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The Third Wave

The Third Wave( )
Author: Toffler, Alvin
Read by: Berkrot, Peter
ISBN:978-1-9825-8456-6
Publication Date:Feb 2019
Publisher:Blackstone Audio, Incorporated
Book Format:CD-Audio
List Price:USD $44.95
Book Description:

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...
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Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):5.3 x 7.5 Inches
Author Biography
Toffler, Alvin (Author)
Alvin Toffler was born in New York on October 4, 1928. He received a degree in English from New York University in 1950. While in college he helped register black voters in North Carolina. After graduating, he moved to Cleveland, Ohio with his wife Heidi and took a production job in a factory. He learned to weld and repair machinery. In 1954, he became a reporter for Industry and Welding. He went on to become a reporter for Labor's Daily and then as a labor editor and columnist for Fortune magazine. He left Fortune in 1962 and began a freelance-writing career covering politics, technology, and social science for scholarly journals and writing long interviews for Playboy magazine.

He wrote 13 books during his lifetime including Future Shock, The Third Wave, and Powershift. He received a career achievement award in 2005 from the American Society of Journalists and Authors. In 1996, he and his wife formed Toffler Associates, a global forecasting and consulting company. He died on June 27, 2016 at the age of 87.

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