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Product Description: The authors of the bestselling NOT THE HIGHWAY CODE shine a light on the extensive back catalogue of dodgy predictions through the ages.The first end of the world prediction was recorded one second after the Big Bang and since then it has become the daddy of all predictions with, to date, no one getting it right...read more

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9781409140221 | Orion Pub Co, October 1, 2011, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: The first end of the world prediction was recorded one second after the Big Bang and since then it has become the daddy of all predictions with, to date, no one getting it right.

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9781780220178 | Reprint edition (Weidenfeld & Nicolson Ltd, October 11, 2012), cover price $14.99 | About this edition: The authors of the bestselling NOT THE HIGHWAY CODE shine a light on the extensive back catalogue of dodgy predictions through the ages.

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Product Description: Revision with unchanged content. To this point in time humanity has successfully responded to the challenges to its existence. A viewpoint is becoming widespread is that humanity will have to respond to even greater challenges to its existence in the future...read more

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9783836438124 | Vdm Verlag Dr Mueller E K, May 30, 2008, cover price $111.00 | About this edition: Revision with unchanged content.

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9781560259756 | Basic Books, January 7, 2007, cover price $27.95

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9781568583693 | Basic Books, February 25, 2008, cover price $18.95

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Product Description: Whether for economic, personal, or political reasons, people have always wanted to know what the future will bring, and there have been no lack of people to tell us. A Brief History of the Future chronicles the most influential futurists over the years, from Delphi's virgin visionaries, to pop futurists, science fiction writers, trend gurus, and evolutionary experts...read more

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9780786719044 | Running Pr Book Pub, March 11, 2007, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Whether for economic, personal, or political reasons, people have always wanted to know what the future will bring, and there have been no lack of people to tell us.

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Product Description: Historical landmarks, such as wars, coups, and revolutions, seem to arise under unique conditions. Indeed, what seems to distinguish history from the natural and social sciences is its inability to be dissected or generalized in any meaningful way...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780674007390 | Harvard Univ Pr, June 30, 2002, cover price $62.00 | About this edition: Historical landmarks, such as wars, coups, and revolutions, seem to arise under unique conditions.

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Product Description: A wry look at the way in which people in the past imagined their own future.

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9781552781692 | McArthur & Co Pub Ltd, September 1, 2001, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: A wry look at the way in which people in the past imagined their own future.

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The physicist-author of The Cyclical Serpent traces the history of forecasting from its mystical origins to its evolution as a modern science, drawing on the latest theories of complexity, chaos theory, quantum theory, and relativity to describe the latest methods of scientific, social, and technological forecasting. 15,000 first printing. (view table of contents)

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9780738200958 | Perseus Books Group, November 1, 2000, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: The physicist-author of The Cyclical Serpent traces the history of forecasting from its mystical origins to its evolution as a modern science, drawing on the latest theories of complexity, chaos theory, quantum theory, and relativity to describe the latest methods of scientific, social, and technological forecasting.

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Discusses the history of forecasting, describing some past flawed visions by George Orwell, H.G. Wells, and Stephen Hawkings, and offering new insight into what the future may hold in terms of technology and social change. (view table of contents)

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9781582341088 | Bloomsbury Pub Plc USA, November 1, 2000, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Discusses the history of forecasting, describing some past flawed visions by George Orwell, H.
9780747550877, titled "Brief History of Tomorrow: The Future Past and Present" | Bloomsbury Pub Ltd, August 1, 2000, cover price $55.01 | About this edition: Unless something really remarkable happens like Armageddon or the England Cricket team winning a Test Series as we enter the year 2001, things will stay pretty much as they are: images of Princess Diana will still appear in magazines everywhere, the railways will still use rolling stock built in the sixties, and old men driving cars will still inexplicably wear hats and gloves.

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Explores forecasting professionals, including meteorologists, economists, market analysts, demographers, technology forecasters, and futurists. (view table of contents)

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9780471358442 | John Wiley & Sons Inc, December 20, 1999, cover price $34.95 | About this edition: Explores forecasting professionals, including meteorologists, economists, market analysts, demographers, technology forecasters, and futurists.

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Explores forecasting professionals, including meteorologists, economists, market analysts, demographers, technology forecasters, and futurists. (view table of contents)

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9780471181781 | John Wiley & Sons Inc, October 28, 1997, cover price $47.50 | About this edition: Explores forecasting professionals, including meteorologists, economists, market analysts, demographers, technology forecasters, and futurists.

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A collection of the stories behind scores of predictions made over the past 150 years details each prediction, its date, and the name of the predictor, followed by a short essay focusing not only on whether it came true, but how it did or why it did not. IP.

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9780871318305 | M Evans & Co, October 1, 1997, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: A collection of the stories behind scores of predictions made over the past 150 years details each prediction, its date, and the name of the predictor, followed by a short essay focusing not only on whether it came true, but how it did or why it did not

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Product Description: "This is an exceedingly long short book, stretching at least fifty thousand years into the past and who knows how many into the future." So begins Visions of the Future, the prophetic new book by eminent economist Robert Heilbroner...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780195090741 | Oxford Univ Pr, January 26, 1995, cover price $23.00 | About this edition: Citing key differences between the human species of the past and present, a study on the emergence of the future-driven society examines the Stone and Bronze Ages, the Egyptian and Roman periods, and the past two centuries

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9780195102864 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, January 25, 1996, cover price $29.99 | About this edition: "This is an exceedingly long short book, stretching at least fifty thousand years into the past and who knows how many into the future.

Discusses past predictions of the future, especially those written between 1800 and 1945, and looks at the themes of alien contact, utopias, and the end of civilization

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9780030598371 | Henry Holt & Co, September 1, 1981, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Discusses past predictions of the future, especially those written between 1800 and 1945, and looks at the themes of alien contact, utopias, and the end of civilization

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