Download or read book Welcome to the Machine written by Derrick Jensen and published by Chelsea Green Publishing. This book was released on 2004 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jensen and Draffan look at the way machine readable devices that track our identities and purchases have infiltrated our lives and have come to define our culture.
Download or read book Welcome to Our Real Matrix One with No Escape written by Thomas Arant and published by Thomas Arant. This book was released on 2021-05-21 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Did you know that we (and all life) are unknowingly imprisoned? That your perception of Reality has little to do with the truth? In these ways, our existence is like the virtual reality in the movie, The Matrix. The differences are more overwhelming, including that our Real Matrix emerged through abiogenesis and evolution processes without intention nor direction (i.e., no sentient machines), and that there is no escape through taking a Red Pill. Welcome to Our Real Matrix proves all this using accepted science taken to its logical conclusion. It then explores the consequences of this truth and the possible paths for how and why to live this life, including the philosophies of Stoicism, Buddhism, and Existentialism. Finally, it introduces a community, the Purplepills Society, that has been established to continue the scientific and philosophical discussion.
Download or read book Welcome to Mars written by Ken Hollings and published by North Atlantic Books. This book was released on 2014-03-18 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcome to Mars is a captivating look at the culture of postwar America and its dream of limitless technological and human development. Utilizing declassified government archives, newspaper records, ad campaigns, and B-movies of the period, Hollings weaves an intricate web of Cold War politics, UFO scares, psychedelic research, and 1950s pop culture. From the atom bomb and suburban planning to the space race and little-green-men movies, Welcome to Mars shows the startling connections between science fact and science fiction, a feedback loop in which real technological advances and government experimentation gave rise to science fiction fantasy, which then fed new innovation and research. Table of Contents Introduction: Scenes From A History As Yet Unwritten Chapter 1--1947: Rebuilding Lemuria Chapter 2--1948: Flying Saucers Over America Chapter 3--1949: Behaviour Modification Chapter 4--1950: Cheapness And Splendour Chapter 5--1951: Absolute Elsewhere Chapter 6--1952: Red Planet Chapter 7--1953: Other Tongues, Other Flesh Chapter 8--1954: Meet The Monsters Chapter 9--1955: Popular Mechanics Chapter 10--1956: 'Greetings, My Friend!' Chapter 11--1957: Contact With Space Chapter 12--1958: Mass Hysteria Chapter 13--1959: Teenagers From Outer Space Conclusion: Thinking the Unthinkable Bibliography Index List of Illustrations
Download or read book Welcome to the Future written by Kathryn Hulick and published by . This book was released on 2021-10-05 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you ever wondered what the future may look like? In this book, you'll explore 10 ways technology could alter our way of life. The challenge for you is to decide which changes you want for yourself and the world. In the future, will we teleport from place to place, keep dinosaurs as pets or 3D-print our dinner? Will we live on Mars or upload our brains to computers? Could we solve climate change by making all our energy from mini stars we build here on earth? This fascinating and thought provoking book from science writer Kathryn Hulick explores the possible futures humanity will face, and how we will live as the world around us changes beyond our recognition. From genetic engineering and building floating colonies in space to developing telepathic technology and bionic body alterations, this engagingly illustrated book looks into the possible future technologies which will shape how we live and how we adapt to the challenges of the future. In this book, you'll meet the scientists working to bring science fiction to life and learn how soon we might have amazing new technology. You'll also delve deep into questions about right and wrong. Just because we can do something doesn't mean we should. How can we build the best possible future for everyone on Earth?
Download or read book Welcome to the Bethlehem Star Hotel written by Ben Granby and published by Garrett County Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ben Granby, frustrated American food service worker, takes a multifarious, back roads ramble through the combat zone of Israel/Palestine, circa 2002. His motivation? To throw himself headlong into other people's problems.
Download or read book Soc Welcome to the Cage written by FH Jr. and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2011-06-22 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Frank Hammond became a counselor at South Oak Cliff High School in the Dallas Independent School District, he had a good feeling. As a black man with a solid church upbringing and a degree from a historical black college, he felt he could really make a difference in the lives of young, inner-city kids who attended this predominately black high school. It didnt take Hammond long to discover that all was not well within the walls of the high school. In SOC: Welcome to the Cage, he provides a behind-the-scenes look at what happened at this school as the focus turned from understanding black dynamics to black exploitation. Hammond reveals the scandals that took place at the school, including a corrupt and unethical principal, a staff that stole from students and engaged in inappropriate sexual relations, security guards who forced students to cage fight, and manipulation of student grades. SOC: Welcome to the Cage narrates the transgressions and describes what happened when Hammond blew the whistle; the school district was forced to choose between doing what was right and protecting its basketball championshipsan action that affected a member of the University of Kansas national championship basketball team.
Download or read book Welcome to the Dreamhouse written by Lynn Spigel and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2001-06-01 with total page 439 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Welcome to the Dreamhouse feminist media studies pioneer Lynn Spigel takes on Barbie collectors, African American media coverage of the early NASA space launches, and television’s changing role in the family home and its links to the broader visual culture of modern art. Exploring postwar U.S. media in the context of the period’s reigning ideals about home and family life, Spigel looks at a range of commercial objects and phenomena, from television and toys to comic books and magazines. The volume considers not only how the media portrayed suburban family life, but also how both middle-class ideals and a perceived division between private and public worlds helped to shape the visual forms, storytelling practices, and reception of postwar media and consumer culture. Spigel also explores those aspects of suburban culture that media typically render invisible. She looks at the often unspoken assumptions about class, nation, ethnicity, race, and sexual orientation that underscored both media images (like those of 1960s space missions) and social policies of the mass-produced suburb. Issues of memory and nostalgia are central in the final section as Spigel considers how contemporary girls use television reruns as a source for women’s history and then analyzes the current nostalgia for baby boom era family ideals that runs through contemporary images of new household media technologies. Containing some of Spigel’s well-known essays on television’s cultural history as well as new essays on a range of topics dealing with popular visual culture, Welcome to the Dreamhouse is important reading for students and scholars of media and communications studies, popular culture, American studies, women’s studies, and sociology.
Download or read book Welcome to the Revolution written by Charles Derber and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-06-14 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the Women’s March gathered millions just one day after Trump’s inauguration, a new era of progressive action was born. Organizing on the far Right led to Trump’s election, bringing authoritarianism and the specter of neo-fascism, and intensifying corporate capitalism’s growing crises of inequality and injustices. Yet now we see a new universalizing resistance among progressive and left movements for truth, dignity, and a world based on democracy, equality, and sustainability. Derber offers the first comprehensive guide to this new era and an original vision and strategy for movement success. He convincingly shows how only a new universalizing wave, a progressive and revolutionary "movement of movements," can counter the world-universalizing economic and cultural forces of intensifying corporate and far-right power. Derber explores the crises and eroding legitimacy of the globalized capitalist system and the right wing movements that helped create the Trump era. He shows how left universalizing movements can--and must—converge to propel a mass base that can prevent societal, economic, or ecological collapse, stop a resurgent Right, and build a democratic social alternative. He describes tactics and strategies for thisnew progressive movement. Brief guest "interludes" by Medea Benjamin, Noam Chomsky, Ralph Nader, Bill Fletcher, Juliet Schor, Gar Alperovitz, Chuck Collins, Matt Nelson, Janet Wallace, and other prominent figures tell how to coalesce and universalize activism into a more powerful movement wave—at local, community, national, and international levels. Vivid and highly accessible, this book is for activists, students, and all citizens concerned about the erosion of justice and democracy. It thoroughly illuminates the rationale, theory, practice, humanism, love, and joy of the social transformation that we urgently need.
Download or read book A Wonderful Welcome to Oz written by L. Frank Baum and published by Modern Library. This book was released on 2011-06-08 with total page 626 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For more than a century, L. Frank Baum’s kingdom of Oz and its delightful denizens have enchanted readers of all ages. In this illustrated Modern Library edition, the bestselling novelist and children’s book writer Gregory Maguire takes readers on a guided tour of Oz, gathering and introducing us to three of Baum’s beloved stories: The Marvelous Land of Oz, the sequel to The Wizard of Oz, is the adventure-packed tale of a Gillikin boy named Tip who flees Old Mombi the witch in search of the Emerald City. Ozma of Oz, set mainly in the strange land of Ev, features the clever and beautiful new ruler of the Emerald City, as well as Dorothy of Kansas, the mechanical marvel Tik-Tok, and the dreaded Nome King. The Emerald City of Oz recounts Dorothy’s trip to Oz with her Aunt Em and Uncle Henry, and the Nome King’s terrible plot against the kingdom.
Download or read book Welcome to Moonlight Harbor written by Sheila Roberts and published by MIRA. This book was released on 2018-04-17 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: USA TODAY bestselling author Sheila Roberts returns with a brand-new series set on the charming Washington coast Once happily married, Jenna Jones is about to turn forty, and this year for her birthday—lucky her—she’s getting a divorce. She’s barely able to support herself and her teenage daughter, but now her deadbeat artist ex is hitting her up for spousal support…and then spending it on his “other” woman. Still, as her mother always says, every storm brings a rainbow. And when she gets a very unexpected gift from her great-aunt Edie, things seem to be taking a turn for the better. Aging Aunt Edie is finding it difficult to keep up her business running The Driftwood Inn, so she invites Jenna to come live with her and run the place. It looks like Jenna’s financial problems are solved! Or not. The town is a little more run-down than Jenna remembers, but that’s nothing compared to the ramshackle state of The Driftwood Inn. Aunt Edie is confident they can return it to its former glory, though Jenna feels like she’s jumped from the proverbial frying pan into the beach fire. But who knows? With the help of her new friends and a couple of handsome citizens, perhaps that rainbow is on the horizon after all. Because, no matter what, life is always good at the beach. Featuring all the warmth, romance and trademark humor of Sheila Roberts’s writing, this new series will delight longtime fans and welcome a generation of new readers.
Download or read book Welcome to AI written by David L. Shrier and published by Harvard Business Press. This book was released on 2024-03-05 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating guide to the rapidly advancing world of artificial intelligence and how this powerful technology will impact our lives, our careers, and our world. Artificial intelligence is driving workforce disruption on a scale not seen since the Industrial Revolution. In schools and universities AI technology has forced a reevaluation of the way students are taught and assessed. Meanwhile, ChatGPT has become a cultural phenomenon, reaching a hundred million users and attracting a reputed $1 trillion investor interest in its parent company, OpenAI. The race to dominate the generative AI market is accelerating at breakneck speed, inspiring breathless headlines and immense public interest. Welcome to AI provides a rare view into a frontier area of computer science that will change everything about how you live and work. Read this book and better understand how to succeed in the AI-enabled future.
Download or read book Welcome to the Madhouse written by S.E. Sasaki and published by Oddoc Books. This book was released on 2016-09-28 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SHORT-LISTED for the WATTY AWARD for BEST ORIGINAL SFF NOVEL IN SPACE, MEDICINE CAN BE MURDER A mysterious space ship docks at the Conglomerate's Premier Medical Space Station, the Nelson Mandela, where injured, animal-adapted space marines are brought for surgical repair and recuperation. This new ship is devoid of crew. Only oily puddles, clothing, and jewellery are found where people should have been. Alarms start blaring and lockdown doors start slamming, as the station AI tries to isolate the unexposed from those already exposed. Smart and spunky Lieutenant Dr. Grace Lord, combat surgeon, new to the Nelson Mandela, must now race to find a cure for whatever is dissolving the medical staff and patients, before the Conglomerate decides to destroy the Nelson Mandela to prevent the spread of the deadliest threat the galaxy has ever seen. If you love Isaac Asimov or James White, you’ll flip for this genre-bending science fiction epic! Find out why readers call it “a unique world, full of genetically-modified humans and androids with personalities and emotions. Wonderful!” 'S.E. Sasaki is a hidden treasure, a powerhouse artistic talent who in Madhouse brings us medical science fiction on a personal, engaging level that is addictive to read, sometimes scary, and always FUN. Recommended!'---Ed Greenwood, internationally bestselling creator of The Forgotten Realms. 'A layered debut that sings odes to the grandmasters of sci-fi.'---Kirkus Reviews Don’t wait - Click the BUY button NOW!
Download or read book Welcome to the Spotlight written by Kristina Adams and published by Kristina Adams. This book was released on 2022-11-04 with total page 838 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Four couples. Three stories. Two broken hearts. One glaringly bright spotlight. How many of our couples will survive? Enter the What Happens in Hollywood Universe today to find out… What Happens in New York Hollie can't catch a break. She's broke, she's back living with her family, and her career prospects are zero. So when the chance arises for her and her best friend to escape to New York, well, she can hardly say no, can she? Little does she know, the charming stunt performer she just met is about to introduce her to Hollywood royalty. But are the Hollywood elite really who they claim to be, or is there more to their stories than they let on? Behind the Spotlight Cameron has a secret. It's not a life-changing secret, just a secret. Or at least, he thought it was. His first love – his first everything, really – was Luke Andrews, 1/4 of the world's biggest boy band, HATT. Cameron hasn't spoken to anyone about Luke since he left. He buried his feelings for him in a deep, dark cave when Luke broke up with him to pursue his lifelong dream. But when Cameron and Luke see each other again for the first time in five years, they can't deny that the spark is still there. Will they rekindle their romance, or will Luke's stardom get in the way? Hollywood Gossip Jack grew up with nothing. Tate grew up with everything. Their lives – and their attitudes – couldn't be more different. When they're forced to work together on a new song, they have two options. Option 1: lose everything they've spent their lives building. Option 2: find a way to cooperate. Which will they choose? Find out in Hollywood Gossip. Welcome to the Spotlight: A What Happens in Hollywood Starter Collection introduces the four main couples in the What Happens in Hollywood Universe. Each book focuses on different couples and is a great way to enter this romantic, drama-filled universe. You'll love to hate, hate to love, and swoon over the characters in this rollercoaster of a series. It's perfect for fans of Paige Toon, Marian Keyes, and Beth O'Leary.
Download or read book Monster High Welcome to Monster High The Junior Novel written by Perdita Finn and published by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2016-09-06 with total page 101 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcome to Monster High! You know that Monster High is the most creeperific school in the world, but do you know how it came to be? It all started with a girl named Draculaura-the daughter of Dracula-who had a dream about creating a place where monsters could belong, get along, and be themselves. To make her dream come true, Draculaura and her best ghoulfriends went on fangtastic adventures around the world to recruit monsters to attend Monster High. But all was not perfectly monstrous at Monster High when a villainous zombie set out to ruin everything Draculaura and her friends worked so hard for. Can the ghouls save the day...and save Monster High? ©2016 Mattel. All Rights Reserved.
Download or read book Norfolk and Western Magazine written by Norfolk and Western Railway Company and published by . This book was released on 1937 with total page 684 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Welcome to the Free World written by and published by Bharathi Puthakalayam. This book was released on with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Welcome to the Microbiome written by Rob DeSalle and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2015-01-01 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inspired by an exhibition at the American Museum of Natural History in New York, explores microbes and their implications for modern science and medicine.
