Download or read book Belter World written by Scott Billups and published by Netcastle Press. This book was released on 2023-02-16 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A PRESCIENT GAZE INTO OUR INEVITABLE FUTURE IN SPACE An asteroid miner discovers an alien ship and, together with a quirky astrobiologist from Earth, must save humanity by sciencing their way through the mysterious relic while finessing our clockwork universe, future bureaucracies, and treacherous adversaries. With echoes of Firefly and the high-stakes drama of The Expanse, this rollicking adventure explores what it truly means to be human in a universe full of danger and uncertainty. With echoes of Firefly and the high-stakes drama of The Expanse, this timely journey into humanity’s future in the asteroid belt.

Download or read book American Science Fiction Television and Space written by Joel Hawkes and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-03-05 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection reads the science fiction genre and television medium as examples of heterotopia (and television as science fiction technology), in which forms, processes, and productions of space and time collide – a multiplicity of spaces produced and (re)configured. The book looks to be a heterotopic production, with different chapters and “spaces” (of genre, production, mediums, technologies, homes, bodies, etc), reflecting, refracting, and colliding to offer insight into spatial relationships and the implications of these spaces for a society that increasingly inhabits the world through the space of the screen. A focus on American science fiction offers further spatial focus for this study – a question of geographical and cultural borders and influence not only in terms of American science fiction but American television and streaming services. The (contested) hegemonic nature of American science fiction television will be discussed alongside a nation that has significantly been understood, even produced, through the television screen. Essays will examine the various (re)configurations, or productions, of space as they collapse into the science fiction heterotopia of television since 1987, the year Star Trek: Next Generation began airing.

Download or read book The Expanse and Philosophy written by Jeffery L. Nicholas and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2021-11-16 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enter The Expanse to explore questions of the meaning of human life, the concept of justice, and the nature of humanity, featuring a foreword from author James S.A. Corey The Expanse and Philosophy investigates the philosophical universe of the critically acclaimed television show and Hugo Award-winning series of novels. Original essays by a diverse international panel of experts illuminate how essential philosophical concepts relate to the meticulously crafted world of The Expanse, engaging with topics such as transhumanism, belief, culture, environmental ethics, identity, colonialism, diaspora, racism, reality, and rhetoric. Conceiving a near-future solar system colonized by humanity, The Expanse provokes a multitude of moral, ethical, and philosophical queries: Are Martians, Outer Planets inhabitants, and Earthers different races? Is Marco Inaros a terrorist? Can people who look and sound different, like Earthers and Belters, ever peacefully co-exist? Should science be subject to moral rules? Who is sovereign in space? What is the relationship between human progress and aggression? The Expanse and Philosophy helps you answer these questions—and many more. Covers the first six novels in The Expanse series and five seasons of the television adaptation Addresses the philosophical issues that emerge from socio-economics and geopolitics of Earth, Mars, and the Outer Planets Alliance Offers fresh perspectives on the themes, characters, and storylines of The Expanse Explores the connections between The Expanse and thinkers such as Aristotle, Kant, Locke, Hannah Arendt, Wittgenstein, Descartes, and Nietzsche Part of the popular Blackwell Philosophy and Pop Culture series, The Expanse and Philosophy is a must-have companion for avid readers of James S.A. Corey’s novels and devotees of the television series alike.

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Download or read book Broadway Belter s Songbook written by Hal Leonard Corp. and published by Hal Leonard. This book was released on 1993-03-01 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Vocal Collection). 40 songs for the Broadway belter. All songs have been especially chosen for this voice type, with careful attention to range and key. This expanded third edition features songs from classic to contemporary shows arranged for voice with piano accompaniment. Contents: And All That Jazz (from CHICAGO) * And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going (from DREAMGIRLS) * Another Hundred People (from COMPANY) * Astonishing (from LITTLE WOMEN) * Broadway Baby (from FOLLIES) * Burn (from HAMILTON) * Cabaret (from CABARET) * A Change in Me (from BEAUTY AND THE BEAST: THE BROADWAY MUSICAL) * Defying Gravity (from WICKED) * Don't Cry for Me Argentina (from EVITA) * Don't Rain on My Parade (from FUNNY GIRL) * Everything's Coming Up Roses (from GYPSY) * Fly, Fly Away (from CATCH ME IF YOU CAN) * Gimme Gimme (from THOROUGHLY MODERN MILLIE) * Heaven Help My Heart (from CHESS) * The History of Wrong Guys (from KINKY BOOTS) * How Did We Come to This? (from THE WILD PARTY) * I Am Playing Me (from title of show ) * I Can Do Better than That (from THE LAST FIVE YEARS) * I Can Hear the Bells (from HAIRSPRAY) * I Don't Know How to Love Him (from JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR) * I Dreamed a Dream (from LES MISERABLES) * I'd Give My Life for You (from MISS SAIGON) * I'm Not Afraid of Anything (from SONGS FOR A NEW WORLD) * Losing My Mind (from FOLLIES) * Maybe This Time (from CABARET) * Memory (from CATS) * The Miller's Son (from A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC) * On My Own (from LES MISERABLES) * Pulled (from The Addams Family) * Safer from (FIRST DATE) * Show Off (from THE DROWSY CHAPERONE) * Someone Else's Story (from CHESS) * Special (from AVENUE Q) * Still Hurting (from THE LAST FIVE YEARS) * Tell Me on a Sunday (from SONG & DANCE) * There's a Fine, Fine Line (from AVENUE Q) * Watch What Happens (from NEWSIES) * Whatever Happened to My Part? (from MONTY PYTHON'S SPAMALOT) * You Learn to Live Without (from IF/THEN)

Download or read book Abaddon s Gate written by James S. A. Corey and published by Orbit. This book was released on 2013-06-04 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The third book in the NYT bestselling Expanse series, Abaddon's Gate opens the door to the ruins of an alien gate network, and the crew of the Rocinante may hold the key to unlocking its secrets. Now a Prime Original series. HUGO AWARD WINNER FOR BEST SERIES For generations, the solar system -- Mars, the Moon, the Asteroid Belt -- was humanity's great frontier. Until now. The alien artifact working through its program under the clouds of Venus has appeared in Uranus's orbit, where it has built a massive gate that leads to a starless dark. Jim Holden and the crew of the Rocinante are part of a vast flotilla of scientific and military ships going out to examine the artifact. But behind the scenes, a complex plot is unfolding, with the destruction of Holden at its core. As the emissaries of the human race try to find whether the gate is an opportunity or a threat, the greatest danger is the one they brought with them. Abaddon's Gate is a breakneck science fiction adventure following the critically acclaimed Caliban's War. The Expanse Leviathan Wakes Caliban's War Abaddon's Gate Cibola Burn Nemesis Games Babylon's Ashes Persepolis Rising Tiamat's Wrath ​Leviathan Falls Memory's Legion The Expanse Short Fiction Drive The Butcher of Anderson Station Gods of Risk The Churn The Vital Abyss Strange Dogs Auberon The Sins of Our Fathers

Download or read book Earth Ring written by Scott Billups and published by Netcastle Press. This book was released on 2023-01-10 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A PRESCIENT GAZE INTO OUR INEVITABLE FUTURE IN SPACE With over two hundred million kilometers of space behind them, Buzz:36 and Dr. Charlie Miller have settled in for the long haul. They are nearing the halfway point of their journey as they transport the final load of spans for the Earth Ring. Blissfully unaware that some of the nastiest thugs in the solar system are hot on their trail, Charlie continues to decipher the alien documents while Brice pilots the forty-kilometer-long space train. In the four months since they left the asteroid belt’s Psyche Sector, Charlie’s research has uncovered a dark secret about the seemingly gentle alien that Brice found among the asteroids. It’s a secret that could decimate humanity. With echoes of Firefly and the high-stakes drama of The Expanse, this pulse-pounding adventure explores what it truly means to be human in a universe full of danger and uncertainty.

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Download or read book Reimagining American Education to Serve All Our Children written by Deborah Greenblatt and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-11-28 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reimagining American Education to Serve All Our Children: Why Should We Educate in a Democracy? examines and reevaluates the history and purpose of public education in the United States, in order to provide students of current and future generations with a robust and fulfilling learning experience. The authors approach knowledge from a critical perspective, with the intention of broadening the definition of knowledge and critical thinking, positioning education as a gateway to life’s endless possibilities and participation in a democratic society. In asking "why should we educate in a democracy rather than why do we educate in a democracy," the authors suggest directions that need to be taken to enhance democracy, social justice, and the positive effects of education for all. Divided into ten concise chapters, this volume provides activities and strategies for developing meaning for often contentious concepts, illustrates concepts, and brings together new ideas as well as assessment ideas. Greenblatt and Michelli and their coauthors cover a diverse range of important topics allowing us to understand education in a democracy, including: Sociopolitical barriers to knowledge The importance of all subjects, including the arts, health and physical education Methods of fostering imaginative thinking The political nature of the effects of policies on education Reimagining American Education to Serve All Our Children aims to provide practicing teachers, teacher educators, graduate education students—and all those interested in enhancing education, a discussion on the relationship between education and policy. A topical conversation, this book aids readers to develop a better understanding of the effects of social justice on American learners and the effects of education on social justice and democracy in order to take a position on these critical issues.

Download or read book Lizard World Book 3 Raptor s Tooth written by Herbert Grosshans and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2011-12 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lost in the mushroom jungle on Epsilon prospector Gil Turner must battle ferocious giant lizards to stay alive. He makes a discovery that might spark a terrible war in space with a superior species, a war the Humans can't win. The allure of a beautiful alien female might prove fatal.

Download or read book The Definitive FDR written by James MacGregor Burns and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2017-09-05 with total page 1470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Pulitzer Prize–winning historian’s dramatic biography of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, US president during the Depression and WWII. Franklin Delano Roosevelt was the longest serving president in US history, reshaping the country during the crises of the Great Depression and World War II. James MacGregor Burns’s magisterial two-volume biography tells the complete life story of the fascinating political figure who instituted the New Deal. Roosevelt: The Lion and the Fox (1882–1940): Before his ascension to the presidency, FDR laid the groundwork for his unprecedented run with decades of canny political maneuvering and steady consolidation of power. Hailed by the New York Times as “a sensitive, shrewd, and challenging book” and by Newsweek as “a case study unmatched in American political writings,” The Lion and the Fox details Roosevelt’s youth and education, his rise to national prominence, all the way through his first two terms as president. Roosevelt: The Soldier of Freedom (1940–1945): The Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award–winning history of FDR’s final years examines the president’s skillful wartime leadership as well as his vision for postwar peace. Acclaimed by William Shirer as “the definitive book on Roosevelt in the war years,” and by bestselling author Barbara Tuchman as “engrossing, informative, endlessly readable,” The Soldier of Freedom is a moving profile of a leader gifted with rare political talent in an era of extraordinary challenges.

Download or read book White Light Dark Night written by Lucien Gregoire and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2007 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The only existing biography of the 33 Day Pope. It is the record of his struggles as an impoverished child, as a revolutionary priest, as an outspoken bishop, as a compassionate cardinal and as a beloved pope. It is the record of his philosophies, and of his hopes, and of his dreams, for mankind. For twenty years as a bishop, he was a rampaging locomotive running about the courts and Parliament of Italy demanding equal rights for oppressed peoples. In 1967, faced by an orphan population of two million in Italy, it was his lobbying in Italian Parliament that made it legal for single persons to adopt children. An opposition member challenged, "That would make it legal for homosexuals to adopt children," Bishop Luciani, responded, "Until the day comes that we can guarantee equal human rights and dignity to the tiniest minority, we cannot truthfully call ourselves a democracy." His intentions concerning bastards, women, homosexuals, etc. was quite evident in his acceptance speech, ". . . we must rise up the courage within us to set aside the convictions of our forefathers and together we will muster the strength to lift those restraints that have been unfairly placed by doctrine upon the everyday lives of many innocent people . . . for God-given human life is infinitely more precious than is man-made doctrine . . ." On the evening of September 26, 1978, he called together the Vatican cardinals. He told them "The Church's ban on contraception is the driving force behind disease, poverty and starvation in third world countries and abortions in first world countries." . . .He told them one thing more. "Mother Church is about to cease to be the cause of many of the world's problems and rather will begin to be the answer to them."

Download or read book Roosevelt The Soldier of Freedom 1940 1945 written by James MacGregor Burns and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2012-05-08 with total page 756 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The “engrossing” Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award–winning history of FDR’s final years (Barbara Tuchman). The second entry in James Macgregor Burns’s definitive two-volume biography of Franklin Delano Roosevelt begins with the president’s precedent-breaking third term election in 1940, just as Americans were beginning to face the likelihood of war. Here, Burns examines Roosevelt’s skillful wartime leadership as well as his vision for post-war peace. Hailed by William Shirer as “the definitive book on Roosevelt in the war years,” and by bestselling author Barbara Tuchman as “engrossing, informative, endlessly readable,” The Soldier of Freedom is a moving profile of a leader gifted with rare political talent in an era of extraordinary challenges, sacrifices, heroism, and hardship.

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Download or read book The Rise of AI written by Scott Billups and published by Netcastle Press. This book was released on 2024-03-12 with total page 107 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you’re looking for a feel-good book about AI, this isn’t it. This book is written by a battle-scared veteran who innovated the use of AI in the trenches of Hollywood, healthcare, and defense. Grounded in the author's extensive experience, this book delivers a quantifiable vision of the near future that presents a uniquely relatable narrative. Using personal ground-breaking projects, he leverages the well-established precision of Moore's Law to trace the trajectory of pivotal AI-driven technologies and project them into our immediate future. HEALTHCARE Healthcare is a ravenous beast that gobbles up more of the federal budget than Social Security, Defense, and education combined. Despite the illusion of benevolence, it is this country’s largest industry, with only one edict: “charge as much as the market will bear.” So, before we start lauding the abilities of AI to revolutionize healthcare, let’s take a look at what is really going on. Moore’s Law indicates that without strategic advances in AI-robotic healthcare, the global healthcare system will collapse in eight years. HOLOSAPIENS Soon, many of your favorite people won’t be. The integration of Augmented Reality (AR), Artificial Intelligence (AI), and Brain Control Interfaces, Edge Computing sets the stage for the emergence of Holosapiens. In this era, AI-driven virtual entities seamlessly weave into our daily lives, offering companionship, assistance, and entertainment in a profoundly interactive and immersive manner. Moore’s Law says that as BCI and Quantum AI continue to develop, we will soon become them - or them us. AUTONOMOUS LETHALITY if AI were to take on human form, devoid of morals, unable to experience empathy, and untouched by fear, we would undoubtedly label such a being as an extremely dangerous psychopath. Yet these same attributes conspire to give birth to weaponized autonomy, the new face of armed conflict. Moore's Law predicts that within the next five years, we will lose control of autonomous lethality as macro drones and bio-bots upend the society’s balance of checks and measures.

Download or read book Juggler of Worlds written by Larry Niven and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2008-09-16 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new look at Niven's Known Space, two hundred years before the discovery of the Ringworld

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