Let S Call It A Doomsday

Author : Katie Henry
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2019-08-06
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780062698926

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Let's Call It a Doomsday by Katie Henry Pdf

An engrossing and thoughtful contemporary tale that tackles faith, friendship, family, anxiety, and the potential apocalypse from Katie Henry, the acclaimed author of Heretics Anonymous. There are many ways the world could end. A fire. A catastrophic flood. A super eruption that spews lakes of lava. Ellis Kimball has made note of all possible scenarios, and she is prepared for each one. What she doesn’t expect is meeting Hannah Marks in her therapist’s waiting room. Hannah calls their meeting fate. After all, Ellis is scared about the end of the world; Hannah knows when it’s going to happen. Despite Ellis’s anxiety—about what others think of her, about what she’s doing wrong, about the safety of her loved ones—the two girls become friends. But time is ticking down, and as Ellis tries to help Hannah decipher the details of her doomsday premonition, their search for answers only raises more questions. When does it happen? Who will believe them? And how do you prepare for the end of the world when it feels like your life is just getting started?

Author : Connie Willis
Publisher : Spectra
Page : 593 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1993-08-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780553562736

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Doomsday Book by Connie Willis Pdf

Connie Willis draws upon her understanding of the universalities of human nature to explore the ageless issues of evil, suffering, and the indomitable will of the human spirit. “A tour de force.”—The New York Times Book Review For Kivrin, preparing to travel back in time to study one of the deadliest eras in humanity’s history was as simple as receiving inoculations against the diseases of the fourteenth century and inventing an alibi for a woman traveling alone. For her instructors in the twenty-first century, it meant painstaking calculations and careful monitoring of the rendezvous location where Kivrin would be received. But a crisis strangely linking past and future strands Kivrin in a bygone age as her fellows try desperately to rescue her. In a time of superstition and fear, Kivrin—barely of age herself—finds she has become an unlikely angel of hope during one of history’s darkest hours.

Author : Natalie C. Anderson
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2021-06-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781786079138

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Let's Go Swimming on Doomsday by Natalie C. Anderson Pdf

‘[A] potent, brutal read... You won't be able to forget this story of a young boy robbed of his own childhood.’ Marie Claire, best YA 2019 I tell myself I’ve chosen to live, but the water knows the truth. Waves brush my arms, soft as shroud linen. The water knows I have to die. Three years after his older brother is recruited by the Somali militia group Al Shaabab, Abdi and his family are kidnapped by Americans. In exchange for their freedom, he reluctantly agrees to go undercover to rescue his brother and help foil deadly attacks. After months in their ranks, Abdi finally escapes. Haunted and alone on the streets of Kenya, he steals what he can to get by. But an arrest for petty theft sets in motion a chain of events that force him to confront the past he’s been so desperately trying to forget.

Author : Natalie C. Anderson
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2019-01-15
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780399547638

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Let's Go Swimming on Doomsday by Natalie C. Anderson Pdf

Forced to become a child soldier, a sixteen-year-old Somali refugee must confront his painful past in this haunting, thrilling tale of loss and redemption for fans of A Long Way Gone and What is the What When Abdi's family is kidnapped, he's forced to do the unthinkable: become a child soldier with the ruthless jihadi group Al Shabaab. In order to save the lives of those he loves, and earn their freedom, Abdi agrees to be embedded as a spy within the militia's ranks and to send dispatches on their plans to the Americans. The jihadists trust Abdi immediately because his older brother, Dahir, is already one of them, protégé to General Idris, aka the Butcher. If Abdi's duplicity is discovered, he will be killed. For weeks, Abdi trains with them, witnessing atrocity after atrocity, becoming a monster himself, wondering if he's even pretending anymore. He only escapes after he is forced into a suicide bomber's vest, which still leaves him stumps where two of his fingers used to be and his brother near death. Eventually, he finds himself on the streets of Sangui City, Kenya, stealing what he can find to get by, sleeping nights in empty alleyways, wondering what's become of the family that was stolen from him. But everything changes when Abdi's picked up for a petty theft, which sets into motion a chain reaction that forces him to reckon with a past he's been trying to forget. In this riveting, unflinching tale of sacrifice and hope, critically-acclaimed author Natalie C. Anderson delivers another tour-de-force that will leave readers at the edge of their seats.

Author : Tomasz F. Bigaj
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2013-05-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783110323306

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Non-locality and Possible World by Tomasz F. Bigaj Pdf

This book uses the formal semantics of counterfactual conditionals to analyze the problem of non-locality in quantum mechanics. Counterfactual conditionals (subjunctive conditionals) enter the analysis of quantum entangled systems in that they enable us to precisely formulate the locality condition that purports to exclude the existence of causal interactions between spatially separated parts of a system. They also make it possible to speak consistently about alternative measuring settings, and to explicate what is meant by quantum property attributions. The book develops the possible-world semantics of quantum counterfactuals using David Lewis’s famous approach as a starting point but modifying it significantly in order to achieve compatibility with the demands of the special theory of relativity as well as quantum mechanics. There have been several attempts to use counterfactual semantics to strengthen Bell’s theorem and its cognates such as the GHZ and Hardy theorems. These are critically evaluated in the book. Finally, a counterfactual reconstruction of the EPR argument and Bell’s theorem is proposed that sheds a new light on their philosophical consequences regarding the relations between realism and local causation.

Author : William E. Mann
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2008-04-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780470756546

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The Blackwell Guide to the Philosophy of Religion by William E. Mann Pdf

The Blackwell Guide to the Philosophy of Religion features fourteen new essays written by some of the most prominent philosophers working in the field. Contributors include Linda Zabzeski, Hugh McCann, Brian Leftow, Gareth B. Matthews, William L. Rowe, Elliott Sober, Derk Pereboom, Alfred J. Freddoso, William P. Alston, William J. Wainwright, Peter van Inwagen, Philip Kitcher and Philip Quinn. Features fourteen newly commissioned essays. Provides a comprehensive treatment of the major problems in the philosophy of religion. Surveys the field and presents distinctive arguments.

Author : Kenneth McMillan,Xavier Rival
Publisher : Springer
Page : 493 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2014-01-03
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783642540134

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Verification, Model Checking, and Abstract Interpretation by Kenneth McMillan,Xavier Rival Pdf

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Verification, Model Checking and Abstract Interpretation, VMCAI 2014, held in San Diego, CA, USA, in January 2013. The 25 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 64 submissions. The papers cover a wide range of topics including program verification, model checking, abstract interpretation and abstract domains, program synthesis, static analysis, type systems, deductive methods, program certification, debugging techniques, program transformation, optimization, hybrid and cyber-physical systems.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 656 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2014-07
Category : Aeronautics
ISBN : UGA:32108054072775

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Air Force Magazine by Anonim Pdf

Author : W. Lambert Gardiner
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 9781553692409

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A History of Media by W. Lambert Gardiner Pdf

The conception - day gift includes a means of storing information (memory) and of transmitting information (speech). Memory & Speech could thus be considered as a first generation of media. However, natural selection can explain our evolution only to a hunter - gatherer society. How have we managed the transitions over historical time to an agricultural, an industrial, and now an information society? We have learned how to extend our nervous systems by storing information (Print & Film - second generation), by transmitting information (Telephone & Television - third generation), and by both storing and transmitting information outside our bodies (Multimedia & Internet - fourth generation). A History of Media tells this story of the co-evolution of the person and media as extensions. This long perspective will help us better understand our turbulent transitional times as we assimilate the fourth generation of media. This third transition will be clarified by analogy with the first and second transitions as we assimilated the second and third generations of media. The work of Harold Innis, Marshall McLuhan, and their successors in the Toronto School of Media Studies will help illuminate those transitions.

Author : Richard A. Falk,Saul H. Mendlovitz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Disarmament
ISBN : UCAL:$B587773

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The Strategy of World Order: E: Arms Control and Disarmament in International Law by Richard A. Falk,Saul H. Mendlovitz Pdf

In China, the Emperor is Chinese, and all his subjects are Chinese too. In his beautiful porcelain palace, his most precious treasure was a nightingale who sang in a "sweet, ravishing voice."

Author : R. A. Duff,Stuart Green
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2013-01-24
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780191654695

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Philosophical Foundations of Criminal Law by R. A. Duff,Stuart Green Pdf

Twenty-five leading contemporary theorists of criminal law tackle a range of foundational issues about the proper aims and structure of the criminal law in a liberal democracy. The challenges facing criminal law are many. There are crises of over-criminalization and over-imprisonment; penal policy has become so politicized that it is difficult to find any clear consensus on what aims the criminal law can properly serve; governments seeking to protect their citizens in the face of a range of perceived threats have pushed the outer limits of criminal law and blurred its boundaries. To think clearly about the future of criminal law, and its role in a liberal society, foundational questions about its proper scope, structure, and operations must be re-examined. What kinds of conduct should be criminalized? What are the principles of criminal responsibility? How should offences and defences be defined? The criminal process and the criminal trial need to be studied closely, and the purposes and modes of punishment should be scrutinized. Such a re-examination must draw on the resources of various disciplines-notably law, political and moral philosophy, criminology and history; it must examine both the inner logic of criminal law and its place in a larger legal and political structure; it must attend to the growing field of international criminal law, it must consider how the criminal law can respond to the challenges of a changing world. Topics covered in this volume include the question of criminalization and the proper scope of the criminal law; the grounds of criminal responsibility; the ways in which offences and defences should be defined; the criminal process and its values; criminal punishment; the relationship between international criminal law and domestic criminal law. Together, the essays provide a picture of the exciting state of criminal law theory today, and the basis for further research and debate in the coming years.

Author : Saul H. Mendlovitz
Publisher : Ne York, Fund for Education Concerning World Peace through World Law
Page : 880 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1962
Category : Disarmament
ISBN : UOM:39015001553075

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Readings and a Discussion Guide for a Seminar on Legal and Political Problems of World Order by Saul H. Mendlovitz Pdf

Author : Ernest Hebert,Inga Hansen
Publisher : Ernest Hebert
Page : 105 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2021-12-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Cooty's Gumbo by Ernest Hebert,Inga Hansen Pdf

Most sci-fi movies and many sci-fi novels are disguised action-adventure stories. At the moment, dystopias are popular. While Cooty's Gumbo has plenty of action and adventure, it's basically a mini-novel of ideas: about the future, about robots and their interactions with their creators, about mortality, about free will. Philosophically, Cooty's Gumbo is a dramatization of the divided nature of humanity. It's neither a dystopia nor a utopia, but a more nuanced look at a possible future of the human epoch in sci-fi format through the relationship between a 104 year-old hermit, Cooty Patterson, and his nurse, Luci Sanz, a sentient automaton.

Author : Malcolm Murray
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2007-05-05
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781402058554

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The Moral Wager by Malcolm Murray Pdf

In the following chapters, I offer an evolutionary account of morality and from that extrapolate a version of contractarianism I call consent theory. Game theory helps to highlight the evolution of morality as a resolution of interpersonal conflicts under strategic negotiation. It is this emphasis on strategic negotiation that underwrites the idea of consent. Consent theory differs from other contractarian models by abandoning reliance on rational self-interest in favour of evolutionary adaptation. From this, more emphasis will be placed on consent as natural convergence rather than consent as an idealization. My picture of contractarianism, then, ends up looking more like the relativist model offered by Harman, rather than the rational (or pseudo-rational) model offered by Gauthier, let alone the Kantian brands of Rawls or Scanlon. So at least some of my discussion will dwell on why it is no loss to abandon hope for the universal, categorical morality that rational models promise. In the introduction, I offer the betting analogy that underwrites the remaining picture. There are some bets where the expected utility is positive, though the odds of winning on this particular occasion are exceedingly low. In such cases, we cannot hope to give an argument that taking the bet is rational. The only thing we can say is that those predisposed to take this kind of bet on these kinds of occasions will do better than those with other dispositions, so long as such games occur often enough.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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ARMS CONTROL, DISARMAMENT, AND NATIONAL SECURITY by Anonim Pdf