Download or read book 21 Lessons for the 21st Century written by Yuval Noah Harari and published by Random House. This book was released on 2019-01-29 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • In Sapiens, he explored our past. In Homo Deus, he looked to our future. Now, one of the world’s most innovative thinkers explores what it means to be human in an age of bewilderment. “Fascinating . . . a crucial global conversation about how to take on the problems of the twenty-first century.”—Bill Gates, The New York Times Book Review A FINANCIAL TIMES BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR How can we protect ourselves from nuclear war or ecological catastrophe? What do we do about the epidemic of fake news or the threat of terrorism? How should we prepare our children for the future? 21 Lessons for the 21st Century is a probing and visionary investigation into today’s most urgent issues as we move into the future. As technology advances faster than our understanding of it, hacking becomes a tactic of war, and the world feels more polarized than ever, Harari addresses the challenge of navigating life in the face of constant and disorienting change and raises the important questions we need to ask ourselves in order to survive. In twenty-one accessible chapters that are both provocative and profound, Harari untangles political, technological, social, and existential issues and offers advice on how to prepare for a very different future from the world we now live in: How can we retain freedom of choice when Big Data is watching us? What will the future workforce look like, and how should we ready ourselves for it? Why is liberal democracy in crisis? Harari’s unique ability to make sense of where we have come from and where we are going has captured the imaginations of millions of readers. Here he invites us to consider values, meaning, and personal engagement in a world full of noise and uncertainty. When we are deluged with irrelevant information, clarity is power. Presenting complex contemporary challenges clearly and accessibly, 21 Lessons for the 21st Century is essential reading.

Download or read book Biennale Bitch written by Nadja Sayej and published by ArtStars* Books. This book was released on 2018-11-11 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There’s more to the art world than auctions and appetizers. Behind the serious museum walls, one arts reporter has a sense of humor and she isn’t afraid to share it in this comedic romp through the art world. Featuring 30 short stories, Nadja Sayej plows through a food review of the Venice Biennale, butterfly kisses Cate Blanchett and talks performance art with Salma Hayek Oh and is it ‘biennial’ or ‘biennale?’ Nevermind that, where's the hor d'oeuvres? This book highlights a run in with A$AP Rocky at Miami Beach, calling Patton Oswalt from Marrakech and snoring her way through Documenta. There are cameos from Robert Crumb, doing vodka shots with Anish Kapoor and meeting Helmut Newton’s wife Jane Newton for her very first selfie. Join in on the chaos, the comedy and the bad pastry fillings you can't help but criticize. Author website http://nadjasayej.com

Download or read book Learning How to Learn written by Barbara Oakley, PhD and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2018-08-07 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A surprisingly simple way for students to master any subject--based on one of the world's most popular online courses and the bestselling book A Mind for Numbers A Mind for Numbers and its wildly popular online companion course "Learning How to Learn" have empowered more than two million learners of all ages from around the world to master subjects that they once struggled with. Fans often wish they'd discovered these learning strategies earlier and ask how they can help their kids master these skills as well. Now in this new book for kids and teens, the authors reveal how to make the most of time spent studying. We all have the tools to learn what might not seem to come naturally to us at first--the secret is to understand how the brain works so we can unlock its power. This book explains: Why sometimes letting your mind wander is an important part of the learning process How to avoid "rut think" in order to think outside the box Why having a poor memory can be a good thing The value of metaphors in developing understanding A simple, yet powerful, way to stop procrastinating Filled with illustrations, application questions, and exercises, this book makes learning easy and fun.

Download or read book Sweet Summer Rain Noah s Story written by Karen Ayers and published by Strategic Book Publishing. This book was released on 2012-11-19 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Noah Garrett is a doctor who puts God above everything. Raised by Christian parents and taught the ways pleasing to God, he has prayed for years to meet that special woman he can grow old with.Brendy Blake has lived an abusive life. She never knew her father and was raised by an alcoholic mother who used her as a punching bag. All her life, she felt God was never there for her, so she stopped believing in Him altogether.In the touching novel Sweet Summer Rain ... Noah’s Story, see what happens when God puts these two people together. Do opposites really attract, and will Brendy be able to find the peace she has always hungered for?Hiding dark secrets and being blackmailed by one of Noah’s friends, Brendy believes the love she feels for Noah can never be acknowledged. In her heart, she knows she is not the woman he makes her out to be.The first in a four-part series, Sweet Summer Rain is a story of love and hope, but above all, forgiveness. Brendy finds the hardest part of forgiveness is learning to forgive yourself.Each book in the series covers the life of a different Garrett family member in the town of Summersville, West Virginia. After Sweet Summer Rain, watch what happens in the other seasons of the year!

Download or read book Hidden In Her Heart written by Milla Holt and published by Reinbok Limited. This book was released on 2021-03-29 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When she needed him most, he proposed to someone else. Can she risk putting her heart on the line again? Eden grew up in front of the camera with fame-hungry parents who exposed every corner of their family’s life to a string of reality TV shows. Her only refuge was her best friend Noah. He was the anchor who kept her grounded. She didn’t realize she was falling for him until he fell in love with someone else. Desperate to get away from her dysfunctional family and avoid the heartbreak of seeing Noah marry another woman, Eden left her hometown, dropped her infamous last name, and built a new life for herself. But when her little sister gets in trouble and pleads for Eden’s help, she doesn’t hesitate to go back. Six years after his fiancée dumped him at the altar, Noah has found fulfilment running the youth ministry in his father’s church. When a young man under his pastoral care gets a girl pregnant, Noah’s there to give guidance and support. He’s not prepared to run into the expectant mother’s sister, his former best friend Eden, who ghosted him years ago. Friendship deepens into attraction as Eden and Noah unite to protect the teen couple from Eden’s parents’ headline-seeking schemes. But twice-bitten Noah has thick walls around his heart, and Eden has forgotten how to trust. Will they miss their chance to build a life together? This is an inspirational romance with Christian themes.

Download or read book Live Love Now written by Rachel Macy Stafford and published by Zondervan. This book was released on 2020-04-28 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Live Love Now, New York Times bestselling author Rachel Macy Stafford tackles the biggest challenges facing kids today and equips adults to engage them with humanness and heart, compassion and honesty to discover the deep, life-giving connection everyone is longing for. What do young people need now more than ever? Adults who are Truth-tellers not taskmasters. Encouragers not enforcers. Guides not half-listeners. The good news is, it's not too late! No matter what's happened in the past, you can help the kids you love face the top stressors of today, including academic pressure, parental expectations, technoference, lack of purpose, isolation, and loneliness. With illuminating, straightforward strategies, this guide reveals the importance of practicing acceptance, pursuing peace, and exploring wellness and purpose for yourself so you can be the kind of real, relevant, and lifelong role model young people are searching for. Engaging and thoughtful, each chapter includes moving stories from Rachel's personal journey as a mom of a teen and pre-teen along with illustrative narratives and prompts to help you reflect and take steps toward becoming the kind of adult young people trust. Whether you're a parent, educator, older sibling, coach, or anyone in a role of leading young people, this book will help you meet the goal of raising and guiding young people to become resilient, compassionate, and capable adults.

Download or read book Noah s Women written by Elizabeth Léonie Simpson and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2003-04 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Noah's Women This novella is a tale of mass murder, attempted rape, fratricide, and both filial devotion and rebellion. It is an attempt to rectify some omissions in a well-known story. Who were the women who participated in the Flood? What was the life they led on the famed Ark? There are six chapters--one telling Noah's own thoughts of rebellion against an unfair God, one by his silently suffering wife, and four by each one of the sons' wives. (The fourth son, Aaron, has not been recorded in Jewish folklore. Noah banished him from memory.) These four wives--the mythological forebears of all who came after that Deluge--are as different as human beings can be: the first, like Noah's own wife, is a quiet, submissive person who believes in male dominance. The second is an out-of-step egalitarian with the good fortune to find a similar husband. The third is a secretive, manipulative bisexual; and the last, a spoiled child bride who brings misfortune on herself through pride and a belief in caste superiority no longer functional in times of disaster. TRAMONTANE This is a mythic tale of a giant wanderer who is telling the story of his continuing search for his people, for acceptance, and for love. Over the years the first of these continues to evade him, but finally he finds both acceptance and love in the person of a stranger whose tragic end propels the old story-teller to revenge and the acceptance of his own death.

Download or read book Believe written by Diane C. Coates and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2013-07-15 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DANNIE HINES, middle school art teacher, daughter and friend, is on a journey. Her mother is preparing to leave this world. Principal Tillman has taken all of her classes in exchange for a class of students no one else wants to teach from the Juvenile Detention Center. She receives help as she remembers events from her past. Events, which taught important lessons of life. There is also help coming from a very special relative, Riley, her uncle, now a spirit. She also has a best friend Margo. They are kindred souls placed on the planet to help each other. This book shows the reader a mother who asks God for just a little more time to help her daughter realize her gifts. It shows Flame, one of the students in Dannies class, trying to find her place in the world when her family has evaporated. It shows Dannies friend, Margo, struggling to heal her family from something she did. It shows Dannie, desperately trying to help everyone and make her own peace with her family and her mother. This book is about love, honesty, friendship, telepathy, out-of-body experiences, healing and more. It can help a lot of readers find a special kind of peace. This book is for everyone. If you have ever felt in the midst of personal tragedy you were alone, this book Believe could offer you some peace. It creatively uses concepts of, teleporting, out-of-body experience and telepathy to take the reader along on a spiritual journey of one warm southern family.

Download or read book Simply Yes written by D. H.Crosby and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2019-09-19 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When you do hear people talking about a happily married couple on TV, it’s usually about who is separating or who is having an affair. I’d like to challenge the everyday housewife to step it up! If hubby wants his wife to be more amorous, then he has to step it up! Why look elsewhere when she is right in front of you? I want my book to be about real married couples and the everyday life with all the hassles. My characters are devoted to their families. Their love life is a partnership. There are men and women out there who will be faithful and true. Don’t settle for less than the best! I am promoting sex—yes, between husband and wife! It is the best!

Download or read book TrUe CoLoUrS written by Bella Paige and published by Shawline Publishing Group PTY LTD. This book was released on 2021-02-15 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Even though someone may smile, it doesn't mean their world isn't crashing down around them. Ariel's life was in a rut as she lived a privileged life with everything a person could ask for, wealth, a loving family, great friends and even a fulfilling job. But something was missing. Until she found an old, abandoned rec centre where five homeless children seemed to survive alone, and they came to change her life forever. Ariel learns that family doesn't always share the same DNA, it's bound by getting through the tough times together and the people that you're willing to fight for. Noah, home from Afghanistan after being severely injured, gets a chance to reconnect with his daughter, Emma. He meets the young woman, Ariel, who has raised his daughter while he had been away at war. A friendship formed of many letters during the years Noah was away, create for Ariel and Noah a connection that grows stronger, and their passion to help the children in need brings them even closer together. The Second Chance estate is designed to house and protect any homeless, abused and or neglected child. Not every child has a great first upbringing; some children get the short end of the stick in life...

Download or read book A Noah s Ark of Recurring Celebration written by Alan Allen and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2007-12-10 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (2007) BEFORE YOU VISIT SAN FRANCISCO FOR THE FIRST TIME, OR BEFORE YOU RETURN -- AND FOR NATIVES PLANNING TOMORROW'S DAY, TAKE A LOOK AT SAN FRANCISCO AS NEVER BEFORE. Over 1,140 unique S.F. underground photojournalism photos you will not see anyplace else! A Noah's Ark of Recurring Celebration: San Francisco Annual Event History - Winners of the Human Race ... Storytellin' Muni Drivers 20th Anniversary Edition (history & oral journalism). San Francisco, birthplace of United Nations and 49'ers is about being real. At least 70 of the 142 annual events are put on by non-profit groups to support non-profit causes to help others; the other 70 events help support non-profit causes. We're a city that cares about people. San Franciscans, visitors to-and-from the Bay Area, and tourists from across the country and around the world have faith in San Francisco and what we stand for, in our good will, creativity, and diversity ...and respect San Francisco historically as a haven of social justice for immigrants fleeing war, slavery, starvation and poverty, and as the friendliest, most creative, openly diverse and welcoming city in the world. We've historically documented that unspoken social contract, spirit and human accomplishment in a unique book about a unique city, and why it's a travel destination for pleasure seekers and business people for their conventions, from around the world.

Download or read book When We Were Young written by Karen Kingsbury and published by Howard Books. This book was released on 2019-07-09 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From #1 New York Times bestselling author Karen Kingsbury comes a classic story about second chances, featuring the beloved Baxter family and a young father who finds his whole world turned upside down on the eve of his divorce. What if you could see into the future and know what will happen tomorrow, if you really walk out that door today. Pay attention. Life is not a dress rehearsal. From their first meeting, to their stunning engagement and lavish wedding, to their happily-ever-after, Noah and Emily Carter seemed meant to be. They have a special kind of love—and they want the world to know. More than a million adoring fans have followed their lives on Instagram since the day Noah publicly proposed to Emily. But behind the carefully staged photos and encouraging posts, their life is anything but a fairytale, and Noah’s obsession with social media has ruined everything. Distraught, Emily reaches out to her friend Kari Baxter Taylor and tells her the truth: Noah and Emily have decided to call it quits. He is leaving in the morning. But when Noah wakes the next day, everything is different. Emily is gone and the kids are years older. Like Scrooge in A Christmas Carol, bizarre and strange events continue throughout the night so that Noah is certain he’s twenty years older, and he is desperate for a second chance. Now it would take a miracle to return to yesterday. When We Were Young is a rare and beautiful love story that takes place in a single day. It’s about knowing what tomorrow will bring if you really walk out that door today—and the gift of being able to choose differently.

Download or read book Return to Me written by Christy Reece and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2009-05-19 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DESIRED TO DEATH Posing as an underage teenager, Samara Lyons is out to trap an online predator. Smart, fiery, and fresh off a broken engagement, Samara is up for the challenge. But this challenge might not be so easy. Her boss, Noah McCall, head of a private international corporation called Last Chance Rescue, can’t disguise his raw, physical desire for Samara–and she’s going crazy battling her own feelings for him. The middle of a high-stakes op, with the fate of dozens of innocent lives on the line, is not the time to indulge in sensual delights. Then the sting explodes, forcing Noah to face his dark past and throwing Samara into the middle of an evil tug-of-war. Noah must confront an enemy he knows better than anyone else in the world, while Samara must find a way to stay alive. Now it’s no longer a matter of desire–it’s all about survival.

Download or read book Transfigured to Serve written by David Lee Brown and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2014-07-23 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you ever wondered what it would be like to be raptured, to serve in heaven during the millennial reign, and to be there for Satans final defeat? Well, I have. Transfigured to Serve explores the fictional life of a Christian man, Samuel Gideon. It provides a glimpse of his life before, during, and after the rapture. It shares his experiences and service in heaven. You are carried along with him as he prepares for the Lords return and millennial reign. You cascade out of heaven with Christ, Sam, and the saints and angels of God as they return to earth for Christs 1,000-year reign. You witness Sams service during the millennial reign and the lives of those that were left behind during the rapture. You see how their decedents progress. You experience the final release of Satan from his prison in the bottomless pit and his swift corruption of humanity--and then the final battle for earth. You will visualize the destruction of earth and the glory of the new heaven and new earth after the miraculous victory over Satan and his forces. You will experience the grandeur of the New Jerusalem, which becomes the final capital of the new earth, created by God--the glorious dwelling place of God, his saints, and his angels. This work of Christian fiction is based on prophesied events from scripture. I pray that you enjoy my book and glean a new perspective on the end times revealed in the Bible.

Download or read book Know Be Do written by Larry Alan Thompson and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2016-05-12 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Know Be Do is the WWJD of this generation. In the tradition of What Would Jesus Do? Know Be Do is more than a book. Its a movement. It transforms the Christian walk from an uphill battle into a guided tour with God. Most Christians lead a life of frustration, futility, and failure. They feel they never live up to Gods standards and live out His commands. They define Christianity by what they do and dont do. Theyre living the Christian life upside down, and they dont even realize it. Know Be Do turns the Christian life right side up. With powerful stories and winsome wit that make it an engaging read, Know Be Do shows you how to intimately, biblically know God, how to accept and employ your position in Christ (be), and how to act on His authority and appropriate His power (do). It connects the dots of the Christian life in a way that makes sense out of a maze of disconnected Christian concepts and equips you for a lifelong and ever-fascinating journey of walking the Christian life right side up. Discover Know Be Do Bible study resources and more at LarryAlanThompson.com

Download or read book Delightful Stories Or Home Talks Out of the Wonderful Book written by George A. Peltz and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Born a Crime written by Trevor Noah and published by One World. This book was released on 2016-11-15 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • More than one million copies sold! A “brilliant” (Lupita Nyong’o, Time), “poignant” (Entertainment Weekly), “soul-nourishing” (USA Today) memoir about coming of age during the twilight of apartheid “Noah’s childhood stories are told with all the hilarity and intellect that characterizes his comedy, while illuminating a dark and brutal period in South Africa’s history that must never be forgotten.”—Esquire Winner of the Thurber Prize for American Humor and an NAACP Image Award • Named one of the best books of the year by The New York Time, USA Today, San Francisco Chronicle, NPR, Esquire, Newsday, and Booklist Trevor Noah’s unlikely path from apartheid South Africa to the desk of The Daily Show began with a criminal act: his birth. Trevor was born to a white Swiss father and a black Xhosa mother at a time when such a union was punishable by five years in prison. Living proof of his parents’ indiscretion, Trevor was kept mostly indoors for the earliest years of his life, bound by the extreme and often absurd measures his mother took to hide him from a government that could, at any moment, steal him away. Finally liberated by the end of South Africa’s tyrannical white rule, Trevor and his mother set forth on a grand adventure, living openly and freely and embracing the opportunities won by a centuries-long struggle. Born a Crime is the story of a mischievous young boy who grows into a restless young man as he struggles to find himself in a world where he was never supposed to exist. It is also the story of that young man’s relationship with his fearless, rebellious, and fervently religious mother—his teammate, a woman determined to save her son from the cycle of poverty, violence, and abuse that would ultimately threaten her own life. The stories collected here are by turns hilarious, dramatic, and deeply affecting. Whether subsisting on caterpillars for dinner during hard times, being thrown from a moving car during an attempted kidnapping, or just trying to survive the life-and-death pitfalls of dating in high school, Trevor illuminates his curious world with an incisive wit and unflinching honesty. His stories weave together to form a moving and searingly funny portrait of a boy making his way through a damaged world in a dangerous time, armed only with a keen sense of humor and a mother’s unconventional, unconditional love.