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Superforecasting
What if we could improve our ability to predict the future? Everything we do involves forecasts about how the future will unfold. Whether buying a new house or changing job,...
Begin Again: James Baldwin's America and Its Urgent Lessons for Today
A searing indictment of racial injustice in America - inspired by the life and work of James Baldwin - to help us understand the present moment, and imagine a new...
Preparing for the 21st Century
Following on from his book "The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers", the author looks at the different ways in which "society" prepares itself for the arrival of the...
The Long History of the Future: Why Tomorrow's Technology Still Isn't
We love to imagine the future. But why are groundbreaking future technologies always just around the corner, and never a reality? For decades we've delighted in dreaming about a sci-fi...
World Boom Ahead
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In World Boom Ahead, business journalist Knight Kiplinger looks beyond today's headlines - and the choppy waters just ahead - at the broad outlook for key industries, demographics and world...
We Are As Gods: A Survival Guide for the Age of Abundance
In 2012, Peter Diamandis and Steven Kotler published Abundance in which they made bold predictions about where the future was heading, if humanity only harnessed the powers of emerging tech....
We Are As Gods: A Survival Guide for the Age of Abundance
In 2012, Peter Diamandis and Steven Kotler published Abundance in which they made bold predictions about where the future was heading, if humanity only harnessed the powers of emerging tech....
Could Should Might Don't: How We Think About the Future
'Rigorous, rationally optimistic and ultimately empowering' OLIVER BURKEMAN 'A deeply-considered - and funny - treatise on complacency' ALEX McDOWELL 'Essential ' DAVID EAGLEMAN 'A rare and wondrous thing' STEPHEN FRY...
We Are As Gods: A Survival Guide for the Age of Abundance
In 2012, Peter Diamandis and Steven Kotler published Abundance in which they made bold predictions about where the future was heading, if humanity only harnessed the powers of emerging tech....
The Uninhabitable Earth: A Story of the Future
The signs of climate change are unmistakable even today, but the real transformations have hardly begun. We've been taught that warming would be slow-but, barring very dramatic action, each of...
Future Crimes
Technological advances have benefited our world in immeasurable ways, but there is an ominous flipside. Criminals are often the earliest, and most innovative, adopters of technology and modern times have...
The Future
In The Future , former US Vice President Al Gore, explores the political, social and economic forces that are shaping what America and the world will become in ensuing decades....
The Rise of the Robots: FT and McKinsey Business Book of the Year
Intelligent algorithms are already well on their way to making white collar jobs obsolete: travel agents, data-analysts, and paralegals are currently in the firing line. In the near future, doctors,...
There Is No Other: The Way to Harmony and Wholeness
Best Spiritual Books of 2025 - Spirituality and Practice An essential balm for these tumultuous times, this thoughtful and inspiring guide features newly gathered teachings to abandon the idea there...
Sonita: My Journey from Child Bride to Global Changemaker
Winner of the American Library Association Alex Award One woman's extraordinary journey from child bride to global changemaker At just 10 years old, Sonita Alizada was nearly sold into marriage....
Radical Uncertainty: Decision-making for an unknowable future
Uncertainty pervades the big decisions we all make in our lives. How much should we pay into our pensions each month? Should we take regular exercise? Expand the business? Change...
New Beginnings: why change is hard and how we can achieve it
We know that we must change ourselves and the world if we want to survive. So why do we cling to old habits and false certainties instead of embracing change...
Look Again: The Power of Noticing What was Always There
'Such a vivid, human and original book,' Tim Harford What if we could find a way to see everything anew? For fans of Thinking, Fast and Slow and The Power...
Derrida and the End of History
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What does it mean to proclaim 'the end of history'? Francis Fukuyama created a considerable stir in 1992 by claiming that the fall of communism and the triumph of free...
The Precipice: 'A book that seems made for the present moment' New
What existential threats does humanity face? And how can we secure our future? ' The Precipice is a powerful book . . . Ord's love for humanity and hope for...
The Madness of Crowds: Gender, Race and Identity; THE SUNDAY TIMES
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER A Times and Sunday Times Book of the Year Updated with a new afterword by the author 'Douglas Murray fights the good fight for freedom of...
Unwired: Gaining Control over Addictive Technologies
Our society has a technology problem. Many want to disconnect from screens but can't help themselves. These days we spend more time online than ever. Some turn to self-help-measures to...
Future Histories: What Ada Lovelace, Tom Paine, and the Paris Commune
When we talk about technology we always talk about the future - which makes it hard to figure out how to get there. In Future Histories , Lizzie O'Shea argues...
We Need New Stories: Challenging the Toxic Myths Behind Our Age of
It is becoming clear that the old frames of reference are not working, that the narratives used for decades to stave off progressive causes are being exposed as falsehoods. Six...
The Weather Machine: How We See Into the Future
A gripping account of the ingenious minds who gathered together the greatest technological inventions of our species to create a machine that can see into our planet's future with astonishing...
Sonita: My Journey from Child Bride to Global Changemaker
Winner of the American Library Association Alex Award One woman's extraordinary journey from child bride to global changemaker At just 10 years old, Sonita Alizada was nearly sold into marriage....
The Next Civil War: Dispatches from the American Future
"Should be required reading for anyone interested in preserving our 246-year experiment in self-government." - The New York Times Book Review * "Well researched and eloquently presented." - The Atlantic...
Power to the People: Use your voice, change the world
Power to the People addresses growing voter apathy and disenchantment worldwide - that familiar sense that governments have become decoupled from their constituencies, that votes no longer count, and that...
Power to the People: Use your voice, change the world
Think you have to accept the status quo? This book will make you think again. YOU have the power the change the world. POWER TO THE PEOPLE is a radical...
Look Again: The Power of Noticing What was Always There
'Such a vivid, human and original book,' Tim Harford What if we could find a way to see everything anew? For fans of Thinking, Fast and Slow and The Power...
Power to the People: Use your voice, change the world
Think you have to accept the status quo? This book will make you think again. YOU have the power the change the world. POWER TO THE PEOPLE is a radical...
The World in 2050: How to Think About the Future
'A dazzling history of the future - Hamish McRae has given us a tour de force ' - Tim Harford _______________ A bold and illuminating vision of the future, from...
How to Raise a Viking: The Secrets of Parenting the World's Happiest
'Top-notch' Good Housekeeping - BEST PARENTING BOOKS 'Helen has a way to take big ideas and convey them with warmth and wisdom' Dr Rangan Chatterjee 'A well researched study injected...
The New New Thing: The Gripping Inside Story of Silicon Valley - from
In the last years of the millennium, bestselling author Michael Lewis sets out to find the world's most important technology entrepreneur, the man who embodies the spirit of the coming...
Losing It: Sex Education for the 21st Century
'It's the kind of book that makes you wonder, 'why wasn't this written before?' It could change lives' EVENING STANDARD 'Turns everything you've been taught about sex on its head'...
Woke Is Dead: How common sense triumphed in an age of total madness
A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER Piers Morgan welcomes the return of a common-sense world They claimed it was a movement that would change society forever. Instead, it's been buried six feet...
Third Millennium Thinking: Creating Sense in a World of Nonsense
*Out now: a definitive guide to thinking clearly in a world full of overwhelming information* __________ In our deluge of information, it's getting harder and harder to distinguish the revelatory...
Just Friends: On the joy, influence and power of friendship
Voice memos, care packages, hours-long phone conversations, treasured traditions that go back decades, glasses held aloft during wedding toasts, hands held at funerals, first cuddles with newborns, lunches with work...
Power to the People: Use your voice, change the world
Think you have to accept the status quo? This book will make you think again. YOU have the power the change the world. POWER TO THE PEOPLE is a radical...
Look Again: The Power of Noticing What was Always There
'Such a vivid, human and original book,' Tim Harford What if we could find a way to see everything anew? For fans of Thinking, Fast and Slow and The Power...
Brave New World Revisited
'One of the most important books to have been published since the war' Daily Telegraph In his 1932 classic dystopian novel, Brave New World, Aldous Huxley depicted a future society...
Woke Is Dead: How common sense triumphed in an age of total madness
A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER Piers Morgan welcomes the return of a common-sense world They claimed it was a movement that would change society forever. Instead, it's been buried six feet...
The Long Emergency
The last two hundred years have seen the greatest explosion of progress and wealth in the history of mankind. But the age of oil, that fuelled this expansion, is coming...
Deep Thinking: Where Machine Intelligence Ends and Human Creativity
In May 1997, the world watched as Garry Kasparov, the greatest chess player in the world, was defeated for the first time by the IBM supercomputer Deep Blue. It was...
Wake Up: Why the world has gone nuts
The Sunday Times Number One Bestseller It's time we get back to common sense. It's time to cancel the cancel culture. It's time to Wake Up. If, like me, you're...
Future Babble: Why Expert Predictions are Fail - and Why We Believe
For fans of Blink, The Tipping Point, and Freakonomics, here is a brilliant, funny, and accessible exploration of our flawed quest for certainty. For fans of Blink, The Tipping Point,...
Goliath's Curse: The History and Future of Societal Collapse
A radical retelling of human history through collapse, and what it means for our uncertain future A radical retelling of human history through collapse - from the dawn of our...
If Russia Wins: 'An amazing book' Alastair Campbell on The Rest Is
THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER March 2028: Russian troops capture the small Estonian town of Narva and the island of Hiiumaa in the Baltic Sea. After victory in Ukraine, Putin's long-mooted encroachment...