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DK
Pub. Date
[2024]
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A Child's Book of the Future is a narrative nonfiction book that will offer an inclusive and hopeful vision of the future, with a diverse, multicultural approach that will appeal to children of all backgrounds and further appeal to the foreign market audience.
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Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
Are you more likely to become a professional footballer if your surname is Ball? How can you be one hundred per cent sure you will win a bet? Why did so many Pompeiians stay put while Mount Vesuvius was erupting? How do you prevent a nuclear war? Ever since the dawn of human civilisation, we have been trying to make predictions about what's in store for us. We do this on a personal level, so that we can get on with our lives efficiently (should I...
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Wiley
Pub. Date
[2015]
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Robust analysis shows a more complete picture of market behavior Getting Started in Stock Analysis is an exciting visual guide to both technical and fundamental analysis for the private investor. Rather than addressing the benefits of fundamental or technical analysis, author and trader Michael C. Thomsett draws upon three decades' experience in the stock market to demonstrate why traders need to employ both.
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Harper Business, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
"As isolationism and realism become the dominant values of a previously interconnected world, the logic that motivated international relations and global trade must be reevaluated. Zeihan uses a mixture of geographical knowledge, political history, and sharp analysis to predict the shape of the next twenty years on the world stage"--
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Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2012
Description
Silver built an innovative system for predicting baseball performance, predicted the 2008 election within a hair's breadth, and became a national sensation as a blogger. Drawing on his own groundbreaking work, Silver examines the world of prediction.
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It is the business of science to predict. An exact science like astronomy can usually make very accurate predictions indeed. A chemist makes a precise prediction every time he writes a formula. The nuclear physicist advertised to the world, in the atomic bomb, how man can deal with entities so small that they are completely beyond the realm of sense perception, yet make predictions astonishing in their accuracy and significance. Economics is now reaching...
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George Friedman, founder of Stratfor, has become a leading expert in geopolitical forecasting, sought after for his thoughtful assessments of current trends and near-future events. In The Next 100 Years, Friedman turns his eye on the future. Drawing on a profound understanding of history and geopolitical patterns dating back to the Roman Empire, he shows that we are now, for the first time in half a millennium, experiencing the dawn of a new historical...
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QEB Publishing
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
"Can we improve the human body? Could we live forever? Is it even right to try these things? What do you think? That's a lot of questions! Where do you start answering them? This book sets out what's what and who's who so that you can make your own informed opinion on how the future might look for humans. Everyone can have an opinion, so what will yours be? Half the fun is working it out!"--Page 4 of cover.
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Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2015
Description
From the coauthors of the New York Times bestseller Abundance comes a how-to guide for using exponential technologies, moonshot thinking, and crowd-powered tools to create extraordinary wealth while also positively impacting the lives of billions.
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Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
[2013]
Description
"What does a yearbook photo have to do with future marital success? Can the CEO's appearance tell you anything about a company's quarterly earnings? In The Tell, psychologist Matthew Hertenstein reveals that our intuition is surprisingly good at using small clues to make big predictions, and shows how we can make better decisions by homing in on the right details. Drawing on rigorous research in psychology and brain science, Hertenstein explains how...
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Flowerpot Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Description
"Have you ever wondered how meteorologists on TV predict the weather? A basic explanation of weather instruments, forecasting, and so much more is explored through diagrams, illustrations, and informative and engaging text in this new addition to the How Do series. Includes fun weather activities and a glossary!"
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Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
"We are approaching a critical threshold in the history of our species. Everything is about to change. Soon you will live surrounded by AIs. They will organise your life, operate your business, and run core government services. You will live in a world of DNA printers and quantum computers, engineered pathogens and autonomous weapons, robot assistants and abundant energy. None of us are prepared. As co-founder of the pioneering AI company DeepMind,...
20) Social security works!: why social security isn't going broke and how expanding it will help us all
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The New Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Description
"A growing chorus of prominent voices in Congress and elsewhere are calling for the expansion of our social security system--people who know that social security will not 'go broke' and does not add a penny to the national debt. [This book amplifies] these voices and [offers an] ... antidote to the three-decade-long, billionaire-funded campaign to make us believe that this vital institution is destined to collapse"--
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