Global Challenge of the Global Challenge
(Non-Kairos references)
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Platform for Change. John Wiley, 1978
Beyond Dispute: The Invention of Team Syntegrity. John Wiley, 1994
David Bohm. Wholeness and the Implicate Order. Routledge, 1980
David Bornstein. How to Change the World: social entrepreneurs and the power of new ideas. Oxford University Press, 2007
Karen A. Cerulo. Never Saw It Coming: cultural challenges to envisioning the worst. University of Chicago Press, 2006
Jared M. Diamond. Collapse: how societies choose to fail or succeed. Penguin, 2005
Avant-Garde Politician: Leaders for a New Epoch. Westphalia Press, 2014
The Capacity to Govern. Frank Cass Publishers, 2001
Bright-sided: how the relentless promotion of positive thinking has undermined America. Metropolitan Books, 2009
Smile Or Die: how positive thinking fooled America and the world. Granta Books, 2010 [summary]
John Elkington. The Chrysalis Economy: How citizen CEOs and corporations can fuse values and value creation. John Wiley and Sons, 2001 [contents]
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Synergetics: Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking. Macmillan, vol. 2, 1979
Towards a GPID World Model: Some Basic Considerations [text]
The GPID(L) World Model: Some Basic Aspects [text]
Goals and Processes of Development: An Integrated View [text]
Global Processes and the World in the 1980s: Prolegomenon I for a GPID World Model [text]
The Age of Unreason: new thinking for a new world. Random House, 1989
The Empty Raincoat: making sense of the future. Random House, 1995
Thomas Homer-Dixon. The Upside of Down: catastrophe, creativity and the renewal of civilization. Island Press, 2006
Alexander Klose. The Container Principle: how a box changes the way we think. MIT Press, 2015
/ . Metaphors We Live By. University of Chicago Press, 1980.
/ . Philosophy In The Flesh: the embodied mind and its challenge to Western thought. Basic Books, 1999.
Donald N. Michael. Learning to Plan and Planning to Learn. Miles River Press, 1997
/ . Merchants of Doubt: how a handful of scientists obscured the truth on issues from tobacco smoke to global warming. Bloomsbury Press, 2010.
Paul Ormerod. Why Most Things Fail: evolution, extinction and economics. Wiley, 2005 [extracts]
Geoffrey Allen Pigman. The World Economic Forum: a multi-stakeholder approach to global governance. Routledge, 2007
Joshua Cooper Ramo. 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
Johan Rockström. Planetary Boundaries: Exploring the Safe Operating Space for Humanity. Ecology and Society, 14, 2009, 2
Johan Rockström. Big World, Small Planet: Abundance within Planetary Boundaries. Yale University Press, 2015
Judith Rodin. The Resilience Dividend: managing disruption, avoiding diaster and growing stronger in an unpredictable world. Profile, 2015
David J. Rothkopf. Superclass: the global power elite and the world they are making. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008
John Ralston Saul. The Unconscious Civilization. Free Press, 1995
/ (Eds.). World Social Forum: Challenging Empires. Black Rose Books, 2007. [summary]
Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder. Random House. 2012 [commentary]
The Black Swan: the impact of the highly improbable. Random House, 2007 [commentary]
Structural Stability and Morphogenesis. W. A. Benjamin, 1972
Semio Physics: A Sketch. Addison Wesley, 1990
Geoffrey Vickers. Freedom in a Rocking Boat: changing values in an unstable society. 1972
Peter Waterman. World Social Forum: the secret of fire. 2003 [text]