Infinite Progress


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Social Forecasting, Futurology.




Unlimited Progress


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Whether you are new to exercise or a competitive athlete, at some point in your training you will hit thedreaded plateau. After a period of progression, suddenly you hit a wall. Your weight loss stalls. Yourperformance stagnates. Your body and your mind are in a rut and you may be tempted to just give up.While everyone hits a plateau, our bodies are not the same. Generic training programs may work initiallybut inevitably your body will stop responding in the same way. You have your own unique body, and toidentify your greatest opportunities for improvement, you will find lots of low-tech, high-effectiveness teststo help you identify which training methods to use.Chances are you've already tried some different training methods, but you might be frustrated becausethey haven't worked as well as you'd like. The truth is no matter what your level is, there will always beweaknesses, just because strengthening previous weaknesses and making them into strengths will openup other weaknesses. The encouraging thing about that is that you can always progress, and by usingthe diagnostic tests that are covered in the book, you'll know exactly where to look to make progress. Butgeneric programs are not the answer to consistent and continual progress.This book covers tests for 10 different fitness qualities:Fat LossMuscle MassStrengthPowerSpeedMuscular EnduranceAerobic EnduranceAnaerobic EnduranceFlexibilityCoordinationFilled with flowcharts and illustrative pictures you will understand and be able to easily apply the contentto customize a program that works for you. Say good-bye to plateaus as you learn how to reach yourultimate potential.Whether you are a beginner starting a weight loss program, an athlete or a coach who must tailor trainingprograms, this book will teach you to how to work with your body and your unique needs to design aprogram that will help you keep reaching your goals.







Education and National Development


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Education and National Development: A Comparative Perspective discusses the correlation between education and national development. The book is comprised of nine chapters that cover several concerns regarding the subject matter, such as the theoretical underpinning, dimensions, policies, and practice. The first chapter discusses the origins of modern development thought, while the second chapter talks about how formal schooling can serve as an "agent of change. Chapters 3, 4, and 5 cover the various dimension development, which are economic growth, employment, quality of life, and political system. Chapter 6 discusses strategies for educational reform, while Chapter 7 deals with the evaluation of development policy. The eighth chapter provides a comparative discourse about education and development under capitalism and socialism. Chapter 9 talks about education, the state, and development. The book will be of great interest to readers concerned about how education correlates with national development.




Where Is My Flying Car?


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From an engineer and futurist, an impassioned account of technological stagnation since the 1970s and an imaginative blueprint for a richer, more abundant future The science fiction of the 1960s promised us a future remade by technological innovation: we’d vacation in geodesic domes on Mars, have meaningful conversations with computers, and drop our children off at school in flying cars. Fast-forward 60 years, and we’re still stuck in traffic in gas-guzzling sedans and boarding the same types of planes we flew in over half a century ago. What happened to the future we were promised? In Where Is My Flying Car?, J. Storrs Hall sets out to answer this deceptively simple question. What starts as an examination of the technical limitations of building flying cars evolves into an investigation of the scientific, technological, and social roots of the economic stagnation that started in the 1970s. From the failure to adopt nuclear energy and the suppression of cold fusion technology to the rise of a counterculture hostile to progress, Hall recounts how our collective ambitions for the future were derailed, with devastating consequences for global wealth creation and distribution. Hall then outlines a framework for a future powered by exponential progress—one in which we build as much in the world of atoms as we do in the world of bits, one rich in abundance and wonder. Drawing on years of original research and personal engineering experience, Where Is My Flying Car?, originally published in 2018, is an urgent, timely analysis of technological progress over the last 50 years and a bold vision for a better future.







Explorations in Environmental Political Theory


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The contributors to this volume focus on the political and value issues that, in their shared view, underlie the global environmental crisis facing us today. They argue that only by transforming our dominant values, social institutions and way of living can we avoid ecological disaster.







Civilizing Emotions


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Traces the history of the concepts of civility and civilization in nineteenth-century Europe and Asia and explores why and how emotions were an asset in civilizing peoples and societies - their control and management, but also their creation and their ascription to different societies and social groups.




Impossibility


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Astronomer John Barrow takes an intriguing look at the limits of science, who argues that there are things that are ultimately unknowable, undoable, or unreachable.