Download or read book Shape of the Beast The PB written by Roy and published by Penguin Books India. This book was released on 2009-07-13 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Zeniths written by Josh D. Schroeder and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2023-05-15 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: About the Book Zeniths is a novel about a man who deals with some serious problems in his personal life. When a threat comes from beyond the darkness of space, he and others must struggle to survive. As they fight to live, they discover things that were meant to be kept in the dark. They eventually find out that the universe and all that it entails are far more than they ever were told by the government. About the Author Josh D. Schroeder was born in Wichita, Kansas, where he also currently resides. He enjoyed creating stories to entertain others when he was a child. He struggled with bullying and depression for years until he was able to find new hope as an adult. As others saw his talents, Josh was able to regain the confidence he needed to reignite his passion for creating stories.

Download or read book Duty and the Beast written by Andy Lamey and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-03-28 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The moral status of animals is a subject of controversy both within and beyond academic philosophy, especially regarding the question of whether and when it is ethical to eat meat. A commitment to animal rights and related notions of animal protection is often thought to entail a plant-based diet, but recent philosophical work challenges this view by arguing that, even if animals warrant a high degree of moral standing, we are permitted - or even obliged - to eat meat. Andy Lamey provides critical analysis of past and present dialogues surrounding animal rights, discussing topics including plant agriculture, animal cognition, and in vitro meat. He documents the trend toward a new kind of omnivorism that justifies meat-eating within a framework of animal protection, and evaluates for the first time which forms of this new omnivorism can be ethically justified, providing crucial guidance for philosophers as well as researchers in culture and agriculture.

Download or read book The Politics of Annihilation written by Benjamin Meiches and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2019-03-19 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did a powerful concept in international justice evolve into an inequitable response to mass suffering? For a term coined just seventy-five years ago, genocide has become a remarkably potent idea. But has it transformed from a truly novel vision for international justice into a conservative, even inaccessible term? The Politics of Annihilation traces how the concept of genocide came to acquire such significance on the global political stage. In doing so, it reveals how the concept has been politically contested and refashioned over time. It explores how these shifts implicitly impact what forms of mass violence are considered genocide and what forms are not. Benjamin Meiches argues that the limited conception of genocide, often rigidly understood as mass killing rooted in ethno-religious identity, has created legal and political institutions that do not adequately respond to the diversity of mass violence. In his insistence on the concept’s complexity, he does not undermine the need for clear condemnations of such violence. But neither does he allow genocide to become a static or timeless notion. Meiches argues that the discourse on genocide has implicitly excluded many forms of violence from popular attention including cases ranging from contemporary Botswana and the Democratic Republic of Congo, to the legacies of colonial politics in Haiti, Canada, and elsewhere, to the effects of climate change on small island nations. By mapping the multiplicity of forces that entangle the concept in larger assemblages of power, The Politics of Annihilation gives us a new understanding of how the language of genocide impacts contemporary political life, especially as a means of protesting the social conditions that produce mass violence.

Download or read book The Meaty Truth written by Shushana Castle and published by Skyhorse. This book was released on 2014-11-11 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Meaty Truth is an eye-opening look at the massive problems caused by the American population’s food supply. Water, meat, and milk and other dairy products are filled with toxins, antibiotics, untested growth hormones, ammonia, and animal pus and manure. The current conditions of the food production industry must drastically improve, and until they do, it is absolutely vital to monitor what you eat. Castle and Goodman take a hard-hitting look at what America is putting into its food, the negative effects this has on the world, and the best ways to make healthy, informed decisions about eating. As the antibiotic age ends, the rise of pandemic diseases is approaching. Approximately half of the illnesses that claim American lives today are related to what we eat, and our health-care system is focused on treating the sick, not preventing illnesses from occurring. To fix our health problems, to continue feeding the world’s ever-growing population, and to save our planet from ecological destruction, we can no longer avoid making changes to how American meat and dairy are produced. This guide is easy to read, applicable to anyone’s lifestyle, and impossible to put down.

Download or read book The Beast written by Benjamin B. Lindsey and published by University Press of Colorado. This book was released on 2009-06-30 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Judge Benjamin Barr Lindsey’s exposé of big business’s influence on Colorado and Denver politics, a best seller when it was originally published in 1911, is now back in print. The Beast reveals the plight of working-class Denver citizens—in particular those Denver youths who ended up in Lindsey’s court day after day. These encounters led him to create the juvenile court, one of the first courts in the country set up to deal specifically with young delinquents. In addition, Lindsey exposes the darker side of many well-known figures in Colorado history, including Mayor Robert W. Speer, Governor Henry Augustus Buchtel, Will Evans, and many others. When first published, The Beast was considered every bit the equal Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle and sold over 500,000 copies. More than just a fascinating slice of Denver history, this book—and Lindsey’s court— offered widespread social change in the United States.

Download or read book An Act of God written by David Javerbaum and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As dictated to his mortal amanuensis, 11-time Emmy Award-winning comedy writer, David Javerbaum, God looks back with unprecedented candor on his time in the public sector. He takes us behind the scenes.

Download or read book Ethics and the Beast written by Tzachi Zamir and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2009-02-09 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many people think that animal liberation would require a fundamental transformation of basic beliefs. We would have to give up "speciesism" and start viewing animals as our equals, with rights and moral status. And we would have to apply these beliefs in an all-or-nothing way. But in Ethics and the Beast, Tzachi Zamir makes the radical argument that animal liberation doesn't require such radical arguments--and that liberation could be accomplished in a flexible and pragmatic way. By making a case for liberation that is based primarily on common moral intuitions and beliefs, and that therefore could attract wide understanding and support, Zamir attempts to change the terms of the liberation debate. Without defending it, Ethics and the Beast claims that speciesism is fully compatible with liberation. Even if we believe that we should favor humans when there is a pressing human need at stake, Zamir argues, that does not mean that we should allow marginal human interests to trump the life-or-death interests of animals. As minimalist as it sounds, this position generates a robust liberation program, including commitments not to eat animals, subject them to factory farming, or use them in medical research. Zamir also applies his arguments to some questions that tend to be overlooked in the liberation debate, such as whether using animals can be distinguished from exploiting them, whether liberationists should be moral vegetarians or vegans, and whether using animals for therapeutic purposes is morally blameless.

Download or read book Loving The Beast written by Rabia Sajal Niazi and published by Singapore New Reading Technology Pte Ltd. This book was released on with total page 793 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ferris Kingston is a ruthless mafia leader but when Hazel Lincoln is forced to marry him, she hopes to find mercy behind his cold eyes and strong hands. Hazel Lincoln was a nobody without her aunt. Feisty, hot-headed, dreamy, and naive was how she is described often. But to Ferris Kingston, she is a seductress who has intentionally made his nights restless... When a series of incidents force them arranged into marriage none of them ever had an idea what they were getting into. It was like thunder against a volcano... She hated his controlling manners and dominating nature. He was hell-bent on taming her feistiness. To the world, they are the most perfect couple but nobody knows whats happens behind the closed doors of Kingston Manor.....

Download or read book The Death of the Animal written by Paola Cavalieri and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While moral perfectionists rank conscious beings according to their cognitive abilities, Paola Cavalieri launches a more inclusive defense of all forms of subjectivity. In concert with Peter Singer, J. M. Coetzee, Harlan B. Miller, and other leading animal studies scholars, she expands our understanding of the nonhuman in such a way that the derogatory category of "the animal" becomes meaningless. In so doing, she presents a nonhierachical approach to ethics that better respects the value of the conscious self. Cavalieri opens with a dialogue between two imagined philosophers, laying out her challenge to moral perfectionism and tracing its influence on our attitudes toward the "unworthy." She then follows with a roundtable "multilogue" which takes on the role of reason in ethics and the boundaries of moral status. Coetzee, Nobel Prize winner for Literature and author of The Lives of Animals, emphasizes the animality of human beings; Miller, a prominent analytic philosopher at Virginia Polytechnic Institute, dismantles the rationalizations of human bias; Cary Wolfe, professor of English at Rice University, advocates an active exposure to other worlds and beings; and Matthew Calarco, author of Zoographies: The Question of the Animal from Heidegger to Derrida, extends ethical consideration to entities that traditionally have little or no moral status, such as plants and ecosystems. As Peter Singer writes in his foreword, the implications of this conversation extend far beyond the issue of the moral status of animals. They "get to the heart of some important differences about how we should do philosophy, and how philosophy can relate to our everyday life." From the divergences between analytical and continental approaches to the relevance of posthumanist thinking in contemporary ethics, the psychology of speciesism, and the practical consequences of an antiperfectionist stance, The Death of the Animal confronts issues that will concern anyone interested in a serious study of morality.

Download or read book The Shape of the Beast written by Arundhati Roy and published by Penguin Books India. This book was released on 2008 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Shape Of The Beast Is Our World Laid Bare, With Great Courage, Passion And Eloquence, By A Mind That Has Engaged Unhesitatingly With Its Changing Realities, Often Anticipating The Way Things Have Moved In The Last Decade. In The Fourteen Interviews Collected Here, Conducted Between January 2001 And March 2008, Arundhati Roy Examines The Nature Of State And Corporate Power As It Has Emerged During This Period, And The Shape That Resistance Movements Are Taking. As She Speaks, Among Other Things, About People Displaced By Dams And Industry, The Genocide In Gujarat, Maoist Rebels, The War In Kashmir And The Global War On Terror, She Raises Fundamental Questions About Democracy, Justice And Non-Violent Protest. Unabashedly Political, This Is Also A Deeply Personal Collection. Through The Conversations, Arundhati Talks About The Necessity Of Taking A Stand, As Also The Dilemma Of Guarding The Private Space Necessary For Writing In A World That Demands Urgent, Unequivocal Intervention. And In The Final Interview, She Discusses With Uncommon Candour Her Ambiguous Feelings About Success And Both The Pressures And The Freedom That Come With It.

Download or read book Not as Nature Intended written by Rich Hardy and published by Unbound Publishing. This book was released on 2020-01-23 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Relying on a hidden camera, a bluff and a little bit of luck, award-winning investigative journalist Rich Hardy finds imaginative ways to meet the people and industries responsible for the lives and deaths of the billions of animals used to feed, clothe and entertain us. What he discovers will shock, but it may just inspire you to re-evaluate your relationship with all animals and what role you let them play in your life. Sometimes dangerous, often emotional and occasionally surreal, this one-of-a-kind perspective examines what it’s like to live and work amongst your adversaries and what you can achieve if you feel strongly enough about something. ‘Cruelty to animals goes on daily behind the closed doors of factory farms or deep in the forests where wild animals are trapped for their fur. Rich’s book exposes us to the raw truth behind these animal trades. Whilst it’s a deeply personal story, it has the potential to change, not just your own life, but the lives of millions of animals. I urge you to read it!’ Joanna Lumley, Actress, author and activist 'An incredible and moving exposé of the horror that animals go through to create a product that destroys the environment & keeps people sick and miserable.’ Moby, Musician and activist ‘It is beautifully and lucidly written...it avoids gratuitous expression but delivers the truth in a compelling and penetrating narrative. Not As Nature Intended is a must read.’ Peter Egan, Actor and animal advocate 'A 007 of the animal world.’ Rhian Lubin, The Daily Mirror ‘As you read this book, if you have a heart and a soul, you too won't fail to be bowled over by Rich's courage.’ Jane Dalton, The Independent ‘All the evidence we need to make our future a plant-based one.’ Christina Rees MP, Chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Vegetarianism and Veganism ‘An eye-opening insight into the horrors endured by animals around the world - and into the minds of those who risk everything to help them.’ Maria Chiorando, Plant Based News

Download or read book STITCH written by Apollo Stark and published by Skull 'n' Bones Ltd. This book was released on 2021-01-12 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An immortal black cat A pair of magic knitting needles An old woman who is more than she appears to be And a carpet bag that thinks it is a dog Who thinks knitting is magic? Maisie Evans certainly didn’t but she was in for the surprise of her life. She didn’t know she had a spark within her, a special connection to the weave of creation, the ethereal energy which binds everything together. But Granny Stitch, her new next door neighbour, knew. The old woman had been searching for nearly half a century for someone with that special spark to become a the Keeper and protector of an ancient and magical pair of knitting needles capable of knitting anything their user could imagine. Despairing of ever finding a Keeper for the needles, Granny Stitch had already tried to train another girl, but, realising the girl's ambition was dangerous the old woman rejected her. With vengeance in mind, Amber Trumpington-Smythe vowed to stop at nothing to obtain the needles and unleash demonic forces that could destroy everything Granny Stitch held dear. Before it is too late, can Maisie overcome her own selfishness and fear, and learn to control the needles in order to stop Amber using them for evil?

Download or read book International Competitiveness written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Finance. Subcommittee on Taxation and Debt Management and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Starve The Beast written by Fouad Sabry and published by One Billion Knowledgeable. This book was released on 2024-10-06 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlock key insights into fiscal conservatism and government budgeting in Starve The Beast, an essential volume in the Political Science series by Fouad Sabry. This book explains the complexities of reducing government size and spending from both historical and modern perspectives. Chapters Overviews: 1: Starve The Beast: Understand how limiting government resources curbs its size and influence. 2: Reaganomics: Explore Reagan's policies, emphasizing tax cuts and reduced spending. 3: Supply-side Economics: Learn how lower taxes drive growth and its role in fiscal conservatism. 4: Grover Norquist: Discover Norquist’s influence on tax reform and smaller government. 5: Government Budget Balance: Understand methods and consequences of maintaining budget balance. 6: Balanced Budget Amendment: Examine the proposal to limit federal spending by law. 7: U.S. Federal Budget: Gain insight into U.S. budget structure and its impact on governance. 8: Fiscal Conservatism: Understand fiscal conservatism's core principles of lower spending and taxes. 9: Deficit Reduction: Examine U.S. efforts to reduce the federal deficit, past and present. 10: Budget Sequestration: Learn about automatic spending cuts and their effects on policy. 11: Deficit Spending: Explore how spending exceeding revenue impacts national debt. 12: Tax Equity Act of 1982: Investigate this law’s role in tax reform and fiscal responsibility. 13: PAYGO: Understand how PAYGO ensures new spending is balanced by cuts or revenue. 14: Fiscal Illusion: Examine how government spending costs are often hidden from the public. 15: U.S. Public Debt History: Trace the history of U.S. debt and its ongoing challenges. 16: National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility: Review this commission's recommendations for long-term fiscal solutions. 17: 2012 U.S. Federal Budget: Analyze the key decisions in the 2012 budget and their effects. 18: Federal Expenditures: Examine how federal funds are allocated and their societal impact. 19: The Path to Prosperity: Explore this plan aimed at reducing government spending and reforming policy. 20: Political Debates on the Federal Budget: Discover the various political arguments surrounding budgetary policies. 21: U.S. Fiscal Cliff: Understand the fiscal cliff and its potential economic consequences. Starve The Beast offers invaluable insights for anyone interested in fiscal policy, providing comprehensive analysis and expert commentary. Perfect for students and professionals alike, this book is a must-have addition to your collection.

Download or read book Future of Airplane Factory written by George Nicholas Bullen and published by SAE International. This book was released on 2019-05-28 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Future of Airplane Factory: Digitally Optimized Intelligent Airplane Factory defines the architecture, key building blocks, and roadmap for actualizing a future airplane factory (FAF) that is digitally optimized for intelligent airplane assembly. They fit and integrate with other FAF building blocks that aggregate to a Digitally Optimized Intelligent Airplane Factory (DOIAF). The word "intelligent" refers to the ability of a system to make right decisions and take right action in the highly dynamic and fluid environment of the modern airplane manufacturing space. The event-driven dynamics inherent in the complexity of this environment drive the need for expert knowledge which resides in intelligence systems incorporating the experience of experts. Expert knowledge need not be smart, brilliant, or possess genius as long as the outcomes are derived from right decisions resulting in right actions-applied rapidly to sustain an optimized factory enterprise. Complete factory enterprise visibility requires a higher order of decision capability that current operating systems do not have. A highly visible factory collects and displays data and information as it happens-at a rate beyond the ability of humans and current systems to analyze, process, decide, and act upon. Expert systems are constructed to present humans with right decisions in the form of optimal choices for right actions by incorporating the knowledge of experts into the logic for the decision. Structured Knowledge-Based Expert Systems (SKBES) are incorporated in this book and defined as a critical component for full enterprise actionable visibility. The power of the Digitally Optimized Intelligent Airplane Factory not only is found in its ability to unify the factory, reduce touch labor, improve quality, and streamline throughput but it also enables a significant reduction in above-the-shop-floor support and management. Such an ecosystem frees the human to focus on the complexity of interpersonal responsibilities. If the use of a DOIAF can be viewed as a holistic mechanism, then the human can be the agent engaging with that mechanism; improving negotiations for pricing, contracts, or other person-to-person events that require instinct and relationship.