negotiations that led to Indonesia's independence" and as "the fullest, most accurate, and least biased" treatment in print of the UN's role. In 1960 Taylor joined the faculty of Queen's University at Kingston, Ontario, where he taught in both the Geography and Political Studies departments until 1980. At Queen's, in the early 1960s, he developed his systems-theory model of the historical evolution of human societies, which he designated Time-Space-Technics (TST). TST understands human societies as instances of open natural systems equilibrating with their environments in a hierarchy of integrative levels. It identifies an evolutionary sequence of world-views that organize societal systems at the different levels. Taylor named these world-views "Mythos", "Theos", "Logos", and "Holos". TST focuses on the interplay and tension between what Taylor called "material technics" and "societal technics", and attempts to identify factors responsible for fracturing a system's equilibrium and quantizing it to a different level of societal organization (either more or less complex). Taylor published a number of articles about the TST model and in his last years was preparing a book-length exposition of his ideas. He believed that modern society stands at a critical juncture: although industrial society has become culturally and environmentally unsustainable, we have the opportunity to replace it with new values and institutions appropriate to a sustainable global civilization. Selected bibliography Civilization Past and Present, with T. Walter Wallbank (Chicago: Scott, Foresman, 1942 and subsequent editions). The World in Turmoil, 1914-1944, with T. Walter Wallbank (Chicago: Scott, Foresman, 1944). Indonesian Independence and the United Nations (London: Stevens, 1960; Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1960; Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1975). "Toward a Field Theory of International Relations", General Semantics Bulletin 35 (1968): 9–43. "Evolution-Revolution, General Systems Theory, and Society", in Rubin Gotesky and Ervin Laszlo (eds.), Evolution-Revolution (New York: Gordon and Breach, 1971). "Integrative Principles in Human Societies", in Henry Margenau (ed.), Integrative Principles of Modern Thought (New York: Gordon and Breach, 1972). Western Perspectives: A Concise History of Civilization, with T. Walter Wallbank and Nels M. Bailkey (Glenview, Illinois: Scott, Foresman, 1973). "A Systems Approach to the Political Organization of Space", Social Sciences Information 14:5 (1975): 7−40. "Process and Structure in Sociocultural Systems", in Erich Jantsch and Conrad H. Waddington (eds.), Evolution and Consciousness: Human Systems in Transition (Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley, 1976). "The Historical Evolution of Mankind's Inner and Outer Dimensions", in Ervin Laszlo and Judah Bierman (eds.), Goals in a Global Community,