The Icarus Mind
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The Icarus Mind
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Author : J Royce Lockwood
language : en
Publisher: Marshall Cavendish International Asia Pte Ltd
Release Date : 2021-10-15
The Icarus Mind written by J Royce Lockwood and has been published by Marshall Cavendish International Asia Pte Ltd this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-10-15 with Fiction categories.
Thirty years from now, the bulk of humanity lives in hyper-connected, automated urban centers around the world. But Michael Quinn and the small rustic community in the Driftless Reservation in the US are living lives apart. Michael was delivered to this off-grid reservation as an infant by a mysterious foreigner known only as Dr Lim. Michael is gnawed by the mystery of his parents’ untimely deaths, and he is compelled to flee when his presence is detected by nefarious governmental actors. Michael’s search for answers takes him to Chicago and then Singapore, where he unearths secrets about his father, Simon Quinn. Simon had, decades earlier, been the subject of ethically dubious brain imaging experiments carried out in Shenzhen, China. The knowledge gained from these experiments would ultimately fall into the hands of a powerful Singapore-based corporation, becoming the foundation of a ubiquitous artificial intelligence infiltrating every corner of the virtual world. As Michael engages the intelligent network, he finds it has now become host to a familiar consciousness.
The Icarus Girl
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Author : Helen Oyeyemi
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2013-05-10
The Icarus Girl written by Helen Oyeyemi and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-05-10 with Fiction categories.
Jessamy Harrison is eight years old. Sensitive, whimsical, possessed of a powerful imagination, she spends hours writing, reading or simply hiding in the dark warmth of the airing cupboard. As the half-and-half child of an English father and a Nigerian mother, Jess just can't shake off the feeling of being alone wherever she goes, and other kids are wary of her terrified fits of screaming. When she is taken to her mother's family compound in Nigeria, she encounters Titiola, a ragged little girl her own age. It seems that at last Jess has found someone who will understand her. TillyTilly knows secrets both big and small. But as she shows Jess just how easy it is to hurt those around her, Jess begins to realise that she doesn't know who TillyTilly is at all.
Icarus
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Author : Peter Gordon Williams
language : en
Publisher: New Generation Publishing
Release Date : 2008-09
Icarus written by Peter Gordon Williams and has been published by New Generation Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-09 with Fiction categories.
Paul, Jane and Robert first met as students at Cambridge. In this novel, human relationships, philosophy, religion and literature are examined within the framework of a science fiction story. Poetry and play scripts arise naturally from the characters involved - Robert is an astrophysicist who wrote poetry in his youth, Paul becomes a famous playwright. Robert, exasperated at the futility of hurling megatons of ironmongery into space, works on a concept of detaching the mind from the body and sending it to explore the universe. His colleague, Julian, is an American neurosurgeon with a sinister past. Julian is fascinated with black holes. A black hole is formed when a star collapses and its density becomes so large that nothing, not even light, can escape from its tremendous gravitational field. Julian believes that a mind, due to its negligible mass, could pass through a black hole unscathed and enter another universe. Icarus, an entity unifying the two cultures of science and the humanities, is born and sent on a momentous journey. Icarus continued on his lonely odyssey across the wastes of interstellar space, with its clouds of hydrogen, helium and shimmering particles of dust, to discover a destiny more glorious than that promised by any religion. "Enjoyed this immensely. A brilliant piece of literature which contains three One Act plays - all murders! - and 21 poems - all contained in a novel wherein human relationships, philosophy, religion and literature are examined within the framework of a science fiction story. Is it possible to detach the mind from the body, and send it hurtling into space? - and even pass through a black hole and enter another universe? Well, when an astrophysicist, a playwright and a neurosurgeon get together - who knows? This work is intellectually stimulating, on the move and never pauses for breath. You'll love it." Maurice James Editor Isthmus Literary Magazine
The Icarus Deception
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Author : Seth Godin
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2012-12-31
The Icarus Deception written by Seth Godin and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-12-31 with Business & Economics categories.
In The Icarus Deception, Seth Godin's most inspiring book, he challenges readers to find the courage to treat their work as a form of art Everyone knows that Icarus's father made him wings and told him not to fly too close to the sun; he ignored the warning and plunged to his doom. The lesson: Play it safe. Listen to the experts. It was the perfect propaganda for the industrial economy. What boss wouldn't want employees to believe that obedience and conformity are the keys to success? But we tend to forget that Icarus was also warned not to fly too low, because seawater would ruin the lift in his wings. Flying too low is even more dangerous than flying too high, because it feels deceptively safe. The safety zone has moved. Conformity no longer leads to comfort. But the good news is that creativity is scarce and more valuable than ever. So is choosing to do something unpredictable and brave: Make art. Being an artist isn't a genetic disposition or a specific talent. It's an attitude we can all adopt. It's a hunger to seize new ground, make connections, and work without a map. If you do those things you're an artist, no matter what it says on your business card. Godin shows us how it's possible and convinces us why it's essential. 'If Seth Godin didn't exist, we'd need to invent him' Fast Company 'Seth Godin is a demigod on the web, a bestselling author, highly sought-after lecturer, successful entrepreneur, respected pundit and high-profile blogger' Forbes Seth Godin is the author of thirteen international bestsellers that have changed the way people think about marketing, the ways ideas spread, leadership and change including Permission Marketing, Purple Cow, All Marketers are Liars, The Dip and Tribes. He is the CEO of Squidoo.com and a very popular lecturer. His blog, www.sethgodin.typepad.com, is the most influential business blog in the world, and consistently one of the 100 most popular blogs on any subject..
Icarus Flight
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Author : Estevan Lutz
language : en
Publisher: Estronho
Release Date : 2022-03-16
Icarus Flight written by Estevan Lutz and has been published by Estronho this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-03-16 with Fiction categories.
In the near future, in the seaside city of Agartha, the life of the young Icarus oscillates between two vices: virtual reality and a hallucinogenic drug called nirvana. In search of medical treatment he ends up becoming a volunteer for an experiment of an advanced medication made with nanotechnology which later causes an extraordinary adverse reaction: the projection of his consciousness, which allows him to travel to several places of the world and the universe. From there on, Icarus begins a journey of self-knowledge, facing situations that will bring unimaginable consequences. Would everything be just in Icarus ́s mind?
The Icarus Syndrome
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Author : Peter Beinart
language : en
Publisher: Melbourne Univ. Publishing
Release Date : 2010
The Icarus Syndrome written by Peter Beinart and has been published by Melbourne Univ. Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Ambition categories.
In The Icarus Syndrome, Peter Beinart tells a tale as old as the Greeks - a story about the seductions of success. Beinart describes Washington on the eve of three wars - World War I, Vietnam and Iraq - three moments when American leaders decided they could remake the world in their image. Each time, leading intellectuals declared that history was over, and the spread of democracy was inevitable. Each time, a president held the nation in the palm of his hand. And each time, a war conceived in arrogance brought untold tragedy. In dazzling colour, Beinart portrays three extraordinary generations: the progressives who took America into World War I, led by Woodrow Wilson, the lonely preacher's son who became the closest thing to a political messiah the world had ever seen. The Camelot intellectuals who took America into Vietnam, led by Lyndon Johnson, who lay awake night after night shaking with fear that his countrymen considered him weak. And George W. Bush and the post-cold war neoconservatives, the romantic bullies who believed they could bludgeon the Middle East and liberate it at the same time. Like Icarus, each of these generations crafted 'wings' - a theory about America's relationship to the world. They flapped carefully at first, but gradually lost their inhibitions until, giddy with success, they flew into the sun. But every era also brought new leaders and thinkers who found wisdom in pain. They reconciled American optimism - our belief that anything is possible - with the realities of a world that will never fully bend to our will. In their struggles lie the seeds of American renewal today. Based on years of research, The Icarus Syndrome is a provocative and strikingly original account of hubris in the American century - and how we learn from the tragedies that result.
The Icarus Agenda
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Author : Robert Ludlum
language : en
Publisher: Bantam
Release Date : 2012-08-14
The Icarus Agenda written by Robert Ludlum and has been published by Bantam this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-08-14 with Fiction categories.
Colorado Congressman Evan Kendrick is trying to live out his term quietly when a political mole reveals his deepest secret: Kendrick was the anonymous hero who freed the hostages held by Arab terrorists in the American embassy in Masqat, and then silently disappeared. Now, brought into the light, Kendrick is a target, pursued by the terrorists he once outwitted. Together with the beautiful woman who saved his life, Kendrick enters a deadly arena where the only currency is blood, where frightened whispers speak of violence yet to come, and where the fate of the free world may ultimately rest in the powerful hands of a mysterious figure known only as the Mahdi. Praise for Robert Ludlum and The Icarus Agenda “[Robert] Ludlum is light-years beyond his literary competition in piling plot twist upon plot twist, until the mesmerized reader is held captive. . . . Ludlum pulls out all the stops.”—Chicago Tribune “[An] intricate story of conspiracies within conspiracies . . . Once you start reading you just can’t stop.”—Library Journal “Readers will be hooked.”—The New York Times BONUS: This edition includes an excerpt from Robert Ludlum’s The Bourne Identity.
Making Of Inside The Wright Brothers In
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Author : John Passfield
language : en
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Release Date : 2006-11
Making Of Inside The Wright Brothers In written by John Passfield and has been published by AuthorHouse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-11 with Art categories.
This journal, a companion book to the novel, Inside the Wright Brothers: Flight is Possible, is a record of the thoughts that occur to a writer while in the process of writing a novel. In recording these thoughts, the journal provides an exploration of a number of topics: the working out of a pattern, in novel form, to reflect the author's conception of the meaning of the Wright Brothers' experience; a consideration of the achievement of the Wright Brothers as an example of the creative process at work; and a step-by-step record of the writing process, which includes the planning, writing, editing and polishing of a novel about the Wright Brothers. In addition, the journal presents the challenge of matching form and meaning in the novel genre as a response to the complexities of life, and a discussion of the possibilities of the novel as an art form. This journal is the seventh in a series of companion books pairing novel and journal which explore the concept of form and meaning in the novel.
Fly Like Icarus
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Author : Yolanta Lensky
language : en
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Release Date : 2015-09-24
Fly Like Icarus written by Yolanta Lensky and has been published by Xlibris Corporation this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-09-24 with Fiction categories.
Fly Like Icarus or Spontendors Second Adventure is the fourth published work by Yolanta Lensky and the second book in the collection of stories about Spontendor, a Pegasus that had done very noble, brave, and most responsible deeds on the Olympus , an ancient city of gods where he is admired as a Super-hero by the kids and the adults for his spontaneous bravery, honesty ,and the ability to be there for anyone who needs help and compassion. The plot of the book is built up on Spontendors sincere desire to find out the reason for the failure of a very memorable mythological character Icarus, his best friend, to conquer the Sun. The book is very knowledgeable and informative in its story development about how Spontendor managed to reveal the truth. It is also very interactive and most appealing in the mood that it generates and the inspirational mind-sets that it promotes to instill in children the feelings of their uniqueness and creativity. It is noteworthy that the book is also drawing the childrens attention to the beauty of the English language by teaching them to work on the enrichment of their vocabulary stock and the development of their thinking critical skills that the author enhances in the section of the book, called Do some reasoning.
Impossible Minds My Neurons My Consciousness Revised Edition
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Author : Igor Aleksander
language : en
Publisher: World Scientific
Release Date : 2014-12-18
Impossible Minds My Neurons My Consciousness Revised Edition written by Igor Aleksander and has been published by World Scientific this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-12-18 with Computers categories.
Impossible Minds: My Neurons, My Consciousness has been written to satisfy the curiosity each and every one of us has about our own consciousness. It takes the view that the neurons in our heads are the source of consciousness and attempts to explain how this happens. Although it talks of neural networks, it explains what they are and what they do in such a way that anyone may understand. While the topic is partly philosophical, the text makes no assumptions of prior knowledge of philosophy; and so contains easy excursions into the important ideas of philosophy that may be missing in the education of a computer scientist. The approach is pragmatic throughout; there are many references to material on experiments that were done in our laboratories.The first edition of the book was written to introduce curious readers to the way that the consciousness we all enjoy might depend on the networks of neurons that make up the brain. In this second edition, it is recognized that these arguments still stand, but that they have been taken much further by an increasing number of researchers. A post-script has now been written for each chapter to inform the reader of these developments and provide an up-to-date bibliography. A new epilogue has been written to summarize the state-of-the art of the search for consciousness in neural automata, for researchers in computation, students of philosophy, and anyone who is fascinated by what is one of the most engaging scientific endeavours of the day.This book also tells a story. A story of a land where people think that they are automata without much in the way of consciousness, a story of cormorants and cliffs by the sea, a story of what it might be like to be a conscious machine …