Evolve And Change The World

Author : C. V. Sudheendran
Publisher : D C Books
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2012-08-22
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9789381699126

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Evolve and Change The World by C. V. Sudheendran Pdf

What has shaped this book is a heartfelt concern for the young of the world. The underlying impulse has been to share with young minds,the insights and reflections the author has gathered from Eastern and Western thought and from his own encounters with life. The book does not speak so much about success as it is understood in today's world, but rather explores the wellsprings of true inner fulfilment. It contains ethical and transformative pointers for the young and is hoped to be a handbook on life or a compass for living. Core issues like the rational ground of human values, the inner make-up of the human personality,the basic deviations within the humankind, the ideal of religious harmony and the means of approaching it etc. have been discussed.Topics of vital interest to the young such as personal growth, gender characteristics, love and marriage, the grave ecological situation demanding urgent and effective responses etc. are also dealt with.

Author : Peter Plastrik,Madeleine Taylor,John Cleveland
Publisher : Island Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2014-09-29
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1610915321

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Connecting to Change the World by Peter Plastrik,Madeleine Taylor,John Cleveland Pdf

Something new and important is afoot. Nonprofit and philanthropic organizations are under increasing pressure to do more and to do better to increase and improve productivity with fewer resources. Social entrepreneurs, community-minded leaders, nonprofit organizations, and philanthropists now recognize that to achieve greater impact they must adopt a network-centric approach to solving difficult problems. Building networks of like-minded organizations and people offers them a way to weave together and create strong alliances that get better leverage, performance, and results than any single organization is able to do. While the advantages of such networks are clear, there are few resources that offer easily understandable, field-tested information on how to form and manage social-impact networks. Drawn from the authors’ deep experience with more than thirty successful network projects, Connecting to Change the World provides the frameworks, practical advice, case studies, and expert knowledge needed to build better performing networks. Readers will gain greater confidence and ability to anticipate challenges and opportunities. Easily understandable and full of actionable advice, Connecting to Change the World is an informative guide to creating collaborative solutions to tackle the most difficult challenges society faces.

Author : David P. Mindell
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2009-07-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780674041080

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The Evolving World by David P. Mindell Pdf

In the 150 years since Darwin, evolutionary biology has proven as essential as it is controversial, a critical concept for answering questions about everything from the genetic code and the structure of cells to the reproduction, development, and migration of animal and plant life. But today, as David P. Mindell makes undeniably clear in The Evolving World, evolutionary biology is much more than an explanatory concept. It is indispensable to the world we live in. This book provides the first truly accessible and balanced account of how evolution has become a tool with applications that are thoroughly integrated, and deeply useful, in our everyday lives and our societies, often in ways that we do not realize. When we domesticate wild species for agriculture or companionship; when we manage our exposure to pathogens and prevent or control epidemics; when we foster the diversity of species and safeguard the functioning of ecosystems: in each of these cases, Mindell shows us, evolutionary biology applies. It is at work when we recognize that humans represent a single evolutionary family with variant cultures but shared biological capabilities and motivations. And last but not least, we see here how evolutionary biology comes into play when we use knowledge of evolution to pursue justice within the legal system and to promote further scientific discovery through education and academic research. More than revealing evolution's everyday uses and value, The Evolving World demonstrates the excitement inherent in its applications--and convinces us as never before that evolutionary biology has become absolutely necessary for human existence.

Author : Thomas C. Triumph
Publisher : Ex Innovo Press
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2018-09-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1732686602

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Evolve Or Die: Lessons for World-Class Innovation & Creativity by Thomas C. Triumph Pdf

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Author : Si.Vi Sudhīndran
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Self-help techniques
ISBN : 938885926X

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Evolve and Change the World by Si.Vi Sudhīndran Pdf

Author : Juan Enriquez,Steve Gullans
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2016-11-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780143108344

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Evolving Ourselves by Juan Enriquez,Steve Gullans Pdf

An eye-opening, mind-bending exploration of how mankind is reshaping its genetic future, based on the viral TED Talk series “Will Our Kids Be a Different Species?” and “The Next Species of Human.” Are you willing to engineer the DNA of your unborn children and grand-children to be healthier? Better looking? More intelligent? Why are rates of autism, asthma, and allergies exploding at an unprecedented pace? Why are humans living longer and having far fewer kids? Futurist Juan Enriquez and scientist Steve Gullans conduct a sweeping tour of how humans are changing the course of evolution for all species—sometimes intentionally, sometimes not. For example: • What if life forms are limited only by the bounds of our imagination? Are designer babies and pets, de-extinction, even entirely newspecies fair game? • As humans, animals, and plants become ever more resistant to disease and aging, what will become the leading causes of death? • Man-machine interfaces may allow humans to live much longer. What will happen when we transfer parts of our “selves” into clones, into stored cells and machines? Though these harbingers of change are deeply unsettling, the authors argue we are also in an epoch of tremendous opportunity. Future humans, perhaps a more diverse, resilient, gentler, and intelligent species, may become better caretakers of the planet—but only if we make the right choices now. Intelligent, provocative, and optimistic, Evolving Ourselves is the ultimate guide to the next phase of life on Earth. Chosen by Nature magazine as a Fall 2016 season highlight.

Author : Brian Hunter
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2021-05-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1090786077

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Evolve by Brian Hunter Pdf

EVOLVE is a unique revolutionary book that guides you through an innovative personal transformational journey that helps you evolve and develop new ways of thinking, skills, traits, and abilities that will advance you beyond your fellow humans. EVOLVE is a book that will truly change your life, and you will never view your reality in the same way again. Evolve is a powerful and practical personal transformation self-help improvement book, which examines life and all of its issues from a unique futuristic approach. EVOLVE provides in-depth, cutting-edge, and useful perspective, advice, and solutions on a huge range of topics. A selection of topics include: healing from personal losses and traumas, coping with sadness and depression, moving past fear that others use to control, manipulate, and abuse you, as well as clarity in thinking, advanced communication and reasoning skills, evolving your relationships, exploring the meaning of life, how everything in the Universe is connected to you, developing advanced special abilities such as psychic abilities, and a little discussion about aliens possibly living among us. Yes, there is everything, which is all directly tied back to your own personal life. EVOLVE is written in an easy, informal, personal, and humorous style that delivers honest useful advice and perspectives that are free from political, religious, or spiritual agendas. This is a book for everyone of all ages, regardless of social, political, or cultural background. This is the book that will change your life and can change the world.

Author : Salim Ismail,Francisco Palao,Michelle Lapierre
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 1300 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2019-05-20
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781119611448

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Exponential Transformation by Salim Ismail,Francisco Palao,Michelle Lapierre Pdf

A practical handbook for using Exponential Organization to transform your organization—and disrupt your industry—in 10 weeks Today’s top business challenge is adapting to accelerating technological and global change. In his bestselling book Exponential Organizations, author Salim Ismail described a new type of organization that thrives amidst industry disruption. Since then, he has helped organizations disrupt their own industries—by applying Exponential Organization (ExO) principles. From this work emerged the 10-week transformation process explained in this book, called the ExO Sprint. Exponential Transformation is the detailed implementation handbook for becoming an Exponential Organization. The book enables organizations to speed up their transformation and overcome the obstacles to success. Lead a 10-week ExO Sprint Evolve in order to navigate industry disruption Become an Exponential Organization Block the immune-system response of organizations during transformation Companies such as Visa, Procter & Gamble, HP, and Black & Decker have already benefited from ExO process. Exponential Transformation is a must-have resource for participants of any ExO Sprint, as well as those seeking to apply Exponential principles in their organizations.

Author : Ronald Radhoff
Publisher : BalboaPress
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2011-05-13
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781452534312

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Evolving Life and Transition to the World Beyond by Ronald Radhoff Pdf

The world is on the brink of major changes. The vibrations are increasing on the planet and act as a catalyst that is empowering the light and suppressing the dark energies. During this process, great opportunities to be a part of a magnificent spiritual evolution are opening for those who choose the way of the loving light of God. There is enormous confusion for many who have been subjected to false perceptions and are controlled through fear, the great tool of the dark side of governments and yes, even some religions. This book is a result of the authors 33 year search for greater truths, enhanced by communications from several spirit sources of the Deity, plus answers about other life in the Cosmos including mind expanding descriptions from highly evolved beings about life on other planetary systems. The author included several communications from friends and family when they described their transition experiences after crossing over to the World Beyond. These messages go beyond fundamental religious myths and describe various dimensions in the spiritual realm. This book is for you: if youve ever wondered what your purpose in life is. if you want to unleash greater powers of your mind. if youve wondered whether there is intelligent life out there. if youve wondered what the Afterlife is really like. if you have any fear of dying, death or crossing over. if you really want to evolve spiritually. Ron has given many lectures and presentations over several years to a variety of organizations. Expressing his creativity, Ron also paints in oil and is the cover artist. From a reader: Once I started reading your book, it was so interesting I couldnt put it down and read it straight through. I need eight more copies for family and friends. Beverly R, Novi, Michigan

Author : David Sloan Wilson
Publisher : Delacorte Press
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2007-03-27
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780440336808

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Evolution for Everyone by David Sloan Wilson Pdf

With stories that entertain as much as they inform, renowned evolutionist David Sloan Wilson outlines the basic principles of evolution and shows how, when properly understood, they can illuminate the length and breadth of creation, from the origin of life to the nature of religion. What is the biological reason for gossip? For laughter? For the creation of art? Why do dogs have curly tails? What can microbes tell us about morality? These and many other questions are tackled by Wilson in this witty and groundbreaking new book. Now everyone can move beyond the sterile debates about creationism and intelligent design to share Darwin’s panoramic view of animal and human life, seamlessly connected to each other. Evolution, as Wilson explains, is not just about dinosaurs and human origins, but about why all species behave as they do—from beetles that devour their own young, to bees that function as a collective brain, to dogs that are smarter in some respects than our closest ape relatives. And basic evolutionary principles are also the foundation for humanity’s capacity for symbolic thought, culture, and morality. In example after example, Wilson sheds new light on Darwin’ s grand theory and how it can be applied to daily life. By turns thoughtful, provocative, and daringly funny, Evolution for Everyone addresses some of the deepest philosophical and social issues of this or any age. In helping us come to a deeper understanding of human beings and our place in the world, it might also help us to improve that world.

Author : Douglas J. Futuyma
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2021-10-19
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780691227269

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How Birds Evolve by Douglas J. Futuyma Pdf

A marvelous journey into the world of bird evolution How Birds Evolve explores how evolution has shaped the distinctive characteristics and behaviors we observe in birds today. Douglas Futuyma describes how evolutionary science illuminates the wonders of birds, ranging over topics such as the meaning and origin of species, the evolutionary history of bird diversity, and the evolution of avian reproductive behaviors, plumage ornaments, and social behaviors. In this multifaceted book, Futuyma examines how birds evolved from nonavian dinosaurs and reveals what we can learn from the "family tree" of birds. He looks at the ways natural selection enables different forms of the same species to persist, and discusses how adaptation by natural selection accounts for the diverse life histories of birds and the rich variety of avian parenting styles, mating displays, and cooperative behaviors. He explains why some parts of the planet have so many more species than others, and asks what an evolutionary perspective brings to urgent questions about bird extinction and habitat destruction. Along the way, Futuyma provides an insider's perspective on how biologists practice evolutionary science, from studying the fossil record to comparing DNA sequences among and within species. A must-read for bird enthusiasts and curious naturalists, How Birds Evolve shows how evolutionary biology helps us better understand birds and their natural history, and how the study of birds has informed all aspects of evolutionary science since the time of Darwin.

Author : Barbara Smith Stoff,Sheldon Stoff
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2010-10-27
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781450263917

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Conscious Evolution by Barbara Smith Stoff,Sheldon Stoff Pdf

With deep reading in myth and literature, ones cognition becomes as a rich mother loam wherein spirit can dwell and build that interior castle, from which the indwelling spirit begins to speak through the imagination, the body, and the intellect of the individual. Over time, body, mind, and spirit become one. Then this one can and often does experience the merging within the One. Through the merging of intuition and intellect, we will comprehend the acceleration of consciousness that is overtaking us. Functioning within a state of universal awareness of our oneness will, in the long run, prove to be much easier than defining ourselves into small groupings of discordant persons and nations. The education and evolution of vibrant communities is our beginning task. The creation of a world with a universal consciousness of oneness is our ultimate realization. To act in accord, to make a bridge to new ways of thinking, and in the belief that the reported experiences of individual journeys in our studies, and in our consciousness, can be of great significance nowat this point in time with the world in a general state of confrontation and conflictwe offer this report from our own research and from within this frame of reflection.

Author : Ervin Laszlo
Publisher : SelectBooks, Inc.
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : House & Home
ISBN : 159079057X

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You Can Change the World by Ervin Laszlo Pdf

You Can Change the World: The Global Citizen's Handbook for Living on Planet Earth should be required reading for anyone who cares about the future of the planet. Written by renowned scientist, futurist and Club of Budapest founder Ervin Laszlo, You Can Change the World answers two pertinent questions-first, what is at the root of all the conflict and crisis in today's world? And second, what can actually be done to move toward a world where we can live in peace, without marginalizing and killing each other and destroying the environment?A handbook that urges readers to become global citizens who aspire to live responsibly on this precious but highly exploited and crisis-prone planet, You Can Change the World provides a simple and basic message: in today's world it is neither wealth nor power, nor the control of territory and technology that make the crucial difference. How we think and act shapes our present and decides our future.

Author : Graeme Taylor
Publisher : New Society Publishers
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2009-03-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781550923810

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Evolution's Edge by Graeme Taylor Pdf

The brink of catastrophe or the edge of evolution? The choice is ours.

Author : Subir Bijoy Sengupta
Publisher : Gyan Publishing House
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Cosmogony
ISBN : 8178358964

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Cosmic Evolution and the Evolution of Life by Subir Bijoy Sengupta Pdf