Tag: Futures

Free Download Angela Carter’s Futures: Representations, Adaptations and Legacies
by Sarah Gamble and Anna Watz
English | 2025 | ISBN: 1350343579 | 241 Pages | True PDF | 32 MB

Free Download The De Gruyter Handbook of Automated Futures
by Vaike Fors, Martin Berg, Meike Brodersen
English | 2024 | ISBN: 3110792249 | 476 pages | True PDF EPUB | 11.45 MB

Free Download Science in the Archives: Pasts, Presents, Futures edited by Lorraine Daston
English | April 4, 2017 | ISBN: 022643236X | True EPUB | 392 pages | 7.8 MB
Archives bring to mind rooms filled with old papers and dusty artifacts. But for scientists, the detritus of the past can be a treasure trove of material vital to present and future research: fossils collected by geologists; data banks assembled by geneticists; weather diaries trawled by climate scientists; libraries visited by historians. These are the vital collections, assembled and maintained over decades, centuries, and even millennia, which define the sciences of the archives.

Free Download The De Gruyter Handbook of Automated Futures
English | 2024 | ISBN: 3110792249 | 474 Pages | EPUB | 6.4 MB
With these questions in mind, The De Gruyter Handbook of Automated Futures provides a framework for thinking about and implementing automation differently. It consolidates automated futures as an inter- and transdisciplinary research field, embedding the imaginaries, interactions, and impacts of automation technology within their social, historical, societal, cultural, and political contexts. Promoting a critical yet constructive and engaging agenda, the handbook invites readers to collaborate with rather than resist automation agendas. It does so by pushing the agenda for social science, humanities and design beyond merely assessing and evaluating existing technologies. Instead, the handbook demonstrates how the humanities and social sciences are essential to the design and governance of sustainable sociotechnical systems. Methodologically, the handbook is underpinned by a pedagogical approach to staging co-learning and co-creation of automated futures with, rather than simply for, people. In this way, the handbook encourages readers to explore new and alternative modes of research, fostering a deeper engagement with the evolving landscape of automation.

Free Download Sell Futures, Not Features: How Anyone Can Uncover Hidden Benefits to Any Product or Service, So Desirable and Compelling that You Can’t Help but Sell More by Michael Killen, Robert Plank
English | April 19, 2022 | ISBN: B09Y7S2DPH | 8 hours and 14 minutes | MP3 64 Kbps | 176 Mb
The hyper-pragmatic and down to earth guide for entrepreneurs, business owners, and products creators to sell more for higher prices, and feel comfortable doing it.
"Sell Futures Not Features is my method for helping you overcome your fears of rejection, find people who love your product, and uncover hidden desirable benefits of your products and services, that are so compelling, you can’t help but sell them." (Mike Killen)
No matter your sales experience or how much you’ve sold in the past, you’ll learn how to sell more products and services for whatever price you want.

Free Download Making Futures Work: Integrating Futures Thinking for Design, Innovation, and Strategy by Phil Balagtas
English | July 30, 2024 | ISBN: 1098148908 | 435 pages | MOBI | 9.25 Mb
Learn how to get started with Futures Thinking. With this practical guide, Phil Balagtas, founder of the Design Futures Initiative and the global Speculative Futures network, shows you how designers and futurists have made futures work at companies such as Atari, IBM, Apple, Disney, Autodesk, Lufthansa, and McKinsey & Company.

Free Download Imagining Global Futures by Adom Getachew
English | January 17th, 2023 | ISBN: 1946511749 | 216 pages | True EPUB | 0.33 MB
What does a just world look like? This volume begins with a planet beset by accumulating crises-environmental, social, and political-and imagines how we can move beyond them.

Free Download Financial Futures im Jahresabschluß deutscher Kreditinstitute By Christof Werner Anstett (auth.)
1997 | 150 Pages | ISBN: 3824403307 | PDF | 6 MB
Financial Futures sind ebenso faszinierende wie komplexe Finanzinstrumente. Sie stellen den Bilanzierenden aufgrund fehlender Rechnungslegungsvorschriften, spezifischer Kontraktausstattungen und bestehender Meinungsdivergenzen in Bilanzierungs- und Bewertungsfragen vor Probleme. Dieses Buch befaßt sich eingehend mit Fragen der Bilanzierung, Bewertung und Publizierung von Financial Futures im Jahresabschluß. Christof Werner Anstett arbeitet die Wesensmerkmale und Besonderheiten der Futures heraus und stellt die notwendigen Grundsätze ordnungsgemäßer Buchführung dar. Darauf aufbauend wird die Abbildung der Future-Kontrakte und der Margin-Zahlungen in der Bilanz aufgeführt. Im Mittelpunkt steht dabei die Frage, ob und unter welchen Voraussetzungen Sicherungsgeschäfte unterschiedlich zu den Spekulationsgeschäften Eingang in die Bilanz finden. Zahlreiche Beispiele und Abbildungen, kleinere Fallstudien und aktuelle Bezüge veranschaulichen die Ausführungen.

Free Download Wayne Hope, "The Anthropocene, Global Capitalism and Global Futures: Times Out of Joint "
English | ISBN: 303163599X | 2024 | 247 pages | EPUB, PDF | 487 KB + 6 MB
This book seeks to show that the Anthropocene epoch of the earth system has converged with the global epoch of capitalist history. Planetary warming and climate change are, therefore, unfolding rapidly. This enveloping process is driven forward by the mutual ruptures of a deteriorating earth system and fossil based global capitalism, as a fraught socioecological totality. Overlapping crises of time are the net result. They involve, the recurring, myopic volatility of financialised capitalism, the ecological impossibility of sustaining capitalist growth, the spreading arrhythmias of biotic, animal, bird, insect and marine life and the irremediable psychological stresses of climate change anxiety. The time crises of global capitalism originate from certain disjunctures of time associated with carbon extractivism, carbon emission markets and official climate change projections. The book sets out the counter constructions of time necessary to energise the climate justice movement and advance ecosocialist principles.

Free Download Constructing Futures: Industry leaders and futures thinking in construction By Paul Chan, Rachel Cooper
2010 | 240 Pages | ISBN: 1405157976 | PDF | 6 MB
There is growing interest in future scenario planning of the construction industry but a disconnect between thinking about the future at the policy-making level and implementing real change.Constructing Futures: industry leaders and futures thinking in construction takes a thematic approach to the future of the UK construction industry by presenting the results of a series of in-depth interviews conducted with leading construction figures and structuring this material into chapters addressing the key contemporary issues in the industry.These high-profile figures are drawn from a wide range of stakeholder groups representing the realities of construction, including architects, client organisations (public-sector and private-sector), consultants, contractors, developers, lobby groups with special interests, policy makers, professional institutions, and trade unions.A total of 15 influential figures were interviewed for the book, from Sir Michael Latham and Bob White to Wayne Hemmingway and Kevin McCloud.Part One looks to the past by reviewing a series of foresight studies undertaken of the construction industry and re-presenting stories of our interviewees’ lives to explain the development of leadership in the context of the construction industry. In Part Two, the authors look at the present and discuss two fundamental issues: sustainable development and governance of the construction industry. In Part Three the book concludes with an afterthought for the future, highlighting key lessons learnt putting forward a series of research questions derived from this scholarly reflection of ‘futures thinking’ in construction.Throughout, the authors juxtapose the views of the 15 influential figures interviewed with a review of the salient points found in the relevant and authoritative sources of theoretical literature, both in the mainstream literature and the field of construction management. This allows the reader to benefit from the practical insights of those interviews whilst gaining a rapid understanding of the key debates of the theoretical subject under scrutiny.