twenty-first century

An illustrated, encyclopedic overview of the prophecies, calendars, and theories that indicate the year 2012 is a threshold of great change for humanity.

Twenty years after Information turned warring nation-states into a global micro-democracy, another election season brings high stakes, and everything's on the line. For Ken, it means a chance to impress the Policy1st party and get a steady big-league job. For Domaine, it's another step in his ongoing struggle against the pax democratica. And for Mishima, a dangerous Information operative, the whole situation is a puzzle begging to be solved. And because nobody's ready to play fair, a perfect storm is brewing that could bring the new world order to its knees.

In 2025, America's favorite TV game show features contestants attempting to evade death at the hands of the Hunters. Thirty days of survival takes the prize--one billion dollars.

Sequel to The Plague Tales. Interweaves the stories of Alejandro Canches, a fourteenth-century physician who is struggling to reach safety with his foster daughter in the aftermath of France's loss to Britain, and Janie Crowe, a surgeon who is enlisted in 2007 to unlock the secret of a debilitating genetic disease.

An African-American woman, living in an increasingly violent society, must choose between her daughter, her community, and the religious group she has recently founded.

Draws from global modeling research, analytical data, and travels throughout the Arctic Rim to provide an informed speculation on what the world will be like in 2050, predicting that the United States and seven other countries will become increasingly prosperous, powerful, and politically stable, while those closer to the equator will suffer water shortages, increased energy costs, coastal flooding, and other dilemmas.

Identifies patterns in the twentieth century regarding American peace, war, prosperity, and economic depression, and predicts America's course in the twenty-first, examining the future of both capitalism and the U.S.'s role in world politics.

The opinions of scientists, writers, educators and others on what the world will be like in the year 2000.