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 Casey Nelson Blake, "At the Center: American Thought and Culture in the Mid-Twentieth Century" English | ISBN: 1442226757 | 2019 | 358 pages | AZW3 | 5 MB At a time when American political and cultural leaders asserted that the nation stood at "the center of world awareness," thinkers and artists sought to understand and secure principles that lay at the center of things. From the onset of the Cold War in 1948 through 1963, they asked: What defined the essential character of "American culture"? Could permanent moral standards guide human conduct amid the flux and horrors of history? In what ways did a stable self emerge through the life cycle? Could scientific method rescue truth from error, illusion, and myth? Are there key elements to democracy, to the integrity of a society, to order in the world? Answers to such questions promised intellectual and moral stability in an age haunted by the memory of world war and the possibility of future devastation on an even greater scale. Yet other key figures rejected the search for a center, asserting that freedom lay in the dispersion of cultural energies and the plurality of American experiences. In probing the centering impulse of the era, At the Center offers a unique perspective on the United States at the pinnacle of its power.  Andrew Davison, "Astrobiology and Christian Doctrine " English | ISBN: 1009303163 | 2024 | 422 pages | PDF | 4 MB In recent decades, powerful telescopes have enabled astrophysicists to uncover startling new worlds and solar systems. An epochal moment came in 1995, when a planet - 51 Pegasi b - was located orbiting a star other than our own sun. Since then, thousands of new planets have followed, and the question of life beyond earth has become one of the principal topics in discussions between science and religion. Attention to this topic has a long history in Christian theology, but has rarely been pursued at any depth. Writing with both passion and precision, Andrew Davison brings his extensive knowledge of Christian thought to bear, drawing particularly on the thought of Thomas Aquinas, as well as his training as a scientist. No book to date better prepares the Christian community for responding to evidence of other life, if it is found. And yet, we do not need to wait for that to have happened before this book shows its worth. In thinking about planets, creatures, and ecosystems beyond our planet, Davison already reinvigorates our theology for the earth.  Scott Meredith, "Astral Advice Animal: The Insider's Reincarnation Playbook" English | ISBN: 1499574371 | 2014 | 120 pages | PDF | 2 MB WHO YOU GONNA CALL?  Helen Jacobs, "Asking for a Friend: Answers from the Universe to Life's Big Questions" English | ISBN: 191166820X | 2021 | 280 pages | AZW3 | 537 KB Guidance of the highest calibre for every burning question you ever had. I loved this book!' - Jordanna Levin, internationally bestselling author of Make It Happen  Helen Jacobs, "Asking for a Friend: Answers from the Universe to Life's Big Questions" English | ISBN: 191166820X | 2021 | 280 pages | MOBI | 354 KB Guidance of the highest calibre for every burning question you ever had. I loved this book!' - Jordanna Levin, internationally bestselling author of Make It Happen  Patricia Tanumihardja, "Asian Pickles at Home: 75 Easy Recipes for Quick, Fermented, and Canned Pickles" English | ISBN: 1647390745 | 2020 | 174 pages | MOBI | 12 MB Easy recipes for making pickles and fermented foods from all over Asia  Jeff Heaton, "Artificial Intelligence for Humans, Volume 2: Nature-Inspired Algorithms" English | ISBN: 1499720572 | 2014 | 242 pages | MOBI | 4 MB Nature can be a great source of inspiration for artificial intelligence algorithms because its technology is considerably more advanced than our own. Among its wonders are strong AI, nanotechnology, and advanced robotics. Nature can therefore serve as a guide for real-life problem solving. In this book, you will encounter algorithms influenced by ants, bees, genomes, birds, and cells that provide practical methods for many types of AI situations. Although nature is the muse behind the methods, we are not duplicating its exact processes. The complex behaviors in nature merely provide inspiration in our quest to gain new insights about data. Artificial Intelligence for Humans is a book series meant to teach AI to those readers who lack an extensive mathematical background. The reader only needs knowledge of basic college algebra and computer programming. Additional topics are thoroughly explained. Every chapter also includes a programming example. Examples are currently provided in Java, C#, and Python. Other languages are planned. No knowledge of biology is needed to read this book. With a forward by Dave Snell.  Melanie Mitchell, "Artificial Intelligence: A Guide for Thinking Humans" English | ISBN: 0241404827 | 2019 | 256 pages | MOBI | 17 MB No recent scientific enterprise has been so alluring, terrifying, and filled with extravagant promise and frustrating setbacks as artificial intelligence. How intelligent are the best of today's AI programs? To what extent can we entrust them with decisions that affect our lives? How human-like do we expect them to become, and how soon do we need to worry about them surpassing us in most, if not all, human endeavours?  Roger Naylor, "Arizona Off the Beaten Path®: Discover Your Fun " English | ISBN: 149304284X | 2019 | 192 pages | AZW3 | 983 KB Tired of the same old tourist traps?  Bryan C. Reece, "Aristotelian Ontological Priority and Metaphysical Grounding " English | ISBN: 1009547968 | 2026 | 75 pages | PDF | 2 MB Many think that reality is structured such that some beings are more fundamental than others and characterize this structure in terms of 'grounding.' Grounding is typically regarded as explanatory and as exhibiting certain order-theoretic properties: asymmetry, irreflexivity, and transitivity. Aristotle's notion of ontological priority, which inspired discussions of grounding, also has these features. This Element clarifies Aristotle's discussions of ontological priority, explores how it relates to other kinds of priority, and identifies important connections to metaphysical grounding. Aristotle provides numerous examples that appear to impugn ontological priority's order-theoretic coherence. This is Aristotle's 'Priority Problem.' But Aristotle has an independently motivated solution that eliminates the threat from each of the apparently problematic examples and explains why such examples are ubiquitous. The Element argues that a ground-theoretic analog of Aristotle's solution to the Priority Problem addresses recent challenges to grounding. |
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