We think we understand environmental damage: pollution, water scarcity, a warming world. But these problems are just the tip of the iceberg. Food insecurity, financial assets drained of value, and a rapid rise in diseases of animal origin are among the underreported consequences of an unsustainable global system. In this volume, experts explore these hidden threats along with the central question of how we can develop resilience to these and other...

"In a complex and uncertain world, we all need tools to understand and manage our most important asset - our own minds. Our minds are our brakes and our accelerators, and as we face the new world, we need to consider how we respond to change, how we enhance our adaptability and learn to be agile in an ever-changing world. Just like we go to the gym to exercise, to strengthen our bodies to get physically fit, we want people to be putting the same effort...

"How China's Leaders Think focuses on the forces shaping New China - the leaders and their philosophies; the government and its policies; and a nation of some 1.3 billion eagerly embracing change. With unique access to Communist Party officials and material, author Robert Lawrence Kuhn interviews over 100 of China's leaders to learn first hand their objectives and strategies. He stresses President Hu Jintao's principles and programs, and looks to...

This volume of primary source documents focuses on some of the leading social issues of the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries dealing with social policies. It contains approximately 175 full and excerpted documents--speeches, legislation, magazine and newspaper articles, essays, memoirs, letters, interviews, novels, songs, and works of art--as well as overview information that places each document in context. Entries are organized into chapters that...