Global Futures

The New York Times bestselling author of The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels draws on the latest data and new insights to challenge everything you thought you knew about the future of energy For over a decade, philosopher and energy expert Alex Epstein has predicted that any negative impacts of...

From legendary science fiction author Kim Stanley Robinson comes a remarkable vision of climate change over the coming decades. The Ministry for the Future is a masterpiece of the imagination, using fictional eyewitness accounts to tell the story of how climate change will affect us all. Its...

Future World: One Global Government, One Currency, Global Defence Forces and Uniform Taxes — The Author’s Vision presents a bold and thought-provoking exploration of how humanity might evolve toward greater unity in response to rapid technological advancement and growing global challenges. As artificial intelligence, space technology, digital economies, and medical breakthroughs reshape civilization, traditional systems of governance and cooperation are increasingly tested by conflicts, inequality, climate change, and economic instability. In this visionary work, M K Devidasan examines ...

In today's complex capital markets, where a single misstep can trigger activist campaigns or erase billions in market value, one corporate function has quietly transformed from back-office support to boardroom essential: Investor Relations. Drawing on insights from over 1,000 IROs and market leaders worldwide, this landmark study, backed by global IR associations across five continents, presents the first comprehensive examination of how IR has revolutionized itself into a strategic leadership function.

The Future of Security Cooperation: Evolving Strategies in a Changing Global Landscape is an essential guide to understanding modern security cooperation in an era of evolving global threats. This comprehensive book examines the policies, case studies, and strategic frameworks that shape international defense collaboration. From NATO’s enhanced forward presence to the Quad alliance in the Indo-Pacific, this book explores successful security cooperation initiatives and the challenges posed by hybrid warfare, cyber threats, and geopolitical shifts. It also delves into key treaties, ...

New York Times bestselling author Simon Winchester returns with a thought-provoking history of the wind, written in his edifying and entertaining style. What is going on with our atmosphere? The headlines are filled with news of devastating hurricanes, murderous tornadoes, and cataclysmic fires...

What if everything you thought you knew about history was wrong, or worse, deliberately rewritten? The Lost Civilization of Tartaria explores the mysteries of a forgotten empire that once spanned the globe. From buried architecture and impossible feats of engineering to orphan trains and suspiciously timed “natural disasters,” this book uncovers the patterns pointing to a massive global reset, and the systematic erasure of an advanced civilization from our collective memory. Through compelling evidence and provocative questions, you'll journey into the world of Tartaria, where star ...

The epic story of the past, present, and future of world order, revealing how the decline of the West may be a good thing for the world. Since the dawn of the twenty-first century, the West has been in crisis. Social unrest, political polarization, and the rise of other great powers—especially...

INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER AN NPR BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR “A cri de coeur that takes aim at the tech industry for abandoning its history of helping America and its allies.”—The Wall Street Journal From the Palantir co-founder, one of Time’s 100 Most Influential People of...

The future isn't arriving one trend at a time. It's arriving all at once. Right now, five massive forces are accelerating simultaneously: artificial intelligence is rewriting how we work, climate change is reshaping where and how we live, demographic shifts are upending economies, geopolitical realignment is redrawing the global order, and macroeconomic pressures are transforming what prosperity even means. Individually, each of these would be enough to define a generation. Together, they're about to collide in ways almost nobody is preparing for. The Next Ten Years doesn't just list ...

A cautionary but optimistic book about the world’s changing climate and the fate of humanity, from two of the architects of the 2015 Paris Agreement. "One of the most inspiring books I've ever read." —Yuval Harari Christiana Figueres and Tom Rivett-Carnac outline two possible scenarios...

We’re running out of time. Fossil fuels are choking the planet and renewable energy isn’t cutting it. The solution has been hiding in plain sight all along. Nuclear. When most people hear that word, they go to a very bad place: bombs, Chernobyl, hazmat suits, radioactive fallout… the stuff...

In the tradition of Silent Spring and The Sixth Extinction, an urgent, “disturbing, empowering, and essential” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) book about the ways in which chemicals in the modern environment are changing—and endangering—human sexuality and fertility on the grandest...

In the abandoned mines of Pennsylvania, Sarah Murphy—a single mother who once lost everything to foreign competition—steps into a subterranean factory to build a new generation of stealth aircraft. As robotic tunnel borers carve cities underground, Sarah discovers a courage she never knew she had… and becomes a quiet hero of the war effort. On the Pacific front, Merchant Marine sailor Jack Winters returns to sea aboard a revolutionary ultra-fast transport. His mission: race through enemy-infested waters to bring home the rare metals America needs to fight back. When raiders strike, ...

In a world that seems so troubled, how do we hold on to hope? This program is read by the authors and includes a bonus PDF. Looking at the headlines—the worsening climate crisis, a global pandemic, loss of biodiversity, political upheaval—it can be hard to feel optimistic. And yet hope has...

How Silicon Valley’s heartless, baseless, and foolish obsessions—with escaping death, building AI tyrants, and creating limitless growth—pervert public discourse and distract us from real social problems Tech billionaires have decided that they should determine our futures for us...

Our climate future is not yet written. What if we act as if we love the future? Sometimes the bravest thing we can do while facing an existential crisis is imagine life on the other side. This provocative and joyous book maps an inspiring landscape of possible climate futures. Through clear-eyed...

From the author of the New York Times bestseller Prisoners of Geography, a fascinating, “refreshing, and very useful” (The Washington Post) follow-up that uses ten maps to explain the challenges to today’s world powers and how they presage a volatile future. Tim Marshall’s global...

In this era of government gridlock, economic and ecological devastation, and seemingly intractable global violence, our future is ever more ripe for - and in need of - fresh, creative reimagining. With her clear-eyed, inspiring, and sweeping vision of a possible global renaissance in the new millennium, Barbara Marx Hubbard shows us that our current crises are not the precursors of an apocalypse, but the natural birth pains of an awakened, universal humanity.

In a climate-ravaged landscape where AI and humans vie for political power, a journalist must unravel a murderous plot that will either upend the world or save it. 2050: Investigative journalist Marcus Tully is grieving his wife and unborn child, ten years after they perished in a deadly heat...