Search results for “[Subject: future-studies]”

• Author(s): James Dator • Publisher: Praeger • Publisher Imprint: Praeger • BISAC: Future StudiesWhat is Futures Studies, what are the theories and methods underlying the field? What are its basic concepts and metaphors, and how is it related to...

• Author(s): Ziauddin Sardar • Publisher: Praeger • Publisher Imprint: Praeger • BISAC: Future StudiesThe future is the last frontier where nonwestern societies are still free--free to envision desirable futures based on their own worldviews, cul...

• Author(s): Graham H. May • Publisher: Praeger • Publisher Imprint: Praeger • BISAC: Future StudiesWhy do we continue to think about, imagine, and forecast the future despite believing we will probably be wrong? Why do we need to do so? What doe...

• Author(s): Richard A. Slaughter • Publisher: Praeger • Publisher Imprint: Praeger • BISAC: Future StudiesWhy do things always get harder before they get easier? Why is foresight useful? What are the real megatrends? What does foresight really c...

• Author(s): W. Warren Wagar • Publisher: Praeger • Publisher Imprint: Praeger • BISAC: Sociology - GeneralWagar pulls together all aspects of futures studies in this unique volume--comprising a vital introduction to, and defense of, the impressi...

• Author(s): Peter R. Beckman • Publisher: Praeger • Publisher Imprint: Praeger • BISAC: Feminism & Feminist TheoryWritten as an introductory textbook for the study of world politics and the analysis of gender, this work is suitable for cours...

• Author(s): Colin S. Gray • Publisher: Praeger • Publisher Imprint: Praeger • BISAC: Military - StrategyThis study is one of the rare contributions to the very small library of genuine strategic studies. (Strategy here covers all military activi...

• Author(s): Kristine Blair • Publisher: Praeger • Publisher Imprint: Praeger • BISAC: RhetoricThirteen essays explore the varying virtual, physical, cultural and institutional contexts influencing the nature of electronic space for women and exp...

• Author(s): George Gerbner • Publisher: Praeger • Publisher Imprint: Praeger • BISAC: Communication Studies

• Author(s): Muriel Saville-Troike • Publisher: Praeger • Publisher Imprint: Praeger • BISAC: Communication StudiesThis book focuses attention on a relatively neglected component of communication-silence-in order to present current research from ...