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A compendium of thoughts & forcasts of hundreds of the world's leading intellectuals.

"In The Future of Advertising, Joe Cappo offers a provocative analysis of recent changes along with insightful projections of what's to come. He traces the consolidation of twenty major agencies into four giant holding companies and explores the curious absence of a new generation of swaggering advertising entrepreneurs on the model of Leo Burnett and David Ogilvy. He examines the continuing impact of cable TV, direct marketing, and the Internet on...

A look at the technologies that would be critical for building computers like HAL from "2001: a space Odyssey". Topics include articical intelligence, speech recognition and synthesis, and human-machine interaction. Stork also looks at how the book has influenced research.

"Japan in the Twenty-first Century examines the natural features of this island nation, which have greatly impacted the Japanese people, and explores how the country's social, economic, and political structures have affected Japan's global role in this century."--Jacket.

This work contains opinions of leading researchers in mathematics and related fields addressing the question, "What is the future of mathematics in the new millenium?"

Reflecting on the end of communism, the author of the best-selling The Worldly Philosophers examines the many faces of capitalism, looking for the aspects of a market economy that will be most capable of succeeding against today's toughest dilemmas.

"For psychiatrist Anthony Reading, hope's power to shape human behavior provides a remarkable opportunity to understand the relationship between mind and brain. Hope and despair dramatically illustrate the capability of the human brain to construct imaginary representations of the universe, allowing us to disengage from the present, recall the past, and forecast the future independent of any current sensory input. Consciousness then enables us to...

"As a man who had always interpreted his own life as being lived "on the boundary," Paul Tillich was uniquely qualified for the task of illumining a revolutionary age of crumbling frontiers and of identifying the new horizons beyond. In these four recent lectures the read encounters. Tillich in his dual role of analyst and seer. The volume contains "The Effects of Space Exploration on Man's Condition and Stature," "Frontiers" (Tillich's famous German...

This book provides a synthesis of the past decade of research into global changes that occurred in the earth system in the past. Focus is achieved by concentrating on those changes in the Earth's past environment that best inform our evaluation of current and future global changes and their consequences for human populations. The book stands as a ten year milestone in the operation of the Past Global Changes (PAGES) Project of the International Geosphere-Biosphere...

"The imprisonment rate in America has grown by a factor of five since 1972. In that time, punishment policies have toughened, compassion for prisoners has diminished, and prisons have gotten worse - a stark contrast to the origins of the prison 200 years ago as a humanitarian reform, a substitute for capital and corporal punishment and banishment. So what went wrong? How can prisons be made simultaneously more effective and more humane? Who should...