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X-Risk
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 481

X-Risk

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2020-11-03
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  • Publisher: MIT Press

How humanity came to contemplate its possible extinction. From forecasts of disastrous climate change to prophecies of evil AI superintelligences and the impending perils of genome editing, our species is increasingly concerned with the prospects of its own extinction. With humanity's future on this planet seeming more insecure by the day, in the twenty-first century, existential risk has become the object of a growing field of serious scientific inquiry. But, as Thomas Moynihan shows in X-Risk, this preoccupation is not exclusive to the post-atomic age of global warming and synthetic biology. Our growing concern with human extinction itself has a history. Tracing this untold story, Moynihan...

Spinal Catastrophism
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 353

Spinal Catastrophism

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2019-12-03
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  • Publisher: MIT Press

The historical continuity of spinal catastrophism, traced across multiform encounters between philosophy, psychology, biology, and geology. Drawing on cryptic intimations in the work of J. G. Ballard, Georges Bataille, William Burroughs, André Leroi-Gourhan, Elaine Morgan, and Friedrich Nietzsche, in the late twentieth century Daniel Barker formulated the axioms of spinal catastrophism: If human morphology, upright posture, and the possibility of language are the ramified accidents of natural history, then psychic ailments are ultimately afflictions of the spine, which itself is a scale model of biogenetic trauma, a portable map of the catastrophic events that shaped that atrocity exhibitio...

X-Risk
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 481

X-Risk

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2020-10-20
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  • Publisher: MIT Press

How humanity came to contemplate its possible extinction. From forecasts of disastrous climate change to prophecies of evil AI superintelligences and the impending perils of genome editing, our species is increasingly concerned with the prospects of its own extinction. With humanity's future on this planet seeming more insecure by the day, in the twenty-first century, existential risk has become the object of a growing field of serious scientific inquiry. But, as Thomas Moynihan shows in X-Risk, this preoccupation is not exclusive to the post-atomic age of global warming and synthetic biology. Our growing concern with human extinction itself has a history. Tracing this untold story, Moynihan...

Perfect.
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 240

Perfect.

What is perfect? Now that is the perfect question. It's a 300 if you're at the bowling alley. A 2400 if you're taking the SATs. And firm with a warm, red center if you order your steak medium-rare. While the execution of perfection depends on the subject in question, the result is always the same—complete satisfaction. This intriguing collection of what qualifies as perfection covers quite the array of topics. From the perfect pour of a pint and the perfect age to propose to the shape of the perfect face and the telling of the perfect joke, you will be pleasantly surprised by the scope of perfection. Simply put—it's Perfect.

The Vengeance Riders
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 128

The Vengeance Riders

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1950
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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The Negro Family
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 84

The Negro Family

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1965
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  • Publisher: Unknown

The life and times of the thirty-second President who was reelected four times.

Fugitive
  • Language: en

Fugitive

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1951
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Maid as Muse
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 320

Maid as Muse

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2009
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  • Publisher: UPNE

A startlingly original work establishing the impact of domestic servants on the life and writings of Emily Dickinson

What I Learned Losing a Million Dollars
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 192

What I Learned Losing a Million Dollars

Jim Paul's meteoric rise took him from a small town in Northern Kentucky to governor of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, yet he lost it all--his fortune, his reputation, and his job--in one fatal attack of excessive economic hubris. In this honest, frank analysis, Paul and Brendan Moynihan revisit the events that led to Paul's disastrous decision and examine the psychological factors behind bad financial practices in several economic sectors. This book--winner of a 2014 Axiom Business Book award gold medal--begins with the unbroken string of successes that helped Paul achieve a jet-setting lifestyle and land a key spot with the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. It then describes the circumstances...

Now They Lay me Down to Rest
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 334

Now They Lay me Down to Rest

Now They Lay me Down to Rest Hodgie’s Story By: Connie L. Aiken and Thomas M. Aiken About the Book New York State Police Investigator Thomas M. Aiken was asked to reopen a 22-year-old cold case homicide in August of 1994. It involved a little boy who was abused, beaten, tortured, and starved literally to death. A little boy who never felt the love or protection of a mother in his short life with the fatal strike occurring just before his third birthday. As they began their grueling investigation, they discovered one lie after another by the professionals that were trusted to protect these children, allowing a murderous monster to walk free for 22 years and horrendously abuse six additional...