Human Impact

From bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize finalist Robert Wright comes a sweeping new view of artificial intelligence—as an evolutionary force that will pose deep political and spiritual challenges and could, in the process, give our species a unifying sense of purpose. The God Test is the...

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 ...

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...

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.

Social media has transformed the way people communicate, build relationships, learn, work, and express themselves. It has made the world more connected than ever before, yet millions of people continue to experience loneliness, anxiety, misinformation, digital overload, and unhealthy dependence on online validation. Why do notifications feel rewarding? Why do likes and shares affect our emotions? How do fake profiles, scammers, chatbots, and manipulative content influence our decisions? Most importantly, how can we enjoy the benefits of social media without allowing it to control our lives?...

What makes social media so powerful? Why do likes, comments, and notifications affect our emotions? How can we enjoy the benefits of digital connection without becoming controlled by it? We live in a world where billions of people communicate, learn, work, and build relationships through social media. While these platforms bring people closer together, they also introduce new challenges, including digital addiction, misinformation, online manipulation, loneliness, cybercrime, and emotional dependence. In Connection: The Psychology of Social Media, psychologist and researcher Ali Muattar ...

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 ...

Humanity has always pushed against the limits of what is possible, yet many readers struggle to understand how transformative inventions truly emerged. This book was created for curious general readers, students, educators, lifelong learners, and anyone fascinated by the technologies that shaped our world. Whether you know only the basics or have explored technology history before, you may still wonder how these inventions developed, what problems they solved, and how they reshaped societies across time. Readers often face two main challenges. First, most books either overwhelm with ...

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...

This program includes an introduction read by the author. No recent scientific enterprise has proved as alluring, terrifying, and filled with extravagant promise and frustrating setbacks as artificial intelligence. The award-winning author Melanie Mitchell, a leading computer scientist, now...

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...

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...

What if the Holy Spirit could rewrite your very DNA? In The DNA of the Spirit: Rewriting the Human Blueprint through Divine Encounter, Dr. Vince Rizzo takes you on a breathtaking journey through the intersection of faith, science, and glory—revealing how divine presence transforms not only the soul, but the body itself. Drawing from Scripture, neuroscience, quantum physics, and powerful revelation, Dr. Rizzo uncovers how encounters with God literally reprogram human biology. Discover how: The Spirit’s power can regenerate emotional and cellular health. The Word of God functions as ...

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 ...

Clear Understanding. Practical Solutions. Sustainable Living. Future Security. ^ Are you overwhelmed by rising environmental challenges, such as climate change, global warming, pollution, biodiversity loss, deforestation, and water scarcity? ^Are you confused about how natural resources, ecosystems, and the biosphere actually work, and what your role is in protecting them? Our current lifestyles, energy consumption, and population growth are contributing to increased environmental degradation, which poses a threat to human health, food security, and the well-being of future generations. ...

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...

Hunters, Farmers, and Teamers by Joel Hubbard and Jim Zartman is rooted in the primal instincts that have shaped humanity’s progress for millennia. This elemental blueprint reveals the three instinctual drives that have built civilizations and continue to drive human achievement: Hunting, the instinct for innovation and risk-taking; Farming, the instinct for sustainability and resourcefulness; and Teaming, the instinct for collaboration and cooperation.

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 ...