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Book Over the Horizon

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  • Author : David Thoreson
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2016-08-10
  • ISBN : 9780996525718
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book Over the Horizon written by David Thoreson and published by . This book was released on 2016-08-10 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Three Horizons

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  • Author : Bill Sharpe
  • Publisher : Triarchy Press
  • Release : 2020-06-16
  • ISBN : 1911193872
  • Pages : 142 pages

Download or read book Three Horizons written by Bill Sharpe and published by Triarchy Press. This book was released on 2020-06-16 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A practical framework for thinking about the future... and an exploration of 'future consciousness' and how to develop it

Book Changing Horizon

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  • Author : Judy Chow
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1999
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book Changing Horizon written by Judy Chow and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Horizon Work

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  • Author : Adriana Petryna
  • Publisher : Princeton University Press
  • Release : 2022-04-12
  • ISBN : 0691211663
  • Pages : 224 pages

Download or read book Horizon Work written by Adriana Petryna and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2022-04-12 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book argues that a world characterized by runaway climate change needs radically new models of scientific and practical expertise to effectively address the emergency"--

Book Horizon

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  • Author : Barry Lopez
  • Publisher : Vintage
  • Release : 2019-03-19
  • ISBN : 0525656219
  • Pages : 592 pages

Download or read book Horizon written by Barry Lopez and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2019-03-19 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: THE NEW YORK TIMES • NPR • THE GUARDIAN From pole to pole and across decades of lived experience, National Book Award-winning author Barry Lopez delivers his most far-ranging, yet personal, work to date. Horizon moves indelibly, immersively, through the author’s travels to six regions of the world: from Western Oregon to the High Arctic; from the Galápagos to the Kenyan desert; from Botany Bay in Australia to finally, unforgettably, the ice shelves of Antarctica. Along the way, Lopez probes the long history of humanity’s thirst for exploration, including the prehistoric peoples who trekked across Skraeling Island in northern Canada, the colonialists who plundered Central Africa, an enlightenment-era Englishman who sailed the Pacific, a Native American emissary who found his way into isolationist Japan, and today’s ecotourists in the tropics. And always, throughout his journeys to some of the hottest, coldest, and most desolate places on the globe, Lopez searches for meaning and purpose in a broken world.

Book Into the Wild

Download or read book Into the Wild written by Jon Krakauer and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2009-09-22 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER • In April 1992 a young man from a well-to-do family hitchhiked to Alaska and walked alone into the wilderness north of Mt. McKinley. Four months later, his decomposed body was found by a moose hunter. This is the unforgettable story of how Christopher Johnson McCandless came to die. "It may be nonfiction, but Into the Wild is a mystery of the highest order." —Entertainment Weekly McCandess had given $25,000 in savings to charity, abandoned his car and most of his possessions, burned all the cash in his wallet, and invented a new life for himself. Not long after, he was dead. Into the Wild is the mesmerizing, heartbreaking tale of an enigmatic young man who goes missing in the wild and whose story captured the world’s attention. Immediately after graduating from college in 1991, McCandless had roamed through the West and Southwest on a vision quest like those made by his heroes Jack London and John Muir. In the Mojave Desert he abandoned his car, stripped it of its license plates, and burned all of his cash. He would give himself a new name, Alexander Supertramp, and, unencumbered by money and belongings, he would be free to wallow in the raw, unfiltered experiences that nature presented. Craving a blank spot on the map, McCandless simply threw the maps away. Leaving behind his desperate parents and sister, he vanished into the wild. Jon Krakauer constructs a clarifying prism through which he reassembles the disquieting facts of McCandless's short life. Admitting an interest that borders on obsession, he searches for the clues to the drives and desires that propelled McCandless. When McCandless's innocent mistakes turn out to be irreversible and fatal, he becomes the stuff of tabloid headlines and is dismissed for his naiveté, pretensions, and hubris. He is said to have had a death wish but wanting to die is a very different thing from being compelled to look over the edge. Krakauer brings McCandless's uncompromising pilgrimage out of the shadows, and the peril, adversity, and renunciation sought by this enigmatic young man are illuminated with a rare understanding—and not an ounce of sentimentality. Into the Wild is a tour de force. The power and luminosity of Jon Krakauer's stoytelling blaze through every page.

Book Change Is on the Horizon

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  • Author : James Rink
  • Publisher : Createspace Independent Pub
  • Release : 2012-10-01
  • ISBN : 9781480153899
  • Pages : 130 pages

Download or read book Change Is on the Horizon written by James Rink and published by Createspace Independent Pub. This book was released on 2012-10-01 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents James Rink's extraordinary three hour Internet video “Change is on the Horizon” in book form. You may want to watch the video before reading this book. Go to http://tinyurl.com/9xld6u6 for the full version. After watching “Change is on the Horizon” several times, I still found it difficult to retain all of the marvelous details and facts packed within this educational documentary.So James has permitted me to publish this video in book form so that I can use it as a reverence book, by highlighting the many important outstanding facts it reveals, without having to watch it all the way through, each time, to find what I need.“Change is on the Horizon” is the epic story of how the world lost its soul, and how it will gain it back, directed and narrated by James Rink. This project took James Rink three years and thousands of hours of editing and reediting to complete it.Part 1 - Dawn of the Golden Age - discusses how Saint Germain helped to bring about the beginnings of an enlightened era which soon fell into darkness under the realms of the Illuminati and a corrupted Masonic order.Part 2 - The American Federal Empire - shows that America was always meant to be a shinning beacon of prosperity and freedom to the world. But the machinations of British bankers and the Rothschild dynasty soon destroyed all that was once good in this great land.Part 3 - The Farmers Claim Program - Discusses how a class action lawsuit, brought about in the early 1990's, led to the creation of NESARA, the National Economic Security and Reformation Act, which will ultimately tear the New World Order apart, and the international bankers' plans from under their feet.David E. Robinson, Brunswick, MaineBook and Cover Design

Book Changing Horizons  Etc   With Illustrations

Download or read book Changing Horizons Etc With Illustrations written by Granville Calland Thornley and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Distant Horizons

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  • Author : Ted Underwood
  • Publisher : University of Chicago Press
  • Release : 2019-02-14
  • ISBN : 022661283X
  • Pages : 229 pages

Download or read book Distant Horizons written by Ted Underwood and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2019-02-14 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Just as a traveler crossing a continent won’t sense the curvature of the earth, one lifetime of reading can’t grasp the largest patterns organizing literary history. This is the guiding premise behind Distant Horizons, which uses the scope of data newly available to us through digital libraries to tackle previously elusive questions about literature. Ted Underwood shows how digital archives and statistical tools, rather than reducing words to numbers (as is often feared), can deepen our understanding of issues that have always been central to humanistic inquiry. Without denying the usefulness of time-honored approaches like close reading, narratology, or genre studies, Underwood argues that we also need to read the larger arcs of literary change that have remained hidden from us by their sheer scale. Using both close and distant reading to trace the differentiation of genres, transformation of gender roles, and surprising persistence of aesthetic judgment, Underwood shows how digital methods can bring into focus the larger landscape of literary history and add to the beauty and complexity we value in literature.

Book New Horizons in Positive Leadership and Change

Download or read book New Horizons in Positive Leadership and Change written by Satinder Dhiman and published by Springer. This book was released on 2020-04-27 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited volume provides managers, as well as students, with the best practices in effectively leading the 21st century workforce and managing change. It applies positive principles arising from the newly emerging fields of positive psychology, positive change, and positive organizational studies to the field of leadership and change; offering managers strategies and tools to lead change effectively, in the present-day boundary-less work environment. At its most fundamental level, the uniqueness of this volume lies in its anchorage in the moral and spiritual dimension of leadership, an approach most relevant for contemporary organizations.

Book Safeguarding the Bioeconomy

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  • Author : National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
  • Publisher : National Academies Press
  • Release : 2020-05-01
  • ISBN : 0309495679
  • Pages : 393 pages

Download or read book Safeguarding the Bioeconomy written by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2020-05-01 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Research and innovation in the life sciences is driving rapid growth in agriculture, biomedical science, information science and computing, energy, and other sectors of the U.S. economy. This economic activity, conceptually referred to as the bioeconomy, presents many opportunities to create jobs, improve the quality of life, and continue to drive economic growth. While the United States has been a leader in advancements in the biological sciences, other countries are also actively investing in and expanding their capabilities in this area. Maintaining competitiveness in the bioeconomy is key to maintaining the economic health and security of the United States and other nations. Safeguarding the Bioeconomy evaluates preexisting and potential approaches for assessing the value of the bioeconomy and identifies intangible assets not sufficiently captured or that are missing from U.S. assessments. This study considers strategies for safeguarding and sustaining the economic activity driven by research and innovation in the life sciences. It also presents ideas for horizon scanning mechanisms to identify new technologies, markets, and data sources that have the potential to drive future development of the bioeconomy.

Book The Changing Horizon

Download or read book The Changing Horizon written by Baij Nath Puri and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Emerald Horizon

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  • Author : Cornelia F. Mutel
  • Publisher : University of Iowa Press
  • Release : 2008-03
  • ISBN : 1587297477
  • Pages : 329 pages

Download or read book The Emerald Horizon written by Cornelia F. Mutel and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 2008-03 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Emerald Horizon, Cornelia Mutel combines lyrical writing with meticulous scientific research to portray the environmental past, present, and future of Iowa. In doing so, she ties all of Iowa's natural features into one comprehensive whole. Since so much of the tallgrass state has been transformed into an agricultural landscape, Mutel focuses on understanding today’s natural environment by understanding yesterday’s changes. After summarizing the geological, archaeological, and ecological features that shaped Iowa’s modern landscape, she recreates the once-wild native communities that existed prior to Euroamerican settlement. Next she examines the dramatic changes that overtook native plant and animal communities as Iowa’s prairies, woodlands, and wetlands were transformed. Finally she presents realistic techniques for restoring native species and ecological processes as well as a broad variety of ways in which Iowans can reconnect with the natural world. Throughout, in addition to the many illustrations commissioned for this book, she offers careful scientific exposition, a strong sense of respect for the land, and encouragement to protect the future by learning from the past. The “emerald prairie” that “gleamed and shone to the horizon’s edge,” as botanist Thomas Macbride described it in 1895, has vanished. Cornelia Mutel’s passionate dedication to restoring this damaged landscape—and by extension the transformed landscape of the entire Corn Belt—invigorates her blend of natural history and human history. Believing that citizens who are knowledgeable about native species, communities, and ecological processes will better care for them, she gives us hope—and sound suggestions—for the future.

Book Changing Horizons   Stories

Download or read book Changing Horizons Stories written by and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Beyond the Blue Horizon

Download or read book Beyond the Blue Horizon written by Brian Fagan and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2012-08-02 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We know the tales of Columbus and Captain Cook, yet much earlier mariners made equally bold and world-changing voyages. In Beyond the Blue Horizon, archaeologist and historian Brian Fagan tackles his richest topic yet: the enduring quest to master the oceans, the planet's most mysterious terrain. From the moment when ancient Polynesians first dared to sail beyond the horizon, Fagan vividly explains how our mastery of the oceans changed the course of human history. What drove humans to risk their lives on open water? How did early sailors unlock the secrets of winds, tides, and the stars they steered by? What were the earliest ocean crossings like? With compelling detail, Fagan reveals how seafaring evolved so that the forbidding realms of the sea gods were transformed from barriers into a nexus of commerce and cultural exchange. From bamboo rafts in the Java Sea to triremes in the Aegean, from Norse longboats in the North Atlantic to sealskin kayaks in Alaska, Fagan crafts a captivating narrative of humanity's urge to challenge the unknown and seek out distant shores.

Book On the Horizon

Download or read book On the Horizon written by Lois Lowry and published by HMH Books For Young Readers. This book was released on 2020 with total page 85 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From two-time Newbery medalist and living legend Lois Lowry comes a moving account of the lives lost in two of WWII's most infamous events: Pearl Harbor and Hiroshima. With evocative black-and-white illustrations by SCBWI Golden Kite Award winner Kenard Pak. Lois Lowry looks back at history through a personal lens as she draws from her own memories as a child in Hawaii and Japan, as well as from historical research, in this stunning work in verse for young readers. On the Horizon tells the story of people whose lives were lost or forever altered by the twin tragedies of Pearl Harbor and Hiroshima. Based on the lives of soldiers at Pearl Harbor and civilians in Hiroshima,On the Horizon contemplates humanity and war through verse that sings with pain, truth, and the importance of bridging cultural divides. This masterful work emphasizes empathy and understanding in search of commonality and friendship, vital lessons for students as well as citizens of today's world. Kenard Pak's stunning illustrations depict real-life people, places, and events, making for an incredibly vivid return to our collective past. In turns haunting, heartbreaking, and uplifting,On the Horizonwill remind readers of the horrors and heroism in our past, as well as offer hope for our future.

Book Changing Horizons

    Book Details:
  • Author : G. C. Thornley
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1973
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book Changing Horizons written by G. C. Thornley and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: