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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
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
The March of the Millennia	White, Frank,Isaac Asimov	An abridged version of "Asimov's Chronology of the World"	OL14959658W
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
2001	Arthur C. Clarke	A novel that proposes an idea about how the human race might have begun and where it might be headed...given a little help from out there. A colaboration of ideas with director Stanley Kubrick in the…	OL17365W
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
Holy Fire	Bruce Sterling	A provocative, insightful yet chilling tale of the very possible near future. A world where the oil driven industrial/military complex is replaced by a purely medically driven bureaucracy. Originall…	OL1888042W
Life after politics	Geoff Mulgan	xix, 458 p. ; 20 cm	OL19002202W
Real Utopia	Chris Spannos	What if we had direct control over our daily lives? What if societyʹs defining institutions--those encompassing economics, politics, kinship, culture, community, and ecology--were based not on compet…	OL20901562W
Book of the Year	James Harkin,Andrew Hunter Murray,No Such Thing as a Fish Staff,Anna Ptaszynski	354 pages : 23 cm	OL21203174W
All Tomorrow's Parties	William Gibson	All Tomorrow's Parties is the final novel in the Bridge trilogy. From his cardboard box in the Tokyo subway, connected to the Internet, a clairvoyant cyberpunk mobilizes his friends to avert a wor…	OL27251W
L'enchaînement des millénaires	Jean-Louis Roy	Panorama des évènements de l'an 2000 ayant des répercussions prévisibles pour le siècle en cours. Un bilan chronologique, précédé d'un texte d'introduction, p. 11-27. [SDM].	OL28949938W
Arc light	Eric L. Harry	In Eric L. Harry's powerful, fever-pitched first novel, nuclear war is just the beginning. Seen through the eyes of generals and civilians, soldiers and politicians, Arc Light is unlike any political…	OL3233030W
The fourth turning	William Strauss,Neil Howe	First came the postwar High, then the Awakening of the '60s and '70s, and now the Unraveling. This audacious and provocative book tells us what to expect just beyond the start of the next century. …	OL3289628W
Doomsday denied	Stephanie Ocko	This book -- 21 chapters from ozone depletion to psychics - is a big bang for the buck. Each topic is covered in a no-nonsense style that tells it like it is. If you've ever wondered (as I have) what…	OL3346449W
The sovereign individual	James Dale Davidson	Two renowned investment advisors and authors of the bestseller The Great Reckoning bring to light both currents of disaster and the potential for prosperity and renewal in the face of radical changes…	OL3350985W
Parable of the Talents	Octavia E. Butler	Environmental devastation and economic chaos have turned America into a land of depravity. Taking advantage of the situation, a zealous bigot wins his way into the White House. Lauren Olamina leads a…	OL35618W
O-Zone	Paul Theroux	O-Zone is a book about the future we fear, but filled with characters we know and can relate to. Theroux's greatest talent, it seems to me, is the authority with which he creates the various worlds h…	OL37588W
Natural capitalism	Paul Hawken	There are no more reespected voices in the environmental movement than these authors, true counselors on the direction of twenty-first-century business. With hundreds of thousands of books sold world…	OL3940931W