Third Wave Study Group Reading List Since 1994
Book	Author	Publisher	Date	Description
The Third Wave	Alvin Toffler	William Morrow	1980	Classic work on the social impact of technology
Powershift	Alvin & Heidi Toffler	Bantam	1990	Information revolution and political power
War and Antiwar	Alvin & Heidi Toffler	Little Brown	1995	Information revolution and warfare
Wonderful Life	Stephen Jay Gould	WW Norton	1989	Importance of complexity, chaos and diversity
Full House	Stephen Jay Gould	Harmony Books	1996	Why progress isn't inevitable
Great Transition	James Martin	Amacom	1995	Technology revolutionizes how work is organized
Microcosm	George Gilder	Simon & Shuster	1989	Microchips, quantum mechanics and change
Post-Capitalist Society	Peter Drucker	Harper Business	1993	Information revolution, organization and change
The Arrow of Time	Peter Coveney & Roger Highfield	Fawcett	1990	Time, chaos, quantum theory and new science
At Home in the Universe	Stuart Kaufman	Oxford	1995	Complexity and self-organization everywhere
Cutting Edge	Davis, Hirschl & Stack	Verso	1997	Robotics setting the stage for revolution
Bukharin & the Bolshevik Revolution	Stephen Cohen	Oxford	1980	The third way vs Stalin and Trotsky
Blood Rites	Barbara Ehrenreich	Owl Books	1997	Prehistory and the origins of war
Race Matters	Cornell West	Vintage	1991	Racism, democracy and crisis in the Black community
The Invention of the White Race	Theodore W Allen	Verso	1996	Social control and the construction of race in history
Ecology of Commerce	Paul Hawken	Harper Business	1993	Envionmentalism and 'high road' capitalism
Is Capitalism Sustainable?	Martin O'Connor	Guiford	1994	A primer for socialist ecology
The Triple Helix	Richard Lewontin	Harvard	2001	Genetics, nature and nurture
The Twilight of Sovereignty	Walter Wriston	Scribners	1992	Information revolution and financial markets
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance	Robert Pirsig	Harper Collins	1974	Philosophy, values and the 1960s revolt
Lila: An Inquiry in morals	Robert Pirsig	Bantam	1992	The new metaphysics of Zen pragmatism
Wealth and Democracy	Kevin Phillips	Broadway Books	2002	Genealogy of the American ruling class
The Politics of Rich and Poor	Kevin Phillips	Random house	1990	Money and elections since Reagan
American Theocracy	Kevin Phillips	Penguin	2006	Oil, fundamentalism and finance capital
Empire	Michael Hardt & Antonio Negri	Harvard	2000	Philosophy, globalization and anarcho-syndicalism
Guns, Germs and Steel	Jared Diamond	Norton	1997	Sweeping world history and uneven development
Collapse	Jared Diamond	Penguin	2005	Ecology and social disaster
The Post-Corporate World	David Korten	Kumarian Press	1999	Corporatism's conflicts with free markets
Anti-Capital	Vojin Dakovic	Sapes Books	1994	Technology challenges orthodx Marxism
Global Squeeze	Richard Longworth	Contemporary Books	1998	A jounalist's account of the ups and downs of globalization
What Will Be	Michael Dertouzos	Harper Collins	1997	The info-revolution, too radical, can't be left to itself
The New Organizational Wealth	Karl Sveiby	Berrett Koehler	1997	Knowledge, organization and the value-of-a-new-type
Boomeritis	Ken Wilber	Shambala	2002	Fictional account of the Baby Boom and its foibles
Globalization and its Discontents	Joseph Stiglitz	Norton	2002	Insider's critique of the IMF and World Bank
The Transnational Capitalist Class	Leslie Sklair	Blackwell	2001	Emergence of a new global class and its dangers
The Knowledge-Value Revolution	Taichi Sakaiya	Kodansha	1985	Looming disaster for the 'postwar petroleum culture'
Wall Street	Doug Henwood	Verso	1997	How high finance really works
Toxic Deception	Dan Fagin & Marianne Lavelle	Common Courage	1999	The distortion of science by chenical industry dollars
Natural Capitalism	Hawken, Lovins & Lovins	Little Brown	1999	High design and high tech can save capitalism from itself
Lockdown America	Christian Parenti	Verso	1999	The prison-indistrial complex exposed and explained
A Simple Justice	Klonsky, Ayers & Lyon	Teachers College Press	2002	Small schools as the key to democratic learning
The Metaphysical Club	Louis Menand	Farrar Straus Giroux	2001	Birth and growth of American pragmatism
Emergence	Steven Johnson	Touchstone	2001	The power of self-organization and adaptive learning
No Logo	Naomi Klein	Picador	2000	Branding, info-capital and its impact on global justice
Confessions of an Economic Hit Man	John Perkins	Plume	2004	Global capital's secret crimes exposed by an insider
Three Billion New Capitalists	Clyde Prestowitz	Basic Books	2005	The emergence of China, India and multipolarism
Don't Think Like an Elephant	George Lakoff	Chelsea Green	2004	Framing' for winning political arguments and elections
Resource Wars	Michael Klare	Owl Books	2001	Oil, water and other resources as the focus of conflict
Linked	Albert-Laszlo Barabasi	Plume	2003	Look for the networks, not the pieces
After Capitalism	David Schweickart	Rowman & Littlefield	2002	Economic Democracy as the socialist market economy
Bury the Chains	Adam Hochschild	Houghton Mifflin	2005	The abolitionists in England as the source of modern democracy
The Tragedy of Bukharin	Donny Gluckstein	Pluto	1994	Overview of the revolutionary theorist and his 'rehabilitation'
Jihad vs. McWorld	Benjamin Barber	Ballantine	1995	Global capital's clash with tribalism and nationalism
What's the Matter with Kansas?	Thomas Frank	Metropolitan	2004	How the right get the working class to opppose itself
How the Scots Invented the Modern World	Arthur Herman	Three Rivers Press	2001	The Scottish Enlightenment's revolution against feudal fetters
Hegemony or Survival	Noam Chomsky	Owl Books	2003	The critique of Bush's fight against a multipolar, democratic world
After Capitalism	Seymour Melman	Knopf	2001	Why the US corporate elite opposes the market and democracy
The Cultural Creatives	Paul Ray and Sherry Anderson	Harmony Books	2000	A progressive majority is emerging, but doesn't know it yet
John Dewey and American Democracy	Robert Westbrook	Cornell University Press	1991	Reveals Dewey as a deep thinker with a wide and ongoing impact
Of Paradise and Power	Robert Kagan	Knopf	2003	The NeoCon case for reshaping the world
The Paradox of American Power	Joseph Nye	Oxford	2002	The multilateralist critique of the NeoCons
The End of Work	Jeremy Rifkin	Penguin	1995	Computers are creating a jobs crisis, but there's a way out
Time Wars	Jeremy Rifkin	Simon & Shuster	1989	Our sense of time is shaped by our level of technology
When Work disappears	William Julius Wilson	Vintage	1997	The structural crisis of emplyment in the Black community
The Jobless Future	Stanley Aronowitz and William Defazio	Univesity of Minnesota	1995	Technology, downsizing and what can be done about it
Taliban	Ahmed Rashid	Yale University Press	2001	Reveals the complexity of politics in Afghanistan
The Reckoning	Sandra Mackey	Norton	2002	Deep analysis of the rise of Saddam Hussein and his downfall
The End of Faith	Sam Harris	Norton	2004	An atheist polemic against religon, especially Islam
Religon and the Human Prospect	Alexander Saxton	Monthly Review Press	2006	Sophisticated Marxist assessment of religion and why it persists
City of Quartz	Mike Davis	Vintage	1992	Technology and ecology in shaping Los Angeles
Alternatives to Economic Globalization	John Cavanagh and Jerry Mander	Berrett Koehler	2002	Essays on the debates in the global justice movement
Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth	Buckminister Fuller	Simon & Shuster	1969	Revolutionary ideas on wealth, design and energy
The Media Monopoly	Ben Bagdikian	Beacon	1993	How corporations centralize media and shape consciousness
The Best Democracy Money Can Buy	Greg Palast	Plume	2004	How elections are stolen by the rich
The Way We Never Were	Stephanie Coontz	Basic Books	2000	Deconstructing myths about the family and working women
The Twilight of American Culture	Morris Berman	WW Norton	2001	The dumbing down of American thought and literacy
Earth in the Balance	Al Gore	Houghton Mifflin	2000	Links ecological crisis to a critique of capitalism
Building the Bridge to the High Road	Dan Swinney	CLCR.ORG	2000	New manifesto on strategy and tactics using the market