Human Culture

Bill McKibben, examines the dangers inherent in an array of technologies that threaten not just our survival, but our identity. Imagine a future where lab workers can reprogram human embryos to make our children "smarter" or "more sociable" or "happier." Enough examines such possibilities, and explains how we can avoid their worst consequences while still enjoying the fruits of our new scientific understandings.

"Quantum Trust: Applying the Laws of the Universe to the Most Important Value in Human Relationships" is a self-help book that uses metaphors from quantum physics to explore the dynamics of trust in human relationships. It's not a scientific treatise but rather a guide for cultivating deeper connections. Summary: The book draws parallels between quantum phenomena and interpersonal relationships, suggesting that the principles governing the subatomic world can offer insights into the complexities of human interaction, specifically concerning trust. Each chapter focuses on a different quantum...

Getting your employees to do their best work has never been easy. But it is a particular challenge for knowledge workers, who must attend to many different tasks and whose to-do list is often ambiguous, requiring outside-the-box thinking. Lists of dos and don'ts are rarely effective. Instead, your best bet is to align their interests with your own - the heart of motivation - and set them free to use their own drive and creativity on their, and your, behalf.

In Faking It, Lux Alptraum tackles the topic of seemingly dishonest women; investigating whether women actually lie, and what social situations might encourage deceptions both great and small. Using her experience as a sex educator and former CEO of Fleshbot (the foremost blog on sexuality), first-hand interviews with sexuality experts and everyday women, Alptraum raises important questions: Are lying women all that common - or is the idea of the dishonest woman a symptom of male paranoia? Are women trying to please men, or just avoid their anger?

This isn’t science fiction. This isn’t the future. This is right now. From TikTok to Taco Bell, the algorithm is already in control — not just of your screen, but of your cravings, your habits, your identity, and your sense of reality. This book pulls back the curtain on the invisible system that runs your life — from predictive modeling and dopamine loops to engineered hunger and emotional hijacking. No conspiracy theories, just brutal clarity. Whether you’re tech-savvy or just tired of feeling hijacked, this book will change how you see the world around you.

Ever feel like you don’t even own the hardware and software you paid dearly for? Ever get the impression that you have to ask for permission before installing or changing a program on your device? Ever feel like Facebook and Instagram are listening to your conversations to show you relevant ads? You’re not alone. Half-baked products and services that chip away at your sense of ownership, independence and privacy are a part of a global wave of corporate indifference that micromanages and spies on honest, uniformed customers.

The Big Ratchet is the story of the ratchets: the technologies and innovations, big and small, that propelled our species from hunters and gatherers on the savannahs of Africa to shoppers in the aisles of the supermarket. Our species long lived on the edge of starvation. Now we produce enough food for all 7 billion of us to eat nearly 3,000 calories every day. This is such an astonishing thing in the history of life as to verge on the miraculous. The Big Ratchet is the story of how it happened.

Teams Unleashed provides a systematic approach for coaching teams to sustainable high performance in organisations. The book describes the essential competencies and specific skills for coaching teams and provides exercises and activities for implementing them. Listeners will find a research-based model and method with a carefully documented track record reinforced with practical tools to create an effective, collaborative team culture, transform team performance and reliably deliver results.

Imagine que se despierta en mitad de la noche cuando las bombillas inteligentes de su casa explotaron a toda potencia sin ninguna razón. Su investigación somnolienta prueba que se intentó descargar una actualización de firmware y falló. En ese momento, Alexa comienza a susurrar en silencio cosas sin sentido para sí misma en un rincón y Roomba comienza a estrellarse contra la pared más cercana.

Growing up in a deadly culture of acid attacks and honor killings, Sakina is desperate for freedom and a new life. However, now she is forced to submit to her family's demands and become an unwilling bride in a forced marriage. Will Sakina survive? Come with me on an intense journey into the culture of Pakistan and discover what life is like for the average woman in a male-dominated society of abuse and murder.

What if leaders stripped away all preconceptions about how business operates, allowing the organization to go back to its core and build itself back up to become something new—something so responsive, so innovative and resilient, it becomes virtually non-displaceable in the market? The Regenerative Business sets the stage for what is now only dreamt of by most of today's forward-thinking leaders and paves the path to make it possible.

Obra-prima em termos de pensamento original e pesquisa, A era do capitalismo de vigilância, de Shoshana Zuboff, apresenta ideias alarmantes sobre o fenômeno que ela nomeou capitalismo de vigilância. Os riscos não poderiam ser maiores: uma arquitetura global de modificação comportamental ameaça impactar a humanidade no século XXI de forma tão radical quanto o capitalismo industrial desfigurou o mundo natural no século XX.

Edward Ashford Lee explores the ways that engineers use models and abstraction to build inventive artificial worlds and to give us things that we never dreamed of - for example, the ability to carry in our pockets everything humans have ever published. But he also attempts to counter the runaway enthusiasm of some technology boosters who claim everything in the physical world is a computation - that even such complex phenomena as human cognition are software operating on digital data.

Künstliche Intelligenz ist die Coming Wave, der nächste technologische Sprung, der sich nicht aufhalten lässt. Wir nähern uns einem kritischen Punkt in der Menschheitsgeschichte. Die Künstliche Intelligenz steht noch am Anfang, doch die Welle baut sich auf, und wir sind darauf nicht vorbereitet. Mustafa Suleyman ist Mitbegründer von DeepMind, dem KI-Pionier, der nun Teil von Alphabet ist, dem Google-Mutterkonzern. Er ist der ultimative KI-Insider. Sein Buch zeigt, was auf dem Spiel steht, und fragt, wie wir von den neuen Technologien profitieren können, ohne die Kontrolle zu verlieren.

Unfiltered True Short Stories from the Modern Business Are you tired of wading through corporate self-help books filled with recycled advice and worn-out clichés? Cubicles, Coffee, and Corporate Candy shatters the mold, delivering an unapologetically raw look into the real stories that define today's corporate world.Step Behind the Cubicle Curtain Author Mohamad Chahine compiles a riveting collection of 90 authentic short stories, each one a window into the unfiltered realities of modern business life. These aren't hypothetical scenarios or overblown success tales—they're genuine ...

Revealing the Power of the Human Spirit The newlyweds who arrived in San Francisco just in time for the devastating earthquake… The centenarian who recalls learning to drive at age 11 and taking over the household duties when she was only 15… The man who survived the Luby’s Cafeteria massacre of 1991 in Killeen, Texas… When disaster strikes, it often brings out a strength you never knew you had. The stories of these people are no exception. But there are ordinary triumphs, too. Adopting dogs that might otherwise get put to sleep. Retiring on the beach, even if you don’t have a lot...

El ser humano debe integrarse con la inteligencia artificial para superar sus limitaciones biológicas y asegurar su supervivencia en un sistema solar que tiene los días contados. Acepta la invitación a ser parte de la vanguardia en la convergencia tecnológica.

Chaos and order clash in this riveting exploration of crime and punishment on the Internet. Once considered a borderless and chaotic virtual landscape, the Internet is now home to the forces of international law and order. It's not just computer hackers and cyber crooks who lurk in the dark corners of the Web - the cops are there, too. In The Internet Police, Ars Technica editor Nate Anderson takes readers on a behind-the-screens tour of landmark cybercrime cases, revealing how criminals continue to find digital and legal loopholes even as police hurry to cinch them closed.

Step into the maze of modern chemical processes where every turn and junction demands vigilance, understanding, and foresight. "Navigating the Chemical Labyrinth" is an essential guide for anyone involved in or interested in the chemical process industry. You will discover a trove of knowledge designed to demystify the complexities of chemical process safety. Commence your journey with a primer on the evolution and importance of process safety, plumbing the depths of regulatory frameworks, and unraveling the fundamental concepts underpinning a safe chemical environment. Step beyond basic ...

Look around. Clearly, we humans are radically different from the other creatures on this planet. But why? Where are the Bronze Age beavers? The Iron Age iguanas? Byron Reese argues that we owe our special status to our ability to imagine the future and recall the past, escaping the perpetual present that all other living creatures are trapped in. Envisioning human history as the development of a societal superorganism he names Agora, Reese shows us how this escape enabled us to share knowledge on an unprecedented scale, and predict—and eventually master—the future.