The College Precipice
The College Precipice

Author: Anna L. Davis

Publisher: Xulon Press

Published: 2008-05

Total Pages: 130

ISBN-13: 1606473182

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Precipice: a steep cliff, or situation of great peril College is a blast. But it can also be risky - did you know that many Christian women fall away from their faith or become less confident during college? But it doesn't have to be this way. Using personal anecdotes from female students and graduates, this book offers help for women who want to develop a God-centered confidence during their undergraduate years. Topics include: letting God guide your dreams, how to cope with falling into sin, steps toward God-driven decisions, and making sense of feminism on campus. The final part of the book (Beyond the Precipice) looks at ideas that women usually keep in the back of their minds during college, like marriage and children. An underlying theme throughout is that women who trust God with their daily lives during college, even with their own identities, will become confident adults geared for navigating life. Anna Davis graduated in 2001 from the University of Texas at Dallas. The party scene, career goals, and personal dreams all seemed to collide during those first two years on campus, creating intense spiritual distress. Later on, when two of her female relatives went to college, Anna saw them go through the same set of struggles. This book grew out of her conversations with them. Anna has more than 10 years experience as a writer and editor, with most of her work centered in medical editing and health ghostwriting. She also edits newsletters and other content for her home church in Allen, Texas, where she lives with her college sweetheart and their two young children.

The Precipice
The Precipice

Author: Toby Ord

Publisher: Hachette Books

Published: 2020-03-24

Total Pages: 480

ISBN-13: 031648489X

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This urgent and eye-opening book makes the case that protecting humanity's future is the central challenge of our time. If all goes well, human history is just beginning. Our species could survive for billions of years - enough time to end disease, poverty, and injustice, and to flourish in ways unimaginable today. But this vast future is at risk. With the advent of nuclear weapons, humanity entered a new age, where we face existential catastrophes - those from which we could never come back. Since then, these dangers have only multiplied, from climate change to engineered pathogens and artificial intelligence. If we do not act fast to reach a place of safety, it will soon be too late. Drawing on over a decade of research, The Precipice explores the cutting-edge science behind the risks we face. It puts them in the context of the greater story of humanity: showing how ending these risks is among the most pressing moral issues of our time. And it points the way forward, to the actions and strategies that can safeguard humanity. An Oxford philosopher committed to putting ideas into action, Toby Ord has advised the US National Intelligence Council, the UK Prime Minister's Office, and the World Bank on the biggest questions facing humanity. In The Precipice, he offers a startling reassessment of human history, the future we are failing to protect, and the steps we must take to ensure that our generation is not the last. "A book that seems made for the present moment." —New Yorker

The College Precipice
The College Precipice

Author: Anna L. Davis

Publisher: Xulon Press

Published: 2008-05

Total Pages: 130

ISBN-13: 1604778466

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Precipice: a steep cliff, or situation of great peril College is a blast. But it can also be risky - did you know that many Christian women fall away from their faith or become less confident during college? But it doesn't have to be this way. Using personal anecdotes from female students and graduates, this book offers help for women who want to develop a God-centered confidence during their undergraduate years. Topics include: letting God guide your dreams, how to cope with falling into sin, steps toward God-driven decisions, and making sense of feminism on campus. The final part of the book (Beyond the Precipice) looks at ideas that women usually keep in the back of their minds during college, like marriage and children. An underlying theme throughout is that women who trust God with their daily lives during college, even with their own identities, will become confident adults geared for navigating life. Anna Davis graduated in 2001 from the University of Texas at Dallas. The party scene, career goals, and personal dreams all seemed to collide during those first two years on campus, creating intense spiritual distress. Later on, when two of her female relatives went to college, Anna saw them go through the same set of struggles. This book grew out of her conversations with them. Anna has more than 10 years experience as a writer and editor, with most of her work centered in medical editing and health ghostwriting. She also edits newsletters and other content for her home church in Allen, Texas, where she lives with her college sweetheart and their two young children.

Power on the Precipice
Power on the Precipice

Author: Andrew Imbrie

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2020-09-08

Total Pages: 271

ISBN-13: 0300256108

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An essential guide to renewing American leadership in a turbulent, polarized, and postdominant world Is America fated to decline as a great power? Can it recover? With absorbing insight and fresh perspective, foreign policy expert Andrew Imbrie provides a road map for bolstering American leadership in an era of turbulence abroad and deepening polarization at home. This is a book about choices: the tough policy trade-offs that political leaders need to make to reinvigorate American money, might, and clout. In the conventional telling, the United States is either destined for continued dominance or doomed to irreversible decline. Imbrie argues instead that the United States must adapt to changing global dynamics and compete more wisely. Drawing on the author’s own experience as an adviser to Secretary of State John Kerry, as well as on interviews and comparative studies of the rise and fall of nations, this book offers a sharp look at American statecraft and the United States’ place in the world today.

The Precipice
The Precipice

Author: Noam Chomsky

Publisher: Haymarket Books

Published: 2021-06-01

Total Pages: 310

ISBN-13: 1642594792

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In The Precipice, Noam Chomsky sheds light into the phenomenon of Trumpism, exposes the catastrophic nature and impact of Trump’s policies on people, the environment, and the planet as a whole, and captures the dynamics of the brutal class warfare launched by the masters of capital to maintain and even enhance the features of a dog-eat–dog society to the unprecedented mobilization of millions of people against neoliberal capitalism, racism, and police violence/

Precipice
Precipice

Author: Nicholas Deiuliis

Publisher:

Published: 2022-03-29

Total Pages: 432

ISBN-13: 9781645720607

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Precipice: The Left's Campaign to Destroy America is a rallying cry in defense of the 'doers' to inspire awareness. Western society was built by the Creator, optimized by the Enabler, and refined by the Server. These three professional classes are the best society has to offer, and without them quality of life instantly degrades. America was designed to allow these classes to freely toil, achieve, and grow. Government was minimized and existed to serve the people. The American system of meritocracy created, grew, and sustained the middle class. Today the situation has changed for the worst, with America teetering upon a tipping point. The Leech, a class that exists solely to appropriate and consume the fruits of others' labor, has grown across every segment of the economy and society. As the Leech grows, the Creator, Enabler, and Server suffer. Successful culmination of the Leech campaign results in the destruction of the middle class, control resting with the 'haves' of the entrenched Leech elite, and the rest of society becoming indentured 'have-nots, ' who are perpetually dependent on an unsustainable system.

Teaching in the Fourth Industrial Revolution
Teaching in the Fourth Industrial Revolution

Author: Armand Doucet

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2018-02-19

Total Pages: 226

ISBN-13: 1351035843

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In this visionary book, written by six internationally recognized Global Teacher Prize finalists, the authors create a positive and hope-filled template for the future of education. They address the hard moral, ethical and pedagogical questions facing education today so that progress can serve society, rather than destroying it from within our classrooms. This blueprint for education finally brings forward what has always been missing in education reform: a strong collective narrative with authentic examples from teachers on the front line. It is a holistic, personalized approach to education that harnesses the disruptions of the Fourth Industrial Revolution to better shape the future for the next generation, and ensure that every child can benefit from the ongoing transformations. A great read for anyone who has an interest in educating our youth for these uncertain times, highlighting why teachers will always matter.

The Precipice
The Precipice

Author: Paul Doiron

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 2015-06-16

Total Pages: 333

ISBN-13: 1250063698

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"Maine game warden Mike Bowditch joins a desperate search for two missing hikers as Maine wildlife officials deal with a frightening rash of coyote attacks"--

Earth System Law: Standing on the Precipice of the Anthropocene
Earth System Law: Standing on the Precipice of the Anthropocene

Author: Timothy Cadman

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2021-12-13

Total Pages: 300

ISBN-13: 1000482499

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This book systematically explores the emerging legal discipline of Earth System Law (ESL), challenging the closed system of law and marking a new era in law and society scholarship. Law has historically provided stability, certainty, and predictability in the ordering of social relations (predominantly between humans). However, in recent decades the Earth’s relationship in law has changed with increasing recognition of the standing of Mother Earth, inherent rights of the environment (such as flora and fauna, rivers), and now recognition of the multiple relations of the Anthropocene. This book questions the fundamental assumption that ‘the law’ only applies to humans, and that the earth, as a system, has intrinsic rights and responsibilities. In the last ten years the planet has experienced its hottest period since human evolution, and by the year 2100, unless substantive action is taken, many species will be lost, and planetary conditions will be intolerable for human civilisation as it currently exists. Relationships between humans, the biosphere, and all planetary systems must change. The authors address these challenging topics, setting the groundwork of ESL to ensure sustainable development of the coupled socio-ecological system that the Earth has become. Earth System Law is an interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research project, and, as such, this book will be of great interest to researchers and stakeholders from a wide range of disciplines, including political science, anthropology, economics, law, ethics, sociology, and psychology.

Wholehearted Teaching of Gifted Young Women
Wholehearted Teaching of Gifted Young Women

Author: Kathryn Fishman-Weaver

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2021-09-30

Total Pages: 169

ISBN-13: 1000490491

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Wholehearted Teaching of Gifted Young Women explores the important role school communities play in supporting the social and emotional needs of high-achieving young women. Using a youth participatory action research model, this project follows 20 student researchers from high school through college. This longitudinal study leads to “Wholehearted Teaching,” a new framework for cultivating courage, connection, and self-care in schools. Framed with personal stories and filled with practical suggestions, this book offers strategies for teachers, counselors, parents, and high-achieving young women as they navigate the precipice of youth and everything after.