The Humanity Project

Download or read book The Humanity Project written by Jean Thompson and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2014-08-26 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the New York Times bestselling author of The Year We Left Home and A Cloud in the Shape of a Girl, this dazzling novel is hailed as an “instantly addictive...tale of yearning, paradox, and hope.” (Booklist) After surviving a horrific shooting at her high school, fifteen-year-old Linnea is packed off to live with her estranged father, Art, in California. Art, not much more than a child himself, doesn’t quite understand how or why he has suddenly become responsible for raising a sullen—and probably deeply damaged—adolescent girl. And although Linnea has little interest in her father, she becomes fascinated by the eccentric cast of characters surrounding him: Conner, a local handyman whose own home life is a war zone, and Christie, her neighbor, who has just been given the reins to a bizarrely named charity fund, the Humanity Project. As the Fund gains traction and Linnea begins to heal, the Humanity Project begs the question: Can you indeed pay someone to be good? At what price? Thompson proves herself at the height of her powers in The Humanity Project, crafting emotionally suspenseful and thoroughly entertaining characters, in which we inevitably see ourselves. Set against the backdrop of current events and cultural calamity, it is at once a multifaceted ensemble drama and a deftly observant story of our twenty-first-century society.

Download or read book The Business of Humanity written by John Camillus and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2017-07-06 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Companies across the world, for a variety of reasons, are committing to incorporating social responsibility into their business models and finding that their profits are growing and their long-term sustainability is enhanced—building "humanity" into their business models as the driver of economic, environmental, and social sustainability. This fascinating development is a widely observable global phenomenon. The "Business of Humanity®" (BoH) Proposition is the synthesis of counter-intuitive but simple and powerful ideas about how companies can add value in today’s globalized and fast-changing world. The task of BoH Strategies is to overcome three critical challenges characterizing today’s business environment, namely disruptive technologies, conflicted stakeholders, and unknowable futures. BoH Strategies are designed to convert these challenges into opportunities for enhanced sustainability on all three dimensions—economic, environmental and social. Written by leading experts with decades of experience, this book: Provides a hands-on understanding of how to implement this powerful and rewarding approach to simultaneously add economic value and enhance social benefit Includes the experiences and approaches of highly regarded business executives and successful organizations Responds to the critical challenges created by three environmental mega forces – the inevitability of globalization, the imperative of innovation, and the importance of shared value. This book is based on lessons drawn from the real world and provides a compelling rationale for the power of the BoH Proposition. The pragmatic framework and process offered enable companies to develop and confidently implement value-adding strategies based on the BoH Proposition.

Download or read book The Law of Humanity Project written by Ukri Soirila and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-08-12 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides the first comprehensive introduction to the role of humanity in international law, offering a fresh perspective to a discussions with global implications. The 1990s and the first decade of the twenty-first century witnessed the sporadic emergence of a new vision of global law. Although the vision has taken many different forms, all instances of it have been uniform in the attempt of radically altering how we understand international law by seeking to posit the human as the primary subject of the international legal order and humanity as its main source of legitimacy. Together, this book calls these instances “the law of humanity project”. In so doing, it also paints a picture of and critically assesses a particular moment in the history of international law – a moment which may have already come to a sudden end as a consequence of the current populist backlash in world politics, but during which it seemed inevitable that the law of humanity vision would come to play an increasingly important role in world affairs.

Download or read book Finding Our Humanity written by Leif Cocks and published by . This book was released on 2019-04-17 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Great Ape Project written by Paola Cavalieri and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1994-12-15 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With such assertions throughout, it is no wonder that The Great Ape Project has been embroiled in controversy even before its American publication.

Download or read book Oh, the Humanity! written by Jason Roeder and published by Tow Books. This book was released on 2007-10-08 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are you uncomfortable engaging in conversation? Do you have trouble making friends? Have you longed to have your deeply rooted social anxiety eliminated by a slender paperback you can read cover-to-cover over several lunch breaks? If your answer is yes - or if you're looking for the perfect birthday gift for that special nervous someone - the book you've been waiting for has arrived. Oh, the Humanity! will see you through all your interpersonal struggles: "How can I boost my self-confidence? I've already tried crying all day and avoiding my horrible reflection in the mirror. Is there something else that might work?" "I'm not very good at small talk. How can I get the least out of every word I use?" "What exactly is 'body language'? My arrest record suggests I need some clarification." "My hobbies include scrapbooking, swimming with dolphins, and taking chain letters seriously. How can I find people with similar interests?" "I recently decided to become a hipster schmuck. How can I rid myself of current friends incompatible with my new, ill-advised persona?" Plus, somewhat more! Life is a precious gift that could be hit by a bus tomorrow. Isn't it time you lived it the way some total stranger who wrote a book thinks you should? Oh, the Humanity! is all you'll ever need to jump-start your social skills! You'll also need a promotional Frisbee if we get some of those made.

Download or read book Humanity: The Alien Project an Ancient Astronaut Theory written by Vincenzo J. Macrino and published by Bridger House Publishers. This book was released on 2013-02-01 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the advent of flight and the infancy of the space program, there have been numerous accounts of UFOs and alien beings. But what about ancient times? Did people observe mysterious objects in the skies prior to the invention of the airplane? Did they speak of mysterious, intelligent creatures from the stars? The answer is "Yes." Since the earliest days of human history, UFOs and their occupants have been witnessed and recorded in detail. These accounts can be found in the writings of Assyria, Babylon, and ancient Egypt; in the Old Testament and apocryphal texts; in the ancient Sanskrit texts of India; in the literature and "legends" of Rome, Norway, Ireland; and in the oral traditions of many tribal cultures around the world, including those of Africa, the Hawaiian Islands, the Easter Islands, and the Americas. Humanity: The Alien Project examines ancient tablets, codices, hieroglyphs, manuscripts, scrolls, and oral traditions that describe alien encounters throughout history. These accounts span centuries, cultures and continents, but they all share the same central theme: the origins of man as it relates to the history of the "gods" and ancient UFO sightings. Author Vincenzo Macrino presents astonishing evidence that our ancestors not only observed strange objects in the skies, but at one time had a close, personal, face-to-face relationship with their occupants, and that in truth, we owe our very existence to the "gods" of the ancient world. In modern times, alien encounters have largely been covered up by media and the military or debunked as "conspiracy theories" or fiction. However, this fascinating investigation of thousands of years' worth of literature and artwork shows that such encounters occurred long before anyone had a desire to cover them up; instead, they recorded these encounters so that mankind would remember them. Are our ancestors really extraterrestrials? The wealth of evidence presented in this work invites you to investigate this theory.