Superintelligence - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Superintelligence write by Nick Bostrom. This book was released on 2014. Superintelligence available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This profoundly ambitious and original book picks its way carefully through a vast tract of forbiddingly difficult intellectual terrain.
A Rough Ride to the Future
A Rough Ride to the Future - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Rough Ride to the Future write by James Lovelock. This book was released on 2014-04-03. A Rough Ride to the Future available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In A Rough Ride to the Future, James Lovelock - the great scientific visionary of our age - presents a radical vision of humanity's future as the thinking brain of our Earth-system James Lovelock, who has been hailed as 'the man who conceived the first wholly new way of looking at life on earth since Charles Darwin' (Independent) and 'the most profound scientific thinker of our time' (Literary Review) continues, in his 95th year, to be the great scientific visionary of our age. This book introduces two new Lovelockian ideas. The first is that three hundred years ago, when Thomas Newcomen invented the steam engine, he was unknowingly beginning what Lovelock calls 'accelerated evolution', a process which is bringing about change on our planet roughly a million times faster than Darwinian evolution. The second is that as part of this process, humanity has the capacity to become the intelligent part of Gaia, the self-regulating Earth system whose discovery Lovelock first announced nearly 50 years ago. In addition, Lovelock gives his reflections on how scientific advances are made, and his own remarkable life as a lone scientist. The contribution of human beings to our planet is, Lovelock contends, similar to that of the early photosynthesisers around 3.4 billion years ago, which made the Earth's atmosphere what it was until very recently. By our domination and our invention, we are now changing the atmosphere again. There is little that can be done about this, but instead of feeling guilty about it we should recognise what is happening, prepare for change, and ensure that we survive as a species so we can contribute to - perhaps even guide - the next evolution of Gaia. The road will be rough, but if we are smart enough life will continue on Earth in some form far into the future. Elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1974, JAMES LOVELOCK is the author of more than 200 scientific papers and the originator of the Gaia Hypothesis (now Gaia Theory). His many books on the subject include Gaia: A New Look at Life on Earth (1979), The Revenge of Gaia (2006), and The Vanishing Face of Gaia (2009). In 2003 he was made a Companion of Honour by Her Majesty the Queen, in 2005 Prospect magazine named him one of the world's top 100 public intellectuals, and in 2006 he received the Wollaston Medal, the highest Award of the UK Geological Society.
#Neuromanagement
#Neuromanagement - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook #Neuromanagement write by Carlos Herreros. This book was released on 2012-09. #Neuromanagement available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. ¿Son compatibles conceptos como felicidad, motivación y participación en el desempeño de un trabajo? Si la respuesta es un sí rotundo, tanto por el bien de la empresa como de su capital humano, ¿por qué no es algo cotidiano en la organización? Carlos Herreros defiende que todo se debe a que aún no se ha producido el cambio de mentalidad necesario hacia una nueva manera de entender la gestión de personas. A partir del conocimiento cada vez mayor de las neurociencias,#Neuromanagement describe cómo mejorar la gestión de las organizaciones y, por tanto, la calidad de vida y productividad de empresas y trabajadores. Para ello, muestra las técnicas con las que sacar el máximo provecho de los trabajadores, animándoles a realizar propuestas sin miedo a represalias, a dar lo mejor de sí mismos e involucrarse en los objetivos de las compañías para beneficio mutuo.
Merchants of Doubt
Merchants of Doubt - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Merchants of Doubt write by Naomi Oreskes. This book was released on 2011-10-03. Merchants of Doubt available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The U.S. scientific community has long led the world in research on such areas as public health, environmental science, and issues affecting quality of life. These scientists have produced landmark studies on the dangers of DDT, tobacco smoke, acid rain, and global warming. But at the same time, a small yet potent subset of this community leads the world in vehement denial of these dangers. Merchants of Doubt tells the story of how a loose-knit group of high-level scientists and scientific advisers, with deep connections in politics and industry, ran effective campaigns to mislead the public and deny well-established scientific knowledge over four decades. Remarkably, the same individuals surface repeatedly-some of the same figures who have claimed that the science of global warming is "not settled" denied the truth of studies linking smoking to lung cancer, coal smoke to acid rain, and CFCs to the ozone hole. "Doubt is our product," wrote one tobacco executive. These "experts" supplied it. Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway, historians of science, roll back the rug on this dark corner of the American scientific community, showing how ideology and corporate interests, aided by a too-compliant media, have skewed public understanding of some of the most pressing issues of our era.
On with Spanish
On with Spanish - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook On with Spanish write by Zenia Sacks Da Silva. This book was released on 1977. On with Spanish available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Intermediate Spanish text with readings to stimulate conversation, exercises, grammar review, and extensive appendices.
