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Human Is
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Author : Philip K. Dick
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2008-09-18
Human Is written by Philip K. Dick and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-09-18 with Fiction categories.
Drawn from the five volumes of his complete short stories (also published by Gollancz) this volume represents the very cream of Philip K. Dick's output. It serves both as a celebration of his work, in the 25th year since his death, and as the ideal introduction to his unique take on the world for new readers. As our culture becomes ever more fluid, as fact is fictionalised, as documentary gives way to reality-TV, as our identities are digitised, as globalism runs wild, as drugs become ever more ubiquitous the world is finally catching up with even the most bizarre of Philip K. Dick's imaginings. 25 years after his death we are living in Philip K. Dick's world, this new authoratitive collection of his best short fiction shows us why.
Being Human Is Super
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Author : Archna Gupta
language : en
Publisher: Notion Press
Release Date : 2022-04-01
Being Human Is Super written by Archna Gupta and has been published by Notion Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-04-01 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
This book is a collection of the life stories of ten fantastic human beings from different parts of the world and different backgrounds. It aims not to impart information, which is easily available in this Internet era, but to ignite inspiration that could stay for a lifetim. It may not soothe young readers to sleep, but it may awaken them to the profound real world more amazing than fiction. It will not give ready-made answers to life’s questions; but it will intrigue young readers with life stories of a few humans, nudge them with compelling questions, and help them evolve their own human consciousness. Here is a book which one can come back to again and again, and always get something new out of it. Here is a book that helps to seek and know the joy of wondering about life. Here is a book that is not about super-humans, but about realizing that BEING HUMAN IS SUPER.
No Human Is Illegal
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Author : J. J. Mulligan Sepulveda
language : en
Publisher: Melville House
Release Date : 2019-01-22
No Human Is Illegal written by J. J. Mulligan Sepulveda and has been published by Melville House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-01-22 with Political Science categories.
"Inspiring and eye-opening..."— *starred* Booklist review “A compassionate and expert window into the netherworlds of immigration..."—Lauren Markham, author of The Far Away Brothers Now in paperback, with a new afterword by the author, an immigration lawyer's journalistic account of keeping American borders and dreams alive. In this powerful and personal narrative, a distinguished immigration lawyer guides us through the trials and terrors of modern immigration law. Beginning in a day in the life of an undocumented immigrant, Sepulveda proceedes through a processing intake and a heartwrenching court hearing. He takes us to a Texas border detention center where mothers and childen are essentially imprisoned, then on to New York's JFK airport during the weekend of Trump's infamous travel ban, where Sepulveda joined many other attorneys to provide pro bono legal counsel for passengers endangered with deportation. In this multi-faceted account of being on the front lines at one of the biggest crisis of our time, Sepulveda recounts growing up the son of a Latin American immigrant, his time in Spain as a Fulbright fellow to study Europe's ongoing migrant crisis and, in a new Afterword, his testimony before a Senate committee to advocate on behalf of undocumented youth.
Human
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Author : Amanda Rees
language : en
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Release Date : 2020-05-11
Human written by Amanda Rees and has been published by Reaktion Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-05-11 with Social Science categories.
What does it mean to be human? And what, if anything, does it have to do with being a member of the animal species Homo sapiens? This dazzling book gets to the very heart of our rather unscientific motivations and prejudices, showing how they are of great use in resolving the world’s biggest problems. From beasts to aliens, this book explores widely discussed but often problematic links between humans and six other beings, tackling deep philosophical questions including humanity’s common purpose, life’s meaning, and what it means to be accepted as part of a community. Global in its outlook and illustrated with stunning pictures, Human is a powerful, funny, and iconoclastic antidote to post-humanism.
Being Human
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Author : Ron Broglio
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2017-10-02
Being Human written by Ron Broglio and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-10-02 with Philosophy categories.
Technology and animals often serve as the boundaries by which we define the human. In this issue contributors explore these categories as necessary supplements or as porous membranes which disturb the scaffolding of how the human is constructed. A lingering question throughout is whether we have ever been human or if such a category is a non-localizable ideal or perhaps a misnomer. In this collection of essays, internationally known theorists muddle the categorical boundaries such that animals and technologies become necessary components rather than limits for what it means to be human. They examine a range of subjects, including apophatic animality, critical media objects-to-think-with, biosemiotic insect resonances, the monstrous and horrific which dislodges our cultural animals, and the problem of thinking of animality as stupidity. Novels, films, digital objects, scientific laboratories, philosophical texts, animals on the road and in the fields serve as sites for inquiry. The result of these investigations is the spectral possibility that we are not the humans we make ourselves out to be. This book was originally published as a special issue of Angelaki.
The Best Of Philip K Dick
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Author : Philip K. Dick
language : en
Publisher: Echo Point+ORM
Release Date : 2019-01-01
The Best Of Philip K Dick written by Philip K. Dick and has been published by Echo Point+ORM this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-01-01 with Fiction categories.
Thirteen short stories by the legendary author of The Man in the High Castle and other science fiction classics. Philip K. Dick didn’t predict the future―he summoned the desperate bleakness of our present directly from his fevered paranoia. Dick didn’t predict the Internet or iPhones or email or 3D printers, but rather he so thoroughly understood human nature that he could already see, even at the advent of the transistor, the way technology would alienate us from each other and from ourselves. He could see us isolated and drifting in our own private realities even before we had plugged in our ear buds. He could see, even in the earliest days of space exploration, how much of our own existence remained unexplored, and how the great black spaces between people were growing even as our universe was shrinking. Philip K. Dick spent his first three years as a science fiction author writing shorter fiction, and in his lifetime he composed almost 150 short stories, many of which have gone on to be adapted into (slightly watered down) Hollywood blockbusters. Collected here are thirteen of his most Dickian tales, funhouse realities with trap doors and hidden compartments.
What Is A Human
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Author : James Gee
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021-04
What Is A Human written by James Gee and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-04 with categories.
Mencius On Becoming Human
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Author : Jim Behuniak
language : en
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Release Date : 2004-11-11
Mencius On Becoming Human written by Jim Behuniak and has been published by State University of New York Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-11-11 with Religion categories.
Using current research from traditional sources and newly unearthed documents dating from the Warring States period (403–221 B.C.E.), Mencius on Becoming Human offers a timely interpretation of a central text in the Confucian canon. The author carefully reconstructs the philosophical assumptions that underwrite the teachings of the Mencius, returning the text to its native intellectual world. The result is a compelling new reading of an ancient classic, one that is both sensitive to the details of historical context and contemporary in its philosophical implications. James Behuniak Jr. argues that the notion of an essential, ahistorical "human nature" is not part of the process of "becoming human" outlined in the Mencius. Rather, becoming human is described as a process of developing a qualitatively "human" disposition within specific cultural and historical conditions as these are understood within a Warring States cosmology. The central themes of the Menciusthe importance of family, moral development, and human advancementare each discussed within this reconstructed framework.
Being Human
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Author : Roger Smith
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2007
Being Human written by Roger Smith and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Knowledge, Theory of categories.
Challenging commonly held biological, religious, and ethical beliefs, internationally well known historian of science Roger Smith boldly argues that human nature is not some "thing" awaiting discovery but is active in understanding itself. According to Smith, "being human" is a self-creation made possible through a reflective circle of thought and action, with a past and a future, and studying this "history" from a range of perspectives is fundamental to human self-understanding. Smith's argument brings together historical and contemporary debates concerning materialism and human nature and the relations of the different fields of knowledge. He draws on classic writings from across the human sciences, touching on sociology, anthropology, brain sciences, history, philosophical hermeneutics, and critical theory, and demonstrates that there is no position outside history for an absolutely objective or eternally valid view of human nature. The question "what is human?" does not have and could not possible have one answer. Instead, there exists a variety of answers for different purposes, and there are good reasons for the many conceptions of what it is to be human. Smith does not treat human nature as only biological, economic, or moral, but as a multidimensional subject that should be considered in its proper historical context. By understanding this context, Smith believes, we can come to a truer understanding of ourselves. Persuasively and elegantly written, Being Human takes an important new turn in the philosophical study of being human.
What Is A Human
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Author : John H. Evans
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2016-07-01
What Is A Human written by John H. Evans and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-07-01 with Social Science categories.
What is a human? Are humans those with human DNA, those in possession of traits like rationality, or those made in the image of God? The debate over what makes human beings unique has raged for centuries. Many think that if society accepts the wrong definition of what it is to be human, people will look at their neighbor as more of an animal, object, or machine-making maltreatment more likely. In the longest running claim, for over 150 years critics have claimed that taking a Darwinist definition results in people treating each other more like animals. Despite their seriousness, these claims have never been empirically investigated. In this groundbreaking book John H. Evans shows that the definitions promoted by biologists and philosophers actually are associated with less support for human rights. Members of the public who agree with these definitions are less willing to sacrifice to stop genocides and are more supportive of buying organs from poor people, of experimenting on prisoners against their will, and of torturing people to potentially save lives. It appears that the critics are right. However, Evans finds that few Americans agree with these academic definitions. Looking at how most of the public defines humanity, we see a much more nuanced picture. In a fascinating account, he shows that the dominant definitions are unlikely to lead to human rights abuses. He concludes that the critics are right about the definitions of a human promoted by academic biologists and philosophers, and are therefore justified in their vigilance. However, because at present few Americans agree with these definitions, the academic definitions would have to spread much more extensively before impacting how the general public acts. Evans' book is a major corrective to the more than century-long debate about the impact of definitions of a human.