A Short History of the Future

A Short History of the Future
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Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Total Pages : 348
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ISBN-10 : 0226869032
ISBN-13 : 9780226869032
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Book Synopsis A Short History of the Future by : W. Warren Wagar

Download or read book A Short History of the Future written by W. Warren Wagar and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1999-08 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Narrated by a far-future historian, Peter Jensen leaves an account of the world from the 1990s to the opening of the 23rd century as a gift to his granddaughter. A combination of fiction and scholarship, this third edition of Wagar's speculative history of the future alternates between descriptions of world events and intimate glimpses of this historian's family into the first centuries of the new millennium.


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