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2017.
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"Over the past century humankind has managed to do the impossible and rein in famine, plague, and war. This may seem hard to accept, but, as Harari explains in his trademark stylethorough, yet rivetingfamine, plague and war have been transformed from incomprehensible and uncontrollable forces of nature into manageable challenges. For the first time ever, more people die from eating too much than from eating too little; more people die from old age...
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"Two defense experts explore the collision of war, politics, and social media, where the most important battles are now only a click away. Through the weaponization of social media, the internet is changing war and politics, just as war and politics are changing the internet. Terrorists livestream their attacks, "Twitter wars"produce real-world casualties, and viral misinformation alters not just the result of battles, but the very fate of nations....
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Harper Perennial
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[2014]
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xxvi, 499 pages ; 21 cm
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Posing the question "What should we be worried about?" to one hundred fifty of the world's greatest minds, this collection of responses reveals what about the present or the future worries each of them the most.
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Crown
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[2015]
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340 pages ; 25 cm
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"From one of the world's most highly regarded social scientists, a transformative book on the habits of mind that lead to the best predictions Everyone would benefit from seeing further into the future, whether buying stocks, crafting policy, launching a new product, or simply planning the week's meals. Unfortunately, people tend to be terrible forecasters. As Wharton professor Philip Tetlock showed in a landmark 2005 study, even experts' predictions...
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Rethinking How We Think addresses the new ways of thinking and acting that legitimate hope for the future necessarily depends on.
From the books back cover:
"Look closely at any of the most critical questions ahead for the species and we find an easily unsettling shared theme. Not only do usual answers fail us, usual ways of thinking fail us. Essential challenges of every sort are requiring not just fresh insights, but whole new, more mature and...
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Society gets contaminated with viruses of selfishness, self-interest, egoism, greed etc. It eventually hinders the perpetual growth and progress that affect everyone in the society. Such sick society gradually denies the basic human needs that are present in our core nature. The fatal illusion that all the time that is invested in love, friendship and humanness is wasted and lost, is the beginning of such a sick society. This denies basic human needs...
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History has been lost, changed, and hidden from us all. The theories behind our Amendment Right to Freedom of Speech are suppressed. The current generations are being taught false ideologies which will prevent Americans from reaching their full potential. Socialism and Cancel Culture are forcing our Future to remain silent due to fear of retaliation. The time is now to stand up for our founder's dreams for the American People. Fight for our children,...
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Our goal is outrageous: solve the world's major social problems. Our strategy starts with bringing you on an exploration that includes identifying the big problems, analyzing underlying causes, recognizing commonalities, and providing solutions that address root causes.
We hope you'll find insightful solutions that are, at least unconventional, perhaps even innovative. This means they are, by and large, not proven. If you said we're skating on thin...
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The book is based on:
a) The premise that "we" (humanity) are the problem, that "we" have created the environmental problems that threaten our future.
b) The premise that we need to mature and evolve our collective human consciousness. We have used an immature, unevolved thinking process based on early childhood conditioning to create and function in the modern world.
c) The premise that we need to intentionally tame, evolve, and mature our collective...
10) Trees on Mars
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The future is big right now-for perhaps the first time, our society is more focused on what is going to happen in the future than what is happening right now. In Trees on Mars: Our Obsession with the Future, cultural critic and indie entrepreneur Hal Niedzviecki asks how and when we started believing we could and should "create the future." What is it like to live in a society utterly focused on what is going to happen next? Through visits to colleges,...
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Should we be optimistic as we look to the future? Hope and the Future examines what legitimate hope for the future necessarily 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 addressing those challenges will require not just fresh ideas, but a critical "growing up" as a species-a new Cultural Maturity. This short book...
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The purpose of the book is to provide an applied, practical, yet theoretically grounded, reference on social influence strategies for environmental behavior change. The book is intended to be used as a professional reference by practitioners in governmental and nongovernmental organizations worldwide. The book is also intended to be used as a text by students of environmental science, environmental communication and environmental education.
13) Triannual II
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La serie Triannual se desarrolla en períodos sucesivos de tres años, con un primer volumen, de 2015 al 2017. El volumen actual, Triannual II, contempla el excepcional trienio posterior, del 2018 al 2020. Los dos libros forman un ciclo temporal que intenta percibir el horizonte del futuro, con una sistemática muy elástica, como reflejo de los avatares de la vida social e individual. Publicados en 2018 y 2021, van enlazando las causas y los efectos...
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Just how near is the end of the world? Behind the veil of safety of everyday life in the West lurks the sinister reality of a chaotic universe. Doomsday reveals the very real threats posed to modern civilization as the 21st century progresses, and asks the question: Is humanity on the path to destruction? War, famine, plague, global warming, nuclear meltdown: all have the potential to extinguish life on Earth forever. While our technology can help...
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El futuro ya ha ocurrido. La innovación, y la capacidad para generar cambios y adaptarse a sus efectos está en el ADN del ser humano. A través de las páginas de esta Breve historia del futuro podrás viajar en el tiempo para comprobar cómo los seres humanos ya hemos vivido profundas disrupciones en nuestra forma de vivir, de aprender, de trabajar, de disfrutar de nuestro ocio, de alimentarnos o de amar. Entender cómo las personas reaccionamos...
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Of all Dr. Charles Johnston's writings, Insight most unabashedly highlights what is original and of major significance in his thinking. From the book's back cover:
"When we understand them deeply, the ideas of Creative Systems Theory and the concept of Cultural Maturity come to seem like common sense. But this kind of common sense is new-a product of a fundamental leap in how we understand. Many of Creative Systems Theory's core observations are...
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An essential book by one of today's most innovative social thinkers:
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"In no aspect of life today do we confront more rapid and easily confusing change than in the worlds of gender and intimacy. Men and women equally are left without clear guideposts for their choices. In this short book, one of our time's most innovative social scientists and futurists offers big-picture perspective for making sense of why we see what...
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Quick and Dirty Answers to the Biggest of Questions addresses how the new kind of understanding we need today, besides helping us confront modern-day challenges, also brings a new creativity of perspective to more ultimate questions. It describes how many such ultimate questions have baffled us not because they are inherently difficult, but because they require a maturity of understanding of which we are only now becoming capable. This short book...
19) Rethinking How We Think: Integrative Meta-perspective and the Cognitive "Growing Up" On Which Our Fu
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Rethinking How We Think addresses the new ways of thinking and acting that legitimate hope for the future necessarily depends on.From the book's back cover:"Look closely at any of the most critical questions ahead for the species and we find an easily unsettling shared theme. Not only do usual answers fail us, usual ways of thinking fail us. Essential challenges of every sort are requiring not just fresh insights, but whole new, more mature and systemic,...
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By the bestselling author of Voluntary Simplicity (over 150,000 sold); Brings together cutting-edge science and ancient spiritual wisdom to demonstrate that the universe is a living, sentient system and that we are an integral part of it and explores the power of this new paradigm to move humanity toward a sustainable and promising future. Science has traditionally regarded the universe as mostly made up mostly of inert matter and empty space. At...
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