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On the Future: Prospects for Humanity...
A provocative and inspiring look at the future of humanity and science from world-renowned scientist and bestselling author Martin Rees
Humanity has reached a critical moment. Our world is unsettled and rapidly changing, and we face existential risks over the next century. Various outcomes―good and bad―are possible. Yet our approach to the future is characterized by short-term thinking, polarizing debates, alarmist rhetoric, and pessimism. In this short, exhilarating book, renowned scientist and bestselling author Martin Rees argues that humanity’s prospects depend on our taking a very different approach to planning for tomorrow.
The future of humanity is bound to the future of science and hinges on how successfully we harness technological advances to address our challenges. If we are to use science to solve our problems while avoiding its dystopian risks, we must think rationally, globally, collectively, and optimistically about the long term. Advances in biotechnology, cybertechnology, robotics, and artificial intelligence―if pursued and applied wisely―could empower us to boost the developing and developed world and overcome the threats humanity faces on Earth, from climate change to nuclear war. At the same time, further advances in space science will allow humans to explore the solar system and beyond with robots and AI. But there is no “Plan B” for Earth―no viable alternative within reach if we do not care for our home planet.
Rich with fascinating insights into cutting-edge science and technology, this accessible book will captivate anyone who wants to understand the critical issues that will define the future of humanity on Earth and beyond.
SheLeads: Lessons from Women Leaders ...
The inclusion of Women in Leadership has proven to be of immense value in the overall Growth and Development agenda across different sectors. In order to enjoy the benefit of Women's Leadership, we must acknowledge its Power, Uniqueness, and Contribution. We must also Embrace it, Support it and put up Strategic Measures to Build it and Use it to Complement and Strengthen the overall Leadership Agenda until we fully realize Holistic and Inclusive Leadership and its Maximum Impact.
We must rally behind and support Women Leaders as a strategic move toward stirring development and raising our competitiveness. We must look at women leaders as a strategic resource that can power and contribute to growth across all sectors. Going by the numerous reports on the value of gender inclusivity, it is clear that embracing women's leadership is not only the right thing to do but a powerful growth and development strategy.
This book is a collection of reflections, insights, and lessons from women leaders from diverse backgrounds written to demonstrate the value of the inclusion of women in leadership. The book also serves as a platform to amplify the voices of African Women Leaders as well as showcase their exceptional impact in the different spaces they serve in. The book also captures the experiences and insights of women from other parts of the world that have had an opportunity to exercise leadership in Africa.
Through the insights shared herein, the authors seek to highlight the dynamics, power, uniqueness, contribution, opportunities, challenges and need for active participation of women in a way that can be used to strengthen women's leadership.
Life in the sky by Jimnah Albert Muchene
Jimnah Albert Muchene is a rare gem in Kenya's Aviation Industry. In this equally rare book. He gives invaluable inside knowledge of how the Aviation Industry should be run, pitfalls to avoid, and most importantly, what it takes to run a successful and profitable Airline.
Jimnah strongly believes that the success or failure of any Airline largely depends on two things: Good timekeeping and Excellent in-fight services offered by flight attendants. From his humble beginnings as ground personnel with Kenya Airways in 1978, he rose Albert reluctantly to become one of the most decorated flight attendants in Kenya Airways' history.
In a career span of nearly four decades, Jimnah retired with full honors from Kenya Airways in 2016. For three years; in 2011,2014 and 2015 he won the coveted Kenya Airways Best Flight Attendant Award of the Year, in a field of over 800 flight attendants. He has since continued to offer consultancy services to emerging Airlines and Aviation Colleges within the Eat African Region.
Poèmotions II:Catharsis of Love by Po...
Lifted: Everyone Needs it at Some Poi...
Reading through Lifted will lift your spirit as you walk through the journey of faith in God.
Illustrated through biblical accounts, and real-life experiences, you will be encouraged to be patient, obedient, forgiving, prayerful, humble and dependent on God through His Holy Spirit in this journey. The quotes inside enhance the lessons learnt and the reflective questions are probing enough to cause a person to genuinely reflect on where one is at, and what needs to change to freely allow God to guide and work in your life.
Lifted highlights the importance of an authentic relationship with God, and with the community God has placed you in; you are surrounded! Lifted is a good reminder to the newbie and the veteran, to keep journeying confidently in their walk with Christ, knowing that He who called us is always with us, and is leading us to victory!
The Identity Project by Kevin Tindi
In The Identity Project, Kevin Tindi believes that once you know who you are, you will know who you are not. This is because we live in a world where you can become anything as people are living who they are not supposed to be. Throughout the book, Kevin explains how we wrestle with who we are and hence miss out on what God is doing in every season. To keep the reader engaged in discovering who they are, each chapter contains biblical principles, practical exercises, thought-provoking questions, reflection quotes and many citations.
This book is an invitation to a journey in knowing our identity in Christ and fulfilling God's purposes. Whether you are in school, working or in-between jobs, single or dating, married or separated, this book is for you. You are the most important person in this project. As a reader, be sure to derive a deeper understanding, wisdom and knowledge about the Holy Spirit and how He is always ready and willing to walk with you every day in this journey of knowing who you are. We are living in the dispensation of the Holy Spirit and we cannot do without Him.
Enchengeria EkeGusii Dictionary: A Co...
This is a complete EkeGusii-Kiswahili-English dictionary that provides definitions for EkeGusii words. The work has been compiled for over fourteen years of collecting lexemes from the native speakers of the language. The respondents, who provided the raw data, range from former teachers of EkeGusii as a mother tongue to indigenous knowledge experts in the Gusii community. Linguists with expertise in lexicography, phonetics, and translation and interpretation, drawn from the Linguistics department, Kisii University, worked on the technical details. Herein lies the uniqueness of this work: it presents more than mere definitions of word tokens. This edition serves as a template for further exploration, future expansion, and development of orthographic conventions in the language.
The dictionary offers the following:
- Meanings of EkeGusii words with Kiswahili, and English translations.
- Abbreviations and proper nouns.
- Grammatical constructions.
- Concise sentences to serve as illustrative examples in EkeGusii.
- Broad transcription of words, using the IPA format, as guide to pronunciation.
A Strange Twist and Other Stories
When Kangi joins a new school, he has no idea of the roller-coaster ride that awaits him. This chapter is riddled with experiences that are new and exciting. How will Kangi navigate culture shock, travelling, differences in beliefs, celebrations, responsibilities, hospital runs and even teeth decays?
Is there a way to find solutions to these ever-developing situations?
Let us join Kangi in his adventures and see where it all takes us!
In this collection, the author has interwoven the core competencies of the Competence-Based Curriculum (CBC) into the stories to create circumstances that not only inform but educate on recurrent themes and topics in the curriculum and society. This is a fun way for the learner to engage and enjoy learning.
What Others Say
“I loved how the children’s issues were well intertwined with fun and exciting stories. It is an easy read for pre-teens and younger children. My daughter carries her copy with her every day.” - Hellen Wakonyo, Parent.
“This will supplement teaching a lot of environmental, science and creative content in my class. It is refreshing to see a writer who delves into the societal contemporary issues surrounding our children.” - Teacher Rukia, Thindigua Junior Secondary School.
The Biggest Ideas in the Universe: Sp...
The most trusted explainer of the most mind-boggling concepts pulls back the veil of mystery that has too long cloaked the most valuable building blocks of modern science. Sean Carroll, with his genius for making complex notions entertaining, presents in his uniquely lucid voice the fundamental ideas informing the modern physics of reality.
Physics offers deep insights into the workings of the universe but those insights come in the form of equations that often look like gobbledygook. Sean Carroll shows that they are really like meaningful poems that can help us fly over sierras to discover a miraculous multidimensional landscape alive with radiant giants, warped space-time, and bewilderingly powerful forces. High school calculus is itself a centuries-old marvel as worthy of our gaze as the Mona Lisa. And it may come as a surprise the extent to which all our most cutting-edge ideas about black holes are built on the math calculus enables.
No one else could so smoothly guide readers toward grasping the very equation Einstein used to describe his theory of general relativity. In the tradition of the legendary Richard Feynman lectures presented sixty years ago, this book is an inspiring, dazzling introduction to a way of seeing that will resonate across cultural and generational boundaries for many years to come.
The Strange Order of Things: Life, Fe...
From one of our preeminent neuroscientists: a landmark reflection that spans the biological and social sciences, offering a new way of understanding the origins of life, feeling, and culture.
The Strange Order of Things is a pathbreaking investigation into homeostasis, the condition of that regulates human physiology within the range that makes possible not only the survival but also the flourishing of life. Antonio Damasio makes clear that we descend biologically, psychologically, and even socially from a long lineage that begins with single living cells; that our minds and cultures are linked by an invisible thread to the ways and means of ancient unicellular life and other primitive life-forms; and that inherent in our very chemistry is a powerful force, a striving toward life maintenance that governs life in all its guises, including the development of genes that help regulate and transmit life.
In The Strange Order of Things, Damasio gives us a new way of comprehending the world and our place in it.
Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our ...
Sapolsky's storytelling concept is delightful but it also has a powerful intrinsic logic: he starts by looking at the factors that bear on a person's reaction in the precise moment a behavior occurs, and then hops back in time from there, in stages, ultimately ending up at the deep history of our species and its evolutionary legacy.
And so the first category of explanation is the neurobiological one. A behavior occurs--whether an example of humans at our best, worst, or somewhere in between. What went on in a person's brain a second before the behavior happened? Then Sapolsky pulls out to a slightly larger field of vision, a little earlier in time: What sight, sound, or smell caused the nervous system to produce that behavior? And then, what hormones acted hours to days earlier to change how responsive that individual is to the stimuli that triggered the nervous system? By now he has increased our field of vision so that we are thinking about neurobiology and the sensory world of our environment and endocrinology in trying to explain what happened.
Sapolsky keeps going: How was that behavior influenced by structural changes in the nervous system over the preceding months, by that person's adolescence, childhood, fetal life, and then back to his or her genetic makeup? Finally, he expands the view to encompass factors larger than one individual. How did culture shape that individual's group, what ecological factors millennia old formed that culture? And on and on, back to evolutionary factors millions of years old.
The result is one of the most dazzling tours d'horizon of the science of human behavior ever attempted, a majestic synthesis that harvests cutting-edge research across a range of disciplines to provide a subtle and nuanced perspective on why we ultimately do the things we do...for good and for ill. Sapolsky builds on this understanding to wrestle with some of our deepest and thorniest questions relating to tribalism and xenophobia, hierarchy and competition, morality and free will, and war and peace. Wise, humane, often very funny, Behave is a towering achievement, powerfully humanizing, and downright heroic in its own right.
First Great Success by Sauline Mbaka
This book presents outstanding pillars of life among others that will: o Offer advice and constructive examples of how first Borns of all kinds of back ground can succeed and improve their lives spiritually, physically, financially thus advantageous to their siblings too.
EST GREAT JCCESS
o Empower them to be good leaders/ mentors who enjoy making a difference and guiding their siblings to achieve their potential as well as reach new horizons.
O Challenge first Borns to take ownership in defining their success and reality. o Enable them create visions of their destinations hence it is a kill to destruction as well as their siblings.
o Give complete make overs to distressed souls and generally to those who have difficulties with their past hurts.
As a First born be Empowered and make a Difference!
This is an instilling book well written with spiritual inspiration to provide founda- tional insights of life and overcoming challenges to success for firstborns who always "design and build" the family plane while flying it. I highly recommend this book for firstborns, parents, guardians, caregivers and anyone looking for inspi- ration for taking on new challenges in life.
-Dr. David Kimori, Professor, USA.
How Jasto Became an Environment Champ...
This is a collection of captivating stories carefully pieced together to sharpen creativity and reading skills. It is perfect for children aged between 5 and 13 years and catchy for adults who enjoy creative stories. Have fun as you color each illustration to your liking.
From the lovely Nairobi landmarks to the deep valleys of the countryside, you will travel through different environments, learn how to plant trees and care for the animals.
Find out what happens to the lost zebra in a village and meet a family that loves trees.
Love giants? Meet Agego and Omwami and delight in the beauty of science fiction.
Its OK That You’re Not OK: Meet...
When a painful loss or life-shattering event upends your world, here is the first thing to know: there is nothing wrong with grief. "Grief is simply love in its most wild and painful form," says Megan Devine. "It is a natural and sane response to loss."
So, why does our culture treat grief like a disease to be cured as quickly as possible?
In It’s OK That You’re Not OK, Megan Devine offers a profound new approach to both the experience of grief and the way we try to help others who have endured tragedy. Having experienced grief from both sides―as both a therapist and as a woman who witnessed the accidental drowning of her beloved partner―Megan writes with deep insight about the unspoken truths of loss, love, and healing. She debunks the culturally prescribed goal of returning to a normal, "happy" life, replacing it with a far healthier middle path, one that invites us to build a life alongside grief rather than seeking to overcome it. In this compelling and heartful book, you’ll learn:
• Why well-meaning advice, therapy, and spiritual wisdom so often end up making it harder for people in grief
• How challenging the myths of grief―doing away with stages, timetables, and unrealistic ideals about how grief should unfold―allows us to accept grief as a mystery to be honored instead of a problem to solve
• Practical guidance for managing stress, improving sleep, and decreasing anxiety without trying to "fix" your pain
• How to help the people you love―with essays to teach us the best skills, checklists, and suggestions for supporting and comforting others through the grieving process
Many people who have suffered a loss feel judged, dismissed, and misunderstood by a culture that wants to "solve" grief. Megan writes, "Grief no more needs a solution than love needs a solution." Through stories, research, life tips, and creative and mindfulness-based practices, she offers a unique guide through an experience we all must face―in our personal lives, in the lives of those we love, and in the wider world.
It’s OK That You’re Not OK is a book for grieving people, those who love them, and all those seeking to love themselves―and each other―better.
