Small Is Powerful

John Papworth

• Hardcover | Engels | Praeger Studies on the 21st Century
• The author has found the true villain of the 20th century, and it is a concept--bigness. The answer to such disparate questions as why do we experienc... Lees meer

Groupware in the 21st Century

• Hardcover | Engels | Praeger Studies on the 21st Century
• As the 21st century nears, networked computing is becoming the essence of computing itself. Alternative phrases abound--collaborative work, computer s... Lees meer

The Open Conspiracy

W Warren Wagar

• Hardcover | Engels | Praeger Studies on the 21st Century
• H.G. Wells was acclaimed during his lifetime as one of the most original and creative thinkers of the 20th century, and retains to this day a position... Lees meer

Rescuing All Our Futures

• Paperback | Engels | Praeger Studies on the 21st Century
• The future is the last frontier where nonwestern societies are still free--free to envision desirable futures based on their own worldviews, cultures,... Lees meer

Socioeconomic Democracy

Robley E George

• Hardcover | Engels | Praeger Studies on the 21st Century
• George offers a direct and powerful challenge to the fatal shortcomings of virtually all currently dominant economic paradigms, including those of cap... Lees meer

The Future Is Ours

Graham H May

• Hardcover | Engels | Praeger Studies on the 21st Century
• Why do we continue to think about, imagine, and forecast the future despite believing we will probably be wrong? Why do we need to do so? What does th... Lees meer

Culture

D Paul Schafer

• Hardcover | Engels | Praeger Studies on the 21st Century
• Culture is essential to everything we do and is going to play a very significant role in the world of the future. In spite of this, most of us have on... Lees meer

Transforming Communication

• Hardcover | Engels | Praeger Studies on the 21st Century
• Thus far, the communications revolution has been largely limited to the merely technological feat of converging telecommunications with personal compu... Lees meer

Valueware

Christopher Barnatt

• Hardcover | Engels | Praeger Studies on the 21st Century
• Against an emerging landscape of intranets, extranets, virtual communities, and virtual reality, this book highlights the dangers of individuals or or... Lees meer

Disintegrating Europe

Noriko Hama

• Hardcover | Engels | Praeger Studies on the 21st Century
• Since the Maastricht Treaty of December 1991, Europe has experienced rising nationalism and regionalism--both centrifugal effects working against unio... Lees meer

Beyond the Dependency Culture

James Robertson

• Paperback | Engels | Praeger Studies on the 21st Century
• Communism has collapsed and socialism is discredited. Is this the end of history? No, James Robertson argues, precisely the opposite. 20th century cap... Lees meer

The Foresight Principle

Richard A Slaughter

• Hardcover | Engels | Praeger Studies on the 21st Century
• Why do things always get harder before they get easier? Why is foresight useful? What are the real megatrends? What does foresight really cost? Who sh... Lees meer

Advancing Futures

James A Dator

• Hardcover | Engels | Praeger Studies on the 21st Century
• What is Future Studies? What are the theories and methods underlying the field? What are its basic concepts, and how is it related to other academic f... Lees meer

Rescuing All Our Futures

• Hardcover | Engels | Praeger Studies on the 21st Century
• The future is the last frontier where nonwestern societies are still free--free to envision desirable futures based on their own worldviews, cultures,... Lees meer

Creative Compartments

Gerard Fairtlough

• Hardcover | Engels | Praeger Studies on the 21st Century
• Small is beautiful--but how small is small, and what practical steps can we take to achieve its beauty? By the 21st century we may have found the answ... Lees meer

The Evolutionary Outrider

• Hardcover | Engels | Praeger Studies on the 21st Century
• The overriding challenge for our species during the 21st century, many believe, will be that of evolving...or becoming extinct. Can the theory of evol... Lees meer

Co-Creating a Public Philosophy for Future Generations

• Hardcover | Engels | Praeger Studies on the 21st Century
• When making decisions, governments can and should strive consciously to balance the demands of the present with the needs of future generations. Vario... Lees meer

The End of the Future

Jean Gimpel

• Hardcover | Engels | Praeger Studies on the 21st Century
• This book represents the first calm, detailed, and rational description of the imminent end of western industrial civilization as we know it. Despite ... Lees meer

Visions for the 21st Century

• Hardcover | Engels | Praeger Studies on the 21st Century
• This is a challenging and stimulating collection of twenty-one essays by international contributors. Their topics are as varied as the cultures and di... Lees meer

The Evolutionary Outrider

• Paperback | Engels | Praeger Studies on the 21st Century
• The overriding challenge for our species during the 21st century, many believe, will be that of evolving...or becoming extinct. Can the theory of evol... Lees meer

Changing Visions

Robert Artigiani, Allan Combs, Vilmos Csanyi

• Hardcover | Engels | Praeger Studies on the 21st Century
• The four authors of this book recognize that no one on the common human journey to the 21st century can pick the best route without consulting a map--... Lees meer

Caring for Future Generations

• Hardcover | Engels | Praeger Studies on the 21st Century
• Judaism, Christianity, and Islam are increasingly discovering that what unites them is more important than what divides them. Many now acknowledge tha... Lees meer

Beyond the Dependency Culture

James Robertson

• Hardcover | Engels | Praeger Studies on the 21st Century
• Communism has collapsed and socialism is discredited. Is this the end of history? No, James Robertson argues, precisely the opposite. 20th century cap... Lees meer

The Future European Model

J Moller

• Hardcover | Engels | Praeger Studies on the 21st Century
• This work by a well-known futurist and Danish diplomat, examines Europe's future, analyzing the deepest currents governing the evolution of Europe in ... Lees meer