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Missionaries / by Klay, Phil,author.(CARDINAL)405138;

"Neither Mason, a U.S. Army Special Forces medic, nor Lisette, a foreign correspondent, has emerged from America's long post-9/11 wars in Iraq and Afghanistan unscathed. Yet war also exerts a terrible draw that neither can shake--the noble calling, the camaraderie, the life-and-death stakes. Where else in the world can such a person go? All roads lead to Colombia, where the US, with its patented fusion of intelligence dominance and quick-striking special operators, has partnered with local government to stamp out a vicious civil war and keep the predatory narco gangs at bay. Mason, now a liaison to the Colombian military, is ready for the good war, and Lisette is more than ready to cover it. For Juan Pablo, Mason's counterpart in the Colombian officer corps, translating reality into a language the Americans can understand requires a cartoonist's gift for caricature, but it's child's play next to the challenge of navigating the viper's nest of factions bidding for power, in the capital and far out in the field. And if Juan Pablo's view is dark, the outlook of Abel, a lieutenant in the militia Los Mil Jesuses, which controls territory in rural Norte de Santander, a region on the Venezuelan border where the writ of law scarcely runs, is positively Stygian. Abel has lost everything he loves in the carnage that for his entire life has flowed unceasingly in this region, where the lines between drug cartels, militias, and the state are semi-permeable. It is Abel's cruel fate to find safety only by serving a man he has come to fear and loathe. Missionaries is an astonishment, a novel of extraordinary suspense whose central, unsparing drama is infused by a geopolitical sophistication and a wisdom about the human heart that would be rare even in isolation. As Los Mil Jesuses make their move to fill a power vacuum in Norte de Santander, aided and abetted by the Colombian military for its own reasons, the Americans are made pawns of a game they don't even begin to understand. The result is an unfolding calamity that will leave no character unscathed, and will echo across the planet. A work whose accomplishment calls forth comparisons to Joseph Conrad, Graham Greene, and Robert Stone, Missionaries ultimately stands apart as its own electrifying new form of artistic reckoning with the forces we have unleashed in our world"--

Subjects: War fiction.; Political fiction.; Novels.; Soldiers; Foreign correspondents; Drug traffic;

Available copies: 30 / Total copies: 31

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Kingdom of fear : loathsome secrets of a star-crossed child in the final days of the American century / by Thompson, Hunter S.(CARDINAL)122718;

Brilliant, provocative, outrageous, and brazen, Hunter S. Thompson's infamous rule breaking - in his journalism, in his life, and under the law - changed the shape of American letters and the face of American icons. From a smart-mouthed Kentucky kid flaunting all authority to a convention-defying journalist who came to personify a wild fusion of fact, fiction, and mind-altering substances. Call it the evolution of an outlaw. Here are the formative experiences that comprise Thompson's legendary trajectory alongside the weird and the ugly. This boisterous, blistering ride illuminates as never before the professional and ideological risk taking of a literary genius and transgressive icon.--

Subjects: Autobiographies.; Thompson, Hunter S.; Journalists;

Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 11

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Reality through the arts / by Sporre, Dennis J.(CARDINAL)719207;

Includes bibliographical references (pages 416-418) and index.1800 -- The Context -- Europe -- The Renaissance -- The Reformation and Counter-Reformation -- The Enlightenment -- Asia -- Africa -- America -- The Arts -- Europe -- The Early Renaissance -- Painting -- Sculpture -- Literature -- Architecture -- The High Renaissance -- Leonardo Da Vinci -- Michelangelo -- Papal Splendor: The Vatican -- Raphael -- The High Renaissance In Venice -- Mannerism -- Northern Europe -- Two-Dimensional Art -- Theatre -- Masterworks William Shakespeare, Hamlet -- Music -- Baroque Style -- Painting -- Sculpture -- Architecture -- Music -- Profile Johann Sebastian Bach -- Literature -- The Enlightenment -- Rococo Style -- The English School -- Genre -- Neoclassical Painting -- Neoclassical Architecture -- Masterworks Jacques-Louis David, The Oath of the Horatii -- Neoclassical Music -- Literature -- Asia -- Chinese Art -- Ming Sculpture And Ceramics -- Painting -- Music -- Indian Art -- Rajput Style -- Punjab Hills Style -- Muslim And Hindu Architecture -- Japanese Art -- Painting Style -- Imari Porcelain -- Kabuki Theatre -- Africa -- Benin Style -- Mali -- America -- Aztec Art -- Incan Art -- Thinking Critically -- Cyber Study -- Important Terms -- ch. Twelve Artistry In An Age Of Industry c. 1800 to c. 1900 -- The Context -- Europe -- Asia -- Africa -- America -- The Arts -- Europe -- Romanticism -- Painting -- Profile Rosa Bonheur -- Literature -- Masterworks Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice -- Music -- Profile Johannes Brahms -- Theatre -- Ballet -- Architecture -- Realism -- Painting -- Theatre And Literature -- Aestheticism -- Impressionism -- Painting -- Sculpture -- Music -- Literature -- Post-Impressionism -- Seurat -- Cezanne -- Gauguin -- Van Gogh -- Art Nouveau -- Asia -- Africa -- America -- American Indian Art -- African American Music -- Thinking Critically -- Cyber Study -- Important Terms -- ch. Thirteen The Arts In A Modern, Postmodern, And Pluralistic World 1900 to the Present -- The Context -- Modernism -- Postmodernism -- Pluralism -- History -- The Arts -- Modern Directions -- Expressionism -- Fauvism -- Cubism -- Futurism and Mechanism -- Dada -- Abstraction -- Surrealism -- Minimalism -- Absurdism -- Realism -- Abstract Expressionism -- Pop Art -- Hard Edge -- Environmental and Ephemeral Art -- Architectural Modernism.Machine generated contents note: Using this Book -- Organization -- Pronouncing Names And Terms -- The Companion Website And Accompanying Music CD -- Putting this Study in Context -- The Arts And Ways Of Knowing -- Reality Through The Arts -- What Are Art's Main Concerns? -- Creativity -- Aesthetic Communication -- Symbols -- Fine and Applied Art -- What Are Art's Purposes And Functions? -- Purposes -- Functions -- How Should We Perceive And Respond? -- Applying Critical Skills -- Approaches To Criticism -- Formal Criticism -- Contextual Criticism -- Making Judgments -- Artisanship -- Communication -- Style -- How Can We Analyze Style? -- Style And Culture -- How Does A Style Get Its Name? -- Thinking Critically -- pt. I The Media Of The Arts -- What Artists Use to Express "Reality" -- ch. One Two-Dimensional Art -- Drawing, Painting, Printmaking, and Photography -- Formal and Technical Qualities -- Media -- Drawing -- Dry Media -- Wet Media -- Painting -- Mixed Media -- Printmaking -- Relief Printing -- Intaglio -- Planographic Processes -- Photography -- Art Photography -- Documentary Photography -- Photographic Techniques -- Composition -- Elements -- Line -- Profile Pablo Picasso -- Form -- Color -- Mass -- Texture -- Principles -- Repetition -- Balance -- Unity -- Focal Areas -- Other Factors -- Perspective -- Chiaroscuro -- Content -- Painting & Human Reality Gericault, The Raft of the "Medusa" -- Sense Stimuli -- Contrasts -- Dynamics -- Trompe L'Oeil -- Juxtaposition -- Focus -- Sample Outline and Critical Analysis -- Cyber Study -- Important Terms -- ch. Two Sculpture -- Formal and Technical Qualities -- Dimensionality -- Full-Round -- Relief -- Linear -- Methods Of Execution -- Subtraction -- Construction -- Substitution -- Manipulation -- Composition -- Elements -- Principles -- Other Factors -- Articulation -- Sculpture & Human Reality Michelangelo, David -- Profile Michelangelo -- Focal Area (Emphasis) -- Ephemeral and Environmental -- Found -- Sense Stimuli -- Touch -- Temperature And Age -- Dynamics -- Size -- Lighting And Environment -- Sample Outline and Critical Analysis -- Cyber Study -- Important Terms -- ch. Three Architecture -- Formal and Technical Qualities -- Structure -- Post and Lintel -- Arch -- Cantilever -- Bearing Wall -- Skeleton Frame -- Building Materials -- Stone -- Concrete -- Wood -- Steel -- Line, Repetition, And Balance -- Scale And Proportion -- Profile Frank Lloyd Wright -- Context -- Space -- Architecture & Human Reality Le Corbusier, Villa Savoye -- Climate -- Sense Stimuli -- Controlled Vision And Symbolism -- Style -- Apparent Function -- Dynamics And Interactivity -- Scale -- Sample Outline and Critical Analysis -- Cyber Study -- Important Terms -- ch. Four Music And Opera -- Formal and Technical Qualities -- Classical Forms -- Mass -- Cantata -- Oratorio -- Art Song -- Fugue -- Symphony -- Concerto -- Jazz Forms -- Blues -- New Orleans Style -- Ragtime -- Free Jazz -- Fusion -- Groove -- Pop Music Forms -- Rock and Roll -- Rap -- Composition -- Sound -- Pitch -- Dynamics -- Tone Color -- Duration -- Rhythm -- Beat -- Meter -- Tempo -- Melody -- Harmony -- Profile Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart -- Tonality -- Texture -- Monophony -- Polyphony -- Homophony -- Sense Stimuli -- Our Primal Responses -- The Musical Performance -- Opera -- Types Of Opera -- The Opera Production -- Music & Human Reality Bizet, Carmen -- Sample Outline and Critical Analysis -- Cyber Study -- Important Terms -- ch. Five Literature -- Formal and Technical Qualities -- Formal Divisions -- Fiction -- Novels -- Short Stories -- Poetry -- Narrative -- Dramatic -- Lyric -- Nonfiction -- Biography -- Essay -- Sacred Scriptures -- Drama -- Technical Devices -- Fiction -- Point Of View -- Appearance And Reality -- Tone -- Character -- Plot -- Theme -- Profile Toni Morrison -- Symbols -- Poetry -- Language -- Structure -- Sound Structures -- Meter -- Nonfiction -- Facts -- Anecdotes -- Sense Stimuli -- Pictures -- Sounds -- Emotions -- Literature & Human Reality Alice Walker, "Roselilly" -- Sample Outline and Critical Analysis -- Cyber Study -- Important Terms -- ch. Six Theatre -- Formal and Technical Qualities -- Genres -- Tragedy -- Comedy -- Tragicomedy -- Melodrama -- Performance Art -- The Production -- Script -- Plot -- Exposition -- Complication -- Denouement -- Foreshadowing -- Discovery -- Reversal -- Character -- Protagonist -- Themes -- Visual Elements -- Theatre Types -- Scene Design -- Lighting Design -- Costume Design -- Properties -- Aural Elements -- Dynamics -- Actors -- Profile William Shakespeare -- Lifelikeness -- Sense Stimuli -- Theatre & Human Reality David Rabe, Hurly-Burly -- Sample Outline and Critical Analysis -- Cyber Study -- Important Terms -- ch. Seven Cinema -- Formal and Technical Qualities -- Classifications -- Narrative -- Documentary -- Absolute (Avant-Garde) -- The Production -- Mise-en-Scene -- Director -- Techniques -- Editing -- Camera Viewpoint -- Cinema & Human Reality Sergei Eisenstein, Battleship Potemkin -- Cutting Within The Frame -- Dissolves -- Focus -- Movement -- Lighting -- Sense Stimuli -- Viewpoint -- Crosscutting -- Tension Build-Up And Release -- Direct Address -- Magnitude And Convention -- Structural Rhythm -- Profile D.W. Griffith -- Audio -- Sample Outline and Critical Analysis -- Cyber Study -- Important Terms -- ch. Eight Dance -- Formal and Technical Qualities -- Forms -- Ballet -- Modern Dance -- World Concert/Ritual Dance -- Folk Dance -- Jazz Dance -- Choreography -- Formalized Movement -- Line, Form, and Repetition -- Rhythm -- Mime and Pantomime -- Profile Akram Khan -- Theme, Image, and Story Line -- Music -- Mise-en-Scene -- Lighting -- Dance & Human Reality Martha Graham, Appalachian Spring -- Sense Stimuli -- Moving Images -- Force -- Sign Language -- Color -- Sample Outline and Critical Analysis -- Cyber Study -- Important Terms -- pt. II THE STYLES OF THE ARTS -- How Artists Portray "Reality" -- ch. Nine Ancient Approaches c. 30,000 to c. 480 b.c.e. -- The Context -- The Stone Age -- The Middle East -- Asia -- America -- Europe -- The Arts -- The Stone Age -- The Middle East -- Sumerian Art -- Masterworks The Tell Asmar Statues -- Assyrian Art -- Egyptian Art -- Profile Nefertiti -- Hebrew Art -- Asia -- America -- Europe -- Thinking Critically -- Cyber Study -- Important Terms -- ch. Ten Artistic Reflections In The Pre-Modern World C. 480 B.C.E. to C. 1400 C.E. -- The Context -- Europe -- Greece -- Rome -- The Middle Ages -- The Middle East -- Byzantium -- Islam -- Asia -- China -- India -- Japan -- Africa -- America -- The Arts -- Europe -- Greek Classicism and Hellenism -- Classicism -- Sculpture -- Masterworks Myron, Discus Thrower -- Theatre -- Architecture -- Literature -- Hellenistic Style -- Imperial Roman Classicism -- Sculpture -- Literature -- Architecture -- Medieval Music -- Profile Hildegard of Bingen -- Romanesque Style -- Medieval Literature -- Gothic Style -- Two-Dimensional Art -- Architecture -- Sculpture -- Medieval Theatre -- The Middle East -- Byzantine Style -- Architecture -- Mosaics And Ivories -- Islamic Art -- Two-Dimensional Art -- Music -- Literature -- Islamic Style In Architecture -- Textiles And Ceramics -- Asia -- Chinese Art -- Sculpture -- Architecture -- Painting -- Indian Art -- Sculpture -- Architecture -- Japanese Art -- Architecture -- Painting And Sculpture -- Theatre And Literature -- Africa -- Nok Style -- Igbo-Ukwu Style -- Ife Style -- Djenne Style -- America -- Thinking Critically -- Cyber Study -- Important Terms -- ch. Eleven Artistic Styles In The Emerging Modern World c. 1400 to c." ... provides both a topical and chronological approach to the humanities. Part I, "The Media of the Arts," offers independent chapters on two dimensional art (drawing, painting, printmaking, and photography), sculpture, architecture, music, literature, theatre, cinema, and dance. Part II, "The Styles of the Arts," is a chronological history of the arts of Africa, the Americas, Asia, Europe, and the Middle East, organized by artistic discipline and focusing on styles rather than encyclopedic detail."--Publisher.

Subjects: Arts.; Realism in art.;

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From Lucy to language / by Johanson, Donald C.(CARDINAL)324225; Edgar, Blake.(CARDINAL)333295;

Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-285) and index.Pt. I: Central issues of paleoanthropology. What is a human? -- Evidence -- Ancestors -- Lineages -- Migration -- Diversity -- Anatomy -- Society -- Bipedalism -- Tool -- Customs -- Culture -- Imponderables -- pt. 2: Encountering the evidence. Pre-Australopithecines -- Australopithecines -- Homo -- Paleolithic technology -- Appendix 1: Type specimens for hominid species -- Appendix 2: Hominid fossil and archeological sites.In 1974 in a remote region of Ethiopia, Donald Johanson, then one of America's most promising young paleoanthropologists, discovered "Lucy", the oldest, best preserved skeleton of any erect-walking human ever found. This discovery prompted a complete reevaluation of previous evidence for human origins. In the years since this dramatic discovery Johanson has continued to scour east Africa's Great Rift Valley for the earliest evidence of human origins. In 1975 this team unearthed the "First Family", an unparalleled fossil assemblage of 13 individuals dating back to 3.2 million years ago and in 1986 at the Rift's most famous location, Olduvai Gorge, this same team discovered a 1.8 million-year-old partial adult skeleton that necessitated a reassessment of the earliest members of our own genus Homo. Johanson's fieldwork continues unabated and recently more fossil members of Lucy's family have been found, including the 1992 discovery of the oldest, most complete skull of her species, with future research now planned for 1996 in the virtually unexplored regions of the most northern extension of the Rift Valley in Eritrea. From Lucy to language is a summing up of this remarkable career and a stunning documentary of human life through time on Earth. It is a combination of the vital experience of field work and the intellectual rigor of primary research. It is the fusion of two great writing talents: Johanson and Blake Edgar, an accomplished science writer, editor of the California Academy of Sciences' Pacific Discovery, and co-author of Johanson's last book, Ancestors. From Lucy to language is one of the greatest stories ever told, bracketing the timeline between bipedalism and human language. Part I addresses the central issues facing anyone seeking to decipher the mystery of human origins. In this section the authors provide answers to the basics -- "What are our closest living relatives?"--Tackle the controversial -- "What is race?"--and contemplate the imponderables -- "Why did consciousness evolve?" From Lucy to language is an encounter with the evidence. Early human fossils are hunted, discovered, identified, excavated, collected, preserved, labeled, cleaned, reconstructed, drawn, fondled, photographed, cast, compared, measured, revered, pondered, published, and argued over endlessly. Fossils like Lucy have become a talisman of sorts, promising to reveal the deepest secrets of our existence. In Part II the authors profile over fifty of the most significant early human fossils ever found. Each specimen is displayed in color and at actual size, most of them in multiple views. With them the authors present the cultural accoutrements associated with the fossils: stone tools which evidence increasing sophistication over time, the earliest stone, clay, and ivory art objects, and the culminating achievement of the dawn of human consciousness -- the magnificent rock and cave paintings of Europe, Africa, Australia, and the Americas. In the end From Lucy to language is a reminder and a challenge. Like no species before us, we now seem poised to control vast parts of the planet and its life. We possess the power to influence, if not govern, evolution. For that reason, we must not forget our link to the natural world and our debt to natural selection. We need to "think deep", to add a dose of geologic time and evolutionary history to our perspective of who we are, where we came from, and where we are headed. This is the most poignant lesson this book has to offer.

Subjects: Australopithecines.; Fossil hominids.; Human evolution.; Lucy (Prehistoric hominid);

Available copies: 6 / Total copies: 7

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How to win friends and influence fungi : collected quirks of science, tech, engineering, and math from Nerd Nite / by Balakrishnan, Chris,editor.(CARDINAL)883979; Wasowski, Matt,editor.(CARDINAL)883980; Orr, Kristen,illustrator.(CARDINAL)883981;

Introduction -- Creature features. Camel spiders: the rumors of my size have been greatly exaggerated ; Military marine mammals: dolphins so smart they should give their own Nerd Nite presentation ; Sex catapults! ; Cephalopods: the impossibly awesome invertebrates ; Stomatopods: why is my thumb bleeding and my mind blown? ; Finding nemo('s sex): sex change and gender roles in anemonefishes -- Mmm...brains. It's not you, it's misophonia ; Sex, drugs, and happiness ; Don't trust your brain: why foreign accents are all in your head ; Lessons from the Oregon trail ; Synesthesia: hearing colors and tasting sounds ; Brain on a chip: the ethics of brain experimentation ; How we become disgusting (some more than others) -- Bodily fluids. To boldly go: dealing with poop and pee in space ; Milk! you'll see it everywhere once you know what to look for ; Triclosan: it's not the bacteria but the soap that's going to kill you! ; Lost: bladder control. reward for safe return. ; Microbes can save you, kill you, or just give you the poops ; Runoff: what is it and why even notice it? -- Doing it. Hot or not? how to be a perfect 10; or, how to manipulate perceptions of physical attractiveness ; Dating tips from the animal kingdom: what to wear and how to flaunt it ; Dating as a data nerd ; 10 things you didn't know about sex...education ; Going ape for pansexual primates ; Smells and the microbiome: are microbes controlling your sex life? -- Health and (un)wellness. Maggot therapy; or, how I learned to stop worrying and love the bugs ; Happy 13th birthday, Nerd Nite! now get yourself to an adolescent medicine doctor ; What your DNA says about you ; The science of the hangover ; You and your microbiome: say hello to your little friends ; Penis or vagina? ‘tain’t that simple! ; The modern study of genetics is full of twists and turns -- Pathogens and parasites. Everything you always wanted to know about birds ; Pigeons, cannibals, and vaginas: the story of my favorite parasite ; What birds can teach us about the impending zombie apocalypse ; Zombies are real and you might be one ; Hacking the antiviral immune response ; Human parasites (no, not your mooching off your roommate) -- Death and taxes (but really, just death). Monarch the bear: a tale of tycoons, taxidermy, and the California flag ; How to not destroy ourselves: lessons from sci-fi ; Mass extinction ; How and why cancer happens; or, if you live long enough you’re going to die ; Algae apocalypse: the most important slime -- Space, the big and the beautiful. Bullshit in space: an astronomical adventure through cosmic misinformation ; Preparation a: our relief against severe assteroids ; Life under the ice of Europa ; Artificial gravity in science fiction ; Sky rockets in flight, asteroids delight: asteroid mining for science, profit, and fun! ; Better than NASA: Canada’s sample of an asteroid; or, the untold story of the Tagish lake meteorite ; The telescope that blew everyone’s mind…part two! -- Tech (high and low). "They’re putting acid in our food!": the everyman’s guide to thwarting fear and understanding GMOs ; What I learned about dating apps (generally) after I spent five f*cking years studying them for a PhD ; Adventures in human-powered flight ; What does Google see? ; Becoming a cyborg through disability: building prosthetic limbs ; Machine learning for a free and open internet ; How to win friends and influence bacteria ; Why nuclear fusion would be awesome—if we get it to work -- Math is fun. A tea test tempest ; The mathematics of gossip ; From Bach to Tool: the secret math behind music theory ; Getting to know infinity ; Math for a better city ; A little "bit" of cryptography -- Careers. Veterinary confidential ; Chindogu: the Japanese art of unuseless inventions ; Caskets, corpses, and biers, oh my!: a brief look at death care and the history and science of embalming in the US ; Wildlife detectives: the science and stories of "animal CSI" in investigating and solving wildlife crime ; Cut it off!: a civil war amputation ; Fermentation: a cultural story ; Fire: of flames and friendship -- Our beloved Nerd Nite bosses."In the vein of acclaimed popular-science bestsellers such as Atlas Obscura, Astrophysics for Young People in a Hurry, The Way Things Work, What If?, and Undeniable, the co-founders of the global science organization Nerd Nite bring readers a collection of wacky, yet fascinating STEM topics. For 20 years, Nerd Nite has delivered to live audiences around the world, the most interesting, fun, and informative presentations about science, history, the arts, pop culture, you name it. There hasn't been a rabbit hole that their army of presenters hasn't been afraid to explore. Finally, after countless requests to bring Nerd Nite to more fans across the globe, co-founders and college pals Matt Wasowski and Chris Balakrishnan are bringing readers the quirky and accessible science content that they crave in book form, focused on STEM and paired with detailed illustrations that make the content pop. The resulting range of topics is quirky and vast, from kinky, spring-loaded spiders to the Webb telescope's influence on movie special effects. Hilariously named after Dale Carnegie's iconic book, How to Win Friends and Influence Fungi features narratives, bursts, and infographics on all things STEM from scientists around the world. Chapters are sure to make you laugh-out-loud, with titles such as "The Science of the Hangover," "What Birds Can Teach Us About the Impending Zombie Apocalypse," and "Lessons from the Oregon Trail." With fascinating details, facts, and illustrations, combined with Chris and Matt's incredible connections to organizations such as the Discovery Network and the Smithsonian Institution, How to Win Friends and Influence Fungi is sure to reach joyful STEM enthusiasts of all ages around the world. About Nerd Nite: Started in 2003, Nerd Nite is a monthly event held in 100+ cities worldwide during which folks give 20-minute fun-yet-informative presentations across all disciplines, while the audience drinks along!"--

Subjects: Humor.; Trivia and miscellanea.; Science; Science; Medicine; Medicine; Technology; Technology;

Available copies: 25 / Total copies: 27

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This will change everything : ideas that will shape the future / by Brockman, John,1941-(CARDINAL)282534;

The Edge question : introduction / by Daniel C. Dennett -- Evolution changes everything / Scott Sampson -- DNA : writing the software of life / J. Craig Venter -- A change in who we are / PZ Myers -- The robotic moment / Sherry Turkle -- The brain-machine interface / James Geary -- Breaking the species barrier / Richard Dawkins -- Slippery expectations / Corey S. Powell -- The full flourishing of solar technology / Ian McEwan -- Personal genomics--or maybe not / Steven Pinker -- Our genes are not our fate / Dean Ornish -- A forebrain for the world mind / W. Daniel Hillis -- Future as present : a final experiment / Ernst Pöppel -- But we shall all be changed / Frank J. Tipler -- The credit crunch for materialism / Rupert Sheldrake -- The laptop quantum computer / Donald D. Hoffman -- Undo the present ; recall the past / Seth Lloyd -- Rounding an endless vicious circle / Alan Alda -- The idea of negative and iatrogenic science / Nassim Nicholas Taleb -- The feeling that things will get worse / Brian Eno -- Homesteading in Hilbert space / Frank Wilczek -- Revelation / Stefano Boeri -- The discovery of intelligent life from somewhere else / Douglas Rushkoff -- A cure for humankind's existential loneliness / Paul Saffo -- AI and intellectual mastery / John Tooby and Leda Cosmides -- Avoiding doomsday / Alexander Vilenkin -- Escaping the Gravity Well / David Dalrymple -- Synthetic biology with interplanetary reach / Dimitar Sasselov -- Life (or not) on Mars / Rodney Brooks -- A separate origin for life / Robert Shapiro -- Shadow biosphere / Paul Davies -- Laboratory earth colonies / John Gottman -- Interstellar viruses / George Dyson -- Computers are the new microscopes / Terrence Sejnowski -- Silicon immortality : downloading consciousness into computers / David Eagleman -- The implementation of life in engineered materials / Neil Gershenfeld -- Decoding the brain / Gary Marcus -- Cheap cryonic suspension of brains / Bart Kosko -- Superintelligence / Nick Bostrom -- Becoming robotic / Gregory Paul -- The synchronization of brains / Jamshed Bharucha -- Thinking small : understanding the brain / Irene Pepperberg -- Controlling the brain's plasticity / Leo M. Chalupa -- Never-ending childhood / Alison Gopnik -- The ebb of memory / Kevin Slavin -- Artificial self-replicating meme machines / Susan Blackmore -- Malthusian information famine / Charles Seife -- Reading minds / Kenneth W. Ford -- True lie detection / Sam Harris -- Radiotelepathy : direct communication from brain to brain / Freeman Dyson -- Little changes make the biggest difference / Barry C. Smith -- Neuronally expressed messages / Peter Schwartz -- A new kind of mind / Kevin Kelly -- The age of reputation / Gloria Orrigi -- Cracking open the lockbox of talent / Howard Gardner -- Culture / Timothy Taylor -- Molecular manufacturing / Ed Regis -- Resizing ourselves / Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster -- The actual, the possible, and the unimaginable / Marc D. Hauser -- Computing the embryo / Lewis Wolpert -- Homo evolutis / Juan Enriquez -- The open universe / Stuart Kauffman -- Living to a hundred and fifty / Gregory Benford -- Mastering death / Marcelo Gleiser -- No more time decay / Emanuel Derman -- West Antarctica and seven other sleeping giants / Laurence C. Smith -- Conserving the climate : will Greenland's melting ice the deal? / Stephen H. Schneider -- Climate will change everything / William Calvin -- Molecular manufacturing and climate change / Eric Drexler -- The mastery of climate / Stewart Brand -- The use of nuclear weapons against a civilian population / Lawrence Krauss -- Deployment of a significant rogue nuclear device / Gerald Holton -- Accidental nuclear war / Max Tegmark -- The breakdown of all computers / Anton Zeilinger -- The growing perception of a clash between safety and liberty / Dan Sperber -- Adopting rationality and sustainability / Patrick Bateson -- Fusion expectations / Roger Highfield -- Green oil / Alun Anderson -- Attempts at geoengineering / Oliver Morton -- Why don't running shoes biodegrade? / Daniel Goleman -- The shift from harvesting to manufacturing energy / Andrian Kreye -- The anthroposphere / Nicholas A. Christakis -- At last : technology will change education / Haim Harari -- Inexpensive customizable interactive e-texts for worldwide use / David G. Myers -- On basketball and science camps / Stephon H. Alexander -- A web-empowered revolution in teaching / Chris Anderson -- Wisdom reborn / Roger C. Schank -- Tracks and clusters / David Gelernter -- The mobile phone / Keith Devlin -- Energy and economics : the road to civilization 1.0 / Michael Shermer -- Undoing Babylon / Daniel L. Everett -- Soul travel for selfless beings / Thomas Metzinger -- Inside out : the epistemology of everything / Tor Nørretranders -- Changes in the changers / A. Garrett Lisi -- Neurocosmetics / Marcel Kinsbourne -- Neurophenomics + targeted stimulation = psychological optimization? / Brian Knutson -- Celebratory self-reengineering / Andy Clark -- A different kind of male subjectivity / Tino Sehgal -- Hidden persuaders '09 / Helen Fisher -- A lively gamete market / Henry Harpending -- Immortal cognition, boundless happiness / Marco Iacoboni -- A farewell to harm / Karl Sabbagh -- God need not actually exist to have evolved / Jesse Bering -- Proof of the Riemann hypothesis / Clifford A. Pickover -- The reality of time / Lee Smolin -- The existence of additional spacetime dimensions / Gino Segrè -- Black holes : the ultimate game changer? / Paul J. Steinhardt -- Better measurements / Gregory Cochran -- We are learning to make phenotypes / Mark Pagel -- The next step in human health care? / Ian Wilmut -- Broadening the spectrum of infectious causation / Paul Ewald -- Biological markers for mental illness / Eric Kandel -- Recognizing that the body is not a machine / Randolph Nesse -- The organism itself as the emergent meaning / Brian Goodwin -- Faster evolution means more ethnic differences / Jonathan Haidt -- Africa / James J. O'Donnell -- Epistemology will change the world / Lera Boroditsky -- Social media literacy / Howard Rheingold -- The decline of text / Marti Hearst -- The end of analytic science / Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi -- Coordinated computational power will change science / Lisa Randall -- Carniculture / Austin Dacey -- Exploitability / David M. Buss -- Post-rational economic man / David Berreby -- Nothing will change everything / Richard Foreman -- Beyond Boolean logic, digital manipulations, and numerical evaluations / Verna Huber-Dyson -- People who can intuit in six dimensions / Robert Sapolsky -- Massive technological failure / David Bodanis -- Happiness / Betsy Devine -- Our brave new map of the world / Christine Finn -- The unmasking of true human nature / Aubrey de Grey -- And if the big change doesn't arrive? / Carlo Rovelli -- "Everything" has already changed! / Kai Krause -- The slow-motion revolution / Robert R. Provine -- Why human nature will rebel / Nicholas Humphrey."Edge.org presents 125 of today's leading thinkers ... [responding to the question,] 'What game-changing scientific ideas and developments do you expect to live to see?'"--Cover.

Subjects: Discoveries in science; Twenty-first century; Social prediction.; Science;

Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 4

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The Ghost in the Shell: Fully Compiled (Complete Hardcover Collection) by Shirow, Masamune(CARDINAL)639302;

Deep into the twenty-first century, the line between man and machine has been blurred as humans rely on the enhancement of mechanical implants and robots are upgraded with human tissue. In this rapidly converging landscape, cyborg superagent Major Motoko Kusanagi is charged to track down the craftiest and most dangerous terrorists and cybercriminals, including "ghost hackers" who are capable of exploiting the human/machine interface and reprogramming humans to become puppets to carry out the hackers' criminal ends. Partly transcending the physical world and existing in a virtual world of networks, Motoko is a fusion of multiple entities and identities, deploying remotely controlled prosthetic humanoid surrogates around the globe to investigate a series of bizarre incidents. Meanwhile, Tamaki Tamai, a psychic detective from the Channeling Agency, has been commissioned to explore strange changes in the temporal universe brought about by two forces, one represented by the teachings of a professor named Rahampol, the other by the complex, evolving Motoko entity. What unfolds will all be in a day's work--a day that will change everything, forever.

© 20230110, Kodansha Comics

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