Where Are We Heading? - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Where Are We Heading? write by Ian Hodder. This book was released on 2018-08-21. Where Are We Heading? available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A theory of human evolution and history based on ever-increasing mutual dependency between humans and things In this engaging exploration, archaeologist Ian Hodder departs from the two prevailing modes of thought about human evolution: the older idea of constant advancement toward a civilized ideal and the newer one of a directionless process of natural selection. Instead, he proposes a theory of human evolution and history based on “entanglement,” the ever-increasing mutual dependency between humans and things. Not only do humans become dependent on things, Hodder asserts, but things become dependent on humans, requiring an endless succession of new innovations. It is this mutual dependency that creates the dominant trend in both cultural and genetic evolution. He selects a small number of cases, ranging in significance from the invention of the wheel down to Christmas tree lights, to show how entanglement has created webs of human-thing dependency that encircle the world and limit our responses to global crises.
Where Are We Heading To?
Where Are We Heading To? - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Where Are We Heading To? write by Thuso Kewana. This book was released on 2012-11-29. Where Are We Heading To? available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Where Are We Heading To? will expose you to the truth as it is written in the Bible. This book will challenge you from what you have heard and observed regarding what some pastors have been practicing. It will make you see the true light of the Gospel as it is written in the Bible. Depending on how you read it and your position in your church, you will either like the book and read it again and again or you will throw the book away or burn it. The book will make you ask a lot of questions about the current situation in our Pentecostal churches. All the answers of the question that this book will stimulate in you are found in the Bible, if you can just take time and read it for yourself.
Engineering Rumen Metabolic Pathways: Where We Are, and Where Are We Heading
Engineering Rumen Metabolic Pathways: Where We Are, and Where Are We Heading - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Engineering Rumen Metabolic Pathways: Where We Are, and Where Are We Heading write by Emilio M. Ungerfeld. This book was released on 2018-03-13. Engineering Rumen Metabolic Pathways: Where We Are, and Where Are We Heading available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Ruminants were domesticated in the Middle East about 10,000 years ago and have since become an inseparable part of human diet, society, and culture. Ruminants can transform inedible plant fiber and non-protein nitrogen into meat, milk, wool and traction, thus allowing human utilization of non-tillable land and industrial by-products. The nutritional flexibility of ruminants is conferred by the rumen´s complex microbial community. Driven by rising income and population growth in emergent economies, the global demand for livestock products, including milk and meat from ruminants, has been increasingly growing, and is predicted to continue growing in the next few decades. The increase in production necessary to satisfy this rising demand is putting much pressure on already dwindling natural resources. There are also concerns about the emissions of methane and nitrous oxide, potent greenhouse gases associated to ruminant production. The need to make ruminant production more efficient in the use of natural resources poses a big challenge to ruminant science, and within it, rumen microbiology. Recent years have seen important advances in basic and applied rumen microbiology and biochemistry. The knowledge generated has significant implications for the efficiency and sustainability of ruminant production and the quality of ruminant products for human health. The present compilation is an update of recent advances in rumen microbiology and ruminant digestion and fermentation, including original research, reviews, and hypothesis and theory articles. We hope that the experimental results, discussion, models and ideas presented herein are useful to foster future research contributing to sustainable ruminant production.
Heading Home
Heading Home - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Heading Home write by Shani Orgad. This book was released on 2019-01-08. Heading Home available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Women in today’s advanced capitalist societies are encouraged to “lean in.” The media and government champion women’s empowerment. In a cultural climate where women can seemingly have it all, why do so many successful professional women—lawyers, financial managers, teachers, engineers, and others—give up their careers after having children and become stay-at-home mothers? How do they feel about their decision and what do their stories tell us about contemporary society? Heading Home reveals the stark gap between the promise of gender equality and women’s experience of continued injustice. Shani Orgad draws on in-depth, personal, and profoundly ambivalent interviews with highly educated London women who left paid employment to take care of their children while their husbands continued to work in high-powered jobs. Despite identifying the structural forces that maintain gender inequality, these women still struggle to articulate their decisions outside the narrow cultural ideals that devalue motherhood and individualize success and failure. Orgad juxtaposes these stories with media and policy depictions of women, work, and family, detailing how—even as their experiences fly in the face of fantasies of work-life balance and marriage as an egalitarian partnership—these women continue to interpret and judge themselves according to the ideals that are failing them. Rather than calling for women to transform their feelings and behavior, Heading Home argues that we must unmute and amplify women’s desire, disappointment, and rage, and demand social infrastructure that will bring about long-overdue equality both at work and at home.
Heading Toward Omega
Heading Toward Omega - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Heading Toward Omega write by Kenneth Ring. This book was released on 1984. Heading Toward Omega available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Heading Toward Omega breaks new ground in near-death studies by focusing on the meaning of the near-death experience for the survivor and for human evolution. A near-death experience or NDE--which an estimated eight million Americans have had--occurs when a person is clinically dead but then survives and reports such phenomena as floating out of the body entering a dark tunnel, reviewing a life panorama, and encountering a brilliant white light. Such accounts have been described in best sellers by Raymond A. Moody and Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, and in Kenneth Ring's previous book, Life at Death, they were documented for the first time. Dr. Ring's intensive three-year search for the meaning of the near-death experience has been pursued through both scientifically designed questionnaires completed by hundreds of experiencers and wide-ranging interviews, many with persons who have reported unusually deep NDEs, from which he quotes frequently and copiously. From this study emerges a provocative pattern of very positive changes in outlook, values, and behavior following a near-death experience--often a complete transformation of personality. Dr. Ring also finds that NDEs are often powerful catalysts for spiritual awakening and psychic development. Moreover, deep NDEs frequently include strikingly similar visions of our planetary future. The depth and consistency of these life transformations--as well as the apparent widespread and increasing incidence of the NDE itself--lead Dr. Ring to a startling conclusion: Near-death experiences may be part of an evolutionary thrust toward higher consciousness for all humanity. Thus they may foreshadow the birth of a new planetary consciousness as we head toward Omega, the final goal of human evolution."--front and back flaps.
