Vivid Tomorrows

Author : David Brin
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2021-03-05
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781476683386

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Can science fiction--especially sci-fi cinema--save the world? It already has, many times. Retired officers testify that films like Doctor Strangelove, Fail-Safe, On the Beach and War Games provoked changes and helped prevent accidental war. Soylent Green and Silent Running recruited millions of environmental activists. The China Syndrome and countless movies about plagues helped bring attention to those failure modes. And the grand-daddy of "self-preventing prophecy"--Nineteen Eighty-Four--girded countless citizens to stay wary of Big Brother. It's not been all dire warnings. While optimism is much harder to dramatize than apocalypse, both large and small screens have also encouraged millions to lift their gaze, contemplating how we might get better, incrementally, or else raise grandchildren worthy of the stars. Come along on a quirky quest for unusual insights into the power of forward-looking media. How the romantic allure of feudalism tugs at men and women who benefited vastly from modernity. Or explore why almost every Hollywood film preaches Suspicion of Authority, along with tolerance, diversity and personal eccentricity, and how those messages helped keep us free. No one is spared scrutiny! Not Spielberg or Tolkien or Cameron or Costner... nor Dune or demigods or zombie flicks. Certainly not George Lucas or Ayn Rand! Though some critiques are offered from a lifetime of respect and love... and gratitude.

Author : David Brin
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2021-03-04
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781476641737

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Can science fiction--especially sci-fi cinema--save the world? It already has, many times. Retired officers testify that films like Doctor Strangelove, Fail-Safe, On the Beach and War Games provoked changes and helped prevent accidental war. Soylent Green and Silent Running recruited millions of environmental activists. The China Syndrome and countless movies about plagues helped bring attention to those failure modes. And the grand-daddy of "self-preventing prophecy"--Nineteen Eighty-Four--girded countless citizens to stay wary of Big Brother. It's not been all dire warnings. While optimism is much harder to dramatize than apocalypse, both large and small screens have also encouraged millions to lift their gaze, contemplating how we might get better, incrementally, or else raise grandchildren worthy of the stars. Come along on a quirky quest for unusual insights into the power of forward-looking media. How the romantic allure of feudalism tugs at men and women who benefited vastly from modernity. Or explore why almost every Hollywood film preaches Suspicion of Authority, along with tolerance, diversity and personal eccentricity, and how those messages helped keep us free. No one is spared scrutiny! Not Spielberg or Tolkien or Cameron or Costner... nor Dune or demigods or zombie flicks. Certainly not George Lucas or Ayn Rand! Though some critiques are offered from a lifetime of respect and love... and gratitude.

Author : Elias Hartley
Publisher : RWG Publishing
Page : 74 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2024-01-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Edge of Tomorrow by Elias Hartley Pdf

Embark on an extraordinary odyssey of self-discovery in "The Edge of Tomorrow: A Journey of Self-Discovery." Follow the captivating narrative of Alex, a seeker navigating the cosmic realms, guided by an enigmatic cosmic force. Across a series of twelve chapters, each intricately woven with celestial threads, the story unfolds amidst astral symphonies, cosmic pioneers, and transformative thresholds. In "The Nexus of Beginnings," Alex steps into a realm where foundational energies shape new narratives, setting the stage for an exploration into uncharted territories. Journey alongside Alex as they encounter ethereal beings, the Cosmic Pioneers, embodying the spirit of cosmic exploration in a celestial symposium that echoes the courage required to venture into the unknown. The narrative deepens at the "Fountain of Intentions," a celestial wellspring where intentional energies and renewed purposes converge. Immerse yourself in this transformative journey, where the act of dipping hands into the celestial waters becomes a symbolic gesture of infusing the cosmic narrative with new intentions. "The Harmonic Convergence" becomes a celestial gathering, a harmonious union of intentions and cosmic forces, where Alex moves in tandem with the vibrational frequencies of the cosmic dance. Witness the interconnectedness within the cosmic tapestry as Alex aligns personal will with the universal flow in this mesmerizing symphony. Finally, at the "Threshold Beyond," Alex stands at the juncture where destiny's threads extend into the boundless expanse. The guide, a custodian of cosmic horizons, reveals infinite possibilities awaiting beyond this celestial portal, marking a poignant conclusion to a transformative journey. "The Edge of Tomorrow" is more than a tale-it is an exploration of self, a cosmic dance between personal will and the forces that shape destinies. Each chapter unfolds like a celestial tapestry, rich with threads of intention, renewal, and discovery. Join Alex in this captivating odyssey, and experience the magic of self-discovery in the cosmic realms beyond the edge of tomorrow.

Author : Virginia N. Hosler,Jack L. Fadely
Publisher : Charles C. Thomas Publisher
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Medical
ISBN : STANFORD:36105037373391

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Holistic Mental Health for Tomorrow's Children by Virginia N. Hosler,Jack L. Fadely Pdf

Author : Natalie R. Vice
Publisher : Bublish, Inc.
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2020-06-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781647041489

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Tomorrow’s Promise by Natalie R. Vice Pdf

About three-fourths of the way through our life’s journey, we suddenly stop. We stop to ponder all the “what if’s.” What if Jo had never joined the military? What if Gina hadn’t gotten pregnant? What if their choices hadn’t taken them in completely opposite directions, with completely different lives? The young girls of Polk Ridge, Arkansas reunite in Tomorrow’s Promise to pick up the pieces of a friendship long ago abandoned. Jo, an Air Force Major and world traveler has returned home. Gina never left. That careless “friend request” on Facebook is about to have lasting consequences.

Author : Jonathan Strahan
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2022-08-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780262371537

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Tomorrow's Parties by Jonathan Strahan Pdf

Twelve visions of living in a climate-changed world. We are living in the Anthropocene—an era of dramatic and violent climate change featuring warming oceans, melting icecaps, extreme weather events, habitat loss, species extinction, and more. What will life be like in a climate-changed world? In Tomorrow’s Parties, science fiction authors speculate how we might be able to live and even thrive through the advancing Anthropocene. In ten original stories by writers from around the world, an interview with celebrated writer Kim Stanley Robinson, and a series of intricate and elegant artworks by Sean Bodley, Tomorrow’s Parties takes rational optimism as a moral imperative, or at least a pragmatic alternative to despair. In these stories—by writers from the United Kingdom, the United States, Nigeria, China, Bangladesh, and Australia—a young man steals from delivery drones; a political community lives on an island made of ocean-borne plastic waste; and a climate change denier tries to unmask “crisis actors.” Climate-changed life also has its pleasures and epiphanies, as when a father in Africa works to make his son’s dreams of “Viking adventure” a reality, and an IT professional dispatched to a distant village encounters a marvelous predigital fungal network. Contributors include Pascall Prize for Criticism winner James Bradley, Hugo Award winners Greg Egan and Sarah Gailey, Philip K Dick Award winner Meg Elison, and New York Times bestselling author Daryl Gregory.

Author : Peter Coviello
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2013-04-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780814717417

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Tomorrow's Parties by Peter Coviello Pdf

“Dazzling intelligence radiates here, out from sentences giving such pleasure, yielding the finest devotion I’ve seen to literature’s own theoretical force. Coviello listens, carefully, brilliantly, for the flickerings, the liquid meanderings, all too easily explained as “sexual”—or never even perceived at all. Here is a critic as joyful as Whitman, with his dark core fully afire.” —Kathryn Bond Stockton, Distinguished Professor of English at University of Utah In nineteenth-century America—before the scandalous trial of Oscar Wilde, before the public emergence of categories like homo- and heterosexuality—what were the parameters of sex? Did people characterize their sexuality as a set of bodily practices, a form of identification, or a mode of relation? Was it even something an individual could be said to possess? What could be counted as sexuality? Tomorrow’s Parties: Sex and the Untimely in Nineteenth-Century America provides a rich new conceptual language to describe the movements of sex in the period before it solidified into the sexuality we know, or think we know. Taking up authors whose places in the American history of sexuality range from the canonical to the improbable—from Whitman, Melville, Thoreau, and James to Dickinson, Sarah Orne Jewett, Harriet Jacobs, Frederick Douglass, and Mormon founder Joseph Smith—Peter Coviello delineates the varied forms sex could take in the lead-up to its captivation by the codings of “modern” sexuality. While telling the story of nineteenth-century American sexuality, he considers what might have been lostin the ascension of these new taxonomies of sex: all the extravagant, untimely ways of imagining the domain of sex that, under the modern regime of sexuality, have sunken into muteness or illegibility. Taking queer theorizations of temporality in challenging new directions, Tomorrow’s Parties assembles an archive of broken-off, uncreated futures—futures that would not come to be. Through them, Coviello fundamentally reorients our readings of erotic being and erotic possibility in the literature of nineteenth-century America. Peter Coviello is Professor of English at Bowdoin College. He is the author of Intimacy in America: Dreams of Affiliation in Antebellum Literature and the editor of Walt Whitman’s Memoranda During the War. In the America and the Long 19th Century series

Author : Sarah McBride
Publisher : Three Rivers Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781524761479

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Tomorrow Will be Different by Sarah McBride Pdf

Before speaking at a national political convention about her experiences as a transgender person, the author struggled with the decision to come out - not just to her family but to the students at her university, where she was serving as student body president. She'd known she was a girl from her earliest memories, but it wasn't until a Facebook post announcing her truth went viral that she realized the impact her story could have on the country. Four years later, the author was one of the nation's most prominent transgender activists, walking the halls of the White House, advocating inclusive legislation, and addressing the country in the midst of a heated presidential election. She had also found her first love and future husband, a trans man and fellow activist, who complemented her in every way ... until cancer tragically intervened. This book is the author's story of love and loss and an account of the LGBTQ community's battle for equal rights.--adapted from dust jacket.

Author : James P. O'Shaughnessy
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2006-03-02
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781101218389

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Predicting the Markets of Tomorrow by James P. O'Shaughnessy Pdf

A unique and timely new wealth-building strategy from a legendary investment guru In his national bestsellers How to Retire Rich and What Works on Wall Street, portfolio manager extraordinaire James P. O’Shaughnessy offered investors practical advice based on rigorous quantitative analysis—advice that has consistently beaten the market. But in a recent analysis of market data, O’Shaughnessy uncovered some astonishing trends not discussed in his previous books. The Markets of Tomorrow explains O’Shaughnessy’s new research and tells ordinary investors what they must do now to revamp their portfolios. According to O’Shaughnessy, the year 2000 marked the end of a twenty-year cycle that was dominated by the stocks of larger, fastergrowing companies like those in the S&P 500. In the new cycle, the stocks of small and midsize companies are the ones that will outperform the market, along with large company value stocks and intermediate term bonds. O’Shaughnessy describes the number crunching behind his analysis and then shows individual investors exactly how to select the right mix of investments and pick top-performing small and midcap stocks. The Markets of Tomorrow is a loud and clear call to action for every investor who doesn’t want to be left behind.

Author : Meena Surie Wilson,Center for Creative Leadership (CCL)
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2011-03-21
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780470827147

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Developing Tomorrow's Leaders Today by Meena Surie Wilson,Center for Creative Leadership (CCL) Pdf

Today's large business organizations in India have a voracious need for effective managers and talented leaders; but demand far exceeds supply. This timely and practical book offers thoroughly-researched pointers on how Indian managers can become high-performing business leaders. The leadership development curriculum proposed in these pages is based on extracting lessons from on-the-job experience. Given that the workplace is the medium through which the essentials of leadership are learned, executives and managers at all levels need to know which experiences matter, what are the foremost lessons learned, and how learning occurs. Developing Tomorrow's Leaders Today offers a complete template for effective leadership, including: The seven experiences vital for developing leadership ability The 11 lessons in leadership essential for managerial effectiveness Over 50 stories and 100 wise quotations from today's senior executives that portray how leadership acumen sharpens over time Reflective exercises, self-assessments, and guidelines for self-improvement The underlying research was conducted in cooperation with the Tata Management Training Center in Pune, India, and captures the experiences and leadership lessons learned by over 100 senior Indian business leaders. As such, it offers readers both a compass and a map for traversing the terrain of leadership development. In these pages, early and mid-career managers will find a roadmap for steering their careers towards the higher echelons of executive leadership. Senior executives, at the top of their game, will find a systematic and proactive approach to cultivating the leadership talent that their organizations will require in the future. Global executives operating in India will find out how leadership and management are practiced in India.

Author : Joan N. Burstyn
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1996-07-03
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780791498095

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Educating Tomorrow's Valuable Citizen by Joan N. Burstyn Pdf

The authors discuss the dilemmas that face those who would educate tomorrow's valuable citizens and describe the day-to-day commitment needed to maintain a community. Important questions are asked: How do our public schools educate children to become members of our particular "public?" What problems face citizens of a democracy committed to both pluralism and equity? How has the meaning of citizenship changed as our society has evolved? In a world made interdependent through technology, how can one best define citizenship? The book's various perspectives provide guidelines for action through examples of current programs, and the reader is invited to join new forums to discuss questions raised—forums that allow for heated, but civil, disagreement. Only by engaging in such discussions can a public consensus be reached on the best ways to educate for tomorrow. Contributors include John Covaleskie, Ellen Giarelli, James Giarelli, Jerilyn Fay Kelle, Thomas Mauhs-Pugh, Barbara McEwan, Mary B. Stanley, Donald Warren, and Zeus Yiamouyiannis.

Author : Ajay Major,Aleena Paul
Publisher : Pager Publications, Inc.
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780692658635

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in-Training: Stories from Tomorrow's Physicians by Ajay Major,Aleena Paul Pdf

"in-Training: Stories from Tomorrow's Physicians is a compendium of narratives written by medical students on the medical school experience, originally published on in-Training, a peer-edited online publication for medical students, at in-training.org. Each narrative is accompanied by discussion questions written by the medical student editors of in-Training. The compendium is designed as a resource guide for individuals or courses about the medical humanities. This compendium was reviewed by members of the Arnold P. Gold Foundation, a national nonprofit organziation dedicated to promoting humanism in medicine and medical education." -- Back Cover.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Kendall Hunt
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Physical sciences
ISBN : 0787233668

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Mindworks: Tomorrow's Challenges, Student Reader by Anonim Pdf

Author : Robert Byrum
Publisher : Dorrance Publishing
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2023-06-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9798889258889

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An Inconvenient Future: Tomorrow's Future Today by Robert Byrum Pdf

About the Book How is mankind going to cope with an ever-increasingly warming world? The author presents, with many examples, strong evidence that the world is warming which will have profound effect on our lives and future generations. This has become the greatest issue of our times, actually of all times, and he has presented the evidence this is true. Humanity is on trial with little time left to recover before unrepairable damage occurs to our way of life and our ability to maintain a lasting livable Earth. This is not the message that political leaders, policy makers, or friends and neighbors want to hear. Unfortunately, it is the ultimate “Inconvenient Future”. About the Author Robert Byrum has lived a full and rewarding life of action, adventure, friendships, and lots of happiness. He was born and grew up in San Diego and moved to Montana in 1990, seeking a new horizon and a quality of life which he found. Following his passion for living and adventure has allowed him and his wife Nancy to enjoy traveling the world, witnessing other lands and people. They have had the pleasure of fishing and hunting in many locations and have enjoyed competing with their Labrador Retrievers. Writing has become a new hobby; this is his fourth book in the last two years.

Author : Felix Dodds,Carolina Duque Chopitea,Ranger Ruffins
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2021-10-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781000467673

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Tomorrow's People and New Technology by Felix Dodds,Carolina Duque Chopitea,Ranger Ruffins Pdf

As we witness a series of social, political, cultural, and economic changes/disruptions this book examines the Fourth Industrial Revolution and the way emerging technologies are impacting our lives and changing society. The Fourth Industrial Revolution is characterised by the emergence of new technologies that are blurring the boundaries between the physical, the digital, and the biological worlds. This book allows readers to explore how these technologies will impact peoples’ lives by 2030. It helps readers to not only better understand the use and implications of emerging technologies, but also to imagine how their individual life will be shaped by them. The book provides an opportunity to see the great potential but also the threats and challenges presented by the emerging technologies of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, posing questions for the reader to think about what future they want. Emerging technologies, such as robotics, artificial intelligence, big data and analytics, cloud computing, nanotechnology, biotechnology, the Internet of Things, fifth-generation wireless technologies (5G), and fully autonomous vehicles, among others, will have a significant impact on every aspect of our lives, as such this book looks at their potential impact in the entire spectrum of daily life, including home life, travel, education and work, health, entertainment and social life. Providing an indication of what the world might look like in 2030, this book is essential reading for students, scholars, professionals, and policymakers interested in the nexus between emerging technologies and sustainable development, politics and society, and global governance.