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An Optimist's Tour of the Future: One Curious Man Sets Out to Answer "What's Next?" by Mark Stevenson Publisher Comments In the tradition of Bill Bryson's A Short History of Nearly Everything, a smart and entertaining guide to the future. Mark Stevenson-a writer, deep thinker, and stand-up comedian-set out simply, asking, "What's next for our species?" and then... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper 
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The Transition Companion: Making Your Community More Resilient in Uncertain Times by Rob Hopkins Publisher Comments In 2008, the best-selling The Transition Handbook suggested a model for a community-led response to peak oil and climate change. Since then, the Transition idea has gone viral across the globe, from Italian villages and Brazilian favelas to universities... (read more) Your price: $29.95 New - Trade Paper
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The Next 100 Years: A Forecast for the 21st Century by George Friedman Publisher Comments A fascinating, eye-opening and often shocking look at what lies ahead for the U.S. and the world from one of our most incisive futurists. In his thought-provoking new book, George Friedman, founder of STRATFOR—the preeminent private... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Empathic Civilization (10 Edition) by Rifkin Publisher Comments "One of the leading big-picture thinkers of our day" (Utne Reader) delivers his boldest work in this erudite, tough-minded, and far-reaching manifesto. Never has the world seemed so completely united-in the form of communication, commerce, and culture... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $14.00 Used - Hardcover
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Conscious Evolution: Awakening the Power of Our Social Potential by Barbara Mar Hubbard Publisher Comments A well-known futurist reveals a quantum change in society and points the way to the third millennium. Barbara Marx Hubbard issues a call to action for the current generation to fulfill its creative potential. Hubbard asserts that we must quickly become... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Ecotechnic Future: Envisioning a Post-Peak World by John Michael Greer Publisher Comments “[John Michael] Greer’s work is nothing short of brilliant. He has the multidisciplinary smarts to deeply understand our human dilemma as we stand on the verge of the inevitable collapse of industrialism. And he wields uncommon writing... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $12.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Beyond Civilization : Humanity's Next Great Adventure (99 Edition) by Daniel Quinn Publisher Comments In Beyond Civilization, Daniel Quinn thinks the unthinkable. We all know there's no one right way to build a bicycle, no one right way to design an automobile, no one right way to make a pair of shoes, but we're convinced that there must be only one... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The World in 2050: Four Forces Shaping Civilization's Northern Future by Laurence C Smith Publisher Comments "The World in 2050 is a compelling portrait of the future and vividly relates the big challenges facing the world now." -Jared Diamond, author of Collapse The world's population is exploding, wild species are vanishing, and our environment is... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Trend Forecaster's Handbook by Martin Raymond Synopsis The Trend Forecaster's Handbook is a sharp, in-depth and highly visual textbook and teaching aid forstudents and academics keen to know more about the world of trends, trend forecasting, and consumer-insight techniques.This how to book provides design... (read more) Your price: $40.00 New - Trade Paper
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Hamlet on the Holodeck : the Future of Narrative in Cyberspace (97 Edition) by Janet H. Murray Publisher Comments Acclaimed by practitioners and theorists alike, this classic statement of the aesthetics of digital media shows how the computer is reshaping the stories we live by.... (read more) List Price $27.00 Your price: $21.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Predictioneer's Game: Using the Logic of Brazen Self-Interest to See and Shape the Future by Bruce Bueno De Mesquita Publisher Comments Bruce Bueno de Mesquita is a master of game theory, which is a fancy label for a simple idea: People compete, and they always do what they think is in their own best interest. Bueno de Mesquita uses game theory and its insights into human behavior to... (read more) Your price: $16.00 New - Trade Paper
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Apocalypse Pretty Soon: Travels in End-Time America by Alex Heard Publisher Comments The inspired madness of America's apocalyptic and pre-millennial organizations may have reached a fever pitch with the turn of the twenty-first century, but intrepid cultural traveler Alex Heard spent a ten-year period witnessing the crescendo firsthand.&... (read more) Your price: $19.00 New - Trade Paper
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The Post-American World: Release 2.0 by Fareed Zakaria Publisher Comments This is not a book about thedecline of America, but rather about the rise of everyone else. So beginsFareed Zakaria s blockbuster on the United States in the twenty-first century, and the trends he identifies have proceeded faster than anyone anticipated.... (read more) Available May 2012 Your price: $16.95 New - Trade Paper 
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The Leaderless Revolution: How Ordinary People Will Take Power and Change Politics in the Twenty-First Century by Carne Ross Publisher Comments The Leaderless Revolution explains why our government institutions are inadequate to the task of solving major problems and offers a set of steps we can take to create lasting and workable solutions ourselves. In taking these steps, we can not only... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price: $18.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Transparent Society: Will Technology Force Us to Choose Between Privacy and Freedom by David Brin Publisher Comments In New York and Baltimore, police cameras scan public areas twenty-four hours a day. Huge commercial databases track you finances and sell that information to anyone willing to pay. Host sites on the World Wide Web record every page you view, and “... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Watchman's Rattle: Thinking Our Way Out of Extinction by Rebecca Costa Publisher Comments Why can't we solve our problems anymore? Why do threats such as the Gulf oil spill, worldwide recession, terrorism, and global warming suddenly seem unstoppable? Are there limits to the kinds of problems humans can solve? Rebecca Costa confronts &mdash... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $17.95 Used - Hardcover
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Peak Oil Survival: Preparation for Life After Gridcrash by Aric Mcbay Publisher Comments Oil and energy are not limitless resources, and someday the supply will be depleted. Peak Oil Survival shows readers how to plan for the future: how to survive and thrive when the food, transport, and energy industries sputter out. Author Aric McBay... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Short History of Future (3RD 99 Edition) by W. Warren Wagar Publisher Comments W. Warren Wagar's A Short History of the Future is a memoir of postmodern times, cast as a history. This powerful and visionary book is narrated by a far-future historian, Peter Jensen, who leaves this account of the world from the 1990s to the opening... (read more) List Price $35.50 Your price: $14.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Fourth Turning (97 Edition) by William Strauss Publisher Comments First came the postwar High, then the Awakening of the '60s and '70s, and now the Unraveling. This audacious and provocative book tells us what to expect just beyond the start of the next century. Are you ready for the Fourth... (read more) List Price $17.99 Your price: $10.00 Used - Trade Paper
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2012: Decoding the Counterculture Apocalypse by Joseph (edt) Gelfer Publisher Comments December 21 2012 is believed to mark the end of the thirteenth B'ak'tun cycle in the Long Count of the Mayan calendar. A growing number of people believe this date to mark the end of the world or, at the very least, the end of the world as we know it: a... (read more) List Price $120.50 Your price: $99.95 New - Hardcover
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