Benford, Gregory
Summary: Reveals predictions made in "Popular Mechanics" magazine between 1903 and 1969 about what the future would hold!
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Hearst Books 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 609 BENHowe, Neil
Summary: Twenty-five years ago, Neil Howe and the late William Strauss dazzled the world with a provocative new theory of American history. Looking back at the last 500 years, they'd uncovered a distinct pattern: modern history moves in cycles, each one lasting roughly eighty to one hundred years, the length of a long human life, with each cycle composed of four eras--or "turnings"--that always arrive...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 303.4973 HOWCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 303.4973 HOWMason, Paul
Summary: "Over the past two centuries or so, capitalism has undergone profound changes--economic cycles that veer from boom to bust--from which it has always emerged transformed and strengthened. Surveying this turbulent history, Paul Mason's Postcapitalism argues that we are on the brink of a change so big and so profound that this time capitalism itself, the immensely complex system within which...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Social Cult MasonSummary: "The gripping true story of Stanislav Petrov, a man who single-handedly averted a fullscale nuclear world war, but now struggles to get his life back on track ... before it is too late. An epic and grand Cold War thriller that sends shivers down your spine and shows us just how close we came to apocalypse ... and it's not over yet! With a new Cold War rising and thousands of nuclear weapons on...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019