This edited volume explores migration movements to Norway, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom and Portugal from Brazil, Morocco and Ukraine, focusing on how the migration processes of yesterday influence those of today. The central analytical tool for this undertaking is the concept of feedback. This volume identifies various feedback mechanisms that initiate, perpetuate and reverse migration movements. It pays attention to the role of personal networks, but it also moves beyond networks by ana...
Scoping the Challenges - Drivers for Change
by Paul Flatters and Michael Willmott
Homo Deus: Breve historia del manana / Homo deus. A history of tomorrow
by Yuval Noah Harari
Tras el éxito de Sapiens. De animales a dioses, Yuval Noah Harari vuelve su mirada al futuro para ver hacia dónde nos dirigimos. La guerra es algo obsoleto. Es más probable quitarse la vida que morir en un conflicto bélico. La hambruna está desapareciendo. Es más habitual sufrir obesidad que pasar hambre. La muerte es solo un problema técnico. Adiós igualdad. Hola inmortalidad. ¿Qué nos depara el futuro? Yuval Noah Harari, autor bestseller de Sapiens. De animales a dioses, augura un mundo n...
In his inaugural lecture, Professor Brinkley examines the writings of a wide range of literary, political, and other figures of the late 19th century who attempted to predict what the 20th century would be like. He argues that attempting to predict the future is a relatively new human activity, a product of (among other things) the Enlightenment and the industrial revolution and of the assumptions created by both of these that the future can be shaped by human intervention and that what once see...
News from Nowhere (Wildside Classics) (Routledge English Texts)
by William Morris
"This astute and long overdue reappraisal provides a lucid overview and a wealth of contextual information. An excellent resource." -- Shannon L. Rogers, Saint JosephaEURO (TM)s University, Editor, Newsletter of the William Morris Society in the United States"through his insightful introduction and careful selection of documents, [Arata] has created an invaluable edition of News from Nowhere." -- Peter Stansky, Stanford University
NEW AMER CL (GRAUBARD)
Yellow Magic Orchestra's Yellow Magic Orchestra (33 1/3 Japan)
by Toshiyuki Ohwada
Widely recognized as the most innovative and influential Japanese group since the Second World War, Yellow Magic Orchestra (YMO) is seeing a revival among music listeners around the world, along with the works of its three members: Academy Award-winning composer Sakamoto Ryuichi, Hosono Haruomi as the central figure of the Japanese "city pop" revival, and Takahashi Yukihiro, who plays drums for METAFIVE with Towa Tei and Oyamada Keigo (Cornelius). This is the first book in English on Yellow Magi...
The Future (Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, v. 522)
by Joseph F. Coates and Jennifer Jarratt
Climate Change and Security (Praeger Security International)
by Christian Webersik
Human-induced climate change is causing resource scarcities, natural disasters, and mass migrations, which in turn destabilize national, international, and human security structures and multiply the human inputs to climate change.Alarms about the expanding role of climate change as a force multiplier of existing threats to national, international, and human security structures studies are being raised at all levels of governance and intelligence-national (including the U.S. Senate, the Director...
The Potentialist I: Your Future in the New Reality of the Next Thirty Years
by Ben Lytle
"The Fourth Age not only discusses what the rise of A.I. will mean for us, it also forces readers to challenge their preconceptions. And it manages to do all this in a way that is both entertaining and engaging." -The New York Times As we approach a great turning point in history when technology is poised to redefine what it means to be human, The Fourth Age offers fascinating insight into AI, robotics, and their extraordinary implications for our species. In The Fourth Age, Byron Reese makes...
Abundance (Exponential Technology)
by Peter H. Diamandis and Steven Kotler
Providing abundance is humanity's grandest challenge-this is a book about how we rise to meet it. Providing abundance is humanity's grandest challenge-this is a book about how we rise to meet it. We will soon be able to meet and exceed the basic needs of every man, woman and child on the planet. Abundance for all is within our grasp. This bold, contrarian view, backed up by exhaustive research, introduces our near-term future, where exponentially growing technologies and three other power...