Packaging in Eastern Europe
Biotechnology in Industry, Healthcare and Environment
December 21, 2012 is believed to mark the end of the thirteenth B'ak'tun cycle in the Long Count of the Mayan calendar. A growing number of people believe this date to mark the end of the world or, at the very least, the end of the world as we know it: a shift to a new form of global consciousness. "2012: Decoding the Countercultural Apocalypse" brings together for the first time a range of scholarly analyses on the 2012 phenomena grounded in various disciplines including religious studies, anth...
A leading technology expert examines ways to manage the rapid proliferation of technology and come to grips with its pervasive influence. Technology--always a key driver of historical change--is transforming society as never before and at a far more rapid pace. This book takes the reader on a journey into what the author identifies as the central organizing construct for the future of civilization, the continued proliferation of technology. And he challenges us to consider how to think about te...
The end of the Cold War stalemate and rapid changes in the technology and organisation of warfare have opened an era of military revolution. The indiscriminate firepower of the twentieth century's mass armies is being replaced by a very different armoury, combing the gruesomely effective with the latest hightech: anti software killer viruses, precision guided pilotless aircraft and custom designed biological weapons. This ominous forecast predicts a future where targets will be computer networks...
Llama Love 2019 Planner Organize Your Weekly, Monthly, & Daily Agenda
by Kai Bleu Journals and Ultimate Planner Journal
The Fifth Fiasco, or How to Escape the Traps of Jewish History in the Twenty-First Century
by David Passig
This book goes on a journey into alternative retellings of Jewish history in order to discover its patterns, which might give us clues about the future. It proposes exploring these versions of history as an intellectual exercise to come to terms with the traumas of the past, and to prevent repeated tragedies in the future.This book identifies the direction in which the Jewish people and their future leaders will develop. Since the Jewish people have never experienced modern sovereignty before, i...
In All Societies Die, Samuel Cohn asks us to prepare for the inevitable. Our society is going to die. What are you going to do about it? But he also wants us to know that there's still reason for hope. In an immersive and mesmerizing discussion Cohn considers what makes societies (throughout history) collapse. All Societies Die points us to the historical examples of the Byzantine empire, the collapse of Somalia, the rise of Middle Eastern terrorism, the rise of drug cartels in Latin America a...
Discover how new advances in biotechnology, artificial intelligence, and regenerative design are solving global problems by enabling us to produce everything we need sustainably. Biotechnology is changing everything...again. Thanks to new gene editing techniques, as well as advances in biodesign and neuroscience, we have the power to create unlimited resources and materials, more sustainably than ever before. Artificial intelligence and regenerative design are already combatting extreme climate...
After darkness, there is always light In a time of increasing uncertainty, Rethink offers a guide to a much-needed global 'reset moment', with leading international figures giving us glimpses of a better future after the pandemic. Each contribution explores a different aspect of public and private life that can be re-examined - from Pope Francis on poverty and the Dalai Lama on the role of ancient wisdom to Brenda Hale on the courts and Tara Westover on the education divide; from Elif Shafak on...
The author gives her predictions as to what we'll buy, where we'll work, how we'll live and what we'll think in the upcoming decade. The changes she foresees include "cashing out", or swapping the rat-race for the good life, "staying alive" - the "hyper-quest" for good health and "fantasy adventure" - risk-free adventures at second hand via exciting new applications of film and video. The author spells out the ways she and her colleagues make these predictions and shows how to capitalize on the...
Black 2019 Planner Organize Your Weekly, Monthly, & Daily Agenda
by Kai Bleu Journals and Ultimate Planner Journal
Hard-hitting facts and incisive analysis in this vivid picture of the inequalities and absurdities of our world. In Kenya, monthly bribery payments add a third to the average household budget. The US spends $10bn on pornography every year. In 2001, the US spent $10bn on foreign aid. Landmines kill or maim at least one person every hour. From the inequalities and absurdities of the so-called developed West to the vast scale of suffering wreaked by war, famine and AIDS in developing countr...
A unique examination of the civic use, regulation, and politics of communication and data technologies City life has been reconfigured by our use—and our expectations—of communication, data, and sensing technologies. In this book Alison Powell examines the civic use, regulation, and politics of these technologies, looking at how governments, planners, citizens, and activists expect them to enhance life in the city. She argues that the de facto forms of citizenship that emerge in relation to th...
Landscape Notebook Large Size 8.5 x 11 Ruled 150 pages Softcover
by Wild Pages Press
Brave New World Revisited (Flamingo modern classics) (The collected works of Aldous Huxley)
by Aldous Huxley
Written 27 years after the 1932 publication of "Brave New World", this book addresses the prophecies he made in that work, believing the far-fetched fantasies of his nightmare future to be turning too swiftly into reality. Examining overpopulation, mass communication, big business, centralized government, the effects of television and advertising, this work is Huxley's polemic against modern society.
Bringing a unique perspective to the burgeoning ethical and legal issues surrounding the presence of artificial intelligence in our daily lives, the book uses theory and practice on animal rights and the rights of nature to assess the status of robots. Through extensive philosophical and legal analyses, the book explores how rights can be applied to nonhuman entities. This task is completed by developing a framework useful for determining the kinds of personhood for which a nonhuman entity migh...