Lifemaking

Author : Nimi Wariboko
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781438498232

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Lifemaking by Nimi Wariboko Pdf

Lifemaking offers a fresh frame for analyzing contemporary African politics and imagining its future. Rooted in the indigenous political philosophy of lifemaking of the Kalabari-Ijo people of the Niger Delta, this work is a counterpoint to the necropolitics that dominates African political practice. For practitioners and analysts for whom Africans and their polities are caught in the TINA (There Is No Alternative) syndrome, this book offers inspiration for an alternative to the current necropolitics. Because the book's thesis is an unreserved celebration of lifemaking, it identifies collective human flourishing as essential to politics.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : River Landing Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780972536820

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Getting a Life; Making a Living by Anonim Pdf

Author : Mark Albion
Publisher : Grand Central Publishing
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2000-06-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780446930611

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Making a Life, Making a Living by Mark Albion Pdf

Harvard Business School professor and successful entrepreneur Mark Albion had it all, but not enough to satisfy his body and soul. So he did the unthinkable and started over, dedicating his passions to a better self. This breakthrough book that examines how readers can pursue their dreams in life, both financially and spiritually, is now in paperback.

Author : Carter Blakelaw
Publisher : The Logic of Dreams
Page : 121 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2023-04-23
Category : Computers
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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This Robot Brain Gets Life (Making AI Pseudo-Conscious) by Carter Blakelaw Pdf

For those in a hurry, this: - To align an AI’s goals with our own, we must build-in alignment from the start. - To keep an AI honest, we must build-in honesty from the start. - To get an AI to understand anything, we must invest it with something of what it’s like to be conscious. In this book, a theory of consciousness is cast into an AI architecture that allows interventions in concept formation by design. For the rest of you, who enjoy reading and mulling things over, this: Can a computing device appreciate the smell of coffee on a Sunday morning, or contemplate the Earth as seen from the Moon, or worry about inflation and the price of fuel? Not without being conscious and understanding the world. And one can't be done without the other, surely? In this book, Carter Blakelaw uses a theory of what makes us conscious to present a machine that will genuinely think for itself. Not only that, but once he has his machine, he looks at how to ensure its interests align with our own, and how to keep it honest and true (alignment and hallucinations being two of the biggest issues in AI). Discover what he discovers about the machine, about our world, and about us.

Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2000-05-31
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789264181816

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From Initial Education to Working Life Making Transitions Work by OECD Pdf

Taking a broader view of transition outcomes than many previous comparative studies, this study reveals the complex and many-faceted national institutional arrangements that can result in successful transitions to working life.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Fundar Centro de Análisis
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Investing for Life: Making the Link Between Public Spending and the Reduction of Maternal Mortality by Anonim Pdf

Author : Nadine Ehlers,Shiloh Krupar
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2019-12-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781452960500

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Deadly Biocultures by Nadine Ehlers,Shiloh Krupar Pdf

A trenchant analysis of the dark side of regulatory life-making today In their seemingly relentless pursuit of life, do contemporary U.S. “biocultures”—where biomedicine extends beyond the formal institutions of the clinic, hospital, and lab to everyday cultural practices—also engage in a deadly endeavor? Challenging us to question their implications, Deadly Biocultures shows that efforts to “make live” are accompanied by the twin operation of “let die”: they validate and enhance lives seen as economically viable, self-sustaining, productive, and oriented toward the future and optimism while reinforcing inequitable distributions of life based on race, class, gender, and dis/ability. Affirming life can obscure death, create deadly conditions, and even kill. Deadly Biocultures examines the affirmation to hope, target, thrive, secure, and green in the respective biocultures of cancer, race-based health, fatness, aging, and the afterlife. Its chapters focus on specific practices, technologies, or techniques that ostensibly affirm life and suggest life’s inextricable links to capital but that also engender a politics of death and erasure. The authors ultimately ask: what alternative social forms and individual practices might be mapped onto or intersect with biomedicine for more equitable biofutures?

Author : Laurie Henzel,Debbie Stoller
Publisher : ABRAMS
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2014-06-10
Category : House & Home
ISBN : 9781497601437

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The Bust DIY Guide to Life by Laurie Henzel,Debbie Stoller Pdf

Get the know-how to do it yourself: “This lifestyle manual will come in handy when you need anything from a headache remedy to a dirt-cheap wedding.” —Entertainment Weekly The modern appeal of “do-it-yourself” projects has a broader reach than ever. And who better to teach us how to DIY our lives than the über-crafty editors of BUST, the quirky, raw, and real magazine “for women who have something to get off their chests”? In The BUST DIY Guide to Life, magazine founders Debbie Stoller (of Stitch ’n Bitch fame) and Laurie Henzel have culled more than 250 of the best DIY and craft projects from its 15-year history. Organized by category—beauty and health, fashion, food and entertaining, career, finance, travel, and sex—and written in BUST’s trademark brazen and witty style, this quintessential DIY encyclopedia from the quintessential DIY magazine is eclectic, empowering, hilarious, and downright practical, truly capturing the spirit of women today.

Author : Mark Albion
Publisher : Business Plus
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2000-12-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0446676519

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Making a Life, Making a Living by Mark Albion Pdf

Harvard Business School professor and successful entrepreneur Mark Albion had it all, but not enough to satisfy his body and soul. So he did the unthinkable and started over, dedicating his passions to a better self. This breakthrough book that examines how readers can pursue their dreams in life, both financially and spiritually, is now in paperback.

Author : John Dickey Montgomery
Publisher : MIT Press (MA)
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Developing countries
ISBN : UCAL:B4380767

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Technology and Civic Life: Making and Implementing Development Decisions by John Dickey Montgomery Pdf

Monograph on the relationship between technological change and social change, particularly in the context of developing countries undergoing industrialization - covers social participation in modernization, social implications of economic development, etc., and includes some decision making issues involved in resource allocation for development purposes. References.

Author : Susan Ferguson
Publisher : Between the Lines
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2019-12-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781771134408

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Women and Work by Susan Ferguson Pdf

With #metoo dominating headlines and an unprecedented number of women running for office, the fight for women’s equality has perhaps never been higher on the political agenda. Around the world, women are fighting against unfair working conditions, restrictive abortion Laws, and the frayed social safety net. The same holds true within the business world—but there’s a twist: even as some women argue that pushing for more female CEOs would help the struggle for equality, other activists argue that CEOs themselves are part of the problem, regardless of gender. In Feminist Thinking about Work, Susan Ferguson explores the history of feminist discourse, examining the ways in which feminists have conceptualized women’s work and placed labor, and its reproduction, at the heart of their program for emancipation. Engaging with feminist critiques of work, Ferguson argues that women’s emancipation depends upon a reorganization and radical reimagining of all labor, and advocates for an inclusive politics that reconceptualizes women’s work and work in general.

Author : Tithi Bhattacharya
Publisher : Pluto Press (UK)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Capitalism
ISBN : 0745399886

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Social Reproduction Theory by Tithi Bhattacharya Pdf

Crystallizing the essential principles of social reproductive theory, this anthology provides long-overdue analysis of everyday life under capitalism. It focuses on issues such as childcare, healthcare, education, family life, and the roles of gender, race, and sexuality--all of which are central to understanding the relationship between exploitation and social oppression. Tithi Bhattacharya brings together some of the leading writers and theorists, including Lise Vogel, Nancy Fraser, and Susan Ferguson, in order for us to better understand social relations and how to improve them in the fight against structural oppression.

Author : Paul Ginsborg,Professor Paul Ginsborg
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 030010748X

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The Politics of Everyday Life by Paul Ginsborg,Professor Paul Ginsborg Pdf

"Ginsborg is never judgemental, though he is devastatingly thorough and occasionally mischievously witty." Times Literary Supplement

Author : Lee Cuba
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2016-08-15
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780674972407

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Practice for Life by Lee Cuba Pdf

Undergraduates do not experience college as having a clear beginning and end. Their engagement with higher education is at best episodic. But as Practice for Life shows, the disruptions provide opportunities for reflection and course-correction as students learn to navigate the future uncertainties of adulthood.

Author : John-Paul Flintoff
Publisher : Profile Books
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2011-05-26
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781847652775

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Sew Your Own by John-Paul Flintoff Pdf

John-Paul Flintoff is a bit of a one-off: a man who embarks on a spiritual pilgrimage by outsourcing his life to Bangalore, then hooks up with Mormons and Buddhists (well, Richard Gere), on a quest for truth and fulfilment. His journey is like a twenty-first century Candide, learning that life's satisfactions, and some kind of response to the concerns of economic meltdown and climate change, lie in learning how to make things for oneself, and mending things that fall apart. Along the way, Flintoff paints pictures with Brit-art oddball Billy Childish, gets apprenticed in Savile Row, grows his own food and spins fibre from nettles. Daringly, he also turns his book over to his wife Harriet, who likes nothing better than a fancy spa and a shop at Liberty's. The results are comic, heartwarming and inspiring.