A world waiting to be born : the search for civility / M. Scott Peck.

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Peck, M. Scott

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: Publication details: New York : Bantam Books, 1993.Description: 366 p. ; 24 cmISBN:

0712657584 (pbk.)

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DDC classification:

174 PEC

Contents:

pt. 1. The cornerstones of civility. Ch. 1. Something is seriously wrong: toward a redefinition of civility. Ch. 2. Salvation and suffering: the ambiguity of pain and disease. Ch. 3. Selves and systems: the reality and illusion of the self. Ch. 4. The hole in the mind: the lack of group consciousness. Ch. 5. Enter God, stage left: ethics and submission. Ch. 6. Yes, Virginia, there Is unconditional love: covenant. Ch. 7. Tell them I came but no one answered: vocation. Ch. 8. How not to waste your time: prayer (or whatever you want to call it) -- pt. 2. Marriage and the family. Ch. 9. For the Friction: Marriage and Narcissism. Ch. 10. No Place to Go but Up: Marriage and Power. Ch. 11. Walking the Tightrope: Marriage and Separateness. Ch. 12. Bows and Arrows: Child raising and vocation. Ch. 13. Karass or Grandfaloon?: the family as organization -- pt. 3. You gotta know your business. Ch. 14. Who's there?: roles and transference. Ch. 15. Selling or saving your soul: vocation and business. Ch. 16. May God have mercy on you: the civil use of power in business -- pt. 4. Epiphany: community in the workplace. Ch. 17. A sum greater than its parts: community: The civil organization. Ch. 18. Rewalking the tightrope: ethics and adversarialism in business. Ch. 19. The politics of transformation: introducing community into business. Ch. 20. No, Virginia, there is no quick fix: community maintenance. Ch. 21. Utopia revisited: the promise of community in the workplace.

Summary: "M. Scott Peck is known for the profound psychological and spiritual journey on which he has guided millions of readers in his earlier bestselling books." "A WORLD WAITING TO BE BORN is his long-awaited major new work of nonfiction, and it brings us the most urgent messages and the most important guidance toward change Dr. Peck has ever offered." "We are a deeply ailing society. Our illness is incivility, by which

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Item type	Current library	Shelving location	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
Centre for Education and Documentation	Gulbanoo Premji Library, Azim Premji University, Bengaluru	5th Floor	CE 174 PEC (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		G11617

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pt. 1. The cornerstones of civility. Ch. 1. Something is seriously wrong: toward a redefinition of civility. Ch. 2. Salvation and suffering: the ambiguity of pain and disease. Ch. 3. Selves and systems: the reality and illusion of the self. Ch. 4. The hole in the mind: the lack of group consciousness. Ch. 5. Enter God, stage left: ethics and submission. Ch. 6. Yes, Virginia, there Is unconditional love: covenant. Ch. 7. Tell them I came but no one answered: vocation. Ch. 8. How not to waste your time: prayer (or whatever you want to call it) --
pt. 2. Marriage and the family. Ch. 9. For the Friction: Marriage and Narcissism. Ch. 10. No Place to Go but Up: Marriage and Power. Ch. 11. Walking the Tightrope: Marriage and Separateness. Ch. 12. Bows and Arrows: Child raising and vocation. Ch. 13. Karass or Grandfaloon?: the family as organization --
pt. 3. You gotta know your business. Ch. 14. Who's there?: roles and transference. Ch. 15. Selling or saving your soul: vocation and business. Ch. 16. May God have mercy on you: the civil use of power in business --
pt. 4. Epiphany: community in the workplace. Ch. 17. A sum greater than its parts: community: The civil organization. Ch. 18. Rewalking the tightrope: ethics and adversarialism in business. Ch. 19. The politics of transformation: introducing community into business. Ch. 20. No, Virginia, there is no quick fix: community maintenance. Ch. 21. Utopia revisited: the promise of community in the workplace.

"M. Scott Peck is known for the profound psychological and spiritual journey on which he has guided millions of readers in his earlier bestselling books." "A WORLD WAITING TO BE BORN is his long-awaited major new work of nonfiction, and it brings us the most urgent messages and the most important guidance toward change Dr. Peck has ever offered." "We are a deeply ailing society. Our illness is incivility, by which

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