Architecture

Architecture
Author: Léon Krier
Publisher: Papadakis Publisher
Total Pages: 232
Release: 1998
Genre: Architecture, Modern
ISBN: 1901092038

This polemic is essential reading for anyone converned with the state and direction of architecture and urban planning today and will provake wide-ranging discussion.

A Choice of Fate

A Choice of Fate
Author: Hassaan Usmani
Publisher: LifeRich Publishing
Total Pages: 89
Release: 2020-03-24
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1489727574

We all have our dreams in life: the fairy tale that we want to live. It holds us together. It provides us with a direction in this chaotic world. It drives us through life! For most of us, there is already some person present in this world living our fairytale just because of random events happening because of cosmic luck. We would have been living in a utopia only if we were given the chance to choose our time and place of birth. So up in heavens, where all human beings are fashioned, a person is given the opportunity to choose the life he/she wants to live. All the angels are excited to see what he/she chooses, but that person stands there expressionless. There is a problem. In fact, several! How does he/she make a choice for him/herself?

Destiny Vs. Choice

Destiny Vs. Choice
Author: Marie D. Jones
Publisher: Career Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2011
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 9781601631565

Readers are bombarded with the contradictory claims that their lives are both predestined and the results of their personal choices. "Destiny vs. Choice" examines the philosophical, spiritual, and scientific evidence for both claims, and shows readers how they can live better lives no matter which side ultimately "wins" the debate.

Man’s Fate and God’s Choice

Man’s Fate and God’s Choice
Author: Bhimeswara Challa
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
Total Pages: 609
Release: 2011-02-09
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 142695400X

The world today is facing a bewildering array of problems where human behavior is both brazen and bizarre. Those who are searching for a way out are daring to ask fundamental questions: What is man’s rightful place? Are we a doomed species? Is God becoming weary of mankind? In Man’s Fate and God’s Choice, Bhimeswara Challa shares his comprehensive study of human behavior that suggests that the very paradigm of our thinking is inappropriate for the current challenges we face. In a thoughtful, innovative presentation of ideas, Challa posits that any betterment in human behavior needs a cathartic change at the deepest level, ultimately reawakening the intelligence of the human heart. He begins by examining the greatest challenge of this generation of human beings and continues by placing the multiple identities of man in perspective, reviewing our growing insensitivity to human suffering. Finally, he looks to the living world for inspiration, metaphors, and models for human transformation. Man’s Fate and God’s Choice incisively covers an array of issues and proposes an agenda for action as it challenges those who see misery and ask “Why?” to also see the promise in the rainbow and then ask “Why not?”

Choices of Fate

Choices of Fate
Author: S. Simone Chavous
Publisher: S. Simone Chavous
Total Pages: 358
Release: 2013-06-13
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 098957010X

Alexa Ryan has a comfortable life, but an unusual condition forces her to keep the world, and all hope of love, at a distance. Ethan Kellar spent his long life running from his destiny, from his role in changing the fate of the world. Until the night Alexa falls into his arms. Believing she is the key to escaping his fate, Ethan gives in to their intense physical attraction only to discover that in trying to cheat destiny, he set it in motion. So he does the only thing he can to save them both. He walks away. Consumed by grief, Alexa is lost until she learns her brief encounter with love resulted in a child. When that child falls ill, her search for answers leads her back to Ethan and thrusts her into his dark and mysterious world, unlocking the secrets of her past and revealing threats to their future. Together, they fight to protect their love, but one battle remains that Ethan must fight alone as he struggles to choose his own path and avoid the choices of fate.

Choices as Fate Would Have It

Choices as Fate Would Have It
Author: Art Dinick
Publisher: EarthLink
Total Pages: 434
Release: 2022-02-02
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9781087887692

Sometimes we made choices which we think were a mistake. Some of the choices were made by free will and some by fate. We don't realize that a higher being deemed that these choices were necessary for us to reach a higher goal that is only known to Him. We do not have the ability to see the ultimate goal planned for us.. After reading the author's story you may come to realize that the poor choices you think you made in the past were necessary to guide you to where you are today, If you are not happy you should not dwell on those choices because they cannot be changed and you should move on and pursue your dreams, even if your acquaintances tell you that you will not be successful

Fate

Fate
Author: Leonard Balsera
Publisher:
Total Pages: 308
Release: 2013-07-03
Genre: Fantasy games
ISBN: 9781613170298

Grab your plasma rifles, spell components, and jetpacks! Name your game; Fate Core is the foundation that can make it happen. Fate Core is a flexible system that can support whatever worlds you dream up. Have you always wanted to play a post-apocalyptic spaghetti western with tentacle monsters? Swords and sorcery in space? Wish there was a game based on your favorite series of books, film, or television, but it never happened? Fate Core is your answer. Fate Core is a tabletop roleplaying game about proactive, capable people who lead dramatic lives. The type of drama they experience is up to you. But wherever they go, you can expect a fun storytelling experience full of twists...of fate. GAME INFORMATION Number of players: 3-6 Age of players: 12+ Length: 2-8 hours Type of Game: Roleplaying Game Languages Available: English Suggested Retail: $25.00 Game Designers: Leonard Balsera, Brian Engard, Jeremy Keller, Ryan Macklin, Mike Olson

The Fate of the Earth and The Abolition

The Fate of the Earth and The Abolition
Author: Jonathan Schell
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Total Pages: 484
Release: 2000
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9780804737029

These two books, which helped focus national attention on the movement for a nuclear freeze, are published in one volume.

Man’s Fate and God’s Choice

Man’s Fate and God’s Choice
Author: Bhimeswara Challa
Publisher:
Total Pages: 398
Release: 2021-06-29
Genre: Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN:

Stagnate as a 'creepy caterpillar' or transform into a 'beauteous butterfly'-this path-breaking book of a rare genre suggests-is the seminal choice before mankind, and every one of us. In this setting, the book raises some fundamental questions: What is man's rightful place in the cosmos and his manifest destiny on earth? Why are we so self-righteously self-destructive? Are we a doomed species? Or 'divine' beings struggling to overcome the hubris of the human intellect? Is God getting weary of mankind? How should we synergize human effort and Divine Grace? The book posits that any betterment in human behavior needs a cathartic change at the deepest levels. That requires diluting the dominance of the mind and reawakening the long-dormant intelligence of the human heart. To meet that challenge, we need minimum numbers, a 'critical mass' to create self-sustained momentum for transformation through consciousness change. And every single human of this generation should behave in such a way that he or she is that single person whose transformation could make the decisive species-scale difference. The book offers a menu of ideas and an agenda of action. This book could be itself become an input to mobilize that very 'critical mass' it advocates for human transformation. Well-planned and cohesively written, the book is noteworthy for its delightful blend of information and arguments, and reveals the depth of the author’s understanding of the human predicament... This is a closely argued and thought-provoking book... The Hindu, 13 Sept 2011 [This book] is a gripping exposition on human nature and self-transformation without preference to religion... Challa has critically provided a foundational argument for a deeper discussion of philosophical and practical ideals concerning self-transformation... harmonizing the head and the heart is the way for humans to function as spiritual beings. Recommended by the USR. The US Review of Books [The author] reflects upon the crisis of contemporary civilizations and outlines a blueprint for a new world order based on progressive spiritual values and change of human consciousness. The strength of this treatise is the sweep of Challa’s reach and his treatment of a vastly complex set of issues that bedevil humankind today... India International Center Quarterly, Summer 2012 As a thinker and erudite scholar, [the author] has made a profound study of the world situation and the moral decadence of man... [This book] deserves to be on the shelves of university, college and public libraries... Triveni Magazine, July–Sept 2011 It is difficult to pigeon-hole this book as... a ‘prophetic discourse’, a ‘journey into the human mind’, a ‘guide for human survival’, a ‘spiritual treatise’. It is an amalgam of all these and more... the volume reaches out to those who are already uneasy about the way we on this earth are progressing. The Book Review, India, June 2013

Choice Not Fate The Life and Times of Trevor Manuel

Choice Not Fate The Life and Times of Trevor Manuel
Author: Pippa Green
Publisher: Penguin Random House South Africa
Total Pages: 883
Release: 2012-10-09
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0143027530

Trevor Manuel became South Africa's first black finance minister in 1996, a time when the economy threatened to spiral into a debt trap. It took five years before Manuel could present his first 'good news' Budget in Parliament. He described that Budget as a tale of 'irrevocable and powerful transformation', a tale of 'patience and obstinacy ... of determination and hope ... Of choice, not fate.' He could have been telling the tale of his own life. Born into a working-class family on the Cape Flats, his family's story embodied the fate that befell thousands of people classified coloured under apartheid. Homes lived in and lost under the cruel Group Areas Act, a mother who struggled to bring up her children on a garment worker's wages, clashes with gangsters who roamed the streets of the Flats, a truncated education. Manuel stared down fate - and internecine Western Cape politics - to become one of the most prominent anti-apartheid leaders in the internal resistance movement of the 1980s. He confronted apartheid's police and prisons with a boldness that sometimes bordered on recklessness. After Nelson Mandela was released from prison in 1990, Manuel rose quickly through the ranks of the African National Congress becoming a member of Mandela's first cabinet. When Mandela appointed him minister of finance in 1996, business leaders sneered at his lack of qualifications and experience. When he drove through a tough macroeconomic plan in a post-apartheid South Africa, some of his own constituency turned on him. 'Obstinate and patient', he saw out the worst until the economy began to turn. Under his stewardship, South Africa entered its longest growth period ever. By 2007, he was the world's longest serving minister of finance and, across the world, the most respected African finance minister.