Considers different points of view on topics effecting the planet's future, such as population control, demographic trends, global ecology, technology, and the future of international relations.
In a world in which power is held by the rich and elderly, ninety-four-year-old Mia Ziemann risks everything--including her life--to return to her youth through medical means and find the freedom and passion she has never had.
The author describes a world where the United States will no longer dominate the global economy, maintaining that the economic growth of other nations like China, India, and Russia have challenged America's standing around the world.
Examines the major events, people, and stories that occurred around the world during 2007, including the Virginia Tech shooting, wild fires in Southern California, the Iraq War, the bridge collapse in Minneapolis.
"What would the world look like if America were to reduce its role as a global leader in order to focus all its energies on solving its problems at home? And is America really in decline? Robert Kagan ... paints a vivid, alarming picture of what the world might look like if the United States were truly to let its influence wane"--Flap p. 1 of dust jacket.
Larkin, abducted from her parents as a child and raised by members of the Church of Christian America, comes to suspect that Lauren Olamina, leader of the cult Earthseed, is her biological mother.
