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This book foretells of events that will occur in 2012, and into the new millennium. It has a unique yet controversial edge, that involves extraterrestrials arriving on Earth to assist mankind. Actual contact has been made through the medium Gilda. Through her transcripts and questions, she answers details of what will manifest. The public must embrace the reality of their future. Extraterrestrials have announced their arrival and are here to stay....
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The Creative Imperative first introduced the ideas of Creative Systems Theory and is still the place to go to find the most detailed presentations of many of the theory's concepts. (Creative Systems Theory is a comprehensive framework for understanding purpose, change, and interrelationship in human systems that makes major contributions both by bringing perspective to the history of ideas and by providing essential insights for understanding the...
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There is an old adage about the boiling frog, which claimed that if you dropped a frog into a pot of boiling water, it would immediately jump out. But if you placed it in cool water and gradually raised the temperature to a boil, the frog would slowly cook without realizing it. True or not, the adage does describe well how we have arrived at this critical juncture, and how crucial it is that we jump out of the water.
The 'boiling frog' is a metaphor...
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Over 4,000 young people from 88 countries reveal trends in youth culture to help us understand our planetary future. Discover the values and religious beliefs of Generations Y and Z, based on their own voices rather than adult conclusions from multiple-choice surveys. This book includes futurists' projections of significant global trends and application of youth values and tactics to recent environmental and other movements.
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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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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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Take a peek into what the future may hold in the next 100-years, from technological advancements, to what 22nd-century living will entail. In this thought-provoking journey through the timeline, we explore the different possibilities in distant decades. Will humanity create a universal currency? Are we determined to self-destruct? Could the world be taken over by advanced robots? These are just some of the questions we explore in 2120. To draw a picture...
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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 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.
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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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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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"Cultural Maturity: A Guidebook for the Future" is the most detailed of three new future- related works by the author. It looks deeply at how the most important challenges ahead for the species will require not just better ideas, but new human capacities; in the end, an essential "growing up" as a species-a new Cultural Maturity. It is written for those interested in acquiring the newly sophisticated leadership abilities that we will more and more...
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Hope and the Future is a critically important book by one of our times' most respected and original social thinkers. This second edition includes a new preface and additional examples that more specifically address unsettling events of the last four years. Hope and the Future addresses what legitimate hope for the future necessarily depends on. It describes how we face a growing number of challenges that require that we think, act, and relate in new...
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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...
16) 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...
17) 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...
18) 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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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...
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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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