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1) Future shock
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 11.6 - AR Pts: 30
Lexile measure
1290L
Language
English
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Description
The author states that humanity is in the midst of a rising flood of techniological, social, and economic change and will suffer from the inability to process the enormous amounts of information and change associated with a super-industrial revolution.
Author
Pub. Date
1979.
Lexile measure
1270L
Language
English
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Description
A future archeologist finds the remnants of a mysterious ancient people—us—in a wry satire that is “a marvel of imagination and . . . wonderfully illustrated” (The New York Times).
It is the year 4022, and the entire ancient country of Usa has been buried under many feet of detritus from a catastrophe that occurred back in 1985. Howard Carson, an amateur archeologist, is...
It is the year 4022, and the entire ancient country of Usa has been buried under many feet of detritus from a catastrophe that occurred back in 1985. Howard Carson, an amateur archeologist, is...
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Language
English
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R. Buckminster Fuller is regarded as one of the most important figures of the 20th century, renowned for his achievements as an inventor, designer, architect, philosopher, mathematician, and dogged individualist. Perhaps best remembered for the Geodesic Dome and the term "Spaceship Earth," his work and his writings have had a profound impact on modern life and thought.
Critical Path is Fuller's master work-the summing up of a lifetime's thought and...
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Language
English
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In the years between her first public lecture in 1961 and her last in 1981, Ayn Rand spoke and wrote about topics as different as education, medicine, Vietnam, and the death of Marilyn Monroe. In The Voice of Reason, these pieces are gathered together in book form for the first time. Written in the last decades of Rand's life, they reflect a life lived on principle, a probing mind, and a passionate intensity. With them are five essays by Leonard Peikoff,...
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
In this important lecture, which is particularly relevant to the "War on Terrorism," Edward Said challenges the ideological assumption that the contemporary world is characterized by conflicts between different and "clashing" civilizations (Western, Islamic, Confucian).
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Series
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
Español
Description
Dice Rosa Montero que las entrevistas anejas son como las fotos antiguas: tiempo remansado, detenido. Leyendolas, uno piensa a menudo en la inocencia perdida, en todas las cosas que ahora sabes que han sucedido pero que aun desconocian el entrevistado y el entrevistador en el momento de su encuentro. Esta obra recoge las entrevistas mas emblematicas -alguna de ellas inedita- llevadas a cabo por Montero. Son entrevistas llamadas "de personalidad",...
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Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Politics, manners, humor, sexuality, wealth, even our definitions of success are periodically renegotiated based on the new values society chooses to use as a lens to judge what is acceptable. Are these new values randomly chosen or is there a pattern? Pendulum chronicles the stuttering history of Western society; that endless back-and-forth swing between one excess and another, always reminded of what we left behind. There is a pattern and it is...
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