CLICKING: 16 TRENDS TO FUTURE FIT YOUR LIFE, YOUR WORK, AND YOUR BUSINESS, by Faith Popcorn and Lys Marigold (HarperCollins, $26).
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REPRESENTATIVE QUOTE: “As we approach the millennium, the need to Click intensifies. Why? Because as the odometer of the century begins to turn…the gaps will continue to widen–between winners and losers, between the Haves and Have-Nots. What we’re talking about goes beyond money. We’re talking about the vast division of Techno-Haves, Family-Haves, and Happiness-Haves with their counterparts, the sadly Have-Nots.”
JESUS CEO: USING ANCIENT WISDOM FOR VISIONARY LEADERSHIP, by Laurie Beth Jones (Hyperion, $10.95).
SYNOPSIS: Ancient monuments like the line drawings at Nazca, Peru, and the pyramids–whether Inca or, especially, Egyptian–are just too damn well-wrought to have been produced unaided by our fumble-thumbed forebears. Obviously an advanced civilization existed at the south pole and set out all these guideposts before the earth’s crust shifted and it was buried under ice.
