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What are You Optimistic About?

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  • ENGLISH

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  • 400

    Pages
  • 9781847391292

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  • 3 mm

    Width
  • 12 mm

    Height
  • 278 gram

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  • PAPERBACK

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  • 1 SEPTEMBER 2008

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    Covering topics as diverse as the decline of violence, the path to enlightenment and mankinds enduring ability to solve problems, this collection is guaranteed to make you look on the bright side. Paperback , 400 pages Published September 1st 2008 by Pocket Books (first published October 30th 2007)

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    John Brockman

    With a broad career spanning the fields of art, science, books, software and the Internet. In 1960 he established the bases for intermedia kinetic environments in art, theatre and commerce, while consulting for clients such as General Electric, Columbia Pictures, The Pentagon, The White House... In 1973 he formed his own literary and software agency. He is founder of the Edge Foundation and editor of Edge, a highly acclaimed website where the most outstanding thinkers, leaders of what he has termed Third Culture, analyse cutting-edge science.

    He is author and editor of several books, including: The Third Culture (1995); The Greatest Inventions of the Past 2000 Years (2000); The Next Fifty Years (2002) and The New Humanists (2003).

    He has the distinction of being the only person to have been profiled on Page One of the Science Times (1997) and the Arts & Leisure (1966), both supplements of The New York Times.

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