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Author : Philip K. Dick
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Fiction
ISBN : STANFORD:36105123332103
As our culture becomes ever more fluid, the world is finally catching up with even the most bizarre of Philip K. Dick's imaginings. Twenty five years after his death we are living in his world, as this collection of his best short fiction illustrates.
Author : Archna Gupta
Publisher : Notion Press
Page : 46 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2022-04-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9798885916578
This book is a collection of the life stories of ten fantastic human beings from different parts of the world and different backgrounds. It aims not to impart information, which is easily available in this Internet era, but to ignite inspiration that could stay for a lifetim. It may not soothe young readers to sleep, but it may awaken them to the profound real world more amazing than fiction. It will not give ready-made answers to life’s questions; but it will intrigue young readers with life stories of a few humans, nudge them with compelling questions, and help them evolve their own human consciousness. Here is a book which one can come back to again and again, and always get something new out of it. Here is a book that helps to seek and know the joy of wondering about life. Here is a book that is not about super-humans, but about realizing that BEING HUMAN IS SUPER.
Author : J. J. Mulligan Sepulveda
Publisher : Melville House
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2019-01-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781612197708
"Inspiring and eye-opening..."— *starred* Booklist review “A compassionate and expert window into the netherworlds of immigration..."—Lauren Markham, author of The Far Away Brothers Now in paperback, with a new afterword by the author, an immigration lawyer's journalistic account of keeping American borders and dreams alive. In this powerful and personal narrative, a distinguished immigration lawyer guides us through the trials and terrors of modern immigration law. Beginning in a day in the life of an undocumented immigrant, Sepulveda proceedes through a processing intake and a heartwrenching court hearing. He takes us to a Texas border detention center where mothers and childen are essentially imprisoned, then on to New York's JFK airport during the weekend of Trump's infamous travel ban, where Sepulveda joined many other attorneys to provide pro bono legal counsel for passengers endangered with deportation. In this multi-faceted account of being on the front lines at one of the biggest crisis of our time, Sepulveda recounts growing up the son of a Latin American immigrant, his time in Spain as a Fulbright fellow to study Europe's ongoing migrant crisis and, in a new Afterword, his testimony before a Senate committee to advocate on behalf of undocumented youth.
Author : Philip K. Dick
Publisher : Echo Point+ORM
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2019-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781648370007
Thirteen short stories by the legendary author of The Man in the High Castle and other science fiction classics. Philip K. Dick didn’t predict the future―he summoned the desperate bleakness of our present directly from his fevered paranoia. Dick didn’t predict the Internet or iPhones or email or 3D printers, but rather he so thoroughly understood human nature that he could already see, even at the advent of the transistor, the way technology would alienate us from each other and from ourselves. He could see us isolated and drifting in our own private realities even before we had plugged in our ear buds. He could see, even in the earliest days of space exploration, how much of our own existence remained unexplored, and how the great black spaces between people were growing even as our universe was shrinking. Philip K. Dick spent his first three years as a science fiction author writing shorter fiction, and in his lifetime he composed almost 150 short stories, many of which have gone on to be adapted into (slightly watered down) Hollywood blockbusters. Collected here are thirteen of his most Dickian tales, funhouse realities with trap doors and hidden compartments.
Author : Institute of Medicine,Committee on Quality of Health Care in America
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2000-03-01
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780309068376
Experts estimate that as many as 98,000 people die in any given year from medical errors that occur in hospitals. That's more than die from motor vehicle accidents, breast cancer, or AIDSâ€"three causes that receive far more public attention. Indeed, more people die annually from medication errors than from workplace injuries. Add the financial cost to the human tragedy, and medical error easily rises to the top ranks of urgent, widespread public problems. To Err Is Human breaks the silence that has surrounded medical errors and their consequenceâ€"but not by pointing fingers at caring health care professionals who make honest mistakes. After all, to err is human. Instead, this book sets forth a national agendaâ€"with state and local implicationsâ€"for reducing medical errors and improving patient safety through the design of a safer health system. This volume reveals the often startling statistics of medical error and the disparity between the incidence of error and public perception of it, given many patients' expectations that the medical profession always performs perfectly. A careful examination is made of how the surrounding forces of legislation, regulation, and market activity influence the quality of care provided by health care organizations and then looks at their handling of medical mistakes. Using a detailed case study, the book reviews the current understanding of why these mistakes happen. A key theme is that legitimate liability concerns discourage reporting of errorsâ€"which begs the question, "How can we learn from our mistakes?" Balancing regulatory versus market-based initiatives and public versus private efforts, the Institute of Medicine presents wide-ranging recommendations for improving patient safety, in the areas of leadership, improved data collection and analysis, and development of effective systems at the level of direct patient care. To Err Is Human asserts that the problem is not bad people in health careâ€"it is that good people are working in bad systems that need to be made safer. Comprehensive and straightforward, this book offers a clear prescription for raising the level of patient safety in American health care. It also explains how patients themselves can influence the quality of care that they receive once they check into the hospital. This book will be vitally important to federal, state, and local health policy makers and regulators, health professional licensing officials, hospital administrators, medical educators and students, health caregivers, health journalists, patient advocatesâ€"as well as patients themselves. First in a series of publications from the Quality of Health Care in America, a project initiated by the Institute of Medicine
Author : Philip K. Dick
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2016-01-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780806537948
Includes the stories that inspired the movies Total Recall, Screamers, Minority Report, Paycheck, and Next “More than anyone else in the field, Mr. Dick really puts you inside people’s minds.” —The Wall Street Journal The Philip K. Dick Reader Many thousands of readers consider Philip K. Dick the greatest science fiction mind on any planet. Since his untimely death in 1982, interest in Dick’s works has continued to mount, and his reputation has been further enhanced by a growing body of critical attention. The Philip K. Dick Award is now given annually to a distinguished work of science fiction, and the Philip K. Dick Society is devoted to the study and promulgation of his works. Dick won the prestigious Hugo Award for the best novel of 1963 for The Man in the High Castle. In the last year of his life, the film Blade Runner was made from his novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? This collection includes some of Dick’s earliest short and medium-length fiction, including We Can Remember It for You Wholesale (the story that inspired the motion picture Total Recall), Second Variety (which inspired the motion picture Screamers), Paycheck, The Minority Report, and twenty more.
Author : John H. Evans
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2016-07-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780190608088
What is a human? Are humans those with human DNA, those in possession of traits like rationality, or those made in the image of God? The debate over what makes human beings unique has raged for centuries. Many think that if society accepts the wrong definition of what it is to be human, people will look at their neighbor as more of an animal, object, or machine-making maltreatment more likely. In the longest running claim, for over 150 years critics have claimed that taking a Darwinist definition results in people treating each other more like animals. Despite their seriousness, these claims have never been empirically investigated. In this groundbreaking book John H. Evans shows that the definitions promoted by biologists and philosophers actually are associated with less support for human rights. Members of the public who agree with these definitions are less willing to sacrifice to stop genocides and are more supportive of buying organs from poor people, of experimenting on prisoners against their will, and of torturing people to potentially save lives. It appears that the critics are right. However, Evans finds that few Americans agree with these academic definitions. Looking at how most of the public defines humanity, we see a much more nuanced picture. In a fascinating account, he shows that the dominant definitions are unlikely to lead to human rights abuses. He concludes that the critics are right about the definitions of a human promoted by academic biologists and philosophers, and are therefore justified in their vigilance. However, because at present few Americans agree with these definitions, the academic definitions would have to spread much more extensively before impacting how the general public acts. Evans' book is a major corrective to the more than century-long debate about the impact of definitions of a human.
Author : 太宰治
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1958
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0811204812
A young man describes his torment as he struggles to reconcile the diverse influences of Western culture and the traditions of his own Japanese heritage.
Author : Margaret S. Archer,Andrea M. Maccarini
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2021-07-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000411539
This book asks whether there exists an essence exclusive to human beings despite their continuous enhancement – a nature that can serve to distinguish humans from artificially intelligent robots, now and in the foreseeable future. Considering what might qualify as such an essence, this volume demonstrates that the abstract question of ‘essentialism’ underpins a range of social issues that are too often considered in isolation and usually justify ‘robophobia’, rather than ‘robophilia’, in terms of morality, social relations and legal rights. Any defence of human exceptionalism requires clarity about what property(ies) ground it and an explanation of why these cannot be envisaged as being acquired (eventually) by AI robots. As such, an examination of the conceptual clarity of human essentialism and the role it plays in our thinking about dignity, citizenship, civil rights and moral worth is undertaken in this volume. What is Essential to Being Human? will appeal to scholars of social theory and philosophy with interests in human nature, ethics and artificial intelligence.
Author : Younousse Tamekloe
Publisher : epubli
Page : 127 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2021-08-08
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9783754150115
This book will help you understand the benefits of meditation by explaining what meditation is and how it affects us. You will learn how the human is built and how to be well connected with yourself and others, to be healthy physically and spiritually and to have a happy life. You will be able to understand the spiritual world in an open-minded way and you will know how to be well prepared for the future.
Author : James Paul Gee
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2020-09-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030503826
In a sweeping synthesis of new research in a number of different disciplines, this book argues that we humans are not who we think we are. As he explores the interconnections between cutting-edge work in bioanthropology, evolutionary biology, neuroscience, human language and learning, and beyond, James Paul Gee advances, also, a personal philosophy of language, learning, and culture, informed by his decades of work across linguistics and the social sciences. Gee argues that our schools, institutions, legal systems, and societies are designed for creatures that do not exist, thus resulting in multiple, interacting crises, such as climate change, failing institutions, and the rise of nationalist nationalism. As Gee constructs an understanding of the human that takes into account our social, collective, and historical nature, as established by recent research, he inspires readers to reflect for themselves on the very question of who we are—a key consideration for anyone interested in society, government, schools, health, activism, culture and diversity, or even just survival.
Author : Patrick R. Frierson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780415558440
Philosophers, anthropologists and biologists have long puzzled over the question of human nature. In this lucid and wide-ranging introduction to Kant's philosophy of human nature - which is essential for understanding his thought as a whole - Patrick Frierson assesses Kant's theories and examines his critics.
Author : Giovanni Paolo Gallucci,Tbd
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2020-03-12
Category : Art
ISBN : 1783748877
This translation is the first to make these original contributions by Gallucci accessible to an English-speaking audience.
Author : Wyne Ince
Publisher : ThoughtsofLifeandTime
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2024-04-28
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
What Is a Human Being? Humans are fascinating beings that have captured the interest of philosophers, contemporary thinkers, great theorists, and others for centuries. However, despite unending research and the many theories that abound, we continue to wrestle with the how, why, when, and where of humanity. Who are we? Are we merely biosocial beings more highly intelligent than other living organisms? Or is there more? Why are we here on Earth?Where were we before conception?What happens with us after our earthly departure? What is, indeed, the true essence of a human? In a direct answer to these and other pertinent questions, this supernaturally inspired book demystifies the nature, origin, purpose, and destiny of humans. Detailed and exceptionally written from a Bible-respectful perspective, the author engages in a compelling discourse on the makeup, behaviors, and eternal prospects of human beings. Discover who you are, whose you are, and why your eternity is non-trivial. Learn more about the foundational topics of intelligence, foolishness, repentance, wisdom, love and hate, good and evil, Heaven and Hell. Each chapter is designed as a self-contained unit of timely information that motivates, enlightens, and fosters spontaneous devotional reading. Also discover • How to live and effectively interact with God and fellow earthlings • How to make the right choices between the trajectories of love and hate, good and evil. • How to successfully make your journey back to Heaven • The importance of managing life and time • The “Once Saved Always Saved” doctrine―wisdom or folly? • And more
Author : Sajith Buvi
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2015-07-31
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781943093618
You need not label you. Even if you did, that is fine. You may come in any hue or color-Christian, Muslim, atheist, liberal, conservative, Marxist, black, white, man, woman, homosexual, American, African, CEO, homeless, geek, dunce or any identity. The bottom line is you are a human being. You cannot escape that truth. You cannot bury the inviolable equality that truth brings. Once you are a human being you are an intelligent being. Once you are an intelligent being you have to face and explore the truth of life, including the existence or nonexistence of God. The religious, the atheists, the scientists and the entire world can argue whatever they want. Their arguments do not affect the truth of your existence. You cannot slip into that mess because the world doesn't live your life; only you live your life. If God is true, He or She cannot be limited to the belief of the religious. God must be accessible to the intelligent human being as well. So come on, let us explore God rationally.