BOOK REVIEWS

From time to time books relating to our future are reviewed by members.  The following are the latest reviews which you might find interesting enough to follow up. A full list of all reviews to date is found here.

Unlimited  the new learning revolution
        by Gordon Dryden and Jeannette Vos
        The learning Web Ltd (Auckland)
         ISBN 978-0-9583701-5-8

         Reviewed by Mike Gould
        Jan. 2009

 

 Four Future Scenarios for New Zealand
 Work in Progress Edition 2
        Developed by The Landcare Research Scenarios
        Working Group
        Published 2007 by Manaaki Whenua Press,
        Lincoln New Zealand
        ISBN 978-0-478-09388-9

        Reviewed by Yvonne Curtis
        2008

 

 Re-inventing Paradise: How New Zealand is Starting
 to Earn a Bigger,
Sustainable Living in the World Economy,
        Rod Oram, Penguin, 2007.
        ISBN:978 014 3007531

        Reviewed by Jennifer Coote
        2008

 

Limits to Growth
        Club of Rome (1970/71)

        Reviewed by Mike Gould
        2007

 

2005 State of the Future
        by Jerome C. Glenn and Theodore J. Gordon.
        American Council for the United Nations University 2005
        ISBN 0-9722051-4-4        101p + CD
        $49.95 USD

        Reviewed by Mike Stone
        2006

 

Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Survive ,
        by Jared Diamond. (Published 2005)

        Reviewed by Noel Dowick:
        2005

 

  “Travels In The Genetically Modified Zone”
        By Professor Mark Winston

        Reviewed by Graham Butler.
        2003

 

The Lomborg Phenomenon and World Population
        By Bjorn Lomborg

        Reviewed by Graham Butler
        2002    

 

A Super Future? The Price of Growing Older
in New Zealand
        by Anne Else and Susan St John,
       Tandem, 1998.

        Reviewed by Jennifer Coote
        Dec. 1999

 The Too-Hard Basket:
 Maori and Criminal Justice Since 1980
        Charlotte Williams (Henry Lang Fellow 1999)
        ISBN 0-908935-51-X

        Reviewed by Yvonne Curtis
        1999