The book for control over your life and managing your own destiny. A unique Chinese calendar for those who practice Ba Zi, Qigong, I Ching, and Feng Shui. When using this volume correctly, one can find out how the current events are programmed, and find a way out of difficult situations in life. The calendar contains hieroglyphs and their deciphered meaning in the form of primary elements. Contents: a table to determine the hour; information to convert local birth time into Greenwich GMT time, for all time zones; a chart to define the best date to schedule important events; a personal nutrition system; explained I Ching hexagrams for divinations; best directions in the surroundings according to Gua, and Flying Starts Charts for all directions for period number eight; tips on relations between the heavenly pillars and the cyclic animals. The “Chinese Calendar” is the fundamentals for “Ba Zi Anthology”, which describes the entire process of drafting and deciphering horoscopes.

The clock is relentlessly ticking! Our world teeters on a knife-edge between a peaceful and prosperous future for all, and a dark winter of death and destruction that threatens to smother the light of civilization. Within 30 years, in the 2030 decade, six powerful 'drivers' will converge with unprecedented force in a statistical spike that could tear humanity apart and plunge the world into a new Dark Age. Depleted fuel supplies, massive population growth, poverty, global climate change, famine, growing water shortages and international lawlessness are on a crash course with potentially catastrophic consequences. In the face of both doomsaying and denial over the state of our world, Colin Mason cuts through the rhetoric and reams of conflicting data to muster the evidence to illustrate a broad picture of the world as it is, and our possible futures. Ultimately his message is clear; we must act decisively, collectively and immediately to alter the trajectory of humanity away from catastrophe. Offering over 100 priorities for immediate action, The 2030 Spike serves as a guidebook for humanity through the treacherous minefields and wastelands ahead to a bright, peaceful and prosperous future in which all humans have the opportunity to thrive and build a better civilization. This book is powerful and essential reading for all people concerned with the future of humanity and planet earth.

Greatly revised and expanded, with a new afterword, this update to Martin Jacques’s global bestseller is an essential guide to understanding a world increasingly shaped by Chinese power Soon, China will rule the world. But in doing so, it will not become more Western. Since the first publication of When China Rules the World, the landscape of world power has shifted dramatically. In the three years since the first edition was published, When China Rules the World has proved to be a remarkably prescient book, transforming the nature of the debate on China. Now, in this greatly expanded and fully updated edition, boasting nearly 300 pages of new material, and backed up by the latest statistical data, Martin Jacques renews his assault on conventional thinking about China’s ascendancy, showing how its impact will be as much political and cultural as economic, changing the world as we know it. First published in 2009 to widespread critical acclaim - and controversy - When China Rules the World: The End of the Western World and the Birth of a New Global Order has sold a quarter of a million copies, been translated into eleven languages, nominated for two major literary awards, and is the subject of an immensely popular TED talk.

Uncharted Waters: The New Economics of Water Scarcity

This is a reference text that is designed to supplement and aid the advanced study and practice of Xuan Kong Da Gua among students and practitioners. This book provides the reference diagrams and attributes of the 64 Gua Transformations. In Xuan Kong Da Gua Feng Shui, the Qi of the property is conveyed through the 64 Hexagrams. Factors such as Time, People, Environment, Property and Events are also expressed through the 64 Hexagrams, and the integration between these components is the essence of Xuan Kong Da Gua. Understanding how these Hexagrams interact with one another allows the practitioner to harness the Qi of time and space, as well as predict events and outcomes. This is the KEY to the secrets of Xuan Kong hexagram interpretation. Each of these Hexagrams can be transformed through the changing lines (Yao), and there are a total of 384 Transformations. The highlights of this book include: 64 Gua Table Chart; Gua Palaces Reference Tables; Xuan Kong Da Gua Reference Charts showing the Internal Plate and External Plate; Xuan Kong Da Gua Transformation analysis for all 64 Hexagrams; Detailed charts and tables showing the Changing Yao, the Upper and Lower Trigrams of the Hexagram, and the Early Heaven and Later Heaven Ba Gua numbers; 64 Gua Explanations and Commentaries. Experienced students and practitioners who are keen to tap into the powerful techniques of Gua Transformation will find this an important and invaluable resource.

Why does the West rule? In this magnum opus, eminent Stanford polymath Ian Morris answers this provocative question, drawing on 50,000 years of history, archeology, and the methods of social science, to make sense of when, how, and why the paths of development differed in the East and West — and what this portends for the 21st century. There are two broad schools of thought on why the West rules. Proponents of "Long-Term Lock-In" theories such as Jared Diamond suggest that from time immemorial, some critical factor — geography, climate, or culture perhaps — made East and West unalterably different, and determined that the industrial revolution would happen in the West and push it further ahead of the East. But the East led the West between 500 and 1600, so this development can't have been inevitable; and so proponents of "Short-Term Accident" theories argue that Western rule was a temporary aberration that is now coming to an end, with Japan, China, and India resuming their rightful places on the world stage. However, as the West led for 9,000 of the previous 10,000 years, it wasn't just a temporary aberration. So, if we want to know why the West rules, we need a whole new theory. Ian Morris, boldly entering the turf of Jared Diamond and Niall Ferguson, provides the broader approach that is necessary, combining the textual historian's focus on context, the anthropological archaeologist's awareness of the deep past, and the social scientist's comparative methods to make sense of the past, present, and future — in a way no one has ever done before.