Download or read book To Master a Thirsty Future written by Philip C. Metzger and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Golden Future written by Osho and published by Fivestar. This book was released on 2023-09-15 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Silence usually is understood to be something negative, something empty, an absence of sound, of noises. This misunderstanding is prevalent because very few people have ever experienced silence. All that they have experienced in the name of silence is noiselessness. But silence is a totally different phenomenon. It is utterly positive. It is existential, it is not empty. It is overflowing with a music that you have never heard before, with a fragrance that is unfamiliar to you, with a light that can only be seen by the inner eyes. It is not something fictitious; it is a reality, and a reality which is already present in everyone -- just we never look in. All our senses are extrovert. Our eyes open outside, our ears open outside, our hands move outside, our legs... all our senses are meant to explore the outside world.
Download or read book The Price of Thirst written by Karen Piper and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2014-10-01 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “There's Money in Thirst,” reads a headline in the New York Times. The CEO of Nestlé, purveyor of bottled water, heartily agrees. It is important to give water a market value, he says in a promotional video, so “we're all aware that it has a price.” But for those who have no access to clean water, a fifth of the world's population, the price is thirst. This is the frightening landscape that Karen Piper conducts us through in The Price of Thirst—one where thirst is political, drought is a business opportunity, and more and more of our most necessary natural resource is controlled by multinational corporations. In visits to the hot spots of water scarcity and the hotshots in water finance, Piper shows us what happens when global businesses with mafia-like powers buy up the water supply and turn off the taps of people who cannot pay: border disputes between Iraq and Turkey, a “revolution of the thirsty” in Egypt, street fights in Greece, an apartheid of water rights in South Africa. The Price of Thirst takes us to Chile, the first nation to privatize 100 percent of its water supplies, creating a crushing monopoly instead of a thriving free market in water; to New Delhi, where the sacred waters of the Ganges are being diverted to a private water treatment plant, fomenting unrest; and to Iraq, where the U.S.-mandated privatization of water resources destroyed by our military is further destabilizing the volatile region. And in our own backyard, where these same corporations are quietly buying up water supplies, Piper reveals how “water banking” is drying up California farms in favor of urban sprawl and private towns. The product of seven years of investigation across six continents and a dozen countries, and scores of interviews with CEOs, activists, environmentalists, and climate change specialists, The Price of Thirst paints a harrowing picture of a world out of balance, with the distance between the haves and have-nots of water inexorably widening and the coming crisis moving ever closer.
Download or read book The Big Thirst written by Charles Fishman and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-04-12 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Praised as “an entertaining and torrential flow of a book” by Nature magazine, The Big Thirstis a startling examination of the passing of the golden age of water and the shocking facts about how water scarcity will soon be a major factor in our lives. The water coming out of your kitchen tap is four billion years old and might well have been sipped by a Tyrannosaurus rex. Rather than only three states of water—liquid, ice, and vapor—there is a fourth, “molecular water,” fused into rock 400 miles deep in the Earth, and that’s where most of the planet’s water is found. Unlike most precious resources, water cannot be used up; it can always be made clean enough again to drink—indeed, water can be made so clean that it’s toxic. Water is the most vital substance in our lives but also more amazing and mysterious than we appreciate. As Charles Fishman brings vibrantly to life in this surprising and mind-changing narrative, water runs our world in a host of awe-inspiring ways, yet we take it completely for granted. But the era of easy water is over. Bringing readers on a lively and fascinating journey—from the wet moons of Saturn to the water-obsessed hotels of Las Vegas, where dolphins swim in the desert, and from a rice farm in the parched Australian outback to a high-tech IBM plant that makes an exotic breed of pure water found nowhere in nature—Fishman vividly shows that we’ve already left behind a century-long golden age when water was thoughtlessly abundant, free, and safe and entered a new era of high-stakes water. In 2008, Atlanta came within ninety days of running entirely out of clean water. California is in a desperate battle to hold off a water catastrophe. And in the last five years Australia nearly ran out of water—and had to scramble to reinvent the country’s entire water system. But as dramatic as the challenges are, the deeper truth Fishman reveals is that there is no good reason for us to be overtaken by a global water crisis. We have more than enough water. We just don’t think about it, or use it, smartly. The Big Thirst brilliantly explores our strange and complex relationship to water. We delight in watching waves roll in from the ocean; we take great comfort from sliding into a hot bath; and we will pay a thousand times the price of tap water to drink our preferred brand of the bottled version. We love water—but at the moment, we don’t appreciate it or respect it. Just as we’ve begun to reimagine our relationship to food, a change that is driving the growth of the organic and local food movements, we must also rethink how we approach and use water. The good news is that we can. As Fishman shows, a host of advances are under way, from the simplicity of harvesting rainwater to the brilliant innovations devised by companies such as IBM, GE, and Royal Caribbean that are making impressive breakthroughs in water productivity. Knowing what to do is not the problem. Ultimately, the hardest part is changing our water consciousness. As Charles Fishman writes, “Many civilizations have been crippled or destroyed by an inability to understand water or manage it. We have a huge advantage over the generations of people who have come before us, because we can understand water and we can use it smartly.” The Big Thirst will forever change the way we think about water, about our essential relationship to it, and about the creativity we can bring to ensuring that we’ll always have plenty of it.
Download or read book To Quench Our Thirst written by David A. Francko and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 1983 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A far-sighted analysis of the problem of America's shortage of fresh water
Download or read book The Virtual Future written by William Sims Bainbridge and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-09-06 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The newest communication technologies are profoundly changing the world's politics, economies, and cultures, but the specific implications of online game worlds remain mysterious. The Virtual Future employs theories and methods from social science to explore nine very different virtual futures: The Matrix Online, Tabula Rasa, Anarchy Online, Entropia Universe, Star Trek Online, EVE Online, Star Wars Galaxies, World of Warcraft: Burning Crusade, and The Chronicles of Riddick. Each presents a different picture of how technology and society could evolve in coming centuries, but one theme runs through all of them, the attempt to escape the Earth and seek new destinies among the stars. Four decades after the last trip to the moon, a new conception of spaceflight is emerging. Rather than rockets shooting humans across vast physical distances to sterile rocks that lack the resources to sustain life, perhaps robot space probes and orbiting telescopes will glean information about the universe, that humans can then experience inside computer-generated environments much closer to home. All nine of these fantastically rich multiplayer masterpieces have shown myriads of people that really radical alternatives to contemporary society could exist, and has served as a laboratory for examining the consequences. Each is a prototype of new social forms, a utopian subculture, and a simulation of technologies that have yet to be invented. They draw upon several different traditions of science fiction and academic philosophy, and they were created in several nations. By comparing these nine role-playing fantasies, we can better consider what kind of world we want to inhabit in the real future.
Download or read book Thirst written by Addison Cain and published by Addison Cain. This book was released on 2020-02-14 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Passionate, dream-like, and naughty. A smoldering page-turner I could not put down!” USA Today bestselling author, Myra Danvers Should I pay the exorbitant price the insectoid flesh dealer demands for the tiny thing in the cage? Pretty even in her strangeness. The alien creature is everything I require to satiate my seeding frenzy. Her protected species engineered to survive my needs. Built to serve them again and again. One look at her trapped in containment, and already my tentacles display. Skin warming from the blue of calm, straight to red. I will feed her. Bathe her. Keep her warm in the freezing halls of my ship. Seed her. Spawn an empire. And, according the human manual, she will love me for it. Keywords: tentacle romance, tentacles, alien abduction, capture fantasy, alien romance, possessive alpha male dark romance, Dark romance, psychological romance, gothic romance, paranormal romance, dystopian, dystopian romance, complete power exchange, seductive romance, Alpha Hero, Antihero, antihero romance, antihero dark romance, Suffering Heroine, Obsessive Hero, abduction to love, Abuse of Power, beauty and the beast, blackmail, passionate lovers, tortured heroine, tragic past, unrequited love, sexually romantic books, series, romantic suspense, collections, anthologies, jealous possessive romance, forbidden romance, hunted female, angsty alpha romance, horror romance, romantic suspense, thriller, standalone, guaranteed HEA
Download or read book An essay on the improvement of society The philosophy of a future state The philosophy of religion The mental illumination and moral improvement of mankind An essay on the sin and evils of covetousness written by Thomas Dick and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 700 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book SPIRITUAL HUNGER AND THIRST written by GODSWORD GODSWILL ONU and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015-03-08 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Bible says that blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be satisfied (Matt. 5:6). If you have spiritual hunger and thirst, you will be filled. Many people have intense passion for things of this world, but have no passion for things of God. Many don't have the Fear of God in them. Many people profess to know and love God with their mouths, but their hearts are very far away from God. There are those who are born again, but don't have strong passion, hunger, or thirst for Things of God and of the Spirit. Many Believers live with the attitude: "Let whatever is to be, be!" This is why many people will find it uninteresting to pray and read their Bible. Many Believers are even ashamed of testifying about Jesus Christ.
Download or read book Global Voice 15 An old thirst a new desire written by Council on Business and Society and published by ESSEC Publishing. This book was released on 2020-10-01 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Council on Business & Society publishes its 15th issue of Global Voice magazine: 100 pages, 28 contributors from the alliance’s 7 schools and guests, with 3 major sections – Education & Society, Leadership & Management, Entrepreneurship & Social Enterprise.
Download or read book THIRST FOR BLOOD Ultimate Collection for Halloween written by H. P. Lovecraft and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2019-10-08 with total page 17628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: e-artnow presents the new halloween collection with meticulously picked titles for the lovers of classic thriler horror, mystery and the feel of goose bumbs while reading. Contents: F. Marion Crawford: The Dead Smile The Screaming Skull... Arthur Machen: The Great God Pan The Three Impostors The Hill of Dreams... John Kendrick Bangs: Ghosts That Have Haunted Me Devil in Iron People of the Dark Marie Belloc Lowndes: From Out the Vast Deep Eleanor M. Ingram: The Thing from the Lake The Sorrows of Satan The Headless Horseman The House of the Vampire The Lancashire Witches John R. Musick: The Witch of Salem Fred M. White: Powers of Darkness The Doom of London Edgar Allan Poe: The Fall of the House of Usher The Masque of the Red Death The Murders in the Rue Morgue The Purloined Letter Henry James: The Turn of the Screw The Ghostly Rental Algernon Blackwood: The Willows The Wendigo The Damned H. P. Lovecraft: The Dunwich Horror The Shunned House M. R. James: Ghost Stories of an Antiquary A Thin Ghost and Others Wilkie Collins: The Haunted Hotel The Dead Secret The Devil's Spectacles E. F. Benson: The Room in the Tower The Man Who Went Too Far The Terror by Night Nathaniel Hawthorne: Rappaccini's Daughter Ambrose Bierce: Can Such Things Be? Soldier-Folk Some Haunted Houses William Hope Hodgson: The House on the Borderland The Boats of the Glen Carrig The Ghost Pirates The Night Land Carnacki Arthur Conan Doyle: The Hound of the Baskervilles Mary Shelley: Frankenstein The Mortal Immortal John William Polidori: The Vampyre Bram Stoker: Dracula The Jewel of Seven Stars The Lair of the White Worm Théophile Gautier: Clarimonde The Mummy's Foot Richard Marsh: The Beetle Tom Ossington's Ghost Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu: Carmilla Uncle Silas The Wyvern Mystery George W. M. Reynolds: Wagner, the Wehr-Wolf Guy de Maupassant: The Horla From the Tomb Washington Irving: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow Rip Van Winkle Louisa M. Alcott: The Abbot's Ghost Lost in the Pyramid Edith Nesbit: From the Dead The Mass for the Dead…
Download or read book The Great Lakes Water Wars written by Peter Annin and published by Island Press. This book was released on 2009-08-25 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Great Lakes are the largest collection of fresh surface water on earth, and more than 40 million Americans and Canadians live in their basin. Will we divert water from the Great Lakes, causing them to end up like Central Asia's Aral Sea, which has lost 90 percent of its surface area and 75 percent of its volume since 1960? Or will we come to see that unregulated water withdrawals are ultimately catastrophic? Peter Annin writes a fast-paced account of the people and stories behind these upcoming battles. Destined to be the definitive story for the general public as well as policymakers, The Great Lakes Water Wars is a balanced, comprehensive look behind the scenes at the conflicts and compromises that are the past-and future-of this unique resource.
Download or read book Come with a Hunger Come with a Thirst Be Filled to Overflow written by Juliet McCarter and published by Covenant Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2020-06-17 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two of our basic physical needs as humans are for food and drink. God, our creator placed within us a trigger switch that lets us know that our body is hungry and or thirsty. This happens in our natural bodies. That same principle is operating in our spirit, the part that God gave to every human. This spirit has a longing that only He can completely fill. Some try various things and ideologies and still come up empty, but Jesus is saying, "Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls" (Matthew 11:28-29, KJV, Emphasis mine). He is the only One who can supply, or better yet, fill that need. He made you and He know all about you and still says, come. Come with a Hunger, Come with a Thirst, Be Filled to Overflow was written for people who have a need, an emptiness that nothing has completely satisfied or filled. It is a God-induced hunger and thirst that He purposely placed in everyone. Many have "bumped" into Him along the way, not realizing at the time that He had set up the meeting. He cares that much and wants to completely fill those hungry and thirsty places. Matthew 5:6 states, "They shall be filled." This narrative, as I call it, is not one where you must start at the beginning to get a full understanding as to what is being addressed. If one chooses to start at the end or in the middle, it will be okay because all of it is about the multifaceted Holy God and how He has always had a plan to give each and every one what was needed in their life, and that included you! If you choose not to start at the beginning, you will still find His richness interwoven throughout the pages. He so much wants to fill each of us with what is needed to face and live this life while enlightening others along this journey. In some areas you will find it to be a devotional that day, giving direction for the many changes and challenges life brings. At times, you may find yourself laughing as you begin to see Jesus as both man and God, experiencing life as you do with its ups and downs. Tears of joy may fall from time to time because your spirit is in agreement by the thoughts He has been giving to you and now it is right before your eyes. Prepare to learn of some mysteries that you may have never heard before, but wondered about this never-ending Love story between humans and Divinity. God BLESS!
Download or read book Thirst written by Heather Anderson and published by Mountaineers Books. This book was released on 2019-01-14 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By age 25, Heather Anderson had hiked what is known as the "Triple Crown" of backpacking: the Appalachian Trail (AT), Pacific Crest Trail (PCT), and Continental Divide Trail (CDT)—a combined distance of 7,900 miles with a vertical gain of more than one million feet. A few years later, she left her job, her marriage, and a dissatisfied life and walked back into those mountains. In her new memoir, Thirst: 2600 Miles to Home, Heather, whose trail name is "Anish," conveys not only her athleticism and wilderness adventures, but also shares her distinct message of courage--her willingness to turn away from the predictability of a more traditional life in an effort to seek out what most fulfills her. Amid the rigors of the trail--pain, fear, loneliness, and dangers--she discovers the greater rewards of community and of self, conquering her doubts and building confidence. Ultimately, she realizes that records are merely a catalyst, giving her purpose, focus, and a goal to strive toward. Heather is the second woman to complete the “Double Triple Crown of Backpacking,” completing the Appalachian, Pacific Crest, and Continental Divide National Scenic Trails twice each. She holds overall self-supported Fastest Known Times (FKTs) on the Pacific Crest Trail (2013)—hiking it in 60 days, 17 hours, 12 minutes, breaking the previous men’s record by four days and becoming the first women to hold the overall record—and the Arizona Trail (2016), which she completed in 19 days, 17 hours, 9 minutes. She also holds the women’s self-supported FKT on the Appalachian Trail (2015) with a time of 54 days, 7 hours, 48 minutes. Heather has hiked more than twenty thousand miles since 2003, including ten thru-hikes. An ultramarathon runner, she has completed six 100-mile races since August 2011 as well as dozens of 50 km and 50-mile events. She has attempted the infamous Barkley Marathons four times, starting a third loop once. Heather is also an avid mountaineer working on several ascent lists in the US and abroad.
Download or read book A Thirsty Land written by Seamus McGraw and published by Univ of TX + ORM. This book was released on 2020-08-11 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “An important story not just about [Texas’s] water history, but also about its social, economic, and political identity” (Western Historical Quarterly). As a changing climate threatens the whole country with deeper droughts and more furious floods that put ever more people and property at risk, Texas has become a bellwether state for water debates. Will there be enough water for everyone? Is there the will to take the steps necessary to defend ourselves against the sea? Is it in the nature of Americans to adapt to nature in flux? The most comprehensive—and comprehensible—book on contemporary water issues, A Thirsty Land delves deep into the challenges faced not just by Texas but also by the nation, as we struggle to find a way to balance the changing forces of nature with our own ever-expanding needs. Part history, part science, part adventure story, and part travelogue, this book puts a human face on the struggle to master that most precious and capricious of resources, water. Seamus McGraw goes to the taproots, talking to farmers, ranchers, businesspeople, and citizen activists, as well as to politicians and government employees. Their stories provide chilling evidence that Texas—and indeed the nation—is not ready for the next devastating drought, the next catastrophic flood. Ultimately, however, A Thirsty Land delivers hope. This deep dive into one of the most vexing challenges facing Texas and the nation offers glimpses of the way forward in the untapped opportunities that water also presents. “A hard look at a hard problem: finding sufficient water to live in a place without much of it. . . . McGraw’s fine book serves as a useful guide. Observers of Western waterways will want to have this on their shelves alongside the likes of Marc Reisner and Charles Bowden.” —Kirkus Reviews “In stark prose that often gleams like a bone pile bleached in the sun, McGraw travels back and forth across Texas to give a free-ranging but deadeye view of the crisis on the horizon.” —Texas Monthly “It’s hard to write about the slow creep of environmental crises like drought without resorting to shock tactics or getting lost in the weeds . . . [McGraw] draws out the conflicts in compelling ways by drilling into the plight of individual water users. Even if you feel no connection to Texas, these stories are relevant to every part of the country.” —Outside “Interviewing both scientific experts and everyday water users, [McGraw] clearly delineates the competing interests, describes political and geological reality, and makes a compelling argument for statewide water policy that utilizes modern technology and fairly weighs parochial needs against the good of the whole.” —Arizona Daily Star, Southwest Books of the Year
Download or read book Dragon Thirst Mythos written by T. B. Phillips and published by Andalon Press. This book was released on 2023-09-16 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beneath each Myth Lurks Deception… Briaca, a young woman taken captive by dangerous men, discovers a world just beyond her own, dark and full of vampires seeking the blood of dragons. She finds herself swept into a war waged since the beginning of time and must choose a side. Dragons and vampires continue their war to this day, ancient titans locked in a struggle to dominate mankind. Dragon Thirst is the story of their bloodlines, of variants who emerged as mythological heroes and foes. They walk among us. Discover the truth about the world in which you live, a world where dragons are hunted by the horrors you fear! A Bold Series of Dragons Versus Vampires by the Masterful World Builder, T.B. Phillips This is the story of their legacy, how titans hide among humans, steering our lives while committed to the total destruction of their rivals. These bloodlines war to this day. Cloaked by shadow, they commit their actions in secret. It tells of the forms they take, both awe inspiring and terrifying, and how humans have ignored their existence... until now. You may even be among their progeny…
Download or read book The Great Thirst Land written by Parker Gillmore and published by London : Cassell, Petter & Galpin. This book was released on 1878 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
