’S VALUES, CULTURE AND POLITICS ERVIN LASZLO One World Publications 1989 PART IV Chapter 4: Political Limits: The Crisis of International Political Will (Cont.) The unperceived imperatives The UN would be the obvious instrument for defining global goals and coordinating the policies required for their achievement …
MAN’S SEARCH FOR MEANING VIKTOR E. FRANKL WASHINGTON SQUARE PRESS 1959 PART II PART ONE: EXPERIENCES IN A CONCENTRATION CAMP (Cont) Another sensation seized us: curiosity. Cold curiosity predominated even in Auschwitz, somehow detaching the mind from its surroundings, which came to be regarded with a kind of objectivity. We were anxious to know …
THE INNER LIMITS OF MANKIND HERETICAL REFLECTIONS ON TODAY’S VALUES, CULTURE AND POLITICS ERVIN LASZLO One World Publications 1989 PART III Chapter 3: Cultural Limits. The Atrophy of Positive Vision Where there is no vision the people perish. (Proverbs 29:18) A tale of the power of positive vision In ancient Arabia, Mamun inherited …
THE FIVE LESSONS OF LIFE BILL ADAMS RIDER 2000 PART 1 Preface This book records the teachings of Sangratan, a healer/counselor who travels the passes of the Himalayas near the Indo-Tibet border. It sets out the Five Lessons of Life familiar to the mountain people who live there, lessons which have helped them to …
IN PRAISE OF SLOW HOW A WORLDWIDE MOVEMENT IS CHALLENGING THE CULT OF SPEED CARL HONORE ORION 2004 There is more to life than increasing its speed. Gandhi Introduction: The Age of Rage People are born and married, and live and die, in the midst of an uproar so frantic that you would …
THE LEXUS AND THE OLIVE TREE UNDERSTANDING GLOBALIZATION THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN FARRAR STRAUS GIROUX 1999 PART I Opening Scene: The World Is Ten Years Old • On the morning of December 8, 1997, the government of Thailand announced that it was closing 56 of the country’s 58 top finance houses. Almost overnight, these private banks …
