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  • Anthem
    Ayn Rand
    He lived in the dark ages of the future. In a loveless world, he dared to fall in love. In an age that had lost all trace of science and civilization, he had the courage to seek and find knowledge. But these were not the crimes for which he would be hunted. He was marked for death because he had committed the unpardonable sin: standing out from the mindless human herd. Ayn Rand...
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    5,96 €

  • IN DE TUSSENTIJD
    Jan Ruijgrok
    Ter gelegenheid van mijn pensioen organiseerde ik begin 2006 een seminar onder de titel 'Hoe lang mag je nog'. Eén van de inleiders sprak tijdens dat seminar over 'De Tussentijd', waarmee hij doelde op de levensfase die vorige generaties niet kenden en mijn leeftijdgenoten nu zomaar in de schoot geworpen leken te krijgen. Ik had al ruim voor mijn pensioen nagedacht over de invu...
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    18,71 €

  • Beyond the Digital Divide
    Petr Lupac
    This book advances the understanding of the relationship between social inequality and Internet use by bringing forth a new, contextual approach. It encourages a rethinking of the information society theory, information policies, and the role of social science in the process of informatization. ...
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    52,89 €

  • What Should We Be Worried About?
    John Brockman
    Drawing from the horizons of science, today’s leading thinkers reveal the hidden threats nobody is talking about--and expose the false fears everyone else is distracted by.What should we be worried about? That is the question John Brockman, publisher of Edge.org ('The world’s smartest website'--The Guardian), posed to the planet’s most influential minds. He asked them to disclo...
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    14,48 €

  • Eurocalypse
    Michel Drac
    2038 de l'ancien calendrier. An XVIIIe de l'ère eurocorporative. L'Alliance panaméricaine, l'Union Eurocorpo et la Sinosphère se partagent le monde. La France n'existe plus. Elle est divisée entre intrazones, meilleur des mondes totalitaire, et extrazones, territoire de relégation des bandes néomusuls et afros. Une vague de crime déferle sur l'europrovin...
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    30,37 €

  • AFRICA FIRST!
    Jakkie Cilliers
    What stops Africa, with its abundant natural resources, from capitalising on its boundless potential? Well-known Africa analyst Jakkie Cilliers uses 11 scenarios to unpack, in concrete terms, how the continent can ignite a growth revolution that will take millions out of poverty and into employment.Africa urgently needs much more rapid economic growth. Cilliers identifi es and ...
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    23,17 €

  • Are We Going to Commit Suicide?
    Alain F. Corcos / Alain FCorcos
    Two global dangers face humanity: climate change and nuclear war. In the last few years, people have realized that the first was real.According to the US Global Change Research Program, Earth's climate is now changing faster than at any point in the history of modern civilization, primarily due to human activities. There continues to be a wide range of impacts across every ...
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    15,50 €

  • The Future Past of Tourism
    This book offers a critical account of the historical evolution of tourism through the identification and discussion of key turning points. Based on these considerations, future turning points are identified and evaluated. The core findings of the book provide the first perspective on how the history of tourism will shape its future. ...
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    72,19 €

  • The Future Past of Tourism
    This book offers a critical account of the historical evolution of tourism through the identification and discussion of key turning points. Based on these considerations, future turning points are identified and evaluated. The core findings of the book provide the first perspective on how the history of tourism will shape its future. ...
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    193,79 €

  • The Challenge of Progress
    Harry F. Dahms
    Globalization has accelerated the process of social, political, cultural, and especially economic transformations since the 1990s. Examining the choices of modern society, Dahms and contributors ask: what are the social costs of 'progress'? ...
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    159,40 €

  • Ancient Gods and Human Origins
    Neil Freer
    This book, written by philosopher and futurist Neil Freer, actually began thousands of years ago with the oldest recorded stories in the world. These records speak of the gods having been here on Earth and can be found in all major cultures worldwide. This includes the oldest known form of writing on Earth, the Sumerian cuneiform texts from the ancient Middle East. It is here w...
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    15,93 €

  • Generation Mensch, Band I
    Christian Stolle
    Jenseits von oberfächlichen Unterschieden bei Herkunft, Geschlecht, Hautfarbe, Religion, Beruf und der politischen Überzeugung gibt es etwas, das uns alle vereint: das Menschsein.Generation Mensch ist eine Geschichte von der Suche nach dem wahren Wesen des Menschseins, die Christian Stolle als Teenager nach der Jahrtausendwende begann und die ihn in die einsamen Weiten der Äuße...
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    16,03 €

  • Cyborg Mind
    Calum MacKellar
    With the development of new direct interfaces between the human brain and computer systems, the time has come for an in-depth ethical examination of the way these neuronal interfaces may support an interaction between the mind and cyberspace.In so doing, this book does not hesitate to blend disciplines including neurobiology, philosophy, anthropology and politics. It also invit...
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    184,20 €

  • WORK THE FUTURE! TODAY 2019 Pocket Pal
    Grantham Charlie / Whitney Vosburgh
    Dan Pink, best-selling author of DRIVE wrote:“WORK THE FUTURE! TODAY is an ebullient paean to the power of story. What we need is a new story based on purpose, not on profit. With a mind toward sustaining the planet rather than just amassing money, this book guides you to finding and aligning your purpose, passion, and goals to create that new life-embracing story for yourself,...
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    7,09 €

  • The Political Aesthetics of ISIS and Italian Futurism
    Thorsten Botz-Bornstein
    Through empirical analysis and theoretical reflection, this book shows that the aesthetics and politics of the Islamic State is 'futurist.' ISIS overcomes postmodern pessimism and joins the modern, techno-oriented, and optimistic attitude propagated by Italian Futurism in the early twentieth century. The Islamic State does not only excel through the extensive use of high-tech w...
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    129,02 €

  • The Cultural Personality
    D. Paul Schafer
    With the many dynamic changes going on in today’s world, a new prototype of the human personality is needed to guide people’s future actions, behaviour, lifestyles, and overall development. This new prototype is the cultural personality. It is grounded in the belief that people should be holistic, centred, creative, altruistic, and humane if they are to achieve more happiness, ...
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    14,38 €

  • Making Australia Slightly Better Than Average Again™
    Mark Swivel
    Making Australia Slightly Better Than Average Again™ is Mark Swivel's soundbite manifesto as he embarks on a bid for the senate in 2019. Swivel argues our political class detached from the rest of us a long time ago and has no real purpose beyond preserving itself. He advocates a new populism that's about making communities worth living in and building a future where go...
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    17,34 €

  • Braving the Future
    Douglas Estes
    Humanity is nearing a technological tipping point. The blistering pace of technological, scientific, and social change is ushering in an era in which human bodies merge with devices, corporations know everything about us, and artificial intelligence develops human and even godlike potential. In possession of the most powerful tools history has ever seen, we will be faced with q...
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    13,99 €

  • The Oneironauts
    Paul Kalas
    Have you ever had a strong feeling of deja vu or witnessed that a dream came true in the future? Are such experiences precognitive or just illusions of the mind?  How would a top scientist approach such questions about the paranormal?  The Oneironauts, or "the dream travelers," introduces new scientific evidence that we really do experience possible future events in our dreams....
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    16,73 €

  • HOME
    Ruth L. Miller
    Even as the world we’re living in is dying, the world we could be living in is almost ready to be born. Global industrial culture is not working, but there are other ways to live. The old myths no longer hold, but new explanations of reality are replacing them. The old technologies are destroying our biosphere, but new technologies are being developed, and new boundaries, based...
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    10,58 €

  • Beyond the Digital Divide
    Petr Lupac
    This book advances the understanding of the relationship between social inequality and Internet use by bringing forth a new, contextual approach. It encourages a rethinking of the information society theory, information policies, and the role of social science in the process of informatization. ...
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    151,13 €

  • The World at Peace
    Richard Milligan
    WORLD PEACE: Though it means different things to different people, it is a concept that man has strived for since history began. The WORLD AT PEACE in the not so distant future attempts to answer such questions as… What is peace? How is it defined? And most importantly, how is it obtained? By examining different political and religious philosophies through history, scienc...
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    11,96 €

  • Future Trends
    Lawrence A Samuel / Lawrence R. Samuel / Lawrence RSamuel
    Future Trends: A Guide to Decision Making and Leadership in Business is the first and only book to link a decision-making and leadership platform to trends pointing to the future. By identifying sixty global, long-term trends and detailing how businesspeople can leverage them in both the short- and long-term, the book provides readers with a powerful body of knowledge unavaila...
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    44,86 €

  • Hope and the Future
    Charles M Johnston
    Hope and the Future is a critically important book by one of our times’ most  respected and original social thinkers. This second edition includes a new preface and additional examples that more specifically address unsettling events of the last four years.From the book’s back cover:“Hope and the Future addresses what legitimate hope for the future necessarily depends on. It de...
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    12,67 €

  • Can Singapore Fall?
    SIONG GUAN LIM
    Lim Siong Guan, Singapore's former Head of Civil Service (1999–2005) was the Institute of Policy Studies' 4th S R Nathan Fellow for the Study of Singapore. This book contains edited versions of the three IPS-Nathan Lectures he gave between September and November 2017, and highlights of his dialogue with the audience.Lim addresses the question, "Can Singapore Fall?", by ...
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    58,16 €

  • Can Singapore Fall?
    SIONG GUAN LIM
    Lim Siong Guan, Singapore's former Head of Civil Service (1999–2005) was the Institute of Policy Studies' 4th S R Nathan Fellow for the Study of Singapore. This book contains edited versions of the three IPS-Nathan Lectures he gave between September and November 2017, and highlights of his dialogue with the audience.Lim addresses the question, "Can Singapore Fall?", by ...
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    31,23 €

  • The Common Good in the 21st Century
    Corinne M Flick
    Recently, it has looked as if the common good might be disappearing as a guiding principle of our society. In a world where nationalism is becoming more dominant (think of Donald Trump’s “America First” agenda), protectionism is pursued (“une Europe qui protège,” as announced by France’s President Macron), and society too is disintegrating into an increasing number of parts, th...
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    13,38 €

  • Blockchain Faith
    Jonny Stryder
    Bitcoin arrived in 2009.  From nothing, cryptocurrency exploded to almost a trillion dollars market value in nine short years. Now Initial Coin Offerings clamor for attention and support. Demand for computer processors and electricity to run them soars. New Crypto millionaires reshape the economy.  Banks and their clients race to secure patents on blockchain technology, while d...
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    14,55 €

  • The Coming War with China
    Harry I Nimon DBA
    War is coming again to the Pacific. It is coming for the same reasons is came in 1941. Then, Japan was a close friend and trading partner to the United States. Japan was growing rapidly into the strongest economic power in that part of the world. However, they had three major domestic problems: a lack of natural resources that others had, a huge population growing beyond their ...
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    15,34 €

  • The Coming War with China
    Harry I Nimon DBA
    War is coming again to the Pacific. It is coming for the same reasons is came in 1941. Then, Japan was a close friend and trading partner to the United States. Japan was growing rapidly into the strongest economic power in that part of the world. However, they had three major domestic problems: a lack of natural resources that others had, a huge population growing beyond their ...
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    20,05 €


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