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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) Your price: $16.95 New - Trade Paper 
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Mobilizing the Green Imagination: An Exuberant Manifesto by Anthony Weston Publisher Comments Dysfunctional cities, catastrophic climate change, ever-deepening distance from nature--today we see environmental disaster everywhere we look. In Mobilizing the Green Imagination, philosophical provocateur Anthony Weston urges us to move beyond ever... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $12.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Fourth Turning 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: $12.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Surviving 1000 Centuries: Can We Do It? (08 Edition) by Roger-maurice Bonnet Publisher Comments The circumstances that will shape the long-term future of our planet will be constrained by what is physically possible and what is not. This book provides a quantitative view of our civilization over the next 100,000 years, in comparison to the 40-60... (read more) List Price $39.95 Your price: $30.50 Used - Hardcover
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Clock of the Long Now : Time and Responsibility : the Ideas Behind the World's Slowest Computer (99 Edition) by Stewart Brand Publisher Comments Using the designing and building of the Clock of the Long Now as a framework, this is a book about the practical use of long time perspective: how to get it, how to use it, how to keep it in and out of sight. Here are the central questions it inspires... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $8.00 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: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Next 100 Years: A Forecast for the 21st Century by George Friedman Publisher Comments “Conventional analysis suffers from a profound failure of imagination. It imagines passing clouds to be permanent and is blind to powerful, long-term shifts taking place in full view of the world.” —George Friedman In his long... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Hardcover
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I Live in Future and Here's How It Works (12 Edition) by Nick Bilton Publisher Comments Are we driving off a digital cliff and heading for disaster, unable to focus, maintain concentration, or form the human bonds that make life worth living? Are media and business doomed and about to be replaced by amateur hour? The world, as Nick Bilton... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $8.00 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 Extreme Future: The Top Trends That Will Reshape the World in the Next 20 Years by James Canton Publisher Comments A renowned global futurist prepares businesses and individuals for the radical changes on the horizon An advisor to three presidents spanning over thirty years, Dr. James Canton identifies probable outcomes and future trends in business, technology... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $2.50 Used - Trade Paper
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After the Car (09 Edition) by Kingsley Dennis Publisher Comments It is difficult to imagine a world without the car, and yet that is exactly what Dennis and Urry set out to do in this provocative new book. They argue that the days of the car are numbered: powerful forces around the world are undermining the car system... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $11.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The World in 2050: Four Forces Shaping Civilization's Northern Future by Laurence C Smith Publisher Comments andquot;The World in 2050 is a compelling portrait of the future and vividly relates the big challenges facing the world now.andquot; -Jared Diamond, author of Collapse The world's population is exploding, wild species are vanishing, and our environment... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Trendspotting by Richard Laermer Publisher Comments This is the book that will show anyone how to discern true signs of change. Here are the hottest tips on what to expect from the economy and technology, arts and entertainment, politics and society at large. Written by a public relations expert, this new... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $2.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Way We Will Be 50 Years from Today: 60 of the World's Greatest Minds Share Their Visions of the Next Half-Century by Mike Wallace Publisher Comments The world is an uncertain place, which is why the future and the unknown absolutely fascinate us. Veteran television journalist Mike Wallace asked the question What will life be like 50 years from now? to sixty of the world's greatest minds. Their... (read more) List Price $24.99 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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Approaching Chaos: Can an Ancient Archetype Save 21st Civilization? by Lucy Wyatt Synopsis Twenty-first century civilization faces economic, ecological and spiritual meltdown. To survive this century as civilized people, we need to refer back to a time when city life was in harmony with nature and the wider environment. We cannot dismiss the... (read more) Your price: $29.95 New - Trade Paper
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Cosmopolis :the hidden agenda of modernity by Stephen Toulmin Publisher Comments In the seventeenth century, a vision arose which was to captivate the Western imagination for the next three hundred years: the vision of Cosmopolis, a society as rationally ordered as the Newtonian view of nature. While fueling extraordinary advances in... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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When China Rules the World: The End of the Western World and the Birth of a New Global Order by Martin Jacques Publisher Comments “Provocative . . . a fascinating account.” —Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times In this prodigiously researched book, Martin Jacques presents a groundbreaking look at how China’s continued economic ascendency will alter the... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $10.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Inevitable Surprises: Thinking Ahead in a Time of Turbulence by Peter Schwartz Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 237-242).... (read more) List Price $27.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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Power and Willpower in the American Future: Why the United States Is Not Destined to Decline. by Robert J. Lieber by Robert J. Lieber Publisher Comments To argue against the widely proclaimed idea of American decline, as this book does, might seem a lonely task. After all, the problems are real and serious. Yet if we take a longer view, much of the discourse about decline appears exaggerated, hyperbolic,... (read more) Your price: $24.75 New - Trade Paper
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