2016, ISBN: 9780691028439

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2016. 2nd Printing. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Second printing. Smudge on rear jacket panel and on page ridge. 2016 Hard Cover. 486 pp. &quo… More...

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2016. 2nd Printing. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Second printing. Smudge on rear jacket panel and on page ridge. 2016 Hard Cover. 486 pp. "We all sense it―something big is going on. You feel it in your workplace. You feel it when you talk to your kids. You can't miss it when you read the newspapers or watch the news. Our lives are being transformed in so many realms all at once―and it is dizzying. In Thank You for Being Late, a work unlike anything he has attempted before, Thomas L. Friedman exposes the tectonic movements that are reshaping the world today and explains how to get the most out of them and cushion their worst impacts. You will never look at the world the same way again after you read this book: how you understand the news, the work you do, the education your kids need, the investments your employer has to make, and the moral and geopolitical choices our country has to navigate will all be refashioned by Friedman's original analysis. Friedman begins by taking us into his own way of looking at the world―how he writes a column. After a quick tutorial, he proceeds to write what could only be called a giant column about the twenty-first century. His thesis: to understand the twenty-first century, you need to understand that the planet's three largest forces―Moore's law (technology), the Market (globalization), and Mother Nature (climate change and biodiversity loss)―are accelerating all at once. These accelerations are transforming five key realms: the workplace, politics, geopolitics, ethics, and community. Why is this happening? As Friedman shows, the exponential increase in computing power defined by Moore's law has a lot to do with it. The year 2007 was a major inflection point: the release of the iPhone, together with advances in silicon chips, software, storage, sensors, and networking, created a new technology platform. Friedman calls this platform “the supernova”―for it is an extraordinary release of energy that is reshaping everything from how we hail a taxi to the fate of nations to our most intimate relationships. It is creating vast new opportunities for individuals and small groups to save the world―or to destroy it. Thank You for Being Late is a work of contemporary history that serves as a field manual for how to write and think about this era of accelerations. It's also an argument for “being late”―for pausing to appreciate this amazing historical epoch we're passing through and to reflect on its possibilities and dangers. To amplify this point, Friedman revisits his Minnesota hometown in his moving concluding chapters; there, he explores how communities can create a “topsoil of trust” to anchor their increasingly diverse and digital populations. With his trademark vitality, wit, and optimism, Friedman shows that we can overcome the multiple stresses of an age of accelerations―if we slow down, if we dare to be late and use the time to reimagine work, politics, and community. Thank You for Being Late is Friedman's most ambitious book―and an essential guide to the present and the future., Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2016, 4, New York: Doubleday, 2008. 2nd Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Second printing. Jacket spine base bumped. Bottom edge of rear board bumped. 2008 Hard Cover. viii, 244 pp. "In a provocative challenge to Republican conventional wisdom, two of the Right's rising young thinkers call upon the GOP to focus on the interests and needs of working-class voters. Grand New Party lays bare the failures of the conservative revolution and presents a detailed blueprint for building the next Republican majority. Blending history, analysis, and fresh, often controversial recommendations, Ross Douthat and Reihan Salam argue that it is time to move beyond the Reagan legacy and the mind-set of the current Republican power structure. In a concise examination of recent political trends, the authors show that the Democrats' cultural liberalism makes their party inherently hostile to the interests and values of the working class. But on a host of issues, today's Republican Party lacks a message that speaks to their economic aspirations. Grand New Party offers a new direction—a conservative vision of a limited-but-active government that tackles the threats to working-class prosperity and to the broader American Dream. With specific proposals covering such hot-button topics as immigration, health care, and taxes, Grand New Party will shake up the Right, challenge the Left, and force both sides to confront and adapt to the changing political landscape., Doubleday, 2008, 3, US: Princeton University Press, 1990. Good. An eminent anthropologist examines the foundings of the first celibate Budd hist monasteries development that was a major departure from "folk" or "pop ular" Buddhism. Sherry Ortner is the first to integrate social scientific a nd historical modes of analysis in a study of the Sherpa monasteries and on e of the very few to attempt such an account for Buddhist monasteries anywh ere. Combining ethnographic and oral-historical methods, she scrutinizes th e interplay of political and cultural factors in the events culminating in the foundings. Her work constitutes a major advance both in our knowledge o f Sherpa Buddhism and in the integration of anthropological and historical modes of analysis. At the theoretical level, the book contributes to an emerging theory of "practice," an explanation of the relationship between human intentions and actions on the one hand, and the structures of society and culture that emerge from and feed back upon those intentions and actions on the other. It will appeal not only to the increasing number of anthropologists working on similar problems but also to historians anxious to discover what anthropology has to offer to historical analysis. In addition, it will be essential reading for those interested in Nepal, Tibet, the Sherpa, or Buddhism in general., Princeton University Press, 1990, 2.5<

1989, ISBN: 9780691028439

Trade paperback, Fine., Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 269 p. Contains: Illustrations, black & white. Princeton Studies in Culture/Power/History, 9. Examines the foundings of celiba… More...

Trade paperback, Fine., Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 269 p. Contains: Illustrations, black & white. Princeton Studies in Culture/Power/History, 9. Examines the foundings of celibate Buddhist monasteries among the Sherpas of Nepal in the early twentieth century. This book integrates social scientific and historical modes of analysis in a study of the Sherpa monasteries. It is intended for those interested in Nepal, Tibet, the Sherpa, or Buddhism in general., Princeton, [PU: Princeton University Press]<