Social Science - Future Studies

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The Sixth Extinction

Elizabeth Kolbert

From the author of Field Notes from a Catastrophe, a powerful and important workabout the future of the world, blending intellectual and natural history and field reporting into a compelling account of the mass extinction unfolding be...

Unabridged CD
Published: Mar 2014

The Next 100 Years: A Forecast for th...

George Friedman

George Friedman, founder of Stratfor, has become a leading expert in geopolitical forecasting. Drawing on a profound understanding of history and geopolitical patterns dating back to the Roman Empire, he shows that we are now, for the...

Unabridged MP3-CD
Published: Jan 2009

The Next 100 Years: A Forecast for th...

George Friedman

George Friedman, founder of Stratfor, has become a leading expert in geopolitical forecasting. Drawing on a profound understanding of history and geopolitical patterns dating back to the Roman Empire, he shows that we are now, for the...

Unabridged CD
Published: Jan 2009

Who Owns the Future?

Jaron Lanier

THE DAZZLING NEW MASTERWORK FROM THE PROPHET OF SILICON VALLEYJaron Lanier is the bestselling author of You Are Not a Gadget, the father of virtual reality, and one of the most influential thinkers of our time. For decades, Lanier has...

Unabridged CD
Published: Aug 2013

The Future of the Professions: How Te...

Richard Susskind

This book predicts the decline of today's professions and describes the people and systems that will replace them. In an Internet society, according to Richard Susskind and Daniel Susskind, we will neither need nor want doctors, teach...

Unabridged MP3-CD
Published: Apr 2016

The Next 100 Years: A Forecast for th...

George Friedman

Friedman, a leading expert in geopolitical forecasting, turns his eye to the future. Drawing on a profound understanding of history and geopolitical patterns, 'The Next 100 Years' is a compelling, realistic, and eye-opening portrait o...

Paperback
Published: Jan 2010

Small Arcs of Larger Circles: Framing...

Nora Bateson

This is a collection of essays, reflections and poems by Nora Bateson, the noted research designer, film-maker, writer and lecturer. She is the daughter of Gregory Bateson and president of the International Bateson Institute (IBI). Bu...

Paperback
Published: Oct 2016

Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Ch...

Adrienne Maree Brown

In the tradition of Octavia Butler, here is radical self-help, society-help, and planet-help to shape the futures we want. Change is constant. The world, our bodies, and our minds are in a constant state of flux. They are a stream of ...

Paperback
Published: Feb 2017

Surviving the Future: Culture, Carniv...

David Fleming

Surviving the Future is a story drawn from the fertile ground of the late David Fleming’s extraordinary Lean Logic: A Dictionary for the Future and How to Survive It. That hardback consists of four hundred and four interlinked dict...

Paperback
Published: Mar 2016

Epiphany Z: Eight Radical Visions for...

Thomas Frey

"Epiphany Z" is Futurist Thomas Frey's dynamic approach to envisioning, comprehending, and ultimately thriving in the radically different futures emerging around us at the speed of light.Frey's unparalleled ability to detect...

Paperback
Published: Jan 2017

The Future: A Very Short Introduction...

Jennifer Gidley

From the beginning of time, humans have been driven by both a fear of the unknown and a curiosity to know. We have always yearned to know what lies ahead, whether threat or safety, scarcity or abundance. Throughout human history, our ...

Paperback
Published: Feb 2017

Brand Shift: The Future of Brands and...

David Houle

In their book, Brand Shift: The Future of Brands and Marketing, David Houle and Owen Shapiro deliver a powerful and persuasive look at how cultural change and accelerating technological advancement will affect brands and marketing in ...

Paperback
Published: Aug 2014

Hope and the Future: An Introduction ...

Charles M. Johnston MD

Hope and the Future presents a provocative examination of what being optimistic about the future ultimately depends on. It describes how we face a growing number of human challenges that require that we think, act, and relate in new w...

Paperback
Published: Mar 2014

The Internet Is Not the Answer

Andrew Keen

Since its creation during the Cold War, the Internet, together with the Web, personal computers, tablets and smartphones, has ushered in one of the greatest shifts in society since the Industrial Revolution. The Digital Revolution has...

Paperback
Published: Jan 2016

The Good Ancestor: A Radical Prescrip...

Roman Krznaric

From leading philosopher Roman Krznaric, now in paperback, an urgent call to save ourselves and our planet by getting to the root of the current crisis—society’s extreme short-sightedness When Jonas Salk developed the poli...

Paperback
Published: Nov 2021

Great Reset Infoguide: The Story of t...

United Library

"The Fourth Industrial Revolution is happening all around us, and it's time to get ready for it. " "The World Economic Forum has released a report on the looming "Great Reset" - and how to weather it. "...

Paperback
Published: May 2022

4 Steps to the Future: A Quick and Cl...

Richard a. K. Lum

This book by Richard Lum, an academically trained futurist, is a practical, straight-to-the-action guide for creating foresight in any organization. Written for today’s attention-stressed and resource-deprived manager, 4 Steps to t...

Paperback
Published: Mar 2016

Conscious Evolution: Awakening the Po...

Barbara Marx Hubbard

A Seminal Work of Visionary Hope, Updated for the 21st CenturyIn this era of government gridlock, economic and ecological devastation, and seemingly intractable global violence, our future is ever more ripe for — and in need of — ...

Paperback
Published: Jan 2015

The Future

Nick Montfort

How the future has been imagined and made, through the work of writers, artists, inventors, and designers.The future is like an unwritten book. It is not something we see in a crystal ball, or can only hope to predict, like the weathe...

Paperback
Published: Nov 2017

Microtrends Squared: The New Small Fo...

Mark Penn

Ten years after his New York Times bestselling book Microtrends, Mark Penn identifies the next wave of trends reshaping the future of business, politics, and culture.Mark Penn has boldly argued that the future is not shaped by society...

Paperback
Published: Mar 2019

Seasteading: How Floating Nations Wil...

Joe Quirk

In these "thought-provoking visions of the future" (TheWall Street Journal), Joe Quirk and Patri Friedman of the Seasteading Institute explain how ocean cities can solve many of our environmental, technological, and civic pr...

Paperback
Published: Mar 2018

The Seventh Sense: Power, Fortune, an...

Joshua Cooper Ramo

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERWASHINGTON POST BESTSELLERWinner of the getAbstract 17th International Book Award"The Seventh Sense is a concept every businessman, diplomat, or student should aspire to master--a powerful idea, backed by stor...

Paperback
Published: May 2017

Anticipations Of The Reaction Of Mech...

H. G. Wells

"Anticipations of the Reaction of Mechanical and Scientific Progress upon Human Life and Thought" is a non-fiction book written by H. G. Wells. Published in 1901, it explores Wells' predictions and speculations about the imp...

Paperback
Published: Oct 2023

The Post-American World: Release 2.0

Fareed Zakaria

Perfect condition, ships same day. Great read

Paperback
Published: May 2012
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