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Redesigning Humans:

Our Inevitable Genetic Future

Houghton Mifflin  - Publication scheduled April 2002 --

"Whether or not you agree with Stock's provocative vision of the human future, you will come away with a deepened understanding of the immense challenges ahead."
Alvin Toffler

"Gregory Stock's intellectual brilliance has brought us a wonderful book that is fascinating to read and that everyone needs.  And his style is fluent and attractive.  Whether or not you share his vision of the future, this book will enthrall you."
Sherwin Nuland

 

Metaman by Gregory Stock

METAMAN

The Merging of Humans and Machines into a Global Superorganism

In this visionary book, Gregory Stock gives us a new way of understanding our world and our future.  He develops the provocative thesis that human society has become an immense living being - a global superorganism in which we humans, knitted together by our modern technology and communication, are like the cells in an animal's body.  Drawing on impressive research, Stock shows this newly formed superorganism to be more than metaphor; it is an actual living creature, which he has named "Metaman," meaning "Beyond and transcending humans."

Comments about Metaman

Simon and Schuster - 365 pages

Engineering the Human Germline:

An Exploration of the Science and Ethics of Altering the Genes We Pass to Our Children

Editors:

Gregory Stock and John Campbell.

Oxford University Press, 2000.

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The Book of Questions

Amazon.com

The #1 New York Times Bestseller, translated into 17 languages, this book poses 250 questions that invite people to explore the most fascinating of subjects: themselves. All of the questions are so fundamentally intriguing because they are about our very lives-our fundamental values and beliefs, our dreams and nightmares. Many thrust you into a value-testing hypothetical situation, others ask you about your past to help you find out if you've changed; and others reveal your basic nature by examining your behavior. Whether used as an avenue for personal growth, a tool for deepening relationships, a way to quickly get to know someone, or simply as an amusement, The Book of Questions may be the only publication that challenges the way readers view the world, without offering a single opinion of its own..

Also available by the same author:  

0894806319_m.gif (5300 bytes) THE KIDS' BOOK OF QUESTIONS, a bestselling collection specially designed to challenge, provoke, and entertain young readers;

156305034x_m.gif (13454 bytes)  THE BOOK OF QUESTIONS: BUSINESS, POLITICS, AND ETHICS, a compendium of 300 primary and follow-up questions that focus on commerce and politics.

 089480619X_m.gif (6485 bytes)  THE BOOK OF QUESTIONS: LOVE & SEX, posing over 250 questions that allow you to explore the mysteries of love and sex-without dispelling the magic.

In the Future... The Book of Questions

In Preparation. Workman Press. 2002

 


BIBLIOGRAPHY

Gregory Stock

The Book of Questions. 1985. Stock, Gregory. Stock & Breznau Publishing Co., Los Angeles 3 printings. 15,000 in print.

The Book of Questions. 1987. Stock, Gregory. Workman., NY. 54 printings. 2.2 million in print. (Foreign 150,000). New York Times best-seller list for 26 weeks. Translations:  Spanish, French, Italian, Chinese, German,  Swedish, Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Finnish, Japanese, Portuguese, Icelandic, Hebrew, Hungarian, Slovakian, Bulgarian

The Kids' Book of Questions. 1988. Stock, Gregory. Workman. NY. 16 printings. 650,000 in print. (Foreign 40,000). Publishers Weekly Juvenile best seller list for 2 months. Translations: German, Hungarian, Japanese.

Love and Sex: The Book of Questions.1989. Stock, Gregory. Workman NY 21 printings. 650,000 in print. (Foreign -80,000) Translations: Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Spanish, Portuguese,    Korean.

Business, Politics, and Ethics: The Book of Questions. 1991. Stock, Gregory. Workman. NY. 100,000 in print.

Metaman: The Merging of Humans and Machines into a Global Superorganism. 1993. Stock, Gregory. Simon & Schuster (NY), Doubleday (Toronto), Bantam (London), Mondadori (Italy) Kadakawa (Tokyo), Soho (China).

Engineering the Human Germline: An Exploration of the Science and Ethics of Altering the Genes We Pass to Our Children, Editors: Gregory Stock and John Campbell. Oxford University Press, December 1999.

Redesigning Humans: Our Inevitable Genetic Future. Houghton Mifflin, April 2002, Profile Press (Great Britain) May 2002.

In the Future … The Book of Questions. In prep, Workman Press, 2002.