{"product_id":"preparing-for-the-twenty-first-centuryisbn-9780679747055","title":"Preparing for the Twenty-First Century","description":"Kennedy's groundbreaking book The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers helped to reorder the current priorities of the United States. Now, he synthesizes extensive research on fields ranging from demography to robotics to draw a detailed, persuasive, and often sobering map of the very near future--a bold work that bridges the gap between history, prophecy, and policy.\"Penetrating...the book's impact is crushing.\"--The New York Times\u003cbr\u003e \"Required reading for anyone who wants to take measure of the 21st-century realities.\" --The New York Times Book Review.\u003cb\u003ePaul Kennedy\u003c\/b\u003e is internationally known for his writings and commentaries on global political, economic, and strategic issues. He earned his B.A. at Newcastle University and his doctorate at the University of Oxford. Since 1983, he has been the Dilworth Professor of History and director of international security studies at Yale University. He is on the editorial board of numerous scholarly journals and writes for \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times, Los Angeles Times, The Atlantic, \u003c\/i\u003eand many foreign-language newspapers and magazines. Kennedy is the author and editor of nineteen books, including \u003ci\u003eThe Rise and Fall of the Great Powers, \u003c\/i\u003ewhich has been translated into more than twenty languages, followed by \u003ci\u003ePreparing for the Twenty-first Century \u003c\/i\u003e(1993) and \u003ci\u003eThe Parliament of Man\u003c\/i\u003e (2006).","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46303718015205,"sku":"NP9780679747055","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780679747055.jpg?v=1730755121","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/preparing-for-the-twenty-first-centuryisbn-9780679747055","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}