Bøger af Cameron Gordon

This collection of six short stories begins with "Blackout-o-three," an account of one person's experience of the power failure in New York City in 2003 and the strange social unraveling that took place during its short interval. Five other stories, all set in New York, herald the gritty mystery of that City in a series of poignant, funny and moving vignettes and slices of life. The five other stories are titled (in order): Chinatown. Subway preacher. A distant murder. Bus along Fifth Avenue. What if they gave a fiftieth birthday party and nobody came?

"The beauty of futility" is a collection of eight stories about people whose lives are strange, and fantastic and ordinary, all at the same time. The titles give some sense of the range: Cursus caninus: emperor of the dogs; Confessions of a champ'een pie eater; A perfect human being; The transmigration of souls; Artificial light; Order of Merit; Father, father, quite contrary; Collective unconscious. Enter into a familiar world that is never quite what it seems - or all that it seems if you look at it in the right way.

This book provides a crosscutting interdisciplinary account of how the disintegrated, global subsistence economy circa 1800 has transformed into a global complex delivering unprecedented levels of material production and consumption. Applying major findings from economics, history/historiography, and sociology (as well as from anthropology, psychology, politics, and environmental studies), the analysis tracks the ways in which changes in ¿society¿ (including social structures, values, and forces) have changed ¿individuals¿ (including conceptions of race, gender, and identity) and vice versa. These changes have simultaneously homogenised and diversified societies and individuals in distinct but sometimes contradictory ways, opening up many possible worlds from an individual and group perspective. Yet, the scale and pace of change has also led to increasing existential challenges. The narrative consists of 30 chapters organized into 10 subsetsof 3: one chapter on a relevant core idea; one chapter focused on historical narrative and titled after a representative year; and one chapter on a relevant associated crosscutting theme. Major regional and topical discussions are provided, with special attention paid to business and organisational change and developing world scholarship. Small discussion ¿boxes¿ focusing on illustrative cases and details are presented throughout the book. The last chapter contains over-arching conclusions.