Methuselah's Children
Author | : Robert A. Heinlein |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 175 |
Release | : 1958 |
Genre | : Amerikaanse fiksie |
ISBN | : 9780450009143 |
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Author | : Robert A. Heinlein |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 175 |
Release | : 1958 |
Genre | : Amerikaanse fiksie |
ISBN | : 9780450009143 |
Author | : Robert A. Heinlein |
Publisher | : Hachette UK |
Total Pages | : 234 |
Release | : 2014-12-22 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0575113197 |
After the fall of the American Ayatollahs as foretold in Stranger in a Strange Land and chronicled in Revolt in 2100, the United States of America at last fulfills the promise inherent in its first Revolution: for the first time in human history there is a nation with Liberty and Justice for All. No one may seize or harm the person or property of another, or invade his privacy, or force him to do his bidding. Americans are fiercely proud of their re-won liberties and the blood it cost them: nothing could make them forswear those truths they hold self-evident. Nothing except the promise of immortality...
Author | : Robert A. (Robert Anson) Heinlein |
Publisher | : Signet |
Total Pages | : 160 |
Release | : 1970 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780451017529 |
Author | : John K. Davis |
Publisher | : MIT Press |
Total Pages | : 369 |
Release | : 2024-03-19 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 026255156X |
An examination of the ethical issues raised by the possibility of human life extension, including its desirability, unequal access, and the threat of overpopulation. Life extension—slowing or halting human aging—is now being taken seriously by many scientists. Although no techniques to slow human aging yet exist, researchers have successfully slowed aging in yeast, mice, and fruit flies, and have determined that humans share aging-related genes with these species. In New Methuselahs, John Davis offers a philosophical discussion of the ethical issues raised by the possibility of human life extension. Why consider these issues now, before human life extension is a reality? Davis points out that, even today, we are making policy and funding decisions about human life extension research that have ethical implications. With New Methuselahs, he provides a comprehensive guide to these issues, offering policy recommendations and a qualified defense of life extension. After an overview of the ethics and science of life extension, Davis considers such issues as the desirability of extended life; whether refusing extended life is a form of suicide; the Malthusian threat of overpopulation; equal access to life extension; and life extension and the right against harm. In the end, Davis sides neither with those who argue that there are no moral objections to life enhancement nor with those who argue that the moral objections are so strong that we should never develop it. Davis argues that life extension is, on balance, a good thing and that we should fund life extension research aggressively, and he proposes a feasible and just policy for preventing an overpopulation crisis.
Author | : Robert A. Heinlein |
Publisher | : Baen |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1998-11-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780671577803 |
Presents two novels by Robert A. Heinlen in which Americans fight must fight against threats to their freedom.
Author | : Barbara Kingsolver |
Publisher | : Harper Collins |
Total Pages | : 578 |
Release | : 2009-10-13 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0061804819 |
New York Times Bestseller • Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize • An Oprah's Book Club Selection “Powerful . . . [Kingsolver] has with infinitely steady hands worked the prickly threads of religion, politics, race, sin and redemption into a thing of terrible beauty.” —Los Angeles Times Book Review The Poisonwood Bible, now celebrating its 25th anniversary, established Barbara Kingsolver as one of the most thoughtful and daring of modern writers. Taking its place alongside the classic works of postcolonial literature, it is a suspenseful epic of one family's tragic undoing and remarkable reconstruction over the course of three decades in Africa. The story is told by the wife and four daughters of Nathan Price, a fierce, evangelical Baptist who takes his family and mission to the Belgian Congo in 1959. They carry with them everything they believe they will need from home, but soon find that all of it—from garden seeds to Scripture—is calamitously transformed on African soil. The novel is set against one of the most dramatic political chronicles of the twentieth century: the Congo's fight for independence from Belgium, the murder of its first elected prime minister, the CIA coup to install his replacement, and the insidious progress of a world economic order that robs the fledgling African nation of its autonomy. Against this backdrop, Orleanna Price reconstructs the story of her evangelist husband's part in the Western assault on Africa, a tale indelibly darkened by her own losses and unanswerable questions about her own culpability. Also narrating the story, by turns, are her four daughters—the teenaged Rachel; adolescent twins Leah and Adah; and Ruth May, a prescient five-year-old. These sharply observant girls, who arrive in the Congo with racial preconceptions forged in 1950s Georgia, will be marked in surprisingly different ways by their father's intractable mission, and by Africa itself. Ultimately each must strike her own separate path to salvation. Their passionately intertwined stories become a compelling exploration of moral risk and personal responsibility.
Author | : Hal Clement |
Publisher | : Gateway |
Total Pages | : 160 |
Release | : 2011-09-29 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0575110171 |
As the planet gleamed in his viewport, Sallman Ken could not believe that such a bleak and icy globe could have produced intelligent life. Yet when the expedition had sent in unmanned landers, that was what it had found. Some sort of native alien, surviving on the barren planet. But Sallman and his team were not the first to make contact. Smugglers from his own planet had begun trading with the natives for a new and virulent narcotic - the most dangerous drug in the universe. Now Sallman would have to find out how he could survive on a planet so cold that sulphur was solid and water was liquid - and how to stop the source of the deadly drug!
Author | : J. Neil Schulman |
Publisher | : Pulpless.Com |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781584450153 |
In 1975, Robert A. Heinlein was sixty-six, at the height of his literary career; J. Neil Schulman was twenty and hadn't yet started his first novel. Because he was looking for a way to meet his idol, Schulman wangled an assignment from the New York Daily News--at the time the largest circulation newspaper in the U.S.--to interview Heinlein for its Sunday Book Supplement. The resulting taped interview lasted three-and-a-half hours. This turned out to be the longest interview Heinlein ever granted, and the only one in which he talked freely and extensively about his personal philosophy and ideology. "The Robert Heinlein Interview" contains Heinlein you won't find anywhere else--even in Heinlein's own "Expanded Universe." If you wnat to know what Heinlein had to say about UFO's, life after death, epistemology, or libertarianism, this interview is the only source available. Also included in this collection are articles, reviews, and letters that J. Neil Schulman wrote about Heinlein, including the original article written for The Daily News, about which the Heinleins wrote Schulman that it was, "The best article--in style, content, and accuracy--of the many, many written about him over the years." This book is must-reading for any serious student of Heinlein, or any reader seeking to know him better.
Author | : History of Economics Society. Conference |
Publisher | : Psychology Press |
Total Pages | : 346 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Economics |
ISBN | : 0415133556 |
This volume demonstrates the variety and creativity of American economics and the links between American economic thought and its non- European context. It contains selected papers from the 1996 History of Economics Society Conference.
Author | : Peter Douglas Ward |
Publisher | : W H Freeman & Company |
Total Pages | : 212 |
Release | : 1993-03 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9780716724889 |
Presents examples of animals, such as the horseshoe crab, which have existed through ice ages, changes in ocean levels, and more, while other species have died out