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November 25, 2024

Transpecies Design Design for a Posthumanist World

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Free Download Adrian Parr Zaretsky, "Transpecies Design: Design for a Posthumanist World"
English | ISBN: 1032516895 | 2024 | 172 pages | EPUB | 5 MB
In May 2019, the United Nations released the Global Assessment Report on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services which warned that human activities will drive nearly one million species to extinction in a few decades. The primary reasons for this are habitat loss and biodiversity demise caused by changing climate, pollution, introducing nonindigenous species, clearing land, over population, and consumption. Given this situation, humans must change course as both human wellbeing and the wellbeing of other-than-human species are imbricated in one another. One way humanity can accomplish the needed transformation is to move beyond an anthropocentric view of life by embracing a transpecies approach that is premised upon interconnected flourishing.

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November 25, 2024

The Fortunate Mistress (Roxana) (Oxford World’s Classics)

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Free Download The Fortunate Mistress (Roxana) (Oxford World’s Classics) by Daniel Defoe, edited by Marc Mierowsky, Nicholas Seager
English | October 6, 2024 | ISBN: 0198851022 | True EPUB | 368 pages | 1.3 MB
‘I liv’d indeed like a Queen; or if you will have me confess, that my Condition had still the Reproach of a Whore, I may say, I was sure, the Queen of Whores.’

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November 25, 2024

The Art of Thinking in a Digital World Be Logical – Be Creative – Be Critical

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Free Download The Art of Thinking in a Digital World: Be Logical – Be Creative – Be Critical by Luc de Brabandere, Lina Benmehrez, Jonas Leyder
English | October 28, 2024 | ISBN: 1803744421 | True EPUB | 216 pages | 15.5 MB
Luc de Brabandere has had three careers in his fifty years of professional life. He started out as a computer engineer, before becoming a consultant in creativity, and today he is a corporate philosopher. This journey has led him to investigate successively the three modes of thinking that are permanently articulated within us: logical thinking, creative thinking and critical thinking. As a talented popularizer, he puts forward an ambitious yet accessible summary of the main principles that govern these three modes of thinking. The book is richly illustrated and places thinking in an historical perspective that allows us to better understand how informational technology in general, and ChatGPT and other artificial intelligences in particular, are influencing our mental models.

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November 25, 2024

A Left-Handed History of the World

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Free Download A Left-Handed History of the World by Ed Wright
English | January 1, 2007 | ISBN: 0760787042 | 246 pages | PDF | 1.44 Mb
Julius Caesar and Isaac Newton were left-handed. So are Paul McCartney and Bill Gates. Intriguingly, a disproportionate number of U.S. presidents have also been lefties. Why is it that such a high number of left-handed people factor in influential moments through history? Through fascinating case studies of notables from ancient to modern times, Ed Wright explains the secret of lefty success. Psychology meets history in this enlightening and entertaining look being left-handed and its effects on our world. The list of successful and influential people of the ‘sinister nation’ – from Alexander the Great to Joan of Arc, Henry Ford to Jimi Hendrix -will wow both left- and right-handers. Exploring the defining character traits of these and other famous lefties, we discover how much the world has gained from those who look at life from the other side.

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November 25, 2024

Real-World Edge Computing Scale, secure, and succeed in the realm of edge computing with Open Horizon

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Free Download Real-World Edge Computing: Scale, secure, and succeed in the realm of edge computing with Open Horizon by Sanjeev Gupta, Robert High
English | June 28th, 2024 | ISBN: 1835885853 | 296 pages | True PDF | 20.11 MB
Learn how to use Linux Foundation’s LF Edge Open Horizon project to scale the deployment of your edge application and workload solution in a production environment

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November 24, 2024

Foreign Direct Investment, China and the World Economy

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Free Download P. Buckley, "Foreign Direct Investment, China and the World Economy"
English | ISBN: 0230515983 | 2010 | 444 pages | EPUB | 5 MB
China has become such an important element of the global economy that its influence cannot be ignored in almost any field of endeavour. The phenomenal impact of FDI in China and its (largely trade-related) consequences has been well documented and now there is a significant literature on the phenomenon of outward investment from China too. This book is an in depth study of the international business relationships of China covering both inward and outward foreign direct investment, its impact and related theoretical and policy issues. This volume of highly renowned author Peter Buckley’s collected papers from 2005-8 continues his interest in the theory of international business (Section I) and policies towards foreign direct investment (FDI) (Section IV) but has a major concentration on China, both as regards outward foreign direct investment (OFDI) from China (Section II) and FDI in China (Section III).

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