On the Edge of a Precipice
Author | : Mary Angela Dickens |
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Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 1899 |
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Author | : Mary Angela Dickens |
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Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 1899 |
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Author | : Toby Ord |
Publisher | : Hachette Books |
Total Pages | : 480 |
Release | : 2020-03-24 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 031648489X |
This urgent and eye-opening book makes the case that protecting humanity's future is the central challenge of our time. If all goes well, human history is just beginning. Our species could survive for billions of years - enough time to end disease, poverty, and injustice, and to flourish in ways unimaginable today. But this vast future is at risk. With the advent of nuclear weapons, humanity entered a new age, where we face existential catastrophes - those from which we could never come back. Since then, these dangers have only multiplied, from climate change to engineered pathogens and artificial intelligence. If we do not act fast to reach a place of safety, it will soon be too late. Drawing on over a decade of research, The Precipice explores the cutting-edge science behind the risks we face. It puts them in the context of the greater story of humanity: showing how ending these risks is among the most pressing moral issues of our time. And it points the way forward, to the actions and strategies that can safeguard humanity. An Oxford philosopher committed to putting ideas into action, Toby Ord has advised the US National Intelligence Council, the UK Prime Minister's Office, and the World Bank on the biggest questions facing humanity. In The Precipice, he offers a startling reassessment of human history, the future we are failing to protect, and the steps we must take to ensure that our generation is not the last. "A book that seems made for the present moment." —New Yorker
Author | : Ovid T. Priffer |
Publisher | : Page Publishing Inc |
Total Pages | : 253 |
Release | : 2021-08-30 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1662433565 |
Marcel Issachar: a simple man caught in an accident of history during the early and mid-twentieth century: In the greatest upheaval the world ever experienced. An intellectual he is not: A Jewish pragmatist, snared into less than a pragmatic world. He came to loath the Jewish God...he believed, He did not exist. He despised His little Jew Son...because, he had brought hope to mankind...then failed them and, what’s more, that old bearded Jewish toad, Moses, giving the populace those Ten Commandments: a sadist! He knew all too well that they were too defective to abide by them!
Author | : Paul Doiron |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 333 |
Release | : 2015-06-16 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1250063698 |
"Maine game warden Mike Bowditch joins a desperate search for two missing hikers as Maine wildlife officials deal with a frightening rash of coyote attacks"--
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Total Pages | : 4 |
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Author | : Write on Write on Edge |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 166 |
Release | : 2014-11-28 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780692319970 |
The third annual publication of Precipice: The Literary Anthology of Write on Edge explores the concept of boundaries in short stories, poetry, and memoir by a selection of authors from the Write on Edge community.
Author | : Louis L'Amour |
Publisher | : Bantam |
Total Pages | : 225 |
Release | : 2003-12-30 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 055390003X |
An outlaw's legacy... In a remote corner of Utah lies the secret outlaw kingdom of Ben Curry. For fifteen years Curry has ruled supreme, as his men have pulled jobs from Canada to Mexico. But the king is getting old... he wants to turn his legacy over to someone younger, tougher. Mike Bastian is Ben's adopted son, a young man who can handle a knife, a gun, his fists, but a man who's never broken the law. Now, as treachery explodes among Ben's riders, and two honest lawmen—Tyrel Sackett and Borden Chantry—begin to zero in on the gang, Mike must choose...between his loyalty to Ben and his yearning for a different life. Yet when the guns start echoing off the Vermilion Cliffs, the time for choosing is over—and the time for battle has begun.
Author | : Theodore Whyland |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 162 |
Release | : 1971 |
Genre | : Great Britain |
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Author | : Elizabeth Enright |
Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780152022723 |
Portia and her cousin Julian discover adventure in a hidden colony of forgotten summer houses on the shores of a swampy lake.
Author | : Boris Cyrulnik |
Publisher | : Penguin UK |
Total Pages | : 189 |
Release | : 2009-04-02 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : 0141025794 |
Self help.