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): 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): 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): Mahmud A. Faksh • Publisher: Praeger • Publisher Imprint: Praeger • BISAC: Middle East - GeneralAn important new study that assesses comparatively the future of Islamic fundamentalism in three key countries: Egypt, Algeria, and Saudi...

• 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): Rexford A. Ahene • Publisher: Praeger • Publisher Imprint: Praeger • BISAC: Investments & Securities - GeneralThis contributed volume examines development efforts in sub-Saharan Africa and the role privatization and foreign inves...

• Author(s): Sheila M. Moorcroft • Publisher: Praeger • Publisher Imprint: Praeger • BISAC: Sociology - GeneralThis is a challenging and stimulating collection of twenty-one essays by international contributors. Their topics are as varied as the ...

• 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): Thomas R. McFaul • Publisher: Praeger • Publisher Imprint: Praeger • BISAC: Future StudiesThis book offers a bold forecast of the year 2050 and what life will look like in the emerging global village. Is this profound new work, Thoma...

• Author(s): Alberto Bursztyn • Publisher: Praeger • Publisher Imprint: Praeger • BISAC: DemographyImmigrants now comprise one-fourth of the 75 million children in the United States. The ability of today's immigrant children to become productivel...

• Author(s): J. S. Fuerst • Publisher: Praeger • Publisher Imprint: Praeger • BISAC: Sociology - UrbanThis collection of 79 oral histories offers a remarkable window into public housing's past in Chicago through the voices of its former residents...

• Author(s): Peter Peeters • Publisher: Praeger • Publisher Imprint: Praeger • BISAC: Future StudiesToday Capitalism is generally accepted as the only viable socioeconomic system in spite of the stress, moral decay, drug abuse, and crime it foste...

• 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 activit...

• Author(s): Ithiel De Sola Pool • Publisher: Praeger • Publisher Imprint: Praeger • BISAC: Communication StudiesThis book applies the approach of technology assessment to the telephone. The author's analysis forecasts the effect of the telephone...

• 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): Donald L. Losman • Publisher: Praeger • Publisher Imprint: Praeger • BISAC: Industries - GeneralAlthough the trade and budget deficits, foreign purchases of U.S. corporations, and generally negative economic reports have received muc...

• Author(s): Wenshan Jia • Publisher: Praeger • Publisher Imprint: Praeger • BISAC: Communication StudiesA systematic examination of Chinese communication scholarship and comprehensive critique of its theories and methodologies are long overdue, ...

• 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): Max G. Manwaring • Publisher: Praeger • Publisher Imprint: Praeger • BISAC: Security (National & International)Helps civilian and military leaders, opinion makers, scholars, and interested citizens come to grips with the realitie...

• Author(s): Carolyn Rovee-Collier • Publisher: Praeger • Publisher Imprint: Praeger • BISAC: Developmental - GeneralThe articles appearing here serve as primary references of authors' programmatic studies, providing a forum for new technological...

• Author(s): Linda Fuller • Publisher: Praeger • Publisher Imprint: Praeger • BISAC: JournalismThis text provides a unique examination of The Christian Science Monitor, a highly respected, venerable news publication that has survived over a centu...

• Author(s): A. Lavi • Publisher: Praeger • Publisher Imprint: Praeger • BISAC: Development - Economic DevelopmentThe most critical need second only to military support for the State of Israel is the economic expansion of its science-based indust...

• Author(s): Sam C. Sarkesian • Publisher: Praeger • Publisher Imprint: Praeger • BISAC: Military ScienceThe United States must devise entirely new military and political strategies because threats to the nation's security have shifted so markedl...

• 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 ...

• Author(s): Wilson Harris • Publisher: Praeger • Publisher Imprint: Praeger • BISAC: Cultural & Ethnic Studies - General

• Author(s): Yosef Gotlieb • Publisher: Praeger • Publisher Imprint: Praeger • BISAC: Cultural & Ethnic Studies - General

• Author(s): Linda O. Valenty • Publisher: Praeger • Publisher Imprint: Praeger • BISAC: Law EnforcementValenty, Feldman, and their contributors challenge the current state of political leadership studies by offering a variety of analytical metho...

• Author(s): Kenn Kassman • Publisher: Praeger • Publisher Imprint: Praeger • BISAC: Environmental Science (see also Chemistry - Environmental)How do various worldviews, praxis orientations, and preferred future visions differ between the three m...

• Author(s): Gunilla Faringer • Publisher: Praeger • Publisher Imprint: Praeger • BISAC: Civil RightsThis is an authoritative study on the role of mass media in Third World development. Using broad historical, economic, and political perspectives...

• Author(s): Henry Greenspan • Publisher: Praeger • Publisher Imprint: Praeger • BISAC: Jewish - GeneralHow do Holocaust survivors find words and voice for their memories of terror and loss? This landmark book presents striking new insights into ...

• Author(s): Gladys D. Ganley • Publisher: Praeger • Publisher Imprint: Praeger • BISAC: Communication StudiesBased on a wide variety of press reports and other sources, this volume describes the rapid global spread of VCRs and cassettes, often b...