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Much has changed on Mount Everest in recent years. This is the first book to detail how the recent infusion of wealth into the mountains is reacting with the age-old lust for glory to draw crime to the highest places on the planet, and how a mountain's ability to reduce climbers to their essential selves is revealing villains as well as heroes, greed as well as selflessness. The change is caused both by a tremendous boom in traffic to the world's...
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The modern world is dominated by ideas that are threatening to kill us: that life is one long battle from conception to grave; that all creatures, including human beings, are driven by their selfish DNA; that the universe is just stuff, for us to use at will. These ideas are seen as emerging from science and hard-nosed philosophy, and become self-fulfilling. They have led us to create a world in perpetual strife, that is unjust and in many ways precarious....
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Our modern patterns of thinking and learning are all based on observing a world of 'things', which we think of as separate building blocks. This worldview allows us to count and measure objects without their having any innate value; it provides neat definitions and a sense of control over life. However, this approach also sets humans apart from each other, and from nature.
In reality, in nature, everything is connected in a fluid, dynamic way. 'Separateness'...
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The profession of engineering is rarely the topic of serious public discussion. Multimedia, virtual reality, information superhighway-these are the buzzwords of the day. But real engineers, the people who conceive of computers and oversee their manufacture, the people who design and build information systems, cars, bridges, and airplanes, labor in obscurity. There are no engineering heroes, and we as a society are poorer for this.
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In 1996, physicist, Alan Sokal published an essay in Social Text-an influential academic journal of cultural studies-touting the deep similarities between quantum gravitational theory and postmodern philosophy. Soon thereafter, the essay was revealed as a brilliant parody, a catalog of nonsense written in the cutting-edge but impenetrable lingo of postmodern theorists. The event sparked a furious debate in academic circles and made the headlines of...
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Dive into Schoolhouse Burning for a transformative journey through the lens of Rodger, an expert in Alternative Dispute Resolution and Mediation. With a rich background that began in the helping professions at a state school and regional hospital, Rodger offers a unique perspective on conflicts and disputes that have troubled humanity for ages. Drawing from his extensive experience, including his Master of Science degree in Counseling Psychology and...
9) The Body Toxic: How the Hazardous Chemistry of Everyday Things Threatens Our Health and Well-being
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We are running a collective chemical fever that we cannot break. Everyone everywhere now carries a dizzying array of chemical contaminants, the by-products of modern industry and innovation that contribute to a host of developmental deficits and health problems in ways just now being understood. These toxic substances, unknown to our grandparents, accumulate in our fat, bones, blood, and organs as a consequence of womb-to-tomb exposure to industrial...
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The rate at which technology is changing our world-not just on a global level like space travel and instant worldwide communications but on the level of what we choose to wear, where we live, and what we eat-is staggeringly fast and getting faster all the time. The rate of change has become so fast that a concept that started off sounding like science fiction has become a widely expected outcome in the near future - a singularity referred to as The...
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This concise book introduces nonphysicists to the core philosophical issues surrounding the nature and structure of space and time, and is also an ideal resource for physicists interested in the conceptual foundations of space-time theory. Tim Maudlin's broad historical overview examines Aristotelian and Newtonian accounts of space and time, and traces how Galileo's conceptions of relativity and space-time led to Einstein's special and general theories...
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Questions universities’ increasing reliance on market-oriented metrics to determine their strategic directions and gauge faculty productivity.
Teaching, Tenure, and Collegiality espouses the concept of relationality—the idea that people’s activities necessarily emerge through contextual engagement with others—as an alternative to the "publish or perish" ethos in higher education. Building on research by comparative philosophers, Mary K. Chang...
13) Bicentennial man
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[2000]
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A comedy about an android "household appliance" robot who just wants to be a regular guy.
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Querido lector,¿Te has preguntado alguna vez sobre el fascinante mundo de la clonación humana y su intrincada relación con la psicología? Si es así, entonces este libro es para ti. Sumérgete en un viaje de descubrimiento mientras exploramos los diversos aspectos de la clonación desde una perspectiva psicológica en nuestro último lanzamiento: "La Clonación Humana: Los Aportes de la Psicología".En esta obra innovadora, desentrañamos los...
15) Bonjour ChatGPT
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Vous dites aussi « Bonjour » à ChatGPT lorsque vous lui posez une question ? Et votre robot de cuisine ou robot-tondeuse, vous lui avez donné un nom ? C'est le cas pour la plupart d'entre nous.
Dans cet ouvrage, Louis de Diesbach décrypte avec pertinence les raisons qui engagent les individus à attribuer des caractéristiques humaines aux outils d'intelligence artificielle. Derrière le simple et a priori superficiel échange avec ChatGPT se...
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The sequel to Duane Elgin's bestselling classic Voluntary Simplicity, which changed the lives of thousands and was called the "bible" of the simplicity movement by the Wall Street Journal, Promise Ahead looks beneath the headlines to reveal the deeper currents now changing our lives.
Elgin sees two powerful sets of trends converging in the coming decades. The first set he calls "adversity trends." These include
1. Global climate changes that...
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As humanity marches into the new millennium, large-scale problems continue to threaten the well-being of multitudes of people. Yet, at the same time, there lies an anchor of hope and an abiding faith in the promise of the future. There is a gradual reawakening of the promise for peace whose echoes are steadily being heard throughout the world. The Science of Interreligious Dialogue is another milestone in reinforcing and deepening our commitments...
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This book is based on an in-depth filmed conversation between Howard Burton and James Robert Brown, Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Toronto. This wide-ranging conversation addresses a central theme in current philosophy: Platonism vs. Naturalism and provides accounts of both approaches to mathematics. The Platonist-Naturalist debate over mathematics is explored in a comprehensive fashion and also sheds light on non-mathematical...
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Gregg Easterbrook, author of the wildly popular ESPN.com column Tuesday Morning Quarterback takes on football's place in American society.
Gridiron football is the king of sports, it's the biggest game in the strongest and richest country in the world. Of the twenty most-watched television broadcasts ever, both in the United States and internationally, all twenty were Super Bowls. In The King of Sports, Easterbrook tells the full story of how football...
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Virtually Human explores what the not-too-distant future will look like when cyber-consciousness-simulation of the human brain via software and computer technology-allows our consciousness to be present forever.
Meet Bina48, the world's most sentient robot, commissioned by Martine Rothblatt and created by Hanson Robotics. Bina48 is a nascent Mindclone of Martine's wife that can engage in conversation, answer questions, and even have spontaneous thoughts...
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