Wolfgang Sassin (3 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Good. All pages are present (I checked). All pages are toned (age tanned) around the perimeter. Some pages are dog-eared or have a bent corner tip. A few spots of foxing (tan spotting) on the last few of pages only. Front and back covers are lightly soiled, wrinkled, rubbed, with some water stains visible along edges of the front cover. These stains did not soak through to the pages themselves. There are also some creases and stress lines near edges of covers -- particularly the back cover. So this is a worn copy but complete with mostly clean pages. It will be bubble-wrapped and carefully packed in a sturdy box to ensure safe transit. This issue focuses on economic development and includes the following: "Economic Development: An issue on the subject as the developing nations press for a new international economic order" by K.K.S. Dadzie; "People: The fundamental purpose of economic development is to improve the well-being of human beings" by Halfdan Mahler; "Food: Feeding everyone adequately calls for heavy capital investment and fairer income distribution" by Nevin S. Scrimshaw and Lance Taylor; "Water: Enough of it for agriculture, industry and people demands human intervention in the water cycle" by Robert P. Ambroggi; "Energy: Future growth in worldwide demand for energy will come mainly from developing countries" by Wolfgang Sassin; "The Economic Development of China: In this developing country a fourth of mankind appears secure against famine and epidemic" by Ding Chen; "The Ecomonic Development of India: It has made significant gains in industry and agriculture, but the growth of the economy is slow" by Raj Krishna; "The Economic Development of Tanzania: A poor nation sets out to industrialize" by Robert B. Mabele, William M. Lyakurwa, Beno J. Ndulu and Samuel M. Wangwe; "The Economic Development of Mexico: The country shows substantial development, but most of its population remains impoverished" by Pablo Gonzalez Casanova; "The World Economy of the Year 2000: An input-output model shows how it might be possible to narrow the gap between rich and poor" by Wassily W. Leontief" plus Letters; 50 and 100 Years Ago; The Authors; Mathematical Games; Books; Science and the Citizen; The Amateur Scientist; and Bibliography.

Broschur. Condition: gut. 59 S. mit Abb., 30 cm, gebräunt, Bibliotheksexemplar, Aufkleber, Rücken mit Klebestreifen verstärkt, Dreieckstasche. Sprache: deu.

Paperback. Condition: Good. THERE ARE NO TARIFFS OR CUSTOMS DUTIES ON BOOKS. Ever more upheavals and human tsunamis definitely require an unbiased analysis of human plate tectonics ââ,¬â?o and of those driving forces leading to cultural drifts, thereby subduing and melting age-old values. ââ,¬Å"Mankind needs more than one planet to surviveââ,¬ is nothing but sending SOS from an Ark named Planet Earth. Instead homo sapiens must respect basic principles demonstrated by evolution and live up to his own limits. Humanity, understood and striven for as the ultimate WE, has meanwhile become the pacemaker of evolution. But are "man" and "globalization" at all suitable figures of thought that guarantee the survival of homo sapiens? Or are they concepts that already seduced the fathers of the Tower of Babel, if not Adam and Eve when both tasted a few fruits of the tree of cognition promising to control a wider reality?Did the General Assembly of the United Nations really prevent wars since its foundation more than 70 years ago? Or did it not directly contribute to the emergence of a global order relying on the mental determinedness to assure mutual destruction of two emerging world powers? And even more important: Did the Charta of the UN not contribute substantially to those very problems which now endanger the physical survival of mankind that has proliferated without rhyme or reason? Do we not blindly follow a course set by individuals such as Eleanor Roosevelt, StÃf©phane Hessel, or Albert Schweitzer, eventually leading to a world order analogous to the one needed to stabilize a jailhouse ? Even more intriguing: Are worshipped values such as baby love, altruism and permanent economic growth not turning into mental drugs inflicting a planet with a cancerous plague ?These and other questions have led the authors with different cultural backgrounds to reconsider the age-old question: Who are WE? and How can homo sapiens limit himself? at times when both our physical as well as our mental environments develop quite disturbing characteristics ââ,¬â?o turning homo sapiens into an endangered species.