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 Damien Broderick, "The Time Machine Hypothesis: Extreme Science Meets Science Fiction" English | 2019 | ISBN: 3030161773 | PDF | pages: 246 | 2.1 mb Every age has characteristic inventions that change the world. In the 19th century it was the steam engine and the train. For the 20th, electric and gasoline power, aircraft, nuclear weapons, even ventures into space. Today, the planet is awash with electronic business, chatter and virtual-reality entertainment so brilliant that the division between real and simulated is hard to discern. But one new idea from the 19th century has failed, so far, to enter reality―time travel, using machines to turn the time dimension into a two-way highway. Will it come true, as foreseen in science fiction? Might we expect visits to and from the future, sooner than from space? That is the Time Machine Hypothesis, examined here by futurist Damien Broderick, an award-winning writer and theorist of the genre of the future. Broderick homes in on the topic through the lens of science as well as fiction, exploring some fifty different time-travel scenarios and conundrums found in the science fiction literature and film.  The Templars: The Rise and Spectacular Fall of God's Holy Warriors by Dan Jones English | September 7th, 2017 | ISBN: 0143108964 | 4486 pages | True EPUB | 21.65 MB Dan Jones narrates in his inimitably vivid and authoritative fashion the remarkable story of the Knights Templar.  The Sexual Logics of Neoliberalism in Britain: Sexual Politics in Exceptional Times English | 2023 | ISBN: 103202934X | 173 Pages | PDF (True) | 5 MB This book explores the relationship between sexuality and politics in Britain's recent political past, in the decade preceding the Covid-19 pandemic, and asks what sexual meanings and logics are embedded in the dominant political discourses and policies of this time.  The Self-Sufficient Gardening Bible for Beginners: (8 in 1) The Complete Homestead Planning Guide for a Self-Sufficient Lifestyle by Jason C. Borden English | 2022 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0BQL71NP8 | 222 pages | EPUB | 1.90 Mb EXPERT FARMER REVEALS: HOW TO TURN YOUR BACKYARD INTO A MINI-FARM AND QUICKLY BECOME SELF-SUFFICIENT  The Selected Poems of Li Po By Li Po (Trans., David Hinton) 1996 | 134 Pages | ISBN: 0811213234 | PDF | 14 MB By reflecting the ambiguity and density of the original, Hinton continues to create compelling English poems that alter our conception of Chinese poetry. (From the back cover).  The Promotability Gap: The REAL Reasons You're Not Advancing in Your Career and What YOU Can Do About It (Focusing on Professional Development for Organizational & Individual Success) by Laura Darrell - MA Leadership English | 2022 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0BQ112DSJ | 140 pages | EPUB | 0.22 Mb In her new book, The Promotability Gap: The REAL Reasons You're Not Advancing in Your Career, and What YOU Can Do About It, Laura Darrell applies her 25 years of leadership experience developing people and teams at some of the most beloved companies of our time to help people understand why they aren't advancing in their careers and how they can take charge of their own professional development. She shares insights from her research conducted with senior executives across the retail, hospitality, marketing, communications, government, and financial industries about why people fail to advance within their organizations.  The Prevention of Eating Problems and Eating Disorders: Theories, Research, and Applications By Michael P. Levine, Linda Smolak 2020 | 474 Pages | ISBN: 1138225096 | EPUB + PDF | 6 MB In a detailed analysis of the field of eating problems and disorders, this book highlights the connections between the prevention of eating problems and disorders, and theory and research in the areas of prevention and health promotion. It also looks at models of risk development and prevention, specific issues and challenges, the status of current prevention research, and lessons for prevention program development. In this unique text Levine and Smolak draw on a range of interdisciplinary perspectives, including prevention science, developmental psychology, public health, and neuroscience, to provide a thorough review, history, and critique of the topic in light of a range of empirical studies. The only authored volume with a broad, detailed and integrated view of theories, research, and practice, this expanded, fully revised, and updated new edition features new chapters on dissonance-based approaches, public health, biopsychiatry and neuroscience, gender, culture(s), technology, obesity,protective factors, and ecological approaches. The Prevention of Eating Problems and Eating Disorders: Theories, Research, and Applications is essential reading for clinicians, academics, researchers, graduate students, upper-level undergraduates, and activists and advocates involved in work pertaining to eating disorders, disordered eating, prevention, health promotion, body image, obesity and biopsychosocial perspectives.  The Power of Two: Getting The Best of Elon Musk and Tim Cook's Management Style by Mohamad Adriyanto English | 2022 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0BPS3WF34 | 87 pages | EPUB | 0.13 Mb This "AI-assisted book" explores the management styles of Elon Musk and Tim Cook, comparing and contrasting their approaches to management and leadership. They are both known for being results-driven, innovative leaders in their respective companies. Musk has a reputation for taking risks and pushing boundaries, while Cook is known for being low-key and collaborative in his approach. Both leaders are known for their attention to detail, but Cook is more vocal and active in advocating for social and environmental responsibility.  The Noah Myth in Twenty-First-Century Cli-Fi Novels: Rewritings from a Drowning World English | 2022 | ISBN: 1640141316 | 143 Pages | PDF | 1 MB With the rise of concern about global warming in recent years, climate-change fiction, or cli-fi, has become increasingly important both as a publishing phenomenon and as an area of academic study and research. Flood narratives have become a subsection of cli-fi in their own right. This book proposes new readings of four recent rewritings of the Noah myth, Odds Against Tomorrow by Nathaniel Rich, Margaret Atwood's Maddaddam trilogy, When the Floods Came by Clare Morrall, and The Flood by Maggie Gee.  Matthew Nelson, "The New Apologetics" English | ISBN: 1685780040 | 2022 | 288 pages | EPUB, PDF | 612 KB + 1500 KB For Christians, apologetics, or giving a reasoned explanation or defense of the faith, is a necessity and duty. Yet the cultural moment in which we find ourselves today demands, possibly more than any other time in history, a New Apologetics―a potent and spirited renewal of apologetics that reaches new audiences, takes new approaches, looks to new models, and tackles new issues. This groundbreaking collection is a bold first step toward making this renewal a reality. Featuring over forty essays from many of today's leading Catholic apologists, theologians, and philosophers, The New Apologetics charts a new course for the future of apologetics: a smart, joyful, and beautiful defense of the faith, one that appeals to both the head and the heart. Though it contains many arguments within its pages, it offers something more fundamental: a prelude to systematic argumentation. Arguments are no good if they are not heard, and The New Apologetics is a kind of intellectual and tactical map for the apologist who wants to be heard in today's world. During his apostolic journey to the United States in 2008, Pope Benedict XVI insisted that "the Church needs to promote at every level of her teaching―in catechesis, preaching, and seminary and university instruction―an apologetics aimed at affirming the truth of Christian revelation, the harmony of faith and reason, and a sound understanding of freedom." There is an urgent need for the whole Church to respond to this papal summons―and The New Apologetics is just the place to start. |
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