Social forecasting, future studies

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Today we are developing a science that could change the world - for good or ill - more quickly and more profoundly than ever before.

Bruce Bueno de Mesquita can predict the future.

Mobilitätsideen, die Lust auf morgen machenBestseller-AutorinKatja Diehl und Science-Fiction-Erzähler Mario Sixtus fragen, wie die Menschen in Zukunft autofrei und klimafreundlich unterwegs sein werden und entwerfen konkrete Zukunftsvisionen.

In 64 THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW NOW FOR THEN, Editor-at-Large for Wired magazine and guru of the digital age Ben Hammersley gives us the essential guide to the things we need to know for life in the 21st century.

In Future: All That Matters, Ziauddin Sardar shows that thinking and speculating about the future has always been a part of human history, but exploring the futures in a systematic and scientific way is a recent phenomenon.

Dystopian States of America is a crucial resource that studies the impact of dystopian works on American society-including ways in which they reflect our deep and persistent fears about environmental calamities, authoritarian governments, invasive technologies, and human weakness.

Looking into the face of our alleged ape ancestor, popular Christian apologist Hank Hanegraaff dissects and debunks the astonishingly weak arguments for the evolutionary theory, revealing it as nothing more than a "e;fairy tale for grown-ups.

We are born with the instinct to create and invent.

Read this gripping, timely book about the transmission of deadly viruses from animal to human populations, and how we can fight the current Covid-19 pandemic.

We've always dreamed of perfect places: Eden, heaven, Oz - places over the rainbow, beyond death and loss.

Is our world becoming too complex and too fast-paced to manage?

Bookseller Charles Handy's best-selling new book looks at how individuals (the fleas in his analogy) relate to multi-national conglomerates (the elephants).

OUT NOW: the new book from the bestselling authors and hosts of the wildy popular 'The Skeptics Guide to the Universe'__________Our predictions of the future are a wild fantasy, inextricably linked to our present hopes and fears, biases and ignorance.

This book offers an accessible, yet sophisticated analysis of major global turning points and future scenarios with an emphasis on actionable issues.

This book offers an accessible, yet sophisticated analysis of major global turning points and future scenarios with an emphasis on actionable issues.

Brings together different disciplinary perspectives and new empirical insights to explore the regulation of assisted reproduction around the world.

This book brings together contributions by leading scholars that systematically cover the most important ethical issues concerning nuclear energy.

This multidisciplinary book addresses the nature and meaning of relationships and identity in assisted conception families.

Journey into the Unknown: Discover Tomorrows World TodayImagine a world where artificial intelligence exceeds our wildest dreams, and humanity ventures beyond its earthly bounds into the cosmos.

Enough of Experts: Expert Authority in Crisis analyses the challenges and threats to expert authority in neoliberal political economies and societies.

Enough of Experts: Expert Authority in Crisis analyses the challenges and threats to expert authority in neoliberal political economies and societies.

What will Asia look like ten years from now?

What will Asia look like ten years from now?

Examines the most important democratic challenges of today, using the Covid-19 pandemic as a case study.

Examines the most important democratic challenges of today, using the Covid-19 pandemic as a case study.

Explains the current weakness of democratic polities by addressing paradoxes in constitutional democracy and its theoretical foundations.

Explains the current weakness of democratic polities by addressing paradoxes in constitutional democracy and its theoretical foundations.

This fascinating account of the histories of human engineering reveals the importance of combining technology with tact.

This text links the complementary processes of research design and statistical analysis in assessing causal relationships in the social sciences.

This text links the complementary processes of research design and statistical analysis in assessing causal relationships in the social sciences.

Teaches students how to use R to conduct the statistical analyses most commonly used in political science.

Teaches students how to use R to conduct the statistical analyses most commonly used in political science.

Teaches students how to use Stata to conduct the statistical analyses most commonly used in political science.

Teaches students how to use SPSS to conduct the statistical analyses most commonly used in political science.

Teaches students how to use SPSS to conduct the statistical analyses most commonly used in political science.

Filmmaker and writer Mike Freedman speaks with a range of experts from a variety of backgrounds about what the future has in store for humanity.

In this book, Harlan Field boldly asks modern Americans to leave behind their old politics which have placed Americas greatness in jeopardy and exhorts us to pursue a new political strategy that will assure Americas great tradition for its future generations.

Here some of the state's most noted and qualified policy experts answer two vital questions: New Mexico 2050-What can we be?

We live in a world saturated by futures.

An in-depth and wide-ranging critique and analysis of the rising tide of temporariness in political and social life.

Liberating Temporariness?

Doug Cocks looks at the predictions of serious futurologists for what lies ahead of us all, looking as far into the future as the next glacial age.

In The Future, former US Vice President Al Gore, explores the political, social and economic forces that are shaping what America and the world will become in ensuing decades.

In 2008, as the price of oil surged above $140 a barrel, experts said it would soon hit $200; a few months later it plunged to $30.

Thinking about the future is essential for almost all organizations and societies.

It is difficult to imagine a world without the car, and yet that is exactly what Dennis and Urry set out to do in this provocative new book.