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Digital Democracy
by Barry N. (edt) Hague  Publisher Comments Is direct democracy in the age of remote communication possible? Examining the impact of information and communication technologies (ICTs) and their consequences for political institutions, "Digital Democracy" offers a critical assessment of the concept...
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Ralph Ellison: The Next Fifty Years
by Ronald A. T. Judy Publisher Comments While Ralph Ellison is perhaps best known for his novel Invisible Man, he was also a significant twentieth-century intellectual, having authored numerous essays and papers that shaped thought on subjects from jazz to liberalism. Ralph Ellison: The Next...
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Reshaping the World for the 21st Century: Society and Growth
by Virginia Smith Publisher Comments Reshaping the World for the 21st Century evaluates post-World War II economic development efforts in the United States, in Canada, and, in Brazil, and in Mexico. It argues that the proposal that the more fortunate countries should bring prosperity to the...
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Previews and Premises
by Alvin Toffler Publisher Comments A highly personal look at jobs, identity, sex roles, information age politics, hidden forces driving the economy, and the pitfalls and promises of social change....
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Predicting the Future (Darwin College Lectures)
by Leo Howe Publisher Comments Predicting the Future examines humankind’s obsessive urge to look beyond the present in the hope of controlling events in the days to come....
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Visions of the Future in Germany and America (Krefeld Historical Symposia)
by Hermann Wellenreuther Publisher Comments Predictions about the world have the power to grip whole societies, and shape the actions of many groups whether working in politics, ecology or religion. At the end of epochs and eras humans tend to reflect on the shape of things to come. Most recently,...
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Co-Creating a Public Philosophy for Future Generations (Praeger Studies on the 21st Century)
by Tae-chang Kim Publisher Comments When making decisions, governments can and should strive consciously to balance the demands of the present with the needs of future generations. Various advocates for greater governmental foresight have created new processes or institutions within...
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The Coming Age of Scarcity: Preventing Mass Death and Genocide in the Twenty-First Century (Peace and Conflict Resolution)
by Isidor Wallimann Publisher Comments Michael Dobkowski and Isidor Wallimann have written a book that, although ominous, is not a fatalistic look into what the future may hold for us in the upcoming century. It lays out the perils of not recognizing the reality of genocide or of...
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Where's It Going? (Prospects for Tomorrow)
by Ian Pearson Publisher Comments Computers will talk to one another; new textiles will control the body's temperature; and smart buildings will monitor and alter heat, light, music, decoration and mood. People will work in local technology centres, while retail outlets will give way to...
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Myth of Green Marketing
by Toby Smith Publisher Comments In this study, Toby Smith analyses the role that social myths such as green marketing play in public understanding of the environmental crisis. This book introduces the concept of hegemony into environmental politics, using the concept to elucidate the...
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Clock of the Long Now: The Ideas Behind the World's Slowest Computer
by Stewart Brand Publisher Comments An important figure in the U.S. counterculture, Brand sees the inability to imagine the future in the new millennium as an unwillingness to accept responsibility for it. In this work, he tackles the question of how to make long-term thinking an integral...
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The Futures of American Studies (New Americanists)
by Donald E. Pease Publisher Comments Originating as a proponent of U.S. exceptionalism during the Cold War, American Studies has now reinvented itself, vigorously critiquing various kinds of critical hegemony and launching innovative interdisciplinary endeavors. The Futures of American...
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Is Progress Speeding Up?: Our Multiplying Multitudes of Blessings
by John M Templeton Publisher Comments The facts within the book provide documentation for a positive outlook toward our living standards and working conditions, political and economic freedoms, and ability to communicate, and most importantly, our ability to get along with one another....
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Is Future Given?
by Ilya Prigogine Publisher Comments In this book, after discussing the fundamental problems of current science and other philosophic concepts, beginning with controversies between Heraclitus and Parmenides, Professor Prigogine launches into a message of great hope: the future has not been...
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The MicroAge Way
by Jeffrey I Rodengen Publisher Comments In 1976, Jeff McKeever and Alan Hald predicted microcomputers would change the way people lived and worked. With money scraped together from credit cards and second mortgages, they opened a small computer retail store in Tempe, Arizona.<P>Today...
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Beyond Calculation: The Next Fifty Years of Computing
by Peter J Denning Publisher Comments In March 1997, the Association for Computing Machinery will celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the electronic computer. To understand what an extraordinary fifty years the computer has had, you need only look around you--probably no farther than your...
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The World in 2020
by Hamish Mcrae Publisher Comments In The World in 2020, acclaimed commentator and best-selling author Hamish McRae paints a vivid competitive landscape in which culture and values will be the new sources of advantage for the industrialized nations. In the year 2020, all having embraced...
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Future Shock
by Alvin Toffler Publisher Comments Examines the effects of rapid industrial and technological changes upon the individual, the family, and society....
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Preview 2001+: Popular Culture Studies in the Future
by Ray Broadus Browne Publisher Comments The educational opportunities of the new millennium are endless if our efforts are informed. If not, they will be catalogs of failures or half-successes. The essays in this collection, written by some of the leading scholars in Popular Culture Studies...
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The Future of the Southern Plains
by Sherry L. Smith Publisher Comments This volume brings the Southern Plains, a place defined primarily as western Texas, Oklahoma, and eastern New Mexico, to the forefront by asking important questions about its past and suggesting prospects for its future....
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