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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
Launching India into the 21st century	S. S. Mehta	Novel based on Indo-Pakistan wars of 1965 and 1971.	OL1052104W
Naked in Death	Nora Roberts	It is the year 2058, and technology now completely rules the world. But Lieutenant Eve Dallas knows that the irresistible impulses of the human heart are still ruled by just one thing-passion. Crime …	OL111460W
Void moon	Michael Connelly	New York Times bestselling author Michael Connelly writes novels of brilliantly original suspense. In this electrifying tour de force, he takes us into a world of extremes: too much criminality, too …	OL111731W
The gypsy morph	Terry Brooks,Phil Gigante	Terry Brooks won instant acclaim with his phenomenal New York Times bestseller The Sword of Shannara. Its sequels earned Brooks legendary status. Then his darkly enthralling The Word and the Void tri…	OL11656885W
Why your world is about to get a whole lot smaller	Jeff Rubin	An internationally renowned energy expert has written a book essential for every American--a galvanizing account of how the rising price and diminishing availability of oil are going to radically cha…	OL14911106W
A Is for Armageddon	Richard Horne,Richard Horne,Richard Horne	Catalogs ways the world could end, from animal flatulence and erupting volcanoes to economic collapse and World War III.	OL14988363W
The Long Descent	John Michael Greer	Americans are expressing deep concern about US dependence on petroleum, rising energy prices, and the threat of climate change. Unlike the energy crisis of the 1970s, however, there is a lurking fear…	OL15178808W
The empathic civilization	Jeremy Rifkin	Bestselling social critic Jeremy Rifkin shows that the disconnection between our vision for the world and our ability to realize that vision lies in the current state of human consciousness.	OL15626415W
Countdown	Tom Kratman	While on a seemingly routine hostage rescue mission, Terry Welch finds himself the last man standing when an attack on his company's home base leaves families and friends under the threat of death an…	OL15666180W
A visionary nation	Zachary Karabell	"America is a nation based on an idea. For nearly four centuries, Americans have shared the conviction that a perfect world is within reach. Running through our history is the presumption that we can…	OL15857770W
The post-American world	Fareed Zakaria	The New York Times bestseller, revised and expanded with a new afterword: the essential update of Fareed Zakaria's international bestseller about America and its shifting position in world affairs. F…	OL15980022W
Brazil	Paulo Sérgio de M. S. Pinheiro,Jorge Wilheim,Ignacy Sachs	"Brazil, the largest of the Latin American nations, is fast becoming a potent international economic player as well as a regional power. This English translation of an acclaimed Brazilian anthology p…	OL16046379W
Circuit of heaven	Dennis Danvers	The body is baggage. The soul is expendable. Nemo's mother and father left him behind to enter "the Bin"--joining twelve billion uploaded personalities who live in crime-free, disease-free and dea…	OL16491462W
Aftermath	Lawrence E. Joseph	In his celebrated previous book, Apocalypse 2012, author Joseph appraised the likelihood of planet-wide catastrophe in 2012 by presenting scientific evidence of looming chaos and even mass extinction…	OL17820408W
21 Lessons for the 21st Century	Yuval Noah Harari	In a world deluged by irrelevant information, clarity is power. Censorship works not by blocking the flow of information, but rather by flooding people with disinformation and distractions. 21 Lesson…	OL17917961W
Time annual 2011	Kelly Knauer,Time Magazine Editors	Surveys the principal events of 2010 in the United States and other countries, as well as developments in business, society, sports, and the arts, as seen in the pages of Time magazine.	OL18014614W
From resource scarcity to ecological security	Dennis Pirages	"From Resource Scarcity to Ecological Security revisits the findings of The Global 2000 Report to the President-commissioned by President Jimmy Carter and released in 1980-and presents an up-to-date …	OL18428868W
Wawasan 2020	Mahayudin Haji Yahaya	Social and political aspects towards 2020 in Malaysia; colletion of articles.	OL19524657W
The future, declassified	Mathew Burrows	"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; s…	OL19987842W
7 deadly scenarios	Andrew F. Krepinevich	A global pandemic finds millions swarming across the U.S. border.Major U.S. cities are leveled by black-market nukes.China's growing civil unrest ignites a global showdown.Pakistan's collapse leads t…	OL2063984W