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Book Staying Human

    Book Details:
  • Author : Harris Bor
  • Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
  • Release : 2021-11-17
  • ISBN : 1725278626
  • Pages : 250 pages

Download or read book Staying Human written by Harris Bor and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2021-11-17 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Futurists speculate that we are heading towards a 'singularity,' where AI will outsmart human beings, and humanity will coalesce into a single, ever-expanding mind for which data is everything. The idea mirrors conceptions of God as everything, singular, and all-knowing. But is this idea of the singularity, or God, good for humanity? Oneness has its attractions. But what space does it leave for individuality and difference? In this book, British-Jewish theologian, Harris Bor, explores these questions by applying approaches to oneness and difference found in the thought of philosophers, Benedict Spinoza (1632-1677) and Martin Heidegger (1889-1976), to the challenges of religious belief and practice in the era of AI. What emerges is a dynamic religion of the everyday capable of balancing all aspects of being, while holding tight to a God who is both singular and wholly other, and which urges us, above all, to stay human.

Book Enough

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  • Author : Bill McKibben
  • Publisher : Macmillan
  • Release : 2004-02
  • ISBN : 9780805075199
  • Pages : 292 pages

Download or read book Enough written by Bill McKibben and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2004-02 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The bestselling author of "The End of Nature" now looks into the not-so-distant future, when genetic science, robotics, and nanotechnology will push against the very door of humankind's immortality, and he challenges readers to confront this most profound question of their existence with care, intelligence, and ultimately, humility.

Book The Smart Nonprofit

Download or read book The Smart Nonprofit written by Beth Kanter and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2022-03-03 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A pragmatic framework for nonprofit digital transformation that embraces the human-centered nature of your organization The Smart Nonprofit turns the page on an era of frantic busyness and scarcity mindsets to one in which nonprofit organizations have the time to think and plan — and even dream. The Smart Nonprofit offers a roadmap for the once-in-a-generation opportunity to remake work and accelerate positive social change. It comes from understanding how to use smart tech strategically, ethically and well. Smart tech does rote tasks like filling out expense reports and identifying prospective donors. However, it is also beginning to do very human things like screening applicants for jobs and social services, while paying forward historic biases. Beth Kanter and Allison Fine elegantly outline the ways smart nonprofits must stay human-centered and root out embedded bias in order to success at the compassionate and creative work that only humans can and should do.

Book Staying Human

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  • Author : Neil Astley
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2020-10
  • ISBN : 9781780373904
  • Pages : 528 pages

Download or read book Staying Human written by Neil Astley and published by . This book was released on 2020-10 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Staying Human is the latest addition to Bloodaxe's bestselling Staying Alive series of world poetry anthologies.

Book Staying Human Through the Holocaust

Download or read book Staying Human Through the Holocaust written by Teréz Mózes and published by University of Calgary Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ter z M zes was born in Romania in 1919 to a stable and loving family. Her idyllic life would eventually be shattered by the upheavals of the Second World War as the Nazis systematically undertook the destruction of the Jewish race. Starting with the insidious and menacing anti-Jewish laws and continuing with resettlement into cramped ghettos and finally deportation to the death camps, Ter z and her sister Erzsi would be thrust into a harrowing journey that would forever alter the course of their lives. In June 1944, Ter z and Erzsi were sent to the notorious Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp in German-occupied Poland, where they would fight for their survival in a traumatic ordeal of unimaginable horror. Liberation in February 1945 should have meant the end of their nightmare, yet their homecoming would be delayed by widespread confusion as the Russians swept through Eastern Europe crushing the Nazi regime. After internment in numerous Russian camps and an uncertain future, Ter z and Ezri finally returned to their shattered hometown of Oradea in August 1945. Staying Human Through the Holocaust, originally titled Beverzett kot blak ("Shattered Tablets"), was published in Hungarian in 1993 and in Romanian in 1995. Told in a direct and riveting style that will haunt the reader long after the story is over, this memoir is a glimpse of the darkest and most uplifting aspects of our humanity from both an individual and historical point of view.

Book Staying Human in the Organization

Download or read book Staying Human in the Organization written by J. Gary Bernhard and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 1992 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bernhard and Glantz attribute many workplace problems to a basic conflict between human nature and the structure of modern organizations. Because human beings evolved in small, egalitarian hunter-gatherer bands, most humans have emotional needs that can best be satisfied in small groups that are based on personal reciprocity, sharing, teamwork, and genuine interdependence. In such groups, leadership can be based on acknowledged personal ability, everyone can feel important, and the common goal can weld people together in a way that is both efficient and personally satisfying. The authors see the formal hierarchies of modern organizations, where authority often replaces leadership, as the resurgence of pre-human primate social relationships in which bluffing, threatening, and intimidation played a major role. Numerous and varied examples from the workplace lend the analysis graphic immediacy and authenticity. Many theories have been advanced to explain such workplace phenomena as endemic dissatisfaction, low productivity, and high absenteeism. Many books have argued that teams, a democratic management style, and employee participation are essential, given an educated work force that doesn't live in fear of being fired. Staying Human in the Organization is the first book to relate these themes to evolutionary biology, the discipline which in recent years has been revolutionizing the behavioral sciences. The result is a new way of thinking about labor relations and organizational development.

Book Restoring the Soul of Business

Download or read book Restoring the Soul of Business written by Rishad Tobaccowala and published by HarperChristian + ORM. This book was released on 2020-01-28 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From old-fashioned bricks-and-mortars to cutting-edge startups, businesses are moving into uncharted territory as they determine how to move from an analog past to a digital future effectively. How can you make sure not to leave human instinct behind? Businesses are leaving behind traditional meetings in favor of virtual ones, transitioning from surveys and studies to analytics and algorithms. The startling and often unacknowledged truth is that?the promise of digital transformation can only be realized when we find a way to balance it with the promise of people.?In the end, it’s the people that matter, and companies must never forget the soul that drives them. In Restoring the Soul of Business, business leader Rishad Tobaccowala?teaches you to: Understand how to unleash the significant benefit that can be realized by combining emotion and data, human and machine, analog and digital. Spot the warning signs of data-blinded companies: cold cultures with little human interaction, poor innovation stemming from discouraged employees who don’t contribute ideas, and poor customer service due to automated, robotic processes. Explore how organizations of various sizes and from different industries have successfully reoriented their thinking on how to fuse technology and humanity. Gain skills to become an expert in connections critical to growth and success, including the connection between being creative and using technology. Everyone working in an organization will find penetrating observations and guidance about how and why establishing the proper balance between human intuition and creativity and data-driven insights can lead to increased revenue, profitability, retention—and even joy—in their careers and business. Restoring the Soul of Business provides practical tools and techniques that every organization can and should implement, and challenges you to move forward with the kind of balance that capitalizes transformation and produces one great success after another.

Book Staying Human During Residency Training

Download or read book Staying Human During Residency Training written by Allan Peterkin and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written specifically for residents and interns, this guide contains updated resources and information on Internet learning; the resident's role as teacher; ways of avoiding physical, violent, and sexual-boundary violations with patients; ethical guidelines; and planning a career.

Book Disconnected

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  • Author : Emma Gannon
  • Publisher : Andrews McMeel Publishing
  • Release : 2022-05-31
  • ISBN : 1524878596
  • Pages : 105 pages

Download or read book Disconnected written by Emma Gannon and published by Andrews McMeel Publishing. This book was released on 2022-05-31 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lockdowns, Zoom meetings, and reduced physical contact have made us more dependent on the internet than ever before—and now we want to log off. Disconnected is a little book about reclaiming our humanity in our increasingly digitized, monetized world. Our focus on community and real connection has been sent off-course, and we're becoming more aware of how the algorithm manipulates us and how our data has made us a product to be sold. So, where do we go from here, and how can we get back on track? Disconnected examines these topics and offers tangible tips and advice for those of us who might feel a little lost and are looking to find our real-life selves again.

Book Being Human

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  • Author : Neil Astley
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2011
  • ISBN : 9781852248093
  • Pages : 512 pages

Download or read book Being Human written by Neil Astley and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Being Alive is the sequel to Neil Astley's Staying Alive, which became Britain's most popular poetry book because it gave readers hundreds of thoughtful and passionate poems about living in the modern world. Now he has assembled this equally lively companion anthology.

Book Medical School

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  • Author : Keith Russell Ablow, MD
  • Publisher : St. Martin's Griffin
  • Release : 2014-07-22
  • ISBN : 1429991968
  • Pages : 143 pages

Download or read book Medical School written by Keith Russell Ablow, MD and published by St. Martin's Griffin. This book was released on 2014-07-22 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Medical School: Getting In, Staying In, Staying Human by Keith Russell Ablow, M.D., is the best basic guide to getting into, and staying in, medical school. *Deciding if medicine is right for you *Planning ahead in high school *College curriculum suggestions *Avoiding "pre-med syndrome" *Preparing for the MCAT (with an update on new sections) *Sidestepping application traps *Sample essays from successful applicants *Interviewing well *Getting financial aid *Information for minority, older, second-time, and foreign applicants *Medical school abroad *Coping in medical school

Book Brave New Worlds

Download or read book Brave New Worlds written by Bryan Appleyard and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text takes the liberal humanist position against the advance of scientific ethics (or lack of them), in particular those of genetics. As the achievements of science threaten to engulf this century leaving us morally and philosophically floundering in their wake (what are we going to do about Dolly?), Appleyard engages with the issues in a debate which can only get hotter and more desperate.

Book Staying Human

    Book Details:
  • Author : Harris Bor
  • Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
  • Release : 2021-11-17
  • ISBN : 172527860X
  • Pages : 266 pages

Download or read book Staying Human written by Harris Bor and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2021-11-17 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Futurists speculate that we are heading towards a ‘singularity,’ where AI will outsmart human beings, and humanity will coalesce into a single, ever-expanding mind for which data is everything. The idea mirrors conceptions of God as everything, singular, and all-knowing. But is this idea of the singularity, or God, good for humanity? Oneness has its attractions. But what space does it leave for individuality and difference? In this book, British-Jewish theologian, Harris Bor, explores these questions by applying approaches to oneness and difference found in the thought of philosophers, Benedict Spinoza (1632–1677) and Martin Heidegger (1889–1976), to the challenges of religious belief and practice in the era of AI. What emerges is a dynamic religion of the everyday capable of balancing all aspects of being, while holding tight to a God who is both singular and wholly other, and which urges us, above all, to stay human.

Book STAYING HUMAN

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  • Author : K. L. Stubblefield
  • Publisher : Trafford Publishing
  • Release : 2023-11-16
  • ISBN : 1698715587
  • Pages : 408 pages

Download or read book STAYING HUMAN written by K. L. Stubblefield and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2023-11-16 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Staying Human Within this writing we discuss America’s and particularly Black America’s slide into decadence, depravity, and despair and how this will lead to its subjugation to the coming tyranny of Artificial intelligence. If we look with an open mind we can see how technology has already led to the breaking down of morality and open rebellion against Godly principles that while not totally adhered to by this nation, has been a hedge against all out wickedness. Our attempt to at least guide our behavior with the precepts of holiness and godliness has allowed the American nation to receive blessings of wealth and freedom from the Most high. That is now changing and God is slowly removing his protection from our nation.. America's power and influence whether for good or evil was given to us by God. It is He who sets up nations, and it is He who brings about their fall. What is happening to the United States today has happened before with many other kingdoms. There is no new thing under the sun. Nor was there any respect of persons given from The Most High. This nation will and is currently feeling the pains of all the other nations that has fallen before it. And just like all the other kingdoms that fell such as Rome, Greece, Egypt, and Babylon , America's blind adherence to self promotion, and narcissistic hubris has blurred her vision of her plight. America is now a weak nation, a nation that is living on so called past greatness. Militarily America relies on enormous deficit spending on technology and advanced weaponry in order to maintain its power and influence worldwide. Yet when engaged in actual combat with weaker nations America still suffers a bloody nose and a black eye. Vietnam , Somalia, Iraq, and Afghanistan, are modern examples of America's inability to win wars outright. These wars and excursions drain the coffers of this nation and force it into deficit spending in order to maintain the false illusion of wealth and power. The scepter has been removed from America’s hand. The royal diadem no longer sits above her brow. Yet she does not perceive its removal. The once so called democratic form of government in America has now morphed into a technocratic corporate oligarchy. The gap between rich and poor is now wider here than in any industrialized nation in the world. This leads to those in power creating a culture to maintain their wealth and prevent uprising from the masses. This will lead to the use of technological advances,such as A.I. in order to quell any potential rebellions. America, your once proud land has become a nation of fornicators , whiners, complainers, abusers, murderers, and politically corrupt parasites. America’s plight can be summed up in one Phrase. ICHABOD : THE GLORY OF THE LORD HAS DEPARTED.

Book Staying Human

    Book Details:
  • Author : Katharina Stegelmann
  • Publisher : Skyhorse
  • Release : 2015-01-06
  • ISBN : 1632201356
  • Pages : 235 pages

Download or read book Staying Human written by Katharina Stegelmann and published by Skyhorse. This book was released on 2015-01-06 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During World War II, Heinz Drossel saved Soviet prisoners of war and several Jews, including Marianne Hirschfeld. Again and again, he wasn’t afraid to risk his own life when others’ safety was at risk. Nearly all of Hirschfeld’s family members were murdered by Nazis; she survived in hiding—and met Heinz again by coincidence after the war was over. They married in 1946. At that time, starting over was difficult. In the judicial service, Drossel witnessed Nazis continuing with their careers. As a political prisoner, his father was sent to jail in the Soviet-occupied sector. Drossel and his wife felt like outsiders, but their plans to emigrate fell apart. Drossel first spoke about his brave deeds when he was honored in Yad Vashem in 2000 as Righteous Among the Nations. Author Katharina Stegelmann paints an honest view of Drossel and doesn’t idealize her protagonist. Her engaging portrait succeeds in its convincing depiction of individual fate and historical events.

Book Staying Human During Residency Training

Download or read book Staying Human During Residency Training written by Allan D. Peterkin and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ultimate survival guide for medical students, interns, residents and fellows, Staying Human during Residency Training provides time-tested advice and the latest information on every aspect of a resident's life - from choosing a residency program, to coping with stress, enhancing self-care, and protecting personal and professional relationships. Allan D. Peterkin, MD, provides hundreds of tips on how to cope with sleep deprivation, time pressures, and ethical and legal issues. This fifth edition features new, leading-edge information on enhancing personal resilience, planning one's career, pursuing leadership roles, and using new technologies to maximize learning. Presenting practical antidotes to cynicism, careerism, and burnout, Peterkin also offers guidance on fostering more empathic connection with patients and deepening relationships with colleagues, friends, and family. Acknowledged by thousands of doctors across North America as an invaluable resource, Staying Human during Residency Training has helped to shape notions of trainee well-being for medical educators worldwide. Informative, compassionate, and professional, this new edition will again show why it is required reading for medical students and new physicians pursuing postgraduate training.

Book Staying Human during Residency Training

Download or read book Staying Human during Residency Training written by Allan D. Peterkin, MD and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2024-03-26 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ultimate survival guide for medical students, interns, residents, and fellows, Staying Human during Residency Training provides time-tested advice and the latest information on every aspect of a resident’s life – from choosing a residency program to coping with stress, enhancing self-care, and protecting personal and professional relationships. The book features hundreds of tips on how to cope with sleep deprivation, time pressures, and ethical and legal issues. Updated to reflect the latest research and resources, the seventh edition provides new emphasis on virtual practice, gender, diversity, and accountability in the context of medical education.. It offers practical strategies learned from new technologies and new insight on the COVID-19 pandemic regarding public health, virtual appointment protocols, and AI developments. Presenting practical antidotes regarding cynicism, careerism, and burnout, the book also offers guidance on fostering more empathic connections with patients and deepening relationships with colleagues, friends, and family. Acknowledged by thousands of doctors across North America as an invaluable resource, Staying Human during Residency Training has helped to shape notions of trainee well-being for medical educators worldwide. Offering wise, compassionate, and professional counsel, this new edition again shows why it is required reading for medical students and new physicians pursuing postgraduate training.