Jane Goodall and Douglas Abrams: The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for Trying Times

In a world that seems so troubled, how do we hold on to hope?

Looking at the headlines—the worsening climate crisis, a global pandemic, loss of biodiversity, political upheaval—it can be hard to feel optimistic. And yet hope has never been more desperately needed.

In this urgent book, Jane Goodall, the world's most famous living naturalist, and Douglas Abrams, the internationally bestselling co-author of The Book of Joy, explore through intimate and thought-provoking dialogue one of the most sought after and least understood elements of human nature: hope. In The Book of Hope, Jane focuses on her "Four Reasons for Hope": The Amazing Human Intellect, The Resilience of Nature, The Power of Young People, and The Indomitable Human Spirit.

Drawing on decades of work that has helped expand our understanding of what it means to be human and what we all need to do to help build a better world, The Book of Hope touches on vital questions, including: How do we stay hopeful when everything seems hopeless? How do we cultivate hope in our children? What is the relationship between hope and action? Filled with moving and inspirational stories and photographs from Jane’s remarkable career, The Book of Hope is a deeply personal conversation with one of the most beloved figures in the world today.

While discussing the experiences that shaped her discoveries and beliefs, Jane tells the story of how she became a messenger of hope, from living through World War II to her years in Gombe to realizing she had to leave the forest to travel the world in her role as an advocate for environmental justice. And for the first time, she shares her profound revelations about her next, and perhaps final, adventure.

The second book in the Global Icons Series—which launched with the instant classic The Book of Joy with His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Archbishop Desmond Tutu—The Book of Hope is a rare and intimate look not only at the nature of hope but also into the heart and mind of a woman who revolutionized how we view the world around us and has spent a lifetime fighting for our future.

There is still hope, and this book will help guide us to it.

https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250784094/thebookofhope

Simon Sinek: Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action

Start with Why shows that the leaders who’ve had the greatest influence in the world all think, act, and communicate the same way—and it’s the opposite of what everyone else does. Sinek calls this powerful idea The Golden Circle, and it provides a framework upon which organizations can be built, movements can be led, and people can be inspired. And it all starts with WHY.

https://simonsinek.com/books/start-with-why/

Háy János: Szavalóverseny - Kisegítőkönyv íróknak és olvasóknak

What is this, poetry or prose? Couldn't it have been decided in advance? You just flip through it, and it's already mixed up. Is it funny, am I going to laugh? Don't tell me what I'm going to laugh at. At this, surely not. There is a love poem and a folk lyre and the recipe for children's poems. Who do you think cares? Normal writers write normal recipe books that can actually be used, because for example the recipe for wild game is in it, which you don’t know by heart. This may be a bad example from an environmental point of view, but then there is the recipe for wild tofu, whatever, let's not get stuck on unnecessary details. And anyway, who is this main character who wants to get a woman with poetry? Where does he live? In the 19th century? This is a mentally damaged guy, who is not a great experience to meet.  In fact, it’s embarrassing.  Stepping out into the street with this book is embarrassing in itself. You will be stigmatized immediately: CAUTION LIFE-THREATENING!

Almási Kitti: A Te döntésed - Válogatás dr. Almási Kitti előadásaiból

Do we believe that we can take control of our lives, because a lot depends on us, on our choices? Or do we believe that we inevitably have to walk a path at the mercy of the circumstances, our environment, our past, the patterns of our ancestors? Do we have real, far-reaching, mature decisions, or do we wait for other people and external events to sway us in one direction or another? Or do we stall for time until certain opportunities are lost, so that in the end we are no longer forced to make a decision?

Are we able to stick to our decisions in the long term even against external expectations, if they lead us in a different direction than where we want to go? Do we have enough autonomy - and if we don't have it yet, what can we do to increase our internal (and with it our external) freedom? These questions are dealt with in the volume’s title lecture, while many other topics arise in the other chapters.

During the past decade, Dr. Kitti Almási gave hundreds of lectures in various parts of Hungary and beyond our borders. Anyone who has been lucky enough to listen to her knows that she is at least as remarkable a speaker as she is an author, actually personal meetings inspire her so much that according to many she is then in her best shape.

In this volume selection, we have collected a few of her best lectures, which show a slice of the famous psychologist's thinking while venturing into different areas of life. It's about self-knowledge, relationships, family, expectations and autonomy, courage, coping, the possibilities of standing up for yourself and self-defense, healing your wounds - in the readable, enjoyable style you're used to from Kitti Almási.