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The Precipice

Author : Toby Ord
Publisher : Hachette Books
ISBN 13 : 031648489X
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (164 download)

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Download or read book The Precipice written by Toby Ord and published by Hachette Books. This book was released on 2020-03-24 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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

At the Precipice

Author : Shearer Davis Bowman
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 0807895679
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book At the Precipice written by Shearer Davis Bowman and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2010-10-04 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why did eleven slave states secede from the Union in 1860-61? Why did the eighteen free states loyal to the Union deny the legitimacy of secession, and take concrete steps after Fort Sumter to subdue what President Abraham Lincoln deemed treasonous rebellion? At the Precipice seeks to answer these and related questions by focusing on the different ways in which Americans, North and South, black and white, understood their interests, rights, and honor during the late antebellum years. Rather than give a narrative account of the crisis, Shearer Davis Bowman takes readers into the minds of the leading actors, examining the lives and thoughts of such key figures as Abraham Lincoln, James Buchanan, Jefferson Davis, John Tyler, and Martin Van Buren. Bowman also provides an especially vivid glimpse into what less famous men and women in both sections thought about themselves and the political, social, and cultural worlds in which they lived, and how their thoughts informed their actions in the secession period. Intriguingly, secessionists and Unionists alike glorified the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States, yet they interpreted those sacred documents in markedly different ways and held very different notions of what constituted "American" values.

Power on the Precipice

Author : Andrew Imbrie
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300256108
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Power on the Precipice written by Andrew Imbrie and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2020-09-08 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An essential guide to renewing American leadership in a turbulent, polarized, and postdominant world Is America fated to decline as a great power? Can it recover? With absorbing insight and fresh perspective, foreign policy expert Andrew Imbrie provides a road map for bolstering American leadership in an era of turbulence abroad and deepening polarization at home. This is a book about choices: the tough policy trade-offs that political leaders need to make to reinvigorate American money, might, and clout. In the conventional telling, the United States is either destined for continued dominance or doomed to irreversible decline. Imbrie argues instead that the United States must adapt to changing global dynamics and compete more wisely. Drawing on the author’s own experience as an adviser to Secretary of State John Kerry, as well as on interviews and comparative studies of the rise and fall of nations, this book offers a sharp look at American statecraft and the United States’ place in the world today.

The Precipice

Author : Noam Chomsky
Publisher : Haymarket Books
ISBN 13 : 1642594792
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (425 download)

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Download or read book The Precipice written by Noam Chomsky and published by Haymarket Books. This book was released on 2021-06-01 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Precipice, Noam Chomsky sheds light into the phenomenon of Trumpism, exposes the catastrophic nature and impact of Trump’s policies on people, the environment, and the planet as a whole, and captures the dynamics of the brutal class warfare launched by the masters of capital to maintain and even enhance the features of a dog-eat–dog society to the unprecedented mobilization of millions of people against neoliberal capitalism, racism, and police violence/

Walking the Precipice

Author : Barbara Bick
Publisher : The Feminist Press at CUNY
ISBN 13 : 1558619194
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (586 download)

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Download or read book Walking the Precipice written by Barbara Bick and published by The Feminist Press at CUNY. This book was released on 2015-06-07 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An “enthralling” memoir of a woman who risked her life to help a people under siege and a country caught between freedom and oppression (Publishers Weekly—starred review). In 1990, sixty-five-year-old activist and grandmother Barbara Bick traveled with a women’s delegation to Afghanistan for what she thought would be her last great adventure. Instead, Bick forged deep friendships with her Afghan hosts—only to watch in horror as the Taliban took over most of the country and instituted fiercely anti-woman policies. Eleven years later, at age 76, Bick returned to Afghanistan, travelling to the region controlled by the Northern Alliance, an anti-Taliban militia. In early September 2001, Bick walked out of a compound where militia leader Ahmad Shah Massoud was also staying. Minutes later, Taliban infiltrators assassinated Massoud—a prelude to the al Qaeda attacks on the United States. As the US government became deeply involved in Afghanistan, Bick decided to return once again to see how women were faring under the new government. In 2004, she was one of the few Western women able to bring years of experience to understanding the country’s trauma. Walking the Precipice gives new insight into the people, politics, and culture of a country that is on everyone’s radar—for its beauty, and for its tragic place history.

The Precipice

Author : Ben Bova
Publisher : Tor Books
ISBN 13 : 0312703074
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (127 download)

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Download or read book The Precipice written by Ben Bova and published by Tor Books. This book was released on 2001-10-26 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Six-time Hugo Award winner Ben Bova chronicles the saga of humankind's expansion beyond the solar system in The Precipice. Once, Dan Randolph was one of the richest men on Earth. Now the planet is spiraling into environmental disaster, with floods and earthquakes destroying the lives of millions. Randolph knows the energy and natural resources of space can save Earth's economy, but the price may be the loss of the only thing he has left--the company he founded, Astro Manufacturing. Martin Humphries, fabulously wealthy heir of the Humphries Trust, also knows that space-based industry is the way of the future. But unlike Randolph, he doesn't care if Earth perishes in the process. And he knows that the perfect bait to ensnare Dan Randolph--and take control of Astro--is his revolutionary new fusion propulsion system. As Randolph--accompanied by two fascinating women who are also brilliant astronauts--flies out to the Asteroid Belt aboard a fusion-propelled spacecraft, Humphries makes his move. The future of mankind lies in Randolph's hands. The Asteroid Wars have begun. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Precipice

Author : Nicholas Deiuliis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781645720607
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (26 download)

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Download or read book Precipice written by Nicholas Deiuliis and published by . This book was released on 2022-03-29 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Precipice: The Left's Campaign to Destroy America is a rallying cry in defense of the 'doers' to inspire awareness. Western society was built by the Creator, optimized by the Enabler, and refined by the Server. These three professional classes are the best society has to offer, and without them quality of life instantly degrades. America was designed to allow these classes to freely toil, achieve, and grow. Government was minimized and existed to serve the people. The American system of meritocracy created, grew, and sustained the middle class. Today the situation has changed for the worst, with America teetering upon a tipping point. The Leech, a class that exists solely to appropriate and consume the fruits of others' labor, has grown across every segment of the economy and society. As the Leech grows, the Creator, Enabler, and Server suffer. Successful culmination of the Leech campaign results in the destruction of the middle class, control resting with the 'haves' of the entrenched Leech elite, and the rest of society becoming indentured 'have-nots, ' who are perpetually dependent on an unsustainable system.

The Precipice

Author : Paul Doiron
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1250063698
Total Pages : 333 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book The Precipice written by Paul Doiron and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2015-06-16 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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"--

Philosophy and Politics at the Precipice

Author : Gary M. Kelly
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351599011
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (515 download)

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Download or read book Philosophy and Politics at the Precipice written by Gary M. Kelly and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-01 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Philosophy and Politics at the Precipice maintains that political philosopher Alexandre Kojève (1901–68) has been both famously misunderstood and famous for being misunderstood. Kojève was famously understood by interpreters for seeing an "end of history" (an end that would display universal free democracies and even freer markets) as critical to his thought. He became famously misunderstood when interpreters, at the end of the twentieth century, placed such an end at the center of his thought. This book reads Kojève again – as a thinker of time, not its end. It presents Kojève as a philosopher and precisely as a time phenomenologist, rather than as a New Age guru. The book shows how Kojève’s time is inherently political, and indeed tyrannical, for being about his understanding of human relation. However, Kojève’s views on time and tyranny prove his undoing for making rule impossible because of what the book terms the "time-tyrant problem." Kojève’s entire political corpus is best understood as an attempt to rectify this problem. So understood, Philosophy and Politics at the Precipice provides fresh perspective on the true nature of Kojèvian irony, Kojève’s aims in the Strauss–Kojève exchange, and how Kojève at his best captures a philosophical, phenomenological time, one that marks some of the most dynamic and unique events of the twentieth century. Headlines have largely erased the notion that history has ended. Philosophy and Politics at the Precipice, on the other hand, provides the philosophical justification for arguing that the end of the last millennium was not an end and that, for his view of time, Kojève remains a thinker for the times ahead.

The Precipice of Mental Health

Author : Achea Redd
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1637630611
Total Pages : 121 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (376 download)

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Download or read book The Precipice of Mental Health written by Achea Redd and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-05-03 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The mental health crisis is worse than ever: In an age of increasing isolation, insecurity, and loss, people are suffering, and not everyone is able to afford or access the help that they need. Mental health activist Achea Redd wants to change that, because for her, it's personal. Though Redd seemingly led a charmed life as the daughter of a pastor and wife of NBA legend and former Olympian Michael Redd, the mother of two battled debilitating mental illness. In The Precipice of Mental Health, Redd shares her remarkably reflective story about the societal issues of mental health and her personal mental health struggles, including eating disorders, panic attacks, suicidal ideation, and the impact COVID-19 had on her battle." --

Challenging Legitimacy at the Precipice of Energy Calamity

Author : Debra J. Davidson
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1461402875
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (614 download)

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Download or read book Challenging Legitimacy at the Precipice of Energy Calamity written by Debra J. Davidson and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-08-30 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Human history has often been described as a progressive relinquishment from environmental constraints. Now, it seems, we have come full circle. The ecological irrationalities associated with industrial societies have a lengthy history, and our purpose in the proposed book is not to catalogue this litany of wrongs. Rather, this book is about political responses to global environmental crisis at a crucial turning point in history, by focusing on the political discourses surrounding the tar sands in Alberta, Canada.

Teaching in the Fourth Industrial Revolution

Author : Armand Doucet
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351035843
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book Teaching in the Fourth Industrial Revolution written by Armand Doucet and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-02-19 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this visionary book, written by six internationally recognized Global Teacher Prize finalists, the authors create a positive and hope-filled template for the future of education. They address the hard moral, ethical and pedagogical questions facing education today so that progress can serve society, rather than destroying it from within our classrooms. This blueprint for education finally brings forward what has always been missing in education reform: a strong collective narrative with authentic examples from teachers on the front line. It is a holistic, personalized approach to education that harnesses the disruptions of the Fourth Industrial Revolution to better shape the future for the next generation, and ensure that every child can benefit from the ongoing transformations. A great read for anyone who has an interest in educating our youth for these uncertain times, highlighting why teachers will always matter.

Earth System Law: Standing on the Precipice of the Anthropocene

Author : Timothy Cadman
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000482499
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Earth System Law: Standing on the Precipice of the Anthropocene written by Timothy Cadman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-12-13 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book systematically explores the emerging legal discipline of Earth System Law (ESL), challenging the closed system of law and marking a new era in law and society scholarship. Law has historically provided stability, certainty, and predictability in the ordering of social relations (predominantly between humans). However, in recent decades the Earth’s relationship in law has changed with increasing recognition of the standing of Mother Earth, inherent rights of the environment (such as flora and fauna, rivers), and now recognition of the multiple relations of the Anthropocene. This book questions the fundamental assumption that ‘the law’ only applies to humans, and that the earth, as a system, has intrinsic rights and responsibilities. In the last ten years the planet has experienced its hottest period since human evolution, and by the year 2100, unless substantive action is taken, many species will be lost, and planetary conditions will be intolerable for human civilisation as it currently exists. Relationships between humans, the biosphere, and all planetary systems must change. The authors address these challenging topics, setting the groundwork of ESL to ensure sustainable development of the coupled socio-ecological system that the Earth has become. Earth System Law is an interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research project, and, as such, this book will be of great interest to researchers and stakeholders from a wide range of disciplines, including political science, anthropology, economics, law, ethics, sociology, and psychology.

Standing on the Precipice

Author : Donna Jamieson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780978045340
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (453 download)

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Download or read book Standing on the Precipice written by Donna Jamieson and published by . This book was released on 2012-07 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Precipice

Author : Virginia Duigan
Publisher : Random House Australia
ISBN 13 : 1742744931
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (427 download)

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Download or read book The Precipice written by Virginia Duigan and published by Random House Australia. This book was released on 2011-06-01 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What happens when an obsession takes over and there is no one to hold you back? Longlisted for the Miles Franklin Award. Thea Farmer, a reclusive and difficult retired school principal, lives in isolation with her dog in the Blue Mountains. Her distinguished career ended under a cloud over a decade earlier, following a scandal involving a much younger male teacher. After losing her savings in the financial crash, she is forced to sell the dream house she had built for her old age and live on in her dilapidated cottage opposite. Initially resentful and hostile towards Frank and Ellice, the young couple who buy the new house, Thea develops a flirtatious friendship with Frank, and then a grudging affinity with his twelve-year-old niece, Kim, who lives with them. Although she has never much liked children, Thea discovers a gradual and wholly unexpected bond with the half-Vietnamese Kim, a solitary, bookish child from a troubled background. Her growing sympathy with Kim propels Thea into a psychological minefield. Finding Frank's behaviour increasingly irresponsible, she becomes convinced that all is not well in the house. Unsettling suspicions, which may or may not be irrational, begin to dominate her life, and build towards a catastrophic climax.

Precipice

Author : Tom Savage
Publisher : Onyx Books
ISBN 13 : 9780451183330
Total Pages : 422 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (833 download)

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Download or read book Precipice written by Tom Savage and published by Onyx Books. This book was released on 1995 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The house is named Cliffhanger, a bit of heaven perched high on a hill in a Caribbean paradise, where a twisted conspiracy among the super-rich of St. Thomas turns the sparkling island playground into a killing ground where nothing is what it seems, and no one is who they claim.

White Nights in Split Town City

Author : Annie DeWitt
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780991360840
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (68 download)

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Download or read book White Nights in Split Town City written by Annie DeWitt and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Debut novel from a new and refreshing voice about a childhood lost in rural america.