Understand the most revolutionary human transformation in four centuries... and prepare for it! We're not just living through an age of change: we're living through a 'change of age': the most profound inflection point in human history since the Enlightenment. That's the thesis of Eamonn Kelly's remarkable new book Powerful Times. From terrorism and nuclear proliferation to emerging technologies and economic globalization, Kelly weaves together 7 powerful 'dynamic tensions' that will reshape human life in the coming decades. Kelly offers breakthrough insights into how these tensions will conflict -- and how they'll resonate, creating giant waves of change beyond anything we've ever faced. He takes on the truly big questions. To answer pivotal questions, Kelly draws on breakthrough 'scenario planning' techniques he pioneered: techniques hundreds of top organizations now rely on. Simply put, this book will help you prepare for humanity's most profound transition in 400 years. For every executive, strategist, manager, entrepreneur, public policymaker, and citizen interested in the trends that will most powerfully impact business and life in the coming decades. Eamonn Kelly, the CEO and president of Global Business Network, the renowned future-oriented network and consulting firm, has for over a decade and has been at the forefront of exploring the emergence of a new, knowledge-intensive economy, and its far-reaching consequences for society, organizations and individuals. He has consulted with senior executives at dozens of the world's leading corporations in virtually every leading business sector; with key global and national public agencies, and with major philanthropic foundations. Kelly co-authored What's Next: Exploring the New Terrain for Business and The Future of the Knowledge Economy, and authored GBN's 2003 Scenario Book.
This book describes the crannog of Coolure Demesne, Lough Derravaragh, Co. Westmeath, and places it within its archaeological and landscape setting. The crannog is both a significant and an enigmatic addition to the range of archaeological sites to be found in the Irish midlands and has, until now, received relatively little scholarly attention. Notable for its rich early medieval and medieval artefactual assemblage, significant location and impressive structural form, the site was an obvious candidate for further investigation.Much of this study relates to a primary field season conducted by the authors during the summer of 2004 and funded under the Heritage Council's archaeological grant scheme of that year. The opportunity to present these preliminary findings in a monograph form has also allowed the authors to reflect more widely on the surrounding landscape. The broader intention is that this publication will form part of an emerging suite of work relating to Lough Derravaragh and its environs specifically and the archaeological landscapes of the early medieval kingdom of Mide more generally.
This book introduces the reader to the subject of Celtic art by tracing its development in central Europe and its subsequent spread. The indigenous art of central and western Europe, including Ireland, was generally based on simple geometric forms that had been in use from Late Stone Age times. During the sixth and seventh centuries BC classical art began to exert a powerful influence over the work of native craftworkers, and existing themes came to be reinterpreted and reworked by Celtic artists into a dynamic new style. Known as La Tene style, the new art was one of the crowning achievements of Celtic civilisation, and by the third century BC objects bearing distinctive La Tene designs began to appear in Ireland. The principal Celtic artefacts found in Ireland are ornaments such as pins, brooches, bracelets and collars, weapons and horse-trappings, and a variety of decorative bronzes. The splendour of early Celtic art is illustrated in this book mainly by reference to the collection in the National Musuem of Ireland, which ranges from the crudest of objects to those of spectacular beauty and crafstsmanship.
An extraordinarily rich narrative, in which the personal stories of four central characters and the larger issues of Irish National politics and identity are woven together to show the heights and depths, the ambiguities and the certainties, the comedy and the tragedy of half a century of Irish life.
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