Turning Point

Author : Darrell M. West,John R. Allen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2021-10-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0815739508

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Artificial Intelligence is here, today. How can society make the best use of it? Until recently, "artificial intelligence" sounded like something out of science fiction. But the technology of artificial intelligence, AI, is becoming increasingly common, from self-driving cars to e-commerce algorithms that seem to know what you want to buy before you do. Throughout the economy and many aspects of daily life, artificial intelligence has become the transformative technology of our time. Despite its current and potential benefits, AI is little understood by the larger public and widely feared. The rapid growth of artificial intelligence has given rise to concerns that hidden technology will create a dystopian world of increased income inequality, a total lack of privacy, and perhaps a broad threat to humanity itself. In their compelling and readable book, two experts at Brookings discuss both the opportunities and risks posed by artificial intelligence--and how near-term policy decisions could determine whether the technology leads to utopia or dystopia. Drawing on in-depth studies of major uses of AI, the authors detail how the technology actually works. They outline a policy and governance blueprint for gaining the benefits of artificial intelligence while minimizing its potential downsides. The book offers major recommendations for actions that governments, businesses, and individuals can take to promote trustworthy and responsible artificial intelligence. Their recommendations include: creation of ethical principles, strengthening government oversight, defining corporate culpability, establishment of advisory boards at federal agencies, using third-party audits to reduce biases inherent in algorithms, tightening personal privacy requirements, using insurance to mitigate exposure to AI risks, broadening decision-making about AI uses and procedures, penalizing malicious uses of new technologies, and taking pro-active steps to address how artificial intelligence affects the workforce. Turning Point is essential reading for anyone concerned about how artificial intelligence works and what can be done to ensure its benefits outweigh its harm.

Author : Danielle Steel
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2019-01-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781760784751

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Four high-flying trauma surgeons from San Francisco are all at the top of their game professionally – but at what cost? They live for their hours in the fast-paced environment of the hospital, but outside work their lives are falling apart . . . When they're approached about a secondment in Paris, none of them can turn down the opportunity. They meet their French counterparts and before long, friendships – and relationships – form. But when disaster strikes – a disaster they've long-prepared for – each of their lives is changed forever. And suddenly, the priorities that once seemed so crucial, don't seem to mean so much after all. Turning Point is a highly-charged, emotional tale about how suddenly life can change for all of us, and that we might find what we're looking for in the most unlikely of places . . .

Author : Mark A. Noll
Publisher : Baker Academic
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Religion
ISBN : UOM:39015050314890

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Explores twelve pivotal events in the history of Christianity ranging from the fall of Jerusalem and the coronation of Charlemagne to the Edinburgh Missionary Conference.

Author : Chloe Angyal
Publisher : Bold Type Books
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2021-05-04
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781645036722

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Turning Pointe Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

A reckoning with one of our most beloved art forms, whose past and present are shaped by gender, racial, and class inequities—and a look inside the fight for its future Every day, in dance studios all across America, legions of little children line up at the barre to take ballet class. This time in the studio shapes their lives, instilling lessons about gender, power, bodies, and their place in the world both in and outside of dance. In Turning Pointe, journalist Chloe Angyal captures the intense love for ballet that so many dancers feel, while also grappling with its devastating shortcomings: the power imbalance of an art form performed mostly by women, but dominated by men; the impossible standards of beauty and thinness; and the racism that keeps so many people of color out of ballet. As the rigid traditions of ballet grow increasingly out of step with the modern world, a new generation of dancers is confronting these issues head on, in the studio and on stage. For ballet to survive the twenty-first century and forge a path into a more socially just future, this reckoning is essential.

Author : David Jeremiah
Publisher : Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781414389011

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What Are You Afraid Of? Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

For many people, worry, anxiety, and fear are constant companions: fear of death, fear of danger, fear of disease. And too often, these fears are crippling, keeping us from the life God has called us to live. But it doesn’t have to be that way, says Dr. David Jeremiah. As Christians, we have been given all we need in order to face down even the most frightening, unexpected, and overwhelming obstacles in life. In his new book, What Are You Afraid Of? Dr. Jeremiah explores the top ten fears that are holding so many of us back from the life God has called us to live and shares the supernatural secrets for facing down these fears with faith.

Author : Fritjof Capra
Publisher : Bantam
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1984-08-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780553345728

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A compelling vision of a new reality, a reconciliation of science and the human spirit for a future that will work The dynamics underlying the major problems of our time—cancer, crime, pollution, nuclear power, inflation, the energy shortage—are all the same. We have reached a time of dramatic and potentially dangerous change, a turning point for the planet as a whole. We need a new vision of reality, one that allows the forces transforming our world to flow together as a positive movement for social change. Now distinguished scientist Fritjof Capra gives us that vision, a holistic paradigm of science and spirit. “This splendid and thoughtful book is an essential guide for anyone inquiring about the place of science and metascience in our contemporary culture. Those who enjoyed Fritjof Capra’s Tao of Physics should not expect a sequel; this is a much more ambitious book that attempts and succeeds in presenting a whole worldview from the viewpoint of a committed and experienced physicist who also writes from within the North American culture…. It is unusually detailed and thorough in its inclusion of the conventional and the alternative approaches to topics ranging from ecology through medicine and psychology to economics. It is at once scholarly and easy to read.”—Jim Lovelock, New Scientist

Author : Vanessa L. Torres
Publisher : Knopf Books for Young Readers
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2022-02-22
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780593426159

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A bold and emotionally gripping novel about a teenage Latinx girl finding freedom through dance and breaking expectations in 1980s Minnesota. When sixteen-year-old Rosa Dominguez pirouettes, she is poetry in pointe shoes. And as the daughter of a tyrant ballet Master, Rosa seems destined to become the star principal dancer of her studio. But Rosa would do anything for one hour in the dance studio upstairs where Prince, the Purple One himself, is in the house. After her father announces their upcoming auditions for a concert with Prince, Rosa is more determined than ever to succeed. Then Nikki--the cross-dressing, funky boy who works in the dance shop--leaps into her life. Weighed down by family expectations, Rosa is at a crossroads, desperate to escape so she can show everyone what she can do when freed of her pointe shoes. Now is her chance to break away from a life in tulle, grooving to that unmistakable Minneapolis sound reverberating through every bone in her body.

Author : Alessandro Baricco
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 1952119006

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The Game Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

"Fourteen years after the publication of his cult classic I Barbari, Baricco returns in The Game to the topic of change, in a journey that maps out the transformations that the digital revolution has wrought upon the landscape of human experience. From Space Invaders to the PlayStation, from Windows 95 to the conundrum of artificial intelligence, Baricco traces the trajectory of a revolution in the way we think, feel, and communicate - and seeks to discover what it might actually mean for our future."--Amazon

Author : Robert L. Morgan, III
Publisher : Xulon Press
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2006-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781600340024

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Author : Douglas Mallette
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780557091232

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Author : P R Adams
Publisher : Promethean Tales
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2016-12-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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They won the Metacorporate War. Now comes the hard part: Capture or kill the architect of the war. After the death of the Elite Response Force's popular leader, Captain Lonny Meyers assumes command. It's an opportunity to prove he's the right officer for the position...but is he? When the hunt takes them to a powder keg colony world, Meyers needs to win over civilian support. Before he can do that, he'll have to keep his outnumbered and demoralized team from tearing itself apart. But there’s more to the situation than anyone could have expected, and it could spell the end for the ERF. If you like stories with special forces operations, artificial intelligence, and robots, you'll love this book. Grab your copy of Turning Point, the first book in the high-octane military science fiction Elite Response Force series.

Author : Robert Ayres
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2014-03-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134179855

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This text discusses the current basis of economic growth, concluding that it is is failing to deliver, and is actually harming our prospects for future security. Further arguments propose a possible long-term strategy for economic revival - eco-restructuring. This strategy involves a shifting away from production of goods to production of services, closing material cycles and eliminating reliance on non-renewable resources.

Author : Gregg S. Morrison
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2014-09-24
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781610977609

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The Turning Point in the Gospel of Mark Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

Based on linguistic and thematic links in the narrative, The Turning Point in the Gospel of Mark argues that the twin pericopae of Peter's confession (8:27-38) and the Transfiguration (9:2-13) together function as the turning point of the Gospel and serve in a Janus-like manner enabling the reader to see the author's main focus: the identity of Jesus and the significance of that reality for his disciples. Peter's confession of Jesus as Messiah faces backward toward the Prologue (1:1-13) and functions as a mid-course conclusion. The declaration by God on the mountain faces forward and foreshadows the end-course conclusion (14:61-62; 15:39; Son of God). Jesus, in response, teaches that the Son of Man must suffer and die before being raised from the dead (8:31). Christologically, the images of Messiah, Son of Man, and Son of God converge and present Jesus, the crucified, as king, ushering in the kingdom of God in power (9:1 acting as the key swivel between the twin pericopae). When one is confronted with this Jesus, though there remains something elusive about him and the kingdom of God in the narrative, the only wise decision (after calculating the costs, 8:34-38) is to follow.

Author : Dr. Terry Mortenson
Publisher : New Leaf Publishing Group
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2004-08-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781614582267

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Great Turning Point Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

Many people in the Church today have the idea that “young-earth” creationism is a fairly recent invention, popularized by fundamentalist Christians in the mid-20th century. Is this view correct? In fact, scholar Terry Mortenson has done fascinating original research on this subject in England, and documents that several leading, pre-Darwin scholars and scientists, known as “scriptural geologists” did not believe in long ages for the earth. Mortenson sheds light on the following: Before Darwin, what did the Church believe about the age of the earth? Why did it believe this way? What was the controversy that rocked the Church in 19th-century England? Who were the “scriptural geologists”? What influences did the Church contend with even before Darwin’s book? What is the stance of the Church today? This book is a thoroughly researched work of reference for every library - certainly every creationist library. Terry Mortenson spent much time and work on this project in both the United States and Great Britain. The history of the Church and evolution is fascinating, and it is interesting to see not only the tremendous influence that evolution has had on the Church, but on society as well.

Author : Xiaohuang Zhu,Song Lin,Lin Wang,Wenqi Wu,Quanli Qin
Publisher : Springer
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2018-07-23
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789811313257

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A Study of the Turning Point of China’s Debt Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

This book proposes a method for calculating China’s debt based on a quantitative econometric analysis. This is conducted by measuring the relationship between China’s debt size and economic growth. The conclusion that is reached is as follows: China’s current debt has already exceeded the inflection point, and that means that it is now having an adverse effect on its economic performance. The book also focuses on China's debt problems as a whole, highlighting debt issues faced by different entities and industries, as well as the ratio and structure of the virtual and real economies. The contents are presented in three major principles: theory, oriented,data, and oriented policy.