Tag: Reality

Free Download Our Next Reality: How the AI-Powered Metaverse Will Reshape the World (Audiobook)
English | March 05, 2024 | ASIN: B0CRZB8VN7 | M4B@128 kbps | 11h 30m | 644 MB
Authors: Alvin Wang Graylin, Louis Rosenberg | Narrator: Ciaran Saward
Over the last 100 years, technology has changed our world. Over the next decade it will transform our reality.
We are entering a new technological age in which artificial intelligence and immersive media will transform society at all levels, mediating our lives by altering what we see, hear, and experience. Powered by immersive eyewear and driven by interactive AI agents, this new age of computing has the potential to make our world a magical place where the boundaries between the real and the virtual, the human and the artificial, rapidly fade away. If managed well, this could unleash a new age of abundance. If managed poorly, this technological revolution could easily go astray, deeply compromising our privacy, autonomy, agency, and even our humanity.

Free Download Fantasies of Virtual Reality: Untangling Fiction, Fact, and Threat
by Marcus Carter and Ben Egliston
English | 2024 | ISBN: 0262549166 | 180 Pages | PDF | 9.2 MB

Free Download The Conceptions of Reality in the Interpretations of Quantum Mechanics: A Journey from Aristotle’s Principles to Einstein’s Dreams of a Unified Theory by Gerd Christian Krizek
English | PDF EPUB (True) | 2024 | 169 Pages | ISBN : 3031657853 | 21.3 MB

Free Download The Dilemma of Recognition: Experienced Reality of Ethnicised Politics in Rwanda and Burundi By Carla Schraml (auth.)
2012 | 200 Pages | ISBN: 3531194046 | PDF | 3 MB
How can the salience of ethnicity in Rwandan and Burundian politics be overcome? How can this salience be approached analytically? And why, exactly, is it that it is potentially conflict-prone? This book gives answers to these questions on the basis of what Rwandan and Burundian interviewees expressed as taken for granted and real. In particular, it focuses on different political institutional models, and how they help to overcome an ethnic interpretation of political and social exclusion. Despite the diverging institutional approaches to dealing with ethnic cleavages, the qualitative analysis shows that political and social exclusion, in particular the distribution of power, are interpreted in ethnic terms in both countries. Focusing on notions taken for granted by Rwandan and Burundian interviewees, the book demonstrates, how deeply intertwined ethnicity and politics are in Rwanda and Burundi today.

Free Download The Reality-Based Rules of the Workplace: Know What Boosts Your Value, Kills Your Chances, and Will Make You Happier by Cy Wakeman, Kim McKean, Recorded Books
English | July 09, 2020 | ISBN: B08BZXR2NB | 5 hours and 45 minutes | MP3 128 Kbps | 315 Mb
The key to understanding how your manager calculates your real value – and how to boost it
More than anything else, you need to understand exactly how your employer evaluates you, and your annual performance review doesn’t tell the whole story. In The Reality-Based Rules of the Workplace, Cy Wakeman shows how to calculate how your true value to your organization by understanding your current and future potential against your "emotional expense" – the toll your actions and attitudes take on the people around you. With Cy’s clear, straight-to-the-point advice, you can confront and reduce your emotional costliness, become an invaluable member of your team, and even learn to love your job again.
Reveals a formula for measuring your current performance, future potential, and the biggest detractor, your emotional expense

Free Download The Gestapo: The Myth and Reality of Hitler’s Secret Police (Audiobook)
English | May 30, 2019 | ASIN: B07PXTBRD5, B07NNPFV5Z | M4B@128 kbps | 10h 5m | 461 MB
Author: Frank McDonough | Narrator: Paul McGann
Professor Frank McDonough is one of the leading scholars and most popular writers on the history of Nazi Germany. His work has been described as ‘modern history writing at its very best…Ground-breaking, fascinating, occasionally deeply revisionist’ by renowned historian Andrew Roberts.
Drawing on a detailed examination of previously unpublished Gestapo case files, this audiobook relates the fascinating, vivid and disturbing accounts of a cross-section of ordinary and extraordinary people who opposed the Nazi regime. It also tells the equally disturbing stories of their friends, neighbours, colleagues and even relatives who were often drawn into the Gestapo’s web of intrigue. The audiobook reveals, too, the cold-blooded and efficient methods of the Gestapo officers.

Free Download Playing with Reality: How Games Have Shaped Our World (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CKKG7TVY | 2024 | 11 hours and 39 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 337 MB
Author: Kelly Clancy
Narrator: Patty Nieman
A wide-ranging intellectual history that reveals how important games have been to human progress, and what’s at stake when we forget what games we’re really playing. We play games to learn about the world, to understand our minds and the minds of others, and to make predictions about the future. Games are an essential aspect of humanity and a powerful tool for modeling reality. They’re also a lot of fun. But games can be dangerous, especially when we mistake the model worlds of games for reality itself and let gamification co-opt human decision making. Playing with Reality explores the riveting history of games since the Enlightenment, weaving an unexpected path through military theory, political science, evolutionary biology, the development of computers and AI, cutting-edge neuroscience, and cognitive psychology.

Free Download Steve Benen, Rachel Maddow (Narrator), "Ministry of Truth: Democracy, Reality, and the Republicans’ War on the Recent Past"
English | ISBN: B0CZYYMMJQ | 2024 | MP3@64 kbps | ~05:38:00 | 155 MB
A searing, vital investigation of the Republican Party’s dangerous campaign to rewrite history in real time, from the Emmy Award-winning Rachel Maddow Show producer and bestselling author of The Impostors.
"There is nobody…who has more influence on the way I think about politics than Steve Benen." -Rachel Maddow
For as long as historical records have existed, authoritarian regimes have tried to rewrite history to suit their purposes, using their dictatorial powers to create myths, spread propaganda, justify decisions, erase opponents, and even dispose of crimes.

Free Download Cue the Sun!: The Invention of Reality TV (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CPTB7H6Q | 2024 | 15 hours and 11 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 444 MB
Author: Emily Nussbaum
Narrator: Gabra Zackman
Who invented reality television, the world’s most dangerous pop-culture genre? And why can’t we look away? In this revelatory, deeply reported account of the rise of "dirty documentary"-from its contentious roots in radio to the ascent of Donald Trump-Emily Nussbaum unearths the origin story of the genre that ate the world, as told through the lively voices of the people who built it. At once gimlet-eyed and empathetic, Cue the Sun! explores the morally charged, funny, and sometimes tragic consequences of the hunt for something real inside something fake. In sharp, absorbing prose, Nussbaum traces the jagged fuses of experimentation that exploded with Survivor at the turn of the millennium. She introduces the genre’s trickster pioneers, from the icy Allen Funt to the shambolic Chuck Barris; Cops auteur John Langley; cynical Bachelor ringmaster Mike Fleiss; and Jon Murray and Mary-Ellis Bunim, the visionaries behind The Real World-along with dozens of stars from An American Family, The Real World, Big Brother, Survivor, and The Bachelor. We learn about the tools of the trade-like the Frankenbite, a deceptive editor’s best friend-and ugly tales of exploitation. But Cue the Sun! also celebrates reality’s peculiar power: a jolt of emotion that could never have come from a script. What happened to the first reality stars, the Louds-and why won’t they speak to the couple who filmed them? Which serial killer won on The Dating Game? Nussbaum explores reality TV as a strike-breaker, the queer roots of Bravo, the dark truth behind The Apprentice, and more. A shrewd observer who adores television, Nussbaum is the ideal voice for the first substantive history of the genre that, for better or worse, made America what it is today.

Free Download Robert E. Wubbolding, "Reality Therapy For the 21st Century"
English | ISBN: 156032886X | 2000 | 278 pages | EPUB | 4 MB
This text aims to be a comprehensive, practical, clearly illustrated examination of reality therapy. It includes an historically significant interview with William Glasser, MD, multicultural applications and research based studies. Its goal is to enhance the skills of helpers so that clients may live a more effective life through a total balance of love, health, and happiness. To help teach reality therapy, the author encapsulates the delivery system into the acronym "WDEP". It is expanded to include 22 types of self-evaluation which counsellors and therapists can use to shorten therapy time in the current managed care environment. Each component of the delivery system is illustrated with dialogues so that the reader can see exactly how the system is practical and immediately usable.