A World Without Why
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The World Without Us
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Author : Alan Weisman
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2012-08-31
The World Without Us written by Alan Weisman and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-08-31 with Science categories.
Revised Edition with New Afterword from the Author Time #1 Nonfiction Book of the Year Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award Over 3 million copies sold in 35 Languages "On the day after humans disappear, nature takes over and immediately begins cleaning house - or houses, that is. Cleans them right off the face of the earth. They all go." What if mankind disappeared right now, forever... what would happen to the Earth in a week, a year, a millennium? Could the planet's climate ever recover from human activity? How would nature destroy our huge cities and our myriad plastics? And what would our final legacy be? Speaking to experts in fields as diverse as oil production and ecology, and visiting the places that have escaped recent human activity to discover how they have adapted to life without us, Alan Weisman paints an intriguing picture of the future of Earth. Exploring key concerns of our time, this absorbing thought experiment reveals a powerful - and surprising - picture of our planet's future.
A World Without Meaning
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Author : Zaki Laïdi
language : en
Publisher: Psychology Press
Release Date : 1998
A World Without Meaning written by Zaki Laïdi and has been published by Psychology Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with History categories.
In this provocative and incisive book, Zaki Laidi argues that as our world becomes ever larger, our ability to find meaning in it diminishes. With the end of communism came the end of the intimate alliance between power and ideology. No power in our globalised world can any longer claim to provide meaning. In despair we look back to old models (religious traditions, nationalism, ethnicity) to give us a sense of identity. But in a globalised world in a permanent state of flux, just how effective are these old certainties?
A World Without Why
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Author : Raymond Geuss
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2014-02-16
A World Without Why written by Raymond Geuss and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-02-16 with Philosophy categories.
Why the human and natural world is not as intelligible to us as we think it is Wishful thinking is a deeply ingrained human trait that has had a long-term distorting effect on ethical thinking. Many influential ethical views depend on the optimistic assumption that, despite appearances to the contrary, the human and natural world in which we live could, eventually, be made to make sense to us. In A World without Why, Raymond Geuss challenges this assumption. The essays in this collection—several of which are published here for the first time—explore the genesis and historical development of this optimistic configuration in ethical thought and the ways in which it has shown itself to be unfounded and misguided. Discussions of Greco-Roman antiquity and of the philosophies of Socrates, Plato, Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche, and Adorno play a central role in many of these essays. Geuss also ranges over such topics as the concepts of intelligibility, authority, democracy, and criticism; the role of lying in politics; architecture; the place of theology in ethics; tragedy and comedy; and the struggle between realism and our search for meaning. Characterized by Geuss's wide-ranging interests in literature, philosophy, and history, and by his political commitment and trenchant style, A World without Why raises fundamental questions about the viability not just of specific ethical concepts and theses, but of our most basic assumptions about what ethics could and must be.
A World Without Values
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Author : Richard Joyce
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2009-12-01
A World Without Values written by Richard Joyce and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-12-01 with Philosophy categories.
For centuries, certain moral philosophers have maintained that morality is an illusion, comparable to talking of ghosts or unicorns. These moral skeptics claim that the world simply doesn’t contain the sort of properties (such as moral badness, moral obligation, etc.) necessary to render moral statements true. Even seemingly obvious moral claims, such as "killing innocents is morally wrong" fail to be true. What would lead someone to adopt such a radical viewpoint? Are the arguments in its favor defensible or plausible? What impact would embracing such a view have on one’s practical life? Taking as its point of departure the work of moral philosopher John Mackie (1917-1981), A World Without Values is a collection of essays on moral skepticism by leading contemporary philosophers, some of whom are sympathetic to Mackie’s views, some of whom are opposed. Rather than treating moral skepticism as something to dismiss as quickly as possible, this anthology is a comprehensive exploration of the topic, and as such will be a valuable resource for students of moral philosophy at all levels, as well as professionals in the field of meta-ethics. A World Without Values presents state-of-the-art arguments that advance the ongoing philosophical debate on several fronts, and will enjoy an important place on any meta-ethicist’s bookshelf for some years to come.
A World Without You
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Author : Beth Revis
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2016-07-19
A World Without You written by Beth Revis and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-07-19 with Young Adult Fiction categories.
What would you do to bring back someone you love? After the unexpected loss of his girlfriend, a boy suffering from delusions believes he can travel through time to save her in this gripping new novel from New York Times bestselling author Beth Revis. "A story that’s both heartbreaking and hopeful." —Publishers Weekly, starred review “Revis’s account of grief, loss, first love, and anguish, presented through a lens of mental illness, is a must-read.” —VOYA, starred review “A heartrending, beautifully complex look at mental illness, life, and loss. I tore through the pages, and, days later, this story still has a hold on me.” —Alexandra Bracken, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Darkest Minds series and Passenger Seventeen-year-old Bo has always had delusions that he can travel through time. When he was ten, Bo claimed to have witnessed the Titanic hit an iceberg, and at fifteen, he found himself on a Civil War battlefield, horrified by the bodies surrounding him. So when his concerned parents send him to a school for troubled youth, Bo assumes he knows the truth: that he’s actually attending Berkshire Academy, a school for kids who, like Bo, have "superpowers." At Berkshire, Bo falls in love with Sofia, a quiet girl with a tragic past and the superpower of invisibility. Sofia helps Bo open up in a way he never has before. In turn, Bo provides comfort to Sofia, who lost her mother and two sisters at a very young age. But even the strength of their love isn’t enough to help Sofia escape her deep depression. After she commits suicide, Bo is convinced that she's not actually dead. He believes that she's stuck somewhere in time — that he somehow left her in the past, and now it's his job to save her. Not since Ned Vizzini’s It’s Kind of a Funny Story has there been such a heartrending depiction of mental illness. In her first contemporary novel, Beth Revis guides readers through the mind of a young man struggling to process his grief as he fights his way through his delusions. As Bo becomes more and more determined to save Sofia, he has to decide whether to face his demons head-on, or succumb to a psychosis that will let him be with the girl he loves.
Hell Is A World Without You
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Author : Jason Kirk
language : en
Publisher: Shutdown Fullbooks
Release Date : 2024-02-12
Hell Is A World Without You written by Jason Kirk and has been published by Shutdown Fullbooks this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-02-12 with Fiction categories.
Rarely has an Evangelical upbringing been depicted with the relentless honesty, wide-ranging empathy, and Superbad-meets-Siddhartha playfulness of HELL IS A WORLD WITHOUT YOU. During the time of Pizza Hut buffets, 9/11, and all-night Mario Kart parties, a grieving teenager faces a mortal crossroads: fire-and-brimstone certainty vs. forbidden love. And whether or not you've ever begged God to delay the Rapture (so you could have time to lose your virginity), that kid's story is about you. "Best-seller"— USA Today, IndieReader, and Bookshop “Meticulous. Sublime. Hilarious. Endearing. Get it.” — Kirkus Reviews “Brutal honesty. Laugh-out-loud. Poignant.” — Publishers Weekly “Joyous. Taboo-shirking. Searing honesty. Wonderful novel.”— Independent Book Review, Starred “A miracle. Makes an insular culture universal.” — Book and Film Globe “Painfully, beautifully true.” — Columbia Daily Tribune “Compassionate. Bitingly funny.” — Readers’ Favorite, five-star review “Holy fucking shit.” — Top-rated Goodreads review “Ripped me apart and put me back together.”— Literary Transgressions, Year in Reading awards “Thank you to Jason Kirk.” — The Trevor Project, after this novel’s launch raised over $50,000 in donations for the LGBTQ charity “Divinely savage, emotionally pure, devilishly funny.”— Brian Dannelly, Saved! “Hilarious and big-hearted.” — Brian Phillips, Impossible Owls “No book has better depicted Evangelical terror.”— Jane Coaston, CNN “A magic trick, almost tactile in its specificity, yet universal.”— Claire McNear, Answers in the Form of Questions “Whoever you are, you’ll find yourself in it.”— Will Leitch, How Lucky “Almost astonishingly accurate.”— Jon Bois, 17776 “Genuinely funny. Painfully accurate.”— Drew Magary, The Night the Lights Went Out “I loved this book.”— Anthony Oliveira, Dayspring “Like reading my own teenage Evangelical diary.”— April Ajoy, Evangelicalish “Hilarious yet biting.”— Zito Madu, The Minotaur at Calle Lanza “Uncanny. I got severely weepy.”— Jeb Lund, national columnist “Will make you laugh, cry, and think.”— Dr. Mike Altman, Religious Studies, University of Alabama “Absolutely slaps, whether you were Evangelical or not.”— Dr. Jonathan Beecher Field, English, University of Clemson “Devastatingly funny.”— Victoria Zeller, One of the Boys “Will leave you laughing, crying, and feeling less alone.”— Mason Mennenga, A People’s Theology “So quick and funny and smart.”— Tommy Tomlinson, The Elephant in the Room “Deeply funny. Deeply felt.”— Tyler Parker, A Little Blood and Dancing “Too real. Cathartic.”— Blake Chastain, Exvangelical and Beyond “So evocative.”— Bonnie Kristian, Christianity Today “Not just for ex-youth group kids. A gift.”— Tyler Huckabee, Sojourners “Hilarious, harrowing, and romantic.”— Pete Volk, Polygon “What being raised Evangelical is like.”— Dr. Jonathan Redding, One Nation Under Graham “Funny, infuriating, and tender.”— Jay Busbee, Earnhardt Nation “Comedy with real heart.”— Jennifer C. Martin, Dirtbag Christian “I moved between laughing and crying so many times.”— Zach W. Lambert, Better Ways to Read the Bible “Surprisingly relatable. Read it.”— Trey Ferguson, Theologizin’ Bigger “I’m thankful this book exists!”— Casey Haas, Fun Sexy Bible Time “So good.”— Tony Ginocchio, Grift of the Holy Spirit “Hits close to home.”— Kevin Nye, Grace Can Lead Us Home “You will relate.” “This is for you.”— Emily Rojas and Abigail Hewing, Readirect “Immersive introduction into Evangelical world.”— Dr. Erich Nunn, English, Auburn University “Humanizes church kids.” — Scott Hines, Action Cookbook “Helped me understand myself.” — Dr. Neil Shanks, Baylor University “I love it.” “So fucking powerful.”— Andrew Klema and Dani Burford, Lit Lit “Painful, thoughtful, and has a ton of soul.”— Mike Golic, Jr., broadcaster “For anyone.”— Ryan Nanni, We’re Not So Different “Extraordinary.” “Jason writes his ass off.” — Holly Anderson and Spencer Hall, Channel Six
A World Without Police
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Author : Geo Maher
language : en
Publisher: Verso Books
Release Date : 2021-08-24
A World Without Police written by Geo Maher and has been published by Verso Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-08-24 with Political Science categories.
If police are the problem, what’s the solution? Tens of millions of people poured onto the streets for Black Lives Matter, bringing with them a wholly new idea of public safety, common security, and the delivery of justice, communicating that vision in the fiery vernacular of riot, rebellion, and protest. A World Without Police transcribes these new ideas—written in slogans and chants, over occupied bridges and hastily assembled barricades—into a compelling, must-read manifesto for police abolition. Compellingly argued and lyrically charged, A World Without Police offers concrete strategies for confronting and breaking police power, as a first step toward building community alternatives that make the police obsolete. Surveying the post-protest landscape in Minneapolis, Philadelphia, Chicago, and Oakland, as well as the people who have experimented with policing alternatives at a mass scale in Latin America, Maher details the institutions we can count on to deliver security without the disorganizing interventions of cops: neighborhood response networks, community-based restorative justice practices, democratically organized self-defense projects, and well-resourced social services. A World Without Police argues that abolition is not a distant dream or an unreachable horizon but an attainable reality. In communities around the world, we are beginning to glimpse a real, lasting justice in which we keep us safe.
World Without Mind
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Author : Franklin Foer
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2017-09-12
World Without Mind written by Franklin Foer and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-09-12 with Political Science categories.
A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of 2017 • One of the best books of the year by The New York Times, LA Times, and NPR Franklin Foer reveals the existential threat posed by big tech, and in his brilliant polemic gives us the toolkit to fight their pervasive influence. Over the past few decades there has been a revolution in terms of who controls knowledge and information. This rapid change has imperiled the way we think. Without pausing to consider the cost, the world has rushed to embrace the products and services of four titanic corporations. We shop with Amazon; socialize on Facebook; turn to Apple for entertainment; and rely on Google for information. These firms sell their efficiency and purport to make the world a better place, but what they have done instead is to enable an intoxicating level of daily convenience. As these companies have expanded, marketing themselves as champions of individuality and pluralism, their algorithms have pressed us into conformity and laid waste to privacy. They have produced an unstable and narrow culture of misinformation, and put us on a path to a world without private contemplation, autonomous thought, or solitary introspection—a world without mind. In order to restore our inner lives, we must avoid being coopted by these gigantic companies, and understand the ideas that underpin their success. Elegantly tracing the intellectual history of computer science—from Descartes and the enlightenment to Alan Turing to Stewart Brand and the hippie origins of today's Silicon Valley—Foer exposes the dark underpinnings of our most idealistic dreams for technology. The corporate ambitions of Google, Facebook, Apple, and Amazon, he argues, are trampling longstanding liberal values, especially intellectual property and privacy. This is a nascent stage in the total automation and homogenization of social, political, and intellectual life. By reclaiming our private authority over how we intellectually engage with the world, we have the power to stem the tide. At stake is nothing less than who we are, and what we will become. There have been monopolists in the past but today's corporate giants have far more nefarious aims. They’re monopolists who want access to every facet of our identities and influence over every corner of our decision-making. Until now few have grasped the sheer scale of the threat. Foer explains not just the looming existential crisis but the imperative of resistance.
A World Without Heroes
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Author : Brandon Mull
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2012-02-14
A World Without Heroes written by Brandon Mull and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-02-14 with Juvenile Fiction categories.
Fourteen-year-old Jason Walker is transported to a strange world called Lyrian, where he joins Rachel and a few rebels to piece together the Word that can destroy the malicious wizard emperor, Surroth.
A World Without Whom
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Author : Emmy J. Favilla
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2017-11-16
A World Without Whom written by Emmy J. Favilla and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-11-16 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Eats, Shoots & Leaves for the internet age As language evolves faster than ever before, what is the future of 'correct' writing? When Emmy Favilla was tasked with creating a styleguide for BuzzFeed, she opted for spelling, grammar and punctuation guidelines that would reflect how readers actually use language IRL. With wry humour and an uncanny intuition for the possibilities of internet-age expression, Favilla makes a case for breaking the stuffy rules that have hitherto defined our relationship with language. Featuring priceless emoji strings, sidebars, quizzes and style debates among the most lovable word nerds of the digital media world – of which Favilla is the go-to style guru – A World Without “Whom” is essential for readers and writers of posts, tweets, texts, emails and whatever comes next.