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Author : Aschwin de Wolf
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780996815314
Total Pages : 572 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (153 download)
Download or read book Preserving Minds, Saving Lives written by Aschwin de Wolf and published by . This book was released on 2015-10-11 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Francesca Minerva
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319785990
Total Pages : 145 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (197 download)
Download or read book The Ethics of Cryonics written by Francesca Minerva and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-05-31 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cryonics—also known as cryopreservation or cryosuspension—is the preservation of legally dead individuals at ultra-low temperatures. Those who undergo this procedure hope that future technology will not only succeed in reviving them, but also cure them of the condition that led to their demise. In this sense, some hope that cryopreservation will allow people to continue living indefinitely. This book discusses the moral concerns of cryonics, both as a medical procedure and as an intermediate step toward life extension. In particular, Minerva analyses the moral issues surrounding cryonics-related techniques (including the hypothetical cryosuspension of fetuses as an alternative to abortion) by focusing on how they might impact the individuals who undergo cryosuspension, as well as society at large.
Author : Larry Schweiger
Publisher : Fulcrum Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1555918050
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (559 download)
Download or read book Last Chance written by Larry Schweiger and published by Fulcrum Publishing. This book was released on 2016-11-16 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This is an unabashed call to each and every American to moral duty for the future of life on earth," begins National Wildlife Federation president and CEO Larry J. Schweiger in this stirring exposé and call to action. Speaking to us not just as a conservation leader but also as an outdoor lover and a parent, Schweiger describes the causes and effects of global warming on our wildlife, ecosystems, and human life as we know it. With an engaging, down-to-earth tone (and a dash of wit; e.g., "What Happens in Greenland Will Not Stay in Greenland"), Schweiger breaks down the science behind our looming environmental catastrophe. Not letting go of hope, he also offers practical solutions and proposes a plan of action for everyday citizens. Last Chance will inspire each of us to take part in restoring the vital connection to our natural world before it's too late."
Author : José Cordeiro
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031289277
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (312 download)
Download or read book The Death of Death written by José Cordeiro and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-06-29 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is death inevitable? Until now, the history of mankind has been marked by this fatal fact. Religions, borders and progress are born from an ancient fear of death, comfort from this fear man often found only in religious paradigms. But according to José Luis Cordeiro and David Wood, the incontrovertible fact of death is no longer an absolute certainty - science and technology are preparing to tear down the final frontier: that of immortality. This accessible book provides insight into recent exponential advances in artificial intelligence, tissue regeneration, stem cell treatment, organ printing, cryopreservation, and genetic therapies that, for the first time in human history, offer a realistic chance to solve the problem of the aging of the human body. In this book, Cordeiro and Wood not only present all the major developments, initiatives, and ideas for eternal life, they also show why there are a number of good arguments for seeing death for what it is: the last undefeated disease. Enter any drugstore or bookstore, and we confronted with a mountain of nonsense concerning the aging process. Society seems obsessed with aging. That is why The Death of Death is such a refreshing delight, able to cut through the hype and reveal a balanced, authoritative, and lucid discussion of this controversial topic. It summarizes the astonishing breakthroughs made recently in revealing how science may one day conquer the aging process. Michio Kaku, theoretical physicist and author of The God Equation: The Quest for a Theory of Everything We are entering a Fantastic Voyage into life extension, crossing different bridges that will take us to indefinite life spans. The Death of Death explains clearly how we might soon reach longevity escape velocity and live long enough to live forever. Ray Kurzweil, co-author of Fantastic Voyage: Live Long Enough to Live Forever and co-founder of Singularity University The Death of Death is a truly revolutionary book. This is a visionary book that confronts us with the terrible reality of aging, and its authors are friends and connoisseurs of the subject. I believe that the authoritative and exhaustive description of this crusade that José and David make in this excellent book will accelerate this process. Forward! Aubrey de Grey, founder of LEV (Longevity Escape Velocity) Foundation and co-author of Ending Aging
Author : Henry Trengrouse
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)
Download or read book Shipwreck investigated ... and a remedy provided in a ... life preserving apparatus written by Henry Trengrouse and published by . This book was released on 1817 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Bill Gates
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0385546149
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (855 download)
Download or read book How to Avoid a Climate Disaster written by Bill Gates and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2021-02-16 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • In this urgent, authoritative book, Bill Gates sets out a wide-ranging, practical—and accessible—plan for how the world can get to zero greenhouse gas emissions in time to avoid a climate catastrophe. Bill Gates has spent a decade investigating the causes and effects of climate change. With the help of experts in the fields of physics, chemistry, biology, engineering, political science, and finance, he has focused on what must be done in order to stop the planet's slide to certain environmental disaster. In this book, he not only explains why we need to work toward net-zero emissions of greenhouse gases, but also details what we need to do to achieve this profoundly important goal. He gives us a clear-eyed description of the challenges we face. Drawing on his understanding of innovation and what it takes to get new ideas into the market, he describes the areas in which technology is already helping to reduce emissions, where and how the current technology can be made to function more effectively, where breakthrough technologies are needed, and who is working on these essential innovations. Finally, he lays out a concrete, practical plan for achieving the goal of zero emissions—suggesting not only policies that governments should adopt, but what we as individuals can do to keep our government, our employers, and ourselves accountable in this crucial enterprise. As Bill Gates makes clear, achieving zero emissions will not be simple or easy to do, but if we follow the plan he sets out here, it is a goal firmly within our reach.
Author : Calvin Mercer
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030623599
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (36 download)
Download or read book Religion and the Technological Future written by Calvin Mercer and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-02-22 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We live in an age of rapid technological advancement. Never before has humankind wielded so much power over our own biology. Biohacking, the attempt at human enhancement of physical, cognitive, affective, moral, and spiritual traits, has become a global phenomenon. This textbook introduces religious and ethical implications of biohacking, artificial intelligence, and other technological changes, offering perspectives from monotheistic and karmic religions and applied ethics. These technological breakthroughs are transforming our societies and ourselves fundamentally via genetic modification, tissue engineering, artificial intelligence, robotics, the merging of computer technology with human biology, extended reality, brain stimulation, and nanotechnology. The book also considers the extreme possibilities of mind uploading, cryonics, and superintelligence. Chapters explore some of the political, economic, sociological, and psychological dimensions of these advances, with bibliographies for further study and questions for discussion. The technological future is here – and it is up to us to decide its moral and religious shape.
Author : J. J. Gregory
Publisher : WestBow Press
ISBN 13 : 1512775827
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (127 download)
Download or read book Preserving the Faith written by J. J. Gregory and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2017-02-21 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The war on terrorism is not a new war, only the battlefront has changed. This war is a spiritual one that manifested when man fell to sin in the Garden of Eden. Enter Conner Mckenzie, a retired federal agent turned archeologist. After being forced into retirement due to anxiety issues, Conner sets out on a global quest to prove the existence of God using modern-day archeological evidence. His quest, however, brings his past life back, and Conner, along with his team of like-minded men, find themselves on the forefront of not only the war on terrorism but a war on Christianity itself. Traversing the globe, they follow recent archeological discoveries that could prove the physical existence of King David. Conner finds a hidden, sinister agenda in the war on terrorism that, if it succeeds, will change the face of Christianity on the planet forever.
Author : David Epstein
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0735214506
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (352 download)
Download or read book Range written by David Epstein and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-04-27 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The #1 New York Times bestseller that has all America talking—with a new afterword on expanding your range—as seen on CNN's Fareed Zakaria GPS, Morning Joe, CBS This Morning, and more. “The most important business—and parenting—book of the year.” —Forbes “Urgent and important. . . an essential read for bosses, parents, coaches, and anyone who cares about improving performance.” —Daniel H. Pink Shortlisted for the Financial Times/McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award Plenty of experts argue that anyone who wants to develop a skill, play an instrument, or lead their field should start early, focus intensely, and rack up as many hours of deliberate practice as possible. If you dabble or delay, you’ll never catch up to the people who got a head start. But a closer look at research on the world’s top performers, from professional athletes to Nobel laureates, shows that early specialization is the exception, not the rule. David Epstein examined the world’s most successful athletes, artists, musicians, inventors, forecasters and scientists. He discovered that in most fields—especially those that are complex and unpredictable—generalists, not specialists, are primed to excel. Generalists often find their path late, and they juggle many interests rather than focusing on one. They’re also more creative, more agile, and able to make connections their more specialized peers can’t see. Provocative, rigorous, and engrossing, Range makes a compelling case for actively cultivating inefficiency. Failing a test is the best way to learn. Frequent quitters end up with the most fulfilling careers. The most impactful inventors cross domains rather than deepening their knowledge in a single area. As experts silo themselves further while computers master more of the skills once reserved for highly focused humans, people who think broadly and embrace diverse experiences and perspectives will increasingly thrive.
Author : Dr. Maryna Mammoliti
Publisher : FriesenPress
ISBN 13 : 1039168159
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (391 download)
Download or read book Saving Lives Without Destroying Yours written by Dr. Maryna Mammoliti and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2024-06-12 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Physicians help people heal, but how well do they take care of their own physical and mental well-being? How does a physician’s personal history, medical training, and medical culture predispose and perpetuate potential health issues, relationship challenges, financial strain, abuse, or burnout in physicians? Does the prevalent mindset of pushing beyond our needs and losing ourselves in the physician identity perpetuate burnout or sustainability? How do emotions such as fear, obligation, guilt, and shame affect medical training, medical practice, physician lives, and their relationships? Saving Lives without Destroying Yours is a self-help book for physicians to set boundaries to improve their mental health and wellbeing, break intergenerational medical training traps, protect themselves, engage more in their life roles, and design a life and medical practice where physicians can thrive, not just survive. This book empowers physicians to know themselves – their needs, wants, abilities, and limitations - while being understanding and non-judgmental towards others’ needs when setting boundaries. Takeaway pearls include building self-awareness, setting boundaries, communicating assertively, identifying patterns of abuse, building healthy relationships, and managing interpersonal conflict using dialectical behavioural therapy principles and emotional intelligence. Dr. Mammoliti and Mr. Ly combine their experience in psychiatry, psychotherapy, coaching, and occupational therapy to encourage a comprehensive self-reflection journey and guide physicians in boundary setting. Discover how to say No appropriately and say Yes to a more meaningful and healthy life.
Author : Hal Rothman
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252015489
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (154 download)
Download or read book Preserving Different Pasts written by Hal Rothman and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Edward O. Wilson
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 1631490834
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (314 download)
Download or read book Half-Earth: Our Planet's Fight for Life written by Edward O. Wilson and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2016-03-07 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An audacious and concrete proposal…Half-Earth completes the 86-year-old Wilson’s valedictory trilogy on the human animal and our place on the planet." —Jedediah Purdy, New Republic In his most urgent book to date, Pulitzer Prize–winning author and world-renowned biologist Edward O. Wilson states that in order to stave off the mass extinction of species, including our own, we must move swiftly to preserve the biodiversity of our planet. In this "visionary blueprint for saving the planet" (Stephen Greenblatt), Half-Earth argues that the situation facing us is too large to be solved piecemeal and proposes a solution commensurate with the magnitude of the problem: dedicate fully half the surface of the Earth to nature. Identifying actual regions of the planet that can still be reclaimed—such as the California redwood forest, the Amazon River basin, and grasslands of the Serengeti, among others—Wilson puts aside the prevailing pessimism of our times and "speaks with a humane eloquence which calls to us all" (Oliver Sacks).
Author : C. Stephen Evans
Publisher : Regent College Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781573830263
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (32 download)
Download or read book Preserving the Person written by C. Stephen Evans and published by Regent College Publishing. This book was released on 1994-11 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The human quest for self-understanding is ancient. It transcends the boundaries between ordinary folk and philosophers and it over- laps with many academic disciplines, including psychology, sociology, philosophy and theology. Actually, the quest is not essentially academic; it is a human quest, pursued by persons in every age. With this in mind, philosopher C. Stephen Evans takes a look at the human sciences and their contribution to this self-understanding. Evans first presents a basic problem in these sciences today: the attack on the concept of personhood. He reviews the contemporary understanding of mind and brain: Is a person only a thinking machine or a programmed organism? Then he evaluates the impact of Auguste Comte, Sigmund Freud, J.B. Watson, B.F. Skinner and Emile Durkheim on what Evans terms ?
Author : Henry Gladney
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3540378871
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (43 download)
Download or read book Preserving Digital Information written by Henry Gladney and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-03-21 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cultural history enthusiasts have asserted the urgent need to protect digital information from imminent loss. This book describes methodology for long-term preservation of all kinds of digital documents. It justifies this methodology using 20th century theory of knowledge communication, and outlines the requirements and architecture for the software needed. The author emphasizes attention to the perspectives and the needs of end users.
Author : Jonathan Glover
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141949732
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (419 download)
Download or read book Causing Death and Saving Lives written by Jonathan Glover and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 1990-06-28 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The moral problems of abortion, infanticide, suicide, euthanasia, capital punshiment, war and othe life-or-death choices.
Author : Peter Singer
Publisher : Random House Trade Paperbacks
ISBN 13 : 0812981561
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (129 download)
Download or read book The Life You Can Save written by Peter Singer and published by Random House Trade Paperbacks. This book was released on 2010 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Argues that for the first time in history we're in a position to end extreme poverty throughout the world, both because of our unprecedented wealth and advances in technology, therefore we can no longer consider ourselves good people unless we give more to the poor. Reprint.
Author : William Henry MALLISON
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 56 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (21 download)
Download or read book Plan of an institution for rendering assistance to shipwrecked Mariners, preserving their lives and the property of our merchants, when wreck occurs written by William Henry MALLISON and published by . This book was released on 1810 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
