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Ten Years To Midnight
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Author : Blair H. Sheppard
language : en
Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Release Date : 2020-08-04
Ten Years To Midnight written by Blair H. Sheppard and has been published by Berrett-Koehler Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-08-04 with Business & Economics categories.
“Shows how humans have brought us to the brink and how humanity can find solutions. I urge people to read with humility and the daring to act.” —Harpal Singh, former Chair, Save the Children, India, and former Vice Chair, Save the Children International In conversations with people all over the world, from government officials and business leaders to taxi drivers and schoolteachers, Blair Sheppard, global leader for strategy and leadership at PwC, discovered they all had surprisingly similar concerns. In this prescient and pragmatic book, he and his team sum up these concerns in what they call the ADAPT framework: Asymmetry of wealth; Disruption wrought by the unexpected and often problematic consequences of technology; Age disparities--stresses caused by very young or very old populations in developed and emerging countries; Polarization as a symptom of the breakdown in global and national consensus; and loss of Trust in the institutions that underpin and stabilize society. These concerns are in turn precipitating four crises: a crisis of prosperity, a crisis of technology, a crisis of institutional legitimacy, and a crisis of leadership. Sheppard and his team analyze the complex roots of these crises--but they also offer solutions, albeit often seemingly counterintuitive ones. For example, in an era of globalization, we need to place a much greater emphasis on developing self-sustaining local economies. And as technology permeates our lives, we need computer scientists and engineers conversant with sociology and psychology and poets who can code. The authors argue persuasively that we have only a decade to make headway on these problems. But if we tackle them now, thoughtfully, imaginatively, creatively, and energetically, in ten years we could be looking at a dawn instead of darkness.
The Year S Midnight
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Author : Rachel Neumeier
language : en
Publisher: Independently Published
Release Date : 2021-05-14
The Year S Midnight written by Rachel Neumeier and has been published by Independently Published this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-05-14 with Fiction categories.
The course of Kes' life seems set: she'll grow up to be an herb-woman and healer for the village of Minas Ford, never quite fitting in but always more or less accepted. And she's content with that path -- or she thinks she is. Until the day the griffins come down from the mountains, bringing with them the fiery wind of their desert and a desperate need for a healer. But what the griffins need is a healer who is not quite human ... or a healer who can be made into something not quite human.
The Midnight Years
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Author : Jane De Suza
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2021-10-25
The Midnight Years written by Jane De Suza and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-10-25 with Juvenile Fiction categories.
One night is all it takes. A party turns into a nightmare for four teenagers. Alisha guards a secret that will shatter those who know her. Sharad is crushed under his family's expectations. Good little Ruhi makes a single mistake that will come back to haunt her. And AK is let down disastrously by those he trusts the most. As they struggle through this pitch-black time in their lives, they must make life-changing choices that could hurl them backwards, or help them claw towards the light. TALK SPACE: A psychologist analyses teen dilemmas.
Two Minutes To Midnight
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Author : Roger Hermiston
language : en
Publisher: Biteback Publishing
Release Date : 2022-02-22
Two Minutes To Midnight written by Roger Hermiston and has been published by Biteback Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-02-22 with History categories.
A SPECTATOR BOOK OF THE YEAR – 'a dark remembrance of 1953, when nuclear annihilation was only the press of a button away'. January 1953. Eight years on from the most destructive conflict in human history, the Cold War enters its deadliest phase. An Iron Curtain has descended across Europe, and hostilities have turned hot on the Korean peninsula as the United States and Soviet Union clash in an intractable and bloody proxy war. Former wartime allies have grown far apart. An ageing Winston Churchill, back in Downing Street, yearns for peace with the Kremlin – but new American President Dwight Eisenhower cautions the West not to drop its guard. Joseph Stalin, implacable as ever, conducts vicious campaigns against imaginary internal enemies. Meanwhile, the pace of the nuclear arms race has become frenetic. The Soviet Union has finally tested its own atom bomb, as has Britain. But in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, the United States has detonated its first thermonuclear device, dwarfing the destruction unleashed on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. For the first time, the Doomsday Clock is set at two minutes to midnight, with the risk of a man-made global apocalypse increasingly likely. As the Cold War powers square up, every city has become a potential battleground and every citizen a target. 1953 is set to be a year of living dangerously.
My Midnight Years
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Author : Ronald Kitchen
language : en
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
Release Date : 2018-08-01
My Midnight Years written by Ronald Kitchen and has been published by Chicago Review Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-08-01 with True Crime categories.
Ronald Kitchen was 21, on his way to buy milk for his four-year-old, when he was picked up by the Chicago police, brutally tortured, and coerced to confess to five counts of heinous murder. He spent 22 years in prison, 13 of those on death row. Kitchen was only one of the many victims of Jon Burge and his notorious Midnight Crew—118 others have come forward so far. Kitchen cofounded the Death Row 10 from his maximum security cellblock and fought together with those men to expose the grave injustices that led to their wrongful convictions. The Death Row 10 appeared on nationwide media and, with the help of lawyers and activists outside, were instrumental in turning the tide against the death penalty in Illinois. Kitchen was finally exonerated in 2013 and filed a high profile lawsuit against the Chicago Police Department, Jon Burge, Mayor Richard Daley, and the Cook County state's attorney. Largely absent from the current social justice narratives are the testimonies of the victims themselves. Kitchen is a survivor who has turned his suffering into a powerful public cause. The atrocities of the Midnight Crew have been brought to light through Kitchen's work and are now part of the discussion as the nation engages in an unprecedented conversation about racism.
The Midnight Years
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language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021
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Midnight S Warning
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Author : Dana Lindsley
language : en
Publisher: Archway Publishing
Release Date : 2021-03-03
Midnight S Warning written by Dana Lindsley and has been published by Archway Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-03-03 with Fiction categories.
An idyllic shoreline town. A mysterious contagion of anxiety. A shockwave of suspicion, violence, and desperation. Everyone is affected. As the small Connecticut town of Whistling Rocks descends deeper into chaos, its residents face today’s all too common issues: how to live during a time of multiple crises and how to adapt to a dangerous, changing world. Midnight’s Warning is filled with memorable characters. JJ, a young man with autism has uncanny intuition. Three teenagers believe their morbid discovery in a park is causing the town’s contagious anxiety. Ricky, a drifter, turns to violence to relieve his angst and fears. And a psychic foresees calamities to come.
All The Year Round
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language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1880
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Salman Rushdie S Midnight S Children
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Author : Salman Rushdie
language : en
Publisher: Modern Library
Release Date : 2009-04-22
Salman Rushdie S Midnight S Children written by Salman Rushdie and has been published by Modern Library this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-04-22 with Drama categories.
The original stage adaptation of Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children, winner of the 1993 Booker of Bookers, the best book to win the Booker Prize in its first twenty-five years. In the moments of upheaval that surround the stroke of midnight on August 14--15, 1947, the day India proclaimed its independence from Great Britain, 1,001 children are born--each of whom is gifted with supernatural powers. Midnight’s Children focuses on the fates of two of them--the illegitimate son of a poor Hindu woman and the male heir of a wealthy Muslim family--who become inextricably linked when a midwife switches the boys at birth. An allegory of modern India, Midnight’s Children is a family saga set against the volatile events of the thirty years following the country’s independence--the partitioning of India and Pakistan, the rule of Indira Gandhi, the onset of violence and war, and the imposition of martial law. It is a magical and haunting tale, of fragmentation and of the struggle for identity and belonging that links personal life with national history. In collaboration with Simon Reade, Tim Supple and the Royal Shakespeare Society, Salman Rushdie has adapted his masterpiece for the stage.
Midnight In The Garden Of Good And Evil
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Author : John Berendt
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 1994-01-13
Midnight In The Garden Of Good And Evil written by John Berendt and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994-01-13 with True Crime categories.
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A modern classic of true crime, set in a most beguiling Southern city—now in a 30th anniversary edition with a new afterword by the author “Elegant and wicked . . . might be the first true-crime book that makes the reader want to book a bed and breakfast for an extended weekend at the scene of the crime.”—The New York Times Book Review Shots rang out in Savannah’s grandest mansion in the misty, early morning hours of May 2, 1981. Was it murder or self-defense? For nearly a decade, the shooting and its aftermath reverberated throughout this hauntingly beautiful city of moss-hung oaks and shaded squares. In this sharply observed, suspenseful, and witty narrative, John Berendt skillfully interweaves a hugely entertaining first-person account of life in this isolated remnant of the Old South with the unpredictable twists and turns of a landmark murder case. It is a spellbinding story peopled by a gallery of remarkable characters: the well-bred society ladies of the Married Woman’s Card Club; the turbulent young gigolo; the hapless recluse who owns a bottle of poison so powerful it could kill every man, woman, and child in Savannah; the aging and profane Southern belle who is the “soul of pampered self-absorption”; the uproariously funny drag queen; the acerbic and arrogant antiques dealer; the sweet-talking, piano-playing con artist; young people dancing the minuet at the black debutante ball; and Minerva, the voodoo priestess who works her magic in the graveyard at midnight. These and other Savannahians act as a Greek chorus, with Berendt revealing the alliances, hostilities, and intrigues that thrive in a town where everyone knows everyone else. Brilliantly conceived and masterfully written, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil is a sublime and seductive reading experience.