The Age Of The Unthinkable

Author : Joshua Cooper Ramo
Publisher : Little, Brown
ISBN 13 : 0316070017
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Age of the Unthinkable written by Joshua Cooper Ramo and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2009-03-23 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today the very ideas that made America great imperil its future. Our plans go awry and policies fail. History's grandest war against terrorism creates more terrorists. Global capitalism, intended to improve lives, increases the gap between rich and poor. Decisions made to stem a financial crisis guarantee its worsening. Environmental strategies to protect species lead to their extinction. The traditional physics of power has been replaced by something radically different. In The Age of the Unthinkable, Joshua Cooper Ramo puts forth a revelatory new model for understanding our dangerously unpredictable world. Drawing upon history, economics, complexity theory, psychology, immunology, and the science of networks, he describes a new landscape of inherent unpredictability -- and remarkable, wonderful possibility.

Author : Joshua Cooper Ramo
Publisher : Back Bay Books
ISBN 13 : 9780316285070
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Seventh Sense written by Joshua Cooper Ramo and published by Back Bay Books. This book was released on 2018-04-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER WASHINGTON POST BESTSELLER Winner of the getAbstract 17th International Book Award "The Seventh Sense is a concept every businessman, diplomat, or student should aspire to master--a powerful idea, backed by stories and figures that will be impossible to forget." -- Walter Isaacson, author of Steve Jobs and Leonardo da Vinci Endless terror. Refugee waves. An unfixable global economy. Surprising election results. New billion-dollar fortunes. Miracle medical advances. What if they were all connected? What if you could understand why? The Seventh Sense is the story of what all of today's successful figures see and feel: the forces that are invisible to most of us but explain everything from explosive technological change to uneasy political ripples. The secret to power now is understanding our new age of networks. Not merely the Internet, but also webs of trade, finance, and even DNA. Based on his years of advising generals, CEOs, and politicians, Ramo takes us into the opaque heart of our world's rapidly connected systems and teaches us what the losers are not yet seeing--and what the victors of this age already know.

Author : Amanda Ripley
Publisher : Harmony
ISBN 13 : 0307352900
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Unthinkable written by Amanda Ripley and published by Harmony. This book was released on 2009-06-16 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover how human beings react to danger–and what makes the difference between life and death Today, nine out of ten Americans live in places at significant risk of earthquakes, hurricanes, tornadoes, terrorism, or other disasters. Tomorrow, some of us will have to make split-second choices to save ourselves and our families. How will we react? What will it feel like? Will we be heroes or victims? In her quest to answer these questions, award-winning journalist Amanda Ripley traces human responses to some of recent history’s epic disasters, from the explosion of the Mont Blanc munitions ship in 1917–one of the biggest explosions before the invention of the atomic bomb–to the journeys of the 15,000 people who found their way out of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. To understand the science behind the stories, Ripley turns to leading brain scientists, trauma psychologists, and other disaster experts. She even has her own brain examined by military researchers and experiences, through realistic simulations, what it might be like to survive a plane crash into the ocean or to escape a raging fire. Ripley comes back with precious wisdom about the surprising humanity of crowds, the elegance of the brain’s fear circuits, and the stunning inadequacy of many of our evolutionary responses. Most unexpectedly, she discovers the brain’s ability to do much, much better–with just a little help.

Author : Nik Gowing
Publisher : John Catt Educational
ISBN 13 : 9781911382744
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Thinking the Unthinkable written by Nik Gowing and published by John Catt Educational. This book was released on 2018-06-08 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thinking The Unthinkable is an investigation into why leaders have appeared more unable or unwilling than ever to anticipate the biggest issues of our time. In an era of 'wicked problems', why are current leadership behaviours and culture apparently not fit for purpose? What are the causes of so many failures in policy and strategic forecasting?

Author : Scott Rigsby
Publisher : Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1414333153
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Unthinkable written by Scott Rigsby and published by Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.. This book was released on 2009 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Documents the nine years between the cars accident that claimed both his legs to Scott Rigsby becoming the first double-leg amputee using prosthetics to cross the finish line in the grueling Ford Ironman World Championship triathlon in Kailua-Kona, Hawaii.

Author : Peter René Lavoy
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801487040
Total Pages : 592 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Planning the Unthinkable written by Peter René Lavoy and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The proliferation of chemical, biologial and nuclear weapons is now the single most serious security concern for governments around the world. This text compares how organisations shape the way leaders intend to employ these armaments.

Author : Jonathan Stevenson
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 9780670019014
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Thinking Beyond the Unthinkable written by Jonathan Stevenson and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2008 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: STEVENSON/THINKING BEYOND THE UNTH

Author : Amra Sabic-El-Rayess
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1547604557
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cat I Never Named written by Amra Sabic-El-Rayess and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2020-09-15 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The stunning memoir of a Muslim teen struggling to survive in the midst of the Bosnian genocide--and the stray cat who protected her family through it all. *Six Starred Reviews* A YALSA Excellence in Nonfiction Finalist A Capitol Choices Remarkable Book A Mighty Girl Best Book A Malala Fund Favorite Book Selection In 1992, Amra was a teen in Bihac, Bosnia, when her best friend said they couldn't speak anymore. Her friend didn't say why, but Amra knew the reason: Amra was Muslim. It was the first sign her world was changing. Then Muslim refugees from other Bosnian cities started arriving, fleeing Serbian persecution. When the tanks rolled into Bihac, bringing her own city under seige, Amra's happy life in her peaceful city vanished. But there is light even in the darkest of times, and she discovered that light in the warm, bonfire eyes of a stray cat. The little calico had followed the refugees into the city and lost her own family. At first, Amra doesn't want to bother with a stray; her family doesn't have the money to keep a pet. But with gentle charm this kitty finds her way into everyone's heart, and after a few near miracles when she seems to save the family, how could they turn her away? Here is the stunning true story of a teen who, even in the brutality of war, never wavered in her determination to obtain an education, maintain friendships, and even find a first love-and the cat who gave comfort, hope, and maybe even served as the family's guardian spirit.

Author : Amitav Ghosh
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022652681X
Total Pages : 205 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Great Derangement written by Amitav Ghosh and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2017-07-24 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are we deranged? The acclaimed Indian novelist Amitav Ghosh argues that future generations may well think so. How else to explain our imaginative failure in the face of global warming? In his first major book of nonfiction since In an Antique Land, Ghosh examines our inability—at the level of literature, history, and politics—to grasp the scale and violence of climate change. The extreme nature of today’s climate events, Ghosh asserts, make them peculiarly resistant to contemporary modes of thinking and imagining. This is particularly true of serious literary fiction: hundred-year storms and freakish tornadoes simply feel too improbable for the novel; they are automatically consigned to other genres. In the writing of history, too, the climate crisis has sometimes led to gross simplifications; Ghosh shows that the history of the carbon economy is a tangled global story with many contradictory and counterintuitive elements. Ghosh ends by suggesting that politics, much like literature, has become a matter of personal moral reckoning rather than an arena of collective action. But to limit fiction and politics to individual moral adventure comes at a great cost. The climate crisis asks us to imagine other forms of human existence—a task to which fiction, Ghosh argues, is the best suited of all cultural forms. His book serves as a great writer’s summons to confront the most urgent task of our time.

Author : Michael Waseleski
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1438956762
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book To Lead by the Unknowing, to Do the Unthinkable written by Michael Waseleski and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2009 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To Lead by the Unknowing, To Do the Unthinkable tells the story of a squad of marines on the front line of the war in Iraq. It tells of the battles the marines were in and how they had to improvise, adapt, and overcome to complete their missions, as well as the personal struggles they endured and their thoughts while the war was unfolding right in front of them. From Marine Corps boot camp to life out of the marines, To Lead by the Unknowing, To Do the Unthinkable is a must read.