Social forecasting, future studies

**SUNDAY TIMES AND THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER**'An epoch-defining book' Matt Haig'If you read just one work of non-fiction this year, it should probably be this' David Sexton, Evening StandardSelected as a Book of the Year 2019 by the Sunday Times, Spectator and New StatesmanA Waterstones Paperback of the Year and shortlisted for the Foyles Book of the Year 2019Longlisted for the PEN / E.

It's the moment of your death.

Bea meets Aaron.

Is the world really coming to an end in 2012?

A chilling high-concept geo-political thriller where a declining United States and a resurgent China come to the brink of all out nuclear war.

The author of The Modern Girl's Guide to Life asks fifty experts, artists, business leaders, trendsetters, doctors, athletes, environmentalists, and intellectualsWhat will the next decade look like?

Do you know how to think about the future?

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.

"e;This is an exceedingly long short book, stretching at least fifty thousand years into the past and who knows how many into the future.

Copernicus and Galileos sun-centered model of the solar system gave us our view of space.

By the end of this century, living beyond 100 will be the rule rather than the exception.

This book foretells of events that will occur in 2012, and into the new millennium.

"e;This is an exceedingly long short book, stretching at least fifty thousand years into the past and who knows how many into the future.

Society is fuelled by anger; dissatisfaction shapes Twitter feeds, online petitions and protest marches.

A controversial and widely heralded look at the race-related pain and anger felt by the most respected, best educated, and wealthiest members of the black community.

Maybe turn down the opinionated dial?

"e;In Between Two Ages, Van Wishard has provided us with a masterful synthesis of the main currents of history, ranging over the centuries with an experts eye to identify the key trends in economics, technology and culture that have led us to this place in time.

It has never been more important for business leaders to look to the future.

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

Dieser praxisorientierte Leitfaden begleitet Sie systematisch auf dem Weg von der ersten Geschäftsidee bis zum erfolgreichen Unternehmen.

Thirty years ago Bill McKibben offered one of the earliest warnings about climate change.

Dieser praxisnahe Leitfaden begleitet angehende Gründer Schritt für Schritt auf dem Weg zur erfolgreichen Startup Gründung.

Shortlisted for the BBC Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-fiction 2011.

Robots may one day rule the world, but what is a robot-ruled Earth like?

The human brain has some capabilities that the brains of other animals lack.

This chilling account of the ';warm war' over control of the South China Seaone that is threatening to flare into full-scale conflictpresents a ';telling picture of the operational challenges the US Navy faces in the western Pacific' (Wall Street Journal) from an award-winning journalist with unprecedented access to the highest naval officers in America and China.

Robots may one day rule the world, but what is a robot-ruled Earth like?

The human brain has some capabilities that the brains of other animals lack.

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Predicting the shape of our future populations is vital for installing the infrastructure, welfare, and provisions necessary for society to survive.

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"e;The Salvaging of Civilization"e; is a 1921 work by legendary English author H.

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Our systems are failing.

Future Politics confronts one of the most important questions of our time: how will digital technology transform politics and society?

The pace of change in the past two decades has been extraordinary and it has become much harder for businesses to anticipate the environment in which they will be operating not far down the line - how markets and marketing will change, how employees and consumers behaviour and attitudes will change.

Technology moves fast - so where will it have taken us by 2050?

Predicting the shape of our future populations is vital for installing the infrastructure, welfare, and provisions necessary for society to survive.

Future Politics confronts one of the most important questions of our time: how will digital technology transform politics and society?

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