Download or read book Postmortal Society written by Michael Hviid Jacobsen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-03-31 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout history mankind has struggled to reconcile itself with the inescapability of its own mortality. This book explores the themes of immortality and survivalism in contemporary culture, shedding light on the varied and ingenious ways in which humans and human societies aspire to confront and deal with death, or even seek to outlive it, as it were. Bringing together theoretical and empirical work from internationally acclaimed scholars across a range of disciplines, Postmortal Society offers studies of the strategies adopted and means available in modern society for trying to ‘cheat’ death or prolong life, the status of the dead in the modern Western world, the effects of beliefs that address the terror of death in other areas of life, the ‘immortalisation’ of celebrities, the veneration of the dead in virtual worlds, symbolic immortality through work, the implications of understanding ‘immortality’ in chemical-neuronal terms, and the apparent paradox of our greater reverence for the dead in increasingly secular, capitalist societies. A fascinating collection of studies that explore humanity’s attempts to deal with its own mortality in the modern age, this book will appeal to sociologists, anthropologists, philosophers and scholars of cultural studies with interests in death and dying.
Download or read book Humans Are Not Robots written by Robert Hawkins and published by Maven House Press. This book was released on 2020-11-10 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A hopeful vision of the post-covid-19 world of work and society, with practical guidance for how to get there. In this entertaining, thought-provoking, and comprehensive guidebook on work flexibility, Robert Hawkins builds on new and old management theories, case studies, interviews, and his own personal journey from rigidity to flexibility to show leaders how to free hundreds, thousands, millions of people from a way of working that doesn’t meet expectations for modern life. Humans Are Not Robots provides theory and evidence to show the urgent need for flexibility for all and then offers practical guidance on rolling out sustainable and successful (and profitable) flexibility campaigns. Hawkins explores various types of flexibility, including remote work, flexitime, compressed workweeks, and job sharing, as well as those not commonly discussed (reduced hours with full pay, return-to-work internships, flexibility in manufacturing, healthcare, construction). He delves into the science of human needs theory to demonstrate how the traditional nine-to-five workplace creates unsustainable lives and shows that, with even small changes, leaders in any industry can use flexibility to: Make work a vital and fun part of life again Boost productivity, engagement, and innovation Reduce gender inequality and domestic violence Delay retirement of workers and mitigate the issues of an ageing population Fight obesity and reduce the burden of poor health on individuals and health systems Ensure that people maintain needed skills and relevance in the face of increased automation and uncertainty Impact climate change and do all of this while increasing profits. Part philosophical and scientific journey, part how-to guide, Humans are Not Robots provides readers a deep-dive into the world of work flexibility to learn how to fully unlock its power. Essential reading for leaders of any organization, the book presents a stark and beautiful vision of what people’s lives could be, and the idea that this can be achieved right now.
Download or read book Multi robot Exploration for Environmental Monitoring written by Kshitij Tiwari and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2019-11-29 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Multi-robot Exploration for Environmental Monitoring: The Resource Constrained Perspective provides readers with the necessary robotics and mathematical tools required to realize the correct architecture. The architecture discussed in the book is not confined to environment monitoring, but can also be extended to search-and-rescue, border patrolling, crowd management and related applications. Several law enforcement agencies have already started to deploy UAVs, but instead of using teleoperated UAVs this book proposes methods to fully automate surveillance missions. Similarly, several government agencies like the US-EPA can benefit from this book by automating the process. Several challenges when deploying such models in real missions are addressed and solved, thus laying stepping stones towards realizing the architecture proposed. This book will be a great resource for graduate students in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Robotics, Machine Learning and Mechatronics. - Analyzes the constant conflict between machine learning models and robot resources - Presents a novel range estimation framework tested on real robots (custom built and commercially available)
Download or read book Monstrous Devices written by Damien Love and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2018-10-16 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “I enjoyed everything about Damien Love’s debut—its title, its breakneck action, its sly sense of humor. I wish my first novel had been as imaginative and assured.” —Anthony Horowitz, New York Times bestselling author of the Alex Rider series On a winter’s day in a British town, twelve-year old Alex receives a package in the mail: an old tin robot from his grandfather. “This one is special,” says the enclosed note, and when strange events start occurring around him, Alex suspects this small toy is more than special; it might be deadly. Right as things get out of hand, Alex’s grandfather arrives, pulling him away from an attack—and his otherwise humdrum world of friends, bullies, and homework—and into the macabre magic of an ancient family feud. Together, the duo flees across snowy Europe, unraveling the riddle of the little robot while trying to outwit relentless assassins of the human and mechanical kind. With an ever-present admiration for the hidden mysteries of our world, Monstrous Devices plunges readers into a gripping adventure that’s sure to surprise.
Download or read book Assembled written by Eszter Karpati and published by Jacqui Small. This book was released on 2017-09-21 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Did you know that you can transform a cheese grater, a few bits of old cutlery and a handful of nuts and bolts into a household robot brimming with character in no time? Presented like a recipe book, Assembled will inspire you to make your own bots from random flea market finds and some unwanted junk through 23 quirky "robot recipes". Each of the 23 robots is shown through the transformation of a group of “found objects” into a finished sculpture with accompanying instructions on inspiration, assemblage methods and bonding techniques. The projects are disassembled to their very core to reveal not just the easily identifiable elements used in their creation, such as a tennis racket, thermos, or bicycle frame, but also every screw, bolt, thread, rope or wire used to assemble them. The text accompanying each piece comes from the artists and offers a unique insight into the creation and character of each individual robot. These charming background stories describe the journey from seemingly random, found objects to a finished, named creation, and are followed with precise instructions on how each piece is put together. A list of individual components and tools used completes the "recipes". The three-dimensional counterpart of collage, as an art form assemblage art traces its origins back to Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque and Marcel Duchamp who famously attached a bicycle wheel to a stool and called it a readymade. The term assemblages was first used by Jean Dubuffet in the 1950s to describe a series of collages using butterfly wings while the genre of assemblage art was created in 1961 by Peter Selz and William Seitz who co-curated the exhibition The Art of Assemblage at the MoMA in New York.
Download or read book Halloween written by LEONARD R. N. ASHLEY and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2012-06-21 with total page 539 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This big, informed, witty, and entertaining book, actually several books in one, covers all the aspects of the secular holiday unlike any other. Only the exhaustive is interesting. - Thomas Mann HALLOWEEN HISTORY AND TRADITION, THE JACK-O- LANTERN, TRICK OR TREAT, HOLIDAY FOLKLORE, MASKS AND VARIOUS COSTUMES, HALLOWEEN BUSINESS, HALLOWEEN AROUND THE WORLD, HALLOWEEN PARADES AND PARTIES, HALLOWEEN RECIPES AND PARTY IDEAS, HALLOWEEN STORIES AND OTHER LITERATURE, HUNDREDS OF BIG AND SMALL SCREEN DELIGHTS FOR YOUR WATCHING AT HALLOWEEN WITH A FULL, CASUAL, GIANT ANNOTATED FILMOGRAPHY, & COMMENTS ON HORROR IN ARTS OF YESTERDAY AND TODAY.
Download or read book How to Build Space Explorers with LEGO Bricks written by Francesco Frangioja and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2018-12-04 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Let your creativity take off with these LEGO builds! Explore the LEGO galaxy by creating these exciting space adventure vehicles! This instruction book includes full-color photos and easy step-by-step directions for each model. These stellar building ideas will rocket you into new worlds with LEGO!
Download or read book The Kitchen Decoded written by Logan Levant and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-11-18 with total page 517 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A beginner’s guide to cooking, featuring recipes from the famous Buttercake Bakery in Los Angeles. Cooking can be intimidating, but with the right equipment and a few great recipes, it doesn’t have to be. The Kitchen Decoded is a fun new cookbook with chapters organized according to gadgets and appliances, and accompanying recipes that can be prepared with each tool. Designed to arm every would-be cook with an arsenal of time-tested equipment and foolproof dishes, The Kitchen Decoded is packed with meals guaranteed to impress guests and loved ones. Logan Levant, owner of LA’s famous Buttercake Bakery for ten years, spent countless hours showing friends how to use the kitchen tools they received as gifts . . . and thus the idea of The Kitchen Decoded was born. By following Logan’s professional tips and simple how-to guides, anyone can learn how to make the most of their kitchen—or simply whip up an impressive batch of Buttercake Bakery lemon bars (with the help of a KitchenAid stand mixer and a microplane, that is). Other tools featured include the Cuisinart food processor, the Le Creuset stock pot, cookie sheets, measuring tools, and other basic and advanced gadgets of all sorts. Pair any gift of amazing-but-mysterious kitchen equipment with The Kitchen Decoded to ensure that your thoughtful present is put to good use. This book is a must-have for every home cook! Skyhorse Publishing, along with our Good Books and Arcade imprints, is proud to publish a broad range of cookbooks, including books on juicing, grilling, baking, frying, home brewing and winemaking, slow cookers, and cast iron cooking. We’ve been successful with books on gluten-free cooking, vegetarian and vegan cooking, paleo, raw foods, and more. Our list includes French cooking, Swedish cooking, Austrian and German cooking, Cajun cooking, as well as books on jerky, canning and preserving, peanut butter, meatballs, oil and vinegar, bone broth, and more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.
Download or read book Artificial Intelligence Methodology Systems and Applications written by Gennady Agre and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-08-28 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence: Methodology, Systems, and Applications, AIMSA 2018, held in Varna, Bulgaria, in September 2018. The 22 revised full papers and 7 poster papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 72 submissions. They cover a wide range of topics in AI: from machine learning to natural language systems, from information extraction to text mining, from knowledge representation to soft computing; from theoretical issues to real-world applications.
Download or read book Temp written by Louis Hyman and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2019-08-20 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the William G. Bowen Prize Named a "Triumph" of 2018 by New York Times Book Critics Shortlisted for the 800-CEO-READ Business Book Award The untold history of the surprising origins of the "gig economy"--how deliberate decisions made by consultants and CEOs in the 50s and 60s upended the stability of the workplace and the lives of millions of working men and women in postwar America. Over the last fifty years, job security has cratered as the institutions that insulated us from volatility have been swept aside by a fervent belief in the market. Now every working person in America today asks the same question: how secure is my job? In Temp, Louis Hyman explains how we got to this precarious position and traces the real origins of the gig economy: it was created not by accident, but by choice through a series of deliberate decisions by consultants and CEOs--long before the digital revolution. Uber is not the cause of insecurity and inequality in our country, and neither is the rest of the gig economy. The answer to our growing problems goes deeper than apps, further back than outsourcing and downsizing, and contests the most essential assumptions we have about how our businesses should work. As we make choices about the future, we need to understand our past.
Download or read book Sticky Bottle written by Carlton Kirby and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2023-05-25 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Entertaining, quirky and an enjoyable read' – Phil Liggett MBE 'A genuine one-off with a ready wit and a killer anecdote to hand at all times' – Rouleur 'Entertaining... Carlton shows no sign of running out of amusing anecdotes... A worthy sequel that will give his fans more of what they like' – Road.cc Legendary commentator Carlton Kirby's professional cycling race year takes us from the magnificent Grand Tours and iconic Spring Classics to the sport's more bizarre corners with plenty of his inimitable and irreverent diversions en route. A true cycling nut would be hard pushed to even name all 36 races on the UCI World Tour, but there is much more to professional racing than national tours and monuments. It's a year-long global schedule venturing as far afield as Burkina Faso and Gabon. So why not take some of these roads less travelled in the company of Carlton Kirby, a real commentary nomad, cycling expert and hilarious raconteur. Carlton's year follows the cycling seasons through the Spring Classics to the Grand Tours and on to the World Championships and Six Day track racing. In between he's visiting the lesser known, bizarre and challenging races such as Tour de Langkawi, Flanders' Scheldeprijs, The Red Hook Crit in New Jersey and UK's National Hill Climb Championships. Along the way we hear great cycling stories from the past as well as how he appeared in a blockbuster action movie, bought an octopus in an auction, got lost in a storm on a sacred Catalonian mountain and faced near death in a biscuit factory. And that's just some of the anecdotes that don't involve Sean Kelly.
Download or read book Tiny Little Troubles written by Marc Lecard and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2008-07-22 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this fast-paced crime story--sure to appeal to fans of Elmore Leonard and Carl Hiaasen--an eccentric thug attempts to extort a brilliant scientist over a bit of nano-technology.
Download or read book OVNI Les rencontres qui d fient le FBI et le Pentagone written by Egon Kragel and published by Max Milo. This book was released on 2023-11-02 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Le 26 juillet 2023, David Charles Grusch - ex-officier du renseignement – déclare sous serment devant les membres de la Chambre des représentants que le gouvernement américain possède depuis longtemps plusieurs vaisseaux d’origine non humaine issus de crashs, ainsi que les restes de leurs équipages, également non humains. Cette révélation fait la UNE des médias internationaux. Conteur hors pair, Egon Kragel revisite cinquante-six rencontres avec des extraterrestres qui défient le Pentagone et le FBI. Dans un livre rigoureux et bourré d’anecdotes, l’auteur s’appuie sur les archives inédites et des articles de presse, pour analyser les contacts réels entre humains et non-humains qui ont eu lieu entre les années cinquante et aujourd’hui. Aucun lecteur ne sortira indemne de ce nouveau pavé lancé dans la mare des (in)certitudes officielles ! Egon Kragel est un des grands spécialistes d’ufologie en France. Son travail est reconnu dans le monde entier. Il a coécrit avec Yves Couprie OVNIS, Enquête sur un secret d’État au Cherche-Midi puis a rédigé deux ouvrages parus chez Max Milo : OVNI, les 12 dossiers que le Pentagone ne s’explique pas et OVNI, sommes-nous en danger ? Le livre noir de l’ufologie. Il participe à de nombreuses conférences, intervient régulièrement sur les chaînes C8 (« Enquêtes paranormales ») et RMC Story (« Enquêtes mystérieuses »). Il anime une émission mensuelle sur BTLV et participe à des émissions et à des podcasts sur la RTBF.
Download or read book The Million Expressions of Love written by Francine Arel and published by Balboa Press. This book was released on 2020-03-24 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How can we put into practice the spiritual teachings we want to master? Isn’t true that we have the impression that this achievement is out of our reach? Our source of suffering is so present and yet it remains the ghost of our lives. Would you like to unravel this mistery by visiting the universe of a being who knows happiness despite the tribulations of her existence? These four books tell the story of people determined to overcome their fears. Our heroine Laura, the main character will amaze you with her unique way of filtering the trials of life through the sieve of her heart. Through this reading you will discover how to demystify the unique scent of happiness. You will travel in a universe where hope is the creator of all possibilities, and even when the roads are filled with pitfalls love always reigns. This inspiring novel will make you sail on the calm waters of tenderness and it will awaken your own personal power. Revel in the love affair punctuated by these inspiring characters. This engaging tale offers a respite from everyday life with a freshness and vision of how things work together for the a greater good, a perspective on life that will warm your heart.
Download or read book Time Gate written by Robert Silverberg and published by Baen Books. This book was released on 2016-08-02 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the mid 21st Century the United States is a sleeping giant, lost in dreams of faded glory. But in one field we still reign supreme: entertainment, which in this future means computer simulations. That’s why it is in America that the final computer breakthrough is achieved, the simulation of genuine thinking, feeling personalities from history: Elizabeth I, Genghis Khan, Pizarro, Socrates, Moses and Joan of Arc. You can see them all in action, with and against each other, in a world they never made—but just might remake closer to their silicon hearts’ desire. At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management).
Download or read book DarkFire written by E W Farnsworth and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2016-02-26 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: E W Farnsworth's DarkFire at the Edge of Time brings together twenty-five visionary science fiction stories focusing on events leading up to and following the launch of the Spaceship Arcturus, destined to an epic voyage through space to the edge of the universe and back again. Avatars and AIs mature by programming themselves and acquiring human characteristics as they discover romance, sex, joy and pain. While alluding to works by Arthur C Clarke, Isaac Asimov, Norbert Wiener, H P Lovecraft and Alan Turing, Farnsworth's brainy stories break new ground. Amongst the twenty-five stories, "The Joys of Rayovision" explores early experimentation in teleportation; "Shell Game" features using DNA for encoding messages in outer space; and numerous other stories postulate the practicality of a neutrino communicator. The reader can read sequentially or delve into this collection in any direction. The variety of perspectives caters for every mood, inclination and intellectual capacity.
