Kirjahaku

Who have we become since evolving from our hunter-gatherer ancestors? While we may be under the impression that our lives have been made more manageable due to the myriad conveniences at home and in the work place, they're actually more complicated, stressful and dangerous. The First Peoples, however, have remained largely unchanged over the past several thousand years. As such, they want no part of our world. They are not seduced by our conveniences or modern way of life. It is at this juncture in our evolution that we would do well to incorporate native wisdom into our own cultures which appear to be teetering on the brink.

The Beatles changed music, our culture and they changed many of us individually. This is the true account of how The Beatles saw a troubled LA teen through his worst growing pains from 1963 to 1970.

Who have we become since evolving from our hunter-gatherer ancestors? While we may be under the impression that our lives have been made more manageable due to the myriad conveniences at home and in the work place, they're actually more complicated, stressful and dangerous. The First Peoples, however, have remained largely unchanged over the past several thousand years. As such, they want no part of our world. They are not seduced by our conveniences or modern way of life. It is at this juncture in our evolution that we would do well to incorporate native wisdom into our own cultures which appear to be teetering on the brink.This book probes our early ancestral choices to 'civilize' and the price tag that came with those choices. The book also points to a unique opportunity to reconnect with nature and a deeper understanding of ourselves.

A sci-fi thriller where the creative mind becomes the currency of the future.Humanity is being replaced by Artificial Intelligence. Nothing new. However, what emerges as the most prized natural resource is the creative human mind. The alien hybrids must urgently cull, digitize and upload those remaining minds to the block chain for marketing to AI developers before the human extinction event. The hybrids also realize that the creative mind has access to a powerful world that they want to use and profit from. The creative mind, for the ET Hybrids is little understood. It's something, however, that they are desperate to understand. All their finances and power are no match, however, for the artist's capacity of out-of-the-box thinking.The hybrid elite meet their match with Cliff, whose creative mind is a little too creative, when he outwits them into handing over what he wants instead.

WHEN SHE DIED braves grief's gritty landscape with unflinching honesty. Additionally the in-real-time journal entries point to all the ups and downs, madnesses and heart-wrenching immediacy of a spousal loss. This is balanced by a retrospective on the death and its aftermath 30 years later. WHEN SHE DIED is anything but a clinicians take on grieving, rather it is an intensely private and thoughtfully laid out map for all the various stages of grief from a personal vantage point that ultimately emerges as something profoundly universal.

An eclectic collection of short stories whimsically covering our connection to nature and nature's connection to itself. Each story is quirky, extremely short and slightly left of center with an Aesop's Fables-like moral.OLIVER is a cat. He is able to help identify the thieves that broke into his house and tried to murder his owner.ED is a dancing cockatoo whose favorite actor is John Travolta.The RINGS of a tree are able to transmit historical audio data via a 'tree stethoscope'.THE ANTS decide that the antennae of all the ants in their colony are getting shorter, and decide to move on to another colony.A time-traveling WHALE imparts the secrets of the universe to a drowning man.What do these stories share in common? They are part of OLIVER and other short stories.