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From the author of Future Shock comes a striking way out of today's despair ... a bracing, optimistic look at our new potentials. The Third Wave makes startling sense of the violent changes now battering our world. Its sweeping synthesis casts fresh light on our new forms of marriage and family, on today's dramatic changes in business and economics. It explains the role of cults, the new definitions of work, play, love, and success. It points toward new forms of twenty-first-century democracy.

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Toffler has imagination and an ability to think of various future possibilities by transcending prevailing values, assumptions, and myths. -- Associated Press Rich, stimulating and basically optimistic...will unquestionably aid many to a greater understanding of [today's] puzzling social changes. -- Globe and Mail (Toronto) A detailed, breathtakingly bold projection of the social changes required if we are to survive. -- Cosmopolitan Magnificent...An astonishing array of information. -- Wall Street Journal

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Alvin Toffler (1928-2016) was an American writer and futurist whose list of bestselling books includes Future Shock, The Third Wave, and Powershift. He was a cofounder of Toffler Associates, a consulting firm for companies and governments worldwide on advances in economics, technology, and social change. In France, where his work won the prestigious Prix du Meilleur Livre Etranger (Best Foreign Book Prize), he was named an Officier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. Peter Berkrot, a forty-year veteran of stage and screen, has voiced over three hundred audiobook titles, winning Earphones Awards, a 2012 Audie Award nomination, and a 2016 Audie Award.

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