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50 Books for Thinking About the Future Human Condition

(found at: http://www.rand.org/international_programs/pardee/50books/)
1. The New History of the World
by J. M. Roberts
 
2. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies, New Edition
by Jared Diamond
 
3. Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
by Jared Diamond
 
4. The Economic Consequences of the Peace (Twentieth-Century Classics)
by John Maynard Keynes
 
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The Year 2000: A Framework for Speculation on the Next Thirty-Three Years,
by Herman, Kahn
 
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The next 200 years: A scenario for America and the world
by Herman Kahn
 
7. The Coming of Post-Industrial Society: A Venture in Social Forecasting (Harper Colophon Books)
by Daniel Bell
 
8. Future Shock
by Alvin Toffler
 
9. The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries are Failing and What Can Be Done About It
by Paul Collier
 
10. The Evolution of International Human Rights: Visions Seen (Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights)
by Paul Gordon Lauren
 
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Readings in Human Development: Concepts, Measures and Policies for a Development Paradigm  
12. Human Development Report, 2000
by United Nations Development Programme
 
13. Human Development Report 2001: Making New Technologies Work for Human Development (Human Development Report)
by United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
 
14. Human Development Report 2002
by United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
 
15. Human Development Report 2003: Millennium Development Goals: A Compact among Nations to End Human Poverty (Human Development Report)
by United Nations Development Programme
 
16. Human Development Report 2004: Cultural Liberty in Today's Diverse World (Human Development Report)
by United Nations Development Programme
 
17. Global Public Goods: International Cooperation in the 21st Century  
18. Understanding International Conflicts: An Introduction to Theory and History (Longman Classics in Political Science)
by Joseph S. Nye
 
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Genomics and World Health
by Report of the Advisory Committee on Health Research
 
20. How Many People Can the Earth Support?
by Joel E. Cohen
 
21. The Next Fifty Years: Science in the First Half of the Twenty-first Century  
22. Genome
by Matt Ridley
 
23. Nanotechnology: Basic Science and Emerging Technologies
by Mick Wilson
 
24. The Transparent Society: Will Technology Force Us to Choose Between Privacy and Freedom?
by David Brin
 
25. The Two-Mile Time Machine: Ice Cores, Abrupt Climate Change, and Our Future
by Richard B. Alley
 
26. Natural Capitalism
by L. Hunter Lovins
 
27. Ecosystems and Human Well-Being: Synthesis (Millennium Ecosystem Assessment Series)
by Millennium Ecosystem Assessment
 
28.
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Winning the Oil Endgame
by Amory B. Lovins
 
29. Globalization and Its Discontents
by Joseph E. Stiglitz
 
30. In Defense of Globalization
by Jagdish Bhagwati
 
31. The Lexus and the Olive Tree: Understanding Globalization
by Thomas L. Friedman
 
32. Economic Development (9th Edition) (Addison-Wesley Series in Economics)
by Michael P. Todaro
 
33. The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time
by Jeffrey D. Sachs
 
34. The Battle for God
by Karen Armstrong
 
35. Understanding the European Union: A Concise Introduction, Third Edition (European Union)
by John McCormick
 
36. The Rise of China: How Economic Reform Is Creating a New Superpower
by William H. Overholt
 
37. China's Second Revolution: Reform After Mao
by Harry Harding
 
38. India: Emerging Power
by Stephen P. Cohen
 
39. Modern Latin America, Sixth Edition
by Thomas E. Skidmore
 
40. A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle East
by David Fromkin
 
41. Russia in Search of Itself (Woodrow Wilson Center Press)
by James H. Billington
 
42. African Politics and Society: A Mosaic in Transformation
by Peter J. Schraeder
 
43. Futuring: The Exploration of the Future
by Edward Cornish
 
44. Macrohistory and Macrohistorians: Perspectives on Individual, Social, and Civilizational Change  
45. Shaping the Next One Hundred Years: New Methods for Quantitative, Long-Term Policy Analysis
by Robert J. Lempert
 
46. Who Will Pay?: Coping With Aging Societies, Climate Change, and Other Long-Term Fiscal Challenges
by Peter S. Heller
 
47. Global Crises, Global Solutions  
48. Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature
by Janine M. Benyus
 
49. Fantastic Voyage : Live Long Enough to Live Forever
by Ray Kurzweil
 
50. Amish Society
by John A. Hostetler
 
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