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| Author | : Jane Jacobs |
| Publisher | : Vintage |
| Total Pages | : 253 |
| Release | : 2016-08-17 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 0525432884 |
With intelligence and clarity of observation, the author of The Death and Life of Great American Cities addresses the moral values that underpin working life. In Systems of Survival, Jane Jacobs identifies two distinct moral syndromes—one governing commerce, the other, politics—and explores what happens when these two syndromes collide. She looks at business fraud and criminal enterprise, government’s overextended subsidies to agriculture, and transit police who abuse the system the are supposed to enforce, and asks us to consider instances in which snobbery is a virtue and industry a vice. In this work of profound insight and elegance, Jacobs gives us a new way of seeing all our public transactions and encourages us towards the best use of our natural inclinations.
| Author | : Dave Ingram |
| Publisher | : Universal Electronics |
| Total Pages | : 182 |
| Release | : 1998-01-01 |
| Genre | : Communications: survival |
| ISBN | : 9780916661052 |
| Author | : Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha |
| Publisher | : AK Press |
| Total Pages | : 166 |
| Release | : 2020-01-21 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1849353638 |
Transformative justice seeks to solve the problem of violence at the grassroots level, without relying on punishment, incarceration, or policing. Community-based approaches to preventing crime and repairing its damage have existed for centuries. However, in the putative atmosphere of contemporary criminal justice systems, they are often marginalized and operate under the radar. Beyond Survival puts these strategies front and center as real alternatives to today’s failed models of confinement and “correction.” In this collection, a diverse group of authors focuses on concrete and practical forms of redress and accountability, assessing existing practices and marking paths forward. They use a variety of forms—from toolkits to personal essays—to delve deeply into the “how to” of transformative justice, providing alternatives to calling the police, ways to support people having mental health crises, stories of community-based murder investigations, and much more. At the same time, they document the history of this radical movement, creating space for long-time organizers to reflect on victories, struggles, mistakes, and transformations.
| Author | : Christian Müller-Schloer |
| Publisher | : Birkhäuser |
| Total Pages | : 598 |
| Release | : 2017-12-28 |
| Genre | : Computers |
| ISBN | : 3319684779 |
This book is a comprehensive introduction into Organic Computing (OC), presenting systematically the current state-of-the-art in OC. It starts with motivating examples of self-organising, self-adaptive and emergent systems, derives their common characteristics and explains the fundamental ideas for a formal characterisation of such systems. Special emphasis is given to a quantitative treatment of concepts like self-organisation, emergence, autonomy, robustness, and adaptivity. The book shows practical examples of architectures for OC systems and their applications in traffic control, grid computing, sensor networks, robotics, and smart camera systems. The extension of single OC systems into collective systems consisting of social agents based on concepts like trust and reputation is explained. OC makes heavy use of learning and optimisation technologies; a compact overview of these technologies and related approaches to self-organising systems is provided. So far, OC literature has been published with the researcher in mind. Although the existing books have tried to follow a didactical concept, they remain basically collections of scientific papers. A comprehensive and systematic account of the OC ideas, methods, and achievements in the form of a textbook which lends itself to the newcomer in this field has been missing so far. The targeted reader of this book is the master student in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or Electrical Engineering - or any other newcomer to the field of Organic Computing with some technical or Computer Science background. Readers can seek access to OC ideas from different perspectives: OC can be viewed (1) as a „philosophy“ of adaptive and self-organising - life-like - technical systems, (2) as an approach to a more quantitative and formal understanding of such systems, and finally (3) a construction method for the practitioner who wants to build such systems. In this book, we first try to convey to the reader a feeling of the special character of natural and technical self-organising and adaptive systems through a large number of illustrative examples. Then we discuss quantitative aspects of such forms of organisation, and finally we turn to methods of how to build such systems for practical applications.
| Author | : Tao Wong |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 302 |
| Release | : 2020-02-11 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 9781989458464 |
The Onlivik Spores have been defeated, the dungeon tamed but at great cost. John and his friends are reeling from the losses, but the countdown to full integration to the System continues. Threatened by System-integrated races and new, more powerful monsters, John will need to get creative if he and the city are to survive. The Cost of Survival is Book 3 of the System Apocalypse, a LitRPG / GameLit Apocalypse book that combines modern day life, science fiction and fantasy elements along with game mechanics.
| Author | : Frank |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : |
| Release | : 2014-09-04 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9780692528044 |
Everything you could ever need to know to keep your family safe and secure no matter what disaster may strike.
| Author | : Creek Stewart |
| Publisher | : Dropstone Press LLC |
| Total Pages | : 154 |
| Release | : 2020-02-05 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 9781947281196 |
In this book, Wilderness Survival Instructor, Creek Stewart, shares the exact step-by-step system he used to turn his love for wilderness living skills into a fulfilling and rewarding full-time business. Creek's SURVIVAL CEO 5-PILLAR BLUEPRINT can be replicated, by anyone, to build a REAL business around any outdoor passion or area of expertise.
| Author | : Crawford Gribben |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 225 |
| Release | : 2021-02-23 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 0199370249 |
Over the last thirty years, conservative evangelicals have been moving to the Northwest of the United States, where they hope to resist the impact of secular modernity and to survive the breakdown of society that they anticipate. These believers have often given up on the politics of the Christian Right, adopting strategies of hibernation while developing the communities and institutions from which a new America might one day emerge. Their activity coincides with the promotion by prominent survivalist authors of a program of migration to the "American Redoubt," a region encompassing Idaho, Montana, parts of eastern Washington and Oregon, and Wyoming, as a haven in which to endure hostile social change or natural disaster and in which to build a new social order. These migration movements have independent origins, but they overlap in their influences and aspirations, working in tandem to offer a vision of the present in which Christian values must be defended as American society is rebuilt according to biblical law. This book examines the origins, evolution, and cultural reach of this little-noted migration and considers what it might tell us about the future of American evangelicalism. Drawing on Calvinist theology, the social theory of Christian Reconstruction, and libertarian politics, these believers are projecting significant soft power. Their books are promoted by leading mainstream publishers and listed as New York Times bestsellers. Their strategy is gaining momentum, making an impact in local political and economic life, while being repackaged for a wider audience in publications by a broader coalition of conservative commentators and in American mass culture. This survivalist evangelical subculture recognizes that they have lost the culture war - but another kind of conflict is beginning.
| Author | : Steve McConnell |
| Publisher | : Pearson Education |
| Total Pages | : 306 |
| Release | : 1998 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 1572316217 |
How to be sure your first important project isnþt your last.
| Author | : Adam Y. Stern |
| Publisher | : University of Pennsylvania Press |
| Total Pages | : 272 |
| Release | : 2021-03-26 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 081225287X |
For a world mired in catastrophe, nothing could be more urgent than the question of survival. In this theoretically and methodologically groundbreaking book, Adam Y. Stern calls for a critical reevaluation of survival as a contemporary regime of representation. In Survival, Stern asks what texts, what institutions, and what traditions have made survival a recognizable element of our current political vocabulary. The book begins by suggesting that the interpretive key lies in the discursive prominence of "Jewish survival." Yet the Jewish example, he argues, is less a marker of Jewish history than an index of Christianity's impact on the modern, secular, political imagination. With this inversion, the book repositions Jewish survival as the supplemental effect and mask of a more capacious political theology of Christian survival. The argument proceeds by taking major moments in twentieth-century philosophy, theology, and political theory as occasions for collecting the scattered elements of survival's theological-political archive. Through readings of canonical texts by secular and Jewish thinkers—Hannah Arendt, Walter Benjamin, Franz Rosenzweig, and Sigmund Freud—Stern shows that survival belongs to a history of debates about the sovereignty and subjection of Christ's body. Interrogating survival as a rhetorical formation, the book intervenes in discussions about biopolitics, secularism, political theology, and the philosophy of religion.
