The Crisis This Time

Author : John Carvalho
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1496926161
Total Pages : 375 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Crisis of Our Time written by John Carvalho and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2014-07-15 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dr. John Carvalho, former Harvard academician and winner of the United States National Research Service Award, is no stranger to the word crisis. As a scientist, scholar and statesman he has spent decades working on the front lines of biomedical and theoretical exploration, global health, and the worldwide, human rights movement. The Crisis of Our Time is the astonishing, partial memoir and discourse regarding his lifes career and philosophy concerning the planets most pressing problems. Written in a way accessible to everyone, Carvalho, beginning with his passionate, poetic, and provocative first chapter, challenges us to discover that the disastrous, external crises of our lives emanate from the unity of our conscious and subconscious experiences. Indeed, the great troubles afflicting humanitywar, infectious disease, economic recession, terrorism, family discord, psychological trauma, human rights violationsdilemmas that appear unsolvable, actually originate whenwithout truthful self-reflectionwe glorify mediocrity rather than strive to excel. Employing cutting-edge, scientific information; keen, historical insight; extensive, cultural experience; and profound, philosophical analysis; Carvalho dissects our crises to elucidate why they perpetuate. In so doing, he introduces his theory of causal circular systems to reveal how causes feed off and exacerbate effects, which, in turn, reinforce those same causes. Furthering his views, he explores global health, the example par excellence, as well as economics, political history, planetary climate change, and the most central crisis of allBeing or Nothingnessthe fears of the Selfthe dread of our mortality. Ultimately, this short but eye-opening book creates epic meaning while using an artistic, literary style that is virtually unseen in nonfiction. Anyone who genuinely seeks excellence over mediocrity, truth over falsity, meaning over purposelessness, and resolution over despair should read Crisis.

Author : Carmen M. Reinhart
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691152640
Total Pages : 513 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book This Time Is Different written by Carmen M. Reinhart and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2011-08-07 with total page 513 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An empirical investigation of financial crises during the last 800 years.

Author : John Feffer
Publisher : Seven Stories Press
ISBN 13 : 9781583226032
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book North Korea/South Korea written by John Feffer and published by Seven Stories Press. This book was released on 2003-09-20 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Korean peninsula, divided for more than fifty years, is stuck in a time warp. Millions of troops face one another along the Demilitarized Zone separating communist North Korea and capitalist South Korea. In the early 1990s and again in 2002-2003, the United States and its allies have gone to the brink of war with North Korea. Misinterpretations and misunderstandings are fueling the crisis. "There is no country of comparable significance concerning which so many people are ignorant," American anthropologist Cornelius Osgood said of Korea some time ago. This ignorance may soon have fatal consequences. North Korea, South Korea is a short, accessible book about the history and political complexites of the Korean peninsula, one that explores practical alternatives to the current US policy: alternatives that build on the remarkable and historic path of reconciliation that North and South embarked on in the 1990s and that point the way to eventual reunification.

Author : Wilhelm Röpke
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1412838940
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Social Crisis of Our Time written by Wilhelm Röpke and published by Transaction Publishers. This book was released on with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Hanspeter Kriesi
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108835112
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Contention in Times of Crisis written by Hanspeter Kriesi and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-08-13 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Documents the waves of protest that spread across Europe in the wake of the Great Recession.

Author : Michel Serres
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1501307894
Total Pages : 90 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Times of Crisis written by Michel Serres and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2015-09-24 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For Michel Serres, economic crises are earthquakes caused by societal tectonic plates. The current crisis erupted because of the widening discrepancy between major social changes and institutions that have remained the same since WWII. Serres, one of the first to bring nature into the political, writes, "To destroy, kill, exploit is worthless. In the long run, it means destroying ourselves." At a time when the world population has grown so much that it is exhausting natural resources and the environment, we need to rethink cultural, social, and political dynamics. Serres argues that geopolitics and economics will no longer be a two-player game, between West and East, for example, but a three-player one, in which is Earth will be the third partner. This book is one of hope as it calls for a new world and extols the importance of science for our future and political institutions. Here, Serres demonstrates an optimistic outlook in a clear and luminous language that offers new paths for reflection and, ultimately, a better life for Earth and its inhabitants.

Author : Kari K. Stephens
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781138570283
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book New Media in Times of Crisis written by Kari K. Stephens and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New Media in Times of Crisis provides an interdisciplinary look at research focused around how people organize in times of crisis. This book is grounded in the practices of first responders, crisis communicators, people experiencing tragic events, and communities who organize on- and off-line to make sense of their experiences.

Author : Wolfgang Streeck
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 1786630710
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Buying Time written by Wolfgang Streeck and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2017-03-21 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The aftershocks of the economic crisis that began in 2008 still rock the world, and have been followed by a crisis in democratic governance. The gravity of the situation is matched by a general paucity of understanding as to precisely what is happening and how it started. In this new edition of a highly acclaimed book, Wolfgang Streeck revisits his recent arguments in the light of Brexit and the continued crisis of the EU. These developments are only the latest events in the long neoliberal transformation of postwar capitalism that began in the 1970s, a process that turned states away from tax toward debt as a source of revenue, and from that point into the ‘consolidation state’ of today. Central to this analysis is the changing relationship between capitalism and democracy—in Europe and elsewhere—and the advancing immunization of the former against the latter.

Author : Leo Panitch
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780850367096
Total Pages : 323 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Crisis this Time written by Leo Panitch and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume offers critical perspectives on 'exit strategies' geared towards revitalizing neoliberal capitalism and considers the social and political impact of the economic crisis on the working class.

Author : Wolfgang Streeck
Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 1781685495
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Buying Time written by Wolfgang Streeck and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2014-07-22 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The financial crisis keeps us on edge and creates a diffuse sense of helplessness. Well-nigh unfathomable problems lead to measures that seem like emergency operations on the open heart of the Western world, performed with no knowledge of the patient's clinical history. The gravity of the situation is matched by the paucity of our understanding of it, and of how it came about in the first place. In this book, compiled from his Adorno Lectures given in Frankfurt, Wolfgang Streeck lays bare the roots of the present financial, fiscal and economic crisis, seeing it as part of the long neoliberal transformation of postwar capitalism that began in the 1970s. Linking up with the crisis theories of that decade, he analyses the subsequent tensions and conflicts involving states, governments, voters and capitalist interests—a process in which the defining focus of the European state system has shifted from taxation through debt to budgetary “consolidation.” The book then ends by exploring the prospects for a restoration of social and economic stability. Buying Time is a model of enlightenment. It shows that something deeply disturbing underlies the current situation: a metamorphosis of the whole relationship between democracy and capitalism.