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Title: The Cultural Creatives : How 50 Million People Are Changing the World by Sherry Ruth Anderson, Ph.D. Paul H. Ray ISBN: 0-609-80845-1 Publisher: Three Rivers Press Pub. Date: 02 October, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.29 (34 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: There's hope for our species & our planet!
Comment:
Psychologists Paul Ray and Sherry Anderson have written a handbook for people who are working to make this world a better place. Their book, THE CULTURAL CREATIVES - HOW 50 MILLION PEOPLE ARE CHANGING THE WORLD - is a guidebook for those who are interested in saving the planet, nurturing their personal relationships, and being sensitive without being stomped on.
You might be a Cultural Creative if you're into: books and music; arts and culture; stories; social causes, especially issues dealing with women and children; and authenticity. The authors have created an interesting test to gauge where you stand in the mix and use a lot of graphs throughout the book to identify cultural creatives and their issues.
If you're from the '60s and you've ever wondered what to do with all the energy created during that period of our lives, this book will open your eyes. If you've sometimes felt like an alien in your own family, the authors will offer you comfort because you're not alone. Even if you're just wondering why cultural creatives are so passionate about their lives, this planet, and their causes, this book will help you put it all together.
Cultural Creatives include such personalities as: Pope John Paul XXIII; Martin Luther King, Jr.; The Dalai Lama; Annie Dillard; Georgia O'Keeffe; Marc Chagall; Yo-Yo Ma; Robert Redford; Katharine Hepburn; and Bill Moyers. Pretty good company, don't you think?
While the book represents a lot of research on the part of the authors, the data is never presented in a dry, boring format. I found it hard to put the book down. The information resonated with me -- I'm from the 60's -- and it gave me hope for the future of our species and our planet.
Enjoy!
Rating: 5
Summary: Aquarian Conspiracy for the 21st Century
Comment: This book, The Cultural Creatives, is the best news to be published since Marilyn Ferguson's The Aquarian Conspiracy. Through graphs, interviews and so on, the authors remind us that humanity is not down and out, that there is a movement afoot that many of us call the New Group of World Servers. This group is made up of people who are more interested in serving the greater good than lining their own pocketbooks, who see the need and then work to find the solution. They don't stop there, however, and they don't expect others to take care of the
problems we've created over our several million years of existence on this planet.
As soon as I bought and read this book I sent it to a daughter in Tucson, who was beseiged by her colleagues for information, copies of the graphs, etc, so I never got the book back. I consider it not lost but joyfully seeding its miraculous message in another environment. I will buy another copy and probably give it away, too. Thanks to the authors. I heard Ray interviewed this morning on Jefferson Public Radio in Southern Oregon and hope he and his fellow author will continue their work, encouraging all of us who are Cultural Creatives and now know that we're not alone! In light, Nancy M. Davison.
Rating: 4
Summary: Fascinating read, but not perfect.
Comment: This is a fascinating book that I couldn't put down when I first got it. Anderson and Ray write in a style that is both intellectually stimulating and easy for lay audiences to understand. As a "cultural creative" myself, the book had a helpful, optimistic tone.
But the book is far from perfect. As some other reviewers have astutely pointed out, the authors fail to take into consideration that people might overlap more than one of the three groups outlined in the book. What happens when a "modern" couple from Omaha decide they want to move back to "traditional" Grandpa's farm in the country to raise their kids? Anderson and Ray don't give fair treatment to cross-over between the groups. This is unfortunate, and gives an incomplete picture of the United States.
Next, as someone who took a good amount of sociology in college, I was disappointed with the book's treatment of how one becomes a modern, traditional, or creative. More individual case studies, instead of a macro-level analysis would have been helpful.
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Title: The Rise of the Creative Class: And How It's Transforming Work, Leisure, Community and Everyday Life by Richard Florida ISBN: 0465024769 Publisher: Perseus Books Group Pub. Date: 30 April, 2002 List Price(USD): $27.50 |
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Title: The Rise of the Creative Class: And How It's Transforming Work, Leisure, Community and Everyday Life by Richard Florida ISBN: 0465024777 Publisher: Basic Books Pub. Date: 23 December, 2003 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Imagine: What America Could Be in the 21st Century by Marianne Williamson, Anne Lamott, Joseph Sohm ISBN: 0451204697 Publisher: New American Library Pub. Date: 07 November, 2001 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: Bobos In Paradise: The New Upper Class and How They Got There by David Brooks ISBN: 0684853787 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Pub. Date: 01 March, 2001 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: The Clustered World : How We Live, What We Buy, and What It All Means About Who We Are by Michael J. Weiss ISBN: 0316929204 Publisher: Little, Brown Pub. Date: 15 December, 2000 List Price(USD): $27.50 |
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