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Author : Masse Bloomfield
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781879981010
Total Pages : 187 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (81 download)
Download or read book Mankind in Transition written by Masse Bloomfield and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Vaclav Smil
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190060689
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (9 download)
Download or read book Grand Transitions written by Vaclav Smil and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021-02-12 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From one of the world's leading experts on the history of energy, a rigorous examination of the transitions that structure our modern world--and the environmental reckoning that will mark its success or failure. What makes the modern world work? The answer to this deceptively simple question lies in four "grand transitions" of civilization--in populations, agriculture, energy, and economics--which have transformed the way we live. Societies that have undergone all four transitions emerge into an era of radically different population dynamics, food surpluses (and waste), abundant energy use, and expanding economic opportunities. Simultaneously, in other parts of the world, hundreds of millions remain largely untouched by these developments. Through erudite storytelling, Vaclav Smil investigates the fascinating and complex interactions of these transitions. He argues that the moral imperative to share modernity's benefits has become more acute with increasing economic inequality, but addressing this imbalance would make it exceedingly difficult to implement the changes necessary for the long-term preservation of the environment. Thus, managing the fifth transition--environmental changes from natural-resource depletion, biodiversity loss, and global warming--will determine the success or eventual failure of the grand transitions that have made the world we live in today.
Author : Yogananda (Paramahansa)
Publisher : Self-Realization Fellowship Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)
Download or read book A World in Transition written by Yogananda (Paramahansa) and published by Self-Realization Fellowship Publishers. This book was released on 1999 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paramahansa Yogananda and some of his foremost disciples provide heart-satisfying explanations for our most challenging questions -- shedding a clarifying light on personal and global concerns. Each chapter offers understanding, reassurance, and guidance for the turbulent times in which we live. With acute insight, A World in Transition shows how we can use the power of meditation and prayer for world peace, and effect lasting spiritual transformation for ourselves, our communities, and our planet. By identifying the universal principles and world cycles that influence the evolution of civilizations and individuals, the authors help us develop those life skills we will need to chart our course in the times ahead.
Author : Lorretta O'Shea
Publisher : Grosvenor House Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1803812486
Total Pages : 55 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (38 download)
Download or read book Genesis written by Lorretta O'Shea and published by Grosvenor House Publishing. This book was released on 2022-08-25 with total page 55 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Seven Days of Creation; Genesis; The Millennium; The Seventh Day of Creation
Author : Antoine-Nicholas Condorcet
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 0578016664
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (78 download)
Download or read book Outlines of an Historical View of the Progress of the Human Mind written by Antoine-Nicholas Condorcet and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2009-04-01 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perhaps the last great work of the Enlightenment, this landmark in intellectual history is the Marquis de Condorcet's homage to the human future emancipated from its chains and led by the progress of reason and the establishment of liberty. Writing in 1794, while in hiding, under sentence of death from the Jacobins in revolutionary France, Condorcet surveys human history and speculates upon its future. With William Godwin, he is the chief foil of Malthus's Essay on Population. Portrayed by Malthus as an elate and giddy optimist, Condorcet foresees a future of indefinite progress. Freed from ignorance and superstition, he argues that the human race stands on the threshold of epochal progress and limitless improvement. Condorcet defies modernist stereotypes of the right and the left. He is at once precursor of the free market and social democracy. This new edition of the original 1795 English translation, is the only English translation of a work of Condorcet currently in print.
Author : Vaclav Smil
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262536161
Total Pages : 564 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (625 download)
Download or read book Energy and Civilization written by Vaclav Smil and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2018-11-13 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive account of how energy has shaped society throughout history, from pre-agricultural foraging societies through today's fossil fuel–driven civilization. "I wait for new Smil books the way some people wait for the next 'Star Wars' movie. In his latest book, Energy and Civilization: A History, he goes deep and broad to explain how innovations in humans' ability to turn energy into heat, light, and motion have been a driving force behind our cultural and economic progress over the past 10,000 years. —Bill Gates, Gates Notes, Best Books of the Year Energy is the only universal currency; it is necessary for getting anything done. The conversion of energy on Earth ranges from terra-forming forces of plate tectonics to cumulative erosive effects of raindrops. Life on Earth depends on the photosynthetic conversion of solar energy into plant biomass. Humans have come to rely on many more energy flows—ranging from fossil fuels to photovoltaic generation of electricity—for their civilized existence. In this monumental history, Vaclav Smil provides a comprehensive account of how energy has shaped society, from pre-agricultural foraging societies through today's fossil fuel–driven civilization. Humans are the only species that can systematically harness energies outside their bodies, using the power of their intellect and an enormous variety of artifacts—from the simplest tools to internal combustion engines and nuclear reactors. The epochal transition to fossil fuels affected everything: agriculture, industry, transportation, weapons, communication, economics, urbanization, quality of life, politics, and the environment. Smil describes humanity's energy eras in panoramic and interdisciplinary fashion, offering readers a magisterial overview. This book is an extensively updated and expanded version of Smil's Energy in World History (1994). Smil has incorporated an enormous amount of new material, reflecting the dramatic developments in energy studies over the last two decades and his own research over that time.
Author : Marie Jean Antoine Nicolas CARITAT (Marquis de Condorcet.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (24 download)
Download or read book Outlines of an Historical View of the Progress of the Human Mind ... Translated from the French written by Marie Jean Antoine Nicolas CARITAT (Marquis de Condorcet.) and published by . This book was released on 1795 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : MILTON E. BRENER
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1466970316
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (669 download)
Download or read book PALE SKIN, GIANTS, AND THE GREAT TRANSITION written by MILTON E. BRENER and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2013-01-17 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, Milton Brener’s third on the subject of UFOs and extraterrestrials, is a giant leap. He delves into an analysis of much current scientific evidence that appears to add credence to claims of early hybridization of the human race. It is an entirely new and novel approach, but a very readable and one. It is a challenge to readers to think constructively of the new and novel. It revolves around the coalescence beginning about fifty thousand years ago of several significant and scientifically proven occurrences. One is the beginning of the pale skin tone of Europeans. Brener systematically dismantles the accepted scientific explanation for it and drives home the fact that the only other living creatures with similar skin tone are the extraterrestrials, often known to many witnesses of high credibility as Nordics. Unlike other ETs, these Nordics look like us, though some are said to be remarkably tall and, also unlike others, leave the contactees with very positive feelings. Another major occurrence, the great transition, was the relatively sudden appearance of modern behavior, including artistic genius, timekeeping, and creation of musical instruments. The book is truly a tour de force.
Author : Jean-Antoine-Nicolas de Caritat marquis de Condorcet
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Outlines of an Historical View of the Progress of the Human Mind written by Jean-Antoine-Nicolas de Caritat marquis de Condorcet and published by . This book was released on 1795 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Max Tegmark
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 1101946601
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (19 download)
Download or read book Life 3.0 written by Max Tegmark and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2017-08-29 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times Best Seller How will Artificial Intelligence affect crime, war, justice, jobs, society and our very sense of being human? The rise of AI has the potential to transform our future more than any other technology—and there’s nobody better qualified or situated to explore that future than Max Tegmark, an MIT professor who’s helped mainstream research on how to keep AI beneficial. How can we grow our prosperity through automation without leaving people lacking income or purpose? What career advice should we give today’s kids? How can we make future AI systems more robust, so that they do what we want without crashing, malfunctioning or getting hacked? Should we fear an arms race in lethal autonomous weapons? Will machines eventually outsmart us at all tasks, replacing humans on the job market and perhaps altogether? Will AI help life flourish like never before or give us more power than we can handle? What sort of future do you want? This book empowers you to join what may be the most important conversation of our time. It doesn’t shy away from the full range of viewpoints or from the most controversial issues—from superintelligence to meaning, consciousness and the ultimate physical limits on life in the cosmos.
Author : Hans Ferdinand Helmolt
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 770 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)
Download or read book The World's History: Pre-history written by Hans Ferdinand Helmolt and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 770 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David Hume
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 502 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book A Treatise on Human Nature written by David Hume and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Friedrich Engels
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 31 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (456 download)
Download or read book The Part Played by Labour in the Transition from Ape to Man written by Friedrich Engels and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Lev S. Belyaev
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9781402009150
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (91 download)
Download or read book World Energy and Transitions to Sustainable Development written by Lev S. Belyaev and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2002-09-30 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents the results of a study of long-term perspectives for energy development of the world and its main regions, performed at the Siberian Energy Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Energy Systems Institute since 1998). The methodological approach, the 10-regional Global Energy Model (GEM-10R) of the world energy system, energy demand forecasts, data on energy resources and energy technologies, and results of calculations based on mathematical models are described. Particular attention is given to determination of energy requirements and peculiarities of its technological structure that are caused by mankind's necessary transition to sustainable development. Economic and ecological consequences of constraints on greenhouse gas emissions and scales of nuclear energy production, as well as assistance of developed countries to developing ones are investigated. Problems of cheap oil, gas and uranium resources depletion, fuel price growth, synthetic fuel production and new energy technology implementation are analysed. The book is intended for specialists in energy and economics, as well as students and postgraduate students of technical high schools and universities. ac
Author : Andreas Viestad
Publisher : Reaktion Books
ISBN 13 : 1789146763
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (891 download)
Download or read book Dinner in Rome written by Andreas Viestad and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2023-08-25 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With a celebrated food writer as host, a delectable history of Roman cuisine and the world—served one dish at a time. Now in paperback. “There is more history in a bowl of pasta than in the Colosseum,” writes Andreas Viestad in Dinner in Rome. From the table of a classic Roman restaurant, Viestad takes us on a fascinating culinary exploration of the Eternal City and global civilization. Food, he argues, is history’s secret driving force. Viestad finds deeper meanings in his meal: He uses the bread that begins his dinner to trace the origins of wheat and its role in Rome’s rise as well as its downfall. With his fried artichoke antipasto, he explains olive oil’s part in the religious conflict of sixteenth-century Europe. And, from his sorbet dessert, he recounts how lemons featured in the history of the Mafia in the nineteenth century and how the hunger for sugar fueled the slave trade. Viestad’s dinner may be local, but his story is universal. His “culinary archaeology” is an entertaining, flavorful journey across the dinner table and time. Readers will never look at spaghetti carbonara the same way again.
Author : Aly Cohen
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190082364
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (9 download)
Download or read book Non-Toxic written by Aly Cohen and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-08-25 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is no question that our environment has changed dramatically over the past few decades. The influx of thousands of toxic chemicals that seep into every aspect of our lives wreaking havoc on our bodies can seem daunting, but research now shows that by making simple changes, we can dramatically reduce exposures to many harmful chemicals that we eat, breathe, and lather on our skin. Non-Toxic is a practical guide to living healthier in our modern environment. It teaches how to reduce chemical and radiation exposures by recognizing potential threats and paying attention to what you eat, breathe, and put onto your skin. Written in clear, easy-to-understand language and based on scientific evidence, this book is filled with resources, tools, tear-off sheets, recipes, and practical, cost-effective tips designed to help you: · Understand and decode product and food labels · Create delicious recipes to help detoxify your body · Choose and prepare food and drinks safely and healthfully · Furnish and clean your home for a healthy indoor environment · Safely disinfect surfaces from COVID-19 · Create do-it-yourself cleaning product recipes · Choose safer personal care products and cosmetics · Reduce exposure to pesticides in and around your home · Ensure safe drinking water for you, your family and pets · Reduce exposure to EMF radiation from cell phones, laptops and other tech toys · Make informed decisions about toys, baby products, and other environmental issues affecting your children Written by a board-certified Rheumatologist and Integrative Medicine Physician, and a renowned PhD professor of neuro- and reproductive biology, Non-Toxic is designed to be referred to again and again for its relevant, cost-effective, and practical ways to reduce exposure and thereby lower risk for developing a variety of environmentally associated illnesses. ABOUT THE SERIES: From series editor, Andrew Weil, one of the most iconic and trusted names in healthcare today, the Dr. Weil's Healthy Living Guides series discusses caring for common medical conditions and optimizing health from an integrative medical approach. Integrative medicine is defined as an evidence-based healing-oriented medicine that takes account of the whole person (body, mind, and spirit), including all aspects of lifestyle. It emphasizes the therapeutic relationship and makes use of all appropriate therapies, conventional, alternative, and complementary.
Author : David Hume
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (1 download)
Download or read book A Treatise of Human Nature Being an Attempt to Introduce the Experimental Method of Reasoning Into Moral Subjects and Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion, 2 written by David Hume and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
