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The Long Emergency: Surviving the Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century
by James Howard Kunstler  
Powells.com Staff Pick In his previous books, James Kunstler focused on the shortsighted vision of suburban planning; now he expands that view to the country's urban growth challenges and the need to drastically change our current course of auto and oil dependency. The Long...
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Second Lives: A Journey through Virtual Worlds
by Tim Guest
Publisher Comments We’ve always dreamed of perfect places: Eden, heaven, Utopia. Imagine gambling without loss, love without heartbreak, sex without exposure, experience without risk. Welcome to the fascinating world of online virtual reality, the land of invented...
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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...
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Why Europe Will Run the 21st Century
by Mark Leonard Publisher Comments Those who believe Europe is weak, ineffectual and sclerotic are wrong. Europe might look frail and feeble against American military might, but that expression of power is shallow and narrow. Or so says Mark Leonard, one of Europe's brightest new policy...
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Evil Paradises : Dreamworlds of Neoliberalism (07 Edition)
by Mike Davis Publisher Comments Evil Paradises, edited by Mike Davis and Daniel Bertrand Monk, is a global guidebook to phantasmagoric but real places-alternate realities being constructed as utopias in a capitalist era unfettered by unions and state regulation. These developments-in...
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Smart Mobs: The Next Social Revolution
by Howard Rheingold Publisher Comments From Tokyo to Helsinki, Manhattan to Manila, Howard Rheingold takes us on a journey around the world for a preview of the next techno-cultural shift?a shift he predicts will be as dramatic as the widespread adoption of the PC in the 1980s and the...
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2011: Trendspotting for the Next Decade
by Richard Laermer Publisher Comments A better time for your business starts in the next decade. Are you ready? In this fast and furious time machine of a book, Richard Laermer shows you how to use-and in some cases abuse-the trends of the next decade (or two) that really matter. As an...
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Madeleva Lecture in Spirituality #2000: With Oil in Their Lamps: Faith, Feminism, and the Future
by Sandra Schneiders Synopsis "I am going to suggest that the culminating contribution of the second millennium, the defining characteristic of the twentieth century, and the most important source of energy for the immediate future is the emergence of women, the beginning of the...
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Global Trends 2005: An Owner's Manual for the Next Decade
by Michael J Mazarr Publisher Comments As social theorist Drucker pointed out, every few hundred years a sharp transformation occurs during which society rearranges itself in a variety of aspects--its worldview, its basic values, its social and political structure, its arts, its key...
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The World in 2020
by Hamish Mcrae Synopsis 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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Cosmos, Chaos and the World to Come: The Ancient Roots of Apocalyptic Faith; Second Edition (Yale Nota Bene)
by Norman Cohn Synopsis The view that good will overcome evil and lead to a perfect world is held by many religions and races. This work investigates the origins of this belief through the world views of Egypt, Mesopotamia and India, through Iranian and Jewish prophets, to...
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Histories of the Future
by Daniel Rosenberg Synopsis We live in a world saturated by futures. Our lives are constructed around ideas and images about the future that are as full and as flawed as our understandings of the past. This book is a conceptual toolkit for thinking about the forms and functions...
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What's Next: The Experts' Guide: Predictions from 50 of America's Most Compelling People
by Jane Buckingham Publisher Comments What will the next ten years look like? In her role as founder and president of The Intelligence Group, a consulting and trend-spotting company at the forefront of predictions about the ever-elusive youth and consumer market, Jane Buckingham spends her...
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Astrofuturism: Science, Race, and Visions of Utopia in Space
by De Witt Douglas Kilgore Publisher Comments Astrofuturism: Science, Race, and Visions of Utopia in Space is the first full-scale analysis of an aesthetic, scientific, and political movement that sought the amelioration of racial difference and social antagonisms through the conquest of space...
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Between Security and Insecurity
by Ivan Klima Synopsis A discussion of the changes in thinking and behaviour at the turn of the millennium. It considers the main values in human society that must be preserved and tries to identify the people who are seeking to transform consumer values into genuine values...
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The Foresight Principle: Cultural Recovery in the 21st Century (Praeger Studies on the 21st Century)
by Richard A. Slaughter Publisher Comments Why do things always get harder before they get easier? Why is foresight useful? What are the real megatrends? What does foresight really cost? Who should support it? These and other questions form the backbone of this strongly argued and thoroughly...
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Apocalypse Pretty Soon: Travels in End-Time America
by Alex Heard Synopsis Over a ten-year period, intrepid cultural traveler Alex Heard has been sojourning among America's most intensely religious and political believers. Now he offers a funny and frightening look at millennial, utopian, and futuristic subcultures....
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Vision, 2020: Reordering Chaos for Global Survival
by Ervin Laszlo Synopsis The vision of the year 2020 Laszlo sketches is not a science fiction account of a technological utopia, nor is it the doomsday world pictured by pessimists. Laszlo argues for a holistic approach to education, the environment, and political economic...
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Post Industrial Lives: Roles and Relationships in the 21st Century
by Jerald Hage Synopsis "The interesting contribution of this book is not just confined to capturing the role changes that a knowledge based society characterizing post-industrialism demands, but that it is able to bring about a fusion of micro individual and the macro societal...
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The New Superpower
by James Hilgendorf Synopsis Hilgendorf takes on Hiroshima, the bomb, quantum physics, Buddhism, the beginning and end of time, and the intent of the universe in this work....
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