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Author | : Toby Ord |
Publisher | : Hachette Books |
Total Pages | : 480 |
Release | : 2020-03-24 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 031648489X |
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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 | : Mary Angela Dickens |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 1899 |
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Author | : Paul Doiron |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 333 |
Release | : 2015-06-16 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1250063698 |
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"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"--
Author | : Ovid T. Priffer |
Publisher | : Page Publishing Inc |
Total Pages | : 253 |
Release | : 2021-08-30 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1662433565 |
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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 | : Louis L'Amour |
Publisher | : Bantam |
Total Pages | : 225 |
Release | : 2003-12-30 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 055390003X |
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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 | : Elizabeth Enright |
Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780152022723 |
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Portia and her cousin Julian discover adventure in a hidden colony of forgotten summer houses on the shores of a swampy lake.
Author | : Dave Stuart Jr. |
Publisher | : Corwin Press |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2018-06-28 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 1506391028 |
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Dave Stuart Jr.’s work is centered on a simple belief: all students and teachers can flourish. These 6 Things is all about streamlining your practice so that you’re teaching smarter, not harder, and kids are learning, doing, and flourishing in ELA and content-area classrooms. In this essential resource, teachers will receive: Proven, classroom-tested advice delivered in an approachable, teacher-to-teacher style that builds confidence Practical strategies for streamlining instruction in order to focus on key beliefs and literacy-building activities Solutions and suggestions for the most common teacher and student “hang-ups” Numerous recommendations for deeper reading on key topics
Author | : Boris Cyrulnik |
Publisher | : Penguin UK |
Total Pages | : 189 |
Release | : 2009-04-02 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : 0141025794 |
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Author | : Adam Clay |
Publisher | : Milkweed Editions |
Total Pages | : 97 |
Release | : 2012-04-17 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 1571318607 |
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“At the edge of the world, you’ll want to have this book. The final lines of Adam Clay’s poem, ‘Scientific Method,’ have been haunting me for weeks.” —Iowa Press-Citizen The distilled, haunting, and subtly complex poems in Adam Clay’s A Hotel Lobby at the Edge of the World often arrive at that moment when solitude slips into separation, when a person suddenly realizes he can barely see the place he set out from however long ago. He now sees he must find his connection back to the present, socially entangled world in which he lives. For Clay, reverie can be a siren’s song, luring him to that space in which prisoners will begin “to interrogate themselves.” Clay pays attention to the poet’s return to the world of his daily life, tracking the subtly shifting tenors of thought that occur as the landscape around him changes. Clay is fully aware of the difficulties of Thoreau’s “border life,” and his poems live somewhere between those of James Wright and John Ashbery: They seek wholeness, all the while acknowledging that “a fragment is as complete as thought can be.” In the end, what we encounter most in these poems is a generous gentleness—an attention to the world so careful it’s as if the mind is “washing each grain of sand.” “Poems that are in turn clear and strange, and always warmly memorable.” —Bob Hicok “These poems engage fully the natural world . . . even as they understand the individual’s exclusion from it.” —Publishers Weekly
Author | : Lester Brown |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 258 |
Release | : 2012-06-25 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 113654075X |
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In this urgent time, World on the Edge calls out the pivotal environmental issues and how to solve them now. We are in a race between political and natural tipping points. Can we close coal-fired power plants fast enough to save the Greenland ice sheet and avoid catastrophic sea level rise? Can we raise water productivity fast enough to halt the depletion of aquifers and avoid water-driven food shortages? Can we cope with peak water and peak oil at the same time? These are some of the issues Lester R. Brown skilfully distils in World on the Edge. Bringing decades of research and analysis into play, he provides the responses needed to reclaim our future.