Future Studies

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...

This book examines how global technological advances shape the way we work and allocate work today, and how we might do so in the future, exploring advances in robotics, artificial intelligence, green technology and implications for workforce skills and...

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...

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

__________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...

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

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...

The year is 2393, and the world is almost unrecognizable. Clear warnings of climate catastrophe went ignored for decades, leading to soaring temperatures, rising sea levels, widespread drought and-finally-the disaster now known as the Great Collapse of...

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

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)...

As his health begins to fail, a historian in the year 2084 sets out to document the irreparable damage climate change has wrought on the planet over the course of his life. He interviews scientists, political leaders and ordinary people all around the...

This entirely new Humanist Manifesto is designed to address the problems of the twenty-first century and the millennium beyond. Providing a strong defense of scientific naturalism and technology, it is offered as a contribution to the dialogue among the...

Becoming a Buddhist monk in Thailand has for a long time provided the opportunity for access to a good education and to social advancement, both to bright, poor rural youths and to members of the urban elite whose youth often become monks for a few...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsCommended for IndieFab awards (Philosophy) 2014 and IndieFab awards (Science) 2014.Book InformationISBN 9781579830250Author Ted ChuFormat HardbackPage Count 486Imprint...

What Future: The Year's Best Writing on What's Next for People, Technology, and the Planet, edited by Meehan Crist and Rose Eveleth, is a best of the year anthology featuring new writing by and about the scientists, writers, journalists, and philosophers...