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Books Received

The books listed below are a sampling of new books received for review consideration by the World Future Society editorial staff. Listing here does not necessarily constitute recommendation. (Publishers: Click on Editor's Desk for an important message about submitting review copies of your books.)

October 2005

But They All Come Back: Facing the Challenges of Prisoner Reentry, by Jeremy Travis (The Urban Institute Press)
Economics for Collaborative Environmental Management, by Graham R. Marshall (Earthscan Publications)
Resonant Leadership, by Richard Boyatzis and Annie McKee (Harvard Business School) 
Powerful Times, by Eamonn Kelly (Wilson School Publishing)
Streetwise, by Diego Gambetta and Heather Hamill (Russell Sage Foundation)
Placing Words, by William J. Mitchell (MIT Press) 
The Cyborg Self and Me++, by William J. Mitchell (MIT Press)
The Surprising Power of Family Meals, by Miriam Weinstein (Steer Forth Press) 
The Future of the United Nations, by Joshua Muravchik (AEI)
Plows, Plagues & Petroleum, by William F. Ruddiman (Princeton)
Last Child in the Woods, by Richard Louv (Algonquin)
Is The American Dream Killing You? By Paul Stiles (Collins)
No Two Alike, by Judith Rich Harris (Norton)
Us and Them, by David Berreby (Little, Brown)
Rethinking World Government, by James a Yunker (UPA)
Building the Promise of Diversity, by R. Roosefelt Thomas, Jr. (AMACOM)

September 2005

The World Café, by Juanita Brown, et al.,  (BK)
Sustainable Energy, by Tester, Drake, etc. (MITPress)
The Resilient Enterprise, by Yossi Sheffi (MIT Press)
The Search for Unrational Leadership, by Charles Fleetham (Rightbrain Books)
Infinite Ascent, by David Berlinski (Modern Library) 
Corporate Scandals: The Many Faces of Greed, by Kenneth R. Gray, Larry A. Frieder, George W. Clark, Jr. (Paragon House)
Recasting the Machine Age, by Howard P. Segal (University of Massachusetts Press) 
A Town Primarily for People, by L. Gene Zellmer, AIA (National Library of Canada Cataloguing)
A Briefer History of Time, by Stephen Hawking (Bantam)
Publics & Counterpublics, by Michael Warner (Zone Books)
The 86% Solution, by Bijay Mahajan (Wharton School Publishing) 
In Their Time, by Anthony J. Mayo and Nitin Nohria (Harvard Business School)
The Era of Choice, by Edward C. Rosenthal (MIT Press)

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