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Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Synopsis -- chapter one: Introduction - scene setting and background -- The personal perspective -- Work, we underestimate its importance -- Work, let's hope we enjoy it! -- Work, it is all about the money! But not as we know it -- The depressing truth -- The nature of work -- The self-delusion -- The result -- The corporate perspective -- It is all change, change, change -- What does this all mean? -- How to get the most from this book -- chapter two: The changing world in numbers and data -- Urbanization and the rise of the East -- Technology -- Demography -- Globalization and Interconnectedness -- Climate -- Politics -- chapter three: The megatrends playing out in the world today -- Hit for six -- Urbanization and the rise of the East -- The centre of the world - economically at least -- The streets are paved with gold -- Technology -- To the moon and back -- It is not just about the numbers -- Platforms supercharge the possibilities -- Demography -- Potentially peaked… -- The real problem -- Globalization and Interconnectedness -- We are all connected now -- External events catch us unaware -- Climate -- The brutal reality -- The impact -- Surely COVID-19 helped? -- The current impact -- Politics -- The culmination of everything that has gone before -- The new norm…? -- Age, the new political battleground -- chapter four: What does this mean for business? -- Part 1: The impact on our business strategy -- The continuation of interconnectedness - it started years ago -- Interconnectedness now becomes political -- What does this all mean? -- You just won't see it coming -- Focus and Size -- Just say 'no' -- Focus, focus, focus -- Core v. chore -- Part 2: The impact on our workforce -- The rise of specialists -- Holistic workforces -- The rise of the holistic organization.

"In the early 1900s, at the dawn of the "American Century," few knew the intoxicating power of greed better than white men on the forefront of the black gold rush. When oil was discovered in Oklahoma, these counterfeit tycoons impersonated, defrauded, and murdered Native property owners to snatch up hundreds of acres of oil-rich land. Writer and fourth-generation Oklahoman Russell Cobb sets the stage for one such oilman's chicanery: Tulsa entrepreneur Charles Page's campaign for a young Muscogee boy's land in Creek County. Problem was, "Tommy Atkins," the boy in question, had died years prior-if he ever lived at all. Ghosts of Crook County traces Tommy's mythologized life through Page's relentless pursuit of his land. We meet Minnie Atkins and the two other women who claimed to be Tommy's "real" mother. Minnie would testify a story of her son's life and death that fulfilled the legal requirements for his land to be transferred to Page. And we meet Tommy himself-or the men who proclaimed themselves to be him, alive and well in court. Through evocative storytelling, Cobb chronicles with unflinching precision the lasting effects of land-grabbing white men on Indigenous peoples. What emerges are the interconnected stories of unabashedly greedy men, the exploitation of Indigenous land, and the legacy of a boy who may never have existed."

First published in 1981, this book provides an in-depth study of how old age was experienced in contemporary Australian society at the time. It was the first major piece of original research on aging to be published in Australia and in several important senses represented a clear departure from the mainstream of Australian gerontology.

"Crisis and decline in the working class were frequent themes in American popular culture during the 1970s. In contrast, more positive narratives about America's managerial and professional class appeared during the 1980s. Focusing on these two key decades, this book explores how portrayals of social class and associated work and labor issues including gender and race appeared in specific films, television shows, and music. Comparing and contrasting how forms of popular media portrayed both unionized and non-unionized workers, the book discusses how workers' perceptions of themselves were in turn shaped by messages conveyed through media. The book opens with an introduction which outlines the historical context of the immediate post-war period and the heightened social, political, and economic tension of the Cold War era. Three substantial chapters then explore film, television and music in turn, looking at key works including Star Wars, Coming Home, 9 to 5, Good Times, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, and the music of Bruce Springsteen and rap artists. Drawing on both primary and secondary sources, the book is principally situated within wider labor and working-class research, and the relatively new history of capitalism historical sub-field. This book is vital reading for anyone interested in issues around labor and work in the media, labor history, and popular culture history during two key decades in modern American history"--

"Digital Media as Ambient Therapy explores the ways mental illness can emerge from our relationships (with ourselves, others, and the world), to address the concern around what kind of relationality is conducive for mental health and what role digital technologies can play in fostering such relationality. Exploring the rise of ambient-that is to say, ubiquitous, surrounding, and environmental-technologies and their impact on our understanding of health, sanity, and therapy, this book critically examines the work of influential contemporary social theorists such as Hartmut Rosa, and investigates case studies that reveal new modes of digitally mediated intimacy and attention, such as ASMR and QAnon. It also poses the question of what "mental health" and "mental illness" mean for subjects increasingly faced with a maddening sense of interconnectedness. This book offers new perspectives for cultural studies academics and postgraduates interested in critical discussions of alienation, digital technology, and contemporary social theory"--

Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Note to readers -- 1 Motivation and overview -- 2 Religion, toleration and religious toleration -- 3 The rise and division of Christendom -- 4 From toleration to terror -- 5 The Long Nineteenth Century -- 6 Total war and total government -- 7 Liberalism divided -- 8 The making of a post-liberal culture -- 9 The new normal -- 10 The newest normal - current challenges -- References -- Index.

"Why has the most innovative of species become so dangerous? The answer, suggests Peter Russell, lies in humanity's accelerating pace of development. He shows how innovation breeds further innovation-a positive feedback loop that leads to exponentially increasing rates of change. But ever-accelerating change also creates stress on the systems involved-personal, social, and planetary. We are heading into a future with technology beyond our dreams, but in a world that is breaking at the seams. This, Russell argues is the inevitable fate of any intelligent, technologically-empowered species."