Author : Jean Rabe
Publisher :
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 15,44 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780786928422
As Ansalon struggles to recover from the war that has plagued it for so long, the world is suddenly threatened by the arrival of powerful dragons who wreak havoc on the land. Original.
Author : Sally Armstrong
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 35,71 MB
Release : 2014-03-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1250045282
"A different version of this book was previously published under the title Ascent of Women by Random House Canada"--Title page verso.
Author : Adam Greenfield
Publisher : New Riders
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 37,33 MB
Release : 2010-03-10
Category : Computers
ISBN : 0132705036
Ubiquitous computing--almost imperceptible, but everywhere around us--is rapidly becoming a reality. How will it change us? how can we shape its emergence? Smart buildings, smart furniture, smart clothing... even smart bathtubs. networked street signs and self-describing soda cans. Gestural interfaces like those seen in Minority Report. The RFID tags now embedded in everything from credit cards to the family pet. All of these are facets of the ubiquitous computing author Adam Greenfield calls "everyware." In a series of brief, thoughtful meditations, Greenfield explains how everyware is already reshaping our lives, transforming our understanding of the cities we live in, the communities we belong to--and the way we see ourselves. What are people saying about the book? "Adam Greenfield is intense, engaged, intelligent and caring. I pay attention to him. I counsel you to do the same." --HOWARD RHEINGOLD, AUTHOR, SMART MOBS: THE NEXT SOCIAL REVOLUTION "A gracefully written, fascinating, and deeply wise book on one of the most powerful ideas of the digital age--and the obstacles we must overcome before we can make ubiquitous computing a reality."--STEVE SILBERMAN, EDITOR, WIRED MAGAZINE "Adam is a visionary. he has true compassion and respect for ordinary users like me who are struggling to use and understand the new technology being thrust on us at overwhelming speed."--REBECCA MACKINNON, BERKMAN CENTER FOR INTERNET AND SOCIETY, HARVARD UNIVERSITY Everyware is an AIGA Design Press book, published under Peachpit's New Riders imprint in partnership with AIGA.
Author : Xander Cooper
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 32,96 MB
Release : 2012-11-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1477235302
It is the dawning of a new age for the World and Christianity is quickly losing its prominence in this new modern society. God has to take swift action and decides that the world needs a new Messiah. Enter Tristan Ford; a young, eccentric teenager who was chosen to be the new saviour and turn things around for God by starting a new religion out of the ashes of the old. This story recounts Tristan's journey as the new Messiah as he tackles teenage love; writer's block; the betrayal of his Chief Disciple, Ross Eadon; and how he'll face his ultimate sacrifice. This retelling of the new Messiah's life is told through four completely historically and factually accurate stories that depict both Tristan's triumphs and tribulations as he takes on the mammoth task that so many other Messiahs have attempted over the years; saving humanity.
Author : Albert Amao Ph. D.
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 15,27 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 1468537520
We are at the threshold of a transitional period from the Age of Pisces to the Age of Aquarius. What should we expect from this coming New Era? What are its signs? What is the fate of human spirituality? What will the new concepts of God and of religion be? This book attempts to answer these questions based on well researched sources complemented and endorsed by cosmology, archeology, psychology, religion, Near East studies, and mythology, among other scientific disciplines. The book also intends to clarify the confusion created by some Protestant religious leaders and sensationalistic writers who have misinterpreted the signs of the transitional period as the end of the world. The truth is that we are witnessing a shift of ages, that is, the slow evolution from the Piscean Era to the commencing of a new worldwide social order, a new chapter in human history called the Aquarian dispensation. The huge conspiracy propounded by false prophets and some New Age writers, whether overtly or covertly, feeds the fear and anxiety of ordinary people with unfounded apocalyptic propaganda. This book attempts to give the reader an accurate perspective regarding the planetary transformations that are taking place; it offers hope and inspiration as we approach the Golden Age.
Author : Dennis Laurence Cuddy
Publisher : Hearthstone Pub
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 15,86 MB
Release : 1991
Category : International organization
ISBN : 9781879366220
Author : Ervin Laszlo
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 23,35 MB
Release : 2013-05-20
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 1620551527
A preview of the post-mechanistic, holistic world in 2020 and 2030 as well as a map of the obstacles we must overcome to get there • Reveals how the youngest generation is seeding the shift in consciousness • Explains how society will be reorganized into grassroots networks like those revealed by quantum physics and experienced through social media • With contributions from futurist John L. Petersen, ex-CEO of Sanyo Tomoya Nonaka, media activist Duane Elgin, and other visionaries The world is changing. The transition from the mechanistic worldview to one that recognizes the interconnectedness of all life is upon us. It is the dawning of the Akashic Age. The Akashic field that connects the universe is now recognized by cutting-edge science. What we know about communication, energy, and consciousness is rapidly evolving in tandem with the new quantum worldview. Many adults are consciously evolving to meet the transitional challenges at hand, while today’s youth have arrived already hard-wired with the new consciousness. Rising from the ashes of the old systems, this Phoenix generation of radical change agents is seeding our evolution and spiritual transformation, a process that will continue over the next few decades. Authors Ervin Laszlo and Kingsley Dennis look at the chief engine of the coming changes--the growing global understanding of nonlocality--and the development of practical applications for it. They examine how the new values and new consciousness taking hold will reorganize society from top-down hierarchies into grassroots networks like those revealed through quantum physics’ understanding of energy and information waves and experienced daily by millions through social media. With contributions from visionary thinkers such as futurist John L. Petersen, ex-CEO of Sanyo Tomoya Nonaka, media activist Duane Elgin, systems scientist Alexander Laszlo, and spiritual economist Charles Eisenstein, this book explores the future of education, spirituality, the media, economics, food, and planetary citizenship as well as the expansion of consciousness necessary to reach that future.
Author : Jean Rabe
Publisher :
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 14,77 MB
Release : 2002-08-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780786928576
As the evil dragon overlords lay waste to once fertile lands, temperate islands, and cool forests, and Dark Knights, draconians, and other foul creatures flock to join the armies of darkness, a small band of heroes struggles to protect all humankind from slavery and cruel death. Reprint.
Author : David Graeber
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 38,83 MB
Release : 2021-11-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0374721106
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A dramatically new understanding of human history, challenging our most fundamental assumptions about social evolution—from the development of agriculture and cities to the origins of the state, democracy, and inequality—and revealing new possibilities for human emancipation. For generations, our remote ancestors have been cast as primitive and childlike—either free and equal innocents, or thuggish and warlike. Civilization, we are told, could be achieved only by sacrificing those original freedoms or, alternatively, by taming our baser instincts. David Graeber and David Wengrow show how such theories first emerged in the eighteenth century as a conservative reaction to powerful critiques of European society posed by Indigenous observers and intellectuals. Revisiting this encounter has startling implications for how we make sense of human history today, including the origins of farming, property, cities, democracy, slavery, and civilization itself. Drawing on pathbreaking research in archaeology and anthropology, the authors show how history becomes a far more interesting place once we learn to throw off our conceptual shackles and perceive what’s really there. If humans did not spend 95 percent of their evolutionary past in tiny bands of hunter-gatherers, what were they doing all that time? If agriculture, and cities, did not mean a plunge into hierarchy and domination, then what kinds of social and economic organization did they lead to? The answers are often unexpected, and suggest that the course of human history may be less set in stone, and more full of playful, hopeful possibilities, than we tend to assume. The Dawn of Everything fundamentally transforms our understanding of the human past and offers a path toward imagining new forms of freedom, new ways of organizing society. This is a monumental book of formidable intellectual range, animated by curiosity, moral vision, and a faith in the power of direct action. Includes Black-and-White Illustrations
Author : Miriam Akhtar
Publisher : Sansom Company Limited
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 35,95 MB
Release : 1999-01-01
Category : New Age movement
ISBN : 9781900178228
A social history of the new age Britain, from the turn of the century to the 1960s.
