Whiplash : How to Survive Our Faster Future - Joi Ito

Whiplash : How to Survive Our Faster Future - Joi Ito

This 'brilliant and provocative' (Walter Isaacson) guide shares nine principles to adapt and survive the technological changes shaping our future from the director of the MIT Media Lab and a veteran Wired journalist. The world is more complex and volatile today than at any other time in our

Megathreats : Ten Dangerous Trends that Imperil Our Future, and How to Survive Them - Nouriel Roubini

The bestselling author of Crisis Economics argues that we are heading toward the worst economic catastrophe of our lifetimes, unless we can defend against ten terrifying threats.Renowned economist Nouriel Roubini was nicknamed 'Dr. Doom,' until his prediction of the 2008 housing crisis and Great

Families And How To Survive Them (Cleese John)(Paperback / softback)

Looking candidly at everything from our relationships with our parents to why and how we choose our partners, no emotional stone is left unturned: jealousy, rage, fear, envy, love, obsession, hope and despair - all are featured-with practical advice on how to turn round a negative situation and

How To Save Our Planet - The Facts (Maslin Mark A.)(Paperback / softback)

How can we save our planet and survive the 21st century? How can you argue with deniers? How can we create positive change in the midst of the climate crisis? Professor Mark Maslin has the key facts that we need to protect our future. Global awareness of climate change is growing rapidly. Science

The Future of You: Can Your Identity Survive 21st-Century Technology? (Follows Tracey)(Pevná vazba)

In the future, how many identities will you have? How many do you want? Digital technology is causing us to think differently about who we are and who we could become, but with the right knowledge we can turn this incredible capacity to our advantage. 'Who am I?' is one of the most fundamental

Virtual Power Teams: How to Deliver Products Faster, Reduce Costs, and Develop Your Organization for the Future! (Ivanov Peter)(Paperback)

The Future Is Faster Than You Think: How Converging Technologies Are Transforming Business, Industries, and Our Lives (Diamandis Peter H.)(Pevná vazba)

From the New York Times bestselling authors of Abundance and Bold comes a practical playbook for technological convergence in our modern era. In their book Abundance, bestselling authors and futurists Peter Diamandis and Steven Kotler tackled grand global challenges, such as poverty, hunger, and

Too Fast to Think: How to Reclaim Your Creativity in a Hyper-Connected Work Culture (Lewis Chris)(Paperback)

Our lives are getting faster and faster. We are engulfed in constant distraction from email, social media and our 'always on' work culture. We are too busy, too overloaded with information and too focused on analytical left-brain thinking processes to be creative. Too Fast to Think exposes how our

How the World Really Works : A Scientist´s Guide to Our Past, Present and Future - Václav Smil

We have never had so much information at our fingertips and yet most of us don't know how the world really works. This book explains seven of the most fundamental realities governing our survival and prosperity. From energy and food production, through our material world and its globalization, to

Asteroids: How Love, Fear, and Greed Will Determine Our Future in Space (Elvis Martin)(Pevná vazba)

A unique, wide-ranging examination of asteroid exploration and our future in space Human travel into space is an enormously expensive and unforgiving endeavor. So why go? In this accessible and authoritative book, astrophysicist Martin Elvis argues that the answer is asteroid exploration, for the

How Everything Can Collapse: A Manual for Our Times (Servigne Pablo)(Paperback)

What if our civilization were to collapse? Not many centuries into the future, but in our own lifetimes? Most people recognize that we face huge challenges today, from climate change and its potentially catastrophic consequences to a plethora of socio-political problems, but we find it hard to face

The Future We Choose - 'Everyone should read this book' MATT HAIG (Figueres Christiana)(Pevná vazba)

We can survive the climate crisis. This book shows us how.We have two choices for our future, which is still unwritten. It will be shaped by who we choose to be right now. So, how can we change the story of the world?The Future We Choose is a passionate call to arms from former UN Executive

Science of Fate - The New Science of Who We Are - And How to Shape our Best Future (Critchlow Hannah)(Pevná vazba)

Are we really the masters of our own destiny? Neuroscientist Hannah Critchlow shows how far our future is already hardwired in our brains. Like Sapiens and Thinking Fast and Slow, The Science of Fate revolutionises the way we understand our species and

Future Cities: A Visual Guide (Dunn Nick)(Paperback)

What might our cities look like in ten, twenty or fifty years? How may future cities face global challenges? Imagining the city of the future has long been an inspiration for many architects, artists and designers. This book examines how cities of the future have been visualised, what these

The Grid: The Fraying Wires Between Americans and Our Energy Future (Bakke Gretchen)(Paperback)

A revelatory look at our national power grid--how it developed, its current flaws, and how it must be completely reimagined for our fast-approaching energy future. America's electrical grid, an engineering triumph of the twentieth century, is turning out to be a poor fit for the present. It's not

How Population Change Will Transform Our World (Harper Sarah)(Paperback)

Predicting the shape of our future populations is vital for installing the infrastructure, welfare, and provisions necessary for society to survive. There are many opportunities and challenges that will come with the changes in our populations over the 21st century. In this new addition to the21st

Knowledge - How To Rebuild Our World After An Apocalypse (Dartnell Lewis)(Paperback / softback)

If the world as we know it ended tomorrow, how would you survive?A nuclear war, viral pandemic or asteroid

Future Cities: A Visual Guide (Dunn Nick)(Pevná vazba)

What might our cities look like in ten, twenty or fifty years? How may future cities face global challenges? Imagining the city of the future has long been an inspiration for many architects, artists and designers. This book examines how cities of the future have been visualised, what these

Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures (Sheldrake Merlin)(Paperback)

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A 'brilliant [and] entrancing' (The Guardian) journey into the hidden lives of fungi--the great connectors of the living world--and their astonishing and intimate roles in human life, with the power to heal our bodies, expand our minds, and help us address our most

Daylight Robbery: How Tax Shaped Our Past and Will Change Our Future (Frisby Dominic)(Paperback)

'Fuel for the post-Christmas lunch argument' Financial Times Death and taxes are our inevitable fate. We've been told this since the beginning of civilisation. But what if we stopped to question our antiquated system? Is it fair? And is it capable of serving the needs of our rapidly-changing,

Natural Born Learners - Our Incredible Capacity to Learn and How We Can Harness It (Beard Alex)(Paperback / softback)

A journey into the future of learning that shows how our next generation can learn to thrive in the coming age of

Globotics Upheaval - Globalisation, Robotics and the Future of Work (Baldwin Richard)(Paperback / softback)

THE RISE OF THE ROBOTS for the masses. How to survive in a world of virtual

Climate Leviathan: A Political Theory of Our Planetary Future (Wainwright Joel)(Paperback)

How climate change will affect our political theory--for better and worse Despite the science and the summits, leading capitalist states have not achieved anything close to an adequate level of carbon mitigation. There is now simply no way to prevent the planet breaching the threshold of two

Chess Opening Traps for Kids (Burgess Graham)(Pevná vazba)

Chess becomes fun when we learn how to survive the opening and stop falling into our opponents' cheap tactical tricks.And that's what this book is about By understanding opening play and how to exploit tactical ideas, we turn the tables on our opponents. Now they will be the ones getting