Uncertainty and Risk: Multidisciplinary Perspectives
ISBN: 9781844074747 / Angielski / Twarda / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Uncertainty governs our lives. This title draws theoretical perspectives from art history, complexity science, economics, futures, history, law, philosophy, physics, psychology, statistics and theology. It examines uncertainty in emergency management, intelligence, law enforcement, music, policy and politics.
Uncertainty governs our lives. This title draws theoretical perspectives from art history, complexity science, economics, futures, history, law, philo...
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690,82 zł |
Afrofuturism 2.0: The Rise of Astro-Blackness
ISBN: 9781498510509 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The ideas and practices related to afrofuturism have existed for most of the 20th century, especially in the north American African diaspora community. After Mark Dery coined the word "afrofuturism" in 1993, Alondra Nelson as a member of an online forum, along with other participants, began to explore the initial terrain and intellectual underpinnings of the concept noting that "AfroFuturism has emerged as a term of convenience to describe analysis, criticism and cultural production that addresses the intersections between race and technology." Afrofuturism 2.0: The Rise of Astroblackness...
The ideas and practices related to afrofuturism have existed for most of the 20th century, especially in the north American African diaspora community...
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484,79 zł |
Beyond the Dependency Culture: People, Power and Responsibility in the 21st Century
ISBN: 9780275963163 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Explores what emerging postmodern worldviews could mean for politics, work, welfare, health, and other aspects of the human predicament today.
Explores what emerging postmodern worldviews could mean for politics, work, welfare, health, and other aspects of the human predicament today.
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278,18 zł |
The Evolutionary Outrider: The Impact of the Human Agent on Evolution, Essays Honouring Ervin Laszlo
ISBN: 9780275964085 / Angielski / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The overriding challenge for our species during the 21st century, many believe, will be that of evolving...or becoming extinct. Can the theory of evolution be expanded into a source of guidance that could help our species save itself? This collection brings together the thinking of scholars in a wide range of fields in social as well as natural science directed to this end. Moving beyond a critique of neo-Darwinism and sociobiology to explore the action implications of new theory--including Loye's reconstruction of the long ignored full vision of Charles Darwin and Laszlo's new QVI... The overriding challenge for our species during the 21st century, many believe, will be that of evolving...or becoming extinct. Can the theory of e... |
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670,89 zł |
Valueware: Technology, Humanity and Organization
ISBN: 9780275967147 / Angielski / Twarda / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Highlights the danger of a individuals or organizations becoming technology-rich but value blind.
Highlights the danger of a individuals or organizations becoming technology-rich but value blind.
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580,26 zł |
Socioeconomic Democracy: An Advanced Socioeconomic System
ISBN: 9780275973759 / Angielski / Twarda / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. George offers a direct and powerful challenge to the fatal shortcomings of virtually all currently dominant economic paradigms, including those of capitalism, socialism, communism, and so-called mixed economies. The alternative socioeconomic democracy, and advanced theoretical model in which there is some form of universal guaranteed income as well as a limit to maximum allowable personal wealth, combined with a realistic degree of human flexibility based on public choice theory. Arguing that such a procedure would allow a society to democratically control the extreme limits of material... George offers a direct and powerful challenge to the fatal shortcomings of virtually all currently dominant economic paradigms, including those of ... |
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580,26 zł |
Forecast: The Surprising--and Immediate--Consequences of Climate Change
ISBN: 9780805090840 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The revealing and highly praised portrayal of the surprising ways that climate change will affect the world in the very near future Climate change has already been altering lives on our planet for a generation: the critically acclaimed Forecast shows, through Stephan Faris's vivid on-the-ground reporting, that there are unanticipated and surprising effects--some catastrophic and some positive--right around the corner. Global warming will spur the spread of many diseases. The warming world will shift huge populations and potentially redraw political alliances... The revealing and highly praised portrayal of the surprising ways that climate change will affect the world in the very near future Cl... |
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86,27 zł |
Uncertainty and Risk: Multidisciplinary Perspectives
ISBN: 9781844078516 / Angielski / Miękka / 382 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Uncertainty governs our lives. This title examines uncertainty in emergency management, intelligence, law enforcement, music, policy and politics. It focuses on key problems such as environmental management, communicable diseases and illicit drugs. It offers major conceptual strands in uncertainty thinking.
Uncertainty governs our lives. This title examines uncertainty in emergency management, intelligence, law enforcement, music, policy and politics. It ...
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194,40 zł |
Valueware: Technology, Humanity and Organization
ISBN: 9780275967154 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Highlights the danger of individuals or organizations becoming technology-rich but value blind.
Highlights the danger of individuals or organizations becoming technology-rich but value blind.
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278,18 zł |
Global Warming
ISBN: 9780313345227 / Angielski / Twarda / 188 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Global Warming" takes one of the hot-button issues of our time and surveys it in historical context, creating an intellectual portrait of the multi-century shifts in thinking that have led to gradual acceptance of the concept. The book summarizes pertinent aspects of geology, earth science, and climate science in easy-to-read terms. It then frames this background in terms of cultural and social shifts, including the Industrial Revolution, conspicuous consumption, and modern environmentalism. In addition, a study of the ebb and flow of cultural and political reception relates the issue to... "Global Warming" takes one of the hot-button issues of our time and surveys it in historical context, creating an intellectual portrait of the mult... |
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411,10 zł |
Transforming the Global Biosphere: Twelve Futuristic Strategies, Revised Edition
ISBN: 9780972171328 / Angielski / Miękka / 324 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Maynard discusses 12 futuristic strategies designed to promote an environmentally sustainable future for the universal benefit of the human race, its planetary home-world, and the generations yet to come.
Maynard discusses 12 futuristic strategies designed to promote an environmentally sustainable future for the universal benefit of the human race, its ...
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107,67 zł |
Progress or Collapse: The Crises of Market Greed
ISBN: 9780415490696 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Global warming and the depletion of natural resources are recognized as the major threats to the future of industrial society. In spite of rapid material success, mental disorders have become one of the leading causes of death and disability in industrial societies. This book explores the links between ecological collapse and psychosocial decay.
Global warming and the depletion of natural resources are recognized as the major threats to the future of industrial society. In spite of rapid mater...
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665,24 zł |
Visions of the Future: Almanacs, Time, and Cultural Change 1775-1870
ISBN: 9780198121787 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Why is it a laughing matter when an American president consults an astrologer, while political scientists, economists, and meteorologists all seem to depend on predicting the future? In this book, Perkins examines the "death" of astrology's respectability and links it to changing concepts of time in the nineteenth century; she explains the circumstances in which one type of knowledge, "superstitious," was replaced by another, "scientific."
Why is it a laughing matter when an American president consults an astrologer, while political scientists, economists, and meteorologists all seem to ...
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158,96 zł |
The Great Reset: How the Post-Crash Economy Will Change the Way We Live and Work
ISBN: 9780062009050 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From Richard Florida, author of the bestselling books The Rise of the Creative Class and Who's Your City?, comes a book that frames the economic meltdown of 2008-09 not as a crisis but as an opportunity to "reset." In doing so, he paints a fascinating picture of what our economy, society, and geography will look like--of how we will work and live--in the future. From Richard Florida, author of the bestselling books The Rise of the Creative Class and Who's Your City?, comes a book that fra... |
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77,64 zł |
Millennium Will I Survive?: As the Future Unfolds Prepare Yourself...
ISBN: 9781450255417 / Angielski / Miękka / 152 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book foretells of events that will occur in 2012, and into the new millennium. It has a unique yet controversial edge, that involves extraterrestrials arriving on Earth to assist mankind. Actual contact has been made through the medium Gilda. Through her transcripts and questions, she answers details of what will manifest. The public must embrace the reality of their future. Extraterrestrials have announced their arrival and are here to stay. "Will I Survive?," will echo in the mind of all humanity.
This book foretells of events that will occur in 2012, and into the new millennium. It has a unique yet controversial edge, that involves extraterrest...
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64,51 zł |
Millennium Will I Survive?: As the Future Unfolds Prepare Yourself...
ISBN: 9781450255486 / Angielski / Twarda / 152 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book foretells of events that will occur in 2012, and into the new millennium. It has a unique yet controversial edge, that involves extraterrestrials arriving on Earth to assist mankind. Actual contact has been made through the medium Gilda. Through her transcripts and questions, she answers details of what will manifest. The public must embrace the reality of their future. Extraterrestrials have announced their arrival and are here to stay. "Will I Survive?," will echo in the mind of all humanity.
This book foretells of events that will occur in 2012, and into the new millennium. It has a unique yet controversial edge, that involves extraterrest...
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107,67 zł |
Progress or Collapse: The Crises of Market Greed
ISBN: 9780415510189 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Global warming and the depletion of natural resources are widely recognized as the major threats to the future of industrial society and the survival of human species. This original and compelling book explores the links between ecological collapse and psychosocial decay.
Global warming and the depletion of natural resources are widely recognized as the major threats to the future of industrial society and the survival ...
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184,17 zł |
Aufbruch zur neuen Kultur
ISBN: 9783927266094 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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68,19 zł |
Cosmopolis: Yesterday's Cities of the Future
ISBN: 9781412848596 / Angielski / Miękka / 172 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The twentieth century has seen a grand procession of promises for the city. We would have cities of glittering white towers planted in green parks, as the great modern architect Le Corbusier dictated. Or we would have cities with no downtown, cities spread across the countryside with each family on its homestead, as Frank Lloyd Wright proposed. Or we would live in paradise on the 100th floor with our airplane hangared next door, as Hugh Ferriss and the other skyscraper Utopians of the 1920s promised. One thing was sure: the city of tomorrow would put to shame the city of yesterday, just as...
The twentieth century has seen a grand procession of promises for the city. We would have cities of glittering white towers planted in green parks, as...
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250,69 zł |
Overheated: The Human Cost of Climate Change
ISBN: 9780199933877 / Angielski / Twarda / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Deniers of climate change sometimes quip that claims about global warming are more about political science than climate science. They are wrong on the science, but may be right with respect to its political implications. A hotter world, writes Andrew Guzman, will bring unprecedented migrations, famine, war, and disease. It will be a social and political disaster of the first order. In Overheated, Guzman takes climate change out of the realm of scientific abstraction to explore its real-world consequences. He writes not as a scientist, but as an authority on international law and...
Deniers of climate change sometimes quip that claims about global warming are more about political science than climate science. They are wrong on the...
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332,90 zł |