You’re not supposed to do it, but judging a book by its cover is a skill we all employ from time to time; whether we’re standing in a busy Barnes & Noble or squinting at a screen full of thumbnails, a book’s cover is often all you have time to peruse. Sure, in a perfect […]
After decades of environmental degradation, climate change and consumerism, humanity has backed itself into a corner that it can't get out of without taking drastic and horrifying steps. Our fate rests in The Omega Team's hands - but will they steel themselves and take the necessary measures to prevent extinction?
This novel follows the decline of the economies and behaviour of the West and the surge of the major
"developing" countries - and the inevitable results. It is based on solid scientific facts and informed by the author's long experience with the issues presented. It is not just a scientific thriller but a warning of the consequences of inaction in changing the way we live - before it is too late.
CARLO TESTA has worked in thirty countries and lived in twenty. He served with UNESCO, UNDP (the
United Nations Development Plan), UNICEF and the World Bank, as well as government agencies and private corporations. He has taught at the University of California at Berkeley, at St. Louis and at the University of
Toronto. He is the author of several technical books, one historical novel in Italian, and hundreds of columns on social and economic affairs. He lives in Blandford, Nova Scotia. This book was written in 1999 and kept in a drawer. Without any changes it has become part history and part forecast.
After decades of environmental degradation, climate change and consumerism, humanity has backed itself into a corner that it can't get out of without taking drastic and horrifying steps. Our fate rests in The Omega Team's hands - but will they steel themselves and take the necessary measures to prevent extinction?
This novel follows the decline of the economies and behaviour of the West and the surge of the major
"developing" countries - and the inevitable results. It is based on solid scientific facts and informed by the author's long experience with the issues presented. It is not just a scientific thriller but a warning of the consequences of inaction in changing the way we live - before it is too late.
CARLO TESTA has worked in thirty countries and lived in twenty. He served with UNESCO, UNDP (the
United Nations Development Plan), UNICEF and the World Bank, as well as government agencies and private corporations. He has taught at the University of California at Berkeley, at St. Louis and at the University of
Toronto. He is the author of several technical books, one historical novel in Italian, and hundreds of columns on social and economic affairs. He lives in Blandford, Nova Scotia. This book was written in 1999 and kept in a drawer. Without any changes it has become part history and part forecast.
A Column of Fire (Kingsbridge Series #3)
928A Column of Fire (Kingsbridge Series #3)
928Related collections and offers
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9780525954972 |
---|---|
Publisher: | Penguin Publishing Group |
Publication date: | 09/12/2017 |
Series: | Kingsbridge Series , #3 |
Pages: | 928 |
Sales rank: | 40,653 |
Product dimensions: | 5.90(w) x 9.50(h) x 1.80(d) |
About the Author
Videos
Customer Reviews
Explore More Items
The past may seem the safest place to be . . . but it is the most dangerous time
This special twenty-fifth-anniversary edition
“All you’ve come to expect from Gabaldon . .
It
Oprah's Book Club Selection
The “extraordinary . . . monumental masterpiece” (Booklist) that changed the course of Ken Follett’s already phenomenal
In 1989, Ken Follett astonished the literary world with The Pillars of the Earth, a sweeping epic novel set in twelfth-century England centered on the building of a
Ken Follett’s Century Trilogy follows the fortunes of five intertwined familiesAmerican, German, Russian, English, and Welshas they make their way through the twentieth century. It
Picking up where Fall of Giants, the first novel in the extraordinary Century Trilogy, left off, Winter of the World follows its five interrelated familiesAmerican, German, Russian, English,
En Las tinieblas y el alba, Ken Follett embarca al lector en un épico viaje que termina donde Los pilares de la
"At once a scholar’s homage to The Iliad and startlingly original work of art….A book I could not put down." —Ann Patchett,
An enchanting short story from Madeline Miller that boldly reimagines the myth of Galatea and Pygmalion, now in hardcover for the first time
**A small hardcover edition featuring a