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Author : Dr. Vasant Joshi
Publisher : Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 35,79 MB
Release : 2016-11-18
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9352615670
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Author : Kenneth B. Mulholland
Publisher : William Carey Library
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 34,86 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780878083824
This collection of presentations from the 1999 IFMA/EFMA/EMS Triennial Conference explores the incredibly ambitious purpose and challenging task of Working Together with God to Shape the New Millennium. Topics include Biblical Foundations for the New Millennium, Working Together Strategically, and Leadership Needed for the New Millennium.
Author : Peter Ellyard
Publisher : Melbourne University
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 12,20 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :
Revised and updated edition of a collection of ideas for the new millennium, first published 1998. Describes the emerging culture of 'Planetism' and its implications for leadership and management, education and learning, health and wellbeing, industrial development, food production and agriculture, environmental management, and intercultural relations and understanding. Urges the creation of an ecologically, economically, socially and culturally sustainable Planetist society in the 21st century. Includes bibliography and index. Author is a futurist and strategist who is currently executive director of Preferred Futures Pty Ltd. He has been a senior adviser to the United Nations for over 20 years.
Author : Walter Mercado
Publisher : Grand Central Publishing
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 21,70 MB
Release : 1997-06-01
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9780446520669
Popular, charismatic, Spanish-speaking astrologer Walter Mercado presents an embracing, optimistic forecast for the new millennium. In this enlightening and visionary work, Mercado tells how the 2,000-year Age of Pisces, dominated by patriarchy, racial and religious strife, and bitter warfare, now gives way to the Age of Aquarius--an era of tolerance and inclusion.
Author : David Ehrenfeld
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 29,69 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0195096371
Early in this volume, David Ehrenfeld describes what prophecy really is. Referring to the biblical prophets, he says they were not the "holy fortunetellers that the word prophet has come to signify....The business of prophecy is not simply foretelling the future; rather it is describing the present with exceptional truthfulness and accuracy." Once this is done, then it can be seen that broad aspects of the future have suddenly become apparent. The twentieth century is drawing to a chaotic close amidst portents of unprecedented change and upheaval. The unravelling of societies and civilizations and the destruction of nature march together--linked--a fact whose enormous significance is often lost. In Beginning Again, David Ehrenfeld has undertaken the difficult task of describing the present clearly enough to reveal the future. Out of his broad vision emerges a glimpse of a new millennium: a vision at once frightening and comforting, a scene of great devastation and great rebuilding. Ehrenfeld ranges far and wide to present a coherent vision of our relationship with Nature--its many aspects and implications--as our century opens into the next millennium. Whether he is writing about the problem of loyalty to organizations, rights versus obligations, our over-managed society, the vanishing of established knowledge, the failure of experts, the triumph of dandelions, Dr. Seuss, Edward Teller, or the future of farming, he is always concerned with the intricate interaction between technology and nature. As in his classic book, The Arrogance of Humanism, Ehrenfeld never loses sight of our fatal love affair with the fantasy of control. We now have no choice, he argues, but to transform the dream of control, of progress, from one of overweening hubris, love of consumption, and the idiot's goal of perpetual growth, to one based on "the inventive imitation of nature," with its honesty, beauty, resilience, and durability. Few American writers and even fewer scientists can describe these timeless, transcendent qualities of nature so well. In "Places," the opening chapter, David Ehrenfeld tells about nightly vigils he spent alone on the moonlit beach of Tortuguero, watching giant sea turtles emerging from the sea to lay their eggs in the black sand where they were born. "I could watch the perfect white spheres falling," he writes. "Falling as they have fallen for a hundred million years, with the same slow cadence, always shielded from the rain or stars by the same massive bulk with the beaked head and the same large, myopic eyes rimmed with crusts of sand washed out by tears. Minutes and hours, days and months dissolve into eons. I am on an Oligocene beach, an Eocene beach, a Cretaceous beach--the scene is the same. It is night, the turtles are coming back, always back; I hear a deep hiss of breath and catch a glint of wet shell as the continents slide and crash, the oceans form and grow."
Author : Jennifer L. Burrell
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 35,23 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0857457527
Most non-Central Americans think of the narrow neck between Mexico and Colombia in terms of dramatic past revolutions and lauded peace agreements, or sensational problems of gang violence and natural disasters. In this volume, the contributors examine regional circumstances within frames of democratization and neoliberalism, as they shape lived experiences of transition. The authors--anthropologists and social scientists from the United States, Europe, and Central America--argue that the process of regions and nations "disappearing" (being erased from geopolitical notice) is integral to upholding a new, post-Cold War world order--and that a new framework for examining political processes must be accessible, socially collaborative, and in dialogue with the lived processes of suffering and struggle engaged by people in Central America and the world in the name of democracy.
Author : Stewart I. Donaldson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 34,6 MB
Release : 2003-01-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 113563632X
This book presents visions of how to solve social problems in the 21st century and how programs SHOULD be evaluated, not how they will be evaluated.
Author : Matthew Avery Sutton
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 32,42 MB
Release : 2016
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0199372705
In Faith in the New Millennium, Matthew Avery Sutton and Darren Dochuk bring together a collection of essays from renowned historians, sociologists, and religious studies scholars that address the future of religion and American politics. The contributors discuss questions related to issues such as religion and immigration reform, civil rights, gay marriage, race, ethnicity, foreign policy, popular culture, nationalism, and the environment, investigating how faith, in the age of Obama, has been transformed.
Author : Ian Morrison
Publisher : Jossey-Bass
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 12,15 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN :
"Building on his nearly ten years with the acclaimed think tank, the Institute for the Future, Morrison shows why structural change within the evolving health care system has the potential to create unprecedented growth and opportunity for everyone in the field. The book is filled with visionary thinking, including resolving the fundamental tensions of cost, quality, access, and security of benefits; selecting the best from health care systems around the globe; learning lessons from other industries; driving change in the future; and applying the five key leadership steps."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Roland A. Lubie Wentworth
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 141 pages
File Size : 17,43 MB
Release : 2013-09-05
Category : Education
ISBN : 1135672857
Although Montessori's name is almost universally known in education circles today, and there are countless nursery schools throughout the world using the "Montessori Method," the real core of her thinking has remained largely misunderstood. Most people regard the method as a system for the education of very young children. And most who have some direct experience of it, either as parent or teacher, would regard it as involving a certain set of procedures and specialized educational materials with clear and elaborate instructions for their use. However, the essence of Montessori's philosophy of education is in reality far broader than this, and contains a powerful message for educators everywhere. What is less well-known about Montessori's work is that she began by establishing the effectiveness of her approach at the pre-elementary level, but also strongly encouraged the extension of her method to the higher levels of education. Wentworth's purpose in writing this book is to elucidate this vital aspect of Maria Montessori's life's work and to show how it applies to real-life teaching situations. She believed that by transforming the process of children's education she could help to transform the attitudes of the adults they will later become, and so those of society and the world at large--a message she promoted as vitally relevant to the future of humankind as a whole.