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Peter Merry

Volution is a profound way of seeing ourselves, our world and the process of life that allows us to integrate our deep felt sense of interconnectedness and the dynamic self-organising reality that the new sciences describe to us.Transcending yet including the linear models of evolution, time and space that emerged through the Western scientific-rational mindset, volution restores more indigenous organic perspectives to their rightful place alongside our modern worldview, creating a...

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Peter Merry

Evolutionary Leadership meets the current demand for a holistic vision that can take the measure of today's increasingly complex society. Peter Merry is one of the first to have applied this integral approach to leadership, combining theory and practice inspired by, among others, Ken Wilber, Dr Don Beck and Otto Scharmer. The result is relevant not only for organisations, but also for our communities and personal lives. Illustrated with stories from the field, Evolutionary Leadership is a ...

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Peter Merry

If we assume, as both the new scientists and ancient wisdom traditions tell us, that all of reality is actually composed of interlocking dynamic energy fields, that life is a continuous process of organising energetic information into form, then what does that mean for the way we need to lead our organisations, be they business, civil society, government, community, or even family systems? To growth, differentiation, and intellect, we need to add stillness, oneness, and intuition. This boo...

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Peter Merry

We humans are born to be full of life, expressing all different parts of ourselves through creativity while building a vibrant world together. The current world of work deadens this human potential by only valuing that which adds to abstract economic indicators and deprives us of the time and space to contribute in ways that are meaningful and empowering. Why Work? shows us how we can change our policies, take action directly in our communities to carve out the space for us to rec...

Essays exploring questions of what we owe—to corporations, to governments, to each other, to the past, and to the future.From personal finance and consumer spending to ballooning national expenditures on warfare and social welfare, debt is fundamental to the dynamics of global capitalism. The contributors to this volume explore the concept of indebtedness in its various senses and from a wide range of perspectives.They observe that many views of ethics, citiz...

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Theophilus Kwabena Abutima, Kwadwo Owusu, Rabiu K. B. Asante, Leander Kandilige, Jane Mwanji, Richard Kwabena Owusu Kyei, Joris Schapendonk, Danielle Minteu Kadje, Peter Bilson Obour, Omon Merry Osiki, Joseph K. Teye, Sylvia Esther Gyan

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African Migration and Diaspora Series

There are only a few studies that analyze the complex relationship between Migration and development in Africa. The book presents the main trends in African migration since the last two decades. It analyzes the major migration trends, the various migration hubs across the continent and the underlying factors explaining the changing nature of migration across the continent. A few of the chapters in the book examine the phenomenon of migration from a national perspective by focusing on migra...

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Peter Greyson

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Cass Merry

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Master Your Mind

Are you ready to break free from the chains of overthinking and unleash your inner happiness? Dive into "Stop Overthinking” and picture a life where your mind is a serene sanctuary, far from a chaotic battleground of worries. Imagine waking up each day with a sense of calm, and clarity that propels you forward with unstoppable positivity! In this electrifying audiobook, you'll discover the keys to unlock your mind's potential and banish those pesky overthinking habits for good. Say goodbye...

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Barbara Marx Hubbard

A Seminal Work of Visionary Hope, Updated for the 21st CenturyIn this era of government gridlock, economic and ecological devastation, and seemingly intractable global violence, our future is ever more ripe for — and in need of — fresh, creative reimagining. With her clear-eyed, inspiring, and sweeping vision of a possible global renaissance in the new millennium, Barbara Marx Hubbard shows us that our current crises are not the precursors of an apocalypse but the ...

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Amelia Horgan

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Outspoken by Pluto

***Evening Standard's best non-fiction 2021***'A brilliant, searing exposé of the lies underpinning work' - Owen Jones'Work hard, get paid.' It's simple. Self-evident. But it's also a lie—at least for most of us. For people today, the old assumptions are crumbling; hard work in school no longer guarantees a secure, well-paying job in the future. Far from a gateway to riches and fulfilment, 'work' means precarity, anxiety and alienation.Amelia Horgan poses three big ...

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Partha Dasgupta

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Very Short Introductions

Economics has the capacity to offer us deep insights into some of the most formidable problems of life, and offer solutions to them too. Combining a global approach with examples from everyday life, Partha Dasgupta describes the lives of two children who live very different lives in different parts of the world: in the Mid-West USA and in Ethiopia. He compares the obstacles facing them, and the processes that shape their lives, their families, and their futures. He shows how economics unco...

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Barbara Marx Hubbard

Explaining how the planet’s myriad crises are actually the birth pangs of a new Earth, this inspired exploration is Barbara Marx Hubbard’s prophetic call for a planetary shift. It explores the aftermath of the coming planetary renaissance that she has heralded for decades, and introduces an established popular global movement to cocreate a massive transition around a symbolic “Planetary Birthday” event on December 22, 2012. This volume features 12 evolutionary pioneers’ commentary on the a...

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Giles Hutchins

We are in the midst of a civilization-wide transformation of the scale never seen before: halving carbon emissions by 2030, reversing natural habitat loss, overhauling social inequality, tackling the mental health and wellbeing pandemic, embracing the digital revolution, and dealing with rising volatility and turbulence across all aspects of society and working-life. No organization is spared.Climate change, Covid and conflict; an increasingly dispersed multi-generational workforce...