Life Theory

Aristotle's Parva Naturalia concludes with definitions of the stages of the life cycle, from the generation of a new living being up to death. Aristotle considers living beings as food burners: They nourish themselves, and in some cases, they have the capacity for higher functions such as mental perception.

The foundation of the Christian faith is built on Jesus Christ and his word to us, the Holy Bible. This Biblical Foundation Series includes elementary principles every Christian needs to help lay a strong spiritual foundation in his or her life. In this sixth Biblical Foundation book we learn that due to Adam and Eve’s disobedience to the Lord when they chose to believe the lies of the devil in the Garden of Eden, we now live in a “cursed or fallen” world. In the fall of Adam, sin gained entrance into the human race.

Monica Crowley served as a personal assistant to former president Richard M. Nixon from July 1990 until his death in April 1994. This remarkable story of his final public and private years is based on full reconstructions of the conversations she had with him at the time.

We may not often think of our clothes as having a function beyond covering our naked bodies and keeping us a little safer from the elements. But to discount the enormous influence of clothing on anything from economic cycles to the future of water scarcity is to ignore the greater meaning of the garments we put on our backs. Disrobed vividly considers the role that clothing plays in everything from natural disasters to climate change to terrorism to geopolitics to agribusiness.

For anyone with questions about important decisions—whether about love and relationships, health and wellness, or finance and career—guidance is as easy to find as downloading an app. ChatGPT, a program developed to help participate in conversations and provide insight, has evolved into a sophisticated source of knowledge that anyone can use. Author Sarah Hill shares her own experiences using ChatGPT to improve her life, and offers solutions for those who would like to try it themselves.

This essay comes from the NPR series This I Believe, which features brief personal reflections from both famous and unknown Americans. The pieces that make up the series compel listeners to rethink not only what and how they have arrived at their beliefs, but also the extent to which they share them with others.

Today, many decisions that could be made by human beings, from predicting earthquakes to interpreting languages, can now be made by computer algorithms with advanced analytic capabilities. Everyday we make millions of decisions, from selecting a life partner, to organizing your closet, to scheduling your life, to having a conversation. However, these decisions may be imperfect due to limited experience, implicit biases, or faulty probabilistic reasoning.

Number six and trapped in her huge, devout family in 1963, desperate-for-attention Annie Shea creates a hilarious campaign of lies when the pope dies and their family friend, Cardinal Stefanucci, is unexpectedly on the short list to be elected the first American pope. Driven to exaggeration and trying to elevate her family to be the holiest of holy rollers in the parish.

Starting with the publication of their seminal bestseller, Future Shock, Alvin and Heidi Toffler have given millions of listeners new ways to think about personal life in today’s high-speed world with its constantly changing, seemingly random impacts on our businesses, governments, families and daily lives. Now, writing with the same rare grasp and clarity that made their earlier books classics, the Tofflers turn their attention to the revolution in wealth now sweeping the planet. And once again, they provide a penetrating, coherent way to make sense of the seemingly senseless.

In the English language there are over 700 expressions for female mammary glands – the majority of which are mostly used by men. In Tits Up, bestselling author, sociologist and journalist Sarah Thornton asks how is it that we look at breasts so much, but reflect on them so little.

Carl Zimmer investigates one of the biggest questions of all: what is life? The answer seems obvious until you try to seriously answer it. Is the apple sitting on your kitchen counter alive, or is only the apple tree it came from deserving of the word? If we can’t answer that question here on Earth, how will we know when and if we discover alien life on other worlds? The question hangs over some of society’s most charged conflicts - whether a fertilised egg is a living person, for example, and when we ought to declare a person legally dead.

Our obsession with praise and blame begins soon after birth. Totally dependent on others, rapidly we learn to value praise and to fear the consequences of blame. Despite outgrowing an infant's dependence, we continue to monitor others' judgments of us - and develop what relational psychologist Terri Apter calls a "judgment meter", which constantly scans people and our interactions with them, registering a positive or negative opinion.

Two years ago, civilization was overrun by one of humanity’s biggest nightmares: flesh-eating zombies. As if the threat of the undead wasn’t bad enough, the remaining humans have separated into small groups of survivors, many of whom are willing to kill anything that moves to ensure their own safety. In a world where nobody is trustworthy and nothing is as it seems, three friends fight for their lives as they travel from Austin, Texas, toward Mountain View, California. There, Sophie, Johnson, and Ephraim hope to put their larger plan in motion: restarting the servers of Earth’s ...

Robot Attitude is a creative and useful mix about robots and AI and how they will affect every aspect of our daily lives and of organizations of every kind. Robots and artificial intelligence are coming. Should we be afraid of them or embrace them? Robot Attitude offers answers. It is an easy to understand view of the present and a vision of the future. This audiobook covers the full spectrum of what is going on in a highly pragmatic and very listenable way.

John Waltham was born in 1778 and was last seen in 2007. At one time a magistrate in England, after decades of service in the Army, he faked his own death, escaping to the jungles of India. He thought he had come there to die in peace. He was sixty three, then, in 1841. But instead he started a new life. He met Vina, the woman of his dreams and had three daughters. Just when they were of the age to get married, John traveled back to Britain to settle his sister's estate. On his return, he found the entire settlement where he and his family lived, a tribal one, of Semitic origin, wiped out ...

Those looking for options trading advice are usually either reasonably new to the options market or are experienced traders having some difficulty with their current trades and are hoping for an answer. If you are among the first category, you are probably looking for some advice about how to start options trading, what risks are involved and how to avoid them, how to trade safely, and still make consistent profits. If you are among the second category, there are ways to save or at least salvage, losing trades, but this discussion must be left for other pages on this site.

Queen Elizabeth I was one of England's most influential rulers. Hers was an age when the arts, commerce, and trade flourished. It was the epoch of gallantry and great, enduring literature. It was also an age of wars and military conflicts. In the end, Queen Elizabeth I helped change the entire structure of female leadership and would go on to improve upon Henry VIII's successes.

موضوع الكتاب هو الجنس وصناعة القرار السياسي وأهم القرارات السياسية التي اتخذت تحت سياط الجنس ومراهقة الحكام في مصر والعالم العربي.

The Declaration of Independence is one of the most influential documents in modern history - the inspiration for what would become the most powerful democracy in the world. Indeed, at every stage of American history, the Declaration has been a touchstone for evaluating the legitimacy of legal, social, and political practices. Not only have civil rights activists drawn inspiration from its proclamation of inalienable rights, but individuals decrying a wide variety of governmental abuses have turned for support to the document's enumeration of British tyranny.

In this treatise, Aristotle raises a number of questions that any adequate theory of aging must address. The treatise examines whether there is one cause that makes everything long-lived, or whether the cause is diverse for plants and animals.