Books

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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
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
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
Our final hour	Martin J. Rees	Bolstered by unassailable science and delivered in eloquent style, Our Final Hour's provocative argument that humanity has a mere 5050 chance of surviving the next century has struck a chord with rea…	OL16046592W
The song of the earth	Hugh Nissenson	"The year is 2057. John Firth Baker, the first genetically engineered visual artist, is murdered at the age of nineteen. He leaves behind a body of drawings, paintings, and sculptures, culminating in…	OL16501061W
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
Fun Inc	Tom Chatfield	Offers an assessment of the successes, misconceptions, and future implications involved in the rapidly growing gaming industry as it continues to influence the world.	OL18019964W
Seeing the elephant	Peter Marber	Thanks to globalization, more countries depend on each other for trade, capital, and ideas than ever before. Yet politically, these countries are drifting further apart. In Seeing the Elephant, autho…	OL1856976W
What next?	Chris Patten	Globalisation, energy, international crime, Weapons of Mass Destruction, nuclear proliferation, small arms proliferation, international drugs trafficking, climate change, water shortage, migration, e…	OL1903180W
Britannica book of the year 2010	Encyclopaedia Britannica, inc	This yearbook presents information on the dates, people, events, and world affairs of 2009.	OL19832248W
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?	Philip K. Dick	It was January 2021, and Rick Deckard had a license to kill. Somewhere among the hordes of humans out there, lurked several rogue androids. Deckard's assignment--find them and then..."retire" them. …	OL2172356W
White Queen	Gwyneth Jones,Gwyneth Jones	It's 2038 and the earth has been devastated by tectonic shifts accompanied by earthquakes and volcanic eruptions. The U.S. has undergone a socialist revolution, retro-viruses are rampant and most tec…	OL2354527W
India 2000	Shyama Prasad Ganguly,Anil Dhingra	Contributed research papers.	OL23606798W
The new North	Laurence C. Smith	The world in 2050 will be radically different from today. The book explores the 'four locomotives' that are changing the world - climate change, rising population, globalization and resource depletio…	OL24288529W