Download or read book Every Day We Live Is the Future written by Douglas Haynes and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2017-10-11 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When she was only nine, Dayani Baldelomar left her Nicaraguan village with nothing more than a change of clothes. She was among tens of thousands of rural migrants to Managua in the 1980s and 1990s. After years of homelessness, Dayani landed in a shantytown called The Widows, squeezed between a drainage ditch and putrid Lake Managua. Her neighbor, Yadira Castellón, also migrated from the mountains. Driven by hope for a better future for their children, Dayani, Yadira, and their husbands invent jobs in Managua's spreading markets and dumps, joining the planet's burgeoning informal economy. But a swelling tide of family crises and environmental calamities threaten to break their toehold in the city. Dayani's and Yadira's struggles reveal one of the world's biggest challenges: by 2050, almost one-third of all people will likely live in slums without basic services, vulnerable to disasters caused by the convergence of climate change and breakneck urbanization. To tell their stories, Douglas Haynes followed Dayani's and Yadira's families for five years, learning firsthand how their lives in the city are a tightrope walk between new opportunities and chronic insecurity. Every Day We Live Is the Future is a gripping, unforgettable account of two women's herculean efforts to persevere and educate their children. It sounds a powerful call for understanding the growing risks to new urbanites, how to help them prosper, and why their lives matter for us all.
Download or read book The Future Normal written by Rohit Bhargava and published by . This book was released on 2023-03-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a handbook for visionaries. Making outlandish predictions about the future is easy. Predicting the future normal is far harder. For the past decade, Rohit Bhargava and Henry Coutinho-Mason have been on the front lines of exploring the global forces shaping our future normal through their work independently leading two of the most successful trend consultancies in the world: TrendWatching and the Non-Obvious Company. From donning full body haptic suits to sampling cultivated meat, their work has taken them into cutting-edge labs, private testing facilities, and invite-only showcases across the world. Now for the first time, they are teaming up to share a uniquely eye-opening vision of the future unlike any other. Across thirty fast-moving chapters, The Future Normal spotlights dozens of ideas and instigators who are changing the world. From biophilic skyscrapers to generative AI, these stories offer an optimistic yet deeply human view of the next decade. Along the way, we also tackle some of the biggest ethical and societal questions raised by all this progress. In this book, you'll read about the ideas and instigators that are bringing about new ways to satisfy our fundamental needs and wants, changing not just their industries but also transforming our wider culture and society. These are the stories of the future normal, and they are coming sooner than you think. For anyone looking to get ready, this book will empower you to seize the opportunities that lie ahead in this crucial decade.
Download or read book Every Day We Live Is the Future written by Douglas Haynes and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2017-10-11 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When she was only nine, Dayani Baldelomar left her Nicaraguan village with nothing more than a change of clothes. She was among tens of thousands of rural migrants to Managua in the 1980s and 1990s. After years of homelessness, Dayani landed in a shantytown called The Widows, squeezed between a drainage ditch and putrid Lake Managua. Her neighbor, Yadira Castellón, also migrated from the mountains. Driven by hope for a better future for their children, Dayani, Yadira, and their husbands invent jobs in Managua's spreading markets and dumps, joining the planet's burgeoning informal economy. But a swelling tide of family crises and environmental calamities threaten to break their toehold in the city. Dayani's and Yadira's struggles reveal one of the world's biggest challenges: by 2050, almost one-third of all people will likely live in slums without basic services, vulnerable to disasters caused by the convergence of climate change and breakneck urbanization. To tell their stories, Douglas Haynes followed Dayani's and Yadira's families for five years, learning firsthand how their lives in the city are a tightrope walk between new opportunities and chronic insecurity. Every Day We Live Is the Future is a gripping, unforgettable account of two women's herculean efforts to persevere and educate their children. It sounds a powerful call for understanding the growing risks to new urbanites, how to help them prosper, and why their lives matter for us all.
Download or read book How to Live on 24 Hours a Day written by Arnold Bennett and published by BEYOND BOOKS HUB. This book was released on 2024-02-12 with total page 3 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How to Live on 24 Hours a Day by Arnold Bennett is a timeless guide to making the most of your time and living a fulfilling life within the constraints of a busy schedule. Originally published in the early 20th century, this book provides readers with practical insights and actionable advice for maximizing the use of each day and achieving personal and professional growth.
Download or read book When Your Doctor Has Bad News written by Al B. Weir and published by Zondervan. This book was released on 2010-06-15 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the diagnosis is serious, what makes the difference between hope and despair?As a practicing oncologist, Dr. Al Weir works daily with patients who receive bad news. A medical doctor with a pastor’s heart, Dr. Weir knows from experience that it’s the patient’s focus, not the diagnosis, that indicates whether one will slip into despair and hopelessness or have the courage to live each day fully. Resilience of spirit can powerfully influence recovery and healing, and within our crisis, the choices we make are important. When Your Doctor Has Bad News offers no easy answers, no quick outs. But it does equip you to weather the storm you are facing and emerge whole again. Practical tips provide questions for you to ask your doctor and choices you can make to achieve your best chances for healing. Real-life stories show how others have coped with life-threatening illness, walked with God, and won. You can deepen communion with God in the midst of medical crisis. When Your Doctor Has Bad News gives you proven principles that will enable you to choose a life worth living, no matter what news the doctor has given you. “Dr. Weir . . . guides the reader—especially the one who has received bad news—past the soul-numbing shock of a dismal medical report. He reminds us of the soothing comfort available in the Word of God, of the heartwarming precepts upon which we can build a new life, and of the simple steps a family can take to promote hope and healing.”—Joni Eareckson Tada (from the introduction)
Download or read book The Spectator written by and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 1066 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Joy of Living written by Dr. Orison Swett Marden and published by Gildan Media LLC aka G&D Media. This book was released on 2020-03-04 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a cheerful and optimistic book on the pleasures to be found every day.Intended for those seeking the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow, the author points out that you should find the jewels strewn along the way instead. Marden offers twenty-six chapters of common-sense advice for the average man or woman who is overworked, striving and struggling to get ahead—what he believes to be the American way of life. With chapters including “The Strain to Keep Up Appearances,” and “Postponed Enjoyment,” the author offers hopeful, inspiring, and illuminating messages and ideas, pointing out that happiness is more a condition of mind than of environment, and he offers the reader many opportunities to find joy in the common things found in daily life. Pointing out that there is a positive chemistry in a cheerful mind, so therefore health and happiness are related, Marden goes on to show how happiness can be cultivated.
Download or read book The Little Book of Atheist Spirituality written by André Comte-Sponville and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2007 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poses an argument for living a spiritual life that is not dependent on religion, explaining that an acceptance of philosophical spiritual traditions and values does not require practitioners to embrace the existence of a higher order.
Download or read book Each Day We Live written by Steven Setterman and published by Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2019-04-16 with total page 753 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you feel like life is on a merry-go-round? Going around and around in circles, but going nowhere? Or does life feel like you are on a Ferris wheel? Going up and down constantly, without stopping? Or does life feel like you are in a bumper car? Always being bumped, and you feel like there is no end in sight? If any or all of these apply to you, then this devotional is just for you. As you read the pages of this devotional, you will be blessed. You will be encouraged and your life will be filled with hope as you continue on your journey with this in your hands. When you pick up and start reading, be determined that God will be by your side, and He will bless you every step of the way.
Download or read book Where Your Happiness Hides written by Mark Worthington and published by Balboa Press. This book was released on 2022-04-18 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Where Your Happiness Hides gives readers real hope for a happier life. Even before the pandemic, many people struggled to find consistent fulfillment. This has been exaggerated in the turbulent times we have been witness to in recent years. This book shines a light on why happiness is so elusive for many of us and shows you where to find your greatest joy. The book doesn’t just leave you guessing as to what may be blocking your happiness. It spells out the 22 core limiting beliefs that most people are likely to be struggling with and shows them how to undertake a wonderful and natural journey of personal transformation. It also includes a simple code of happiness that is not widely understood, yet is so core to us all finding joy. This book is practical and simple, and your author has been there done that, paving the way for you to do the same far more easily and without the need for extra cost. You already have all you need to apply the book’s natural guidance. What have you got to lose, other than worry! Why not replace worry with wonder? It’s much more fun! This book is about finding personal happiness In 2023 your author will be releasing a follow up book designed to assist organisations to find collective joy and greater success. You won’t want to miss either of these exciting and life changing books. Be true to you and let Where Your Happiness Hides light up your life. You deserve that!
Download or read book This World We Live in written by Susan Beth Pfeffer and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2010 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The highly anticipated follow-up to Life As We Knew It and The Dead and the Gone
Download or read book Back to Our Future written by David Sirota and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2011-03-15 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wall Street scandals. Fights over taxes. Racial resentments. A Lakers-Celtics championship. The Karate Kid topping the box-office charts. Bon Jovi touring the country. These words could describe our current moment—or the vaunted iconography of three decades past. In this wide-ranging and wickedly entertaining book, New York Times bestselling journalist David Sirota takes readers on a rollicking DeLorean ride back in time to reveal how so many of our present-day conflicts are rooted in the larger-than-life pop culture of the 1980s—from the “Greed is good” ethos of Gordon Gekko (and Bernie Madoff) to the “Make my day” foreign policy of Ronald Reagan (and George W. Bush) to the “transcendence” of Cliff Huxtable (and Barack Obama). Today’s mindless militarism and hypernarcissism, Sirota argues, first became the norm when an ’80s generation weaned on Rambo one-liners and “Just Do It” exhortations embraced a new religion—with comic books, cartoons, sneaker commercials, videogames, and even children’s toys serving as the key instruments of cultural indoctrination. Meanwhile, in productions such as Back to the Future, Family Ties, and The Big Chill, a campaign was launched to reimagine the 1950s as America’s lost golden age and vilify the 1960s as the source of all our troubles. That 1980s revisionism, Sirota shows, still rages today, with Barack Obama cast as the 60s hippie being assailed by Alex P. Keaton–esque Republicans who long for a return to Eisenhower-era conservatism. “The past is never dead,” William Faulkner wrote. “It’s not even past.” The 1980s—even more so. With the native dexterity only a child of the Atari Age could possess, David Sirota twists and turns this multicolored Rubik’s Cube of a decade, exposing it as a warning for our own troubled present—and possible future.
Download or read book Sparkle written by Connie S. Firmin and published by Tate Publishing. This book was released on 2011-08 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In her inspirational book,SparkleConnie Firmin tackles the tough topic of purity in a sex-saturated world that believes in no limits. Discover the shimmering truth of what the Bible says about purity, how to fuel up and maintain your spiritual heart, and what real beauty is. Connie also tackles tips on challenges and pressures teens face, dating, and what to look for in Mr. Right.Sparklewill inspire you to seek purity as you live the life that God intends for you. When you are empowered with the truth, you will see that purity is much more than a casual decision—it's a lifestyle! 'I have been fortunate to have served alongside Connie in youth ministry for quite some time now, and the thing I've noticed the most is her passion to see young people live a life of purity and devotion to Jesus. In this book you'll discover practical ways to guard your heart and protect your purity so that you can live the life God intended. I highly recommend this book as a resource to both youth leaders and young ladies that have a desire to honor God through their purity.' Jason Laird, Youth and Young Adult Pastor Healing Place Church, Baton Rouge, LA
Download or read book SECRETS OF SELF IMPROVEMENT written by Josiah Morrison and published by Josiah Morrison. This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SECRETS OF SELF-IMPROVEMENT - WHY FEW PEOPLE TAKE ACTION BUT MOST DON’T BY JOSIAH MORRISON Have you ever wondered why few people take action but most don’t? What is the psychology and mindset behind a person who gets things done? How can you acquire that mindset to get big results? This book breaks it all down in a simple, easy to understand way. Things you will learn: · How to use your natural creativity to tap into your artist within. · How your words can change your life. · How to be a great student and enjoy what you learn. · Ways to improve the way you think and your thought process. · How to develop the mind of a leader. · How to increase your productivity and avoid time wasters. · How to make your attitude work for you instead of against you. · What does it mean to be resilient and how you can start being resilient today. · How to use your imagination to create the life you love. This book is concise and will teach you principles and ideas to achieve success. You will learn many secrets of self- improvement, practical ways to get things done, and much much more…. Put this book into action and see how quickly your life will change… for the better! Take action today and grab your copy right now!
Download or read book Control Switch written by Leana Delle and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2013-02-19 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Candace Bradford likes to describe herself as strong-willed and always in control. It is no secret that the Chicago-based life coach, radio personality, and author of a new hit book appears headed for international celebrity. Determined to master her life and control her destiny, Candace is certain that nothing will stand in her way of achieving everything she has ever wanted. When Candaces new PR agent lines her up with numerous speaking engagements, Candace is thrilled, but as usual, her attorney husband, Ross, is distracted with his own career issues. Her concerns about her marriage grow, but she moves forward. And then things begin to go wrong. The results of an exploratory surgery cause Candaces life to unravel, and her health suddenly takes a turn for the worse. With her marriage in trouble, Candace becomes the victim of scandalous rumors and helplessly watches as her dream dissolves under public scrutiny. But when a guarded family secret is finally revealed, Candace must bravely face her past and reassess herself and her beliefs. In this poignant tale, a high-powered media personality takes an emotional journey of self-discovery from an insatiable desire for international recognition to forgiveness and the long road home.
Download or read book From Here to Eternity Reflections on Death Immortality and the Resurrection of the Body written by Randall B. Smith and published by Emmaus Road Publishing. This book was released on 2023-01-27 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout history and across cultures, people have shared the hope and the belief that somehow something about the human person survives death. Indeed, it seems that without a notion of life-after-death, this life would seem meaningless. If, in the end, everything we have strived for and all our love comes to naught and is simply swallowed up by nothingness, then what was the point of it all? In From Here to Eternity, Randall Smith shows how the Christian doctrines regarding the resurrection of the body and the communion of saints provide an understanding of life after death as a meaningful fulfillment of this life, not a negation of it.
Download or read book Wisdom for Each Day Large Text Leathersoft written by Billy Graham and published by Thomas Nelson. This book was released on 2019-11-26 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For decades, people around the world have turned to beloved and trusted pastor Billy Graham for wisdom to live boldly for Christ. Billy Graham preached to millions of people, but his message was personal to each of us: Christianity is about having a relationship with God through faith in Jesus. In Wisdom for Each Day, you'll find 365 brief devotions and Scripture to help nurture and strengthen that relationship. This beautiful leathersoft edition of Graham’s timeless, internationally acclaimed devotional now has a larger-size font and takeaway thoughts that will make it an inviting addition to your daily study of the Word. In its pages you’ll find priceless reminders of God's loving nature and unfailing strength to carry you through each day.
