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Free Download Moral Codes: Designing Alternatives to AI by Alan F. Blackwell
English | August 6, 2024 | ISBN: 0262548712 | 240 pages | MOBI | 2.40 Mb
Why the world needs less AI and better programming languages.

Free Download Neil Thompson, "Mental Health and Well-Being: Alternatives to the Medical Model"
English | ISBN: 081539439X | 2018 | 226 pages | EPUB, PDF | 1012 KB + 4 MB
Mental Health and Well-Being provides a sound foundation for understanding alternatives to the medical model of mental health. Students and professionals alike will find an easy to understand overview of critiques of the dominant medical model of mental health and well-being, both longstanding and more recent, and will come away from the book with a more theoretically sound, holistic conception of mental health and well-being. Written by an experienced mental health expert and replete with practical anecdotes, exercises, and examples to help readers apply the book’s material, this book offers an essential foundation for developing more humane mental health practices.

Free Download Moral Codes: Designing Alternatives to AI
by Alan F. Blackwell
English | August 6, 2024 | ISBN: 0262548712 | 240 pages | EPUB | 6.04 Mb

Free Download Moral Codes: Designing Alternatives to AI
English | 2024 | ISBN: 0262548712 | 239 Pages | PDF (True) | 10 MB
Decades ago, we believed that robots and computers would take over all the boring jobs and drudgery, leaving humans to a life of leisure. This hasn’t happened. Instead, humans are still doing boring jobs, and even worse, AI researchers have built technology that is creative, self-aware, and emotional-doing the tasks humans were supposed to enjoy. How did we get here? In Moral Codes, Alan Blackwell argues that there is a fundamental flaw in the research agenda of AI. What humanity needs, Blackwell argues, is better ways to tell computers what we want them to do, with new and better programming languages: More Open Representations, Access to Learning, and Control Over Digital Expression, in other words, MORAL CODE.

Free Download The Alternatives: A Novel by Caoilinn Hughes
English | April 16, 2024 | ISBN: 0593545001 | True EPUB | 352 pages | 0.7 MB
"A tale about sisterhood, a novel of ideas, a chronicle of our collective follies, a requiem for our agonizing species, The Alternatives unfolds in a prose full of gorgeous surprises and glows with intelligence, compassion, and beauty." -Hernan Diaz

Free Download Subramanian Senthilkannan Muthu, "Novel Sustainable Process Alternatives for the Textiles and Fashion Industry "
English | ISBN: 3031354508 | 2023 | 148 pages | PDF | 5 MB
Environmental impacts created by the textiles and fashion sector are well known and acknowledged by various stakeholders involved in the entire supply chain. The lifecycle of textile products creates various impacts to the environment and any attempts to alleviate them are highly welcomed. The whole sector is keen to investigate novel sustainable alternatives in terms of raw materials, processes, approaches to make the entire textiles and fashion sector more sustainable. This broad category of novel sustainable alternatives can be split into three subtopics: novel raw material alternatives, novel process alternative and novel alternative approaches. This volume provides cases describing novel sustainable process alternatives for the textiles and fashion industry.

Free Download Prescription for Drug Alternatives: All-Natural Options for Better Health without the Side Effects By James F. Balch, Mark Stengler, Robin Young-Balch
2008 | 505 Pages | ISBN: 0470183993 | PDF | 40 MB
James Balch and Mark Stengler, coauthors of the hugely successful Prescription for Natural Cures, and Robin Young Balch have teamed up to create the most comprehensive and up-to-date book available on natural alternatives to prescription medications. The book provides natural, safe, and effective ways to treat a wide range of common ailments, including ADHD, allergies, diabetes, depression, erectile dysfunction, eczema, heart disease, headaches, and PMS. You’ll read in-depth information, not found in any other popular book, about the pros and cons of prescription and over-the-counter drugs compared with natural treatment alternatives ranging from diet and lifestyle changes to supplements and herbal medicines."This book is essential reading for anyone who wants to take charge of his or her health. Read it to live long and well. "-Hyla Cass, M.D., author of Supplement Your Prescription: What Your Doctor Doesn’t Know about Nutrition"An outstanding resource for comparing common pharmaceutical and holistic treatments."-Ronald M. Lawrence, M.D., coauthor of Preventing Arthritis and The Miracle of MSM"A must-read for every person who wants to achieve better health and avoid the dangers of synthetic medications. The authors do an exceptional job by telling you everything you need to know about getting well and how to use supplements correctly and safely."-Suzy Cohen, R.Ph., author of The 24-Hour Pharmacist

Free Download Real Alternatives, Leibniz’s Metaphysics of Choice By Reginald Osburn Savage (auth.)
1998 | 198 Pages | ISBN: 940106086X | PDF | 5 MB
In the `Preliminary Dissertation’ of his Theodicy, Leibniz declares himself an apologist for the compatibilist doctrines of original sin, election and reprobation propounded by the theologians of the Augsburg Confession. According to those theologians, man’s actions are determined but man retains the power to act otherwise and therefore is responsible for his actions. Savage argues that Leibniz, in formulating his apology, availed himself of both his doctrine of possible worlds and his finite-infinite analysis distinction (the latter being applied within the former). Savage challenges the dogma that Leibniz’s metaphysical principles entail that individuals are powerless to act otherwise and that God cannot conceive of them acting otherwise. He argues that interpreters deduce the dogma from those principles with the aid of dubious extra-textual premises, for example, that a Leibnizian individual has only one complete concept or cannot be persons other than the person it actually is.

Free Download Sabrina P. Ramet, "Alternatives to Democracy in Twentieth-Century Europe: Collectivist Visions of Modernity"
English | ISBN: 9633863090 | 2019 | 492 pages | PDF | 11 MB
Alternatives to Democracy in Twentieth-Century Europe examines the historical examples of Soviet Communism, Italian Fascism, German Nazism, and Spanish Anarchism, suggesting that, in spite of their differences, they had some key features in common, in particular their shared hostility to individualism, representative government, laissez faire capitalism, and the decadence they associated with modern culture. But rather than seeking to return to earlier ways of working these movements and regimes sought to design a new future – an alternative future – that would restore the nation to spiritual and political health. The Fascists, for their part, specifically promoted palingenesis, which is to say the spiritual rebirth of the nation.

Free Download Timothy Leary, "Alternatives to Involuntary Death"
English | 2009 | pages: 128 | ISBN: 1579510876 | PDF | 4,8 mb
Death is increasingly on the agenda for baby boomers moving ever closer to it. Timothy Leary brings some startlingly fresh ideas to this topic. Fundamentally, he claims, we have been brainwashed by our institutions – government, organized religion, the healthcare industry – to accept death as an inevitable end. Leary argues instead that death is misunderstood, that we don’t have to die, and that there are "commonsense alternatives." His theory rests on the transhumanist approach that says human beings are evolving into spiritual machines – beings that are part human and part machine and eventually will not die as the term is commonly understood. Being fitted with machine parts like bionic knees is part of this process. And as we evolve through the cybernetic age, he says, we will gain new wisdom that broadens our definition of personal immortality and gene-pool survival – the "postbiologic option of the information species."