Human Impact

Have you ever wondered if you're truly smart or just busy? It’s time to discover strategies to help you work smarter, not harder. This book will teach you how to streamline your path to success with smart leadership and effective HR leadership techniques. You'll learn how to build your dream team with effective hiring strategies and conduct effective hiring interviews, transforming your hiring process into a powerful tool for growth. Investing wisely in employee orientation, training, and development is essential. A top-notch performance appraisal system paired with effective performance ...

Dive into the compelling narrative of Human Impacts, an exploration of the profound and often destructive role humans play in shaping wildfire landscapes around the globe. This comprehensive eBook serves as a crucial guide for understanding the complex interplay between our actions and the natural world, offering insights into how past and present human activities contribute to increasingly severe wildfire phenomena. Start your journey with an introduction to human-induced wildfires, exploring the historical context and current trends that define this escalating issue. As urban areas expand...

Many of us have concerns about the effects of climate change on Earth, but we often overlook the essential issue of human health. This book addresses that oversight and enlightens listeners about the most important aspect of one of the greatest challenges of our time. By weighing in from a physician's perspective, authors Jay Lemery and Paul Auerbach clarify the science, dispel the myths, and help listeners understand the threats of climate change to human health.

Brace for Impact: Stories of Hope and Horror Fifteen plane crashes. Fifteen stories of survival. From the frozen wastelands of Siberia to the depths of the Amazon rainforest, Brace for Impact captures the raw terror, resilience, and impossible decisions faced by those who lived through aviation disasters. Some found hope in the wreckage—others faced the brutal realities of isolation, injury, and the unforgiving elements. Told with gripping intensity, these true-to-life narratives echo the haunting suspense of your favorite Survival Stories, placing you inside the doomed cabins, the ...

Seeing the Whole: Understanding Gestalt Theory and Its Lasting Impact explores one of psychology’s most influential schools of thought and its continuing relevance in today’s world. Gestalt Theory revolutionized the way we understand perception, learning, creativity, and design by introducing a simple but profound idea: the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. This engaging and comprehensive book traces the origins of Gestalt psychology, introduces its core principles of perception, and examines its lasting contributions to fields as diverse as education, therapy, problem solving...

The New York Times bestselling The Wild Robot series returns, taking Roz on an action-packed under-the-ocean journey to save her beloved island! Life for Roz and the animals on their island is perfect. But when mysterious, dangerous waters surround the island, the animals are forced inland to...

This program is ready by Audie Award–winning narrator Holter Graham. A bridge-burning, riotous memoir by a top PR operative in Washington who exposes the secrets of the $129-billion industry that controls so much of what we see and hear in the media—from a man who used to pull the strings...

Fans of Jurassic Park and Interstellar will love Extinction in Time. Mars is dying. Humanity’s last survivors flee their collapsing world aboard the starship Endurance in search of a new home. Instead, they are hurled 2.7 billion years into the future. At first, the planet they discover looks like salvation. Endless oceans. Perfect atmosphere. A world untouched by civilization. Then they discover the truth. Earth belongs to the dinosaurs. And an extinction-level asteroid is already on its way. Now the survivors face an impossible choice: Save themselves... or save a world that was never ...

Twenty years ago, Alvin Toffler coined the term "future shock" – a syndrome in which people are overwhelmed by the future. Past Shock suggests that events which happened thousands of years ago strongly impact humanity today. New evidence in the fields of biology, genetics, anthropology, archaeology, astronomy and other sciences has begun to confirm the theory that technologically advanced beings may have in fact created and/or manipulated us in the ancient past. They called themselves gods. Barranger refers to these gods as the "pretender gods" because they demanded to be worshiped when ...

Was religion created in the minds of men or was it given to us by the ancient gods, who demanded our worship? Who were the ancient gods and why did they come here? Historical evidence shows that we worked for them and tried to appease them at every turn. Then, at some point, they left. Cultures from the around the world tell their stories through mythology and they are still worshipped in our religions. Their power over us was so strong that it is still with us today. We have been conditioned in a religious way and Barranger shows how this conditioning is, in certain ways, stunting our ...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER What if the challenge for humanity’s future is not too many people on a crowded planet, but too few people to sustain the progress that the world needs? Most people on Earth today live in a country where birth rates already are too low to stabilize the population: fewer...

This audiobook is masterfully read by the author, Mo Gawdat. One of The Sunday Times' Business Books of the Year Technology is putting our humanity at risk to an unprecedented degree. This book is not for engineers who write the code or the policy makers who claim they can regulate it. This is a...

In the year 2025, RoboGenesis unveils Optimus Human, a humanoid robot equipped with advanced artificial intelligence capable of understanding and interacting with humans on an emotional level. The world welcomes the robot with enthusiasm, as it offers solutions to everyday problems and enhances human relationships. However, as Optimus Human's popularity skyrockets, rival company leader Marcus Reed launches unfounded allegations about the safety and ethics of RoboGenesis's technologies. Jake, the company’s founder, and his team are forced to confront these challenges to protect their ...

The Bible, Made Simple 👉The Bible — explained clearly, quickly, and without preaching. Your easy guide to the most influential book ever written. For thousands of years, the Bible has shaped cultures, inspired movements, and transformed the way people think about life, morality, and meaning. Whether you’re curious, confused, or just want the essentials without trudging through every page, this book gives you a smart, easy-to-read overview of the Bible’s biggest stories, characters, and ideas. No sermons. No theology degree required. Just the key events, people, and themes — made ...

Traditionally, human resources has focused on recruiting good people, preparing them for assignments, motivating them to perform, and retaining them. These functions remain essential. But to be successful in turbulent times like ours, human capital strategy needs to be broader and much more far reaching.

Welcome to the Zero Point Age Is there such a thing as a life force—an energy field that connects all living things across space and time? Could the existence of this living energy field provide a scientific explanation for supernatural phenomena? After interviewing cutting-edge scientists in...

In Digital Impact: The Human Element of AI-Driven Transformation, Steve Lucas, a three-time CEO, discusses how organizations can integrate and automate systems to create incredible outcomes that benefit people. Lucas explains how this becomes possible when businesses solve the ubiquitous problems of digital fragmentation and data complexity, which have become even more pressing with the rise of artificial intelligence.

Are you curious about what goes on inside your brain? Do you want to unravel the mysteries of your mind? Well, look no further! The Inner Workings of The Human Brain is a comprehensive eBook that explores the fascinating world of neuroscience and brain science. In this book, you'll discover the history and evolution of brain science, as well as the current trends and patterns in the field. You'll learn about the myths and misconceptions surrounding the topic, and the economic, social, cultural, and psychological impacts of studying the brain. You'll also explore the impact of brain science ...

In October 1994, a German archaeologist walked up a hill in southeastern Turkey and found something that should not have existed. Beneath the soil lay a monumental stone temple complex, complete with ten-tonne carved pillars, sophisticated astronomical alignments, and a sealed ritual interior — built eleven thousand six hundred years ago. Seven thousand years before the Great Pyramid. Six thousand years before Stonehenge. A thousand years before the invention of agriculture itself. The builders had no metal. No pottery. No wheel. No writing. By every standard of the textbook timeline of ...

In the tradition of Silent Spring and The Sixth Extinction, an urgent, “disturbing, empowering, and essential” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) book about the ways in which chemicals in the modern environment are changing—and endangering—human sexuality and fertility on the grandest...