Gray Dawn
Title | Gray Dawn PDF eBook |
Author | Peter G. Peterson |
Publisher | Crown |
Pages | 298 |
Release | 1999 |
Genre | Current Events |
ISBN |
There's an iceerg dead ahead. It's called global aging, an it threatens to bankrupt the great powers. As the populations of the world's leading economies age and shrink, we will face unprecedented political, economic, and moral challenges. But we are woefully unprepared. Now is the time to ring the alarm bell ...
The Coming Waves
Title | The Coming Waves PDF eBook |
Author | Dustin DiPerna |
Publisher | |
Pages | 368 |
Release | 2014-09-01 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9780989228961 |
DiPerna and Augustine have curated a fantastic collection of inspiring articles written by integral thinkers from around the globe. The Coming Waves highlights a bright future for humanity. With emphasis given to the phrase "Wake Up, Grow Up, Clean Up, Show Up" the book outlines a unique example of what it means to be a truly integrated spiritual practitioner in our current times. Topics include: spiritual awakening, evolutionary philosophy and development, psychological health, social activism, and the role of intersubjective practice in the unfolding of a planetary culture, among others. In its attempt to provide a platform for the next wave of integral thinkers, the majority of authors are in their 20s, 30s, and 40s. Each author was selected for the particular gift that he or she brings to the larger constellation of writers. If you want to catch a glimpse of our bright future, this book provides a peek into the new Earth and new civilization that has already arrived. Contributing Authors: Michael Wombacher, Jeff Carreira, Dustin DiPerna, John Churchill, Clint Fuhs, Michael Brabant, Andrew Venezia, H.B. Augustine, Thomas Huebl, Rob McNamara, Jana Espiritu Santo, Eliot Bissey, Gail Hochachka, Mikyo Clark, Mick Quinn, Debora Prieto. This second edition includes a new foreword by Ken Wilber.
The Running Waves
Title | The Running Waves PDF eBook |
Author | T. M. Murphy |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2010-06-22 |
Genre | Bildungsromans |
ISBN | 9781935557555 |
It's the summer of 1994. O.J. Simpson is chased in his white Bronco, the Beastie Boys have just released Ill Communication, and the Major League Baseball strike is looming. For 19-year-old Colin Brennan living in Silver Shores Cape Cod, Summertime should be one of the best times of his young life. But the beautiful scenery is instead a constant reminder of what happened the previous year. Colin is haunted by the memory of a tragic accident that took the lives of his two best friends, in a story of unresolved grief, substance abuse, break-ups, baseball, brotherly love, and the thorny road to redemption.
Wild Savage Stars
Title | Wild Savage Stars PDF eBook |
Author | Kristina Perez |
Publisher | Imprint |
Pages | 448 |
Release | 2019-08-27 |
Genre | Young Adult Fiction |
ISBN | 1250132843 |
Inspired by the legend of Tristan and Iseult, Kristina Pérez's Wild Savage Stars is the spellbinding sequel to Sweet Black Waves. Branwen has a secret powerful enough to destroy two kingdoms. Her ancient magic led to a terrible betrayal by both her best friend, the princess Essy, and her first love, Tristan. Now this same magic is changing Branwen. Adrift in a rival court, Branwen must hide the truth from the enemy king by protecting the lovers who broke her heart—and finds herself considering a darker path. Not everyone wants the alliance with Branwen’s kingdom to succeed—peace is balanced on a knife’s edge, and her only chance may be to embrace the darkness within... And don't miss the thrilling conclusion in Bright Raven Skies! An Imprint Book “Come for the torrid romance, stay for the dramatic intrigue and fierce feminism.” —Kirkus Reviews
Clark Little
Title | Clark Little PDF eBook |
Author | Clark Little |
Publisher | Ten Speed Press |
Pages | 241 |
Release | 2022-04-05 |
Genre | Photography |
ISBN | 1984859781 |
Instagram sensation Clark Little shares his most remarkable photographs from inside the breaking wave, with a foreword by world surfing champion Kelly Slater. “One of the world’s most amazing water photographers . . . Now we get to experience up-close these moments of bliss.”—Jack Johnson, musician and environmentalist Surfer and photographer Clark Little creates deceptively peaceful pictures of waves by placing himself under the deadly lip as it is about to hit the sand. "Clark's view" is a rare and dangerous perspective of waves from the inside out. Thanks to his uncanny ability to get the perfect shot--and live to share it--Little has garnered a devout audience, been the subject of award-winning documentaries, and become one of the world's most recognizable wave photographers. Clark Little: The Art of Waves compiles over 150 of his images, including crystalline breaking waves, the diverse marine life of Hawaii, and mind-blowing aerial photography. This collection features his most beloved pictures, as well as work that has never been published in book form, with Little's stories and insights throughout. Journalist Jamie Brisick contributes essays on how Clark gets the shot, how waves are created, swimming with sharks, and more. With a foreword by eleven-time world surfing champion Kelly Slater and an afterword by the author on his photographic practice and technique, Clark Little: The Art of Waves offers a rare view of the wave for us to enjoy from the safety of land.
Human Frontiers
Title | Human Frontiers PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Bhaskar |
Publisher | MIT Press |
Pages | 433 |
Release | 2022-08-02 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0262545101 |
Why has the flow of big, world-changing ideas slowed down? A provocative look at what happens next at the frontiers of human knowledge. The history of humanity is the history of big ideas that expand our frontiers—from the wheel to space flight, cave painting to the massively multiplayer game, monotheistic religion to quantum theory. And yet for the past few decades, apart from a rush of new gadgets and the explosion of digital technology, world-changing ideas have been harder to come by. Since the 1970s, big ideas have happened incrementally—recycled, focused in narrow bands of innovation. In this provocative book, Michael Bhaskar looks at why the flow of big, world-changing ideas has slowed, and what this means for the future. Bhaskar argues that the challenge at the frontiers of knowledge has arisen not because we are unimaginative and bad at realizing big ideas but because we have already pushed so far. If we compare the world of our great-great-great-grandparents to ours today, we can see how a series of transformative ideas revolutionized almost everything in just a century and a half. But recently, because of short-termism, risk aversion, and fractious decision making, we have built a cautious, unimaginative world. Bhaskar shows how we can start to expand the frontier again by thinking big—embarking on the next Universal Declaration of Human Rights or Apollo mission—and embracing change.
Wave
Title | Wave PDF eBook |
Author | Sonali Deraniyagala |
Publisher | McClelland & Stewart |
Pages | 146 |
Release | 2013-03-05 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0771025386 |
A brave, intimate, beautifully crafted memoir by a survivor of the tsunami that struck the Sri Lankan coast in 2004 and took her entire family. On December 26, Boxing Day, Sonali Deraniyagala, her English husband, her parents, her two young sons, and a close friend were ending Christmas vacation at the seaside resort of Yala on the south coast of Sri Lanka when a wave suddenly overtook them. She was only to learn later that this was a tsunami that devastated coastlines through Southeast Asia. When the water began to encroach closer to their hotel, they began to run, but in an instant, water engulfed them, Sonali was separated from her family, and all was lost. Sonali Deraniyagala has written an extraordinarily honest, utterly engrossing account of the surreal tragedy of a devastating event that all at once ended her life as she knew it and her journey since in search of understanding and redemption. It is also a remarkable portrait of a young family's life and what came before, with all the small moments and larger dreams that suddenly and irrevocably ended.