Books 1980’s

English futures books from the 1980’s

This list was compiled from contributions by members and is arranged in alphabetical order. Additional notes are given in [ ]’s after the reference including a count where members mentioned the book more than once.

Barney, Gerald O (1980), The Global 2000 Report to the President of the United States: Entering the 21st Century, Washington, U.S. Govt. Print. Off.

Bartkowski, F (1989), Feminist Utopias, Lincoln, Nebraska, University of Nebraska Press.

Bóna, E, Gábor, É, Sárkány, P, & Bíró, D (Eds) (1983), Future research in Hungary, Budapest, Akadémiai Kiadó.

Coates, JF & Jarrett, J (1989), What Futurists Believe, Lomond, World Future Society.

Dator, James (1980), Emerging Issues Analysis at the Hawaii Judiciary, Honolulu, Hawaii, State of Hawaii.

Eisler, R (1987), The Chalice and the Blade: Our History, Our Futures, San Francisco, Harper & Row.

Forman, J & Sowton, C (Eds) (1989), Taking Our Time: Feminist Perspectives on Temporality, Oxford, Pergamon.

Galtung, Johan (1988), Essays in Peace Research: Vol. 1-6, Copenhagen, Christian Ejlers.

Glenn, Jerome C. (1989) Future Mind: Artificial Intelligence: Merging the Mystical and the Technological in the 21st Century, Washington, Acropolis Books.

Halal, William, (1986) The New Capitalism (Wiley Management Series on Problem Solving, Decision Making and Strategic Thinking), Wiley

Harman, W (1988), Global Mind Change, New York, Warner Books.

Jantsch, Eric (1980), The Self-Organizing Universe, New York, Pergamon Press. [2 mentions]

Jungk, Robert & Muller, Norbert (1987), Future Workshops: How to Create Desirable Futures, London, Institute for Social Inventions.

Lamm, Richard D (1985), Megatraumas: America at the Year 2000, Boston, Houghton Mifflin.

Marien, M & Jennings, L (1987), What I Have Learned: Thinking About the Future – Then and Now, Greenwood Press.

Markley, OW & Harmon, Willis (1982), Changing Images of Man, Stanford, Sanford Research Institute.

Masini, Eleonora B (Ed) (1983), Visions of Desirable Societies, Oxford, Pergamon Press.

Naisbitt, John (1982), Megatrends, Warner Books.

Nandy, Ashis (1987), Tradition, Tyranny, and Utopias, Delhi, Oxford University Press.

Nováky, E, Schmidt, Á (eds.), 1988, Technology of Future and Its Social Implications: Lectures of the European Regional Experts Meeting, Budapest, Institute for Social Sciences of HAS, Theoretical Research Institute of Trade Unions, 144 p.

Nuttin, J (1984), Future time perspective and motivation: Theory and research method, With the collaboration of Willy Lens, Hillsdale, New Jersey, Leuwen University Press and Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Nyilas, J, Benedeczki, J, Simai, M (eds.), 1976, Theoretical problems, current structural changes in the world economy, Budapest, Akadémiai Kiadó, 334 p.

Partridge, E (Ed) (1981), Why Care About the Future? Responsibilities to Future Generations, Buffalo, Prometheus Books.

Sarkar, PR (1982), The Liberation of Intellect- Neohumanism, Calcutta, Ananda Marga Publications.

Simai, M (ed.), 1988, Transnational corporations and the global economy, Houndmills in Basingstoke, MacMillan Press

Simai, M, 1981, Interdependence and conflicts in the world economy, Alphen aan den Rijn-Budapest, Sijthoff and Noordhoff – Akadémiai Kiadó, 219 p.

Smith, Wilfred Cantwell, (1981), Towards a world theology: Faith and the comparative history of religion, Westminster Press

Simon, J (1981), The Ultimate Resource, Princeton University Press.

Skolimowski, Henryk (1981), Eco-philosophy: designing new tactics for living, Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd., London – Salem, New Hampshire.

Szentes, T, 1988, The transformation of the world economy: New Directions and New Interests, London, Tokyo, UNU Press, Zed Books, 116 p.

Textor, Robert B, Bhansoon Labavalya, ML, Prabudhanitisarn, S (1984), Alternative Sociocultural Futures for Thailand: A Pilot Inquiry Among Academics, Chiang Mai, Thailand: Faculty of Social Sciences, Chiang Mai University.

Toffler, Alvin (1980), Third Wave, USA, Bantam Books.

Toffler, Alvin (1985), The Adaptive Corporation, New York, McGraw-Hill.

Tydeman, J (1987), Futures Methodologies Handbook: An Overview of Futures Research Methodologies and Techniques, Melbourne, Commission for the Future, Commonwealth of Australia.

Wagar, Warrren (1989), A Short History of the Future, University of Chicago Press.

Wallerstein, Immanuel (1984), The Politics of the World Economy: The States, the Movements, and the Civilizations, London, Cambridge University Press.

World Commission on Environment and Development (1987), Our Common Future, Oxford.