Future Studies

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...

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...

In a unique volume, Contested Futures brings together a group of scholars to examine the relationships between social action and the future. Rather than speculating upon what the future might bring, the volume interrogates the metaphors and practices...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780609805367Author Daniel QuinnFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Crown PublicationsPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 170gDimensions(mm) 203mm...

What do variables really tell us? When exactly do inventions occur? Why do we always miss turning points as they transpire? When does what doesn't happen mean as much, if not more, than what does? Andrew Abbott considers these fascinating questions in...

COVID-19 wrecked the plans and strategies of organizations everywhere, while injecting greater uncertainty into a world already undergoing disruptive social and technological change. Strategic Foresight can help us navigate through the recovery and...

A riveting guide to the energy that surrounds us and how tuning into the power of frequencies can help us heal ourselves, and the planet.Can you feel it? Energy is Everywhere. From the light, sound, and electromagnetic waves that flow all around us to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780624082507Author Frans CronjeFormat PaperbackPage Count 210Imprint TafelbergPublisher TafelbergWeight(grams) 331gDimensions(mm) 234mm * 156mm * 12mm

Big ideas that just might save the world. the Guardian A serious book on an important subject. Without imagination, where are we? Sir Quentin Blake What if we took play seriously? What if we considered imagination vital to our health? What if we...

__________If you live on planet Earth, you're probably scared about the future.Terrorism, complicated international relations, global warming, killer viruses and a raft of other issues make it hard not to be.Watching the news you have to wonder: is it...

Drawing up alternate ways to "make a living" beyond capitalism To live in this world is to be conditioned by capital. Once paired with Western democracy, unfettered capitalism has led to a shrinking economic system that squeezes out billions of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783838215631Author Berthold M. KuhnFormat PaperbackPage Count 404Imprint ibidem-Verlag, Jessica Haunschild u Christian SchonPublisher ibidem-Verlag, Jessica...

Dysfunctional cities, catastrophic climate change, ever-deepening distance from nature--today we see environmental disaster everywhere we look. In Mobilizing the Green Imagination, philosophical provocateur Anthony Weston urges us to move beyond ever...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915609243Author Ingo NiermannFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Sternberg PressPublisher Sternberg PressWeight(grams) 432gDimensions(mm) 201mm * 132mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692552391Author Jonathan KolberFormat PaperbackImprint Inciti PublishingPublisher Inciti PublishingWeight(grams) 481g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262047449Author Dario FloreanoFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593152348Author Ray KurzweilFormat PaperbackPage Count 704Imprint Random House Large PrintPublisher Diversified PublishingWeight(grams)...

A collective engages and mirrors the critical need for energy justice and transformation Solarities considers the possibilities of organizing societies and economies around solar energy, and the challenges of a just and equitable transition away from...

"Startling in scope and bravado." -Janet Maslin, The New York Times"Artfully envisions a breathtakingly better world." -Los Angeles Times"Elaborate, smart and persuasive." -The Boston Globe"A pleasure to read." -The Wall Street JournalOne of CBS News's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781955110020Author Roger SpitzFormat PaperbackPage Count 556Imprint Disruptive Futures InstitutePublisher Disruptive Futures InstituteWeight(grams)...

The gloomy prospect of climate change and ecosystems' collapse calls for an urgent rethinking of all aspects of our life: how we work, produce, eat, spend, take care of each other, relate to nature, and organize our societies. Prefigurative initiatives...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593238318Author Kai-Fu LeeFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint Penguin Young ReadersPublisher Penguin Young ReadersWeight(grams) 352gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995494268Author David WoodFormat PaperbackPage Count 286Imprint Delta WisdomPublisher Delta WisdomWeight(grams) 286g

The 21st century will be the century of multicultural cities, of the struggle for equality and diversity and the struggle against fundamentalism. This text presents a global tour of contemporary cities - from Birmingham to Rotterdam, Frankfurt to Berlin,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781451654974Author Jaron LanierFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 386gDimensions(mm) 211mm *...

This book of essays is written out of the author's long experience with Waldorf education: as a student, a parent, a grandparent, an academic, and a consultant.The focus of these essays is on the challenge and the opportunity of building community, of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262047401Author Zane CerpinaFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262547307Author David H. AutorFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783000690532Author Stefan BergheimFormat PaperbackPage Count 188Imprint Zgf PublishersPublisher Zgf PublishersWeight(grams) 222gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm...

For fans of Thinking, Fast and Slow and The Power of Habit, a groundbreaking new study of how disrupting our well-worn routines, both good and bad, can rejuvenate our days and reset our brains to allow us to live happier and more fulfilling lives.Have...

How social status shapes our dreams of the future and inhibits the lives we envision for ourselvesMost of us understand that a person's place in society can close doors to opportunity, but we also tend to think that anything is possible when someone...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060925949Author Ellis CoseFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint HarperPerennialPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993232206Author Stephen Aguilar-MillanFormat PaperbackPage Count 110Imprint Design By Accident PressPublisher Design By Accident Press

From a renowned pioneer of the localization movement, an anthology of essays challenging the narrative that technological progress and an increasingly globalized economy will lead us to a better world This collection of essays has been selected from...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781732025103Author Christopher FryFormat PaperbackPage Count 358Imprint Henry LiebermanPublisher Henry LiebermanWeight(grams) 476gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

In Available to be Poisoned: Toxicity as a Form of Life, Dipali Mathur contends that the saturation of the planet with toxic chemicals is not the "inevitable" price of progress but marks a deliberate, violent relationship with the Earth and its "others,"...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783927266445Author Sabine LichtenfelsFormat PaperbackPage Count 276Imprint Verlag MeigaPublisher Verlag MeigaWeight(grams) 408gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789403683508Author Tom MeyersFormat PaperbackPage Count 334Imprint Tom MeyersPublisher Tom MeyersWeight(grams) 467gDimensions(mm) 234mm * 156mm * 18mm

Global Megatrends captures the thinking of many dedicated scientists and researchers who have devoted their careers to exploring and understanding change. The change heralded by megatrends lies beyond our direct control but not beyond our influence. By...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781955110068Author Roger SpitzFormat PaperbackPage Count 670Imprint Disruptive Futures InstitutePublisher Disruptive Futures InstituteWeight(grams)...