books about: twenty-first     books:     Twenty-first      America Alone: The End of the World as We Know It Mark Steyn Regnery Publishing, Inc., 2006 Strong points to ponder If you truly love your country and want to keep it free from radical Islamism, then you must read America Alone by Mark Steyn. After you've read it, you must decide where you stand and what, if anything, you are going to do about the growing threat. The conflict ...             The Sparrow Mary Doria Russell Ballantine Books, 1997 A HIGHLY INTELLIGENT TREATISE ON PERSONAL THEOLOGY - A TRUE CLASSIC Theology can become a distant logical exercise of dry doctrine and easy theoretical conclusions. When it comes down to the wet choices of real life most such theoretical Theology is found wanting as it can offer only limited answers. This is Theology of the other kind, ...             Urban Tantra: Sacred Sex for the Twenty-first Century Barbara Carrellas Celestial Arts, 2007 Cosmic Orgasms, What More Could You Ask For? This is a very excellent book that brings the reader into a deeper spiritual connection with their sexuality; and I do mean spiritual connection, not to be confused with religious connections. The best thing about this book is its openness, it caters to no single ...             A Thomas Jefferson Education: Teaching a Generation of Leaders for the Twenty-first Century Oliver Van DeMille George Wythe College Press, 2006 Just what I was looking for... This book resonated with me on so many levels! I was disappointed in regular homeschool ideologies and methodologies and knew that I did not want to use them as a whole in educating my children. Sure there are some great ideas you can glean from them, but I did not ...             When the Rivers Run Dry: Water--The Defining Crisis of the Twenty-first Century Fred Pearce Beacon Press, 2007 A broad view of water scarcity around the world The story of this book is summarized well by the titles of the ten parts into which Pearce organizes his 34 chapters: "When the rivers run dry . . . the crops fail . . . we mine our children's water . . . the wet places die . . . floods may not be far behind . . . ...             The World Is Flat 3.0: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century Thomas L. Friedman Picador, 2007 Despite of the weaknesses of this book, it still offers many point of view in enhancing our global perspective Like it or not, this book has helped dilate our global perspective. I personally say "YES" to many of his thoughts in this book. Though it sounds too idealistic, demographically, I still agree that one day, the environmental health threats of "megacity" due to the ...             The Post-American World Fareed Zakaria W. W. Norton, 2008 Where We Are Today and Where We Go From Here Mr. Zakaria has written a short primer (250+ pages of text) about where the world is today and the role he sees the United States playing in the future. His assessment, for the most part, is fair, balanced and nonpartisan. And though the title of his treatise--The ...             Terror and Consent : The Wars for the Twenty-First Century Philip Bobbitt Knopf, 2008 A seminal work on terror, the state, and the law The work is sophisticated and explores, among other things, how strategy must align with the rule of law if our policies on terror are to succeed. This is a good read and well ahead of the proverbial curve. You will see the themes of this book, again and again, in the ...             The Long Emergency: Surviving the End of Oil, Climate Change, and Other Converging Catastrophes of the ... Grove Press, 2006 A Tsunami Warning ! Kunstler's Book the Long Emergency is a 'Tsunami warning'. WE ARE RUNNING OUT OF OIL...what do you think the last 7 years have been about? It is both well written and tightly argued. The logic of it is dreadfully inescapable. Even if we agree that 'peak' oil (which ...             Leaderless Jihad: Terror Networks in the Twenty-First Century Marc Sageman University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007 Critical for Understanding the Current Terrorist Threat The author once again provides an easily read and understood book about the current terrorist threat. He first provides us with a history of global terrorism and then explains how the current terrorist threat differs from terrorist threats that the world has seen in ...             Parable of the Sower Octavia E. Butler Grand Central Publishing, 2000 Not for the puritanical If you're fanatical about Christianity (or as my mother would say 'simply a good Christian'), then this book is not for you. Octavia challenges the contemporary thinking of what/who God is and even goes one step further to create her own religion. One of the ...             The Fourth Turning William Strauss, Neil Howe Broadway, 1997 From history to prediction Not only was this book a facinating review of history, but it's breadth was facinating. It's impact is being felt in many areas as I finally read it, because so many places and speakers quote from it. I can only recommend it as they capture certain aspects of where ...             American Higher Education in the Twenty-First Century: Social, Political, and Economic Challenges The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005 Review Used for UW Issues in Higher Ed Class Book Review With the huge technological and societal changes that higher education face today, it seemed a natural choice to review American Higher Education in the Twenty-first Century: Social, Political and Economic Challenges. This book was edited by Philip G. ...             The Extreme Future: The Top Trends That Will Reshape the World for the Next 5, 10, and 20 Years James Canton Dutton Adult, 2006 A Powerful and Thought Provoking Glimpse Into Tomorrow! I heard about this book during a presentation by Howard Rheingold at a Rotary Honolulu luncheon. I jotted the name of the book down and bought a copy. This book has given me a broadened perspective on where our world is today in regards to business, technology, ...             Mind Set!: Reset Your Thinking and See the Future John Naisbitt Collins, 2006 A good place to start This is the first time I've read a book trying to predict the future, so, as a novice in this area I've got to say that the book was excelent. It got me to focus upon areas that I've frankly never bothered with in the past. And as a european, I found his thoughts on ...          products you might be interested in search for books catastrophes, challenges, converging, generation, post-american, twenty-first randomly chosen book: I Don't Have Enough Faith to Be an Atheist