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The Third Wave

The Classic Study of Tomorrow

By: Alvin Toffler

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The Third Wave

The Classic Study of Tomorrow

By: Alvin Toffler

From the author of Future Shock, a striking way out of today’s despair . . . a bracing, optimistic look at our new potentials. The Third Wave makes startling sense of the violent changes now battering our world. Its sweeping synthesis casts fresh light on our new forms of marriage and family, on today's dramatic changes in business and economics. It explains the role of cults, the new definitions of work, play, love, and success. It points toward new forms of twenty-first-century democracy. Praise for The Third Wave “Magnificent . . . an astonishing array of information.”—The Washington Post “Imperishably fresh.”—Business Week “Will mesmerize readers, and rightly so.”—Vogue “Alvin Toffler . . . has written another blockbuster . . . a powerful book.”—The Guardian “Fresh ideas, clearly explained. . . . Toffler has proven again that he is a master.”—United Press International “Toffler has imagination and an ability to think of various future possibilities by transcending prevailing values, assumptions and myths.”—Associated Press “Once you have walked into his version of the future, you may decide never again to whitewash some of the built-in frailties of the real present.”—Financial Post “Rich, stimulating and basically optimistic . . . will unquestionably aid many to a greater understanding of [today’s] puzzling social changes.”—The Globe & Mail “A detailed breathtakingly bold projection of the social changes required if we are to survive. . . . Toffler’s vision of a democratic, self-sustaining utopia is a brave alternative to recent grim warnings.”—Cosmopolitan

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0593159780

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Future Shock

By: Alvin Toffler

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Future Shock

By: Alvin Toffler

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The classic work that predicted the anxieties of a world upended by rapidly emerging technologies—and now provides a road map to solving many of our most pressing crises. “Explosive . . . brilliantly formulated.” —The Wall Street Journal Future Shock is the classic that changed our view of tomorrow. Its startling insights into accelerating change led a president to ask his advisers for a special report, inspired composers to write symphonies and rock music, gave a powerful new concept to social science, and added a phrase to our language. Published in over fifty countries, Future Shock is the most important study of change and adaptation in our time. In many ways, Future Shock is about the present. It is about what is happening today to people and groups who are overwhelmed by change. Change affects our products, communities, organizations—even our patterns of friendship and love. But Future Shock also illuminates the world of tomorrow by exploding countless clichés about today. It vividly describes the emerging global civilization: the rise of new businesses, subcultures, lifestyles, and human relationships—all of them temporary. Future Shock will intrigue, provoke, frighten, encourage, and, above all, change everyone who reads it.

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0553277375

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By: Alvin Toffler

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By: Alvin Toffler

A highly personal look at jobs, identity, sex roles, information age politics, hidden forces driving the economy, and the pitfalls and promises of social change.

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0920057365

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Powershift

Knowledge, Wealth, and Power at the Edge of the 21st Century

By: Alvin Toffler

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Knowledge, Wealth, and Power at the Edge of the 21st Century

By: Alvin Toffler

Alvin Toffler’s Future Shock and The Third Wave are among the most influential books of our time. Now, in Powershift, he brings to a climax the ideas set forth in his previous works to offer a stunning vision of the future that will change your life. In Powershift, Toffler argues that while headlines focus on shifts of power at the global level, equally significant shifts are taking place in the everyday world we all inhabit—the world of supermarkets and hospitals, banks and business offices, television and telephones, politics and personal life. The very nature of power is changing under our eyes. Powershift maps the “info-wars” of tomorrow and outlines a new system of wealth creation based on individualism, innovation, and information. As old political antagonisms fade, Toffler identifies where the next, far more important world division will arise—not between East and West or North and South, but between the “fast” and the “slow.” In Powershift, Alvin Toffler has formulated the deepest, most comprehensive synthesis yet written about the civilization of the twenty-first century. It is one of the most important books you will ever read. Praise for Powershift “[A] sweeping synthesis . . . by placing the accelerated changes of our current information age in the larger perspective of history, Mr. Toffler helps us to face the future with less wariness and more understanding.”—The New York Times Book Review “An insightful guide to a bewildering present and a frightening future . . . thought-provoking on every page.”—Newsday

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0593159772

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Powershift

Knowledge, Wealth, and Violence at the Edge of the 21st Century

By: Alvin Toffler

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Knowledge, Wealth, and Violence at the Edge of the 21st Century

By: Alvin Toffler

Toffler argues that while headlines focus on shifts of power at the global level, equally significant shifts are taking place in our everyday world--supermarkets, hospitals, banks, television, and politics. As old antagonisms fade, Toffler identifies where the next, far more important world division will arise . . . between the "fast" and the "slow". "Thought-provoking on every page".--Newsday.

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055318086X

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Revolutionary Wealth

By: Alvin Toffler,Heidi Toffler

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Revolutionary Wealth

By: Alvin Toffler,Heidi Toffler

Starting with the publication of their seminal bestseller, Future Shock, Alvin and Heidi Toffler have given millions of readers new ways to think about personal life in today’s high-speed world with its constantly changing, seemingly random impacts on our businesses, governments, families and daily lives. Now, writing with the same rare grasp and clarity that made their earlier books classics, the Tofflers turn their attention to the revolution in wealth now sweeping the planet. And once again, they provide a penetrating, coherent way to make sense of the seemingly senseless.Revolutionary Wealth is about how tomorrow’s wealth will be created, and who will get it and how. But twenty-first-century wealth, according to the Tofflers, is not just about money, and cannot be understood in terms of industrial-age economics. Thus they write here about everything from education and child rearing to Hollywood and China, from everyday truth and misconceptions to what they call our “third job”—the unnoticed work we do without pay for some of the biggest corporations in our country. They show the hidden connections between extreme sports, chocolate chip cookies, Linux software and the “surplus complexity” in our lives as society wobbles back and forth between depressing decadence and a hopeful post-decadence. In their earlier work, the Tofflers coined the word “prosumer” for people who consume what they themselves produce. In Revolutionary Wealth they expand the concept to reveal how many of our activities—whether parenting or volunteering, blogging, painting our house, improving our diet, organizing a neighborhood council or even “mashing” music—pump “free lunch” from the “hidden” non-money economy into the money economy that economists track. Prosuming, they forecast, is about to explode and compel radical changes in the way we measure, make and manipulate wealth. Blazing with fresh ideas, Revolutionary Wealth provides readers with powerful new tools for thinking about—and preparing for—their future.

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0307265552

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Revolutionary Wealth

How it will be created and how it will change our lives

By: Alvin Toffler,Heidi Toffler

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How it will be created and how it will change our lives

By: Alvin Toffler,Heidi Toffler

Since the mid-1960s, Alvin and Heidi Toffler have predicted the far-reaching impact of emerging technological, economic, and social developments on our businesses, governments, families, and daily lives. In REVOLUTIONARY WEALTH, they once again demonstrate their unparalleled ability to illuminate current trends and anticipate what they mean for the future. REVOLUTIONARY WEALTH focuses on how wealth will be created—and who will get it—in the twenty-first century. As the knowledge-based economy (a reality the Tofflers predicted forty years ago) continues to replace the industrial-based economy, they argue, money is no longer the sole determinate of wealth. The Tofflers explain that we are becoming a nation of “prosumers,” consuming what we ourselves produce, and argue that we have all taken on “third jobs”—work we unwittingly do without pay for some of the biggest corporations in the country. Using fascinating examples from our daily lives, they illustrate how our everyday activities—from parenting and volunteering to blogging, painting our houses, and improving our diets—contribute to a non-monetary economy that is largely hidden from economists. Writing with the same insight and clarity that made their earlier books bestsellers, the Tofflers present fresh, groundbreaking new ways of thinking about wealth.

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The Third Wave

The Classic Study of Tomorrow

By: Alvin Toffler

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The Classic Study of Tomorrow

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Future Shock

By: Alvin Toffler

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0593159764

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We Gotta Have More Jails

By: Alvin Clement

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We Gotta Have More Jails

By: Alvin Clement

BOOK 1. 1984-1987. Observations in Houston on Bar Room Types, Business and Political deals, Illusions, and the Business and Drug Worlds. RECONQUESTA, the ZIMMERMAN TELEGRAM, views of the Louisiana and Texas legal systems, Drug Wars, and Yelps for More Jails, Trauma. BOOK 2. 1927-1933-1934. Near death, Flashback to 1927, first school year, Prohibition, Legal System, incoming Radio, Music, Religious Groups, Hog Killing Day, Trauma. BOOK 3. 1968. Egg Head conference in a New Orleans Bar Room, Fishermen, History of Ten Drugs and Possible Solution to the World’s Problems. BOOK 4. 1969 A.D.—50,000 B.C.—300 B.C. to 1900s. Model and Child, the Key to Solution of the World’s Problems, and Flashback views to 50,000 to 300 B.C, Plus Views of Current Situations. BOOK 5. 1989 A.D. Return to Reality, Houston Night Life, Small to Massive Drug Wars, Poetic Views of Cultural Flaws and Possible Solutions.

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iUniverse

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0595264913

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Previews and Premises

By: Alvin Toffler

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By: Alvin Toffler

A highly personal look at jobs, identity, sex roles, information age politics, hidden forces driving the economy, and the pitfalls and promises of social change.

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Integrity, Courage and Soul

Leadership Traits for the 21st Century

By: Alvin W. Holst

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Integrity, Courage and Soul

Leadership Traits for the 21st Century

By: Alvin W. Holst

Aristotle is quoted as saying "A man could not claim to know a subject unless he was capable of transmitting his knowledge to others, and he regarded teaching as the proper manifestation of knowledge." A person is a reflection of his or her learning experiences with others since birth. Many feel trapped in a world where they have no control but feel others control them. Feeling trapped and not in control is at the base of all negative life experiences that is continually reinforced in every new generation, often in a more severe form. Recognition and acceptance of this negative acculturation is the first step of rebuilding one's life to live positively and successfully in a negative world. A life where others apply negative control tactics in rearing and educating others makes things worse over time. Positive life skills can be learned where helping others to be free of another's control and in charge of their own destiny can be learned at any age. Your life will change when you can imagine a world where "bullying" is replaced by helping others to be independent as you have become.

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FriesenPress

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1770971947

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9781770971943

Splitting Up

Enmeshment and Estrangement in the Process of Divorce

By: Alvin Pam,Judith Pearson

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Splitting Up

Enmeshment and Estrangement in the Process of Divorce

By: Alvin Pam,Judith Pearson

From the characterological struggle that leads to the breakup through the difficult adjustments that come after the marriage is over, this volume examines the emotional process of divorce. Illustrated throughout with evocative case examples, this book explores why marriages fail, the feelings and reactions of both the rejecting and the rejected partners, the psychodynamics of jealousy, the possibility of reconciliation, and the impact of divorce on children.

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Guilford Press

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1572303670

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Learning for Tomorrow

The Role of the Future in Education

By: Alvin Toffler

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Learning for Tomorrow

The Role of the Future in Education

By: Alvin Toffler

Analyzes the way the future is dealt with in college and high school classrooms and calls for drastic changes in the way educators prepare individuals for life in the future.

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Vintage Books USA

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0394719808

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