The Age of the Individual and my Life and Times in It

The Age of the Individual and my Life and Times in It
Author: Frank Veszely
Publisher: FriesenPress
Total Pages: 643
Release: 2023-11-17
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1039179983

Why read this book? It’s not to learn about a unique life. Not to know what it is like to be an immigrant in Canada. Not what it is like to live with a heart disease and survive. Not to learn about the consequences of traumatic brain injury. Not to learn what life behind the Iron Curtain was like, or democracy should be. Not to learn survival skills or perseverance, or what to do when you find yourself helpless in the world you live in. Not how to believe in yourself and why, or how to succeed in difficult circumstances. Not to hopefully understand your grandparents better. How to become a better person? You should not read this for better understanding the world we live in. Not even to become keenly aware of your own vulnerable humanity, as you feel connected to another being. No. It’s for all of the above. Best to read it when you feel alone. You will.

Book of Ages

Book of Ages
Author: Jill Lepore
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 466
Release: 2014-07-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 0307948838

NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR NPR • Time Magazine • The Washington Post • Entertainment Weekly • The Boston Globe A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK From one of our most accomplished and widely admired historians—a revelatory portrait of Benjamin Franklin's youngest sister, Jane, whose obscurity and poverty were matched only by her brother’s fame and wealth but who, like him, was a passionate reader, a gifted writer, and an astonishingly shrewd political commentator. Making use of an astonishing cache of little-studied material, including documents, objects, and portraits only just discovered, Jill Lepore brings Jane Franklin to life in a way that illuminates not only this one extraordinary woman but an entire world.

This Could Be Important: My Life and Times with the Artificial Intelligentsia

This Could Be Important: My Life and Times with the Artificial Intelligentsia
Author: Pamela McCorduck
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 548
Release: 2019
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0359901344

In the autumn of 1960, twenty-year-old humanities student Pamela McCorduck encountered both the fringe science of early artificial intelligence, and C. P. Snow's Two Cultures lecture on the chasm between the sciences and the humanities. Each encounter shaped her life. Decades later her lifelong intuition was realized: AI and the humanities are profoundly connected. During that time, she wrote the first modern history of artificial intelligence, Machines Who Think, and spent much time pulling on the sleeves of public intellectuals, trying in futility to suggest that artificial intelligence could be important. Memoir, social history, group biography of the founding fathers of AI, This Could Be Important follows the personal story of one AI spectator, from her early enthusiasms to her mature, more nuanced observations of the field.

Life 3.0

Life 3.0
Author: Max Tegmark
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 385
Release: 2017-08-29
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 1101946601

New York Times Best Seller How will Artificial Intelligence affect crime, war, justice, jobs, society and our very sense of being human? The rise of AI has the potential to transform our future more than any other technology—and there’s nobody better qualified or situated to explore that future than Max Tegmark, an MIT professor who’s helped mainstream research on how to keep AI beneficial. How can we grow our prosperity through automation without leaving people lacking income or purpose? What career advice should we give today’s kids? How can we make future AI systems more robust, so that they do what we want without crashing, malfunctioning or getting hacked? Should we fear an arms race in lethal autonomous weapons? Will machines eventually outsmart us at all tasks, replacing humans on the job market and perhaps altogether? Will AI help life flourish like never before or give us more power than we can handle? What sort of future do you want? This book empowers you to join what may be the most important conversation of our time. It doesn’t shy away from the full range of viewpoints or from the most controversial issues—from superintelligence to meaning, consciousness and the ultimate physical limits on life in the cosmos.

My Life in Fragments

My Life in Fragments
Author: Zygmunt Bauman
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 124
Release: 2023-06-08
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 150955131X

Zygmunt Bauman was one of the great social thinkers of our time: inventor of the idea of liquid modernity, he transformed our way of thinking about the social conditions shaping our lives today. His own life was shaped by the great social forces that scarred the second half of the twentieth century – war, communism, antisemitism, forced migration. His work bears the traces of an outsider who knew all too well the enormous impact that social and political forces can have on personal lives. Bauman never wrote a full biography, but he wrote extended letters to his daughters in which he recounted the details of his life – his childhood and schooling; his experiences during the war and its aftermath; his forced emigration from Poland in 1968 and his subsequent life in exile, first in Israel and then in the UK, where he eventually settled at the University of Leeds. This book makes available for the first time these fragments of a life recounted, woven into a compelling autobiographical narrative that is laced with the broader reflections of a master thinker on some of the great issues of our time: identity, antisemitism and totalitarianism.

The Growth of Axiom

The Growth of Axiom
Author: Susan M. Cook
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Total Pages: 48
Release: 2020-06-01
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 1728363381

This book is an eye opener to a lot of people who question a lot of things about their lives, value systems around religion, the trauma experience, and a host of other life experiences, where outcomes formed lasting relationships with self, and others be that good or bad. It is the writer’s hope that this book touches lives in a way, we all learn to love and respect one another for, who we are, and just for being a human being. Hopefully, the life experiences in this book touches those that struggle with the complexity of the world, in which we all live, as this is my reason for writing a book of this nature.

Fearless and Free: How One Man Changed my Life ǀ Self-help story on life, love and making a fresh start

Fearless and Free: How One Man Changed my Life ǀ Self-help story on life, love and making a fresh start
Author: Udayakumar DS
Publisher: Sristhi Publishers & Distributors
Total Pages: 162
Release: 2023-02-10
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 9390441676

When a young engineer moves into a new home with his wife and children, he is intrigued by the respect and admiration the neighbours show for the retired doctor living next door. But despite the overwhelming love, the old man seems to be neglected and all alone. Why does he live alone? Why does he take the dramatic evening walk to the park? Why does he sit only at one particular bench? After a chance meeting with the Old Man, he gleefully accepts an invitation to join him in his famous study. There, he decodes the man’s puzzling past. Amazed by the mindboggling experiences from the old man’s memories and heart-wrenching tales, his metamorphosis is complete – from a neighbour to a companion, a student, and then a son. FEARLESS AND FREE is the tale of how a lonely old man’s life opens up a box of motivation for his young admirer, encouraging him and the readers to live every moment to the fullest.

Handbook of Research on Leading Higher Education Transformation With Social Justice, Equity, and Inclusion

Handbook of Research on Leading Higher Education Transformation With Social Justice, Equity, and Inclusion
Author: Reneau, Clint-Michael
Publisher: IGI Global
Total Pages: 423
Release: 2021-06-25
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1799871541

With the resurgence of race-related incidents nationally and on college campuses in recent years, acts of overt racism, hate crimes, controversies over free speech, and violence continue to impact institutions of higher education. Such incidents may impact the overall campus racial climate and result in a racial crisis, which is marked by extreme tension and instability. How institutional leaders and the campus community respond to a racial crisis along with the racial literacy demands of the campus leaders can have as much of an effect as the crisis itself. As such, 21st century university leaders must become more emotionally intelligent and responsive to emergent campus issues. Improving campus climate is hard, and to achieve notable gains, higher education professionals will have to reimagine how they approach this work with equity-influenced practices and transformative leadership. The Handbook of Research on Leading Higher Education Transformation With Social Justice, Equity, and Inclusion offers a window into understanding the deep intersections of identity and professional practice as well as guideposts for individual leadership development during contested times. The chapters emphasize how identity manifests in the way we lead, supervise, make decisions, persuade, form relationships, and negotiate responsibilities each day. In this book, the authors provide insight, examples, and personal narratives that explore how their identities, lens, and commitments shaped their leadership and supported their courageous acts for equity and social justice. It provides practical tools that leaders can draw on to inform sustainable equity and inclusion-focused practices and policies on college campuses and will discuss important campus climate issues and ways to address them. This book is a valuable reference work for higher education administrators, policymakers, leaders, managers, university presidents, social justice advocates, practitioners, faculty, researchers, academicians, and students who are interested in higher education leadership practices that support and promote social justice, equity, and inclusion.

Memoirs of My Life

Memoirs of My Life
Author: John Charles Frémont
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 848
Release: 2001
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0815411642

Fremont's memoirs are a firsthand account of the growth and expansion of the United States from the years 1828-1846, and include descriptions of the adventures that he shared with Kit Carson.