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Sapiens Rising: The View from 2100
ISBN: 9781585091461 / Angielski / Miękka / 198 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 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. Reveals how we will live as enlightened, generic humans having restored the true knowledge of our history as a genetically created species - part Homo erectus and part Anunnaki/Nefilim. Accepting and integrating this... A visionary work from a futuristic philosopher. Presents in great detail a positive, compelling view of the new human and new human society that go... |
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The Future Book: 40 Ways to Future-Proof Your Work and Life
ISBN: 9781910649244 / Angielski / Twarda / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "The Future" plays a dominant role in everybody's lives. But for many, it is a blur and mystery, a wall of fog in which we struggle to see beyond what is immediately in front of us. By leading futurist Magnus Lindkvist, this book provides the means and tools to plan for and navigate a path into the long term to your advantage. Anyone who wants to have a better, more inspiring life in the future has to plan for it--to future-proof it. In this powerful little book, Lindkvist presents a set of practical and easy-to-apply tools that will help you to create a mindset and path for tomorrow.
LID... "The Future" plays a dominant role in everybody's lives. But for many, it is a blur and mystery, a wall of fog in which we struggle to see beyond what...
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Future Smart: Managing the Game-Changing Trends That Will Transform Your World
ISBN: 9780306824418 / Angielski / Miękka / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Game-changing trends are coming in business, technology, workforce, economy, security, and environment. Climate change, energy demand, and population growth will redefine global risk and power. Exponential new technologies will emerge in digital money, mobile commerce, and big data. An explosive new middle class of over one billion consumers will enter the marketplace. Every nation, job, business, and person will be transformed. To thrive in this future you have to become predictive, adaptive, and agile--to become Future Smart. Dr. James Canton, a renowned global futurist and visionary...
Game-changing trends are coming in business, technology, workforce, economy, security, and environment. Climate change, energy demand, and population ...
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Flashpoints: The Emerging Crisis in Europe
ISBN: 9780307951137 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. New York Times bestselling author and geopolitical forecaster George Friedman delivers a fascinating portrait of modern-day Europe, with special focus on significant political, cultural, and geographical flashpoints where the conflicts of the past are smoldering once again. For the past five hundred years, Europe has been the nexus of global culture and power. But throughout most of that history, most European countries have also been volatile and unstable--some even ground zero for catastrophic wars. As Friedman explores the continent's history region by region, he examines the...New York Times bestselling author and geopolitical forecaster George Friedman delivers a fascinating portrait of modern-day Europe, with spe... |
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The Future of War
ISBN: 9781610393058 / Angielski / Twarda / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Questions about the future of war are a regular feature of political debate, strategic analysis, and popular fiction. Where should we look for new dangers? What cunning plans might an aggressor have in mind? What are the best forms of defense? How might peace be preserved or conflict resolved? From the French rout at Sedan in 1870 to the relentless contemporary insurgencies in Iraq and Afghanistan, Lawrence Freedman, a world-renowned military thinker, reveals how most claims from the military futurists are wrong. But they remain influential nonetheless. Freedman shows how those who...
Questions about the future of war are a regular feature of political debate, strategic analysis, and popular fiction. Where should we look for new dan...
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The City of Tomorrow: Sensors, Networks, Hackers, and the Future of Urban Life
ISBN: 9780300204803 / Angielski / Twarda / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An internationally renowned architect, urban planner, and scholar describes the major technological forces driving the future of cities
Since cities emerged ten thousand years ago, they have become one of the most impressive artifacts of humanity. But their evolution has been anything but linear--cities have gone through moments of radical change, turning points that redefine their very essence. In this book, a renowned architect and urban planner who studies the intersection of cities and technology argues that we are in such a moment. The authors explain some... An internationally renowned architect, urban planner, and scholar describes the major technological forces driving the future of cities |
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The Brain Electric
ISBN: 9780374536411 / Angielski / Miękka / 282 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The gripping and revelatory story of the dramatic race to merge the human brain with machines Leading neuroscience researchers are racing to unlock the secrets of the mind. On the cusp of decoding brain signals that govern motor skills, they are developing miraculous technologies that will enable paraplegics and wounded soldiers to move prosthetic limbs and will give all of us the power to manipulate computers and other objects through thought alone. These fiercely competitive scientists are vying for government and venture capital funding, prestige, and wealth. Part... The gripping and revelatory story of the dramatic race to merge the human brain with machines Leading neuroscience researchers are rac... |
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The Salvaging Of Civilisation
ISBN: 9781522970965 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Thinking Dead: What the Zombie Apocalypse Means
ISBN: 9781498532402 / Angielski / Miękka / 268 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 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, werewolves, witches and wizards, have become both big dollars for cultural producers and the subject of audience fascination and fetishization. With popular television shows such as AMC s The Walking Dead (based on the...
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 t...
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22 Generations
ISBN: 9780985418274 / Angielski / Twarda / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 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 Generations launches forth from a simple observation: we humans innovate because we're dissatisfied, and want to improve our lives. Our brains contain motivational circuitry that relentlessly pressures us to improve our lot...
Modern societies are packed full of inventions and useful ideas that have accumulated over hundreds of generations. That's what built up the modern wo...
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Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds
ISBN: 9781849352604 / Angielski / Miękka / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the tradition of Octavia Butler, here is radical self-help, society-help, and planet-help to shape the futures we want. Change is constant. The world, our bodies, and our minds are in a constant state of flux. They are a stream of ever-mutating, emergent patterns. Rather than steel ourselves against such change, Emergent Strategy teaches us to map and assess the swirling structures and to read them as they happen, all the better to shape that which ultimately shapes us, personally and politically. A resolutely materialist spirituality based equally on science and science fiction: a...
In the tradition of Octavia Butler, here is radical self-help, society-help, and planet-help to shape the futures we want. Change is constant. The wor...
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The New Jewish Mandate (Vol. 2, Lipstick and War Crimes Series): Renouncing the Money Changers
ISBN: 9781941293256 / Angielski / Miękka / 446 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 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 exposE of our undiscussed social engineering. Does social engineering weaken our moral judgement and our ability to assess our impact on world? Who profits? Who is shaping us? "He brings dry to wet and wet to dry ... no genre works to describe it." - Sandra... The New Jewish Mandate: Renouncing the Money Changers is the Jewish Edition of Vol. 2 of the Lipstick and War Crimes Series by Ra... |
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Thinking Together At The Edge Of History: A Memoir of the Lindisfarne Association, 1972-2012
ISBN: 9780936878867 / Angielski / Miękka / 260 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. When a cultural historian writes a memoir it is likely to be interesting. When that person is William Irwin Thompson, author of numerous book and articles including the best selling At the Edge of History, it is guaranteed to be both intriguing and thought provoking. From 1972 and for 40 years thereafter Dr. Thompson brought together a whos who of leading scientists, avant-garde artists, forward looking philosophers, environmental architects, spiritual innovators and other top-notch thinkers into a free-wheeling dialog. This he called the Lindisfarne Association and with his tireless energy,...
When a cultural historian writes a memoir it is likely to be interesting. When that person is William Irwin Thompson, author of numerous book and arti...
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The Tesla Revolution: Why Big Oil Is Losing the Energy War
ISBN: 9789462982062 / Angielski / Miękka / 334 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Though oil prices have been on a downward trajectory in recent months, that doesn't obscure the fact that fossil fuels are finite, and we will eventually have to grapple with the end of their dominance. At the same time, however, skepticism about the alternatives remains: we've never quite achieved the promised -too cheap to meter- power of the future, be it nuclear, solar, or wind. And hydrogen and bio-based fuels are thus far a disappointment. So what does the future of energy look like?
The Tesla Revolution has the answers. In clear, unsensational style, Willem... Though oil prices have been on a downward trajectory in recent months, that doesn't obscure the fact that fossil fuels are finite, and we will eventua...
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The Fifth Beginning: What Six Million Years of Human History Can Tell Us about Our Future
ISBN: 9780520293120 / Angielski / Twarda / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "I have seen yesterday. I know tomorrow." This inscription in Tutankhamun's tomb summarizes The Fifth Beginning. Here, archaeologist Robert L. Kelly explains how the study of our cultural past can predict the future of humanity. In an eminently readable style, Kelly identifies four key pivot points in the six-million-year history of human development: the emergence of technology, culture, agriculture, and the state. In each example, the author examines the long-term processes that resulted in a definitive, no-turning-back change for the organization of society. Kelly then...
"I have seen yesterday. I know tomorrow." This inscription in Tutankhamun's tomb summarizes The Fifth Beginning. Here, archaeologist Robert L. ...
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The Child to Come: Life After the Human Catastrophe
ISBN: 9780816689880 / Angielski / Miękka / 195 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Generation Anthropocene. Storms of My Grandchildren. Our Children's Trust. Why do these and other attempts to imagine the planet's uncertain future return us--again and again--to the image of the child? In The Child to Come, Rebekah Sheldon demonstrates the pervasive conjunction of the imperiled child and the threatened Earth and blisteringly critiques the logic of catastrophe that serves as its motive and its method. Sheldon explores representations of this perilous future and the new figurations of the child that have arisen in response to it. Analyzing catastrophe... Generation Anthropocene. Storms of My Grandchildren. Our Children's Trust. Why do these and other attempts to imagine the planet's uncertain future... |
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The Dualarity: Tap Into the Energy of Your Personal and Business Transformation
ISBN: 9781781332030 / Angielski / Miękka / 298 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The changes that are upon us will alter the face of every industry, business and government but, even more importantly, the way you and society live. Drawing on Olivier Van Duüren’s extensive global experience at the cutting edge of one of the world’s most successful companies, The Dualarity provides a comprehensive overview of what is happening around you and the implications. It shows you how to energise your future and transform with sparkle as an individual and as a business. It could mean the difference between spreading your wings and... The changes that are upon us will alter the face of every industry, business and government but, even more importantly, the way you and soc... |
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The Dualarity: Tap Into the Energy of Your Personal and Business Transformation
ISBN: 9781781332078 / Angielski / Twarda / 298 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The changes that are upon us will alter the face of every industry, business and government but, even more importantly, the way you and society live. Drawing on Olivier Van Duuren s extensive global experience at the cutting edge of one of the world s most successful companies, The Dualarity provides a comprehensive overview of what is happening around you and the implications. It shows you how to energise your future and transform with sparkle as an individual and as a business. It could mean the difference between spreading your wings and learning to fly, or being left behind. Read this...
The changes that are upon us will alter the face of every industry, business and government but, even more importantly, the way you and society live. ...
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The Seventh Sense: Power, Fortune, and Survival in the Age of Networks
ISBN: 9780316285070 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
WASHINGTON POST BESTSELLER From the author of the international bestseller THE AGE OF THE UNTHINKABLE comes a powerful new story of revolution and riches in a connected age. Endless terror. Refugee waves. An unfixable global economy. Surprising election results. New billion-dollar fortunes. Miracle medical advances. What if they were all connected? What if you could understand why? The Seventh Sense examines the historic force now shaking our world--and explains how our leaders, our... NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
WASHINGTON POST BESTSELLER From the author of the international bests... |
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The Salvaging of Civilization
ISBN: 9781473333499 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "The Salvaging of Civilization" is a 1921 work by legendary English author H. G. Wells. Within it, Wells explains how a single planetary government could be created through education and the manipulation of public opinion. This book offers a fascinating insight into the mind of this seminal author and is highly recommended for those with an interest in global politics. Contents include: "The Probable Future of Mankind," "The Project of a World State," "The Enlargement of Patriotism to a World State," "The Bible of Civilization; Part One," et cetera. Herbert George Wells (1866 - 1946) was a...
"The Salvaging of Civilization" is a 1921 work by legendary English author H. G. Wells. Within it, Wells explains how a single planetary government co...
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