Powershift: Knowledge, Wealth and Violence at the Edge of the 21st Century

9 Books Similar to Powershift: Knowledge, Wealth and Violence at the Edge of the 21st Century

The Third Wave

The Third Wave makes startling sense of the violent changes now battering our world. Its sweeping synthesis casts fresh light on our new forms of marriage and family, on today's… Continue Reading Posted in: Bibliography, Forecasts, Globalization, Popular Culture in Social Sciences, Social History

The World Is Flat

When scholars write the history of the world twenty years from now, and they come to the chapter Y2K to March 2004 , what will they say was the most… Continue Reading Posted in: Developing Countries, History, Modern, United States

Future Shock

Future Shock is the disease of change. Its symptoms are already here. Future Shock tells what happens to people overwhelmed by too rapid change. Future Shock looks at the human… Continue Reading Posted in: Customs & Traditions Social Sciences, Post War Period, Progress, Society, Sociology

Being Digital

As the founder of MIT's Media Lab and a popular columnist for Wired, Nicholas Negroponte has amassed a following of dedicated readers. Negroponte's fans will want to get a copy… Continue Reading Posted in: Electronic Data Processing, Multimedia Systems, Networking & Cloud Computing, Science

The Wealth and Poverty of Nations: Why Some Are So Rich and Some So Poor

In this exploration of the complex causes of the wealth and poverty of nations, the answers are found not only in the large forces at work in economies - geography,… Continue Reading Posted in: Bibliography, Development & Growth Economics, East And West, Poverty Studies, Waelth

The Chocolate War

Every year, Trinity School runs a chocolate sale. Each boy volunteers to sell a quota of boxes in a fund-raising effort that is also a display of 'school spirit'. But… Continue Reading Posted in: Classics, Fiction, Young Adult

The Goal A Process of Ongoing Improvement

Written in a fast-paced thriller style, The Goal is the gripping novel which is transforming management thinking throughout the Western world. The author has been described by Fortune as a… Continue Reading Posted in: Case Studies, Didactic Fiction, Reengineering (Management)

Nothing Like It in the World: The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad 1863-69

Nothing Like It in the World gives the account of an unprecedented feat of engineering, vision, and courage. It is the story of the men who built the transcontinental railroad—the… Continue Reading Posted in: Bibliography, Biography, Central Pacific Railroad Company, History of Railroads, U.S. Civil War History

A Short History of the World

Spanning the origins of the Earth to the outcome of the First World War, this is a brilliantly compelling account of the evolution of life and the development of the… Continue Reading Posted in: Fiction Classics, History, World History

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