“Nobody knows better than Bruce Sterling how thin the membrane between science fiction and real life has become, a state he correctly depicts as both thrilling and terrifying in this frisky, literate, clear-eyed sketch of the next half-century. Like all of the most interesting futurists, Sterling isn’t just talking about machines and biochemistry: what he really cares about are the interstices of technology with culture and human history.” -Kurt Andersen, author of Turn of the Century Visionary author Bruce Sterling views the future like no other writer. In his first nonfiction book since his classic The Hacker Crackdown, Sterling describes the world our children might be living in over the next fifty years and what to expect next in culture, geopolitics, and business. Time calls Bruce Sterling “one of America’s best-known science fiction writers and perhaps the sharpest observer of our media-choked culture working today in any genre.” Tomorrow Now is, as Sterling wryly describes it, “an ambitious, sprawling effort in thundering futurist punditry, in the pulsing vein of the futurists I’ve read and admired over the years: H. G. Wells, Arthur C. Clarke, and Alvin Toffler; Lewis Mumford, Reyner Banham, Peter Drucker, and Michael Dertouzos. This book asks the future two questions: What does it mean? and How does it feel? ” Taking a cue from one of William Shakespeare’s greatest soliloquies, Sterling devotes one chapter to each of the seven stages of humanity: birth, school, love, war, politics, business, and old age. As our children progress through Sterling’s Shakespearean life cycle, they will encounter new products; new weapons; new crimes; new moral conundrums, such as cloning and genetic alteration; and new political movements, which will augur the way wars of the future will be fought. Here are some of the author’s predictions: • Human clone babies will grow into the bitterest and surliest adolescents ever. • Microbes will be more important than the family farm. • Consumer items will look more and more like cuddly, squeezable pets. • Tomorrow’s kids will learn more from randomly clicking the Internet than they ever will from their textbooks. • Enemy governments will be nice to you and will badly want your tourist money, but global outlaws will scheme to kill you, loudly and publicly, on their Jihad TVs. • The future of politics is blandness punctuated with insanity. The future of activism belongs to a sophisticated, urbane global network that can make money—the Disney World version of Al Qaeda. Tomorrow Now will change the way you think about the future and our place in it. From the Hardcover edition.

Predicting that the next generation will be living in a substantially different world, a forecast for the next fifty years discusses such topics as technology, health, law enforcement, and politics, and has been updated to include an all-new afterword. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.

Available again in time for election season, Eleanor Roosevelt's most important book—a battle cry for civil rights As relevant and influential now as it was when first published in 1963, Tomorrow Is Now is Eleanor Roosevelt's manifesto and her final effort to move America toward the community she hoped it would become. In bold, blunt prose, one of the greatest First Ladies of American history traces her country's struggle to embrace democracy and presents her declaration against fear, timidity, complacency, and national arrogance. An open, unrestrained look into her mind and heart as well as a clarion call to action, Tomorrow Is Now is the work Eleanor Roosevelt willed herself to stay alive to finish writing. For this edition, former U.S. President Bill Clinton contributes a new foreword and Roosevelt historian Allida Black provides an authoritative introduction focusing on Eleanor Roosevelt’s diplomatic career. For more than sixty-five years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,500 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

In today's interconnected world, most people have acquired knowledge of producing the best result but are still stuck in the how do I start phase. You don't want your big dreams, if you have one, and plans fade away like it never existed just because you don't have the resources. This book will do justice to that in a very simplified way such that by the time you are reading the last chapter, you have already started. The subtitle of this book is "Start Now". That's because I believe that achieving any height of success or milestone can only be possible if, against all odds, you started. You will remember back in school when our instructors ask us questions and we are supposed to answer, maybe after someone has answered it, but we are like, "that is what I wanted to say". Funny memory, right? The truth is, the world will recognize who does it first, not who has it in mind first.

In the spirit of business/self-help hits such as Darren Hardy's The Compound Effect, a simple formula for productivity and success, from a prominent sports psychologist and a star business coach who join forces to offer seven fundamental skills for improving your habits and achieving peak performance in work and life.

Many of us have been there. You have been granted 30 days to plan for a term paper- but you are not really working on the paper before the deadline is pre-eminent. You would rather be doing just anything other than working on tasks you know that you must work on. You think you are going to stop putting off things -starting tomorrow. Etc. This can be regarded as Procrastination, which is a constant attempt to push off challenging tasks that needs to be done now. Someone said procrastination is like a credit card: you can have a lot of fun until you get the bill."Do it Now -Tomorrow might be too late"! Partly based on personal experiences, the present book uncovers the causes and types of procrastination with the aim of helping you to uproot it from your live. With this book, you have a well sized gadget -printed with real life experiences- to deploy your full potential and tackle your most challenging tasks and projects -starting now. It's all About your decision, your discipline, and your Determination.A Must-have for someone who keeps stuff off when it gets down tomorrow. Get rid of all the stress and hectic that come along with procrastination. If you planned to read many books on procrastination, read this first- and please: do it now!...tomorrow might be too late: )

When Caroline and her husband begin working with civil war refugees in South Sudan and Kenya, they'll discover the deep complexities of American interference abroad, the consequences of striving for perfection in an imperfect world, and above all--the extraordinary grace to be found in the unlikeliest of places.