Future Studies

As human beings, we have a great longing for community, to feel part of something. Despite this apparent need, the opposite tendency is evident everywhere: a growing individualism leading to the breakdown of relationships, conflict and war. How can we...

Lean Logic is David Fleming's masterpiece, the product of more than thirty years' work and a testament to the creative brilliance of one of Britain's most important intellectuals. A dictionary unlike any other, it leads readers through Fleming's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781629639710Author Scott BransonFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint PM PressPublisher PM Press

What fuels and sustains activism and organizing when it feels like our worlds are collapsing? Let This Radicalize You is a practical and imaginative resource for activists and organizers building power in an era of destabilization and catastrophe...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781585092758Author H., G. WellsFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Book Tree,USPublisher Book Tree,USWeight(grams) 212gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 9mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783744893718Author Gisela EndersFormat PaperbackPage Count 150Imprint Books on DemandPublisher Books on DemandWeight(grams) 281gDimensions(mm) 246mm * 189mm...

If the idea of a conceptual emergency was wacky and original when it was taken up in the first edition of this booklet, it now appears inescapable. Brought on by the global credit crunch and the collapse or effective nationalisation of so many familiar...

The Big Idea shortlisted for series design in the British Design and Production AwardsModern technology has enhanced our lives in numerous ways - we can now communicate in real time with friends and colleagues around the world, and do our shopping and...

In 2050 there will be 9.3 billion people alive - compared with 7 billion today - and the number will still be rising. The population aged over sixty-five will have more than doubled, to more than 16 per cent; China's GDP will be 80 per cent more than...

From cyborgs, starships, UFOs, aliens and antimatter to telepathy, invisibility, psychokinesis and precognition, Michio Kaku's Physics of the Impossible is an exciting look at how science fiction could soon become science fact. Albert Einstein said, 'If...

What would alien visitors in the far future, piecing together the history of earth, find of our brief reign? What clues will we leave? What fossils? Just as we have gained knowledge of the past, of ancient climates and the activities of creatures long...

Trends have become a commodity-an element of culture in their own right and the very currency of our cultural life. Consumer culture relies on a new class of professionals who explain trends, predict trends, and in profound ways even manufacture trends...

Thinking about the future is essential for almost all organizations and societies. States, corporations, universities, cities, NGOs and individuals believe they cannot miss the future. But what exactly is the future? It remains a mystery perhaps the...

What are the implications of how we talk about apocalypse? A new philosophical field has emerged. "Existential risk" studies any real or hypothetical human extinction event in the near or distant future. This movement examines catastrophes ranging from...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913743468Author Graham LeicesterFormat PaperbackPage Count 60Imprint Triarchy PressPublisher Triarchy PressWeight(grams) 109g

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 volume provides a continuum...

With clarity, conscience, and courage, global-systems pioneer Jorgen Randers and his distinguished contributors map the forces that will shape the next four decades. Forty years ago, The Limits to Growth study addressed the grand question of how...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781623177362Author Johanna HoffmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint North Atlantic Books,U.S.Publisher North Atlantic Books,U.S.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781612199528Author Peter WardFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Melville House PublishingPublisher Melville House Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780553246988Author Alvin TofflerFormat PaperbackPage Count 560Imprint Bantam USAPublisher Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group IncWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143118008Author Martin JacquesFormat PaperbackPage Count 848Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 658gDimensions(mm) 213mm * 139mm...

Thought the science of the future was all hoverboards and space travel? Think again. Every day, scientists come up with the ingenious solutions and surprising discoveries that will define our future. So here, Jim Al-Khalili and his crack team of...

Flash crashes. Speed dating. Instant messaging. From the devices we carry to the lives we lead, everything is getting faster, faster. But where did this great acceleration come from? And where will it lead? In this vitally important new book,...

Synopsis coming soon.......Book InformationISBN 9780684862699Author Virginia PostrelFormat PaperbackPage Count 290Imprint Pocket BooksPublisher Simon & Schuster

Degrowth is an emerging social movement that overlaps with proposals for systemic change such as anti-globalization and climate justice, commons and transition towns, basic income and Buen Vivir. Degrowth in Movement(s) reflects on the current situation...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781881717140Author Dada MaheshvaranandaFormat PaperbackPage Count 392Imprint Innerworld PublicationsPublisher Innerworld PublicationsWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780994282835Author Rupert ReadFormat PaperbackPage Count 106Imprint Simplicity InstitutePublisher Simplicity InstituteWeight(grams) 132gDimensions(mm) 216mm...

In July 2014 the Belgian newspaper Le Soir claimed that France, Belgium, the United Kingdom, Italy, Poland and the United States may lose between 43 and 50 per cent of their jobs within ten to fifteen years. Across the world, integrated automation, one...

Break free from a wealth-obsessed worldWestern society is trapped by three assumptions: 1) the point of life is to maximize your self-interest and wealth, 2) we're individuals trapped in an adversarial world, and 3) that this path is inevitable.These...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781936239443Author Joseph P. FarrellFormat PaperbackPage Count 296Imprint Feral House,U.S.Publisher Feral House,U.S.Weight(grams) 433g

It's all but certain that the next fifty years will bring enormous, not to say cataclysmic, disruptions to our present way of life. World oil reserves will be exhausted within that time frame, as will the lithium that powers today's most sophisticated...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781501189098Author Contributor Paul ShapiroFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 243g

Can you imagine what today's technology would have looked like in the Victorian Era? That's the world Steampunk envisions: a mad-inventor collection of 21st Century-inspired contraptions powered by stream and driven by gears. It's more than just a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781608681174Author Barbara Marx HubbardFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint New World LibraryPublisher New World Library

Our ability to think about the future is one of the most powerful tools at our disposal. In The Invention of Tomorrow, cognitive scientists Thomas Suddendorf, Jonathan Redshaw, and Adam Bulley argue that its emergence transformed humans from unremarkable...

_______'Excellent' Martin Wolf, Financial Times Books of the Year'Essential' Daniel Pink, author of Drive'Wonderful' Martin Ford, author of The Rise of the Robots_______Profit. Innovation. Greed.Welcome to the gig economy.Between Uber drivers and Airbnb...

An illuminating insight into the Metaverse - what it is, how it works, and and why it will soon be playing a major role in business, technology and society. In Into the Metaverse, Cathy Hackl, a globally recognized futurist and one of the world's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780553277371Author Alvin TofflerFormat PaperbackPage Count 576Imprint Bantam USAPublisher Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group IncWeight(grams)...

From the man the Wall Street Journal describes as a 'global change guru', more than one hundred of the trends that touch every aspect of our lives. This new and updated edition looks even farther into the future, predicting trends past the first decades...

We've always dreamed of perfect places: Eden, heaven, Oz - places over the rainbow, beyond death and loss.Now, through computer technology, we can inhabit those worlds together. Each week, between 35 and 50 million people worldwide abandon reality for...