Social Forecasting, Future Studies

Baby bust. Environmental blasphemy. The hotness delusion syndrome. These are just some of the intriguing new phenomena this next decade may yield. ...

The time for action is now.The fate of the world''s coasts rests on a knife edge as global warming melts ice sheets and glaciers from the Alps to t...

During the year 2020, at the onset of the global pandemic COVID19, there are widespread fears. There are also concerns about climate change and ...

World-renowned future forecaster, game designer, and NEW YORK TIMES bestselling author Jane McGonigal gives us the tools to imagine the future with...

'A fascinating and delightfully written book about some very smart people who may not, or may, be about to transform humanity forever' JON RONSON'B...

Break free from a wealth-obsessed worldWestern society is trapped by three assumptions: 1) the point of life is to maximize your self-interest and ...

In the summer of 1968, Mary Soderstrom and her husband loaded up their VW Beetle and immigrated to Canada from the United States. The contrast betw...

**SUNDAY TIMES AND THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER**'An epoch-defining book' Matt Haig'If you read just one work of non-fiction this year, it should ...

Winner, New Brunswick Book Award (Non-Fiction) Longlisted, Miramichi Reader's The Very Best! Book Awards (Non-Fiction)A CBC New Brunswick Book List...

This book predicts the decline of today's professions and introduces the people and systems that will replace them. In an internet-enhanced society...

Politics in the Twentieth Century was dominated by a single question: how much of our collective life should be determined by the state, and what s...

In his 1980 essay, The World of Tomorrow and the Person of Tomorrow, the psychologist Carl Rogers contemplated the future. He described those who w...

The first decade of the twenty-first century marked the demise of the current world order. Despite widespread acknowledgement of these disruptive c...

Society is in a state of chaos, causing great suffering for people all over the world. Yet almost all life stresses are human-made. Our species is ...

This book warns of the imminent extinction of our species through human-caused disasters. Contrasting with commonly held views, we highlight the in...

How do you predict something that has never happened before? There's a useful calculation being employed by Wall Street, Silicon Valley and maths ...

The Trend Forecaster''s Handbook is a sharp, highly visual textbook and teaching aid for students and tutors keen to know more about the world of t...

In his bestselling books The Cult of the Amateur and The Internet is not the Answer, Andrew Keen exposed the cultural and social dangers posed by i...

Society is fuelled by anger; dissatisfaction shapes Twitter feeds, online petitions and protest marches. But is that enough to bring about change? ...

This collection is a critical reflection of the evolution of Caribbean countries since the demise of the West Indies Federation in 1962. At this hi...

This collection is a critical reflection of the evolution of Caribbean countries since the demise of the West Indies Federation in 1962. At this hi...

Surviving the Future is a story drawn from the fertile ground of the late David Flemings extraordinary Lean Logic: A Dictionary for the Future and ...