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 Pamela McCorduck, "This Could Be Important: My Life and Times with the Artificial Intelligentsia" English | ISBN: 0359901344 | 2019 | 546 pages | EPUB | 2 MB In the autumn of 1960, twenty-year-old humanities student Pamela McCorduck encountered both the fringe science of early artificial intelligence, and C. P. Snow's Two Cultures lecture on the chasm between the sciences and the humanities. Each encounter shaped her life. Decades later her lifelong intuition was realized: AI and the humanities are profoundly connected. During that time, she wrote the first modern history of artificial intelligence, Machines Who Think, and spent much time pulling on the sleeves of public intellectuals, trying in futility to suggest that artificial intelligence could be important. Memoir, social history, group biography of the founding fathers of AI, This Could Be Important follows the personal story of one AI spectator, from her early enthusiasms to her mature, more nuanced observations of the field.  Edward Gross, Mark A. Altman, "They Shouldn't Have Killed His Dog: The Complete Uncensored Ass-Kicking Oral History of John Wick, Gun Fu, and the New Age of Action" English | ISBN: 1250278430 | 2022 | EPUB | 288 pages | 2 MB There have been iconic moments in the action movie genre over the years, but nothing has come close to matching the kinetic, balletic gun-fu of the John Wick films.  Thee Psychick Bible By Genesis Breyer P-Orridge 2010 | 544 Pages | ISBN: 1932595902 | PDF | 8 MB Foreword by Carl Abrahamsson. Introduction by Jason Louv.Thee Temple ov Psychick Youth (TOPY) will be remembered for its crucial influence on youth culture throughout the 1980s, popularizing tattooing, body piercing, "acid house" raves, and other ahead-of-the-curve cultic flirtations and investigations. Its leader was Genesis P-Orridge, co-founder of Psychick TV and Throbbing Gristle, the band that created the industrial music genre.The limited signed cloth edition of Thee Psychick Bible quickly sold out, creating demand for any edition of this 544-page book, which will be available in a handsome smyth-sewn paperback edition with flaps and ribbon. According to author Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, "this is the most profound new manual on practical magick, taking it from its Crowleyan empowerment of the Individual to a next level of realization to evolve our species."  The monster at our door: the global threat of avian flu By Mike Davis 2005 | 212 Pages | ISBN: 1595580115 | EPUB | 3 MB Avian influenza is a viral asteroid on a collision course with humanity. In 1918, a pandemic strain of influenza killed at least 40 million people in three months. Now, leading researchers believe, another world catastrophe is imminent.A virus of astonishing lethality, known as H5N1, has become entrenched in the poultry and wild bird populations of East Asia. It kills two out of every three people it infects. The World Health Organization warns that it is on the verge of mutating into a super-contagious pandemic form.In this urgent and extraordinarily frightening book, Mike Davis reconstructs the scientific and political history of a viral apocalypse in the making, exposing the central roles of agribusiness and the fast-food industries, abetted by corrupt governments, in creating the ecological conditions for the emergence of this new plague. He also details the scandalous failure of the Bush administration, obsessed with hypothetical "bio-terrorism," to safeguard Americans from the greatest biological threat since HIV/AIDS.  The World the Plague Made: The Black Death and the Rise of Europe by James Belich English | July 19, 2022 | ISBN: 0691215669 | True PDF | 640 pages | 59 MB A groundbreaking history of how the Black Death unleashed revolutionary change across the medieval world and ushered in the modern age  Tomas Björkman, "The World We Create" English | ISBN: 1912892596 | 2019 | 578 pages | EPUB | 2 MB The world is entering a new technological, social and global age and it is our ability to create meaning which will decide whether we face a bright future or a tragic decline.  Viktor E. Frankl, "The Will to Meaning: Foundations and Applications of Logotherapy" English | ISBN: 0142181269 | 2014 | 176 pages | EPUB | 999 KB From the author of Man's Search for Meaning, one of the most influential works of psychiatric literature since Freud.
 John Wood Sweet, "The Sewing Girl's Tale: A Story of Crime and Consequences in Revolutionary America" English | ISBN: 1250761964 | 2022 | EPUB | 384 pages | 28 MB A riveting Revolutionary Era drama of the first published rape trial in American history and its long, shattering aftermath, revealing how much has changed over two centuries―and how much has not.  The Science of Navigation: From Dead Reckoning to GPS By Mark Denny 2012 | 272 Pages | ISBN: 1421405121 | EPUB | 10 MB In today's world of online maps and travel directions delivered wirelessly to hand-held devices, getting from place to place requires little thought from most of us-which is a good thing, since accurate navigation can be tricky. Get your bearings with Mark Denny-an expert at explaining scientific concepts in non-technical language-in this all-encompassing look at the history and science of navigation.Denny's tour kicks off with key facts about the earth and how its physical properties affect travel. He discusses cartography and early mapmakers, revealing fascinating tidbits such as how changes over time of the direction of true north, as well as of magnetic north, impacted navigation. Denny details the evolution of navigation from the days of coastal piloting to GPS and other modern-day technologies. He explains the scientific breakthroughs in accessible, amusing terms and provides an insightful look at their effects on societies, cultures, and human advancement. Throughout, Denny frames the long history of navigation with amazing tales of such people as Pytheas, an ancient Greek navigator, and Sir Francis Drake and of such discoveries as the magnetic compass and radio direction finding.Whether you have an interest in orienteering and geocaching or want to know more about the critical role navigation has played in human survival and progress since ancient people learned to use lodestones, The Science of Navigation is for you. With it you'll finally understand the why of wayfinding.
 Ross Anthony, "The Rise and Decline and Rise of China: Searching for an Organising Philosophy" English | ISBN: 1920655840 | 2016 | 412 pages | PDF | 14 MB Running like a red thread through this book are the manifestations of Sino-African relations dating back many centuries. In this way, The Rise and Decline and Rise of China: Searching for an Organising Philosophy takes forward the work MISTRA conducted on the Mapungubwe society, one of the advanced states that existed in southern Africa some 800 years ago. What makes this research report unique, though, is that the treatment of these issues has been undertaken primarily from an African perspective. |
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