social change

When, just ten years in the future, oil supplies run out and global warming leads to devastating storms, senior high school classmates Tom, Niki, Gwen, Hector, and Brock realize that the world as they know it is ending and lead the way to a more environmentally-friendly society.

Shows how a community changes as it grows larger or smaller showing Astoria, Oregon, a ghost town, and other examples.

Describes some of the problems our technology has created for society and suggests some strategies for coping in the future.

A collection of short essays that comment on the rapid obsolescence of objects, ideas, and behaviors and human response to change. Subjects include landlines, video stores, wristwatches, and newspapers.

Profiles 100 years of fads and trends including fashions and hairstyles, dances and songs, television shows, toys, and other events and people throughout the twentieth century.

Provides information on 100 careers in areas that offer opportunities to implement social change, featuring a description of each job, with discussion of salary, prospects, qualifications, and characteristics required, and including a profile of a professional working in each field.

When, just ten years in the future, oil supplies run out and global warming leads to devastating storms, senior high school classmates Tom, Niki, Gwen, Hector, and Brock realize that the world as they know it is ending and lead the way to a more environmentally-friendly society.

Assesses the cultural and musical practices of the late 1960s in San Francisco, drawing from a wealth of primary source material to investigate the development and disintegration of the countercultural sensibility in the Haight-Ashbury district, and looking at how the movement perceived itself in relation to the "outside" world.