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Envisioning what we need, when it doesn't yet exist: this, Thomas Fisher tells us, is what design does. And if what we need now is a better world - functioning schools, working infrastructure, thriving cities - why not design one? Fisher shows how the principles of design apply to services and systems that seem to evolve naturally, systems whose failures sometimes seem as arbitrary and inevitable as the weather. But the "invisible" systems we depend on for our daily lives (in education, politics, economics, and public health) are designed every bit as much as the products we buy and the environments we inhabit - and are just as susceptible to creative reimagining.Designing Our Way to a Better World challenges the assumptions that have led to so much poor performance in the public and private realms: that our schools cannot teach creativity, that our governments cannot predict the disasters that befall us, that our health system will protect us from pandemics, that our politics will remain polarized, that our economy cannot avoid inequality, and that our industry cannot help but pollute the environment.
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Upon graduating from The University of Iowa, Sean spent the next few years performing radio shows on Lazer 103. 3 in Des Moines, Lazer 103 in Milwaukee, and Lazer 99. 3 in Springfield, Mass. After a few less than impressive forays into horror, Sean sold his soul and began writing under a female pen name (beneath the heavy persistence of his wife!) that went on to ink two bestselling romance novels right out of the gate. Like his Facebook page to find out who! Sean is now back for the attack in the genre he grew up loving, bringing a darker twist to his stories resulting in the Amazon chart-topping series. When not pouring what's left of his soul into another WIP, he is biking, grilling, and cleaning up apple juice his three-year-old daughter, Layla, dumped on the floor before the ants come and eat them alive. (Dead Series Book 1) (Dead Series Book 2) (Dead Series Book 3) - For fans of and . They only come out when it rains. .. - Don't you ever wonder what gets into people? meets . For mature audiences only. Don't read alone.
