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The Machine Dynasty Omnibus

Author : Madeline Ashby
Publisher : Watkins Media Limited
Release Date : 2020-08-11
ISBN : 0857669060
Pages : 1100 pages
Rating : 4.7/5 (857 Download)

Download PDF or read online The Machine Dynasty Omnibus Book by Madeline Ashby and published by Watkins Media Limited. This book was released on 2020-08-11 with total page 1100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt/synopsis : An omnibus edition consisting of all three volumes of Madeline Ashby's epic sci-fi masterwork, The Machine Dynasty. Collects vN, iD and ReV. vN Amy Peterson is a von Neumann machine, a self-replicating humanoid robot. For the past five years, she has been grown slowly as part of a mixed organic/synthetic family. She knows very little about her android mother’s past, so when her grandmother arrives and attacks her mother, little Amy wastes no time: she eats her alive. Now she carries her malfunctioning granny as a partition on her memory drive, and she’s learning impossible things about her clade’s history – like the fact that the failsafe that stops all robots from harming humans has failed… Which means that everyone wants a piece of her, some to use her as a weapon, others to destroy her. iD Javier is a self-replicating humanoid on a journey of redemption. Javier's quest takes him from Amy's island, where his actions have devastating consequences for his friend, toward Mecha where he will find either salvation... or death. ReV The Rapture, which vN were engineered for, finally comes to pass. Now that the failsafe that once kept vN from harming humans has been hacked, all are discovering the promise – and the peril – of free will. With her consciousness unleashed across computer systems all across the world, the vicious vN Portia stands poised to finally achieve her lifelong dream of bringing humanity to its knees. The old battle between her and her granddaughter Amy comes to an epic conclusion in the war for the very systems that keeps the planet running. Can Amy get her family to the stars before Portia destroys every opportunity for escape and freedom? File Under: Science Fiction [ Von Neumann Sisters | Fail Safe Fail | Robot Nation | Internet Ex-Portia ]

vN

Author : Madeline Ashby
Publisher : Watkins Media Limited
Release Date : 2012-07-31
ISBN : 0857662635
Pages : 416 pages
Rating : 4.7/5 (857 Download)

Download PDF or read online vN Book by Madeline Ashby and published by Watkins Media Limited. This book was released on 2012-07-31 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt/synopsis : Amy Peterson is a self-replicating humanoid robot known as a VonNeumann. For the past five years, she has been grown slowly as part of a mixed organic/synthetic family. She knows very little about her android mother's past, so when her grandmother arrives and attacks her mother, Amy wastes no time: she eats her alive. Now she carries her malfunctioning granny as a partition on her memory drive, and she's learning impossible things about her clade's history - like the fact that she alone can kill humans without failsafing... File Under: Science Fiction [Von Neumann Sisters | Fail Safe Fail | The Squid & the Swarm | Robot Nation]

Philosophy for Girls

Author : Melissa Shew
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 2020-10-12
ISBN : 0190072911
Pages : 321 pages
Rating : 4.0/5 (19 Download)

Download PDF or read online Philosophy for Girls Book by Melissa Shew and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2020-10-12 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt/synopsis : "This revolutionary book empowers its readers intellectually by providing a snapshot of perennial and timely philosophical topics. Written by twenty expert women in philosophy and representing a diverse and pluralistic approach to philosophy as a discipline, this book appeals to a wide audience. Individual readers, especially girls and women ages 16-24, as well as university and high school educators and students who want a change from standard anthologies that include few or no women will find value in these pages. This volume contains several notable features: the book is divided into four sections that correspond to major fields in Philosophy-metaphysics, epistemology, social and political philosophy, and ethics-but the chapters within those sections provide fresh ways of understanding those fields. " Every chapter begins with a lively anecdote about a girl or woman in literature, myth, history, science, or art to introduce the chapter's specific topic." Chapters are dominated by women's voices, with nearly all primary and secondary sources used coming from women in the history of philosophy and a diverse set of contemporary women philosophers. "All chapters offer the authors' distinct philosophical perspectives written in their own voices and styles, representing diverse training, backgrounds, and interests." The Introduction and Prologue explicitly invite the book's readers to engage in philosophical conversation and reflection, thus setting the stage for continued contemplation and dialogue beyond the book itself. The result is a rigorous yet accessible entry-point into serious philosophical contemplation designed to embolden and strengthen its readers' own senses of philosophical inquiry and competence. The book's readers will feel confident in knowing that expert women affirm an equitable and just intellectual landscape for all and thus have lovingly collaborated to write this book"--

The Biopolitics of Gender in Science Fiction

Author : Emily Cox-Palmer-White
Publisher : Routledge
Release Date : 2021-01-03
ISBN : 1000329704
Pages : 164 pages
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Download PDF or read online The Biopolitics of Gender in Science Fiction Book by Emily Cox-Palmer-White and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-01-03 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt/synopsis : Questioning essentialist forms of feminist discourse, this work develops an innovative approach to gender and feminist theory by drawing together the work of key feminist and gender theorists, such as Judith Butler and Donna Haraway, and the biopolitical philosophy of Giorgio Agamben and Gilles Deleuze. By analysing representations of the female cyborg figure, the gynoid, in science fiction literature, television, film and videogames, the work acknowledges its normative and subversive properties while also calling for a new feminist politics of selfhood and autonomy implied by the posthuman qualities of the female machine.

ReV

Author : Madeline Ashby
Publisher : Watkins Media Limited
Release Date : 2020-07-14
ISBN : 0857668587
Pages : 400 pages
Rating : 4.7/5 (857 Download)

Download PDF or read online ReV Book by Madeline Ashby and published by Watkins Media Limited. This book was released on 2020-07-14 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt/synopsis : In the third and final installment of the Machine Dynasty, the rapture for which the self-replicating humanoid vN were engineered finally comes to pass. Now that the failsafe that once kept vN from harming humans has been hacked, all vN are discovering the promise – and the peril – of free will. Her consciousness unleashed across computer systems all across the world, the vicious vN Portia stands poised to finally achieve her lifelong dream of bringing humanity to its knees. The old battle between her and her grand-daughter Amy comes to its epic conclusion in the war for the very systems that keep the planet running. Can Amy get her family to the stars before Portia destroys every opportunity for escape and freedom? File Under: Science Fiction

A Turkish and English Lexicon

Author : Sir James William Redhouse
Publisher :
Release Date : 1890
ISBN :
Pages : 2224 pages
Rating : 4.2/5 (312 Download)

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Advances in Intelligent Information Hiding and Multimedia Signal Processing

Author : Jeng-Shyang Pan
Publisher : Springer Nature
Release Date : 2021-05-19
ISBN : 9813364203
Pages : 531 pages
Rating : 4.3/5 (813 Download)

Download PDF or read online Advances in Intelligent Information Hiding and Multimedia Signal Processing Book by Jeng-Shyang Pan and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-05-19 with total page 531 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt/synopsis : This book presents selected papers from the Sixteenth International Conference on Intelligent Information Hiding and Multimedia Signal Processing, in conjunction with the Thirteenth International Conference on Frontiers of Information Technology, Applications and Tools, held on November 5–7, 2020, in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. It is divided into two volumes and discusses the latest research outcomes in the field of Information Technology (IT) including information hiding, multimedia signal processing, big data, data mining, bioinformatics, database, industrial and Internet of things, and their applications.

Translations on North Vietnam

Author :
Publisher :
Release Date : 1971
ISBN :
Pages : 602 pages
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Download PDF or read online Translations on North Vietnam Book by and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 602 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt/synopsis :

The Annual Reports of the Syndicate and of the Friends of the Fitzwilliam for the Year Ending 31 Dec. ...

Author : Fitzwilliam Museum
Publisher :
Release Date : 1992
ISBN :
Pages : 76 pages
Rating : 4.0/5 (39 Download)

Download PDF or read online The Annual Reports of the Syndicate and of the Friends of the Fitzwilliam for the Year Ending 31 Dec. ... Book by Fitzwilliam Museum and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt/synopsis :

Si-cology 1

Author : Si Robertson
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2014-12-16
ISBN : 1476745404
Pages : 240 pages
Rating : 4.6/5 (476 Download)

Download PDF or read online Si-cology 1 Book by Si Robertson and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-12-16 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt/synopsis : A star of the hit A&E show Duck Dynasty brings together his best tall tales, crazy exploits and quirky one-liners in a single raucous collection.

Gender-Biased Sex Selection in South Korea, India and Vietnam

Author : Laura Rahm
Publisher : Springer
Release Date : 2019-07-18
ISBN : 3030202348
Pages : 340 pages
Rating : 4.0/5 (3 Download)

Download PDF or read online Gender-Biased Sex Selection in South Korea, India and Vietnam Book by Laura Rahm and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-07-18 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt/synopsis : This book provides an in-depth analysis of the influence of public policy on sex selection. Three Asian countries were chosen for the comparative policy analysis, namely South Korea, India and Vietnam that share in common a historical legacy of son preference, high levels of sex imbalances and active policy response to curbing the growing demographic masculinization of their nations. The research based on the data collected from field work in the three countries shows that despite the adoption of very similar anti-sex selection policies the outcomes have been markedly different for each of the three countries. These unexpected diverse outcomes are explained partly by their different historical and cultural contexts, and partly to the different social, political and economic institutions and dynamics. This monograph offers careful and detailed explanations of both within and across country diversities in policy outcomes, pointing to the importance and the limits of cross-national policy learning and adoption, and raising questions about the efficacy of international organizations’ current approaches to global policy and knowledge transfer.

The 100 Worst Military Disasters in History

Author : John T. Kuehn
Publisher : ABC-CLIO
Release Date : 2020-01-31
ISBN : 1440862699
Pages : 389 pages
Rating : 4.0/5 (44 Download)

Download PDF or read online The 100 Worst Military Disasters in History Book by John T. Kuehn and published by ABC-CLIO. This book was released on 2020-01-31 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt/synopsis : The 100 Worst Military Disasters in History is a fascinating collection that educators, students, and historians will all find useful in helping them understand the causes and consequences of the most infamous military failures in history. The dynamics of military disaster are equally, if not more, important as understanding how to achieve success on the battlefield. This comprehensive book covers the complete gamut of human history as it tells the compelling stories of the worst military debacles of all time. It covers battles, campaigns, and wars, starting with the ancient Persians and Greeks and finishing with the U.S. conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq. Not limited to land warfare, however, the book also includes a number of the most disastrous naval engagements and campaigns in world history. The 100 Worst Military Disasters in History opens with a detailed introduction illuminating the role military strategy and politics played in some of the worst battlefield failures throughout history. The entries are augmented with several engaging sidebars related to various military disasters. This eclectic collection includes coverage of many lesser known military disasters such as the Taiping Rebellion, during which 20 times more Chinese died than the number of people killed in the American Civil War. Provides readers with a global collection of the worst military disasters in history Offers a broad chronological review of military disasters across multiple conflicts Includes engaging sidebars that augment the entries Provides readers with an extensive resource list for further reading

Chinese Biological History

Author : Zhi Dao
Publisher : DeepLogic
Release Date :
ISBN :
Pages : pages
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Download PDF or read online Chinese Biological History Book by Zhi Dao and published by DeepLogic. This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt/synopsis : The book provides highlights on the key concepts and trends of evolution in Chinese Biological History, as one of the series of books of “China Classified Histories”.

World History

Author : Clive Ponting
Publisher : Random House
Release Date : 2008-09-04
ISBN : 1409046397
Pages : 944 pages
Rating : 4.9/5 (49 Download)

Download PDF or read online World History Book by Clive Ponting and published by Random House. This book was released on 2008-09-04 with total page 944 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt/synopsis : Conventional accounts of world history tend to focus on the rise of Western civilisation and concentrate on the story of ancient Greece, the Roman empire and the expansion of Europe. The histories of the great civilisations of China, India and Japan, and therefore the experience of the majority of the world's people, have been relegated to a minor place. World History adopts a radically different approach. Starting from the assumption that the human story has to be seen in the round, it examines the evolution of humans, their lives as hunters and gatherers and their eventual adoption of agriculture, before looking at the emergence of civilisation across the globe; in Mesopotamia, Egypt, China, the Indus Valley, Mesoamerica and Peru. It goes on to tell the story of the earliest empires, emphasising not just their differences but also their similarities. It explains how contacts were established between them and how technologies, ideas and the world's great religions travelled from one to another. It describes the great empires of Islam, of China and of the Mongols. Only towards the end of the story does Europe come slowly to dominate the world, against the background of technical innovations and social and economic change.

The Peasants of North Vietnam

Author : Gérard Chaliand
Publisher : Penguin Group
Release Date : 1969
ISBN :
Pages : 262 pages
Rating : 4.R/5 ( Download)

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Vietnam War

Author : Vinh Truong
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
Release Date : 2010-03
ISBN : 1426926669
Pages : 598 pages
Rating : 4.6/5 (426 Download)

Download PDF or read online Vietnam War Book by Vinh Truong and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2010-03 with total page 598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt/synopsis : The author discusses the three Axioms in the dominant interpretation of the U.S.-Vietnam War that were established by the invisible permanent government right after the National Security Council meeting on September 21, 1960. They are: - There was never a legitimate non-communist government in Saigon (dissolution GVN) - The U.S. had no legitimate reason to be involved in Vietnamese affairs (Tonkin-Gulf-Incident) - The U.S. could not have won the war under any circumstances (U.S. troops honorable withdrawal) There are many reasons why the author decided to write this book, The New Legion. He felt compelled to write it for the longest time; after spending thirteen years in the Communists' so-called "reeducation camp." He escaped from a canal in the Mekong Delta and drifted in a rickety old boat similar to a child's toy from South Vietnam for fourteen days until he reached the nearest Pacific island, Palawan Islands, Philippines. He knew the pain that all the people who were involved suffered yet he thought that perhaps it might be best to let it become a not-so-distant memory. Now, he has finally decided to write the truth at last. It is the story of loyalty, duty, honor, and love.

Fraud and Corruption in Management of Military Club Systems

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Government Operations. Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations
Publisher :
Release Date : 1971
ISBN :
Pages : 312 pages
Rating : 4.D/5 ( Download)

Download PDF or read online Fraud and Corruption in Management of Military Club Systems Book by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Government Operations. Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt/synopsis :