Author: Eberhard Arnold
Publisher: Plough Publishing House
Keywords: need, world, individual
Number of Pages: 72
Published: 1992-09
ISBN-10: 0874860520
ISBN-13: 9780874860528

Timeless yet as timely as ever, this short book explores the relationship of the individual to world suffering and points clearly to a solution. Enlivened by a wide variety of anecdotes--from the ancient myth of Prometheus to the expressionist Franz Werfel--Eberhard Arnold's message is simple but revolutionary: only by overcoming the cancer of individualism can we begin to address the need of the world. Arnold's essential diagnosis of what is wrong in the world--fragmentation, alienation, lust for power and wealth--is as precise today as when he penned this essay in the 1920s. The agony he

Author: World Bank Group
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Keywords: bank, country, study, world, poverty, overcoming, rural, china
Number of Pages: 154
Published: 2001-04
ISBN-10: 0821349252
ISBN-13: 9780821349250

The primary purpose of this report is to assess the state of poverty in China at the end of the 1990s. The book also evaluates the most effective and efficient means of overcoming the remaining absolute poverty in the new decade. It focuses on China's absolute poor who are increasingly concentrated in remote and mountainous townships and villages. The report places considerable emphasis on the macroeconomic context, and finds that the trends in poverty reduction in the 1990s have been partly determined by larger macroeconomic trends.

Authors:Dalia Dassa Kaye, Frederic Wehrey, Audra K. Grant
Publisher: RAND
Keywords: arab, world, violence, political, terror, liberalization, freedom
Number of Pages: 100
Published: 2008
ISBN-10: 0833045083
ISBN-13: 9780833045089

In the wake of September 11 through the U.S. invasion of Iraq, a key tenet of U.S. foreign policy has been that promoting democracy in the Arab world is an important strategy in reducing terrorism; at the same time, some policymakers and analysts have held that democracy has nothing to do with terrorism

Author: World Health Organization Department of Reproducti
Publisher: Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health/Ce
Keywords: providers, handbook, global, planning, family
Number of Pages: 372
Published: 2007-06-11
ISBN-10: 0978856309
ISBN-13: 9780978856304

This new handbook offers clinic-based health care professionals the latest guidance on providing contraceptive methods. One of the World Heath Organization s Four Cornerstones of Family Planning Guidance, the book has been prepared through a unique collaboration between Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, the United States Agency for International Development and over 30 organizations around the world.

Author: Rudy Rucker
Publisher: Tor Books
Keywords: postsingular
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2009-02-03
ISBN-10: 0765318725
ISBN-13: 9780765318725

It begins the day after next year in California. A maladjusted computer industry billionaire and a somewhat crazy US president initiate a radical transformation of the world through sentient nanotechnology; sort of the equivalent of biological artificial intelligence. At first they succeed, but their plans are reversed by Chu, an autistic boy. The next time it isn’t so easy to stop them.Most of the story takes place in our world after a previously unimaginable transformation. All things look the same, and all people feel the same—but they are different (they’re able to read e

Author: Lester R. Brown
Publisher: W. W. Norton
Keywords: third, civilization, save, mobilizing, plan
Number of Pages: 384
Published: 2008-01-16
ISBN-10: 0393330877
ISBN-13: 9780393330878

"How to build a more just world and save the planet....We should all heed Brown’s advice."—Bill ClintonIn this updated edition of the landmark Plan B, Lester Brown outlines a survival strategy for our early twenty-first-century civilization. The world faces many environmental trends of disruption and decline, including rising temperatures and spreading water shortage. In addition to these looming threats, we face the peaking of oil, annual population growth of 70 million, a widening global economic divide, and a growing list of failing states. The scale and complexity of issues faci

Author: Jim Munroe
Publisher: Thunder’s Mouth Press
Keywords: silico, everyone
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2002-11-21
ISBN-10: 1568582404
ISBN-13: 9781568582405

What happens when the cyberworld becomes more important than the real world . . . ? Modern citizens in 2036 are willing to give up a lot for guaranteed sunshine, a life with no wasted hours. A life free of crime and disease. A life that ends when you want it to, not when some faceless entity decides it’s your time. Those who don’t buy in -- the poor, the old, the paranoid -- have to watch as their loved ones, their friends and their jobs leave the city. They have to watch as the latest prestige technology, Self, changes everything -- not just the world, but humanity itself. E