On Revolution
Author: Hannah Arendt
Tracing the gradual evolution of revolutions since the American and French examples, Arendt predicts the changing relationship between war and revolution and the crucial role such combustive movements will play in the future of international relations.
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Mind Set!: Reset Your Thinking and See the Future
Author: John Naisbitt
In his seminal works Megatrends and Megatrends 2000, John Naisbitt proved himself one of the most far-sighted and accurate observers of our fast-changing world.
Mind Set! goes beyond that—Mind Set! discloses the secret of forecasting. John Naisbitt gives away the keys to the kingdom, opening the door to the insights that let him understand today's world and see the opportunities of tomorrow. He selected his most effective tools, 11 Mind Sets, and applies them by guiding the reader through the five forces that will dominate the next decades of the 21st century.
Ilustrated by stories about Galileo and Einstein to today's icons and rebels in business, science, and sports, Mind Set! opens your eyes to see beyond media headlines, political slogans, and personal opinions, to select and judge what will form the pictures of the future.
Read by Eric Conger
Publishers Weekly
When Megatrends was first published nearly a quarter-century ago, Naisbitt was hailed as a cutting-edge futurist. Today, however, he's more like your crotchety grandpa, complaining about how he can't get through the voice-mail system to talk to a real person. Naisbitt's latest book reads like a manuscript that's been stuck in a drawer since 1985, as his insights into the future-corporations are becoming more powerful than nation states, video games are an art form-are embarrassingly behind the times. Although he touts 11 principles to help readers cultivate forward-looking thinking, these turn out to be banal guidelines like "focus on the score of the game" and "don't add unless you subtract." Tangential rants about hysterical environmentalists and free market capitalism as the only way to organize modern society reveal a creeping conservative mindset, but even here Naisbitt is bringing up the rear, touting Friedrich Hayek long after everyone else has moved on to Leo Strauss. In his eighth predictive tract, the author coasts on his reputation. (Oct.) Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.
Library Journal
This latest by Naisbitt (Megatrends) identifies various mind-sets that will enable readers to prepare for the future and understand the global changes that are underway. He shares the values and rules he has developed to discipline his own mind and to filter information, illustrating that it's how we receive information that moves us forward or holds us back. In Part 1, "Mind Sets," readers learn how using mind-sets like "Understand how powerful it is not to have to be right," "Don't add unless you subtract," and "Don't get so far ahead of the parade that they don't know you're in it" can organize, instruct, and transform their lives, personally and professionally. Part 2, "Pictures of the Future," deals with major trends and global shifts, e.g., where Europe is headed and what may be the Next Big Thing as hyped by the media. The key that Naisbitt is offering here is awareness. Once readers are aware of their limitations, imposed by a lifetime of repetition and culturally inherited mind-sets, they can use the author's mind-sets to open themselves to the future. Business collections will want to add. Susan C. Awe, Univ. of New Mexico Lib. Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.
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