Record details

• ISBN: 0879750480
• ISBN: 9780879750480
• Physical Description: x, 239 pages ; 24 cm
• Publisher: Buffalo, N.Y. : Prometheus Books, 1976.

Content descriptions

General Note:

"Ten of the essays originally appeared in the November/December issue of the Humanist ... The other nine essays are original contributions published here for the first time."

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references.

Formatted Contents Note:

[1.] The nature and importance of images of the future: Responsibility for the future / Fred L. Polak -- Poetry and the future / Geoffrey Squires -- Search for an image / Jacques Ellul -- Stories and images of the future / Thomas F. Green -- Blind prophets and quick-witted kings / Drew Christiansen -- [2.] The futures movement and images of the possible: Futuristics and social behavior / Wendell Bell -- Up the downward path: the futures movement and the social imagination / Robert Bundy -- [3.] Images of world trends and problems: Issues of human welfare / Lester R. Brown -- On economic growth, energy, and the meaning of life / Herman Kahn -- [4.] Images of human progress: Beyond progress: three post-political futures / Manfred Stanley -- Human nature and human relations / Robert T. Francoeur -- Toward an experimental society / Robert Jungk -- [5.] Nonmale and nonwhite images of social reconstruction: Women and the future / Elaine Morgan -- A nonmale image of the future / Mary Lee Bundy -- The future of racial minorities in American society / Vine Deloria, Jr. -- [6.] Religious imagination and the future: Religion, futurism, and models of social change / Elise Boulding -- A cosmic perspective on man's future / Ralph Wendell Burhoe -- [7.] Images of education and learning: Growth, distribution, and the professional frame of reference / W. Timothy Weaver -- Learning: rivers and nets! / Roy P. Fairfield -- Epilogue: A summary and some notes on finding a new meaning for the future / Robert Bundy.

Additional Physical Form available Note:

Also issued online.

Search for related items by subject

Subject:

Forecasting.