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All connected now : life in the first global civilization
Title
All connected now : life in the first global civilization / Walter Truett Anderson.
ISBN
0429037120
0429701578
0429721587
0429741596
9780429037122
9780429701573
9780429721588
9780429741593
0367007266
9780367007263
Publication
New York, NY : Routledge, 2018.
Physical Description
1 online resource
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Biographical / Historical Note
Walter Truett Anderson is a political scientist, social psychologist, syndicated journalist and author of wide-ranging interests whose previous books include Evolution Isn't What It Used To Beand The Future of the Self. A resident of the San Francisco Bay Area, he works with a number of different organizations and currently serves as president of the World Academy of Art and Science.
Summary
Going beyond the narrow economic focus common to most books about globalization, All Together Now describes four kinds of global change-economic, political, cultural, biological-all of which are now accelerating, driven by the increasing mobility of symbols, goods, people, and non-human life forms. Anderson describes how we are entering an age of o
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Taylor & Francis. EBA 2024-2025.
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Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
October 04, 2024
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction
Globalizations
The Global Animal
The Meanings of the Twentieth Century
Connections
From Marketplaces to Placeless Markets
Governance
with and without Governments
The Wars and Games of Global Culture
The Reconnected Biosphere
Informatizations
The Informatization of Global Society
The Bio-Information Society
Organizations and Reorganizations
Participating in the Global Polis
All the Global Villages
Possibilities
Global Visions and Divisions
Global Challenges and Social Facts
Toward a Global Open Society
Epilogue
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