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1) The Giver
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Living in a "perfect" world without social ills, a boy approaches the time when he will receive a life assignment from the Elders, but his selection leads him to a mysterious man known as the Giver, who reveals the dark secrets behind the utopian facade.
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Series
Publisher
Harper Perennial
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
First edition.
Description
Drawing from the horizons of science, today's leading thinkers reveal the hidden threats nobody is talking about-and expose the false fears everyone else is distracted by. What should we be worried about? That is the question John Brockman, publisher of Edge.org ("The world's smartest website"-The Guardian), posed to the planet's most influential minds. He asked them to disclose something that, for scientific reasons, worries them-particularly scenarios...
3) El dador
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Editorial Everest, S.A
Pub. Date
1996
Description
Lois Lowry's Newbery Medal-winning classic story of a young boy discovering the dark secrets behind his seemingly ideal world is now in Spanish. ?Ahora disponible en espa?l! Ganador de la Medalla Newbery y un New York Times bestseller, El dador. Diciembre es el mes en el que se celebra la Ceremonia anual, en la que los Doce reciben sus asignaciones vitalicias determinadas por el Comitde Ancianos. Pero Jon, un ni que cumple doce as, ha sido elegido...
4) What are you optimistic about?: today's leading thinkers on why things are good and getting better
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Harper Perennial
Pub. Date
c2007
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Description
In an age too often marked by anxiety and pessimism, the worlds leading scientific thinkers offer their hopeful visions for the future.
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Back Bay Books, Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First Back Bay trade paperback edition.
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"A noted Dutch journalist and economist proposes an outline for a new worldwide Utopia, with central tenets including a shortened work week, a guaranteed basic income for all, wealth redistribution, and open borders everywhere"--
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Thomas Dunne Books
Pub. Date
[2002]
Edition
First St. Martin's Griffin edition.
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Compares the collapsing birth rates in Europe and the U.S. with the population explosions in other parts of the world to predict massive shifts in the balance of world power and the disintegration of Western culture.
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Blue Rider Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
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We live in a culture of casual certitude. This has always been the case, no matter how often that certainty has failed. Though no generation believes there's nothing left to learn, every generation unconsciously assumes that what has already been defined and accepted is (probably) pretty close to how reality will be viewed in perpetuity. And then, of course, time passes. Ideas shift. Opinions invert. What once seemed reasonable eventually becomes...
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Spiegel and Grau
Pub. Date
[2022].
Edition
First edition.
Description
"War in Ukraine, the COVID-19 pandemic, increasingly frequent climate disasters— events we might have called 'unimaginable' or 'unthinkable' in the past are now reality. Today it feels more challenging than ever to feel unafraid, hopeful, and equipped to face the future with optimism. How do we map out our lives when it seems impossible to predict what the world will be like next week, let alone next year or next decade? What we need now are strategies...
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Giver quartet volume 1
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2014]
Description
Given his lifetime assignment at the Ceremony of Twelve, Jonas becomes the receiver of memories shared by only one other in his community and discovers the terrible truth about the society in which he lives.
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