Many Methods and Mentors: Thinking About Change and Shaping Futures (August 2008, 40 pages) A "mini-guide" from Future Survey editor Dr. Michael Marien, Many Methods and Mentors selects 98 recent abstracts of books and articles on the tools and techniques used to think about the future.All prices include ordinary postage (First Class or Air Mail for single copies; surface for larger orders)
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Democracy in the 21st Century: Forward or Backward? (May 2008) This user-friendly 32-page "Mini-Guide," created by FS editor Michael Marien, assembles 85 recent abstracts on general trends related to democracy worldwide, the struggling "new democracies," arguments for strengthening US democracy, elections and voting in the US, problems with American media and education, promises of e-democracy, global governance issues, and democratic idealisms. It also includes three indexes (by subject, title, and author) and a Foreword and Synthesis, both commenting on the fragile and threatened state of democracy in the US and many other nations. There is no other guide like it! We guarantee that your citizenship horizons will be expanded, and that you will have a much clearer view of the muddied future of democracy.—Wendell Bell, Professor Emeritus of Sociology, Yale University"The Special Issue is excellent. Lots of good material there, made more powerful by the combined force of so many different voices, studies, aspects, and variations of sub-topics. The synthesis captures a lot of it and is very useful."
Security and Peace in the 21st Century: Nuclear Weapons, Terrorism and Other Threats (May 2007/36 pages), assembled by FS editor Michael Marien, selects and re-edits 72 abstracts from recent issues of Future Survey, highlights 20 best books and articles in five categories, offers a full-page synthesis of key ideas, adds 36 brief "Hindsight" abstracts from the 1977-1990 period, and provides subject, short title, and author indexes.All prices include ordinary postage (First Class or Air Mail for single copies; surface for larger orders)
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Call for pricing on larger quantities.Topics include general security thinking (including views of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, the UN High-Level Panel on Threats and Challenges, the Commission on Human Security, and the Worldwatch Institute), the continuing threat of nuclear weapons (including views of Joseph Cirincione, The Stanley Foundation, Robert S. McNamara, Dr. Helen Caldicott, Sam Nunn, Henry Kissinger, and others), the growing threat of terrorism (including views of the 9/11 Commission, Bruce Hoffman of RAND, Thomas Homer-Dixon, a Century Foundation Task Force, the Club de Madrid, Yevgeney M. Primakov, James Fallows, Zbigniew Brzezinski, etc.), the growing list of other threats (Dennis Pirages on ecological security, climate change, US oil dependency, agricultural bioterrorism, bioweapons, new and reemerging infectious diseases, cybersecurity, failed states and refugees, small arms proliferation, the privatization of security, and serious gaps in homeland security), and the compelling cost-effective argument for promoting peace (a culture of peace, eliminating war, arms control, international law, conflict prevention, post-conflict reconstruction, reconciliation processes, anti-poverty efforts, and the UN role). All of this is brought together in a unique and handy guide that can be easily surveyed in a couple of hours.
—Walter Truett Anderson, President, World Academy of Art and Science, San Francisco"A damn good publication...an extremely important and sobering document."
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Call for pricing on larger quantities.Global Warming and the Energy Transition (Feb 2007/32 pages), assembled by FS editor Michael Marien, provides an overview of climate concerns that are central to our future well-being, and the necessary transition to non-polluting energy sources. It selects and re-edits 57 abstracts from recent issues of Future Survey, highlights 12 best books and articles on climate and 12 best books and articles on energy, offers a full-page synthesis of key ideas, adds 32 brief "Hindsight" abstracts from the 1977-1991 period, and provides the usual subject, short title, and author indexes.
Topics include overviews of global warming (including the views of the IPCC, James Hansen, James Lovelock, Al Gore, Sir. Nicholas Stern, and Thomas E. Lovejoy), assessments of specific climate issues (such as abrupt climate change, the politics of climate change, actions needed beyond the Kyoto Protocol, justice issues), energy overviews (by the International Energy Agency, Vaclav Smil, Scientific American, Amory Lovins, Stephen Pacala and Robert Socolow of Princeton University, the MIT Energy Lab, and others), and views on oil, gas, coal, nuclear power, renewables, the hydrogen economy, microbial energy, and CO2 capture and storage technology.
This mini-guide is designed to be readable and accessible, highlighting much of the best recent thinking and putting issues in a broad context that aids understanding of climate problems and energy opportunities. There is nothing like it!
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