abramelin Posted November 5, 2009 Found this free (abridged) e-book earlier today and started reading.... ...stopped reading and realized this has to be shared. Description: This indispensable guide to the next twenty years of global turmoil and transformation weaves the full spectrum of disciplines--history, political economy, ecology, energy, marketing, investing, health, and the psychology of happiness-- into a uniquely comprehensive understanding that offers every thinking person practical principles for not just surviving but prospering in the difficult decades ahead. Table of Contents Introduction 1. An Overview 2. Contexts and Causes 3. Toward an Integrated Understanding 4. Complacency and Fatalism 5. The Art of Survival, Taoism & the Warring States 6. The Remnant, the Pareto Principle and You 7. Ontological Forces and Analytic Tools 8. The Politics of Experience 9. Simulacrum and the Politics of Experience 10. Legitimizing the Illegitimate 11. The Forces Behind Cycles of History 12. Squeezing the Middle Class 13. When Belief in the System Fades 14. The End of (Paying) Work 15. Interlocking Traps 16. The Crisis of Neoliberal Capitalism 17. Models of Transformation 18. The Structure of Happiness http://www.oftwominds.com/survivalplus.html Live long and prosper//john Share this post Link to post Share on other sites