Too often Indigenous peoples have been portrayed as being without a future, destined either to disappear or assimilate into settler society. This book asserts quite the opposite: Indigenous peoples are not in any sense "out of time" in our contemporary world. Shaping the Future on Haida Gwaii shows how Indigenous peoples in Canada not only continue to have a future, but are at work building many different futures - for themselves and for their non-Indigenous neighbours. Through the experiences of the Haida First Nation, this book explores these possible futures in detail, demonstrating how Haida ways of thinking about time, mobility, and political leadership are at the heart of contemporary strategies for addressing the dilemmas that come with life under settler colonialism.

Too often Indigenous peoples have been portrayed as being without a future, destined either to disappear or assimilate into settler society. This book asserts quite the opposite: Indigenous peoples are not in any sense "out of time" in our contemporary world. Shaping the Future on Haida Gwaii shows how Indigenous peoples in Canada not only continue to have a future, but are at work building many different futures - for themselves and for their non-Indigenous neighbours. Through the experiences of the Haida First Nation, this book explores these possible futures in detail, demonstrating how Haida ways of thinking about time, mobility, and political leadership are at the heart of contemporary strategies for addressing the dilemmas that come with life under settler colonialism.

The fashion business has been collecting and analyzing information about colors, fabrics, silhouettes, and styles since the 18th century - activities that have long been shrouded in mystery. The Fashion Forecasters is the first book to reveal the hidden history of color and trend forecasting and to explore its relevance to the fashion business of the past two centuries. It sheds light on trend forecasting in the industrial era, the profession's maturation during the modernist moment of the 20th century, and its continued importance in today's digital fast-fashion culture. Based on in-depth archival research and oral history interviews, The Fashion Forecasters examines the entrepreneurs, service companies, and consultants that have worked behind the scenes to connect designers and retailers to emerging fashion trends in Europe, North America, and Asia. Here you will read about the trend studios, color experts, and international trade fairs that formalized the prediction process in the modern era, and hear the voices of leading contemporary practitioners at international forecasting companies such as the Doneger Group in New York and WGSN in London. Probing the inner workings of the global fashion system, The Fashion Forecasters blends history, biography, and ethnography into a highly readable cultural narrative.

Society is fuelled by anger; dissatisfaction shapes Twitter feeds, online petitions and protest marches. But is that enough to bring about change? Alejandra and Marcela are female anarchists, nervously planning to plant bombs in the middle of the night. They don't want violence. They just want to be heard. Prison's not much of a threat when most of your friends are inside. Then they meet Jose Miguel. He is from a different generation, a time when revolution was ripe and activism alive, and he's committed to change by any means possible.

In What’s Your Moonshot? trend and innovation strategist John Sanei explains how to ask the bigger, bolder, more courageous questions that will help you thrive – rather than merely survive – in our exponentially changing times.

With a future-focused victor mindset, Sanei decodes the mega-trends that are reshaping human behaviour and the way we do business – not to mention, the way we live our lives. He then explains how to innovate your business with the ultimate aim of becoming the new type of billionaire: someone who positively affects billions of people. As the foundations of modern economies – transportation, communication and energy – start becoming free or virtually free, massive transformative ideas can now be driven by individual ambition and determination. No longer the sole domain of nations and global organisations, these pioneering, game-changing missions – or Moonshots – are defined by thinking big to drive change and shape the future.

So the real question is: WHAT’S YOUR MOONSHOT?

From recent disaster movies like Armageddon and Deep Impact to cult movements such as those of Jim Jones and David Koresh, apocalyptic images surround us as we prepare to mark the end of the current millennium. In Fearful Hope: Approaching the New Millennium editors Christopher Kleinhenz and Fannie LeMoine provide a wide range of thought-provoking essays probing the meaning and significance of millennial expectations and apocalyptic visions.

From John J. Collins's essay on the sense of ending in pre-Christian Judaism to Paul Boyer's discussion of apocalyptic fears and foreboding in the twentieth century, Fearful Hope offers fresh insight on millennial thinking in fields ranging from history and literature to philosophy, cinema, and politics. These essays explore the apocalyptic in both religious and secular culture, providing illuminating illustrations from biblical prophets, medieval manuscripts, cult movements, and even the current obsession with conspiracy in television shows like The X-Files. Finally, Archbishop Rembert Weakland and Bishop Johannes Hempel stress the importance of maintaining hope in our own age, the latter with particular reference to the fall of the Communist regime in East Germany.

Das vorliegende Buch enthalt aktuelle Beitrage aus dem Friedensforschungszentrum Tamera in Portugal. In einer Zeit, in der die Medien voll sind von Kriegs- und Katastrophenmeldungen, offnet sich hier ein geistiges Tor zu einer anderen Entwicklungsmoglichkeit: Unser Planet mit seinen Menschen und Tieren, seinen Landschaften und Gewassern ist heilbar, wenn wir diese Heilung mit aller Kraft wollen und umsetzen. Die einzelnen Beitrage sind Studientexte der Schule Terra Nova. Weltweit haben Gruppen von Menschen be-gonnen, die vorliegenden Gedanken zu studieren und in ihren Freundeskreisen und Netzwerken zu verbreiten. Gemeinsam arbeiten sie daran, ein globales Bewusstsein daruber aufzubauen, dass und wie ein profunder Systemwechsel gelingen kann. Es ist eine neue Art von Revolution. Sie ist ohne Vorbild. Fast noch im Verborgenen, undogmatisch und offen fur alle, die sich ihr anschliessen wollen, bahnt sich hier ein neuer menschheitlicher Impuls seinen W

Studying the Jewish Future explores the power of Jewish culture and assesses the perceived threats to the coherence and size of Jewish communities in the United States, Europe, and Israel. In an unconventional and provocative argument, Calvin Goldscheider departs from the limiting vision of the demographic projections that have shaped predictions about the health and future of Jewish communities and asserts that "the quality of Jewish life has become the key to the future of Jewish communities." Through the lens of individual biographies, Goldscheider shows how context shapes Jewish senses of the future and how conceptions of the future are shaped and altered by life experiences. Goldscheider's distinctive comparative approach includes a critical review of population issues, a consideration of biographies as a basis for understanding Jewish values, and an analysis of biblical texts for studying contemporary values. He combines demographic and sociological analyses in historical and comparative perspectives to dispel the notion that quantitative issues are at the heart of the challenge of Jewish continuity in the future. Numbers are clearly the building blocks of community. But the interpretations of these demographic issues are often confusing and biased by ideological preconceptions. As a basis for studying the core themes of the Jewish future, "hard facts" are less "hard" and less "factual" than interpreters have made them out to be. Population projections are limited by the vision of those who prepare them. Goldscheider concludes that the futures of Jewish communities--in America, Europe, and Israel--are much more secure than has been presented in most scholarly and popular publications, and discussions about the Jewish future should shift to other patterns of distinctiveness. This book will appeal to the general Jewish reader as well as to social scientists and modern Jewish historians. It is appropriate for Jewish studies courses, particularly, but not exclusively, those focusing on Jews in the United States, the American Jewish community, and modern Jewish society, and in courses on ethnicity, multiculturalism, cultural diversity, and ethnic relations.

Todos venimos al mundo con un bello proyecto para realizar: ser nosotros mismos al maximo de las posibilidades existentes. Desde el mismo momento en que somos concebidos, la ley natural que rige la evolucion de lo vivo existente, nos posibilita -de conocerla y actuarla- el pleno desarrollo de nuestras capacidades y habilidades, ofreciendonos, para cada edad, todo un universo, un amplisimo abanico de puertas que abrir y que conquistar, y permitiendonos a lo largo de la vida, auparnos hacia cotas de mayor felicidad. Y esto, de manera universal y gratuita, para todos nosotros. Entonces, por que hay tantos seres humanos desgraciados e inconformes? Por que hay tantas personas que pasan por la vida con futilidad, como quien pasa el rato? Por que tantos piensan que este mundo es un valle de lagrimas en el cual la plenitud es imposible y utopica? Por que hay tanta gente enfadada con la vida? Por que la indiferencia, la insensibilidad, la envidia, la competitividad, el desamor y el nihilismo pasota? Y por ultimo, de vital importancia, por que la mayoria de nuestros ancianos no son felices porque sabios y sabios porque felices? Y por que cuando recordamos nuestra ninez, nos sentimos tantas veces perplejos, confundidos y desorientados cuando no amnesicos? Despues de mas de cuarenta anos de estudio, Preciada Azancot, escritora, pintora y creadora del MAT -Metamodelo de Analisis Transformacional-, ha dado con las esenciales y, por ende sencillas, respuestas a tantos "por que" y con ellas, nos brinda, amorosamente, las claves para una existencia plena. Seamos quien seamos, independientemente de nuestro sexo y de nuestra edad, "Un cielo de andar por casa - En cada fase de nuestra vida" nos desvelara la sencilla -porque esencial- ley natural de la vida humana: a cada edad su necesidad vital y esencial, insustituible si no se quieren tener graves carencias que nos hipotecarian la vida plena, y lo que es aun mas grave, nos convertirian en depredadores de nuestro entorno. Este libro nos permitira situarnos, de modo organico y natural, donde de verdad nos corresponde estar, donde de verdad nos sentiremos realizados, para asi ser felices y hacer mas felices a los que nos rodean. Ademas, tendremos a nuestra disposicion un mapa-guia para avanzar, siempre, hacia mas verdad, hacia mas felicidad, hacia un fluir mas natural y coherente, en suma. Preciada Azancot descubre que el ser humano tiene, de manera innata, una serie de necesidades que cubrir y de motivaciones que colmar, y que estas deben ser atendidas en un orden determinado. Este libro cubre las tres primeras necesidades de un total de seis, siendo las tres restantes analizadas en la segunda parte. La creadora del MAT eligio a su mejor alumno y socio, Antonio Galvez, para darle la replica y convertir el aprendizaje en dialogo universal.

ber das Buch: Aufbruch zur neuen Kultur Wenn das Leben gewinnt, wird es keiner Verlierer mehr geben. Wie geht es weiter nach dem Zusammenbruch der gro en Systeme? Der gro en u eren Systeme von Politik und Wirtschaft, Klima und Natur? Aber auch der gro en inneren Systeme von Glauben, Liebe und Denken? Die Antwort auf diese Fragen mu bestehen k nnen vor den vielen gescheiterten Antworten der Vergangenheit. Die Welt steht am Abgrund. Die Jugend von Kairo bis London, von Griechenland bis Chile, von der Rothschild Avenue, Tel Aviv bis zur Wall Street New York sucht neue Wege. Wenn der massiver Aufstand und Protest, der sich heute weltweit formiert, revolution re Kraft und gemeinsame Fl gel bekommen soll, wenn das Leben endlich siegen soll ber Krieg und Gewalt, dann brauchen wir eine Vorstellung davon, wie es weitergehen k nnte. Das vorliegende Buch bietet eine solche Vorstellung an. Es wurde vor fast 30 Jahren geschrieben. Wir glauben, das seine Zeit nun gekommen ist. Der Autor Dieter Duhm hat hier dem Leben selbst eine Stimme verliehen. Er hat es aufgesp rt hinter Dogmen und falscher Moral, hat ihm Wege gebahnt durch verh rtete Denkmuster und eingefrorene Herzen, die eine lebensfeindliche Epoche der patriarchalen Herrschaft in uns hinterlassen hat. Diese aber k nnte jetzt vorbei sein. Der Systemwechsel, der heute zu vollziehen ist, ist der tiefste und fundamentalste seit Jahrtausenden. Es ist ein Wechsel von der Macht, Leben zu vernichten hin zur Macht, Leben zu pflegen und zu sch tzen. Nur so hat dieser blaue Planet und alle seine Bewohner, auch der Mensch, eine Chance auf Zukunft. Wir w nschen diesem Buch, da es auf offene Ohren und Herzen trifft und seine Saat aus Humanit t und Anteilnahme weltweit aufgehen kann. Es ist ja mehr als ein Buch. Es ist eine Vorstellung davon, wie eine lebenswerte Zukunft auf der Erde aussehen k nnte. Der Autor hat sich selbst beim Wort genommen und sich gemeinsam mit Genossinnen und Genossen aufgemacht, diese Zukunftsidee in die Praxis umzusetzen. Der letzte Abschnitt dieses Buches zeigt in Stichworten, was heute, drei ig Jahre danach, aus dieser Pionierarbeit geworden ist.

This book debates the universe, the development of new technologies in the 21st century and the future of the human race. Dr Bolonkin shows that a human soul is only the information in a person s head. He offers a new unique method for re-writing the main brain information in chips without any damage to the human brain.

This is the scientific prediction of the non-biological (electronic) civilization and immortality of the human being. Such a prognosis is predicated upon a new law, discovered by the author, for the development of complex systems. According to this law, every self-copying system tends to be more complex than the previous system, provided that all external conditions remain the same. The consequences are disastrous: humanity will be replaced by a new civilization created by intellectual robots (which Dr Bolonkin refers to as "E-humans" and "E-beings"). These creatures, whose intellectual and mechanical abilities will far exceed those of man, will require neither food nor oxygen to sustain their existence. They may have the emotion. Capable of developing science, technology and their own intellectual abilities thousands of times faster than humans can, they will, in essence, be eternal.
Demonstrates that the problem of immortality can only be solved by changing the biological human into an artificial formDiscusses progress in robotics and other techologies"