Future Studies
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How to Fall in Love with the Future: A Time Traveller’s Guide to Changing the World
$29.95 Add to cartThere are an infinite number of possible futures that lie ahead of us–like threads stretching out into the distance. Rob Hopkins, cofounder of the international Transition Network movement, invites u… [more below]
- Author: Hopkins, Rob
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: September 16 2025
- ISBN10: 1915294517
- Language: English
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Beyond Civilization: Humanity’s Next Great Adventure
$14.00 Add to cartIn Beyond Civilization, Daniel Quinn thinks the unthinkable. We all know there’s no one right way to build a bicycle, no one right way to design an automobile, no one right way to make a pair of shoes… [more below]
- Author: Quinn, Daniel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: November 07 2000
- ISBN10: 0609805363
- Language: English
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A Bestiary of the Anthropocene: Hybrid Plants, Animals, Minerals, Fungi, and Other Specimens
$29.95 Add to cartBack in a new compact edition, this field guide to our new world of hybrid specimens–gorgeously printed in silver ink on black paper–catalogs the conflation of the technosphere and the biosphere
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- Author: Nova, Nicholas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: February 11 2025
- ISBN10: 9083404188
- Language: English
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The Simulation Hypothesis: An Mit Computer Scientist Shows Why Ai, Quantum Physics, and Eastern Mystics All Agree We Are in a Video Game
$32.00 Add to cartThe definitive exploration of one of the most daring and consequential theories of our time, completely revised and updated to reflect the rapid advances in artificial intelligence and virtual reality… [more below]
- Author: Virk, Rizwan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: July 22 2025
- ISBN10: 0593853385
- Language: English
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Too Late to Awaken: What Lies Ahead When There Is No Future
$23.95 Add to cartThe “most dangerous philosopher in the West” returns with a rousing and counterintuitive analysis of our global predicament.
Zizek’s most urgent and accessible book yet asks us all to imagine that cat- Author: Zizek, Slavoj
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: February 25 2025
- ISBN10: 1644214199
- Language: English
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When No Thing Works: A Zen and Indigenous Perspective on Resilience, Shared Purpose, and Leadership in the Timeplace of Collapse
$17.95 Add to cartSpiritual and community lessons for embracing collective care, co-creating sustainable worlds, and responsibly meeting uncertain futures–a Zen and Indigenous take on building better, more balanced wa… [more below]
- Author: Wong, Norma
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: November 05 2024
- ISBN10: 9.79889E+12
- Language: English
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Could Should Might Don’t: How We Think about the Future
$30.00 Add to cartAn invaluable guide for how to think – and not to think – about the future, from one of the leading futurists of our time.
You might not know the name Nick Foster, but after just a moment of googling- Author: Foster, Nick
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: August 26 2025
- ISBN10: 0374619352
- Language: English
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After the Spike: Population, Progress, and the Case for People
$29.99 Add to cartWhat if the challenge for humanity’s future is not too many people on a crowded planet, but too few people to sustain the progress that the world needs?
Most people on Earth today live in a country w- Author: Spears, Dean
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: July 08 2025
- ISBN10: 1668057336
- Language: English
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The Coming Wave: Ai, Power, and Our Future
$20.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – An urgent warning of the unprecedented risks that AI and other fast-developing technologies pose to global order, and how we might contain them while we have the chance–fr… [more below]
- Author: Suleyman, Mustafa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: April 01 2025
- ISBN10: 0593593979
- Language: English
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Technology vs Humanity: The coming clash between man and machine
$10.99 Add to cartFuturist Gerd Leonhard breaks new ground again by bringing together mankind’s urge to upgrade and automate everything-down to human biology itself-with our timeless quest for freedom and happiness. Be
- Author: Leonhard, Gerd
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: May 13 2019
- ISBN10: 3033074200
- Language: English
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Worlds Without End: Exoplanets, Habitability, and the Future of Humanity
$29.95 Read moreThe science of finding habitable planets beyond our solar system and the prospects for establishing human civilization away from our ever-less-habitable planetary home.
Planet Earth, it turns out, may- Author: Impey, Chris
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 376
- Publish Date: April 11 2023
- ISBN10: 0262047667
- Language: English
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But What If We’re Wrong?: Thinking about the Present as If It Were the Past
$18.00 Add to cart“Full of intelligence and insights, as the author gleefully turns ideas upside down to better understand them. . . Replete with lots of nifty, whimsical footnotes, this clever, speculative book challe… [more below]
- Author: Klosterman, Chuck
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 25 2017
- ISBN10: 0399184139
- Language: English
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How to Create a Mind: The Secret of Human Thought Revealed
$19.00 Add to cartThe bold futurist and bestselling author of The Singularity is Nearer explores the limitless potential of reverse-engineering the human brain
Ray Kurzweil is arguably today’s most influential–and oft- Author: Kurzweil, Ray
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: August 27 2013
- ISBN10: 0143124048
- Language: English
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Virtual Society: The Metaverse and the New Frontiers of Human Experience
$28.99 Read more“A fascinating, provocative case that the metaverse will not merely transform our virtual experience–it may actually enrich the quality of our lives” (Adam Grant)–from the visionary co-founder of on… [more below]
- Author: Narula, Herman
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 11 2022
- ISBN10: 0593239970
- Language: English
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Non-Bullshit Innovation: Radical Ideas from the World’s Smartest Minds
$28.95 Read moreAn entertaining and thought-provoking series of case studies on how to future-proof your business in a digital age, from the founding editor of WIRED. “‘In this remarkable book, David Rowan tells a s… [more below]
- Author: Rowan, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: June 01 2021
- ISBN10: 1787633705
- Language: English
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Longpath: Becoming the Great Ancestors Our Future Needs – An Antidote for Short-Termism
$25.99 Read moreAn antidote to nearsightedness. Ari Wallach won’t just leave you planning months or years ahead–he challenges you to look generations ahead. Get ready to think and think again.” — Adam Grant, #1 New
- Author: Wallach, Ari
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: August 16 2022
- ISBN10: 0063068737
- Language: English
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A Brief History of the Future: A Brave and Controversial Look at the Twenty-First Century
$16.95 Read moreWhat will planet Earth be like in twenty years? At mid-century? In the year 2100? Prescient and convincing, this book is a must-read for anyone concerned about the future. Never has the world offered … [more below]
- Author: Attali, Jacques
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: July 01 2011
- ISBN10: 1611450136
- Language: English
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Rethinking Our World: An Invitation to Rescue Our Future
$18.00 Add to cartA compelling and persuasive look at the social transformations needed to cope with our environmental crises.
As this major German bestseller reports, our world is at a tipping point, and we feel it ev
- Author: Göpel, Maja
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: July 04 2023
- ISBN10: 1957363363
- Language: English
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Far Away
$15.95 Add to cart“Chilling… Churchill’s play seems to reinvent drama with every other line.” – Village Voice
“A masterpiece from one of the most valuable playwrights working today. Churchill is that rare dramatist w- Series: Nick Hern Books Drama Classics
- Author: Churchill, Caryl
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: April 01 2001
- ISBN10: 1559361999
- Language: English
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Hacking Darwin: Genetic Engineering and the Future of Humanity
$16.99 Read more“A gifted and thoughtful writer, Metzl brings us to the frontiers of biology and technology, and reveals a world full of promise and peril.” —Siddhartha Mukherjee MD, New York Times bestselling autho
- Author: Metzl, Jamie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: April 07 2020
- ISBN10: 1728214130
- Language: English
