Megatrends 2000
10 best books like Megatrends 2000 (John Naisbitt): Notes from Underground, Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge, Simulacra and Simulation, Eros and Civilization: A Philosophical Inquiry into Freud, Daily Rituals: How Artists Work, City of Eros: New York City, Prostitution, and the Commercialization of Sex, 1790-1920, Critique of Everyday Life, If You Love This Planet: A Plan to Heal the Earth, Doppler, The Third Wave
Dostoevsky’s most revolutionary novel, Notes from Underground marks the dividing line between nineteenth- and twentieth-century fiction, and between the visions of self each century embodied. One of the most remarkable characters in literature, the unnamed narrator is a former official who...
Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge
"A dazzling journey across the sciences and humanities in search of deep laws to unite them." --The Wall Street Journal
One of our greatest living scientists--and the winner of two Pulitzer Prizes for On Human Nature and The Ants--gives us a work of visionary importance that may be...
| Author | Jean Baudrillard |
| ISBN | 0472065211 |
The publication of Simulacra et Simulation in 1981 marked Jean Baudrillard's first important step toward theorizing the postmodern. Moving away from the Marxist/Freudian approaches that had concerned him earlier, Baudrillard developed in this book a theory of contemporary culture that relies...
Eros and Civilization: A Philosophical Inquiry into Freud
| Author | Herbert Marcuse |
| ISBN | 0807015555 |
"When philosophy conceives the essence of being as Logos, it is already the Logos of domination--commanding, mastering, directing reason, to which man and nature are to be subjected" (125)
"In its refusal to accept as final the limitations imposed upon freedom and happiness by the reality...
Daily Rituals: How Artists Work
| Author | Mason Currey |
| ISBN | 0307273601 |
Franz Kafka, frustrated with his living quarters and day job, wrote in a letter to Felice Bauer in 1912, “time is short, my strength is limited, the office is a horror, the apartment is noisy, and if a pleasant, straightforward life is not possible then one must try to wriggle through by subtle maneuvers.”
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City of Eros: New York City, Prostitution, and the Commercialization of Sex, 1790-1920
| Author | Timothy J. Gilfoyle |
| ISBN | 0393311082 |
If you met Tim Gilfoyle, I would venture a guess that your first thought wouldn't be, "I bet this guy wrote the definitive book on the commercialization and later regulation of sex." And yet, here we are. City of Eros was, and still is an important book for anyone interested in urban history especially,...
Critique of Everyday Life
| Author | Henri Lefebvre |
| ISBN | 1844671917 |
Henri Lefebvre's magnum opus: a monumental exploration of contemporary society.
Henri Lefebvre's three-volume Critique of Everyday Life is perhaps the richest, most prescient work by one of the twentieth century's greatest philosophers. Written at the birth of post-war consumerism,...
If You Love This Planet: A Plan to Heal the Earth
| Author | Helen Caldicott |
| ISBN | 0393308359 |
Our planet is desperately ill and must be healed. If the human race does not change its present behavior, the ecosphere may be doomed within the next ten years. A renowned anti-nuclear activist for twenty years, Helen Caldicott here turns from the arms race to the race to save the planet, laying out the...
Otec dvoch detí jedného dňa spadne v lese z bicykla a zrazu zacíti pokoj a harmóniu. Už ho neotravujú nekonečné detské pesničky zo synových rozprávok, myšlienky na novú kúpeľňu a výber správnej záchodovej misy. O to viac si však uvedomí smrť svojho otca. Rozhodne sa odsťahovať...
| Author | Alvin Toffler |
| ISBN | 0688035973 |
The Third Wave, Alvin Toffler
The Third Wave is a book published in 1980 by Alvin Toffler. It is the sequel to Future Shock, published in 1970, and the second in what was originally likely meant to be a trilogy that was continued with Powershift: Knowledge, Wealth and Violence at the Edge of the 21st...
The Consumer Society: Myths and Structures
| Author | Jean Baudrillard |
| ISBN | 0761956921 |
This is the first English-language translation of Jean Baudrillard's contemporary classic on the sociology of consumption. Originally published in 1970, the book was one of the first to focus on the processes and meaning of consumption in contemporary culture. At a time when others were fixated...
Birth of a Salesman: The Transformation of Selling in America
| Author | Walter A. Friedman |
| ISBN | 0674018338 |
In this entertaining and informative book, Walter Friedman chronicles the remarkable metamorphosis of the American salesman from itinerant amateur to trained expert. From the mid-nineteenth century to the eve of World War II, the development of sales management transformed an economy populated...
The Spanish Holocaust: Inquisition and Extermination in Twentieth-Century Spain
The remains of General Francisco Franco lie in an immense mausoleum near Madrid, built with the blood and sweat of twenty thousand slave laborers. His enemies, however, met less-exalted fates. Besides those killed on the battlefield, tens of thousands were officially executed between 1936 and 1945,...
| Author | Michael Marder |
| ISBN | 1628925582 |
Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.
No matter how much you fight against it, dust pervades everything. It gathers in even layers, adapting to the contours of things and marking the passage of time. In itself, it is also a...
| Author | Graham Harman |
| ISBN | 1846947006 |
In this book the metaphysical system of Graham Harman is presented in lucid form, aided by helpful diagrams. In Chapter 1, Harman gives his most forceful critique to date of philosophies that reject objects as a primary reality. All such rejections are tainted by either an undermining or overmining...
| Author | Hüseyin Rahmi Gürpınar |
Hüseyin Rahmi Gürpınar was a Turkish writer and politician.
Gürpınar was the son of a family close to the Ottoman court, born in Istanbul. Having lost his mother at an early age, he was sent to Crete where his father was an Ottoman civil servant, however he was soon sent back to Istanbul,...
| Author | Richard Littler |
| ISBN | 0091958482 |
"Scarfolk is a town in north-west England that did not progress beyond 1979. The entire decade of the 1970s loops ad infinitum. In Scarfolk children must not be seen OR heard, and everyone has to be in bed by 8 p.m. because they are perpetually running a slight fever..."
Part-comedy, part-horror,...
The Ignorant Schoolmaster: Five Lessons in Intellectual Emancipation
| Author | Jacques Rancière |
| ISBN | 0804719691 |
This extraordinary book can be read on several levels. Primarily, it is the story of Joseph Jacotot, an exiles French schoolteacher who discovered in 1818 an unconventional teaching method that spread panic throughout the learned community of Europe.
Knowing no Flemish, Jacotot found...
