In a witty, acerbic, and provocative book, the author of the influential futurist synthesis The Knowledge-Value Revolution shows how Japan, borrowing elements from both China and the West, has created a culture unlike any other one that is still changing in a uniquely Japanese way.
Spurred by modernization, global politics is being reconfigured along cultural lines. Peoples and countries with similar cultures are coming together. Peoples and countries with different cultures are coming apart. Alignments defined by ideology and superpower relations are giving way to alignments defined by culture and civilization. Political bound- aries are increasingly redrawn to coincide …
Spurred by modernization, global politics is being reconfigured along cultural lines. Peoples and countries with similar cultures are coming together. Peoples and countries with different cultures are coming apart. Alignments defined by ideology and superpower relations are giving way to alignments defined by culture and civilization. Political bound- aries are increasingly redrawn to coincide …
This collection of primary, secondary, and visual sources for the Western Civilization survey course provides a broad introduction to the materials historians use, the interpretations historians make, and 6,000 years of Western civilization. Its broad selection of documents, photographs, maps, and charts, and its full array of accompanying commentaries - drawn from a balanced spectrum of perspe…
The contents of this book: 1. A World Atlas of Company Goals 2. New Horizons through Global Goals 3. Breaking through the Inner Limits
This book to realizes the necessity that our society understand the impact of the globalizing economy upon our lives and our way of living. When it seems that it is not possible to stop the intrusive force of globalization, we purpose that cultural elements of our society be used to counter its effects.
Beyond today's more immediate foreign policy questions in the European-American relationship, there are significant underlying trends that shape the issues and have their roots in domestic factors.
Contents: The Clash of Civilizations (Summer 1993), The Summoning (September/October 1993), The Dangers of Decadence (September/October 1993), The Case for Optimism (September/October 1993), Civilization Grafting (September/October 1993), The Modernizing Imperative (September/October 1993), Do Civilizations Hold? (September/October 1993), The West is Best (September/October 199…
In this volume Mr. Fowler, selecting from the six-volume edition of Toynbee's A Study of History, brings together a large number of passages which bear on the problem of war, which was already afflict- ing mankind at the earliest stage to which civilization can be traced. Although Toynbee, in discussing its history and present significance, has no facile remedies to propose, he believes experie…
At century's end is a powerfull collection of essays and interviews by thirty of the world's top thinkers and leaders, providing insight on the course of the world at the end of the twentieth century. Never ponderous nor heavy, the writing is concise, informative, and thought-provoking, giving perspectives from many regions of the globe.