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Author : Mark A. Noll
Publisher : Baker Academic
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Religion
ISBN : UOM:39015050314890
Explores twelve pivotal events in the history of Christianity ranging from the fall of Jerusalem and the coronation of Charlemagne to the Edinburgh Missionary Conference.
Author : A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2017-08-16
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9789352772940
It was like any other day on the Anna University campus in Chennai. As I was returning to my room in the evening, the vice-chancellor, Prof. A. Kalanidhi, fell in step with me.Someone had been frantically trying to get in touch with me through the day, he said. Indeed, the phone was ringing when I entered the room.When I answered, a voice at the other end said, 'The prime minister wants to talk with you.' Some months earlier, I had left my post as Principal Scientific Adviser to the Government of India to return to teaching. Now, as I spoke to the PM, Atal Bihari Vajpayee, my life was set for an unexpected change.Turning Points takes up the incredible Kalam story from where Wings of Fire left off. It brings together details from his career and presidency that are not generally known as he speaks out for the first time on certain points of controversy. It is a continuing saga, above all, of a journey - individual and collective - that will take India to 2020 and beyond as a developed nation.
Author : Fritjof Capra
Publisher : Bantam
Page : 469 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1984-08-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780553345728
A compelling vision of a new reality, a reconciliation of science and the human spirit for a future that will work The dynamics underlying the major problems of our time—cancer, crime, pollution, nuclear power, inflation, the energy shortage—are all the same. We have reached a time of dramatic and potentially dangerous change, a turning point for the planet as a whole. We need a new vision of reality, one that allows the forces transforming our world to flow together as a positive movement for social change. Now distinguished scientist Fritjof Capra gives us that vision, a holistic paradigm of science and spirit. “This splendid and thoughtful book is an essential guide for anyone inquiring about the place of science and metascience in our contemporary culture. Those who enjoyed Fritjof Capra’s Tao of Physics should not expect a sequel; this is a much more ambitious book that attempts and succeeds in presenting a whole worldview from the viewpoint of a committed and experienced physicist who also writes from within the North American culture…. It is unusually detailed and thorough in its inclusion of the conventional and the alternative approaches to topics ranging from ecology through medicine and psychology to economics. It is at once scholarly and easy to read.”—Jim Lovelock, New Scientist
Author : Gareth St John Thomas
Publisher : Exisle Publishing
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2021-10-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781991001153
We’ve all heard the phrase ‘the moment when my life changed forever’. Some of us can even pinpoint it in our own lives; the birth of a child, the acceptance letter to a degree programme, the decision to make a momentous change. The Turning Point is an anthology of personal accounts, showcasing the extraordinary and unexpected moments that have completely altered everyday lives. Each of the 40 stories in this book offers a rare glimpse into the turning point of the writer’s life. Hand-picked as the most extraordinary entries received in an international writing competition, they are eclectic, diverse and entirely immersive. From stray bullets in Los Angeles to falling in love in the Australian countryside, you will find much to enjoy and think about. This is the perfect book to read in snapshots, or to dive into and not resurface until you’ve read every fascinating account. Beautifully presented, it makes an ideal addition to your coffee table, or gift for a loved one. With sections on Love, Changes, Momentous Decisions, Tragedy, Vivid and Learning Moments, every reader is sure to find stories which relate and inspire. Pick up The Turning Point today and find out about the moment when love came along in a note under a windscreen wiper, when the death of a new friend inspired a teenager to live life to its fullest, and more, in this captivating insight into the human condition.
Author : Chaomei Chen
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2012-03-20
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783642191602
"Turning Points: The Nature of Creativity" discusses theories and methods focusing on a critical concept of intellectual turning points in the context of critical thinking, scientific discovery, and problem solving in general. This book introduces a novel analytical and experimental system that provides not only new ways for retrospective studies of scientific change but also for characterizing transformative potentials of prospective scientific contributions. The book is intended for scientists and researchers in the fields of information science and computer science. Dr. Chaomei Chen is an Associate Professor at the College of Information Science and Technology, Drexel University, USA.
Author : Frank S. Pittman
Publisher : W W Norton & Company Incorporated
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 0393700402
One of family therapy's wittiest and most sensible writers uses the family crisis as a launching point for discussing the entire range of events that can disrupt marriage and family life. A family crisis is heralded by symptomatic behavior, such as school phobia, adolescent rebellion, or depression, that trips up the family in its developmental path. Pittman show how the therapist can make the most of these crisis, creatively using whatever is at hand to pull the family through the chaos.
Author : Jared Diamond
Publisher : Little, Brown
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2019-05-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9780316409155
A "riveting and illuminating" Bill Gates Summer Reading pick about how and why some nations recover from trauma and others don't (Yuval Noah Harari), by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of the landmark bestseller Guns, Germs, and Steel. In his international bestsellers Guns, Germs and Steel and Collapse, Jared Diamond transformed our understanding of what makes civilizations rise and fall. Now, in his third book in this monumental trilogy, he reveals how successful nations recover from crises while adopting selective changes -- a coping mechanism more commonly associated with individuals recovering from personal crises. Diamond compares how six countries have survived recent upheavals -- ranging from the forced opening of Japan by U.S. Commodore Perry's fleet, to the Soviet Union's attack on Finland, to a murderous coup or countercoup in Chile and Indonesia, to the transformations of Germany and Austria after World War Two. Because Diamond has lived and spoken the language in five of these six countries, he can present gut-wrenching histories experienced firsthand. These nations coped, to varying degrees, through mechanisms such as acknowledgment of responsibility, painfully honest self-appraisal, and learning from models of other nations. Looking to the future, Diamond examines whether the United States, Japan, and the whole world are successfully coping with the grave crises they currently face. Can we learn from lessons of the past? Adding a psychological dimension to the in-depth history, geography, biology, and anthropology that mark all of Diamond's books, Upheaval reveals factors influencing how both whole nations and individual people can respond to big challenges. The result is a book epic in scope, but also his most personal yet.
Author : Gregg Braden
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Change (Psychology)
ISBN : 1781802408
We live in a time of extremes. The good news is that nature gives us the key to turn the frightening Tipping Points of such extremes into life-affirming Turning Points of transformation. Fact: The solutions to our biggest problems already exist! Fact: We already have the technology and the means to adapt to the extremes! Fact: All that stands between the suffering of the present and the world transformed is the shift in thinking that allows the existing solutions into our lives. In this compelling new work, bestselling author and visionary author of The God Code and Fractal Time Gregg Braden merges his expertise in leading-edge science with present-day realities to answer the questions on everyone's minds. Through his powerful synthesis of easy-to-understand science and real-world circumstances, Gregg uniquely: 1. Identifies the facts underlying the crises of personal, as well as global, change. 2. Describes new scientific discoveries that hold the key to turning global crises into personal transformation. 3. Reveals simple strategies of resilient thinking for our finances and lifestyles and resilient living for our families and communities as we navigate the greatest shift in power, wealth and resources in the modern world!
Author : Ian H. Gotlib,Blair Wheaton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1997-06-13
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0521550750
This book examines the influence of early stressful experiences over the life course.
Author : Robert Ayres
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2014-03-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134179855
This text discusses the current basis of economic growth, concluding that it is is failing to deliver, and is actually harming our prospects for future security. Further arguments propose a possible long-term strategy for economic revival - eco-restructuring. This strategy involves a shifting away from production of goods to production of services, closing material cycles and eliminating reliance on non-renewable resources.
Author : Max L. Christensen
Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1993-01-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0664253571
Great movements have leaders and leaders have moments when commitments are made, when new attitudes are formed, when new directions are chosen, and when distant visions are transformed into realities. This inspirational book examines some of these important times--occasions when notable people, during moments of crisis and insight, found the grace and strength to change our world for the better, forever.
Author : Vaughan Roberts
Publisher : Authentic Media Inc
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2001-12-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781850789390
Is there meaning to life? Is history just random? Where does my life fit in? These are topical questions in any age, but particularly so in our postmodern era. Vaughan Roberts addresses these questions and others by examining what the Bible presents as the "turning points" in history, from creation to the end of time.This does not read like a normal history book. It does something far more important, to help you see history as God does, so that you might fit in with His plans for the world.
Author : Jerry Mintz,Carlo Ricci
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 387 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 0974525251
Thirty-five visionary educators were asked: What was your schooling like? When did you realize that there is a need for an alternative approach? What have you done since to help realize that vision? What are you doing now? Turning Points is an anthology of their responses, a peek into the lives and journeys of these pioneering individuals who have-and are-transforming what it means to be a teacher, a student , and a life-long learner. -- taken from front jacket flap.
Author : Laetitia Mizero Hellerud
Publisher : Ubuntu Consulting
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2018-09-28
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 1732794804
For those who are seeking to reignite their hope for life and their faith in humanity, the stories in this book will bring a breath of fresh air, but not until they have exposed some raw brokenness. These stories are a great testimony to how their authors found ways to elevate the light in the journey instead of remaining stuck in its darkness.
Author : Frank Uekötter
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : History
ISBN : 0822961180
In this volume, an international group of environmental historians examine the significant ways in which humans have impacted their surroundings throughout history.