Shadowrun Legends: The Terminus Experiment

Shadowrun Legends: The Terminus Experiment
Author: Jonathan E. Bond
Publisher: Catalyst Game Labs
Total Pages: 355
Release: 2020-04-10
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

CREATURES OF THE NIGHT… When Rachel Meyer’s boyfriend Warren Storey is abducted by a mysterious party, she hires shadowrunners to find him and bring him back. But the runners uncover a plot by one Doctor Oslo Wake to transform all metahumans into the walking dead. Wake is developing a new strain of the virus that still causes vampirism, and Warren has become a test subject to create these unstoppable creatures. If Rachel is going to save him, she’ll need help from even more powerful people than the runners she hired. Enter Martin de Vries, vampire—and vampire hunter. Along with the secretive family Warren was hiding from her, Rachel, Martin, her shadowrunners, and a high-powered strike force launch an all-or-nothing assault on the fortified underground laboratory where Warren is being held captive. But the secret hidden there is even worse than Rachel and Martin feared…and if it gets out, it could mean the end of the world…

The Terminus Experiment

The Terminus Experiment
Author: Jonathan Bond
Publisher: Ace Books
Total Pages: 292
Release: 1999
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780451457042

In the year 2060, violence rules the streets of Seattle and a conspiracy is hatched to spread a plague of vampirism. When Rachel Meyer's boyfriend Warren Storey is abducted by these conspirators, she hires shadowrunners to find Warren and bring him back. But the runners uncover a plot by Dr. Oslo Wake to transform all metahumans into walking dead. For Dr. Wake is developing a new strain of the virus that causes vampirism. The strain is far from perfected. Now, Warren has become a test subject in a medical procedure to create these unstoppable creatures. It's up to Rachel and her vampire hunter friends to rescue him.

The Anticipatory Corpse

The Anticipatory Corpse
Author: Jeffrey P. Bishop
Publisher: University of Notre Dame Pess
Total Pages: 432
Release: 2011-09-19
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0268075859

In this original and compelling book, Jeffrey P. Bishop, a philosopher, ethicist, and physician, argues that something has gone sadly amiss in the care of the dying by contemporary medicine and in our social and political views of death, as shaped by our scientific successes and ongoing debates about euthanasia and the “right to die”—or to live. The Anticipatory Corpse: Medicine, Power, and the Care of the Dying, informed by Foucault’s genealogy of medicine and power as well as by a thorough grasp of current medical practices and medical ethics, argues that a view of people as machines in motion—people as, in effect, temporarily animated corpses with interchangeable parts—has become epistemologically normative for medicine. The dead body is subtly anticipated in our practices of exercising control over the suffering person, whether through technological mastery in the intensive care unit or through the impersonal, quasi-scientific assessments of psychological and spiritual “medicine.” The result is a kind of nihilistic attitude toward the dying, and troubling contradictions and absurdities in our practices. Wide-ranging in its examples, from organ donation rules in the United States, to ICU medicine, to “spiritual surveys,” to presidential bioethics commissions attempting to define death, and to high-profile cases such as Terri Schiavo’s, The Anticipatory Corpse explores the historical, political, and philosophical underpinnings of our care of the dying and, finally, the possibilities of change. This book is a ground-breaking work in bioethics. It will provoke thought and argument for all those engaged in medicine, philosophy, theology, and health policy.

The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia

The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia
Author: Project Gutenberg
Publisher: Prabhat Prakashan
Total Pages: 3132
Release: 2021-01-01
Genre: Reference
ISBN:

"The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia is a reproduction of a 1911 edition of a famous encyclopedia. The text has not been updated. Although the text is in the public domain in the United States, the original publisher still has a valid trademark in the original title of the encyclopedia. The original publisher offered Project Gutenberg a license to use the trademark, but the terms of the license were not consistent with the volunteer noncommercial nature of Project Gutenberg or its primary goal of distributing electronic text with the fewest possible restrictions." -from Gutenberg

NASA Technical Note

NASA Technical Note
Author: United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Publisher:
Total Pages: 562
Release: 1962
Genre: Aeronautics
ISBN:

Architectural Research Addressing Societal Challenges Volume 2

Architectural Research Addressing Societal Challenges Volume 2
Author: Manuel Jorge Rodrigues Couceiro da Costa
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 599
Release: 2017-09-19
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 1351652656

The EAAE/ARCC International Conference, held under the aegis of the EAAE (European Association for Architectural Education) and of the ARCC (Architectural Research Centers Consortium), is a conference organized every other year, in collaboration with one of the member schools / universities of those associations, alternatively in North America or in Europe. The EAAE/ARCC Conferences began at the North Carolina State University College of Design, Raleigh with a conference on Research in Design Education (1998); followed by conferences in Paris (2000), Montreal (2002), Dublin (2004), Philadelphia (2006), Copenhagen (2008), Washington (2010), Milan (2012) and Honolulu (2014). The conference discussions focus on research experiences in the field of architecture and architectural education, providing a critical forum for the dissemination and engagement of current ideas from around the world.