Social science / Future Studies

Next 100 Years, The: A Forecast for the 21st Century

by George Friedman

The New York Times BestsellerIf you think you know where the world is headed, think again Mexico making a bid for global supremacy?Poland becoming America's closest ally?World War III taking place in space?...

Healing This Wounded Earth: With Compassion, Spirit and the Power of Hope

by Eleanor Stoneham

The world is seriously wounded threatened by violence egocentricity and mass consumerism. Government intervention alone will never solve society's problems. We need personal responsibility and healing on a global...

The Coming Global Superstorm

by Art Bell & Whitley Strieber

Killer tornadoes. Violent tropical storms. Devastating temperatures. Are these just the prelude to an unprecedented environmental disaster in our near future?

Two of America's leading investigators of unexplained...

Utopian Frontiers: A Story of Hope

by Drew Tapley

What if there was a secret city at work on finding answers to the survival of humanity? Technologies beyond your imagination. A city expanding, recruiting and evolving. There is no government, no money, no bosses,...

The Anti-Education Era

by James Paul Gee

One of the first champions of the positive effects of gaming reveals the dark side of today’s digital and social media

Today’s schools are eager to use the latest technology in the classroom, but rather...

Manifesta [10th Anniversary Edition]

by Jennifer Baumgardner & Amy Richards

In the year 2000, girl culture was clearly ascendant. From Lilith Fair to Buffy the Vampire Slayer to the WNBA, it seemed that female pride was the order of the day. Yet feminism was also at a crossroads; “girl...

Digital Vertigo

by Andrew Keen

"Digital Vertigo provides an articulate, measured, contrarian voice against a sea of hype about social media. As an avowed technology optimist, I'm grateful for Keen who makes me stop and think before committing...

Our Posthuman Future

by Francis Fukuyama

In 1989, Francis Fukuyama made his now-famous pronouncement that because "the major alternatives to liberal democracy had exhausted themselves," history as we knew it had reached its end. Ten years later, he...

Everything Is Miscellaneous

by David Weinberger

Business visionary and bestselling author David Weinberger shows how the digital revolution is radically changing the way we make sense of our lives Human beings are information omnivores: we are constantly...

Vote.com

by Dick Morris

As the print and broadcast media-commonly referred to as the Fourth Estate-falters and fails, a new social and political force is rising in power. The Fifth Estate, as Morris has dubbed it, is made up of the...

Notes From A Fractured Country: Selected Journalism

by Jonny Steinberg

In this selection of his Business Day columns, Jonny Steinberg walks through Pollsmoor Prison on the eve of the invasion of Iraq and believes he sees in the jail's corridors why the US's impending war in the...

Beyond Age Rage: How the Boomers and Seniors Are Solving the War of the Generations

by David Cravit

The headlines are getting more frequent- the language, more inflammatory. A war between the generations. The greedy boomers refusing to get out of the way. The hapless millennials struggling to find a footing....

Messy Wars

by Aki Huhtinen & Jari Rantapelkonen

War is a serious unsolved question concerning many: the military, industry, the media, and even the entertainment business – but also ordinary people. Often war is, for the military, about fighting against...

Microtrends: The Small Forces Behind Tomorrow's Big Changes

by Mark Penn & E. Kinney Zalesne

"The ideas in his book will help you see the world in a new way." -Bill Clinton

"Mark Penn has a keen mind and a fascinating sense of what makes America tick, and you see it on every page of Microtrends."-Bill...