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Not the Future We Ordered : Peak Oil, Psychology, and the Myth of Progress
ISBN: 9781780490885 / Angielski / Miękka / 158 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. For well over half a century, since the first credible warnings of petroleum depletion were raised in the 1950s, contemporary industrial civilization has been caught in a remarkable paradox: a culture more focused on problem solving than any other has repeatedly failed to deal with, or even consider, the problem most likely to bring its own history to a full stop.
The coming of peak oil--the peaking and irreversible decline of world petroleum production--poses an existential threat to societies in which every sector of the economy depends on petroleum-based transport, and no known... For well over half a century, since the first credible warnings of petroleum depletion were raised in the 1950s, contemporary industrial civilization ...
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The Economist: Megachange: The world in 2050
ISBN: 9781846685859 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Suitable for those who want to know what the next four decades hold in store, this title charts the rise and fall of fertility rates across continents; how energy resources will change in light of new technology, and how different nations will deal with major developments in science and warfare.
Suitable for those who want to know what the next four decades hold in store, this title charts the rise and fall of fertility rates across continents...
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The World Ahead: Our Future in the Making
ISBN: 9781856498753 / Angielski / Miękka / 512 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This study looks at the major challenges of the future and proposes a new start based on four contracts: social, natural, cultural and ethical. Will humanity survive the coming century? Is it threatened by a demographic time-bomb? Will there be food for everybody? Will we be able to eliminate poverty? are we heading for generalized urban apartheid? Will new technologies increase the gap between the rich and the poor? Or will they open access to lifelong distance education for all? Will women conquer their legitimate place in society? How can we fight global warming and desertification? Will...
This study looks at the major challenges of the future and proposes a new start based on four contracts: social, natural, cultural and ethical. Will h...
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Transport and Neighbourhood
ISBN: 9781906155117 / Angielski / Miękka / 80 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. As the environment becomes more fragile, existing transportation networks are more and more strained. Issues such as food miles and embodied energy in goods and products will become far more significant. Personal carbon quotas are likely to force a re-evaluation of our current lifestyles and single trips will carry greater levels of expectation. Casual long distance travel may be socially decried. Edge Futures are a series of five books that explore the impact that climate change will have on different aspects of our lives in the future. They are available to order as individual titles or as...
As the environment becomes more fragile, existing transportation networks are more and more strained. Issues such as food miles and embodied energy in...
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Problems of Contemporary World Futurology
ISBN: 9781443833769 / Angielski / Twarda / 375 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Humankind has always striven to catch a glimpse of the future. Egyptian priests, Babylonian astrologers, Greek oracles and medieval magicians stared at the sky and tried to foresee the coming catastrophes, relying on certain distributions of the stars. Contemporary fantasists construct models of the future through the pages of their novels and astonish readers with unbelievable pictures of a technocratic society where the very human personality has transformed under the influence of technological advance. However, most of all the previous attempts to foresee the future has remained in the...
Humankind has always striven to catch a glimpse of the future. Egyptian priests, Babylonian astrologers, Greek oracles and medieval magicians stared a...
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The New Digital Age: Transforming Nations, Businesses, and Our Lives
ISBN: 9780307947055 / Angielski / Miękka / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the next decade, five billion new people will come online, posing for our world a host of new opportunities and dangers. Google s Eric Schmidt and Jared Cohen traveled to thirty-five countries, including some of the world s most volatile regions and met with political leaders, entrepreneurs, and activists to learn firsthand about the challenges they face. Packed with fascinating ideas, informed predictions, and prescient warnings, The New Digital Age tackles some of the toughest questions about our future: how will technology change the way we approach issues like... In the next decade, five billion new people will come online, posing for our world a host of new opportunities and dangers. Google s Eric Schmidt a... |
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The Future of Cities
ISBN: 9780415853699 / Angielski / Miękka / 370 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This collection of readings draws on material from a wide range of sources - from the past and present and from literature and technology - and is concentrated on the areas which seem most relevant to the planning of the future city - what is happening to the city and what we can do about it. The readings have been selected and organised to present the planning of the future city. This book was first published in 1974. This collection of readings draws on material from a wide range of sources - from the past and present and from literature and technology - and is ... |
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Epiphany Z: Eight Radical Visions for Transforming Your Future
ISBN: 9781683500179 / Angielski / Miękka / 204 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Epiphany Z" is Futurist Thomas Frey s dynamic approach to envisioning, comprehending, and ultimately thriving in the radically different futures emerging around us at the speed of light.
"Epiphany Z" is Futurist Thomas Frey s dynamic approach to envisioning, comprehending, and ultimately thriving in the radically different futures emer...
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Energy and the Future of Humanity
ISBN: 9781530990795 / Angielski / Miękka / 180 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Un cielo de andar por casa en cada fase de nuestra vida - Primera parte: La madurez no es cuestión de edad, sino de recorrido
ISBN: 9781490380933 / Hiszpański / Miękka / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Todos venimos al mundo con un bello proyecto para realizar: ser nosotros mismos al maximo de las posibilidades existentes. Desde el mismo momento en que somos concebidos, la ley natural que rige la evolucion de lo vivo existente, nos posibilita -de conocerla y actuarla- el pleno desarrollo de nuestras capacidades y habilidades, ofreciendonos, para cada edad, todo un universo, un amplisimo abanico de puertas que abrir y que conquistar, y permitiendonos a lo largo de la vida, auparnos hacia cotas de mayor felicidad. Y esto, de manera universal y gratuita, para todos nosotros. Entonces, por que...
Todos venimos al mundo con un bello proyecto para realizar: ser nosotros mismos al maximo de las posibilidades existentes. Desde el mismo momento en q...
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Grundsteine Legen Fur Eine Neue Zivilisation
ISBN: 9783927266469 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 132 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Humans 3.0: The Upgrading of the Species
ISBN: 9780762787005 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Life for early humans wasn't easy. They may have been able to walk on two feet and create tools 4 million years ago, but they couldn't remember or communicate. Fortunately, people got smarter, and things got better. They remembered on-the-spot solutions and shared the valuable information of their experiences. Clubs became swords, caves became huts, and fires became ovens. Collectively these new tools became technology. As the 21st century unfolds, the pace of innovation is accelerating exponentially. Breakthroughs from robotics to genetics appear almost on a daily basis. It's all happening...
Life for early humans wasn't easy. They may have been able to walk on two feet and create tools 4 million years ago, but they couldn't remember or com...
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Raymond Williams: A Short Counter Revolution: Towards 2000, Revisited
ISBN: 9781446294727 / Angielski / Miękka / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Raymond Williams: A Short Counter-Revolution amply demonstrates the continuing relevance of Williams's analysis, from the early 1980s, to our current situation. After thirty years of neoliberalism his insights still read as freshly and as incisively as they first did. Jim McGuigan's new chapter explicitly extends the lines of continuity from then to now, in a persuasive and at times appropriately critical way. Williams's concluding chapter, Resources for a Journey of Hope remains as inspiring, and as necessary, as ever."
- Simon Dentith, University of... "Raymond Williams: A Short Counter-Revolution amply demonstrates the continuing relevance of Williams's analysis, from the early 1980s, to ou...
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Hope and the Future: An Introduction to the Concept of Cultural Maturity
ISBN: 9780974715469 / Angielski / Miękka / 178 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Essential guidance for the future by one of today's most respected and provocative social thinkers. Hope and the Future addresses what being optimistic about the future ultimately depends on. It describes how we face a growing number of human challenges that require that we think, act, and relate in new ways-often fundamentally new ways. And it looks at how effectively addressing those challenges will require not just fresh ideas, but a critical "growing up" as a species-a new Cultural Maturity. This first in a new three book series by psychiatrist and futurist Charles M. Johnston MD...
Essential guidance for the future by one of today's most respected and provocative social thinkers. Hope and the Future addresses what being optimisti...
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Heartbeat to Happiness: Eight Principles of Living a Happy Life
ISBN: 9780991656608 / Angielski / Miękka / 112 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Happiness is not a destination-it's a lifestyle. In Heartbeat to Happiness, Shelly Cady shows you how to transform the life you're living into the life you've always wanted, one that's brimming with happiness every day In this book, you'll learn the same principles she teaches in her acclaimed Heartbeat to Happiness training program, as Shelly shares: How your attitude affects your life and how you can change it today How to increase optimism and attract positivity. Eight principles you can immediately use to increase the joy and happiness in your life. How to avoid stress and guilt and...
Happiness is not a destination-it's a lifestyle. In Heartbeat to Happiness, Shelly Cady shows you how to transform the life you're living into the lif...
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Ageless Nation: The Quest for Superlongevity and Physical Perfection
ISBN: 9781412853804 / Angielski / Miękka / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this intriguing volume, futurist and author Michael G. Zey imagines a time in which technology has stretched human life spans to four hundred years or more. Genetic engineering, cloning, and stem-cell technology will eradicate diseases and allow for nanoscopic repair and maintenance of the body. "Smart drugs" and caloric restriction programs will largely stop aging and ensure healthy bodies and sharp minds indefinitely. Grounding his speculation in contemporary scientific research, Zey's optimistic vision sees retirement replaced by hiatuses between careers, and leisure time spent... In this intriguing volume, futurist and author Michael G. Zey imagines a time in which technology has stretched human life spans to four hundred ye... |
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The New Order of Barbarians: The New World System
ISBN: 9781484809976 / Angielski / Miękka / 136 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. THE MOST FRIGHTENING TRUE STORY EVERY TOLD On March 20, 1969, Dr. Lawrence Dunegan listened as a member of -The Order- delivered a hair-raising speech to a room full of doctors. He and the others were told not to record what they were hearing but, instead to take notes. The speaker insisted that he was doing the doctors a favor by explaining how the world was going to change. He said he believed if they knew, they would be better prepared to accept the coming changes. Anyone can read this book and know these changes are well underway. What we didn't know was where these changes have been...
THE MOST FRIGHTENING TRUE STORY EVERY TOLD On March 20, 1969, Dr. Lawrence Dunegan listened as a member of -The Order- delivered a hair-raising speec...
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China-US Relations 2100: The Future of US-China Relations
ISBN: 9781499324105 / Angielski / Miękka / 60 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An analysis of economic and other variables that might affect US-China relations for the balance of this century. Complete with various future scenarios.
An analysis of economic and other variables that might affect US-China relations for the balance of this century. Complete with various future scenari...
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Chaos, a User's Guide: Solutions for Developing Ourselves, our Communities and Organizations in a Chaotic World
ISBN: 9781499525120 / Angielski / Miękka / 230 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Conscious Evolution: Awakening the Power of Our Social Potential
ISBN: 9781608681174 / Angielski / Miękka / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A Seminal Work of Visionary Hope, Updated for the 21st Century
In this era of government gridlock, economic and ecological devastation, and seemingly intractable global violence, our future is ever more ripe for and in need of fresh, creative reimagining. With her clear-eyed, inspiring, and sweeping vision of a possible global renaissance in the new millennium, Barbara Marx Hubbard shows us that our current crises are not the precursors of an apocalypse but the natural birth pains of an awakened, universal humanity. This is our finest hour. Conscious Evolution highlights the... A Seminal Work of Visionary Hope, Updated for the 21st Century
In this era of government gridlock, economic and ecological devastation, and... |
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