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Paperback. Condition: Fair. Since the mid-1960s, Alvin and Heidi Toffler have predicted the far-reaching impact of emerging technological, economic, and social developments on our businesses, governments, families, and daily lives. In REVOLUTIONARY WEALTH, they once again demonstrate their unparalleled ability to illuminate current trends and anticipate what they mean for the future. REVOLUTIONARY WEALTH focuses on how wealth will be created--and who will get it--in the twenty-first century. As the knowledge-based economy (a reality the Tofflers predicted forty years ago) continues to replace the industrial-based economy, they argue, money is no longer the sole determinate of wealth. The Tofflers explain that we are becoming a nation of "prosumers," consuming what we ourselves produce, and argue that we have all taken on "third jobs"--work we unwittingly do without pay for some of the biggest corporations in the country. Using fascinating examples from our daily lives, they illustrate how our everyday activities--from parenting and volunteering to blogging, painting our houses, and improving our diets--contribute to a non-monetary economy that is largely hidden from economists. Writing with the same insight and clarity that made their earlier books bestsellers, the Tofflers present fresh, groundbreaking new ways of thinking about wealth.…

Paperback. Condition: Good. Since the mid-1960s, Alvin and Heidi Toffler have predicted the far-reaching impact of emerging technological, economic, and social developments on our businesses, governments, families, and daily lives. In REVOLUTIONARY WEALTH, they once again demonstrate their unparalleled ability to illuminate current trends and anticipate what they mean for the future. REVOLUTIONARY WEALTH focuses on how wealth will be created--and who will get it--in the twenty-first century. As the knowledge-based economy (a reality the Tofflers predicted forty years ago) continues to replace the industrial-based economy, they argue, money is no longer the sole determinate of wealth. The Tofflers explain that we are becoming a nation of "prosumers," consuming what we ourselves produce, and argue that we have all taken on "third jobs"--work we unwittingly do without pay for some of the biggest corporations in the country. Using fascinating examples from our daily lives, they illustrate how our everyday activities--from parenting and volunteering to blogging, painting our houses, and improving our diets--contribute to a non-monetary economy that is largely hidden from economists. Writing with the same insight and clarity that made their earlier books bestsellers, the Tofflers present fresh, groundbreaking new ways of thinking about wealth.…

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Condition: Very Good. From the author of Future Shock, a striking way out of today's despair . . . a bracing, optimistic look at our new potentials. The Third Wavemakes startling sense of the violent changes now battering our world. Its sweeping synthesis casts fresh light on our new forms of marriage and family, on today's dramatic changes in business and economics. It explains the role of cults, the new definitions of work, play, love, and success. It points toward new forms of twenty-first-century democracy. Praise for The Third Wave "Magnificent . . . an astonishing array of information."-The Washington Post "Imperishably fresh."-Business Week "Will mesmerize readers, and rightly so."-Vogue "Alvin Toffler . . . has written another blockbuster . . . a powerful book."-The Guardian "Fresh ideas, clearly explained. . . . Toffler has proven again that he is a master."-United Press International "Toffler has imagination and an ability to think of various future possibilities by transcending prevailing values, assumptions and myths."-Associated Press "Once you have walked into his version of the future, you may decide never again to whitewash some of the built-in frailties of the real present."-Financial Post "Rich, stimulating and basically optimistic . . . will unquestionably aid many to a greater understanding of today's puzzling social changes."-The Globe & Mail "A detailed breathtakingly bold projection of the social changes required if we are to survive. . . . Toffler's vision of a democratic, self-sustaining utopia is a brave alternative to recent grim warnings."-Cosmopolitan.…

Condition: Good. From the author of Future Shock, a striking way out of today's despair . . . a bracing, optimistic look at our new potentials. The Third Wavemakes startling sense of the violent changes now battering our world. Its sweeping synthesis casts fresh light on our new forms of marriage and family, on today's dramatic changes in business and economics. It explains the role of cults, the new definitions of work, play, love, and success. It points toward new forms of twenty-first-century democracy. Praise for The Third Wave "Magnificent . . . an astonishing array of information."-The Washington Post "Imperishably fresh."-Business Week "Will mesmerize readers, and rightly so."-Vogue "Alvin Toffler . . . has written another blockbuster . . . a powerful book."-The Guardian "Fresh ideas, clearly explained. . . . Toffler has proven again that he is a master."-United Press International "Toffler has imagination and an ability to think of various future possibilities by transcending prevailing values, assumptions and myths."-Associated Press "Once you have walked into his version of the future, you may decide never again to whitewash some of the built-in frailties of the real present."-Financial Post "Rich, stimulating and basically optimistic . . . will unquestionably aid many to a greater understanding of today's puzzling social changes."-The Globe & Mail "A detailed breathtakingly bold projection of the social changes required if we are to survive. . . . Toffler's vision of a democratic, self-sustaining utopia is a brave alternative to recent grim warnings."-Cosmopolitan.…

Condition: Fair. From the author of Future Shock, a striking way out of today's despair . . . a bracing, optimistic look at our new potentials. The Third Wavemakes startling sense of the violent changes now battering our world. Its sweeping synthesis casts fresh light on our new forms of marriage and family, on today's dramatic changes in business and economics. It explains the role of cults, the new definitions of work, play, love, and success. It points toward new forms of twenty-first-century democracy. Praise for The Third Wave "Magnificent . . . an astonishing array of information."-The Washington Post "Imperishably fresh."-Business Week "Will mesmerize readers, and rightly so."-Vogue "Alvin Toffler . . . has written another blockbuster . . . a powerful book."-The Guardian "Fresh ideas, clearly explained. . . . Toffler has proven again that he is a master."-United Press International "Toffler has imagination and an ability to think of various future possibilities by transcending prevailing values, assumptions and myths."-Associated Press "Once you have walked into his version of the future, you may decide never again to whitewash some of the built-in frailties of the real present."-Financial Post "Rich, stimulating and basically optimistic . . . will unquestionably aid many to a greater understanding of today's puzzling social changes."-The Globe & Mail "A detailed breathtakingly bold projection of the social changes required if we are to survive. . . . Toffler's vision of a democratic, self-sustaining utopia is a brave alternative to recent grim warnings."-Cosmopolitan.…

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Condition: Good. Alvin Toffler's Future Shock and The Third Wave are among the most influential books of our time. Now, in Powershift, he brings to a climax the ideas set forth in his previous works to offer a stunning vision of the future that will change your life. In Powershift, Toffler argues that while headlines focus on shifts of power at the global level, equally significant shifts are taking place in the everyday world we all inhabit-the world of supermarkets and hospitals, banks and business offices, television and telephones, politics and personal life. The very nature of power is changing under our eyes. Powershift maps the "info-wars" of tomorrow and outlines a new system of wealth creation based on individualism, innovation, and information. As old political antagonisms fade, Toffler identifies where the next, far more important world division will arise-not between East and West or North and South, but between the "fast" and the "slow." In Powershift, Alvin Toffler has formulated the deepest, most comprehensive synthesis yet written about the civilization of the twenty-first century. It is one of the most important books you will ever read. Praise for Powershift " A sweeping synthesis . . . by placing the accelerated changes of our current information age in the larger perspective of history, Mr. Toffler helps us to face the future with less wariness and more understanding."-The New York Times Book Review "An insightful guide to a bewildering present and a frightening future . . . thought-provoking on every page."-Newsday.…

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Condition: Very Good. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER . The classic work that predicted the anxieties of a world upended by rapidly emerging technologies-and now provides a road map to solving many of our most pressing crises. "Explosive . . . brilliantly formulated." -The Wall Street Journal Future Shock is the classic that changed our view of tomorrow. Its startling insights into accelerating change led a president to ask his advisers for a special report, inspired composers to write symphonies and rock music, gave a powerful new concept to social science, and added a phrase to our language. Published in over fifty countries, Future Shock is the most important study of change and adaptation in our time. In many ways, Future Shock is about the present. It is about what is happening today to people and groups who are overwhelmed by change. Change affects our products, communities, organizations-even our patterns of friendship and love. But Future Shock also illuminates the world of tomorrow by exploding countless cliches about today. It vividly describes the emerging global civilization: the rise of new businesses, subcultures, lifestyles, and human relationships-all of them temporary. Future Shock will intrigue, provoke, frighten, encourage, and, above all, change everyone who reads it.…

Condition: Fair. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER . The classic work that predicted the anxieties of a world upended by rapidly emerging technologies-and now provides a road map to solving many of our most pressing crises. "Explosive . . . brilliantly formulated." -The Wall Street Journal Future Shock is the classic that changed our view of tomorrow. Its startling insights into accelerating change led a president to ask his advisers for a special report, inspired composers to write symphonies and rock music, gave a powerful new concept to social science, and added a phrase to our language. Published in over fifty countries, Future Shock is the most important study of change and adaptation in our time. In many ways, Future Shock is about the present. It is about what is happening today to people and groups who are overwhelmed by change. Change affects our products, communities, organizations-even our patterns of friendship and love. But Future Shock also illuminates the world of tomorrow by exploding countless cliches about today. It vividly describes the emerging global civilization: the rise of new businesses, subcultures, lifestyles, and human relationships-all of them temporary. Future Shock will intrigue, provoke, frighten, encourage, and, above all, change everyone who reads it.…

Condition: Good. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER . The classic work that predicted the anxieties of a world upended by rapidly emerging technologies-and now provides a road map to solving many of our most pressing crises. "Explosive . . . brilliantly formulated." -The Wall Street Journal Future Shock is the classic that changed our view of tomorrow. Its startling insights into accelerating change led a president to ask his advisers for a special report, inspired composers to write symphonies and rock music, gave a powerful new concept to social science, and added a phrase to our language. Published in over fifty countries, Future Shock is the most important study of change and adaptation in our time. In many ways, Future Shock is about the present. It is about what is happening today to people and groups who are overwhelmed by change. Change affects our products, communities, organizations-even our patterns of friendship and love. But Future Shock also illuminates the world of tomorrow by exploding countless cliches about today. It vividly describes the emerging global civilization: the rise of new businesses, subcultures, lifestyles, and human relationships-all of them temporary. Future Shock will intrigue, provoke, frighten, encourage, and, above all, change everyone who reads it.…

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