Lists of Bests: 50 Books for Thinking About the Future Human Condition http://www.listsofbests.com/list/62998 Sun, 06 Dec 2009 03:31:35 GMT en-us 0 50 50 0 0 The New History of the World http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/333094 <div id="position">1</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/333094"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0195219279.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by J. M. Roberts</div> Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies, New Edition http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/43255 <div id="position">2</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/43255"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0393061310.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jared Diamond</div> Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/88289 <div id="position">3</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/88289"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0143036556.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jared Diamond</div> The Economic Consequences of the Peace (Twentieth-Century Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/673664 <div id="position">4</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/673664"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0140188053.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Maynard Keynes</div> The Year 2000: A Framework for Speculation on the Next Thirty-Three Years, http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/142 <div id="position">5</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Herman, Kahn</div> The next 200 years: A scenario for America and the world http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5660391 <div id="position">6</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Herman Kahn</div> The Coming of Post-Industrial Society: A Venture in Social Forecasting (Harper Colophon Books) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/155894 <div id="position">7</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/155894"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0465097138.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Daniel Bell</div> Future Shock http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/15737 <div id="position">8</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/15737"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0553277375.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V44909054_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Alvin Toffler</div> The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries are Failing and What Can Be Done About It http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2816028 <div id="position">9</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2816028"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/01YNhsO3V6L.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Paul Collier</div> The Evolution of International Human Rights: Visions Seen (Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1562086 <div id="position">10</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1562086"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/081221854X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Paul Gordon Lauren</div> Readings in Human Development: Concepts, Measures and Policies for a Development Paradigm http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1092934 <div id="position">11</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div> Human Development Report, 2000 http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1431275 <div id="position">12</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1431275"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0195216784.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by United Nations Development Programme</div> Human Development Report 2001: Making New Technologies Work for Human Development (Human Development Report) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1953446 <div id="position">13</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1953446"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0195218353.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)</div> Human Development Report 2002 http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1431276 <div id="position">14</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1431276"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0195219155.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)</div> Human Development Report 2003: Millennium Development Goals: A Compact among Nations to End Human Poverty (Human Development Report) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/753509 <div id="position">15</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/753509"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0195219880.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by United Nations Development Programme</div> Human Development Report 2004: Cultural Liberty in Today's Diverse World (Human Development Report) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1431271 <div id="position">16</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1431271"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/019522146X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by United Nations Development Programme</div> Global Public Goods: International Cooperation in the 21st Century http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1709445 <div id="position">17</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1709445"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0195130529.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056423948_.jpg" /></a></div> Understanding International Conflicts: An Introduction to Theory and History (Longman Classics in Political Science) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/282682 <div id="position">18</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/282682"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0321209451.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Joseph S. Nye</div> Genomics and World Health http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5660445 <div id="position">19</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Report of the Advisory Committee on Health Research</div> How Many People Can the Earth Support? http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10874 <div id="position">20</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10874"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0393314952.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056439852_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Joel E. Cohen</div> The Next Fifty Years: Science in the First Half of the Twenty-first Century http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9201 <div id="position">21</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9201"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0375713425.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1122535341_.jpg" /></a></div> Genome http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1346 <div id="position">22</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1346"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0060932902.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Matt Ridley</div> Nanotechnology: Basic Science and Emerging Technologies http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3827627 <div id="position">23</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3827627"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51NRDBJM8TL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Mick Wilson</div> The Transparent Society: Will Technology Force Us to Choose Between Privacy and Freedom? http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/20540 <div id="position">24</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/20540"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0738201448.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by David Brin</div> The Two-Mile Time Machine: Ice Cores, Abrupt Climate Change, and Our Future http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/309549 <div id="position">25</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/309549"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0691102961.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Richard B. Alley</div> Natural Capitalism http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/81897 <div id="position">26</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/81897"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0316353167.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by L. Hunter Lovins</div> Ecosystems and Human Well-Being: Synthesis (Millennium Ecosystem Assessment Series) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3399874 <div id="position">27</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3399874"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/01F6SJYQE3L.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Millennium Ecosystem Assessment</div> Winning the Oil Endgame http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/494079 <div id="position">28</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Amory B. Lovins</div> Globalization and Its Discontents http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10986 <div id="position">29</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10986"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0393324397.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Joseph E. Stiglitz</div> In Defense of Globalization http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/237311 <div id="position">30</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/237311"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0195300033.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jagdish Bhagwati</div> The Lexus and the Olive Tree: Understanding Globalization http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10405 <div id="position">31</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10405"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0385499345.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1122537399_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Thomas L. Friedman</div> Economic Development (9th Edition) (Addison-Wesley Series in Economics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/894755 <div id="position">32</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/894755"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0321278887.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Michael P. Todaro</div> The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/32866 <div id="position">33</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/32866"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/1594200459.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jeffrey D. Sachs</div> The Battle for God http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7751 <div id="position">34</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7751"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0345391691.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Karen Armstrong</div> Understanding the European Union: A Concise Introduction, Third Edition (European Union) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1717591 <div id="position">35</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1717591"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1403944512.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John McCormick</div> The Rise of China: How Economic Reform Is Creating a New Superpower http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10845 <div id="position">36</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10845"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0393312453.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by William H. Overholt</div> China's Second Revolution: Reform After Mao http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3672322 <div id="position">37</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3672322"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/01241RW9GZL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Harry Harding</div> India: Emerging Power http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/293816 <div id="position">38</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/293816"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0815715013.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Stephen P. Cohen</div> Modern Latin America, Sixth Edition http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/664389 <div id="position">39</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/664389"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/019517013X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Thomas E. Skidmore</div> A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle East http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/24601 <div id="position">40</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/24601"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0805068848.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by David Fromkin</div> Russia in Search of Itself (Woodrow Wilson Center Press) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1263833 <div id="position">41</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1263833"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0801879760.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by James H. Billington</div> African Politics and Society: A Mosaic in Transformation http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2085243 <div id="position">42</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2085243"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/053456769X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Peter J. Schraeder</div> Futuring: The Exploration of the Future http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1184326 <div id="position">43</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1184326"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0930242610.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Edward Cornish</div> Macrohistory and Macrohistorians: Perspectives on Individual, Social, and Civilizational Change http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5660520 <div id="position">44</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5660520"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/417C7KKDJRL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div> Shaping the Next One Hundred Years: New Methods for Quantitative, Long-Term Policy Analysis http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/453405 <div id="position">45</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/453405"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0833032755.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1070399611_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Robert J. Lempert</div> Who Will Pay?: Coping With Aging Societies, Climate Change, and Other Long-Term Fiscal Challenges http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1483063 <div id="position">46</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1483063"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/158906223X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Peter S. Heller</div> Global Crises, Global Solutions http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/150429 <div id="position">47</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/150429"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0521606144.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div> Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/775 <div id="position">48</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/775"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060533226.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Janine M. Benyus</div> Fantastic Voyage : Live Long Enough to Live Forever http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/31655 <div id="position">49</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/31655"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1579549543.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ray Kurzweil</div> Amish Society http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/23966 <div id="position">50</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/23966"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0801844428.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1115314532_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John A. Hostetler</div>