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Author
Publisher
ECW
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
We live at the bottom of an ocean of air 5,200 million million tons, to be exact. It sounds like a lot, but Earths atmosphere is smeared onto its surface in an alarmingly thin layer 99 percent contained within 18 miles. Yet, within this fragile margin lies a magnificent realm at once gorgeous, terrifying, capricious, and elusive. With his keen eye for identifying and uniting seemingly unrelated events, Chris Dewdney reveals to us the invisible...
Author
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Humanity has reached a critical moment. Our world is unsettled and rapidly changing, and we face existential risks over the next century. Various outcomes--good and bad--are possible. Yet our approach to the future is characterized by short-term thinking, polarizing debates, alarmist rhetoric, and pessimism. In this short, exhilarating book, renowned scientist and bestselling author Martin Rees argues that humanity's prospects depend on our taking...
65) Weather watching
Author
Publisher
Mason Crest Publishers
Pub. Date
2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Discover how to use forecasting clues from nature to predict the weather using your own weather station.
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
A masterpiece of science reporting that tracks the animal origins of emerging human diseases.
Examines the emergence and causes of new diseases all over the world, describing a process called "spillover" where illness originates in wild animals before being passed to humans and discusses the potential for the next huge pandemic. The author illuminates the dynamics of Ebola, SARS, bird flu, Lyme disease, and other emerging threats and tells the story...
Author
Publisher
Dundurn
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"An incredible read.… While unflinching in her analysis, Soderstrom nevertheless gifts us with a message of hope and resilience. ― MAUDE BARLOW, activist and author of Still Hopeful: Lessons from a Lifetime of Activism. What can we learn about coping with rising sea levels from ancient times? The scenario we are facing is scary: within a few decades, sea levels around the world may well rise by a metre or more as glaciers and ice caps melt due...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Business
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"A fascinating insight into how professionals and businesses can develop their foresight and strategy to ensure that they are prepared for an unpredictable future"--
"A fascinating insight into how professionals and businesses can develop their foresight and strategy to ensure that they are prepared for an unpredictable future. Businesses, organizations and society-at-large are all subject to unforeseeable events and incidents that often have a...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
"In How the West Was Lost, the New York Times bestselling author Dambisa Moyo offers a bold account of the decline of the economic supremacy of the West. She examines how the West's flawed financial decisions and blinkered political and military choices have resulted in an economic and geopolitical seesaw that is now poised to tip in favor of the emerging world. As Western economies hover on the brink of recession, emerging economies post double-digit...
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Written by a veteran Wall Street Journal reporter, this is a fascinating deep dive into the world of billion-dollar traders and high-stakes crisis predictors who strive to turn extreme events into financial windfalls. There’s no doubt that our world has gotten more extreme. Pandemics, climate change, superpower rivalries, cyberattacks, political radicalization—virtually, everywhere we look there is mayhem bearing down on us, putting trillions...
71) The harbinger
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
"The Harbinger opens with the appearance of a man burdened with a message he has received from a mysterious figure called The Prophet. The Prophet has given him nine seals, each containing a message about America's future ... As the story unfolds, each revelation becomes a piece in a greater puzzle -- the ramifications of which will even alter the course of world history."--Publisher's website.
73) Meteorologists
Author
Series
Publisher
Bridgestone Books
Pub. Date
c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A simple introduction to the work meteorologists do, discussing where they work, the tools that they use, and their importance to the community they serve.
Author
Publisher
Basic Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
"What does a yearbook photo have to do with future marital success? Can the CEO's appearance tell you anything about a company's quarterly earnings? In The Tell, psychologist Matthew Hertenstein reveals that our intuition is surprisingly good at using small clues to make big predictions, and shows how we can make better decisions by homing in on the right details. Drawing on rigorous research in psychology and brain science, Hertenstein explains how...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
""Bold, provocative...illuminates why we're having fewer babies, the middle class is stagnating, unemployment is shifting, and new powers are rising." - Adam Grant The world you know is about to end-will you be prepared for what comes next? A groundbreaking analysis from one of the world's foremost experts on global trends. Once upon a time, the world was neatly divided into prosperous and backward economies. Babies were plentiful, workers outnumbered...
Author
Publisher
Harper Business, An Imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Most countries and companies are not prepared for the world Peter Zeihan says we're already living in. For decades, America's allies have depended on its might for their economic and physical security. But as a new age of American isolationism dawns, the results will surprise everyone. In Disunited Nations, geopolitical strategist Peter Zeihan presents a series of counterintuitive arguments about the future of a world where trade agreements are coming...
Author
Publisher
Harmony Books
Pub. Date
1999
Language
English
Description
Book Description: In Beyond Civilization, Daniel Quinn thinks the unthinkable. We all know there's no one right way to build a bicycle, no one right way to design an automobile, no one right way to make a pair of shoes, but we're convinced that there must be only one right way to live -- and the one we have is it, no matter what. Beyond Civilization makes practical sense of the vision of Daniel Quinn's best-selling novel Ishmael. Examining ancient...
80) Rise
Author
Publisher
FrontLine
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"'You never really own freedom, you only preserve it for the next generation.' Issuing a bold wake-up call to America, New York Times best-selling author Brigitte Gabriel reveals the people, organizations, and forces at work to dismantle our Judeo-Christian values and freedoms, destabilize and threaten our national security, and radically redefine our very way of life. Rise will empower you by: providing a plan for preserving your values and freedoms...
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