Data Bases • Custom Term Papers • Free Term Papers • Free Research Papers • Free Essays • Free Book Reports • Plagiarism? Links • Top 100 Term Paper Sites • Top 25 Essay Sites • Top 50 Essay Sites • Search 97,000 Papers @ DirectEssays.com • Search 101,000 Papers @ ExampleEssays.com • Search 90,000 Papers @ MegaEssays.com Free Essays • Term Paper Sites • Chuck III's Free Essays • Free College Essays • TermPaperSites.com • My Term Papers • Get Free Essays • Essay World • Planet Papers	Search Lots of Essays Back to Subjects - Theater get it get it This list of books comes from A Message From Future Generations. These are the books that future generations would recommend we read (in order to understand the very long-term perspective) if they were able to speak to us. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (A message to us from future generations) Emmanuel Agius and Salvino Busuttil (editors). What future for future generations? Papers from one of the stimulating conferences sponsored by the Future Generations Programme, Foundation for International Studies, University of Malta. Wendell Bell. Foundations of futures studies. A comprehensive guide to studying the future. Norman Care. On sharing fate. The need to take our needs into account, since you and we share the same fate. Caring for the earth: A strategy of sustainable living. A total plan of bold action to sustain the planet. Eric Chaisson. The life era: Cosmic selection and conscious evolution. In the history of the universe, we are now probably entering the era of widespread life and diverse civilizations. Donella Meadows, Dennis Meadows, and Jorgen Randers. Beyond the limits: Confronting global collapse; envisioning a sustainable future. Understanding the planet, and moving toward a better relationship with it. Ernest Partridge (editor). Responsibilities to future generations: Environmental ethics. Several philosophers discuss your relationship with us. Jonathan Schell. The fate of the earth. A profound and powerful look at the horrors that you may inflict on us. Thinking about future generations and Creating a new history for future generations. Two collections of wide-ranging essays by some of the best thinkers about future generations. (Kyoto: Institute for the Integrated Study of Future Generations, Future Generations Alliance Foundation.) Allen Tough. Crucial questions about the future. What is most important, how can you achieve a positive future, and how can you help us? (USA: University Press of America. Other countries: Adamantine Press.) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ten additional suggestions for further reading Alan Durning. How much is enough? The consumer society and the fate of the earth. One of many useful books from the staff of the Worldwatch Institute. Future generations journal of the global network on responsibilities towards future generations and their environment. Published by the Future Generations Programme at the University of Malta. Future survey: A monthly abstract of books, articles, and reports concerning forecasts, trends, and ideas about the future. Indispensable. Edited by Michael Marien and published by the World Future Society. Futures: The journal of forecasting, planning and policy. A forum for some of the most thoughtful writing on the future. Hans Kung and Karl-Josef Kuschel (editors). A global ethic: The declaration of the Parliament of the World's Religions. Toward a global ethic based on beliefs that are common to all religions. Martha Rogers. Learning about global futures: An exploration of learning processes and changes in adults. Patterns of the mind, heart, and soul when people face the reality of future generations. (Doctor of Education dissertation at the University of Toronto.) Richard A. Slaughter. New thinking for the new millennium: The knowledge base of futures studies. This book, plus his subsequent "Knowledge Base of Futures Studies" series, provides a panorama of relevant ideas from around the world. Allen Tough. "Making a pledge to future generations" (Futures January 1993 and The Futurist May 1993) and "What future generations need from us" (Futures December 1993 and The Futurist March 1995). For the second article, people in nine countries role-played future generations and composed a message. Warren Wagar. The next three futures: Paradigms of things to come. A bold conceptual framework for organizing the various approaches to the future. Edith Brown Weiss. In fairness to future generations: International law, common patrimony, and intergenerational equity. A legal approach that takes our needs and rights into account. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This page, created and maintained by Dr. Allen Tough, is part of a web-based Invitation to ETI. (ETI means any form of alien or extraterrestrial intelligence.) You might also be interested in our other pages. Our home page for humans presents an overview of the entire website. Our Invitation to ETI page issues our invitation, describes our hope for a worldwide dialogue, and lists our questions for ETI. Who we are describes the members of the informal group that has issued the invitation. Another page provides background information About Allen Tough and the invitation An academic paper outlines the rationale for an array of search strategies, with this invitation as one approach. You might be interested in links to further ideas. If contact or some other exciting event occurs, news will be uploaded as soon as possible to the news page and to alternate locations at GeoCities, at Netscape Netcenter, at Angelfire, and at Richard Burke-Ward's website. The email address for Allen Tough is WelcomeETI@aol.com. His fax number is 1-416-444-5538 and his telephone is 1-416-444-3135. Copyright © 1995 Allen Tough. All rights reserved. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bibliography: This list of books comes from A Message From Future Generations. These are the books that future generations would recommend we read (in order to understand the very long-term perspective) if they were able to speak to us. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- THE TEN MOST USEFUL BOOKS FOR UNDERSTANDING OUR PERSPECTIVE (A message to us from future generations) Emmanuel Agius and Salvino Busuttil (editors). What future for future generations? Papers from one of the stimulating conferences sponsored by the Future Generations Programme, Foundation for International Studies, University of Malta. Wendell Bell. Foundations of futures studies. A comprehensive guide to studying the future. Norman Care. On sharing fate. The need to take our needs into account, since you and we share the same fate. Caring for the earth: A strategy of sustainable living. A total plan of bold action to sustain the planet. Eric Chaisson. The life era: Cosmic selection and conscious evolution. In the history of the universe, we are now probably entering the era of widespread life and diverse civilizations. Donella Meadows, Dennis Meadows, and Jorgen Randers. Beyond the limits: Confronting global collapse; Thinking about future generations and Creating a new history for future generations. Two collections of wide-ranging essays by some of the best thinkers about future generations. (Kyoto: Institute for the Integrated Study of Future Generations, Future Generations Alliance Foundation.) Allen Tough. Crucial questions about the future. What is most important, how can you achieve a positive future, and how can you help us? (USA: University Press of America. Other countries: Adamantine Press.) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ten additional suggestions for further reading Alan Durning. How much is enough? The consumer society and the fate of the earth. One of many useful books from the staff of the Worldwatch Institute. Future generations journal of the global network on responsibilities towards future generations and their environment. Published by the Future Generations Programme at the University of Malta. Future survey: A monthly abstract of books, articles, and reports concerning forecasts, trends, and ideas about the future. Indispensable. Edited by Michael Marien and published by the World Future Society. Futures: The journal of forecasting, planning and policy. A forum for some of the most thoughtful writing on the future. Hans Kung and Karl-Josef Kuschel (editors). A global ethic: The declaration of the Parliament of the World's Religions. Toward a global ethic based on beliefs that are common to all religions. Martha Rogers. Learning about global futures: An exploration of learning processes and changes in adults. Patterns of the mind, heart, and soul when people face the reality of future generations. (Doctor of Education dissertation at the University of Toronto.) Richard A. Slaughter. New thinking for the new millennium: The knowledge base of futures studies. This book, plus his subsequent "Knowledge Base of Futures Studies" series, provides a panorama of relevant ideas from around the world. Allen Tough. "Making a pledge to future generations" (Futures January 1993 and The Futurist May 1993) and "What future generations need from us" (Futures December 1993 and The Futurist March 1995). For the second article, people in nine countries role-played future generations and composed a message. Warren Wagar. The next three futures: Paradigms of things to come. A bold conceptual framework for organizing the various approaches to the future. Edith Brown Weiss. In fairness to future generations: International law, common patrimony, and intergenerational equity. A legal approach that takes our needs and rights into account. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This page, created and maintained by Dr. Allen Tough, is part of a web-based Invitation to ETI. (ETI means any form of alien or extraterrestrial intelligence.) You might also be interested in our other pages. Our home page for humans presents an overview of the entire website. Our Invitation to ETI page issues our invitation, describes our hope for a worldwide dialogue, and lists our questions for ETI. Who we are describes the members of the informal group that has issued the invitation. Another page provides background information About Allen Tough and the invitation An academic paper outlines the rationale for an array of search strategies, with this invitation as one approach. You might be interested in links to further ideas. If contact or some other exciting event occurs, news will be uploaded as soon as possible to the news page and to alternate locations at GeoCities, at Netscape Netcenter, at Angelfire, and at Richard Burke-Ward's website. The email address for Allen Tough is WelcomeETI@aol.com. His fax number is 1-416-444-5538 and his telephone is 1-416-444-3135. Copyright © 1995 Allen Tough. All rights reserved. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- . Word Count: 802
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