Occupy Booklists! Best Futures-Relevant Current Affairs Books of 2011

摘要

This article is adapted from Michael Marien's GFB Update newsletter for December 2011. For a free subscription to this monthly newsletter, click the home page lower right icon . To access the lengthy "GFB Book of the Month" reviews, cited below, see the GFB home page. The year-end holiday season is over, along with the numerous summaries of 2011 's best books, best films, best music, etc. The summer reading season of pleasurable novels and interesting biographies is also a distraction from getting serious about the future. For those who seek to know what's going on in our increasingly globalized world of turmoil and transitions, both for professional purposes and for the sake of good national and global citizenship, there are many futures-relevant "current affairs" books that address parts of this complex puzzle. But, as a category, they are hugely neglected.