Zakaria, Fareed.
Summary: Explores how the rapid rise of such nations as China, India, and Brazil is countering America's previous dominance over the global economy, geopolitics, and culture, and shares advice on how the United States can thrive in the face of international changes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton 2009
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Summary: "Renowned economist Nouriel Roubini was nicknamed "Dr. Doom," until his prediction of the 2008 housing crisis and Great Recession came true--when it was too late. Now he is back with a much scarier prediction, one that we ignore at our peril. There are no fewer than ten overlapping, interconnected threats that are so serious, he calls them Megathreats. From the worst debt crisis the world has...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2022
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306 BUCThomas, Keltie
Summary: The Earth's oceans are on the rise. Since 1900, global sea levels have risen steadily each year to a global average of about 8 inches (20cm) today, and they're still rising. By 2100, the sea could climb as much as 14 feet (4.3m) to 32 feet (9.75m). Rising Seas: Flooding, Climate Change and Our New World gives youth an eye-popping view of what the Earth might look like under the rising and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Firefly Books Ltd. 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 551.45 THOFriedman, George
Summary: "The master geopolitical forecaster and New York Times bestselling author of The Next 100 Years focuses on the United States, predicting how the 2020s will bring dramatic upheaval and reshaping of American government, foreign policy, economics, and culture"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 909.83 FRITier, Mark
Summary: Everyone knows the basic golden rule of investing: "Buy Low, Sell High," but how many of us ever really understand the stock market, how to recognize the "next big thing," and how to capitalize off of it once you do? ...the truth is not many or we'd all be millionaires. It seems like early investors in big companies like Facebook and Google had to have won the lottery of investing and just...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 332.6 TIEArnold, Tedd
Summary: "Fly Guy is buzzing over to the weather station today. Come along to learn all about weather!"--Back cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2016
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE ARNZeihan, Peter
Summary: "Most countries and companies are not prepared for the world Peter Zeihan says we're already living in. For decades, America's allies have depended on its might for their economic and physical security. But as a new age of American isolationism dawns, the results will surprise everyone. In Disunited Nations, geopolitical strategist Peter Zeihan presents a series of counterintuitive arguments...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Business, An Imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2020
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Summary: From world-renowned economist Paul Collier, a candid diagnosis of the failures of capitalism and a pragmatic and realistic vision for how we can repair it. Deep new rifts are tearing apart the fabric of the United States and other Western societies: thriving cities versus rural counties, the highly skilled elite versus the less educated, wealthy versus developing countries. As these divides...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2018
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 330.12 COLBenford, Gregory
Summary: Reveals predictions made in "Popular Mechanics" magazine between 1903 and 1969 about what the future would hold!
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hearst Books 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 609 BENCullen, Heidi.
Summary: From one of America's foremost experts on weather and climate change and a senior research scientist with Climate Central, comes this work, a book that predicts what different parts of the world will look like in the year 2050 if current levels of carbon emissions are maintained.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 551.6 CULDoherty, P. C. (Peter C.)
Summary: Argues that birds around the world detect dangers in the environment long before humans do, and claims that more attention should be paid to the scientific observation of birds and their behaviors to help identify threats to the health of the planet.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Workman Pub Co 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 598 DOHStainforth, David Alan
Summary: "Climate change raises new, foundational challenges in science. It requires us to question what we know and how we know it. The subject is important for society but the science is young and history tells us that scientists can get things wrong before they get them right. How, then, can we judge what information is reliable and what is open to question? This book goes to the heart of the climate...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2023
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 363.738 STATetlock, Philip E. (Philip Eyrikson)
Summary: "From one of the world's most highly regarded social scientists, a transformative book on the habits of mind that lead to the best predictions Everyone would benefit from seeing further into the future, whether buying stocks, crafting policy, launching a new product, or simply planning the week's meals. Unfortunately, people tend to be terrible forecasters. As Wharton professor Philip...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Math TetlockBurrows, Mathew.
Summary: "Twenty-five years ago when Mathew Burrows went to work for the CIA as an intelligence analyst, the world seemed frozen. Then came the fall of the Berlin Wall and the implosion of the Soviet Union; suddenly, unpredictability became a universal theme and foresight was critical. For the past decade, Burrows has overseen the creation of the Global Trends report--the key futurist guide for the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Palgrave Macmillan 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 303 BURHand, Carol
Summary: "Wildfire destruction is worse than it should be. In the 2017 fires, robocalls and digital alerts came too late to help many people. Warnings reached only a small percentage of the population. A better understanding of wildfires is badly needed. STEM concepts--ideas from the fields of science, technology, engineering, and math--can provide a foundation for developing new solutions for dealing...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rosen Publishing 2020
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Summary: Visionary social thinker Joel Kotkin looks ahead to America in 2050, revealing how the addition of one hundred million Americans by midcentury will transform how we all live, work, and prosper. In stark contrast to the rest of the world's advanced nations, the United States is growing at a record rate and, according to census projections, will be home to four hundred million Americans by 2050....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 307.76 KOTTambini, Michael.
Summary: Provides a speculative look ahead to the technological, environmental, and biological developments of the twenty-first century.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 1998
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 601 TAMDiamandis, Peter H.
Summary: The authors document how four forces--exponential technologies, the DIY innovator, the Technophilanthropist, and the Rising Billion--are conspiring to solve our biggest problems. "Abundance" establishes hard targets for change and lays out a strategic roadmap for governments, industry and entrepreneurs, giving us plenty of reason for optimism.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Free Press 2012
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 303.48 DIAEpstein, Alex
Summary: "The New York Times bestselling author of The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels draws on the latest data and new insights to challenge everything you thought you knew about the future of energy For over a decade, philosopher and energy expert Alex Epstein has predicted that any negative impacts of fossil fuel use on our climate will be outweighed by the unique benefits of fossil fuels to human...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Portfolio/Penguin 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 662.6 EPSMacAskill, William
Summary: "One of the most stunning achievements of moral philosophy is something we take for granted: moral universalism, or the idea that every human has equal moral worth. In What We Owe the Future, Oxford philosopher William MacAskill demands that we go a step further, arguing that people not only have equal moral worth no matter where or how they live, but also no matter when they live. This idea...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2022
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Summary: "On a small two-lane bridge in a rural county that loathes the federal government, the US Army uses lethal force to end a stand-off with hard-right militias, or anti-government patriots. Inside an ordinary diner, a disaffected young man with a handgun takes aim at the American president stepping in for impromptu photo-op, and a bullet splits the hyper-partisan country into violently opposed...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avid Reader Press 2022
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 303.49 MARWeinersmith, Kelly
Summary: "From a top scientist and the creator of the hugely popular web comic Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal, a hilariously illustrated investigation into future technologies--from how to fling a ship into deep space on the cheap to 3D organ printing. What will the world of tomorrow be like? How does progress happen? And why do we not have a lunar colony already? What is the holdup? In this smart...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2017
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Summary: The world is changing in ways most of us find incomprehensible. Terrorism spills out of the Middle East into Europe. Russia, Iran, Saudi Arabia, China and Japan vie to see who can be most aggressive. Financial breakdown in Asia and Europe guts growth, challenging hard-won political stability. Yet for the Americans, these changes are fantastic. Alone among the world's powers, only the United...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Zeihan on Geopolitics 2016