Friedman discusses how the key to understanding the 21st century is understanding that the planet's three largest forces -- Moore's law (technology), the market (globalization) and Mother Nature (climate change and biodiversity loos) -- are accelerating all at once. And these accelerations are transforming the five key realms: the workplace, politics, geopolitics, ethics, and community. Friedman posits that we should purposely "be late" -- we should...

An in-depth look at the impact of a multinational gold mining industry on the economy, environment and traditions of a local community in Guinea. End of the Rainbow provides a concise, in-depth look at the impact of global extractive industries on local populations, their economy, their traditions and their environment. It depicts in striking details the confrontation of two cultures, one indigenous the other a unique reflection of the age of globalization....

For decades, Clotaire Rapaille's work focused on how people's relationships with the most important concepts in their lives-love, health, and money, for instance-are guided by subconscious cultural messages. But recently, he has uncovered a new phenomenon: a "global unconscious," or core values and feelings that are consistent worldwide-the result of our constant interconnectedness. He has also identified a new group who are paving the way for the...

Outlines a panoramic view of what the authors predict will be the next phase of globalization, describing transportation-centric urban regions designed to keep workers, suppliers, and goods networked within the global marketplace.

From gender and identity to welfare and consumerism, sociology is the study of how societies are organized and what helps them function or go wrong. Questions posed include: What is my "tribe"? Why do people commit crimes? Who decides if someone has a mental illness? What's work for? Does aid do any good? Heads Up Sociology explores these fascinating questions and more.

Facebooking the Anthropocene in Raja Ampat is a deeply intimate look at the cataclysmic shifts between humans, technology, and the so-called natural world. Amid the breakneck pace of both technological advance and environmental collapse, Robert Ostertag explores how we ourselves are changing as fast as the world around us-from how we make music, to how we have sex, to what we do to survive, and who we imagine ourselves to be. And though, the environmental...

The Editor in Chief of The Economist, illuminates what global issues mattered in the last century-and how the ways in which we deal with them will shape our lives in the next. The attacks on September 11th, 2001, shook the rich West out of its complacency; suddenly, peace looked to be in peril. Even before that time, prosperity was endangered, as campaigns mounted against the purported evils of capitalist globalization, such as inequality, pollution,...

Capitalism likes us to believe in the steady, inevitable march of progress, from the abacus to the iPad. But the historical record tells of innumerable roads not taken, all of which could have led to better, more equal worlds, and still can. Academic and activist Bob Hughes puts flesh on the bones of the idea that 'another world is possible', using as evidence the technology that capitalism claims as quintessentially its own: the computer in all its...