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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE |
November 2, 2000 |
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New Publisher Releases First Book |
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Paraview Press, a division of Paraview.com, is a
newly-established book publishing company specializing in
Science, Spirituality, Wellness, Responsible Business, and
Ecology. Based in New York City, Paraview Press and
Paraview.com target a global audience, including over 50
million Americans, who are interested in healthy lifestyles,
personal development, and the transformation of society.
Though Paraview Press acts like a traditional book publishing
company—being highly selective in choosing its titles, which
are then professionally edited and attractively packaged–it
uses new media technology to produce its works either as
print-on-demand books, which can be ordered from any
bookstore, or as ebooks, which can be download instantly upon
purchase and read on PCs and handheld computers.
Paraview Press is proud to announce the release of their
first book: |
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CIVILIZATION AND THE TRANSFORMATION OF
POWER
by Jim Garrison |
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"At the turn of the millennium the world is burning.” With
these words begins the visionary new book by Jim Garrison,
president of the State of the World Forum (http://worldforum.org
), a non-profit institution dedicated to discerning and
implementing those principles, values, and actions necessary
to guide humanity toward a more sustainable global
civilization.
"Transformation is occurring in every sector, at every scale,
in every dimension,” continues Garrison. “Nothing we have
inherited from the past is able to withstand the accelerated
pace of change; everything from the future remains a perpetual
possibility. Society has become completely malleable to the
power of science and technology; our mind, continually
susceptible to novelty; our relationships, opened to new
configurations and meanings…It is almost unbelievable that 90
percent of everything that has been discovered or invented in
the entire history of civilization has been invented or
discovered in the past seventyfive years...Yet all these
achievements have not made us more ethically balanced or more
wise.”
At the same time, notes Garrison, “a global consciousness,
spawned by economic globalization and mass communication, is
for the first time uniting all of humanity into a single unit,
bringing the six thousand discrete cultures and societies now
existing around the world into sustained interaction. Human
civilization is being reborn on a global scale.”
How are we to understand the present? Is the past framing our
future or are we in a time of unprecedented newness? Both,
says Garrison. “We are in a time of novelty, and we are
experiencing the repetition of very deep historical patterns.
To be able to discern both alternatives, separately and
together, is to be able to come to terms with the paradox of
power, which characterizes our age.” In this deeply probing
book, Garrison illustrates how this paradox lies at the very
heart of our historical, psychological, and spiritual life.
Advance Praise for Civilization and the Transformation of
Power
"Civilization and the Transformation of Power is an absorbing,
provocative, scintillating account of the ‘interiors' of
western history—that is, the psychological and spiritual
forces that historians often ignore in favor of reporting
merely the exterior historical 'facts.' Jim Garrison is one of
the great visionaries of our time, and his account not only
traces the rise of western culture, it points beyond it to a
more integral, gracious, compassionate world, drawing on
the best of both East and West, feminine and masculine, to
paint a picture of a more caring tomorrow.”
– Ken Wilbur, author of A Brief History of Everything
“Here is paradox played out on the high stage of history. Here
are the mythic underpinnings of civilization in its contents
and discontents. Here is the tragic and transformative
dialectic between Mother Mind and Father Force. And here too
is the sacred psychology of God rising to be known in the
unfolding of psyche in time. Within the compass of this
remarkable book Garrison has garnered an understanding of
emergent consciousness, the drama of the World Soul and the
redemption of the higher dream.”
– Jean Houston author of Jump Time |
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About Jim Garrison |
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JIM GARRISON was born of Baptist missionary parents in
Szechuan Province, China, in 1951. By the time he began
university, he had traveled in over forty countries worldwide
and was active in the anti-Vietnam war and environmental
movements. As a Ph.D. student at Cambridge University
(1975-1982), Garrison became engaged in the citizen diplomacy
movement to reduce the nuclear tensions between the United
States and the Soviet Union, founded two organizations dealing
with the nuclear power issues, and published two books on the
topic. Throughout the 1980s, Dr. Garrison refined his skills
at facilitating private discussions among leaders, directing
programs that engaged in private sector diplomacy with Soviet.
In 1991, he founded the International Foreign Policy
Association in collaboration with Georgian President Edward
Shevardnadze and former Secretary of State George Schultz,
focusing on providing humanitarian relief for children in the
former Soviet republics. In 1992, at the behest of Mikhail
Gorbachev, Dr. Garrison founded and became the President of
the Gorbachev Foundation.
These two organizations set the stage for the establishment,
in 1995, of the State of the World Forum (http://worldforum.org
) a San Francisco-based non-profit institution created to
establish a global network of leaders, citizens and
institutions dedicated to discerning and implementing those
principles, values and actions necessary to guide humanity
toward a more sustainable global civilization. The Forum has
convened roughly 4,000 people from over 100 countries to its
annual sessions, which have launched and directed a number of
action-oriented strategic initiatives across a spectrum of
areas.
Garrison’s degrees include: B.A. World History, University of
Santa Clara; M.T.S., History of Religion, Harvard University;
and Ph.D., Philosophical Theology, Cambridge University. He
has written six books concerning the historical and
theological implications of the advent of the nuclear age. |
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Civilization and the Transformation of Power
By Jim Garrison
Paraview Press (Trade Paperback),
Pub. Date: November 1, 2000
ISBN: 1931044-00-7, Nonfiction
DOI:
6x9, 359 pages, $19.95 |
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This book is available through
amazon.com,
barnesandnoble.com, and can be ordered through local and
online bookstores nationwide. |
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About Paraview Press |
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Paraview Publishing is a publisher that utilizes new media
technology to publish quality works in body, mind, and spirit
and the frontiers of science and culture -- areas related to
the transformation of society. Our imprints include Paraview
Press, print-on-demand books for niche audiences; Paraview
Special Editions, reprints of select out-of-print books and
international books; and Paraview Pocket Books, traditionally
published works for a wide audience. Based in New York City,
Paraview targets a global audience, including over 50 million
Americans who are interested in health lifestyles, personal
development and the transformation of society. |
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For author interviews and review copies
contact: (212) 989-3616
E-mail: publisher@paraview.com |
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