From the author of Interdependence: The Route to Community comes a new and compelling look at the reality of human behavior, diversity, and the actions of people and systems. Beyond Difference looks closely at our culture and institutions and challenges readers to ask why it is that mechanization and other narrow social trends have become so rooted that our society is finding it hard to balance for a common good.

Condeluci asks, "If our institutions are becoming more mechanical and robotic, then won't our characters?"