forecasting

Profiles one hundred careers in the health care field, including information on educational requirements, admission tests, financial aid, training programs, salary, advancement opportunities, outlook through 2018, resumes, certification, licensure, and other related topics.

Recounts the events that led to the downfall of the American car market, explaining how Detroit's Big Three automobile companies' focus on high-profit trucks and SUVs caused them to miss opportunities to win back the American car buyer, leading to Americans' buy foreign cars and change the automobile industry forever.

Describes the problems of a world economy dependent on oil, and the reliance of governments, companies, developing nations, and the western world on a cheap, readily available energy source, and explores the economics and politics behind oil, and alternatives to it.

Describes how advancements and innovations in biotechnology are changing the lives of people in the twenty-first century, and discusses an electronic nose that can detect infection based on a person's breath, computerized psychotherapists, brainwave operating wheelchairs, and more.

Discusses the bioscientific discoveries of the twenty-first century, covering technological advancements and controverial issues such as the human lifespan, the future of pharmaceuticals and medical devices, and more; and offers long-term scenariosthat could impact the reader's health, family, career, and society.

Presents opposing viewpoints on the future of America through discussion of social, technological, economic, ecological, and political factors.

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.

This book traces the possible consequences of a global super-plague, with ideas and evidence based on similar scenarios from fact and fiction.

Provides descriptions of nearly five hundred jobs that have average annual earnings of $40,000 or more, a projected growth rate of ten percent or more, and 100,000 or more openings each year; and features lists that group the jobs by interests, age, gender, and other criteria.