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  • The Essential Herman Kahn
    By the time of his untimely death in 1983, Herman Kahn was recognized by both friends and intellectual adversaries as ’one of the world’s most creative and best minds.’ The current growing resurgence of interest in Kahn’s ideas and intellectual legacy demonstrates the enduring relevance of his work. Yet, in spite of the constant influence of his arguments, there is a shortage o...
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    63,88 €

  • The Essential Herman Kahn
    Herman Kahn
    By the time of his untimely death in 1983, Herman Kahn was recognized by both friends and intellectual adversaries as 'one of the world’s most creative and best minds.' The current growing resurgence of interest in Kahn’s ideas and intellectual legacy demonstrates the enduring relevance of his work. Yet, in spite of the constant influence of his arguments, there is a shortage o...
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    148,30 €

  • Changing Society
    Robert L Menz / Robert L. Menz / Robert LMenz
    Changing Society: A Social and Spiritual Vision for the Year 2020 and Beyond addresses the five traditional social institutions (marriage and family, religion, education, politics, and economics) as well as other important social institutions (health care, race, ethnicity, and technology). The editor and contributors provide keen social insights as they consider the current dyn...
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    62,75 €

  • America on the Brink
    Frosty Wooldridge
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    16,19 €

  • We Are the Youth of the Nation
    Brittany Simon
    We come from all walks of life but we are apart of one nation and we, the youth, have something to say on the direction it’s headed. 3 ...
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    9,26 €

  • What’s Next
    Jane Buckingham
    The author of The Modern Girl’s Guide to Life asks fifty experts, artists, business leaders, trendsetters, doctors, athletes, environmentalists, and intellectualsWhat will the next decade look like?Where are we headed? That is the question professional trendspotter Jane Buckingham posed to fifty influential leaders in a wide variety of fields--and their responses are surprising...
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    12,64 €

  • Future Imperfect
    David D. Friedman / David DFriedman
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    56,01 €

  • After the Last Man
    Toivo Koivukoski
    In this unique, enlightening monograph, Toivo Koivukoski explores the circumstances that have led modern society to use the concept of progress as a surrogate cosmology that gives individuals a sense of place and purpose. By linking various historical paradigms from German Idealist philosophy to contemporary philosophies of technology, this work of political theory describes an...
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    125,39 €

  • Anticipate the School You Want
    Arthur BShostak / Arthur Shostak
    Across America, especially in the aftermath of 9/11, parents rely on K12 schooling to prepare their children for the shocks, the perils, and especially the bright possibilities that are part of our warp-speed future. A new generation of school staffers is forging a fresh learning partnership with youngsters for whom creative computer-based schooling is as natural as breathing. ...
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    53,20 €

  • Divining the Future
    Kurt C. Koehler
    What is Human Intellectual Evolution? Could Darwin’s concept of evolution be incomplete? Darwin’s theory just might be insufficient, mainly because Darwin didn’t apply his theory to the most complex organism of all; the human intellect. There is no question that in the past, numerous civilizations have ascended and then receded in terms of military power, influence and economi...
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    32,30 €

  • The Open Conspiracy and Other Writings
    H. G. Wells / HGWells
    This volume contains H. G. Wells’s 1928 work, 'The Open Conspiracy: Blue Prints for a World Revolution'. Wells describes the book as a 'scheme to thrust forward and establish a human control over the destinies of life and liberate it from its present dangers, uncertainties and miseries.' The text suggests that, thanks to scientific advancement, a world 'politically, socially an...
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    44,46 €

  • First American Into Space
    Robert Silverberg
    Here is the spine-tingling, true story of that first American blast into the realm of the stars, of the men who underwent rigorous training for that epic mission, and of the one man who made the safe journey. This is the factual account of the history of rocketry, its triumphs and its failures, our shame in the neglect of it, and our pride in its later accomplishments.Here, too...
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    13,28 €

  • El Imperativo Espiritual
    Lawrence Taub
    El Imperativo Espiritual muestra que, al contrario de lo que piensa la mayoría de la gente, la historia tiene orden, dirección y sentido y el futuro es tan predecible como el tiempo de hoy 3 ...
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    22,61 €

  • Equality
    Edward Bellamy
    EQUALITY, first published in 1897, is the sequel to the 1888 book, Looking Backward-Bellamy’s most popular work about a utopian Boston-and a response to the many criticisms of the first book. In EQUALITY, Bellamy answers those charges.Here, Bellamy addresses more social concerns of his day and delves into the more minor details of the lives of the futuristic Bostonians, includi...
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    24,46 €

  • Media Policy for the Digital Age
    WRR
    Traditionally, the Netherlands has enjoyed being a test market for many ideas in the media. But over the last decade, progress has been severely hampered by lengthy discussions on the future structure of just one sector of media, namely public broadcasting via radio and television. The narrow approach results in a lot of paper, speeches and theories, but little in the way of de...
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    38,38 €

  • The New Superpower
    James Hilgendorf
    Hiroshima. The Bomb. Madness. The Buried Dream of America. Quantum Physics. Buddhism. The Individual & The Universe. Reality. Mirrors. Delusion. Who Are We? Cause and Effect. Extraordinary Ordinary People. The Buddha. Spirits of the Land. War. The Real Battle. The Beginning and End of Time. The Roots of America. The Lotus Sutra. Electrons. Karma. Hibakusha. The Ceremo...
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    9,48 €

  • Imaginary Futures
    Richard Barbrook
    This book is a history of the future. It shows how our contemporary understanding of the Internet is shaped by visions of the future that were put together in the 1950s and 1960s.At the height of the Cold War, the Americans invented the only working model of communism in human history: the Internet. Yet, for all of its libertarian potential, the goal of this hi-tech project was...
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    50,92 €

  • History and Future
    David J. Staley / David JStaley
    The book reexamines this long held belief, and argues that the historical method is an excellent way to think about and represent the future. At the same time, the book asserts that futurists should not view the future as a scientist might-aiming for predictions and certainties-but rather should view the future in the same way that an historian views the past. ...
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    125,18 €

  • The Salvaging of Civilization
    H. G. Wells / HGWells
    An extremely important philosophical and political book which concerned people throughout the world, include world leaders, should pay attention to. Wells was a visionary and genius who knew the strengths and weaknesses of men's minds and the proclivities of human nature. He could see where the world needed to be going immediately after the devastation of World War I and, i...
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    14,39 €

  • The Open Conspiracy
    H. G. Wells / HGWells
    This is a guidebook on world control and management, a program that Wells believed should be orchestrated (and would be successful) through what he called the "Open Conspiracy". This conspiracy is fully outlined in this work and is designed to be run by many separate organizations working together, as opposed to being run by just one group. Is this required reading for the worl...
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    12,03 €

  • Contemporary Futurist Thought
    Thomas Lombardo
    Contemporary Futurist Thought describes recent thinking about the future, dealing with both the hopes and the fears expressed in modern times concerning what potentially lies ahead. There are many such hopes and fears - perhaps an overpowering number, competing with each other and swirling about in the collective mind of humanity. Psychologist and futurist Tom Lombardo describe...
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    28,48 €

  • The Futures of Old Age
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    83,61 €

  • Mankind’s Ultimate Dilemma
    Douglas E. Arnold / Douglas EArnold
    Mankind and societies throughout our planet during the next 100 years to well before the year 2400 are going to be faced with problems and impact events on a scale and magnitude never before experienced by the human race. Changes underway now regarding the environment, global temperature rise, glacial and polar ice melts, a 25-foot minimum rise in ocean mean tide levels, worldw...
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    12,93 €

  • Predicting the Future
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    29,74 €

  • Mapping the Global Future
    National Intelligence Council
    Mapping the Global Future: Report of the National Intelligence Council’s 2020 Project is the third unclassified report prepared by the National Intelligence Council (NIC) in recent years that takes a long-term view of the future. It offers a fresh look at how key global trends might develop over the next decade and a half to influence world events. Mindful that there are many p...
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    13,64 €

  • The Middle East in 2015
    CONTENTS:PrefaceThe Middle East in 2015: An OverviewAlgeria: Can National Order Be Restored?Morocco: Will Tradition Protect the MonarchyEgypt: Could It Lead the Arab World?Israel: Reconciling Internal Disparities?Palestine: Moving toward a Democratic State?Iran: Can the Islamic Republic Survive?Iraq: Another Saddam on the Horizon?The Arab Gulf: Will Autocracy Define the Social ...
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    19,79 €

  • Social Ethics
    Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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    108,80 €

  • The Fight Over the Future
    Sage Crossroads
    Throughout our history, humans have been fascinated by the possibility of improving the length and quality of life. In the past, this was the purview of poets and philosophers but increasingly this is becoming the hard targets for science and medicine. But what are the social, ethical and economic ramifications of extending life?This book highlights debates between the country’...
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    20,98 €

  • Virtual Reality
    Lynne Edgar
    Hospital groups differ on interventions for tomorrow’s medicine. 3-D interface, volume reconstruction, virtual imagery, and stealth platform surgery guided systems all enhance conventional medicine in treatment planning, diagnostic tests and surgical interventions. Consolidating services, acquiring contracts and partnerships in medicine, DNA therapies, molding bone for recons...
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    12,59 €

  • A Scientific Model of History
    Juan Jose Gomez-Ibarra
    Have you ever wanted to know why civilizations decay or why war has been a recurrent phenomena throughout history; what are the forces causing population explosions, and why it is very likely that the power balance between today’s developed countries and the less-developed world will be altered in the decades to come? 3 ...
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    18,68 €


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