What Future: The Year's Best Writing on What's Next for People, Technology, and the Planet, edited by Meehan Crist and Rose Eveleth, is a best of the year anthology featuring new writing by and about the scientists, writers, journalists, and philosophers who are proposing the options that lay not just ahead, but beyond us.
For fans of Thinking, Fast and Slow and The Power of Habit, a groundbreaking new study of how disrupting our well-worn routines, both good and bad, can rejuvenate our days and reset our brains to allow us to live happier and more fulfilling lives.
How social status shapes our dreams of the future and inhibits the lives we envision for ourselvesMost of us understand that a person's place in society can close doors to opportunity, but we also tend to think that anything is possible when someone dreams about what might be.
Building the Wall is a gripping political thriller from Robert Schenkkan, a Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning playwright and Academy award nominee.
The Futurist movement was founded and promoted by Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, beginning in 1909 with the First Futurist Manifesto, in which he inveighed against the complacency of "e;cultural necrophiliacs"e; and sought to annihilate the values of the past, writing that "e;there is no longer any beauty except the struggle.
SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERThe creator of the Gaia hypothesis and the greatest environmental thinker of our time has produced an astounding new theory about the future of life on Earth.
The author of the international bestseller The Sixth Extinction returns to humanity's transformative impact on the environment, now asking: after doing so much damage, can we change nature, this time to save it?
'A terrific book - essential reading for everyone seeking to make sense of Artificial Intelligence' Professor Sir Adrian Smith, Director and Chief Executive of the Alan Turing InstituteIn this myth-busting guide to AI past and present, one of the world's leading researchers shows why our fears for the future are misplaced.
Bernard Lietaer sieht die Menschheit heute vor enormen Herausforderungen stehen, darunter drei, die überwältigend sind:• Die Klimaveränderungen: Sie finden statt und werden drastische Veränderungen für unser Leben und Überleben mit sich bringen.
SHORTLISTED FOR THE CMI MANAGEMENT BOOK OF THE YEAR INNOVATION AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP AWARDToday's consumers prefer the advantages of access over the hassles of ownership.
Der Süden Frankreichs ist für viele Menschen ein Sehnsuchtsort: Der Duft von Lavendel, reifen Aprikosen und Rosmarin hat auch der Food-Autorin Sandy Neumann den Kopf verdreht.
The Age of Resilience: Reimagining Existence on a Rewilding Earth is a wide-ranging look at the political, economic and cultural effects of the global shift from an economy based on efficiency to one based on resilience.
What connects the "e;miracle on the Hudson"e; to the planning of the French railway system, or the mysterious outbreak of strange smells in downtown Manhattan to the invention of the Internet?
Das Buch setzt sich zum Ziel, auf interdisziplinäre Weise den Auswirkungen nachzugehen, die der Globalisierungsprozess mit der Zunahme von Dynamik, Komplexität und Konflikten in den unterschiedlichsten Lebensbereichen mit sich bringt.
**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.
