The Watchman's Rattle: Thinking Our Way Out of Extinction - Brossura

Costa, Rebecca D.

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1593156057 ISBN 13: 9781593156053

Casa editrice: Vanguard Pr, 2010

Riassunto

Why can’t we solve our problems anymore? Why do threats such as the Gulf oil spill, worldwide recession, terrorism, and global warming suddenly seem unstoppable? Are there limits to the kinds of problems humans can solve?

Rebecca Costa confronts- and offers a solution to-these questions in her highly anticipated and game-changing book,The Watchman’s Rattle.

Costa pulls headline for today’s news to demonstrate how accelerating complexity quickly outpaces that rate at which the human brain can develop new capabilities. With compelling evidenced based on research in the rise and fall of Mayan, Khmer, and Roman empires, Costa shows how t ht tendency to find a quick solutions- leads to frightening long term consequence: Society’s ability to solve its most challenging, intractable problems becomes gridlocked, progress slows, and collapse ensues.

A provocative new voice in the tradition of thought leaders Thomas Friedman, Jared Diamond and Malcolm Gladwell, Costa reveals how we can reverse the downward spiral. Part history, part social science, part biology, The Watchman’s Rattle is sure to provoke, engage and incite change.

Su questo libro

Informazioni sugli autori

About Rebecca D. Costa www.rebeccacosta.com

Rebecca Costa is a sociobiologist who offers an evolutionary explanation for current events and emerging trends. A new voice in the mold of Thomas Friedman and Malcolm Gladwell, Costa attributes modern consternation - from terrorism, crime on Wall Street, epidemic obesity and upheaval in the Middle East - to genetic imperatives. Retiring from a career in Silicon Valley, Costa spent six years researching and writingThe Watchman’s Rattle. The success of the book in 25 countries led to a weekly syndicated radio program calledThe Costa Report. Costa is presently represented by the American Program Bureau and the Scott Meredith Literary Agency. For more information visitwww.rebeccacosta.com.

Rebecca Costa is a sociobiologist whose unique expertise is to spot and explain emerging trends in relationship to human evolution, global markets, and new technologies. Costa joins distinguished business leaders, Nobel Laureates, scientists, innovators and Pulitzer Prize-winning authors from around the world to address growing concerns over dangerous threats such as global warming, pandemic viruses, terrorism, nuclear proliferation and failing public education. A popular speaker at thought-leader and technology conferences as well as major universities, Costa is the former CEO of Silicon Valley start-up Dazai Advertising, Inc. Costa's clients included technology giants such as Apple Computer, Hewlett-Packard, Oracle Corporation, 3M, Amdahl, Seibel Systems and General Electric. She graduated from the University of California with a BA in Social Sciences. Rebecca Costa lives on the central coast of California.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Vanguard Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2010
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1593156057
• ISBN 13: 9781593156053
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 347
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile