WATCHMAN`S RATTLE, THE - Virgin

The clash of religions and civilizations, global water shortages, financial crises and the destruction of natural environment are not the cause of our difficulties, but a consequence of them. In the tradition of Malcolm Gladwell and Thomas Friedman, biologist and business leader Rebecca Costa shares her compelling vision of the future, revealing the telltale patterns which paralyze innovative thinking, and with it, a civilization's ability to solve complex problems. Using both historic and modern-day examples, The Watchman's Rattle describes what happens when complexity races ahead of the brain's ability to manage it. Society's ability to solve its most challenging problems becomes gridlocked, progress slows and collapse ensues. But luckily, Costa shows how we can reverse this downward spiral by changing the way we think. The Watchman's Rattle delivers the most important message of our time JOHN PERKINS, economist and New York Times bestselling author of Confessions of an Economic Hitman. I am on the side of Rebecca Costa. Let us become realists-in-search-of-a-solution rather than doomsayers DR. E. O WILSON, world-acclaimed naturalist and two-time Pulitzer prize winner.