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  • Stable Peace

    by Kenneth E. Boulding ...
    The human race has often put a high value on struggle, strife, turmoil, and excitement. Peace has been regarded as a utopian, unattainable, perhaps dull ideal or as some random element over which we have no control. However, the desperate necessities of the nuclear age have forced us to take peace seriously as an object of both personal and national policy. Stable Peace attempts to answer the ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • The Optimum Utilization Of Knowledge

    Making Knowledge Serve Human Betterment

    by Kenneth E. Boulding, Lawrence Senesh ...
    We all have more knowledge than we use; even so, say the editors of this book, ignorance often governs our actions. Society continues to find ways to misuse knowledge–from manipulating information to gain political power to restricting what ideas are explored on university campuses. Thus, when some of the best minds in the country met to focus on the optimum utilization of knowledge, it was not an ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Illustrating Economics

    Beasts, Ballads and Aphorisms

    by Kenneth E. Boulding ...
    This volume is a sampling of quips, verses, drawings, and even the music of one of the most original and versatile minds of the twentieth century, Kenneth Boulding prominent economist, lecturer, and author.The driving force behind Kenneth Boulding's wideranging book is that he truly en joys all that he does. Indeed, his greatest accomplishment may very well be that he was a profoundly happy man. ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • The Meaning of the Twentieth Century

    The Great Transition

    by Kenneth Boulding ...
    Series series World Perspectives
    Originally published in 1965 and written by a noted economist and leader in the field of conflict resolution, this book traces the forces which have brought the 20th century ‘post-civilisation’ into being: the ever-increasing power of science and the scientific attitude, the global communication network, the high efficiency of industrial societies. New conditions pointed to a life of ease but also ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

  • Evolution, Order and Complexity

    by Kenneth Boulding, Elias Khalil ...
    Series series Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy
    Evolution, Order and Complexity reflects topical interest in the relationship between the social and natural worlds. It represents the cutting edge of current thinking which challenges the natural/social dichotomy thesis by showing how the application of ideas which derive from biology can be applied and offer insight into the social realm. This is done by introducing the general system theory to ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Conflict and Defense

    A General Theory

    by Kenneth Ewart Boulding ...
    Conflict and Defense, which was first published in 1962, presents a general theory of conflict, drawing on theoretical analyses from sociology and economics. This text by Kenneth E. Boulding, a pre-eminent economist and founder of ecological economics, examines the common processes of conflict, the roles of different participants in conflicts, and describes features which are unique to specific ... Read more

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    Toward a Legal System in Tune with Nature and Community

    by Fritjof Capra, Ugo Mattei ...
    Winner, IBPA Benjamin Franklin Award in Politics/Current Events: A systems theorist and a legal scholar present a new paradigm for protecting our planet.This is the first book to trace the fascinating parallel history of law and science from antiquity to modern times, showing how the two disciplines have always influenced each other—until recently. In the past few decades, science has shifted from ... Read more

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  • Future Shock

    by Alvin Toffler ...
    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The classic work that predicted the anxieties of a world upended by rapidly emerging technologies—and now provides a road map to solving many of our most pressing crises.“Explosive . . . brilliantly formulated.” —The Wall Street JournalFuture Shock is the classic that changed our view of tomorrow. Its startling insights into accelerating change led a president to ask ... Read more

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  • Beyond Economics and Ecology

    The Radical Thought of Ivan Illich

    by Ivan Illich, Jerry Brown, Sajay Samuel ...
    Each of the four essays reprinted here was written for a specific occasion and together comprise only the smallest selection from a larger corpus questioning commodity and energy-intensive economies. The essays are presented thematically instead of chronologically to offer a better view of the sweep of Illich's argument. In the first two, "War against Subsistence" and "Shadow Work," Illich reveals ... Read more

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  • Oh, Oh, Canada!

    A Voice from the Conservative Resistance

    by William D. Gairdner ...
    For more than two decades, William D. Gairdner has been a major voice from the conservative resistance, primarily through his bestselling books The Trouble with Canada . . . Still, The War Against the Family, and The Trouble with Democracy.Now, in this new book, his passionate, probing, and provocative intellect is hard at work, ranging over hot button issues of the day in the spheres of culture, ... Read more

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  • Havoc, Thy Name Is Twenty-First Century!

    Thermodynamic Isolation and the New World Order

    by Peter Pogany ...
    Just to maintain our standard of living, we need to grow the worldwide economy at an unsustainable rate.As we seek to hit such lofty targets, were bound to deplete our resources and cause environmental crises on a scale that we have never seen before. Revolutions, terrorism, and wars will follow.Peter Pogany examines the problems we face and argues that human culture is governed by thermodynamic ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • The Logic of Liberty

    Reflections and Rejoinders

    by Michael Polanyi ...
    Series series International Library of Sociology
    This is Volume XI of eighteen in the Political Sociology Series and looks at the rejections and rejoinders of the logic of liberty, originally published in 1951. ... Read more

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