Download or read book A Long Long Time Ago in the Future written by Jill Marie West and published by Balboa Press. This book was released on 2021-04-21 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The wildest, craziest ideas emerging from the depths of our swirling imaginations are closer to the truth than anything in our so called “reality’ could ever be. The first instinctive and instantaneous feeling arising from the center core of our being is always the most accurate and astute account of a situation that we can get. Believing in these two concepts has made it possible to write down the words for the following short stories. These stories are a series of events that may or may not have really happened. Instead of trying to validate them, I would prefer to view them as a set of lessons of sorts. The theme that runs through each story is what is important. What worked for mankind, and clearly what did not. It matters not the particular characters or the actual circumstances. We have all experienced violence and negative thinking. How will these lessons effect the future? That is the only question capable of making a difference. Our past is undeniably linked to our future. If we decide not to fill anymore of history with separate and harmful acts, then perhaps it will be helpful to carry the memory of our recent past with us, allowing it to serve as a painful reminder. Hopefully, our grandchildren and great grandchildren will once again live as brothers and sisters. My sincere hope is that the future upon our Mother Earth can be enjoyed with balance, wholeness, and connection. With Hope, Promise, and Light! Jill Marie West

Download or read book A Long Long Time Ago Essentially True written by Brigid Pasulka and published by HMH. This book was released on 2009-08-01 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: PEN/Hemingway Award Winner: A “gorgeous” novel weaving together stories of Poland past and present in one whimsically romantic epic (Chicago Tribune). On the eve of World War II, in a small Polish village, a young man nicknamed the Pigeon falls in love with a girl fabled for her angelic looks. To build a place in Anielica’s heart, he transforms her family’s modest hut into a beautiful home. But war arrives, cutting short their courtship and sending the young lovers off to the promise of a fresh start in Krakow. Nearly fifty years later, the couple’s granddaughter, Beata, repeats this journey, seeking a new life in the fairy-tale city of her grandmother’s stories. But instead of the rumored prosperity of the New Poland, she discovers a city full of frustrated youths, caught between its future and its past. Taken in by her tough-talking cousin, Irena, and her glamorous daughter, Magda, Beata struggles to find her own place in the world. But unexpected events—tragedies and miracles both—change lives and open eyes. “A whimsical debut,” (New York Times Book Review) A Long, Long Time Ago and Essentially True weaves together two remarkable stories, reimagining half a century of Polish history through the legacy of one unforgettable love affair. This magical, heartbreaking novel “rings hauntingly, enchantingly, real” (National Geographic Traveler). “With a touch of Marina Lewycka and a dash of Captain Corelli’s Mandolin, this is storytelling that gets under your skin and forces you to press copies into your best friends’ hands.” —Elle (UK) “Funny and romantic like all the best true stories.” —Charlotte Mendelson, author of When We Were Bad

Download or read book A Long Long Time Ago and Essentially True written by Brigid Pasulka and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2009 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From an original new voice in fiction comes this warm-hearted debut. Pasulka reimagines half a century of Polish history through the legacy of one couple's profound love affair.

Download or read book Deep Time Reckoning written by Vincent Ialenti and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2020-09-22 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guide to long-term thinking: how to envision the far future of Earth. We live on a planet careening toward environmental collapse that will be largely brought about by our own actions. And yet we struggle to grasp the scale of the crisis, barely able to imagine the effects of climate change just ten years from now, let alone the multi-millennial timescales of Earth's past and future life span. In this book, Vincent Ialenti offers a guide for envisioning the planet's far future—to become, as he terms it, more skilled deep time reckoners. The challenge, he says, is to learn to inhabit a longer now. Ialenti takes on two overlapping crises: the Anthropocene, our current moment of human-caused environmental transformation; and the deflation of expertise—today's popular mockery and institutional erosion of expert authority. The second crisis, he argues, is worsening the effects of the first. Hearing out scientific experts who study a wider time span than a Facebook timeline is key to tackling our planet's emergency. Astrophysicists, geologists, historians, evolutionary biologists, climatologists, archaeologists, and others can teach us the art of long-termism. For a case study in long-term thinking, Ialenti turns to Finland's nuclear waste repository “Safety Case” experts. These scientists forecast far future glaciations, climate changes, earthquakes, and more, over the coming tens of thousands—or even hundreds of thousands or millions—of years. They are not pop culture “futurists” but data-driven, disciplined technical experts, using the power of patterns to construct detailed scenarios and quantitative models of the far future. This is the kind of time literacy we need if we are to survive the Anthropocene.

Download or read book The Human Organization of Time written by Allen C. Bluedorn and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Particularly valuable to those involved in the management and organizational sciences, since much material from those fields informs the discussion, this book considers several answers to the question of the true nature of time. It demonstrates that humanity creates a variety of times and the times affect the experiences of life—as times vary, so does life.

Download or read book Time to Learn about Past Present Future written by Pam Scheunemann and published by ABDO. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title includes full-color photographs and facts on how time relates to the past, present and future as well as what people have done, are doing and will do.

Download or read book A Future in Blossom A Year of Flowers Book 4 written by Suzanne Woods Fisher and published by Baker Books. This book was released on 2024-11-19 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Years after tragedy sent them separate ways, three women return to their hometown, finally ready to face each other and their beloved mentor, flower shop owner Rose Reid. As they unite to pull off an extraordinary wedding, amid the flurry of preparations they just may find their way to forgiveness.

Download or read book The Future written by Kate Thomas and published by BrixBaxter Publishing. This book was released on 2015-08-18 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After spending quality time with David, learning the gifts of the light, Ellie is assured of one thing, her heart might just break before it's all over. She can't seem to help herself from being drawn deeply in a web between him and the darkness. Her journey with Sandra to learn the gifts of the future is healing and gives her a sense of solidity, but the search for how Jacob might be involved in Equilibrium is her next great feat, one that won't be easy to accept. Having far exceeding anything they thought her capable of, Ellie works now to discern a foreign entity that seems to have slipped into her world alone. Who is he and why is he wearing David's face? This is book 3 of a 5 book series. Paranormal

Download or read book Time Warriors Messengers for the Future written by Ann Valentin and published by Speedy Publishing LLC. This book was released on 2014-07-07 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Galactic Awakening Series is channeled information that encourages you to explore your physical world and all dimensions of existence. "Time Warriors" is the second book in the series and poses the question: what will you do with what you know? Have the Guardians returned? If so, why?

Download or read book Past Present and Future written by Laszlo Solymar and published by Author House. This book was released on 2014-06-30 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The present book is about history, written through the satirical eyes of a Hungarian refugee in the early 1960s, a few years after he settled in England. The title "Past, Present and Future," together with the subtitle "An Irreverent Treatment of History," explains beautifully what the book is about. Brief but profound historical judgments are made about everything that matters: socialism, capitalism, communism, Nazism, colonialism, revolution, science, religion, war and peace, and stability and anarchy. The common factor is power. Everything is explained by the love of power by individuals, groups, social classes, dictators, and nations--by people who are high up and by people who are low down.

Download or read book Future written by Lawrence R. Samuel and published by Univ of TX + ORM. This book was released on 2009-12-03 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of our attitudes toward the possibilities of tomorrow:“A fascinating trek through American future visions from the 1920s to the present.” —Lori C. Walters, Ph.D., University of Central Florida The future is not a fixed idea but a highly variable one that reflects the values of those who are imagining it. By studying the ways that visionaries imagined the future—particularly that of America—in the past century, much can be learned about the cultural dynamics of the times. In this social history, Lawrence R. Samuel examines the future visions of intellectuals, artists, scientists, businesspeople, and others to tell a chronological story about the history of the future in the past century. He defines six separate eras of future narratives from 1920 to the present day, and argues that the milestones reached during these years—especially related to air and space travel, atomic and nuclear weapons, the women’s and civil rights movements, and the advent of biological and genetic engineering—sparked the possibilities of tomorrow in the public’s imagination, and helped make the twentieth century the first century to be significantly more about the future than the past. The idea of the future grew both in volume and importance as it rode the technological wave into the new millennium, and the author tracks the process by which most people, to some degree, have now become futurists as the need to anticipate tomorrow accelerates.

Download or read book Touch the Future A Manifesto in Essays written by John Lee Clark and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2023-10-17 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A revelatory collection of essays on the DeafBlind experience and the untapped potential of a new tactile language. Born Deaf into an ASL-speaking family and blind by adolescence, John Lee Clark learned to embrace the possibilities of his tactile world. He is on the frontlines of the Protactile movement, which gave birth to an unprecedented language and way of life based on physical connection. In a series of paradigm-shifting essays, Clark reports on seismic developments within the DeafBlind community and challenges the limitations of sighted and hearing norms. In "Against Access," he interrogates the prevailing advocacy for "accessibility" that re-creates a shadow of a hearing-sighted experience, and in "Tactile Art," he describes his relationship to visual art and breathtaking encounters with tactile sculpture. He offers a brief history of the term "DeafBlind," distills societal discrimination against DeafBlind people into "Distantism," sheds light on the riches of online community, and advocates for "Co-Navigation," a new way of exploring the world together without a traditional guide. Touch the Future brims with passion, energy, humor, and imagination as Clark takes us by the hand and welcomes us into the exciting landscape of Protactile communication. A distinct language of taps, signs, and reciprocal contact, Protactile emerged from the inadequacies of ASL—a visual language even when pressed into someone’s hand—with the power to upend centuries of DeafBlind isolation. As warm and witty as he is radical and inspiring, Clark encourages us—disabled and non-disabled alike—to reject stigma and discover the ways we are connected. Touch the Future is a dynamic appeal to rethink the meanings of disability, access, language, and inclusivity, and to reach for a future we can create together.

Download or read book Tales from the Future written by Bistra Johnson and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2008-09 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you go along the picturesque Cote d'Azur in search of "Elounda," the Provencal house, depicted in this story, you are not going to find it. Yet it exists; in another dimension, or in a parallel Universe, there is a villa "Elounda," exactly as described. The people that reside in it similarly exist in a different timeline. It's unlikely that you will ever meet them, but who knows, they might, just might pay you an unexpected visit one day to return yours.

Download or read book The Year s Best Science Fiction Eighteenth Annual Collection written by Gardner Dozois and published by St. Martin's Griffin. This book was released on 2001-08-18 with total page 718 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The twenty-three stories in this collection imaginatively take us far across the universe, into the very core of our being, to the realm of the gods, and the moment just after now. Included here are the works of masters of the form and of bright new talents, including: Stephen Baxter, M.Shayne Bell, Rick Cook, Albert E. Cowdrey, Tananarive Due, Greg Egan, Eliot Fintushel, Peter F. Hamilton, Earnest Hogan, John Kessel, Nancy Kress, Ursula K. Le Guin, Paul J. McAuley, Ian McDonald, Susan Palwick, Severna Park, Alastair Reynolds, Lucius Shepard, Brian Stableford, Charles Stross, Michael Swanwick, Steven Utley, Robert Charles Wilson Supplementing the stories is the editor's insightful summation of the year's events and lengthy list of honorable mentions, making this book a valuable resource in addition to serving as the single best place in the universe to find stories that stir the imagination and the heart.

Download or read book Listen to Americans Views on the Future of Social Security written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means. Subcommittee on Social Security and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Souls and the Universe written by Narong Sinsawasdi, Ph.D. and published by Narong Sinsawasdi. This book was released on 2001-03-12 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The world soul in this book means an entity, quite distinct from the dead body, which exist after death. The inquiry about soul in this book based on relevant scientific discoveries, especially those of the 20th century, and the facts of nature, which all human beings can observe by themselves. It is a very important subject for every one's life. If the an nalysis of soul in this book is correct, it can help bring more peace and happiness to everyone, both during the remainder of this life and in future lieves

Download or read book Future Primitive written by Kim Stanley Robinson and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1997-06-15 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fifteen stories on what life might be like in the future. In Gary Kilworth's Hogfoot and Birdhands, a woman has pets created from her body parts, in Terry Bisson's Bears Discover Fire, bears learn some of the things humans know.