TY - BOOK AU - KENNEDY Paul TI - Preparing for the twenty-first century SN - 0002156903 (hbk.) PY - 1993/// CY - Toronto, Canada PB - Harper Collins KW - TWENTIETH CENTURY HISTORY N2 - 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 ER -