Download or read book Base Instincts written by Jonathan H. Pincus and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2002 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Investigates the family backgrounds and medical history of serial killers Jeffrey Dahmer and Ted Bundy, and concludes that serial killers may be a product of a genetic predisposition to violence and an abusive environment.
Download or read book Base Instincts written by Larissa Ione and published by Riptide Publishing. This book was released on 2015-09-14 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a Seminus demon, Raze’s life literally depends on having sex with females. The problem is that he doesn’t desire females, and it’s physically impossible for him to be with males. Thankfully, he and his best friend, Fayle, have an arrangement that keeps him alive . . . if lonely. He finds some solace in his work as a medic at Thirst, a vampire club known for its rough clientele. But his carefully structured world turns upside down when he meets a mysterious male who makes him want what he can never have. Slake is an assassin used to getting what he wants, and what he wants is Raze. But he also wants to earn back the soul he sold when he was a much different demon. All he has to do is capture a runaway succubus named Fayle and hand her over to her family. What he doesn’t count on is being caught himself by a web of lies—and his attraction to Raze. Raze and Slake must navigate a dangerous world to be together. But as Fayle’s jealousy of their relationship turns deadly, they find themselves embroiled in a battle not only for their love, but their lives and souls.
Download or read book Basic Instincts written by Pete Lunn and published by Marshall Cavendish Books Limited. This book was released on 2009-11-19 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Human instincts are surprisingly sophisticated and subtle, having adapted over generations of trading with each other. Understanding how these instincts work can not only change the way you think about your own affairs, it can alter how you think about a whole range of economic and business issues (from what constitutes a fair salary to the impact of globalisation).A new breed of economists - known as behavioural economists - has started to observe economic life more closely. This book reveals the fascinating results of their studies . Human instincts have long been ignored by traditional economics, but they are crucial factors in major economic decisions, and hence important for our futures. This engaging book is about those human instincts and how the study of them has begun to change fundamentally the science of economics and our own behaviour in today's world
Download or read book Instinct written by T. D. Jakes and published by FaithWords. This book was released on 2014-05-06 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tap into your God-given intuition and start achieving ultimate success with this inspiring #1 New York Times bestseller from Bishop T.D. Jakes. If you have ever felt misaligned, this book is for you. If you have lost the rhythm, the passion, or the thrill of living in alignment, then keep reading. As He did with the very cells that comprise our bodies and the dry bones that were joined together for new life, God has given us deeper instincts to be attracted to those things that fit a higher and better purpose. Never settle for less than God's best for your life. Some people have the courage to move beyond the ordinary, from the methodical mediocre into the revolutionary realization of where they belong. You can have this sense of belonging only when you connect to your core calling. The calling to creativity, the calling to teach, to give, to build, are all part of allowing your instinct to guide you to the "something more" that you suspect is out there. If you are ready to break through the confines of where you are and discover where you are meant to be, then Instinct is your key! !--EndFragment--
Download or read book Encompassing Others written by Edward LiPuma and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An investigation of how the advance of capitalism, colonialism, and Christianity has engaged a Melanasian society
Download or read book A Dictionary of Human Instincts written by Mitch C. Bronston and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2001-08-22 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dictionary is probably the first dictionary of human instincts to be published. Moreover, the Introduction of the dictionary contains the first publication of the new and important Bronston heritability coefficient. Note: A Dictionary of Human Instincts also appears as an appendix to Human Behavior: The New Synthesis by Mitch Bronston and Nils K. Oeijord.
Download or read book The Human Instinct written by Kenneth R. Miller and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2018-04-17 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A radical, optimistic exploration of how humans evolved to develop reason, consciousness, and free will. Lately, the most passionate advocates of the theory of evolution seem to present it as bad news. Scientists such as Richard Dawkins, Lawrence Krauss, and Sam Harris tell us that our most intimate actions, thoughts, and values are mere byproducts of thousands of generations of mindless adaptation. We are just one species among multitudes, and therefore no more significant than any other living creature. Now comes Brown University biologist Kenneth R. Miller to make the case that this view betrays a gross misunderstanding of evolution. Natural selection surely explains how our bodies and brains were shaped, but Miller argues that it’s not a social or cultural theory of everything. In The Human Instinct, he rejects the idea that our biological heritage means that human thought, action, and imagination are pre-determined, describing instead the trajectory that ultimately gave us reason, consciousness and free will. A proper understanding of evolution, he says, reveals humankind in its glorious uniqueness—one foot planted firmly among all of the creatures we’ve evolved alongside, and the other in the special place of self-awareness and understanding that we alone occupy in the universe. Equal parts natural science and philosophy, The Human Instinct is a moving and powerful celebration of what it means to be human.
Download or read book Philosophy of Life Instinct written by Shashidhar Sastry and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 2022-01-06 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What if there is one source of answers to all existential questions of our origin, lives and behaviour? What if this source provides a practical and reliable understanding of right and wrong, intelligence and wisdom, in every situation? The Philosophy of Life Instinct by Shashidhar Sastry uncovers this source. It takes you on a journey of discovery unlike any other, to its diverse effects. It is a path for anyone who has ever been curious about existence, reality, life and happiness; that is to say, all humans and other thinking beings anywhere in the cosmos.
Download or read book The Humble Creative written by Matthew Niermann and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2021-03-04 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Open any other book on creativity, and you will hear the clichéd rallying cries of current creative culture: Be True to Yourself! Find Your Voice! Express Your Authentic Self! This book is different. This book will not tell you to “Be true to yourself,” but will implore you to “Humble yourself.” This book will not repeat the slogan, “Find your Voice,” but will ask you to consider how your moral weaknesses are inhibiting your creativity. Examining the current creative culture, The Humble Creative argues that creativity can easily become disordered by vices that Christianity has long understood, but most have forgotten; vices such as vainglory, envy, sloth, anger, lust of the eyes, greed, and pride. The Humble Creative integrates the long-held Christian understanding of moral vice with creativity, providing an accessible exploration of individual vices and their role in disordering creativity—ultimately offering exercises for moral and creative formation. Written in an accessible way, this book explores the stories of several individuals whose creativity have become disordered by vice, introducing the reader to the often overlooked relationship between the moral character of the creative and the successful pursuit of flourishing creativity.
Download or read book THE WAY BACK written by Jeremy W. Coiner and published by Jeremy W. Coiner. This book was released on 2023-05-16 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, we use the acronym E.D.G.E. to focus on creating a balance of key principles in our lives: Ego, Desire, Gratitude, and Empathy. It is a book of suggestions which draws upon a range of material and ideas, from modern wisdom all the way back to the very beginning of Christianity. It is written in the style of a handbook so that you can read the chapters in order, or you can just begin with any chapter that appeals to you. Furthermore, it was originally written for those that have strayed from a Christian life. However, this book can also be very helpful for anyone that is searching for a deeper connection with God. Focusing on E.D.G.E. principles will strengthen your faith and enrich your life.
Download or read book The Nixon Tapes 1973 With Audio Clips written by Douglas Brinkley and published by HMH. This book was released on 2015-09-22 with total page 1001 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With audio clips included, this “revealing” transcription captures a dark and dramatic year in presidential history—and the words of Richard Nixon himself (The New York Times Book Review). Between 1971 and 1973, President Richard Nixon’s voice-activated tape recorders captured 3,700 hours of conversations. Douglas Brinkley and Luke Nichter’s intrepid two-volume transcription and annotation of the highlights of this essential archive provides an unprecedented and fascinating window into the inner workings of a momentous presidency. The Nixon Tapes: 1973 tells the concluding chapter of the story, the final year of taping, covering such events as the Vietnam cease-fire, the Wounded Knee standoff, and, of course, the Watergate investigation. Once again, there are revelations on every page. With Nixon’s landslide 1972 reelection victory receding into the background and the scandal that would scuttle the administration looming, The Nixon Tapes: 1973 reveals the inside story of the tragedy that followed the triumph.
Download or read book American Bloodlust written by Roger Ball and published by Roger Ball. This book was released on 2023-08-30 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are today’s young people being psychologically conditioned to violence, sexual perversion, and suicidal hopelessness? Will mass shootings continue? Is the rise in same-sex attraction a closely related problem? Will violence continue to increase? Will deaths of despair continue to rise? Will America destroy itself from within? REVISED AND UPDATED VERSION. America is now facing the worst psychological crisis in its history. What has changed over the past fifty-sixty years that would produce such an outcome? How long will mass shootings (and school shootings) continue? Why do so many young people struggle with murderous and suicidal impulses (not to mention depression, anxiety, and same-sex attraction)? This book exposes the psychological conditioning responsible for today's mental health crisis and reveals how it can be reversed if the necessary changes are made. If you like exploring human nature and the psychological effects of a profane worldview, then you’ll love this revealing book. CONTENTS: Introduction Chapter 1: The Missing Structural Necessity of Today’s Child Development Chapter 2: Necessary Cognitive Development Chapter 3: Intensive Parenting Chapter 4: The Origin of Today’s Childrearing Practices Chapter 5: Self-pity, Escapism, Loneliness and Same-Sex Attraction Chapter 6: Social Media and Safe Places Chapter 7: Anger, Pride, Envy and Vengeance Chapter 8: Consumerism Chapter 9: Stubborn Pride and Ingratitude Chapter 10: Marriage and Envy and School Shootings Chapter 11: Entitlement, Disrespect and the Pride of Self-pity Chapter 12: Disrespect, Bullying, Sadism and Feminism Chapter 13: Is Liberalism to Blame? Chapter 14: The Breakdown of the Traditional Family Chapter 15: Natural Laws of Human Flourishing Chapter 16: Founding Principles for a Healthy Nation Chapter 17: Political and Cultural Reinforcement of Envy and Entitlement Chapter 18: Identity Politics Chapter 19: Is There Any Hope? Chapter 20: Concluding Thoughts
Download or read book Evolutionary Deep Learning written by Michael Lanham and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover one-of-a-kind AI strategies never before seen outside of academic papers! Learn how the principles of evolutionary computation overcome deep learning’s common pitfalls and deliver adaptable model upgrades without constant manual adjustment. Evolutionary Deep Learning is a guide to improving your deep learning models with AutoML enhancements based on the principles of biological evolution. This exciting new approach utilizes lesser- known AI approaches to boost performance without hours of data annotation or model hyperparameter tuning. Google Colab notebooks make it easy to experiment and play around with each exciting example. By the time you’ve finished reading Evolutionary Deep Learning, you’ll be ready to build deep learning models as self-sufficient systems you can efficiently adapt to changing requirements. Purchase of the print book includes a free eBook in PDF, Kindle, and ePub formats from Manning Publications.
Download or read book Liberalism and Mass Shootings written by Roger Ball and published by Roger Ball. This book was released on 2024-05-06 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are today's young people being psychologically conditioned to violence, sexual perversion, and suicidal hopelessness? Will mass shootings continue? Is the rise in same-sex attraction a closely related problem? Will violence continue to increase? Will deaths of despair continue to rise? Will America destroy itself from within? REVISED AND EDITED: America is now facing the worst psychological crisis in its history. What has changed over the past fifty-plus years that would produce such an outcome? How long will mass shootings (and school shootings) continue? Why do so many young people struggle with murderous and suicidal impulses (not to mention depression, anxiety, and same-sex attraction)? "I want to show how the problem of mass shootings, and America's mental health crisis in general, can be attributed to three primary causes: 1) the psychological effects of today's passive childrearing practices (producing low self-worth, insecurity, depression, self-doubt, anger, envious resentment, self-loathing, entitlement, loneliness, vindictive behavior, and same-sex attraction). Kids today are hurting on a much deeper level than anything seen in recent generations. They are also more unbridled than ever and likely to act upon distorted emotional urges and impulses. 2) the breakdown of the traditional family structure which produces these same psychological effects only worse. This has been accomplished primarily by extending sexual permissiveness throughout society, which has produced countless fatherless and dysfunctional homes. The majority of mass shooters and other violent offenders come from these environments. 3) the uncivilized means by which we bring about change in society (radical politics). This third element is what brings it all together. It is also a product of the first two. As most are aware, the spiritual seekers of the sixties (hippies) that brought us the sexual revolution were predominantly the children of gross neglect. This revolution is where today's social liberalism rapidly gained its influence within the political and cultural spheres. As a consequence of the unstable home environments, many of today's young people simply do not possess the emotional and psychological stability necessary to endure life's more negative circumstances and challenges." This book exposes the true culprit behind America's mental health crisis and reveals how this trend can be reversed if the necessary changes are made. Contents: Introduction Chapter 1: The Origin of Today's Moral Uncertainty Chapter 2: The Missing Structural Necessity of Today's Child Development Chapter 3: Necessary Cognitive Development Chapter 4: Intensive Parenting Chapter 5: The Origin of Today's Childrearing Practices Chapter 6: Self-pity, Escapism, Loneliness and Same-Sex Attraction Chapter 7: Social Media and Safe Spaces Chapter 8: Anger, Pride, Envy, and Vengeance Chapter 9: Consumerism Chapter 10: Stubborn Pride and Ingratitude Chapter 11: Marriage and Envy and School Shootings Chapter 12: Entitlement, Disrespect and the Pride of Self-pity Chapter 13: Disrespect, Bullying, Sadism and Feminism Chapter 14: Is Liberalism to Blame? Chapter 15: The Breakdown of the Traditional Family Chapter 16: Natural Laws of Human Flourishing Chapter 17: Founding Principles for a Healthy Nation Chapter 18: Political and Cultural Reinforcement of Envy and Entitlement Chapter 19: Identity Politics Chapter 20: Is There Any Hope? Chapter 21: Concluding Thoughts Chapter 22: I Am That I Am! Can God's Existence Be Proven?
Download or read book Touching Base written by Steven A. Riess and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1999-07-26 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the ideology of baseball, professional baseball and urban politics, politics, ballparks, and the neighborhoods, social reform, and baseball as a source of social mobility.
Download or read book Murder Your Darlings written by Roy Peter Clark and published by Little, Brown Spark. This book was released on 2020-01-21 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From one of America's most influential teachers, a collection of the best writing advice distilled from fifty language books -- from Aristotle to Strunk and White. With so many excellent writing guides lining bookstore shelves, it can be hard to know where to look for the best advice. Should you go with Natalie Goldberg or Anne Lamott? Maybe William Zinsser or Stephen King would be more appropriate. Then again, what about the classics -- Strunk and White, or even Aristotle himself? Thankfully, your search is over. In Murder Your Darlings, Roy Peter Clark, who has been a beloved and revered writing teacher to children and Pulitzer Prize winners alike for more than thirty years, has compiled a remarkable collection of more than 100 of the best writing tips from fifty of the best writing books of all time. With a chapter devoted to each key strategy, Clark expands and contextualizes the original author's suggestions and offers anecdotes about how each one helped him or other writers sharpen their skills. An invaluable resource for writers of all kinds, Murder Your Darlings is an inspiring and edifying ode to the craft of writing.
Download or read book An End To Murder written by Colin Wilson and published by Robinson. This book was released on 2015-09-24 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Creatively and intellectually there is no other species that has ever come close to equalling humanity?s achievements, but nor is any other species as suicidally prone to internecine conflict. We are the only species on the planet whose ingrained habit of conflict constitutes the chief threat to our own survival. Human history can be seen as a catalogue of cold-hearted murders, mindless blood-feuds, appalling massacres and devastating wars, but, with developments in forensic science and modern psychology, and with raised education levels throughout the world, might it soon be possible to reign in humanity?s homicidal habits? Falling violent crime statistics in every part of the world seem to indicate that something along those lines might indeed be happening. Colin and Damon Wilson, who between them have been covering the field of criminology for over fifty years, offer an analysis of the overall spectrum of human violence. They consider whether human beings are in reality as cruel and violent as is generally believed and they explore the possibility that humankind is on the verge of a fundamental change: that we are about to become truly civilised. As well as offering an overview of violence throughout our history ? from the first hominids to the twenty-first century, touching on key moments of change and also indicating where things have not changed since the Stone Age ? they explore the latest psychological, forensic and social attempts to understand and curb modern human violence. To begin with, they examine questions such as: Were the first humans cannibalistic? Did the birth of civilisation also lead to the invention of war and slavery? Priests and kings brought social stability, but were they also the instigators of the first mass murders? Is it in fact wealth that is the ultimate weapon? They look at slavery and ancient Roman sadism, but also the possibility that our own distaste for pain and cruelty is no more than a social construct. They show how the humanitarian ideas of the great religious innovators all too quickly became distorted by organised religious structures. The book ranges widely, from fifteenth-century Baron Gilles de Rais, `Bluebeard?, the first known and possibly most prolific serial killer in history, to Victorian domestic murder and the invention of psychiatry and Sherlock Holmes and the invention of forensic science; from the fifteenth-century Taiping Rebellion in China, in which up to 36 million died to the First and Second World Wars and more recent genocides and instances of `ethnic cleansing?, and contemporary terrorism. They conclude by assessing the very real possibility that the internet and the greater freedom of information it has brought is leading, gradually, to a profoundly more civilised world than at any time in the past.
