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Examines five forms of 'Liberation Movements' including European Enlightenment, Darwin's theory of evolution, psychoanalysis, existentialism, and the civil movements of the 1960s and 1970s, making predictions about the next movement. 10,000 first printing.

Going beyond the narrow economic focus common to most books about globalization, All Together Now describes four kinds of global change - economic, political, cultural, biological - all of which are now accelerating, driven by the increasing mobility of symbols, goods, people, and non-human life forms. Anderson describes how we are entering an "age of open systems" as systems of all kinds - organizations, nations, ecosystems - change in similar ways. Boundaries around systems are penetrated, challenged, renegotiated, relocated. Systems that were once relatively isolated develop new connections and linkages to other systems. Anderson argues that this globalizing world is radically "uncentralized" even though people and societies are richly interconnected. All Together Now shows how globalization is advanced even by anti-globalization movements, while global-scale problems such as climate change draw us together into the first global civilization.

Inquiring into the idea of the self, the author explores commonly held assumptions about what the self is and shows how psychology, computer science, medicine, and modern philosophy are challenging the idea of a coherent self, for the better. (view table of contents)

Explores the effects of bioscience and electronic technology on the evolution of human beings, including behavior modifications adapted in response to agricultural, industrial, and technological evolutions (view table of contents)

More than 30 contributors, including Umberto Eco and Vaclav Havel, examine the reinterpretation of traditional cultural beliefs and symbols

Takes a look at the postmodern society we live in, and discusses such topics as Ronald Reagan and New Age religions

Discusses animal rights, the environmental movement, biotechnology, population control, artificial insemination, invitro fertilization, embryo transplant, and birth control