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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A collection of science fiction stories from the early twentieth century by authors ranging from Arthur Conan Doyle to W. E. B. Du Bois.This collection of science fiction stories from the early twentieth century features work by the famous (Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of Sherlock Holmes), the no-longer famous ( weird fiction' pioneer William Hope Hodgson), and the should-be-more famous (Bengali feminist Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain). It offers stories by writers known for concerns other than science fiction (W. E. B. Du Bois, author of The Souls of Black Folk) and by writers known only for pulp science fiction (the prolific Neil R. Jones). These stories represent what volume and series editor Joshua Glenn has dubbed the Radium Age the period when science fiction as we know it emerged as a genre. The collection shows that nascent science fiction from this era was prescient, provocative, and well written.Readers will discover, among other delights, a feminist utopia predating Charlotte Perkins Gilman s Herland by a decade in Hossain s story, Sultana s Dream ; a world in which the human population has retreated underground, in E. M. Forster s The Machine Stops ; an early entry in the Afrofuturist subgenre in Du Bois s last-man-on-Earth tale, The Comet ; and the first appearance of Jones s cryopreserved Professor Jameson, who despairs at Earth s wreckage but perseveres in a metal body to appear in thirty-odd more stories.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - When a plague wipes out most of the world s male population and civilization crumbles, women struggle to build an agrarian community in the English countryside.Imagine a plague that brings society to a standstill by killing off most of the men on Earth. Thefew men who survive descend into lechery and atavism. Meanwhile, a group of women (accompanied by one virtuous male survivor) leave the wreckage of London to start fresh, establishing a communally run agrarian outpost. But their sexist society hasn t permitted most of them to learn any useful skills will the commune survive their first winter This is the bleak world imagined in 1913 by English writer J. D. Beresford one that has particular resonance for the planet s residents in the 2020s. This edition of A World of Women offers twenty-first century readers a new look at a neglected classic.Beresford introduces us to the solidly bourgeois, prim and proper Gosling family. As once-bustling London shuts down Parliament closes, factories grind to a halt, nature reclaims stone and steel the paterfamilias Mr. Gosling adopts a life of libertinism while his daughters in the countryside struggle to achieve a radically transformed and improved egalitarian and feminist future.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -'Beginning with the amazing tale of the Chinese 'CRISPR Babies,' Greely tells the complex story of human germline editing, covering the science, ethics, law, and politics'--Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld 380 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - What does the birth of babies whose embryos had gone through genome editing mean--for science and for all of us In November 2018, the world was shocked to learn that two babies had been born in China with DNA edited while they were embryos as dramatic a development in genetics as the 1996 cloning of Dolly the sheep. In this book, Hank Greely, a leading authority on law and genetics, tells the fascinating story of this human experiment and its consequences. Greely explains what Chinese scientist He Jiankui did, how he did it, and how the public and other scientists learned about and reacted to this unprecedented genetic intervention.The two babies, nonidentical twin girls, were the first CRISPR'd people ever born (CRISPR, Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats, is a powerful gene-editing method). Greely not only describes He's experiment and its public rollout (aided by a public relations adviser) but also considers, in a balanced and thoughtful way, the lessons to be drawn both from these CRISPR'd babies and, more broadly, from this kind of human DNA editing germline editing that can be passed on from one generation to the next.Greely doesn't mince words, describing He's experiment as grossly reckless, irresponsible, immoral, and illegal. Although he sees no inherent or unmanageable barriers to human germline editing, he also sees very few good uses for it other, less risky, technologies can achieve the same benefits. We should consider the implications carefully before we proceed.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Discover why the gut microbiome holds the keys to human health and can change the way we understand, treat, and prevent disease. A detailed and scientifically rigorous survey . . . gives readers a clearer sense of the current state of medical knowledge. The New York Review of BooksWe are at the dawn of a new scientific revolution. Our understanding of how to treat and prevent diseases has been transformed by knowledge of the microbiome the rich ecosystem of microorganisms in and on every human. In Gut Feelings, Alessio Fasano and Susie Flaherty show why we must go beyond the older, myopic view of microorganisms as our enemies to a broader understanding of the microbiome as a parallel civilization that we need to understand, respect, and engage with for the benefit of our own health.Recent advances in understanding the microbiome and its role in human health dovetail with the development of personalized or precision medicine to create treatments and prevention programs targeted to the molecular imprint of an individual. Fasano and Flaherty explore the microbiome's part in such diseases as gut inflammatory disorders, obesity, neurological conditions, and cancer, and they explain new research in prebiotics, probiotics, synbiotics, and psychobiotics. They also discuss the microbiome and immune function, including a possible role in COVID-19 treatment.By simultaneously expanding our perspective to encompass large datasets and multiple factors in human health, and narrowing our focus to identify the individual communities in the human microbiome, we will enlarge and perhaps reinvent our understanding of how to combat disease and maintain health.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -'A guide for organizations to improve their diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts, focusing specifically on the experiences of women of color'--Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld 279 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - How organizations can foster diversity, equity, and inclusion: taking action to address and prevent workplace bias while centering women of color.Few would disagree that inclusion is both the right thing to do and good for business. Then why are we so terrible at it If we believe in the morality and the profitability of including people of diverse and underestimated backgrounds in the workplace, why don t we do it Because, explains Ruchika Tulshyan in this eye-opening book, we don t realize that inclusion takes awareness, intention, and regular practice. Inclusion doesn t just happen; we have to work at it. Tulshyan presents inclusion best practices, showing how leaders and organizations can meaningfully promote inclusion and diversity.Tulshyan centers the workplace experience of women of color, who are subject to both gender and racial bias. It is at the intersection of gender and race, she shows, that we discover the kind of inclusion policies that benefit all. Tulshyan debunks the idea of the level playing field and explains how leaders and organizations can use their privilege for good by identifying and exposing bias, knowing that they typically have less to lose in speaking up than a woman of color does. She explains why leaning in doesn t work and dismantling structural bias does; warns against hiring for culture fit, arguing for culture add instead; and emphasizes the importance of psychological safety in the workplace you need to know that your organization has your back. With this important book, Tulshyan shows us how we can make progress toward inclusion and diversity and we must start now.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'Bers argues that coding should be taught in early childhood and beyond STEM fields, where it is currently isolated from ethical, cultural, and language skills'--.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'From the phone phreaks of the 1970s to Anonymous, how how hackers deploy persuasion, helpfulness, manipulation, and deception to gain access to sensitive information'--.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'A book by an expert in the field about the promise and challenges of building fusion energy reactors and how the largest international fusion research collaboration is on the verge of doing it'--.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - AI is revolutionizing the world. Here s how democracies can come out on top.Artificial intelligence is revolutionizing the modern world. It is ubiquitous in our homes and offices, in the present and most certainly in the future. Today, we encounter AI as our distant ancestors once encountered fire. If we manage AI well, it will become a force for good, lighting the way to many transformative inventions. If we deploy it thoughtlessly, it will advance beyond our control. If we wield it for destruction, it will fan the flames of a new kind of war, one that holds democracy in the balance. As AI policy experts Ben Buchanan and Andrew Imbrie show in The New Fire, few choices are more urgent or more fascinating than how we harness this technology and for what purpose.The new fire has three sparks: data, algorithms, and computing power. These components fuel viral disinformation campaigns, new hacking tools, and military weapons that once seemed like science fiction. To autocrats, AI offers the prospect of centralized control at home and asymmetric advantages in combat. It is easy to assume that democracies, bound by ethical constraints and disjointed in their approach, will be unable to keep up. But such a dystopia is hardly preordained. Combining an incisive understanding of technology with shrewd geopolitical analysis, Buchanan and Imbrie show how AI can work for democracy. With the right approach, technology need not favor tyranny.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Terrazzoni, Julie (illustrator). Neuware - An illustrated guide to the amazingly multifarious sex lives of animals, from elephants and bonobos to butterflies and bedbugs.There may be nothing unnatural in nature, but nature still encompasses much that seems fantastically strange the amazingly multifarious sex lives of animals, for example. Sexus Animalis tells us everything we never dreamed we wanted to know about the reproductive systems, genital organs, and sexual practices of animals, from elephants (who masturbate with their trunks) to fruit flies (who produce spermatozoa twenty times their size). In the animal kingdom we find heterosexual, lesbian, gay, and bisexual behavior, as well as monogamy, polygamy, and polyandry, not to mention fellatio and many varieties of erections and orgasms.Emmanuelle Pouydebat, a natural history researcher, tells us about gutter penises, double penises, detachable penises, and corkscrew-shaped penises, as well as vaginas built for storage and clitorises with thorns. (Perhaps unsurprisingly, there s more data about animal penises than animal vaginas and clitorises.) She explains how the ostrich achieves an erection, describes the courtship of pygmy chameleons, and recounts how the female short-beaked echidna chooses a partner. She reports on sexual assault among animals there s evidence that half of female mallards are sexually assaulted and explains how masturbation helps squirrels avoid sexually transmitted diseases. It seems that animals have been composing their own Kama Sutra throughout the ages. Striking color illustrations accompany the text.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - How design can transcend the logics, structures, and subjectivities of capitalism: a framework, theoretical grounding, and practical principles.The designed things, experiences, and symbols that we use to perceive, understand, and perform our everyday lives are much more than just props. They directly shape how we live. In Design after Capitalism, Matthew Wizinsky argues that the world of industrial capitalism that gave birth to modern design has been dramatically transformed. Design today needs to reorient itself toward deliberate transitions of everyday politics, social relations, and economies. Looking at design through the lens of political economy, Wizinsky calls for the field to transcend the logics, structures, and subjectivities of capitalism to combine design entrepreneurship with social empowerment in order to facilitate new ways of producing those things, symbols, and experiences that make up everyday life.After analyzing the parallel histories of capitalism and design, Wizinsky offers some historical examples of anticapitalist, noncapitalist, and postcapitalist models of design practice. These range from the British Arts and Crafts movement of the nineteenth century to contemporary practices of growing furniture or biotextiles and automated forms of production. Drawing on insights from sociology, philosophy, economics, political science, history, environmental and sustainability studies, and critical theory fields not usually seen as central to design he lays out core principles for postcapitalist design; offers strategies for applying these principles to the three layers of project, practice, and discipline; and provides a set of practical guidelines for designers to use as a starting point. The work of postcapitalist design can start today, Wizinsky says with the next project.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'Academic, industry, and government experts provide a global survey of the financial services sector's transformation by AI, data science, and blockchain'--.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'Argues that the primary function of language is not to describe the physical world but to manage the social one. Aimed at a general readership'--.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'An explanation of where children's scientific intuitions come from and how they can be nurtured. Intended not just for scholars but science teachers and enthusiasts as well'--.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The experimental practices of a group of artists in the former East Germany upends assumptions underpinning Western art s postwar histories.In Paper Revolutions, Sarah James offers a radical rethinking of experimental art in the former East Germany (the GDR). Countering conventional accounts that claim artistic practices in the GDR were isolated and conservative, James introduces a new narrative of neo-avantgarde practice in the Eastern Bloc that subverts many of the assumptions underpinning Western art s postwar histories. She grounds her argument in the practice of four artists who, uniquely positioned outside academies, museums, and the art market, as these functioned in the West, created art in the blind spots of state censorship. They championed ephemeral practices often marginalized by art history: postcards and letters, maquettes and models, portfolios and artists books. Through their lived modernism, they produced bodies of work animated by the radical legacies of the interwar avant-garde.James examines the work and daily practices of the constructivist graphic artist, painter, and sculptor Hermann Glöckner; the experimental graphic artist and concrete and sound poet Carlfriedrich Claus; the mail artist, concrete poet, and conceptual artist Ruth Wolf-Rehfeldt; and the mail artist, visual poet, and installation artist Karla Sachse. She shows that all of these artists rejected the idea of art as a commodity or a rarefied object, and instead believed in the potential of art to create collectivized experiences and change the world. James argues that these artists, entirely neglected by Western art history, produced some of the most significant experimental art to emerge from Germany during the Cold War.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'This book sets the agenda for how we think about human activity that arises from embedding manipulated information in our action and embodied cognition'--.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'A business communication textbook that combines data visualization and rhetoric to develop presentations that enable audience members to act'--.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'A leading practitioner of 'cognitive aesthetics' shows how narrative literature works its magic on readers by drawing surreptitiously on patterns developed over four thousand years ago'--.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Economists consider the legacy of Karl Brunner s monetarism and its influence on current debates over monetary policy.Monetarism emerged in the 1950s and 1960s as a school of economic thought that questioned certain tenets of Keynesianism. Emphasizing the monetary nature of inflation and the responsibility of central banks for price stability, monetarism held sway in the inflation-plagued 1970s, but saw its influence begin to decline in the 1980s. Although Milton Friedman is the economist most closely associated with the development of monetarism, it was Karl Brunner (1916 1989) who introduced the term into the current vocabulary of economics and shaped its meaning. In this volume, leading economists many of them Brunner s friends and former colleagues consider the influence of Brunner s monetarism on current debates over monetary policy.Some contributors were participants in debates between Keynesians and monetarists; others analyze specific aspects of monetarism as theorized by Brunner and his close collaborator Allan Meltzer, or address its influence on US and European monetary policy. Others take the opportunity to examine Brunner-Meltzer monetarism through the lens of contemporary macroeconomics and monetary models. The book grows out of a symposium that marked the 100th anniversary of Brunner s birth.ContributorsErnst Baltensperger, Michael D. Bordo, Pierrick Clerc, Alex Cukierman, Michel De Vroey, James Forder, Benjamin M. Friedman, Kevin D. Hoover, Thomas J. Jordan, David Laidler, Allan H. Meltzer, Thomas Moser, Edward Nelson,Juan Pablo Nicolini,Charles I. Plosser,Kenneth Rogoff, Marcel Savioz,Jürgen von Hagen,Stephen Williamson.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'What's a tort It's a wrong that a court is prepared to recognize, usually in the form of ordering the transfer of money ('damages') from the wrongdoer to the wronged. The court is usually alerted to wrong by the filing of a lawsuit: anyone can walk through the courthouse doors and, subject to the limits explored in civil procedure, call someone else (or, if a company, some-thing) to account. We'll discuss the sources that courts turn to in order to answer such questions. Rarely, in tort cases, are those sources the ones laypeople expect: statutes passed by legislatures. Without statutes to guide them, what are courts left with '--.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'This book provides a detailed and up-to-date coverage of machine learning. It is unique in that it unifies approaches based on deep learning with approaches based on probabilistic modeling and inference. It provides mathematical background (e.g. linear algebra, optimization), basic topics (e.g., linear and logistic regression, deep neural networks), as well as more advanced topics (e.g., Gaussian processes). It provides a perfect introduction for people who want to understand cutting edge work in top machine learning conferences such as NeurIPS, ICML and ICLR'--.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Revised edition of the authors' Mathematics for economics, c2011.