Download or read book Factfulness written by Hans Rosling and published by Flatiron Books. This book was released on 2018-04-03 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “One of the most important books I’ve ever read—an indispensable guide to thinking clearly about the world.” – Bill Gates “Hans Rosling tells the story of ‘the secret silent miracle of human progress’ as only he can. But Factfulness does much more than that. It also explains why progress is so often secret and silent and teaches readers how to see it clearly.” —Melinda Gates "Factfulness by Hans Rosling, an outstanding international public health expert, is a hopeful book about the potential for human progress when we work off facts rather than our inherent biases." - Former U.S. President Barack Obama Factfulness: The stress-reducing habit of only carrying opinions for which you have strong supporting facts. When asked simple questions about global trends—what percentage of the world’s population live in poverty; why the world’s population is increasing; how many girls finish school—we systematically get the answers wrong. So wrong that a chimpanzee choosing answers at random will consistently outguess teachers, journalists, Nobel laureates, and investment bankers. In Factfulness, Professor of International Health and global TED phenomenon Hans Rosling, together with his two long-time collaborators, Anna and Ola, offers a radical new explanation of why this happens. They reveal the ten instincts that distort our perspective—from our tendency to divide the world into two camps (usually some version of us and them) to the way we consume media (where fear rules) to how we perceive progress (believing that most things are getting worse). Our problem is that we don’t know what we don’t know, and even our guesses are informed by unconscious and predictable biases. It turns out that the world, for all its imperfections, is in a much better state than we might think. That doesn’t mean there aren’t real concerns. But when we worry about everything all the time instead of embracing a worldview based on facts, we can lose our ability to focus on the things that threaten us most. Inspiring and revelatory, filled with lively anecdotes and moving stories, Factfulness is an urgent and essential book that will change the way you see the world and empower you to respond to the crises and opportunities of the future. --- “This book is my last battle in my life-long mission to fight devastating ignorance...Previously I armed myself with huge data sets, eye-opening software, an energetic learning style and a Swedish bayonet for sword-swallowing. It wasn’t enough. But I hope this book will be.” Hans Rosling, February 2017.

Download or read book Bad Ideas written by Robert Winston and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We are born with the instinct to create and invent. Indeed, our ability to do so is what separates us from the rest of the animal world. But have our creative ideas always produced desirable results? Have they always served us well? Bad Ideas? traces the fascinating history of our attempts at self-improvement but also questions their value. The dubious consequences of the development of weaponry, for example, is self-evident. But what of apparently more innocuous advances such as farming, writing and medicine? Science has produced huge good but has also had unforeseen consequences. Can science and scientists find solutions to the perils that now menace us? We join Robert Winston on a thrilling journey from our earliest days to the present. We meet some key individuals along the way and share quirky anecdotes about their lives and brainwaves. Inspiring, unusual and at times controversial, Bad Ideas? assesses the past and looks forward to the opportunities of the future. In so doing it celebrates man's extraordinary capacity for achievement and offers a hopeful way forward to protect humanity against what sometimes seem like bad ideas.

Download or read book Boys Book Clubs and Other Bad Ideas written by Kristina Horner and published by 84th Street Press. This book was released on 2021-10-09 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seven stories of love and impending doom. What happens when… Escaped demons threaten prom? An energy drink breaks the fabric of space-time? A smug VR gamer is forced to team up with her last-choice player? The pursuit of the perfect university application goes way too far? A first date turns into a chase across alternate universes? A wizard fanboy accidentally becomes a hero? Death’s secretary tries to save her favorite human from dying? Bad ideas—that’s what. One prompt. Seven writers. Seven wildly different stories. Monday Night Anthology is a multi-genre collection featuring unique interpretations of the same idea. From romance to satire, fantasy to humor, this volume brings fresh narratives and surprising twists that will make you believe in the brilliance of bad ideas. Featuring stories by Kristina Horner, Stephen Folkins, Jennifer Lee Swagert, Katrina Hamilton, Shay Lynam, Sunny Everson, and Maria Berejan.

Download or read book Seven Bad Ideas written by Jeff Madrick and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2015-08-18 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the former economics columnist for Harper’s and The New York Times, a bold indictment of some of our most accepted mainstream economic theories—why they’re wrong, and how they’ve been harming America and the world. Ideas have the power to change history. But what happens when they are bad? In a tour de force of economics, history, and analysis, Jeff Madrick shows how theories on austerity, inflation, and efficient markets have become unassailable mantras over recent years, to the detriment of the country as a whole. Working backwards from the Great Recession, Madrick pulls no punches as he reconsiders seven of the greatest false idols of modern economic theory, from Say’s Law to Milton Friedman, illustrating how these ideas have been damaging markets, infrastructure, and individual livelihoods for years. Trenchant, sweeping, and empirical, Seven Bad Ideas resoundingly disrupts the status quo of modern economic theory.

Download or read book The Book of Bad Ideas written by Laura Huliska-Beith and published by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2008-12-21 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text is a compilation of bad ideas, such as rollerblading with your dog even though he was kicked out of obedience school and giving everyone a closer look at your ant farm by taking the lid off.

Download or read book Flock This written by Jayce Carter and published by Totally Entwined Group (USA+CAD). This book was released on 2024-03-26 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: FROM POPULAR AUTHOR OF WHY CHOOSE ROMANCE JAYCE CARTER Book one in the Flocking It Up series Trouble doesn' t find me— I go looking for it. I' ve been rejected all my life— always too loud, too messy, too much. I thought joining the spirit world— full of vampires, werewolves and magical beings living alongside humans— would change that, but as an anomaly without a clan, I' m more unwelcome than ever. Instead of power and sexy trysts with hot immortals, I end up working as a courier just to survive. I got turned into a crow shifter and all I got out of it is a sucky, dead-end job. However, when I make a delivery and instead find the vampire leader' s corpse, the stake that killed him in my hand, standing on the sidelines stops being an option. Without a clan to speak for me, I have no choice but to figure out who framed me and find the real killer on my own. Surrounded by people I can' t trust, in a world that has no place for me, I' ve got to use every skill in my arsenal to stay one step ahead. They say a little mischief is good for the soul, but too much of it can kill you.

Download or read book The Life You Can Save written by Peter Singer and published by Random House Trade Paperbacks. This book was released on 2010 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Argues that for the first time in history we're in a position to end extreme poverty throughout the world, both because of our unprecedented wealth and advances in technology, therefore we can no longer consider ourselves good people unless we give more to the poor. Reprint.

Download or read book Silenciada written by Jayce Carter and published by Totally Entwined Group (USA+CAD). This book was released on 2023-12-12 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Livro um da sé rie Academia Larkwood De menina rica mimada a sirena aprisionada— à s vezes a vida n&ã o presta. A minha vida era perfeita— um namorado carinhoso e giro, uma fam&í lia rica com boas ligaç &õ es, e um futuro imaculadamente planeado. Pois acontece que a perfeiç &ã o é uma mentira. Depois de um ataque imprevis&í vel, acordo para descobrir que me tornei uma sirena, tive as cordas vocais cortadas, e agora estou aprisionada na Academia Larkwood, o lugar mais perigoso e de seguranç a m&á xima para humanos que se transformaram em criaturas paranormais chamadas sombras. Anda tudo atr&á s de mim aqui— a diretora, os guardas, e até as outras sombras. Enquanto tento sobreviver, vou-me aproximando dos homens à minha volta— Kit, um wendigo que é frequentemente chamado de c&ã ozinho da diretora, Deacon, um guarda que n&ã o é sombra mas també m n&ã o é humano, Knox, um &í ncubo que tem dificuldades em aceitar a sua fome, Brax, um berserker de m&á atitude e l&í ngua afiada, e Wade, um obscuro bem mais perigoso do que a sua cara e humor fazem parecer. Quanto mais tempo passo aqui a conhecer-lhes, mais me apercebo que n&ã o posso mesmo confiar em ningué m. Todos querem que eu siga as regras, mas eu n&ã o posso mais ser esse tipo de rapariga. Podem ter roubado a minha voz, mas n&ã o me v&ã o manter silenciada.

Download or read book Space and Other Bad Ideas written by Matthew Shuck and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-08-09 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An epic space adventure awaits four strangers who find themselves in the middle of an alien invasion of Earth. They must travel to the ends of Space and time to find a way to stop the aliens before all is lost. You'll laugh, you'll cry, and if you're anything like George, you'll probably end up concussed.

Download or read book Taking Chances written by Jayce Carter and published by Totally Entwined Group (USA+CAD). This book was released on 2023-11-28 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: FROM BESTSELLING ROMANCE AUTHOR JAYCE CARTER Book three in the Black Heart Auctions series I' ve always been called a mafia princess— it' s time I act like one. The enemy who has been after me, Lorien, was closer than I' d ever realized. Even now, knowing who he really is, we' re trapped in a stand-off, waiting to see who blinks first. Meanwhile, I' ve fallen even more hopelessly in love with Hayden, Tor, Char and Vance. I never would have thought getting bought at an auction would lead to love, yet here I am. Unfortunately, the more time I spend with them, the more certain I am this isn' t headed anywhere happy. The four men see no future for themselves or any life after dealing with this problem. They want their revenge and my safety, and nothing else matters. Everyone has a plan for me— Lorien wants me for his own, Nem and the Quad want me to come home and listen, the men I love want me to stay quiet as they take wounds meant for me. I' ve lived my whole life doing what others want, giving in out of fear. That ends now, because I won' t be their good girl anymore. I' ll stop at nothing to protect everyone who matters to me— I' ll show them just what this mafia princess can do.

Download or read book Beauty Will Save the World written by Brian Zahnd and published by Charisma Media. This book was released on 2012 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Zahnd issues a challenge to Christians to discover new vitality through re-envisioning, reimagining, and reforming the church according to the pattern of the cruciform. Using stories from the lives of St. Francis of Assisi and from his own life, he teaches believers to stay on the journey to discover the kingdom of God in a fuller, richer way.

Download or read book The Devil s Due written by Jayce Carter and published by Totally Entwined Group (USA+CAD). This book was released on 2023-08-08 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: FROM POPULAR AUTHOR OF PARANORMAL REVERSE HAREM ROMANCE JAYCE CARTER Book four in The Devil' s Due series Sleeping with four men is heaven— living with them is hell. The only way for a person like me to get to heaven is breaking in. The Lords and I survived the Path, but, as it turns out, the Plains aren' t the paradise they say. Darkness and danger hide beneath the glittery exterior, and the closer we get to the palace, to where Hubis is, the more I realize just how broken the system really is. My relationships with the Lords are strained as we face our own pasts, as we learn to trust one another before the Plains can tear us apart. I might love them, but I' m not stupid enough to think that means a happily-ever-after. Absolute power has twisted and corrupted every other person who has wielded it, so can anyone be trusted with it? Even if we succeed, if we can overcome Hubis, if we get everything we want, will that power end up destroying me? If I' m going to make one last mistake, I might as well make it one to remember...

Download or read book Less is More written by Jason Hickel and published by Random House. This book was released on 2020-08-13 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'A powerfully disruptive book for disrupted times ... If you're looking for transformative ideas, this book is for you.' KATE RAWORTH, economist and author of Doughnut Economics A Financial Times Book of the Year ______________________________________ Our planet is in trouble. But how can we reverse the current crisis and create a sustainable future? The answer is: DEGROWTH. Less is More is the wake-up call we need. By shining a light on ecological breakdown and the system that's causing it, Hickel shows how we can bring our economy back into balance with the living world and build a thriving society for all. This is our chance to change course, but we must act now. ______________________________________ 'A masterpiece... Less is More covers centuries and continents, spans academic disciplines, and connects contemporary and ancient events in a way which cannot be put down until it's finished.' DANNY DORLING, Professor of Geography, University of Oxford 'Jason is able to personalise the global and swarm the mind in the way that insects used to in abundance but soon shan't unless we are able to heed his beautifully rendered warning.' RUSSELL BRAND 'Jason Hickel shows that recovering the commons and decolonizing nature, cultures, and humanity are necessary conditions for hope of a common future in our common home.' VANDANA SHIVA, author of Making Peace With the Earth 'This is a book we have all been waiting for. Jason Hickel dispels ecomodernist fantasies of "green growth". Only degrowth can avoid climate breakdown. The facts are indisputable and they are in this book.' GIORGIS KALLIS, author of Degrowth 'Capitalism has robbed us of our ability to even imagine something different; Less is More gives us the ability to not only dream of another world, but also the tools by which we can make that vision real.' ASAD REHMAN, director of War on Want 'One of the most important books I have read ... does something extremely rare: it outlines a clear path to a sustainable future for all.' RAOUL MARTINEZ, author of Creating Freedom 'Jason Hickel takes us on a profound journey through the last 500 years of capitalism and into the current crisis of ecological collapse. Less is More is required reading for anyone interested in what it means to live in the Anthropocene, and what we can do about it.' ALNOOR LADHA, co-founder of The Rules 'Excellent analysis...This book explores not only the systemic flaws but the deeply cultural beliefs that need to be uprooted and replaced.' ADELE WALTON

Download or read book Poss d e par les alphas written by Jayce Carter and published by Totally Entwined Group (USA+CAD). This book was released on 2023-12-12 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tome 1 de la saga Les Alphas de l' omé ga Il faut plus qu' un alpha pour mettre à genoux une omé ga. Claire s' est juré de renoncer aux alphas. Mais lorsque son enquê te sur le meurtre d' une amie la place dans le viseur, non pas d' un, mais de trois d' entre eux, sa dé termination est mise à l' é preuve. Mê me si elle dé sire ardemment leur contact, elle refuse de ressentir quoi que ce soit pour eux. Ils peuvent avoir son corps, mais pas son c&œ ur : elle le protè gera co&û te que co&û te. Bryce, Joshua et Kaidan ne veulent pas d' une omé ga, mais c' est difficile de ré sister à cette femme mystè re qui s' est introduite dans leur bureau. Son odeur, ses courbes et sa saveur les attirent, mais son corps ne leur suffira pas. Il faudra qu' ils entrent tous les trois dans le jeu de l' omé ga pour la convaincre de leur donner une chance. Au cours de l' exploration de leur relation complexe, l' enquê te de Claire à la recherche de l' alpha assassin les met tous en danger. Pourront-ils s' unir devant la menace ou leurs secrets et leurs peurs dé truiront-elles tout ce qu' ils ont trouvé ??

Download or read book Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports written by James Patterson and published by Perfection Learning. This book was released on 2008-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The time has come for Max, Fang, Iggy, Nudge, Gasman, and Angel to face their ultimate enemy and, despite many obstacles, try to save the world from a sinister plan to re-engineer a select population into a scientifically superior master race.

Download or read book Old Enough to Save the Planet written by Loll Kirby and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2021-02-09 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An inspiring look at young climate change activists who are changing the world The world is facing a climate crisis like we’ve never seen before. And kids around the world are stepping up to raise awareness and try to save the planet. As people saw in the youth climate strike in September 2019, kids will not stay silent about this subject—they’re going to make a change. Meet 12 young activists from around the world who are speaking out and taking action against climate change. Learn about the work they do and the challenges they face, and discover how the future of our planet starts with each and every one of us.

Download or read book Buying Time written by Jayce Carter and published by Totally Entwined Group (USA+CAD). This book was released on 2023-10-24 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: FROM BESTSELLING ROMANCE AUTHOR JAYCE CARTER Book two in the Black Heart Auctions series These men are ruthless, dangerous and bent on revenge— who knew that was just my type? One slip up and the secrets I' ve worked so hard to hide are on display. My past, my real name, my family— the men who have taken over my life know about it all. The more time we spend together, the more about them I learn as well. I glimpse their softer sides, realize just how dark their pasts are, and come to understand why their revenge matters to them so much. However, the man who is after me won' t let up, and the situation grows more dangerous. He is a ruthless assassin with the backing of a powerful crime family, and he' ll stop at nothing to get me. If only my life was all I had to worry about. He threatens not only me, but my family and the men I' ve fallen for as well. If I' m not careful, if I don' t take every right step, if I let down my guard at all, it' s possible that none of us will survive this.