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  • 4 Steps to the Future
    Richard A. K. Lum
    This book by Richard Lum, an academically trained futurist, is a practical, straight-to-the-action guide for creating foresight in any organization.  Written for today’s attention-stressed and resource-deprived manager, 4 Steps to the Future provides an easy-to-understand process for creating insight about the future that individuals can immediately begin applying within their ...
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    11,97 €

  • The New Jewish Mandate (Vol. 2, Lipstick and War Crimes Series)
    Ray Songtree
    The New Jewish Mandate : Renouncing the Money Changers is the Jewish Edition of Vol. 2 of the Lipstick and War Crimes Series by Ray Songtree, with special introduction for friends and critics of Israel.From David Ben Gurion to the Grammy award Divas, with over 350  color images, Vol 2 is a provocative exposé of our undiscussed social engineering. Does social engineering weaken ...
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    43,02 €

  • 22 Generations
    Warren Hays
    Modern societies are packed full of inventions and useful ideas that have accumulated over hundreds of generations. That's what built up the modern world we live in. We humans, among the millions of species of life, are the only one that thinks up innovative ideas and carries out the complex actions to make them real. What drives us to forever change our world this way? 22 ...
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    21,22 €

  • Afrofuturism 2.0
    Anderson
    This collection examines the applicability of contemporary expressions of Afrofuturism to the fields of Africana studies, cultural studies, and other areas of academic inquiry. The essays within this book identify the twenty-first-century expressions of Afrofuturism emerging in the areas of metaphysics such as speculative philosophy, religion, visual studies, performance, art, ...
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    136,03 €

  • Sacred Outrage
    Mary Knapp
    Sacred Outrage: A Seasoned Woman's Guide to Soulful Citizen Action is a call to action and a how-to manual for seasoned women to step up into leadership roles and positions of influence in local communities, mobilizing other citizens of all ages into soulful action, bringing about the changes needed to live in a world that is healthy, successful, and sustainable. Sacred Outra...
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    22,27 €

  • Terra Nova. Global Revolution and the Healing of Love
    Dieter Duhm
    Terra Nova describes a vision for a new culture: an Earth free of war, a society free of violence, a love free of lies, and a life free of fear.The author outlines this new Earth not only in theory, but also writes from his direct experience of its emergence. This book presents the essence of nearly forty years of pioneering work in establishing functioning communities.'How do...
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    20,79 €

  • Priorities for a Planet in Transition - The Space Brothers’ Case for Justice and Freedom
    Gerard Aartsen
    Beyond speculation and sensationalism, this book brings together a significant body of authentic information about life on the other planets in our solar system, as reported by contactees the world over. By showing the similarities among the stories of the original contactees and providing a relevant context through observations about the state of the world, it uncovers how the...
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    19,22 €

  • The Future of Food Tourism
    This book presents a systematic and pattern-based explanation of food tourism, focusing on how and why change could occur and what the implications could be. In the future will food tourism involve food grown in the laboratory or a more authentic experience? The book explores these and many other futures and scenarios. ...
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    60,02 €

  • Humanity at the Crossroads
    Garth J. Hallett / Garth JHallett
    Humanity now stands at a crossroads between a world of unimaginable wonders and one of unprecedented terrors. The choices we make now will determine not only the shape of our future, but whether there will be, for us as a species, a future at all. But, if we are at such a crossroads, are we even properly aware of it? Governed by instincts rooted in the past, are we prepared to...
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    32,18 €

  • Sapiens Rising
    Neil Freer
    A visionary work from a futuristic philosopher. Presents in great detail a positive, compelling view of the new human and new human society that goes beyond cultures, nations and civilizations; beyond democracy, socialism, communism and money; beyond competition under the illusion of limited resources; beyond the godspell Babel-factoring religions; beyond the old new age. Revea...
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    15,98 €

  • Temporal Horizons and Strategic Decisions in U.S.-China Relations
    Daniel Joseph Tauss
    Using an interdisciplinary social-science approach, Temporal Horizons and Strategic Decisions in US-China Relations: Between Instant and Infinite takes on the challenge of understanding the foreign policy decision process through the lens of the temporal horizon. A temporal horizon is the distance into the future a decision-maker prioritizes when evaluating outcomes and conside...
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    148,42 €

  • Promise Ahead
    Duane Elgin
    When Duane Elgin’s classic bestseller, Voluntary Simplicity, was published in 1981, it transformed the lives of thousands and was hailed as the 'bible' of the simplicity movement by the Wall Street Journal. Now, for anyone seeking to navigate today’s profoundly changing world, Promise Ahead is the powerful sequel to a road map for securing a promising future. ...
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    16,59 €

  • Digital Death
    Christopher Moreman / Dave Lewis
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    95,40 €

  • All You Need to Know about Disability Is on Star Trek
    Ilana S. Lehmann
    High Praise from Charles Edmund Degeneffe, Ph.D., CRC, ACSWSan Diego State University'Through its nearly 50 year history, the Star Trek franchise reflects trends, debates, and cultural beliefs of modern society. Through 'All You Need to Know About Disability is On Star Trek' Dr. Ilana Lehmann demonstrates how this show addresses disability related content in its reflection of c...
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    41,03 €

  • The Stoner Philosophy
    Ryan James Martyn
    The Stoner Philosophy concerns spirituality, politics, and unanswered questions in the universe.The book is a condensed synopsis about where the world is heading if we continue on the path we’re going.It embodies a whole new look on the color spectrum, what we define as 'elements,' and our understanding of the human mind. I believe my views on politics, science, and the busines...
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    9,42 €

  • Your Futuristic Future
    Raymond Samora
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    14,47 €

  • Pacific Futures
    Will Rollason
    The Pacific region presents a huge diversity of cultural forms, which have fuelled some of the most challenging ethnographic work undertaken in the discipline. But this challenge has come at a cost. Culture, often reconfigured as ’custom’, has often served to trap the people of the Pacific in the past of cultural reproduction, where everything is what it has always been, or wor...
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    184,24 €

  • Tumbling Tide
    Peter Goodchild
    Our world runs on fossil fuels. It is estimated that oil production will drop to half of the peak amount around 2030. What will happen as we reach the point where there is no practical way to get whatever is still in the ground? Fossil fuels are in decline, but recoverable reserves of metals are also becoming less plentiful. Electricity will be in decline worldwide because it ...
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    20,14 €

  • Avoiding the Extinction of Humanity
    John M. Goodman
    If you are driving off a cliff, someone telling you to slow down isn't much of a help. (Well, slowing down while you turn in a new direction is likely to be a good idea.) By burning fossil fuels, humanity is now driving itself off a climate cliff toward extinction. We need to completely stop burning 'stuff' (fossil fuels, or anything else) for energy. Yet to thrive we really d...
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    9,65 €

  • Hope and the Future
    Charles M Johnston MD
    Essential guidance for the future by one of today's most respected and provocative social thinkers. Hope and the Future addresses what being optimistic about the future ultimately depends on. It describes how we face a growing number of human challenges that require that we think, act, and relate in new ways-often fundamentally new ways. And it looks at how effectively address...
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    11,64 €

  • Countdown
    Alan Weisman
    A powerful investigation into the chances for humanity's future from the author of the bestseller The World Without Us. In his bestselling book The World Without Us, Alan Weisman considered how the Earth could heal and even refill empty niches if relieved of humanity's constant pressures. Behind that groundbreaking thought experiment was his hope that we would be inspir...
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    34,78 €

  • A Time Traveller’s Guide to Our Next Ten Years
    Frans Cronje
    South Africa is at a tipping point. Unemployment, slow growth, threats to freedom of speech, and poor education can send the country in any direction. Leading scenario planner Frans Cronje identifies the key trends that will shape our future. Will South Africa follow the Narrow Road, the Wide Road, the Rocky Road or the Toll Road? His four scenarios for the country are sobering...
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    20,94 €

  • South Asia 2060
    'South Asia 2060' is a dialogue between 47 thought leaders, ranging from policymakers to academics to civil society activists and visionaries from across South Asia and the world, on the likely longer-range trajectories of South Asia’s future as a region. The collection explores how South Asia’s regional future will impact the rest of the world while also shedding light on its ...
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    78,25 €

  • Biomass
    Shi Yuanchun
    After addressing the basic knowledge of bioenergy and its development in the United States, the European Union, and Brazil, this book places emphasis on the introduction of China’s bioresources, its development since 2001, and the difficulties it encountered. In the concluding chapter, Shi presents his ideas about a ’Green Civilization.’ This book analyzes bioenergy from a natu...
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    179,13 €

  • The Tao of Prepping
    Edward O'Toole
    Self-reliance empowers the weak, it allows the poor the dignity to feed and clothe themselves and their family without having to beg from the State, and it provides an almost infinite testing ground for the strong to prove their own mettle. Prepping is not just for hardcore survivalists, it's for everyone who cares about their own health, their life, their environment and thei...
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    20,11 €

  • Thinking Dead
    Murali Balaji
    Zombies are everywhere these days. We are consuming zombies as much as they are said to be consuming us in mediated apocalyptic scenarios on popular television shows, video game franchises and movies. The 'zombie industry' generates billions a year through media texts and other cultural manifestations (zombie races and zombie-themed parks, to name a few). Zombies, like vampires...
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    148,39 €

  • Posthuman Personhood
    Daryl J. Wennemann / Daryl JWennemann
    Posthuman Personhood takes up the ethical challenge posed by Francis Fukuyama’s work, Our Posthuman Future. Daryl J. Wennemann argues that the traditional concept of personhood may be fruitfully applied to the ethical challenge we face in a posthuman age. He draws upon Wilfrid Sellars’ treatment of the concept of a person within 'the manifest image of man in the world.' Sellars...
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    99,00 €

  • South Asia 2060
    'South Asia 2060' is a dialogue between 47 thought leaders, ranging from policymakers to academics to civil society activists and visionaries from across South Asia and the world, on the likely longer-range trajectories of South Asia’s future as a region. The collection explores how South Asia’s regional future will impact the rest of the world while also shedding light on its ...
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    201,74 €

  • Grundsteine Legen Fur Eine Neue Zivilisation
    Martin Winiecki
    Das vorliegende Buch enthält aktuelle Beiträge aus dem Friedensforschungszentrum Tamera in Portugal. In einer Zeit, in der die Medien voll sind von Kriegs- und Katastrophenmeldungen, öffnet sich hier ein geistiges Tor zu einer anderen Entwicklungsmöglichkeit: Unser Planet mit seinen Menschen und Tieren, seinen Landschaften und Gewässern ist heilbar, wenn wir diese Heilung mit a...
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    12,78 €

  • Social Influence Strategies for Environmental Behavior Change
    Ben Tyson
    The purpose of the book is to provide an applied, practical, yet theoretically grounded, reference on social influence strategies for environmental behavior change. The book is intended to be used as a professional reference by practitioners in governmental and nongovernmental organizations worldwide. The book is also intended to be used as a text by students of environmental s...
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    22,13 €


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