Product Description: 'Being Green' is no longer enough. "Whole Earth Discipline" is Stewart Brand's wake up call for the environmental movement, and his message is hard-hitting: unless environmentalists keep up with new science, they will become part of the problem...read more

The author explores the dearth of 'long-term' thinking in the Western world and proposes a plan to make future planning a regular feature of human consciousness.

The author explores the dearth of 'long-term' thinking in the Western world and proposes a plan to make future planning a regular feature of human consciousness. (view table of contents)

Product Description: Buildings have often been studies whole in space, but never before have they been studied whole in time. How Buildings Learn is a masterful new synthesis that proposes that buildings adapt best when constantly refined and reshaped by their occupants, and that architects can mature from being artists of space to becoming artists of time...read more

Explores hundreds of the often strange beliefs flourishing in New Age America, including crystals, alternative medicines, and spontaneous human combustion, and discusses the validity of these beliefs

Provides a look at the future as it is envisioned by the Media Lab at MIT, where scientists are retooling mass media to the desires and whims of the individual

Lists useful books, magazines, and products related to science, land use, architecture, health care, economics, travel, crafts, parenting, communication, and education

Assesses the best products in every area of computer science and offers practical, anecdotal descriptions of how programs actually work and what they can and cannot do

A catalog of tools, information sources, equipment, and manufacturers in the areas of land use, technology, crafts, daily life, politics, and communications