The Future is Not Ours

The Future is Not Ours
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ISBN-10 : 193482464X
ISBN-13 : 9781934824641
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Synopsis The Future is Not Ours by : Diego Trelles Paz

An exciting anthology which brings together 23 Latin American writers who were born between 1970 and 1980. Introducing a range of writers who were born in the time of military dictatorships, witnessed the fall of the Berlin Wall, the end of the Cold War, the murders of Ciudad Jurarez, the birth of the internet and the terrorist attacks in New York.

Ours to Hack and to Own

Ours to Hack and to Own
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Total Pages : 0
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ISBN-10 : 1944869336
ISBN-13 : 9781944869335
Rating : 4/5 (36 Downloads)

Synopsis Ours to Hack and to Own by : Trebor Scholz

With the rollback of net neutrality, platform cooperativism becomes even more pressing: In one volume, some of the most cogent thinkers and doers on the subject of the cooptation of the Internet, and how we can resist and reverse the process.

These Days Are Ours

These Days Are Ours
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Publisher : Penguin UK
Total Pages : 243
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ISBN-10 : 9780241966952
ISBN-13 : 0241966957
Rating : 4/5 (52 Downloads)

Synopsis These Days Are Ours by : Michelle Haimoff

A vivid, electric tale set in New York and personally recommended by bestselling author Nick Hornby (Fever Pitch, About a Boy): These Days Are Ours is an irresistible coming-of-age story for the Lena Dunham generation from debut author Michelle Haimoff. New York City, six months after 9/11: everything has changed and nothing has. Hailey graduated college months ago but she's still living in her family's Fifth Avenue penthouse, spending her nights falling in and out of bars across Upper East Side Manhattan - and the thrill is starting to wear off. It isn't easy being young, rich and beautiful. Overnight, it seems like everyone suddenly has their lives completely sorted. Katie has a great job at Morgan Stanley, Michael Brenner is training to be a human rights lawyer and trust-fund kid Randy is just content to carry on having fun. Hailey is lost somewhere in the middle, torn between chasing down the next wild party and admitting that it might be time to grow up. She craves something more meaningful - but what? Perhaps Brenner holds the answer: gorgeous, charismatic and aloof, Hailey is convinced he is the missing piece in her puzzle. But when she meets Adrian, a man so totally different from her usual privileged crowd, she begins to realise she's been looking for happiness in all the wrong places... These Days Are Ours captures the feverish excitement and exhilarating uncertainty of the city, where bright young things are forever brimming with possibility and buckling under the pressure. Michelle Haimoff is a writer and blogger whose writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, PsychologyToday.com and The Huffington Post. She is a founding memebr of NOW-New York State's Young Feminist Task Force and blogs about feminist issues at genfem.com. She was raised in New York City, curently lives in Los Angeles, and can be found online at MichelleHaimoff.com. These Days Are Ours is her first novel.

This Life of Ours

This Life of Ours
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Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages : 170
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ISBN-10 : 1540840166
ISBN-13 : 9781540840165
Rating : 4/5 (66 Downloads)

Synopsis This Life of Ours by : Linie Sherrod

Robert and Margay live successful lives in Colorado. These two Professional adults work, live and love. Their lives begin to change drastically as events unfold through the years. This fictional paranormal work is from the Author's imagination, or is it? Who knows what is possible during "This Life of Ours?" A book about Life and Death and Family and Hope. It is about Past and Future. Although mostly a work of Fiction, many parts of the book did happen and perhaps some parts have either happened already or will in the Future. What do scientists do? They start with a theory. Their goal is to prove that theory. This imaginative theory could be true! Everything that has ever been discovered or created by Man (or Woman) came from an idea, came from "imagination".

A Defense of Abortion

A Defense of Abortion
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 370
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ISBN-10 : 0521520355
ISBN-13 : 9780521520355
Rating : 4/5 (55 Downloads)

Synopsis A Defense of Abortion by : David Boonin

David Boonin has written the most thorough and detailed case for the moral permissibility of abortion yet published. Critically examining a wide range of arguments that attempt to prove that every human fetus has a right to life, he shows that each of these arguments fails on its own terms. He then explains how even if the fetus does have a right to life, abortion can still be shown to be morally permissible on the critic of abortion's own terms.

Braving the Future

Braving the Future
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Publisher : MennoMedia, Inc.
Total Pages : 199
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ISBN-10 : 9781513803272
ISBN-13 : 1513803271
Rating : 4/5 (72 Downloads)

Synopsis Braving the Future by : Douglas Estes

Humanity is nearing a technological tipping point. The blistering pace of technological, scientific, and social change is ushering in an era in which human bodies merge with devices, corporations know everything about us, and artificial intelligence develops human and even godlike potential. In possession of the most powerful tools history has ever seen, we will be faced with questions about wisdom, authority, faith, desire, and what it means to be human. In Braving the Future, Douglas Estes equips Christians to thoughtfully and prayerfully prepare for a future of technological reign that is rapidly expanding. Drawing on Scripture, Christian tradition, and scientific literature, Estes offers a theology of work, creation, and personhood that is both prophetic and sturdy enough to keep pace with the technology of a future as yet unknown. He helps readers choose trust in God over fearful retreat and following Jesus over uncritical engagement with technology. The future may not look exactly like a science fiction movie, but are we ready to brave a future of limitless tech and boundless change?

The Great Work

The Great Work
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Publisher : Crown
Total Pages : 258
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ISBN-10 : 9780307434197
ISBN-13 : 0307434192
Rating : 4/5 (97 Downloads)

Synopsis The Great Work by : Thomas Berry

Thomas Berry is one of the most eminent cultural historians of our time. Here he presents the culmination of his ideas and urges us to move from being a disrupting force on the Earth to a benign presence. This transition is the Great Work -- the most necessary and most ennobling work we will ever undertake. Berry's message is not one of doom but of hope. He reminds society of its function, particularly the universities and other educational institutions whose role is to guide students into an appreciation rather than an exploitation of the world around them. Berry is the leading spokesperson for the Earth, and his profound ecological insight illuminates the path we need to take in the realms of ethics, politics, economics, and education if both we and the planet are to survive.

Past, Present, and Future

Past, Present, and Future
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Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Total Pages : 278
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ISBN-10 : 0252018044
ISBN-13 : 9780252018046
Rating : 4/5 (44 Downloads)

Synopsis Past, Present, and Future by : Irwin C. Lieb

Contributing specialists survey Hispanic literature of New Mexico and its influence. No index. The prevailing view in the history of philosophy has been that time is not basically real but has a derivative status. In contrast, Lieb (philosophy, U. of Southern California) establishes the thesis that time is a fundamental reality: it is individuals."

Ours to Explore

Ours to Explore
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Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Total Pages : 279
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ISBN-10 : 9781640124776
ISBN-13 : 1640124772
Rating : 4/5 (76 Downloads)

Synopsis Ours to Explore by : Pippa Biddle

In a 2014 essay that went viral, Pippa Biddle revealed the inequities and absurdities baked into voluntourism--the pairing of short-term, unskilled volunteer work with tourism. In the years since, Biddle has devoted herself to understanding the origins, intentions, and outcomes of a multibillion-dollar industry built on the premise of doing good, and she tracks that investigation in Ours to Explore. The flaws of voluntourism have included xenophobia, racism, paternalism, and a "West knows best" mentality. From exploitative orphanages that keep children in squalid conditions to attract donors to undertrained medical volunteers practicing their skills on patients in developing regions and to those looking for an inspiring selfie, Biddle reveals the hidden costs of the voluntourism complex. Along the way, readers meet inspiring activists and passionate community members, as well as thoughtful former voluntourists who still work to make a difference--just differently. Ours to Explore offers a plan for how the service-based travel industry can break the cycle of exploitation and suggests strategies for travelers who want to improve the places they visit for the long haul.