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Abstracts of "The Future Survey Super Seventy: Best Books 1996-2000" are compiled in a special report edited by Michael Marien, which is FREE to new and current subscribers of Future Survey.

The following books are featured on the Futurist Bookshelf

Beyond Globalization: Shaping A Sustainable Global Economy
by Hazel Henderson

The Biotech Century: Harnessing the Gene and Remaking the World
by Jeremy Rifkin

The Clock Of The Long Now: Time and Responsibility. The Ideas Behind the World's Slowest Computer
by Stewart Brand

Cyberunion: Empowering Labor Through Computer Technology
by Arthur B. Shostak

Evolution Isn't What It Used To Be: The Augmented Animal and the Whole Wired World
by Walter Truett Anderson

Foundations of Futures Studies: Human Science for a New Era
Vol. I: History, Purposes, and Knowledge
by Wendell Bell

Vol. II: Values, Objectivity, and the Good Society
by Wendell Bell

FutureConsumer.Com: The Webolution of Shopping to 2010
by Frank Feather

The Future Is Ours
by Graham H. May

Global Trends 2005: An Owner's Manual for the Next Decade
by Michael J. Mazarr

Gray Dawn: How the Coming Age Wave Will Transform America-And the World
by Peter G. Peterson

High Tech/High Touch: Technology and Our Accelerated Search for Meaning
by John Naisbitt, Douglas Philips, Nana Naisbitt

The Internet Edge: Social, Technical, and Legal Challenges for a Networked World
by Mark J. Stefik

Life Without Disease: The Pursuit of Medical Utopia
by William B. Schwartz

The Long Boom: A Vision for the Coming Age of Prosperity
by Peter Schwartz, Peter Leyden, and Joel Hyatt

The New Rules of Corporate Conduct: Rewriting the Social Charter
by Ian Wilson

Predicting the Future: An Introduction to the Theory of Forecasting
by Nicholas Rescher

Preferred Futuring: Envision the Future You Want and Unleash the Energy to Get There
by Lawrence L. Lippitt

Reversing Human Aging
by Michael Fossel

A Short History of the Future
by W. Warren Wagar

State of the Future at the Millennium
edited by Jerome C. Glenn and Theodore Gordon

State of the World 2001
by Lester R. Brown et al.

The 21st Century: Macmillan Compendium
edited by George Thomas Kurian and Graham T.T. Molitor

2025: Scenarios of US and Global Society Reshaped by Science and Technology
by Joseph F. Coates, John B. Mahaffie, Andy Hines

Vital Signs 2000: The Environment Trends That Are Shaping Our Future
by Lester R. Brown et al.
NOTE: 2001 edition to come May 2001 (preorder from Amazon, below)

The following books are available from Amazon:

The Age of Access: The New Culture of Hypercapitalism Where All of Life Is a Paid-For Experience
by Jeremy Rifkin. Tarcher. 2001. 320 pages. Paperback.

Age Power: How the 21st Century Will Be Ruled by the New Old
by Ken Dychtwald. Tarcher. 2000. 266 pages. Paperback.

America's Demographic Tapestry: Baseline for the New Millennium
edited by James W. Hughes and Joseph J. Seneca. Rutgers University Press. 1999. 228 pages. Paperback.

Blown to Bits: How the New Economics of Information Transforms Strategy
by Philip Evans and Thomas S. Wurster. Harvard Business School Press. 1999. 261 pages.

The Change in the Weather: People, Weather, and the Science of Climate
by William K. Stevens. Delta. 2001. 384 pages. Paperback.

The Changing Nature of Work
edited by Frank Ackerman, Neva R. Goodwin, Laurie Dougherty. Island Press. 1998. 432 pages. Paperback.

Cities for a Small Planet
by Richard Rogers. Westview Press. 1998. 160 pages. Paperback.

Competitive Intelligence: Scanning the Global Environment
by Robert Salmon and Yolaine de Linares. Economica. 1999. 200 pages. Paperback.

Critical Issues in Global Health
edited by C. Everett Koop, Clarence Pearson, and M. Roy Schwarz. Jossey-Bass. 2000. 400 pages.

Cultures of Peace: The Hidden Side of History
by Elise Boulding. Syracuse University Press. 2000. 280 pages. Paperback.

Cybercrime ... Cyberterrorism ... Cyberwarfare: Averting an Electronic Waterloo
by CSIS Task Force. Center for Strategic and International Studies. 1998. 96 pages. Paperback.

The Economic and Social Impact of Electronic Commerce: Preliminary Findings and Research Agenda
by Andrew Wyckoff and Alessandra Colecchia. Brookings Institute. 2000. 200 pages. Paperback.

Encyclopedia of the Future
edited by George Thomas Kurian and Graham T.T. Molitor. Macmillan Library Reference. 1995. 1,000 pages (two volumes).

The End of Privacy: How Total Surveillance Is Becoming a Reality
by Reg Whitaker. New Press. 2000. 208 pages. Paperback.

Engineering Tomorrow: Today's Technology Experts Envision the Next Century
edited by Janie Fouke, Dave Dooling, and Trudy E. Bell. IEEE. 1999. 256 pages.

Entering Space: Creating a Spacefaring Civilization
by Robert Zubrin. Tarcher. 2000. 305 pages. Paperback.

e-topia: "Urban Life, Jim--But Not As We Know It"
by William J. Mitchell. MIT Press. 2000. 192 pages. Paperback.

Feeding the World: A Challenge for the Twenty-First Century
by Vaclav Smil. MIT Press. 2000. 390 pages.

The Future of the Self: Inventing the Postmodern Person
by Walter Truett Anderson. Tarcher. 1998. 287 pages.

Future Search (Second Edition)
by Sandra Janoff and Marvin Weisbord. Berrett-Koehler. 2000. 265 pages. Paperback.

The Futures of Women: Scenarios for the 21st Century
by Pamela McCorduck and Nancy Ramsey. Warner Books. 1997. 364 pages. Paperback.

Global Environmental Outlook 2000
by Klaus Topfer. Earthscan Publications. 2000. 432 pages. Paperback.

Global Transformations: Politics, Economics and Culture
by David Held et al. Stanford University Press. 1999. 540 pages. Paperback.

The Global Transformations Reader
edited by David Held and Anthony G. McGrew. Blackwell. 2000. 480 pages. Paperback.

Globalization and the World of Large Cities
edited by Fu-chen Lo and Yue-man Yeung. United Nations University Press. 1998. 360 pages. Paperback.

Gorbachev: On My Country and the World
by Mikhail Gorbachev; translated by George Shriver. Columbia University Press. 2000. 300 pages. Paperback.

Health Care in the New Millennium: Vision, Values, and Leadership
by Ian Morrison. Jossey-Bass. 2000. 260 pages.

Hormonal Chaos: The Scientific and Social Origins of the Environmental Endocrine Hypothesis
by Sheldon Krimsky. Johns Hopkins University Press. 1999. 256 pages.

The Information Age: Economy, Society and Culture Vol. I: The Rise of the Network Society
by Manuel Castells [not available]

Vol. II: The Power of Identity The Power of Identity
by Manuel Castells. Blackwell. 1997. 352 pages. Paperback.

Vol. III: End of the Millennium
by Manuel Castells. Blackwell. 1998. 352 pages. Paperback.

An Introduction to Ecological Economics
edited by Robert Costanza, Herman Daly, Robert Goodland, John H. Cumberland. CRC Press/St. Lucie Press. 1997. 288 pages.

Irrational Exuberance
by Robert J. Shiller. Broadway Books. 2001. 304 pages. Paperback.

Learning from the Future: Competitive Foresight Scenarios
edited by Liam Fahey. Wiley. 1997. 288 pages.

Liquid Modernity
by Zygmunt Bauman. Polity Press/Blackwell. 2000. 228 pages. Paperback.

Mad Money: When Markets Outgrow Governments
by Susan Strange. University of Michigan Press. 1998. 220 pages. Paperback.

Management Challenges for the 21st Century
by Peter F. Drucker. HarperBusiness. 1999. 207 pages.

Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution
by Paul Hawken, Amory Lovins, and L. Hunter Lovins. Back Bay Books. 2000. 396 pages. Paperback.

Net Benefit: Guaranteed Electronic Markets: The Ultimate Potential of Online Trade
by Wingham Rowan. Palgrave/St. Martin's Press. 1999. 256 pages. 

The Ocean, Our Future
by Independent World Commission on the Oceans. Cambridge University Press. 1998. 250 pages. Paperback.

Our Forests, Our Future
by World Commission on Forests and Sustainable Development. Cambridge University Press. 1999. 205 pages. Paperback.

Perils of Progress: The Health and Environment Hazards of Modern Technology and What You Can Do About Them
by John Ashton and R.S. Laura. Zed Books. 1999. 360 pages. Paperback.

The Post-Corporate World: Life After Capitalism
by David C. Korten. Berrett-Koehler. 2000. 300 pages. Paperback.

The Rise and Decline of the State
by Martin Van Creveld. Cambridge University Press. 1999. 439 pages. Paperback.

Sex in the Future: The Reproductive Revolution and How It Will Change Us
by Robin Baker. Arcade Publishing. 2000.

The Social Health of the Nation: How America Is Really Doing
by Marque-Luisa Miringoff and Marc L. Miringoff. Oxford University Press. 1999. 272 pages. Paperback.

Sparks of Genius: The Thirteen Thinking Tools of the World's Most Creative People
by Michèle Root-Bernstein, Robert Scott Root-Bernstein. Houghton Mifflin. 2000. 401 pages.

The Terrestrial Biosphere and Global Change: Implications for Natural and Managed Ecosystems
edited by B.H. Walker, Will Steffen, Josep Canadell. Cambridge University Press. 1999. 450 pages. Paperback.

The Trillion-Dollar Enterprise: How the Alliance Revolution Will Transform Global Business
by Cyrus F. Freidheim. Perseus Press. 1999. 272 pages. Paperback.

Turning Point: An End to the Growth Paradigm
by Robert U. Ayres. Palgrave/St. Martin's Press. 1998. 224 pages.

Uncommon Opportunities: An Agenda for Peace and Equitable Development
Report of the International Commission on Peace and Food. Zed Books. 1994.

Vital Signs 2001: The Environmental Trends That Are Shaping Our Future, 2001 Edition
by Lester R. Brown et al., Worldwatch Institute. W.W. Norton. 2001. 224 pages. Paperback.

Which World: Scenarios for the 21st Century: Global Destinies, Regional Choices
by Allen Hammond. Shearwater. 2000. 320 pages. Paperback.

The World's Water 2000-2001: The Biennial Report on Freshwater Resources (World's Water, 2000-2001)
by Peter H. Gleick. Island Press. 2000. 300 pages. Paperback.

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