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9781588168627 | Hearst Books, November 6, 2012, cover price $24.95
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9780786719044 | Running Pr Book Pub, March 11, 2007, cover price $15.95
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.
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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
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9783836438124 | Vdm Verlag Dr Mueller E K, May 30, 2008, cover price $111.00
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9781425944469 | Authorhouse, June 30, 2006, cover price $25.00
Explores forecasting professionals, including meteorologists, economists, market analysts, demographers, technology forecasters, and futurists.
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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.
Explores forecasting professionals, including meteorologists, economists, market analysts, demographers, technology forecasters, and futurists.
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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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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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9781552781692 | McArthur & Co Pub Ltd, September 1, 2001, cover price $19.95
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9780785828136 | Ill edition (Chartwell Books, April 25, 2011), cover price $12.99
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9781409140221 | Orion Pub Co, October 1, 2011, cover price $14.95
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9781780220178 | Reprint edition (Weidenfeld & Nicolson Ltd, October 11, 2012), cover price $14.99
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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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
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.
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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.
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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9781594204111 | 1 edition (Penguin Pr, September 27, 2012), cover price $27.95
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9780143125082 | Penguin USA, February 3, 2015, cover price $17.00
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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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
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