Download or read book Perils of Progress written by John Ashton and published by Zed Books. This book was released on 1999 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work offers a challenge to our society's largely unquestioning commitment to new technologies, and practical advice on how to deal with their adverse effects. While modern technologies have no doubt brought many benefits, the authors argue that our confidence in them is seriously misplaced. They consider an array of health and environmental issues including: the damaging effects on human health of certain microwaves, including those from mobile phones and television transmission towers; the effects of aluminium in food and other consumer products; and the evidence that the acids in margarines may be more detrimental to health than butter.
Download or read book Make believes in Psychiatry Or The Perils of Progress written by Herman Meïr Praag and published by Bruner Meisel U. This book was released on 1993 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An assessment of the recent biological and psychological revolutions in psychiatry. The text evaluates the positive aspects and pitfalls of the advances made between 1960 and 1992 and critiques the expanding system of discrete and defined disorders, suggesting that some are make believes.
Download or read book Woodrow Wilson written by H. W. Brands and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2003-06 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An acclaimed historian and Pulitzer Prize finalist offers a clear, comprehensive, and timely account of Wilson's unusual route to the White House, his campaign against corporate interests, and his decline in popularity and health following the rejection by Congress of his League of Nations.
Download or read book Perils of Progress written by Andrew L. Jenks and published by Pearson. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part of the Connections: Key Themes in World History series, Perils of Progress: Environmental Disasters in the 20th Century is essential reading for anyone interested in furthering a clean and safe environment while simultaneously encouraging responsible manufacturing. Author Andrew Jenks examines past environmental disasters, such as the tragedies at Love Canal, Bhopal, and Chernobyl, to prepare students to anticipate and head off potential environmental disasters as well as to meet and deal rationally with the next toxic apocalypse should one occur.
Download or read book Do We Still Need Doctors written by John D. Lantos, M.D. and published by Routledge. This book was released on 1999-09-02 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written with poignancy and compassion, Do We Still NeedDoctors? is a personal account from the front lines of the moral and political battles that are reshaping America's health care system.
Download or read book Christianity and Progress written by Harry Emerson Fosdick and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-09-16 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Christianity and Progress" by Harry Emerson Fosdick. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Download or read book Precautionary Risk Management written by M. Jablonowski and published by Springer. This book was released on 2006-07-28 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dealing with high-stakes risk potentials is dependent on getting to grips with easy to understand, yet difficult to apply, criteria for decision. With a fresh, honest approach, this book shows why scientific assessments of catastrophic risk based on averages don't work, and sets the stage for making the tough choice between precaution and fatalism.
Download or read book Tools and Weapons written by Brad Smith and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2019-09-10 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The instant New York Times bestseller. From Microsoft's president and one of the tech industry's broadest thinkers, a frank and thoughtful reckoning with how to balance enormous promise and existential risk as the digitization of everything accelerates. “A colorful and insightful insiders’ view of how technology is both empowering and threatening us. From privacy to cyberattacks, this timely book is a useful guide for how to navigate the digital future.” —Walter Isaacson Microsoft President Brad Smith operates by a simple core belief: When your technology changes the world, you bear a responsibility to help address the world you have helped create. This might seem uncontroversial, but it flies in the face of a tech sector long obsessed with rapid growth and sometimes on disruption as an end in itself. While sweeping digital transformation holds great promise, we have reached an inflection point. The world has turned information technology into both a powerful tool and a formidable weapon, and new approaches are needed to manage an era defined by even more powerful inventions like artificial intelligence. Companies that create technology must accept greater responsibility for the future, and governments will need to regulate technology by moving faster and catching up with the pace of innovation. In Tools and Weapons, Brad Smith and Carol Ann Browne bring us a captivating narrative from the cockpit of one of the world's largest and most powerful tech companies as it finds itself in the middle of some of the thorniest emerging issues of our time. These are challenges that come with no preexisting playbook, including privacy, cybercrime and cyberwar, social media, the moral conundrums of artificial intelligence, big tech's relationship to inequality, and the challenges for democracy, far and near. While in no way a self-glorifying "Microsoft memoir," the book pulls back the curtain remarkably wide onto some of the company's most crucial recent decision points as it strives to protect the hopes technology offers against the very real threats it also presents. There are huge ramifications for communities and countries, and Brad Smith provides a thoughtful and urgent contribution to that effort.
Download or read book The Progress of Religious Ideas written by Lydia Maria Child and published by . This book was released on 1855 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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