Profiles thirty international and statistically average families, documenting their economic standings, needs, hopes, and beliefs about the future of the planet, in a study that reveals the environmental cost of materialism. Reprint. 45,000 first printing....

A study of multicultural diversity takes a photographic study of "average" family life in thirty dissimilar cultures--from Samoa to Kuwait to Sarajevo--and examines the potential impact of the new global economy on the distinct cultural heritage of the human community....

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