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The ideas book / introduced by Phillip Adams and Dale Spender ; [edited by Linda Carroli].

Title
The ideas book / introduced by Phillip Adams and Dale Spender ; [edited by Linda Carroli].
Publication
St. Lucia, Qld. : University of Queensland Press, 2005.

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Additional Authors
  • Adams, Phillip.
  • Spender, Dale
  • Carroli, Linda.
Description
367 p. : ill.; 23 cm.
Summary
With challenging and provocative ideas about where we are now, how we got here, where we can go and how we might get there, this important collection provokes, inspires and challenges the way we think.
Subject
  • 2000-2099
  • Creative thinking
  • Social prediction
  • Australia > Intellectual life
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 349-356).
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
  • A world of ideas / Dale Spender -- The next step / Phillip Adams -- Digging your own grave / Sharon Beder -- History repeats / Henry Reynolds -- Re-vision: students know about schools / Les Hooper, Peter Boyle & Genevieve Searle -- The whiteness of Windschuttle's worries / Aileen Moreton-Robinson -- Self, respect, prosperity / Barbara Adkins -- Globalisation: challenges and opportunities / Julian Disney -- A clash of ideals / Jacqui Katona -- The patterns of the future / Sohail Inayatullah -- A nation for all / Pat Dudgeon -- Australian democracy now / Mark Davis -- A better society: ingredients for social sustainability / Eva cox -- Facing the future: a case for better ideas / Ian Lowe -- Content creators / Lynne Spender -- Living off ideas / John Howkins -- O is for o-literature / Anita M. Heiss -- Living in a box / Sean Godsell -- Branding Australia / Fiona Stewart -- Human rights, human dignity / Lillian Holt -- Problem solving by the light of the other / Karen Umemoto -- Survival or self-harm? / Tony McMichael -- Integrity matters / Mike Berwick -- Human rights and the national interest / Angela Ward.
  • Making the most of ideas / Peter Doherty -- Into the lair of the relativist / Stephen Law -- Eureka! / Martin Green & James Bradfield Moody -- Science is out of control / Gilberto Gallopin -- Panorama of things to come in the new millennium / Graham T.T. Molitor -- Will we prosper? / Ivana Milojevic -- Same again / Ziauddin Sardar -- Whose country? / Gary Foley -- The hype and pitfalls of the new economy / Gianni Zappalà -- Hope: will fear ever change? / Mary Zournazi -- Survival and subversion / David Heilpern.
ISBN
0702234990
OCLC
  • 156738843
  • SCSB-11403775
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library