Download or read book Fungal Apocalypse written by Barrett Williams and published by Barrett Williams. This book was released on 2024-06-28 with total page 73 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ### Fungal Apocalypse Unveiling the Unseen Threats of Our Time Step into a world where the microscopic becomes monumental in "Fungal Apocalypse," a groundbreaking eBook that delves deep into the shadowy realm of fungi and their profound impacts on our lives and planet. From the intricacies of fungal biology to the looming threat of a global fungal pandemic, this book is your ultimate guide to understanding and preparing for the often-overlooked dangers posed by these ubiquitous organisms. **Chapter Highlights** - **Understanding Fungi** Begin your journey with a detailed exploration of fungal biology, types, classifications, and the historical impacts of these elusive microorganisms. - **Climate Change and Fungal Ecosystems** Discover how global warming is altering fungal growth and lifecycles, threatening to disrupt the balance of our ecosystems. - **Fungal Pathogens and Human Health** Learn about the transmission and spread of fungal diseases, notable infections, and the terrifying prospect of modern fungal epidemics. - **Hypothetical Scenarios The Fungal Apocalypse** Engage with thought-provoking case studies and models that simulate potential fungal outbreaks, revealing high-risk areas and future hotspots. - **Socio-economic Impacts** Examine the economic costs, social disruption, and psychological effects a fungal pandemic could unleash upon our world. - **Agricultural Threats** Understand the devastating impacts on crop health, livestock, and global food supply chains, putting our food security at risk. - **Biodiversity and Fungal Pandemics** Contemplate the threats to endangered species and the long-term ecological consequences of fungal invasions. - **Early Detection and Monitoring Systems** Stay ahead with the latest in detection technologies and the development of global fungal surveillance networks. - **Preparedness and Response Strategies** Equip yourself with strategies from governmental policies to international collaborations, ensuring rapid response to fungal threats. - **Public Health Initiatives** Take part in education and awareness campaigns that empower communities and bolster public health infrastructure. - **Medical Arsenal Against Fungal Threats** Discover advancements in antifungal medications, treatments, and vaccine development that are spearheading the fight against fungal diseases. - **Role of Environmental Conservation** Investigate how preserving natural habitats and integrating sustainable practices can mitigate fungal risks. - **Ethics and Global Health** Reflect on the moral considerations of research, global health equity, and policymaking in crisis situations. - **Personal and Community Preparedness** Build resilient communities with personal safety measures and fortified local health systems. - **The Future Outlook** Learn from the past and prepare for future threats with collaborative efforts towards a healthier planet. "Fungal Apocalypse" is not just a book; it's a call to action. Perfect for readers keen on global health, environmental science, and emergency preparedness, this eBook seamlessly blends scientific insights with practical strategies, ensuring you're well-informed and ready to face the unseen yet imminent fungal threats of our era. Secure your copy today and join the frontline in the fight against fungal pandemics!
Download or read book Fungal Apocalypse written by T D Magnus and published by Astral Press. This book was released on 2024-04-22 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A world besieged by an unprecedented fungal pandemic. Humanity teeters on the brink of collapse. Fungal spores, relentless in their spread, infect individuals worldwide, leaving devastation and despair in their wake. Amidst the chaos, one military family embarks on a perilous journey to Hang Son Doong, seeking refuge and a chance to unlock the secrets behind the outbreak. Meet Brian, a determined father driven by a sense of duty to protect his family at all costs. Alongside him are Abby and Laura, his resilient twin daughters, whose unyielding spirit serves as a beacon of hope in a world shrouded by darkness. As they navigate through the treacherous landscape of an infected world, battling both the fungal menace and the remnants of society pushed to the brink, Brian and his daughters face unimaginable challenges. In the depths of Hang Son Doong, they seek not only shelter but also the means to research the outbreak and develop a cure. But time is running out, and the fungal apocalypse shows no signs of abating. With every step forward, the family grapples with the harsh realities of survival, forging bonds of love and loyalty that transcend the horrors surrounding them. Fungal Apocalypse Under the Cloud is a gripping tale of resilience, sacrifice, and the unbreakable bonds of family in the face of unimaginable adversity. Will Brian and his daughters find the key to stopping the spread of the fungal spores, or will humanity succumb to the darkness that threatens to consume it? Join them on their epic journey as they confront the ultimate challenge of survival in a world on the brink of extinction. This book is a must-read!
Download or read book Mushroom Apocalypse written by Lawrence Millman and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-02-25 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whimsical, satiric, and sometimes even outrageous, Mushroom Apocalypse, author-mycologist Lawrence Millman's 16th book, is the first ever collection of fungal fiction. Its memorable gallery of characters includes a pair of foodies who contemplate eating a mushroom cloud, the Dalai Lama as magic mushroom aficionado, Sherlock Holmes as an expert mushroom identifier, a Russian czar named Ivan who's a terrible mushroom identifier, and a mycologist named Rowland Faust who makes a deal with the devil.
Download or read book How the World Will End written by Michael Kempster and published by Michael Kempster. This book was released on 2024-05-09 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How the World Will End is a thought-provoking exploration of twenty-five non-fictional apocalyptic scenarios that grip the imagination and challenge the very essence of reality. From the harrowing aftermath of nuclear conflict to the silent menace of a global pandemic, each meticulously researched chapter immerses readers in a world teetering on the precipice of annihilation and in many cases dealing with the aftermath. With a masterful blend of vivid prose and comprehensive research, this compelling collection invites you to confront the darkest corners of human imagination. Through historic evidence and compelling analysis, How the World Will End offers a gripping examination of the cataclysmic events that could potentially unravel the fabric of civilization as we know it. As you journey through these pages, you'll be compelled to ponder the profound questions surrounding our collective future and the fragile balance between survival and oblivion.
Download or read book Severance written by Ling Ma and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2018-08-14 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maybe it’s the end of the world, but not for Candace Chen, a millennial, first-generation American and office drone meandering her way into adulthood in Ling Ma’s offbeat, wryly funny, apocalyptic satire, Severance. "A stunning, audacious book with a fresh take on both office politics and what the apocalypse might bring." —Michael Schaub, NPR.org “A satirical spin on the end times-- kind of like The Office meets The Leftovers.” --Estelle Tang, Elle NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY: NPR * The New Yorker ("Books We Loved") * Elle * Marie Claire * Amazon Editors * The Paris Review (Staff Favorites) * Refinery29 * Bustle * Buzzfeed * BookPage * Bookish * Mental Floss * Chicago Review of Books * HuffPost * Electric Literature * A.V. Club * Jezebel * Vulture * Literary Hub * Flavorwire Winner of the NYPL Young Lions Fiction Award * Winner of the Kirkus Prize for Fiction * Winner of the VCU Cabell First Novelist Award * Finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel * A New York Times Notable Book of 2018 * An Indie Next Selection Candace Chen, a millennial drone self-sequestered in a Manhattan office tower, is devoted to routine. With the recent passing of her Chinese immigrant parents, she’s had her fill of uncertainty. She’s content just to carry on: She goes to work, troubleshoots the teen-targeted Gemstone Bible, watches movies in a Greenpoint basement with her boyfriend. So Candace barely notices when a plague of biblical proportions sweeps New York. Then Shen Fever spreads. Families flee. Companies cease operations. The subways screech to a halt. Her bosses enlist her as part of a dwindling skeleton crew with a big end-date payoff. Soon entirely alone, still unfevered, she photographs the eerie, abandoned city as the anonymous blogger NY Ghost. Candace won’t be able to make it on her own forever, though. Enter a group of survivors, led by the power-hungry IT tech Bob. They’re traveling to a place called the Facility, where, Bob promises, they will have everything they need to start society anew. But Candace is carrying a secret she knows Bob will exploit. Should she escape from her rescuers? A send-up and takedown of the rituals, routines, and missed opportunities of contemporary life, Ling Ma’s Severance is a moving family story, a quirky coming-of-adulthood tale, and a hilarious, deadpan satire. Most important, it’s a heartfelt tribute to the connections that drive us to do more than survive.
Download or read book Act of God written by Jill Ciment and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2016-03-22 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It’s the summer of 2015, Brooklyn, and the city is sweltering from another record-breaking heat wave, this one accompanied by biblical rains. Edith, a recently retired legal librarian, and her identical twin sister, Kat, have discovered something ominous in their hall closet: it’s shaped like a mushroom, it’s phosphorescent, and it’s rapidly consuming their wall. But that’s only the beginning … Part suspense, part screwball comedy, Jill Ciment’s brilliant novel looks at what happens when our lives—so seemingly set and ordered—break down in the wake of calamity.
Download or read book The Last of Us and Philosophy written by Charles Joshua Horn and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2024-08-09 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Did Joel do the right thing when he saved Ellie? Are those infected by the Cordyceps conscious? Are communities necessary for human survival and flourishing? Should Ellie forgive Joel? Is Abby’s revenge morally justified? Is Ellie’s? The Last of Us franchise includes two of the best video games ever created and the critically acclaimed HBO series. Renowned for brilliant gameplay and world-class narrative, The Last of Us raises timeless and enduring philosophical questions. Beautiful, thrilling, and tragic, Ellie’s story of survival is as philosophical as it is profound. The Last of Us and Philosophy brings together an international team of philosophical experts and fans exploring the timeless questions raised by the video games and the show. Drawing insights ranging from Aristotle and Abby to Buddha and Bill, this book elucidates the roles that trust, community, love, justice, and hope play in The Last of Us. Twenty-four original essays cover both The Last of Us Part I and II and the HBO series, offering accessible and nuanced philosophical analysis of Naughty Dog’s amazing world. Whether you’re a fan of the video games or of the HBO series, The Last of Us and Philosophy will take you on a philosophical journey where you look for the light.
Download or read book Botanical Architecture written by Paul Dobraszczyk and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2024-11-12 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An original call to reorient architecture around our relationship to plants. When we look at trees, we see a form of natural architecture, and yet we have seemingly always exploited trees to make new buildings of our own. Whereas a tree creates its own structure, humans generally destroy other things to build, with increasingly disastrous consequences. In Botanical Architecture, Paul Dobraszczyk looks closely at how elements of plants—seeds, roots, trunks, branches, leaves, flowers, and canopies—compare with and constitute human-made buildings. Given the omnipresence of plant life in and around our structures, Dobraszczyk argues that we ought to build as much for plants as for ourselves, understanding that our lives are always totally dependent on theirs. Botanical Architecture offers a provocative and original take on the relationship between ecology and architecture.
Download or read book The Last of Us and Theology written by Peter Admirand and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2024-05-29 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With a catastrophic fungal pandemic, the post-apocalypse, a moral quest despite societal breakdowns, humans hunting humans or morphed into grotesque infected, The Last of Us video games and HBO series have exhilarated, frightened, and broken the hearts of millions of gamers and viewers. The Last of Us and Theology: Violence, Ethics, Redemption? is a richly diverse and probing edited volume featuring essays from academics across the world to examine theological and ethical themes from The Last of Us universe. Divided into three groupings—Violence, Ethics, and Redemption?—these chapters will especially appeal to The Last of Us fans and those interested in Theology and Pop Culture more broadly. Chapters not only grapple with theologians, ethicists, and novelists like Cormac McCarthy, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Martin Buber, and Paul Tillich; and theological issues from forgiveness and theodicy to soteriology and eschatology; but will help readers become experts on all things fireflies, clickers, Cordyceps, and Seraphites. “Save who you can save” and “Look for the Light.”
Download or read book The Girl With All the Gifts written by M. R. Carey and published by Orbit. This book was released on 2014-06-10 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the ruins of civilization, a young girl's kindness and capacity for love will either save humanity -- or wipe it out in this USA Today bestselling thriller Joss Whedon calls "heartfelt, remorseless, and painfully human." Melanie is a very special girl. Dr Caldwell calls her "our little genius." Every morning, Melanie waits in her cell to be collected for class. When they come for her, Sergeant keeps his gun pointed at her while two of his people strap her into the wheelchair. She thinks they don't like her. She jokes that she won't bite, but they don't laugh.
Download or read book Spell Games written by T.A. Pratt and published by Spectra. This book was released on 2009-02-24 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brain-eating fungi, wannabe sorcerers, long-lost relations–does even a hard-core witch stand a chance? Mad sorcerers, psychic vampires, an army of vengeful demons, Marla Mason would rather face them all than a flesh-and-blood ghost from her dysfunctional family past: her con artist brother, Jason. As Felport’s chief sorcerer, Marla would ordinarily consider it her duty to protect her town from such an unscrupulous ne’er-do-well. As his sister, things are a lot…trickier. Now, as Marla attempts to train an apprentice oracle whose magical wires have gotten crossed, Jason is setting up an elaborate sting and drawing her ever-so-corruptible partner Rondeau into the ruse. Their patsy is a filthy-rich wannabe mage and their bait is something so valuable, so dangerous, so sought after, it probably doesn’t exist. But now word’s gotten out that the Borrichius spores do exist and instead of a sucker Jason and Rondeau have a much bigger–and much deadlier–fish on their line: a reclusive sorcerer whose devotion to the mushroom god and command of vegetal magic could bring a fungal apocalypse to Felport. It’ll be the mother of all bad trips unless Marla can pull off the ultimate magical switcheroo…and somehow live to tell about it.
Download or read book Meet Me by the Fountain written by Alexandra Lange and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2022-06-14 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Longlisted for the Porchlight Business Book Awards “A smart and accessible cultural history.”-Los Angeles Times A portrait--by turns celebratory, skeptical, and surprisingly moving--of one of America's most iconic institutions, from an author who “might be the most influential design critic writing now” (LARB). Few places have been as nostalgized, or as maligned, as malls. Since their birth in the 1950s, they have loomed large as temples of commerce, the agora of the suburbs. In their prime, they proved a powerful draw for creative thinkers such as Joan Didion, Ray Bradbury, and George Romero, who understood the mall's appeal as both critics and consumers. Yet today, amid the aftershocks of financial crises and a global pandemic, as well as the rise of online retail, the dystopian husk of an abandoned shopping center has become one of our era's defining images. Conventional wisdom holds that the mall is dead. But what was the mall, really? And have rumors of its demise been greatly exaggerated? In her acclaimed The Design of Childhood, Alexandra Lange uncovered the histories of toys, classrooms, and playgrounds. She now turns her sharp eye to another subject we only think we know. She chronicles postwar architects' and merchants' invention of the mall, revealing how the design of these marketplaces played an integral role in their cultural ascent. In Lange's perceptive account, the mall becomes newly strange and rich with contradiction: Malls are environments of both freedom and exclusion--of consumerism, but also of community. Meet Me by the Fountain is a highly entertaining and evocative promenade through the mall's rise, fall, and ongoing reinvention, for readers of any generation.
Download or read book Fungus and Iron 1 written by Ayaka Katayama and published by Kodansha America LLC. This book was released on 2022-02-08 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dante's life on Amigasa seemed normal enough to him, even though everyone around him called him an oddball. But when a chance meeting with a young woman named Aoi changes everything, Dante can no longer sit idly by...unless, of course, he is made to!
Download or read book The Next Apocalypse written by Chris Begley and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2021-11-16 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this insightful book, an underwater archaeologist and survival coach shows how understanding the collapse of civilizations can help us prepare for a troubled future. Pandemic, climate change, or war: our era is ripe with the odor of doomsday. In movies, books, and more, our imaginations run wild with visions of dreadful, abandoned cities and returning to the land in a desperate attempt at survival. In The Next Apocalypse, archaeologist Chris Begley argues that we completely misunderstand how disaster works. Examining past collapses of civilizations, such as the Maya and Rome, he argues that these breakdowns are actually less about cataclysmic destruction than they are about long processes of change. In short: it’s what happens after the initial uproar that matters. Some people abandon their homes and neighbors; others band together to start anew. As we anticipate our own fate, Begley tells us that it was communities, not lone heroes, who survived past apocalypses—and who will survive the next. Fusing archaeology, survivalism, and social criticism, The Next Apocalypse is an essential read for anxious times.
Download or read book The Art of Eating Through the Zombie Apocalypse written by Lauren Wilson and published by BenBella Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2014-10-28 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Just because the undead's taste buds are atrophying doesn't mean yours have to! You duck into the safest-looking abandoned house you can find and hold your breath as you listen for the approaching zombie horde you've been running from all day. You hear a gurgling sound. Is it the undead? No—it's your stomach. When the zombie apocalypse tears down life and society as we know it, it will mean no more take out, no more brightly lit, immaculately organized aisles of food just waiting to be plucked effortlessly off the shelves. No more trips down to the local farmers' market. No more microwaved meals in front of the TV or intimate dinner parties. No, when the undead rise, eating will be hard, and doing it successfully will become an art. The Art of Eating through the Zombie Apocalypse is a cookbook and culinary field guide for the busy zpoc survivor. With more than 80 recipes (from Overnight of the Living Dead French Toast and It's Not Easy Growing Greens Salad to Down & Out Sauerkraut, Honey & Blackberry Mead, and Twinkie Trifle), scads of gastronomic survival tips, and dozens of diagrams and illustrations that help you scavenge, forage, and improvise your way to an artful post-apocalypse meal. The Art of Eating is the ideal handbook for efficient food sourcing and inventive meal preparation in the event of an undead uprising. Whether you decide to hole up in your own home or bug out into the wilderness, whether you prefer to scavenge the dregs of society or try your hand at apocalyptic agriculture, and regardless of your level of skill or preparation, The Art of Eating will help you navigate the wasteland and make the most of what you eat.
Download or read book The Wrath of the Just written by Manel Loureiro and published by AmazonCrossing. This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A group of survivors find sanctuary from the zombie plague in Gulfport, Mississippi, but the price of safety is subservience to a fascist dictator and his brutal enforcers.
Download or read book Political Spirituality in an Age of Eco Apocalypse written by James W. Perkinson and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-07-22 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book 'hunts and gathers' across different historical epochs and situations, juxtaposing biblical materials and hip-hop, Christian colonialism and vodou, personal experience and racial politics, poetics and high theory, in order to challenge the current crisis of sustainability from the perspective indigenous communities and deep ancestry.
