Catálogo de libros: Prospectiva social, futurología

355 Catálogo de libros: Prospectiva social, futurología

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  • A Creative Philosophy of Anticipation
    This book will be of interest scholars and research in futures studies, anticipation, philosophy, creative practice and theories about creative practice, as well as the intersections between philosophy, creativity and business. ...
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    240,83 €

  • God Is Just Love
    Ken Whitt
    How can people of faith foster love and resilience in our children while building sustainable, diverse communities? That’s the big question Ken Whitt answers in light of the many threats looming in our world. Through wisdom he has gleaned from scientists, scholars and lots of real families, Ken shows how God’s love is a hopeful compass in our lives. He encourages enjoying stori...
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    25,39 €

  • God Is Just Love
    Ken Whitt
    How can people of faith foster love and resilience in our children while building sustainable, diverse communities? That’s the big question Ken Whitt answers in light of the many threats looming in our world. Through wisdom he has gleaned from scientists, scholars and lots of real families, Ken shows how God’s love is a hopeful compass in our lives. He encourages enjoying stori...
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    33,18 €

  • A World Beyond Work?
    Ana Cecilia Dinerstein / Frederick Harry Pitts
    This book mounts a forceful critique of fashionable thinking on the possibility of a post-work, post-capitalist society achieved through automation, a basic income and the reduction of working hours to zero, suggesting this popular utopia is nothing of the sort. ...
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    34,90 €

  • Wildlife Tourism Futures
    Giovanna Bertella
    This book presents possible future scenarios in wildlife and animal tourism. It offers critically-imagined futures in order to encourage readers to reflect on the possibility of shaping a better future. It will appeal to researchers, students and practitioners in wildlife tourism, environmental studies, sustainability and conservation. ...
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    48,28 €

  • Wildlife Tourism Futures
    Giovanna Bertella
    This book presents possible future scenarios in wildlife and animal tourism. It offers critically-imagined futures in order to encourage readers to reflect on the possibility of shaping a better future. It will appeal to researchers, students and practitioners in wildlife tourism, environmental studies, sustainability and conservation. ...
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    169,88 €

  • Sustainable Space Tourism
    Annette Toivonen
    This book explores the relationship between space tourism and the discourse in sustainability and futures research. It offers comprehensive information on the current understanding of the space tourism industry and assesses the possible impacts of space tourism on the environment, economics, legislation and society. ...
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    48,29 €

  • Sustainable Space Tourism
    Annette Toivonen
    This book explores the relationship between space tourism and the discourse in sustainability and futures research. It offers comprehensive information on the current understanding of the space tourism industry and assesses the possible impacts of space tourism on the environment, economics, legislation and society. ...
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    169,90 €

  • Radical Regeneration
    Andrew Harvey / Carolyn Baker
    This is a demanding book-but our times are demanding. It is an honest book-and our times demand truth. -Matthew Fox, American priest, theologian, and author The genius of this book is the knowledge that this catastrophe is a necessary precursor to a radical transformation that we are co-creating with the divine. Radical Regeneration is an indispensable guide for what lies ahead...
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    10,91 €

  • The Arts
    D. Paul Schafer / DPaul Schafer
    In this exciting book, noted cultural scholar and arts advocate D. Paul Schafer examines the powerful role the arts can play, both in helping individuals live more fulfilling lives and in allowing humanity as a whole to enter a new and dynamic period in its history-what Schafer calls a 'cultural age.' Indeed, it is only by moving through that gateway that humanity will be able ...
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    25,13 €

  • 2120
    Jacob James
    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 robot...
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    6,96 €

  • Moral Responsibility in Twenty-First-Century Warfare
    Confronts the ethical challenges of warfare carried out by artificial intelligence.2021 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Moral Responsibility in Twenty-First-Century Warfare explores the complex relationship between just war theory and the ethics of autonomous weapons systems (AWS). One of the challenges facing ethicists of war, particularly just war theorists, is that AWS is ...
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    127,04 €

  • The Rise and Fall of the Future
    Gordon Arnold
    Mid-20th century America envisioned a wondrous future of comfort, convenience and technological advancement. Popular culture--including World’s Fairs, science fiction and advertising--fed high hopes even when war and hardship threatened. American ingenuity and consumer culture promised to deliver flying cars, undersea cities, household robots and space travel. By the 1960s p...
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    64,90 €

  • Steering Human Evolution
    Yehezkel Dror
    Being both interdisciplinary and based on personal experience of the author, this book adds up to a novel paradigm on steering human evolution. It will be of great interest to scholars  of modern history, evolution sciences, future studies, political sciences, philosophy of action, and science, and technology and the general reader. ...
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    241,19 €

  • Anthem
    Ayn Rand
    He lived in the dark ages of the future. In a loveless world, he dared to fall in love. In an age that had lost all trace of science and civilization, he had the courage to seek and find knowledge. But these were not the crimes for which he would be hunted. He was marked for death because he had committed the unpardonable sin: standing out from the mindless human herd. Ayn Rand...
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    5,96 €

  • Beyond the Digital Divide
    Petr Lupac
    This book advances the understanding of the relationship between social inequality and Internet use by bringing forth a new, contextual approach. It encourages a rethinking of the information society theory, information policies, and the role of social science in the process of informatization. ...
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    52,89 €

  • Uncertainty and Possibility
    Sarah Pink / Shanti Sumartojo / Yoko Akama
    Uncertainty and possibility are emerging as both theoretical concepts and fields of empirical investigation, as scholars and practitioners seek new creative, hopeful and speculative modes of understanding and intervening in a world of crisis. ...
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    60,14 €

  • What Should We Be Worried About?
    John Brockman
    Drawing from the horizons of science, today’s leading thinkers reveal the hidden threats nobody is talking about--and expose the false fears everyone else is distracted by.What should we be worried about? That is the question John Brockman, publisher of Edge.org ('The world’s smartest website'--The Guardian), posed to the planet’s most influential minds. He asked them to disclo...
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    16,33 €

  • AFRICA FIRST!
    Jakkie Cilliers
    What stops Africa, with its abundant natural resources, from capitalising on its boundless potential? Well-known Africa analyst Jakkie Cilliers uses 11 scenarios to unpack, in concrete terms, how the continent can ignite a growth revolution that will take millions out of poverty and into employment.Africa urgently needs much more rapid economic growth. Cilliers identifi es and ...
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    23,17 €

  • Supercities On, Under, and Beyond the Earth
    Jeff Dondero
    As the world population continues to grow, more people will be moving to cities, making our current large metropolises swell by millions. This work explores what will be needed to build and sustain these cities, and supply and transport their inhabitants on Earth and beyond. ...
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    38,99 €

  • Are We Going to Commit Suicide?
    Alain F. Corcos / Alain FCorcos
    Two global dangers face humanity: climate change and nuclear war. In the last few years, people have realized that the first was real.According to the US Global Change Research Program, Earth's climate is now changing faster than at any point in the history of modern civilization, primarily due to human activities. There continues to be a wide range of impacts across every ...
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    15,50 €

  • The Future Past of Tourism
    This book offers a critical account of the historical evolution of tourism through the identification and discussion of key turning points. Based on these considerations, future turning points are identified and evaluated. The core findings of the book provide the first perspective on how the history of tourism will shape its future. ...
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    193,79 €

  • The Future Past of Tourism
    This book offers a critical account of the historical evolution of tourism through the identification and discussion of key turning points. Based on these considerations, future turning points are identified and evaluated. The core findings of the book provide the first perspective on how the history of tourism will shape its future. ...
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    72,19 €

  • The Challenge of Progress
    Harry F. Dahms
    Globalization has accelerated the process of social, political, cultural, and especially economic transformations since the 1990s. Examining the choices of modern society, Dahms and contributors ask: what are the social costs of 'progress'? ...
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    159,40 €

  • Big Data
    Pankaj Sharma / Saswat Sarangi
    Big Data is everywhere. It shapes our lives in more ways than we know and understand. This comprehensive introduction unravels the complex terrabytes that will continue to shape our lives in ways imagined and unimagined. ...
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    241,49 €

  • Big Data
    Pankaj Sharma / Saswat Sarangi
    Big Data is everywhere. It shapes our lives in more ways than we know and understand. This comprehensive introduction unravels the complex terrabytes that will continue to shape our lives in ways imagined and unimagined. ...
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    69,69 €

  • Ancient Gods and Human Origins
    Neil Freer
    This book, written by philosopher and futurist Neil Freer, actually began thousands of years ago with the oldest recorded stories in the world. These records speak of the gods having been here on Earth and can be found in all major cultures worldwide. This includes the oldest known form of writing on Earth, the Sumerian cuneiform texts from the ancient Middle East. It is here w...
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    15,93 €

  • Counterintuitivity
    Mario Van der Meulen
    Innovation is a lazy industry word. Often but a label for yet another leadership ambition, another consultant-driven program. Innovation has ceased to be a positive force for change. To reverse this, we need to leverage its design and value creation free of the tyranny of profit and efficiency. By designing with more meaning, and not only for iteration, disruption and predictab...
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    28,70 €

  • Transhumanism and the Image of God
    Jacob Shatzer
    Examining the transhumanist movement, biblical ethicist Jacob Shatzer grapples with the potential for technology to transform the way we think about what it means to be human. Exploring the doctrine of incarnation and topics such as artificial intelligence, robotics, medical technology, and communications tools, he guides us into careful consideration of the future of Christian...
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    28,09 €

  • Cyborg Mind
    Calum MacKellar
    With the development of new direct interfaces between the human brain and computer systems, the time has come for an in-depth ethical examination of the way these neuronal interfaces may support an interaction between the mind and cyberspace.In so doing, this book does not hesitate to blend disciplines including neurobiology, philosophy, anthropology and politics. It also invit...
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    184,20 €


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