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Beyond Trivia and Infotainment
Exploring what’s really important in life
There is an antidote for the flood of irrelevant facts, celebrity gossip, and sensationalized news that dumbs us down and poisons our outlook. It is Copthorne Macdonald’s latest book, Matters of Consequence: Creating a Meaningful Life and a World That Works. Broad in scope and long in view, it focuses on significant issues and delivers insights and knowledge that can make a real difference in our lives.
Matters of Consequence presents key facts and perspectives from many branches of knowledge, and the author has organized these into an illuminating mosaic of ideas that addresses our deepest concerns. Among these concerns are primal ones such as our place in the cosmos, personal ones such as crafting a wise, significant, and deeply satisfying life, and societal ones such as sustainability and economic justice. Clarity about our present reality leads to a realistic vision of a world that works for everyone. And the book presents a variety of techniques and strategies for getting from here to there.
Advance reaction to Matters of Consequence has been highly positive. In his foreword to the book, Paul H. Ray (coauthor of The Cultural Creatives) said, “As a college student I kept asking these big questions, going to whole libraries of books in search of the answers…. Now, finally, after four decades, here’s the book I was looking for as a student.” Allan Combs (author of The Radiance of Being) said of it, “Never has a single book brought together such a rich trove of facts, resources, and wisdom.” Vicki Robin (coauthor of Your Money or Your Life) remarked, “This book is brilliant yet accessible, terse yet so deeply considered that each paragraph opens worlds.” Futurist Barbara Marx Hubbard (author of Conscious Evolution) called Matters of Consequence “a master work in applying evolutionary understanding to the critical problems of our time.”
Scheduled for February 2004 publication in both hardcover and paperback, Matters of Consequence will be available through bookstores in the U.S., Canada and the UK as well as from online booksellers.
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Matters of Consequence: Creating a Meaningful Life and a World That Works by Copthorne Macdonald. First edition, 6x9, 412 pages. Publication: February 1, 2004. Hardcover: ISBN 0-9689618-6-X, US$39.95. Paperback: ISBN 0-9689618-7-8, US $24.95, UK £17.99. Category: Wisdom / Human Ecology / Current Events. Illustrations: 3. Back Matter: Appendices, Bibliography, Index. North American distribution: Ingram, Baker & Taylor, BN.com, Amazon.com. UK distribution: Bertrams, Gardners, Cypher, Amazon.co.uk.
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