Precipice

Author : Toby Ord
Publisher : Hachette Books
ISBN 13 : 031648489X
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Precipice written by Toby Ord and published by Hachette Books. This book was released on 2020-03-24 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This urgent and eye-opening book makes the case that protecting humanity's future is the central challenge of our time. If all goes well, human history is just beginning. Our species could survive for billions of years - enough time to end disease, poverty, and injustice, and to flourish in ways unimaginable today. But this vast future is at risk. With the advent of nuclear weapons, humanity entered a new age, where we face existential catastrophes - those from which we could never come back. Since then, these dangers have only multiplied, from climate change to engineered pathogens and artificial intelligence. If we do not act fast to reach a place of safety, it will soon be too late. Drawing on over a decade of research, The Precipice explores the cutting-edge science behind the risks we face. It puts them in the context of the greater story of humanity: showing how ending these risks is among the most pressing moral issues of our time. And it points the way forward, to the actions and strategies that can safeguard humanity. An Oxford philosopher committed to putting ideas into action, Toby Ord has advised the US National Intelligence Council, the UK Prime Minister's Office, and the World Bank on the biggest questions facing humanity. In The Precipice, he offers a startling reassessment of human history, the future we are failing to protect, and the steps we must take to ensure that our generation is not the last. "A book that seems made for the present moment." —New Yorker

Author : Nicholas Deiuliis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781645720607
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Precipice written by Nicholas Deiuliis and published by . This book was released on 2022-03-29 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Precipice: The Left's Campaign to Destroy America is a rallying cry in defense of the 'doers' to inspire awareness. Western society was built by the Creator, optimized by the Enabler, and refined by the Server. These three professional classes are the best society has to offer, and without them quality of life instantly degrades. America was designed to allow these classes to freely toil, achieve, and grow. Government was minimized and existed to serve the people. The American system of meritocracy created, grew, and sustained the middle class. Today the situation has changed for the worst, with America teetering upon a tipping point. The Leech, a class that exists solely to appropriate and consume the fruits of others' labor, has grown across every segment of the economy and society. As the Leech grows, the Creator, Enabler, and Server suffer. Successful culmination of the Leech campaign results in the destruction of the middle class, control resting with the 'haves' of the entrenched Leech elite, and the rest of society becoming indentured 'have-nots, ' who are perpetually dependent on an unsustainable system.

Author : Dan Pollock
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1475923848
Total Pages : 470 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Precipice written by Dan Pollock and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2001-02-07 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Logistics expert Jane Malcolm got her training under fire literallyin the Gulf War, where movement of supplies and equipment meant the difference between life and death. Eight years later, shes running her own logistics consulting firm. But as shestands on the brink of her greatest victory, she will be swept into a new, high-stakesgame with an opponent she may not even recognizeuntil its too late.Poised to close a multi-national deal, Jane learns that a plane crash has claimed the life of her father, Royal Akers, head of a faltering superstore chain. Determined to restoreher fathers legacy, she races against time to find ways around the Akers dynastyswoes and undercover their source. For it rapidly becomes clear that these are not random mishaps, but corporate sabotage. International trading partners suffer the fallout, ratcheting the stakes even higher. Economic disaster threatens to topple a fragile govern-ment. If Jane makes one false move, it could be her last. Tense, taut, Precipice is an edge-of-the-seat thriller, creating an all-too-plausible nightmare scenario.

Author : Shearer Davis Bowman
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 0807833924
Total Pages : 391 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book At the Precipice written by Shearer Davis Bowman and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bowman explores the different ways in which Americans, North and South, black and white, understood their interests, rights, and honor during the secession period. He examines the lives and thoughts of key figures and provides an especially vivid glimpse into what less famous men and women in both sections thought about themselves and the worlds in which they lived, and how their thoughts informed their actions during this time. Both sides glorified the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States, yet they interpreted those sacred documents in markedly different ways and held very different notions of what constituted "American" values.

Author : Noam Chomsky
Publisher : Haymarket Books
ISBN 13 : 1642594792
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Precipice written by Noam Chomsky and published by Haymarket Books. This book was released on 2021-06-01 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Precipice, Noam Chomsky sheds light into the phenomenon of Trumpism, exposes the catastrophic nature and impact of Trump’s policies on people, the environment, and the planet as a whole, and captures the dynamics of the brutal class warfare launched by the masters of capital to maintain and even enhance the features of a dog-eat–dog society to the unprecedented mobilization of millions of people against neoliberal capitalism, racism, and police violence/

Author : Paul Doiron
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1250063698
Total Pages : 333 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Precipice written by Paul Doiron and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2015-06-16 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Maine game warden Mike Bowditch joins a desperate search for two missing hikers as Maine wildlife officials deal with a frightening rash of coyote attacks"--

Author : Andrew Imbrie
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300256108
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Power on the Precipice written by Andrew Imbrie and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2020-09-08 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An essential guide to renewing American leadership in a turbulent, polarized, and postdominant world Is America fated to decline as a great power? Can it recover? With absorbing insight and fresh perspective, foreign policy expert Andrew Imbrie provides a road map for bolstering American leadership in an era of turbulence abroad and deepening polarization at home. This is a book about choices: the tough policy trade-offs that political leaders need to make to reinvigorate American money, might, and clout. In the conventional telling, the United States is either destined for continued dominance or doomed to irreversible decline. Imbrie argues instead that the United States must adapt to changing global dynamics and compete more wisely. Drawing on the author’s own experience as an adviser to Secretary of State John Kerry, as well as on interviews and comparative studies of the rise and fall of nations, this book offers a sharp look at American statecraft and the United States’ place in the world today.

Author : Ben Bova
Publisher : Tor Books
ISBN 13 : 0312703074
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Precipice written by Ben Bova and published by Tor Books. This book was released on 2001-10-26 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Six-time Hugo Award winner Ben Bova chronicles the saga of humankind's expansion beyond the solar system in The Precipice. Once, Dan Randolph was one of the richest men on Earth. Now the planet is spiraling into environmental disaster, with floods and earthquakes destroying the lives of millions. Randolph knows the energy and natural resources of space can save Earth's economy, but the price may be the loss of the only thing he has left--the company he founded, Astro Manufacturing. Martin Humphries, fabulously wealthy heir of the Humphries Trust, also knows that space-based industry is the way of the future. But unlike Randolph, he doesn't care if Earth perishes in the process. And he knows that the perfect bait to ensnare Dan Randolph--and take control of Astro--is his revolutionary new fusion propulsion system. As Randolph--accompanied by two fascinating women who are also brilliant astronauts--flies out to the Asteroid Belt aboard a fusion-propelled spacecraft, Humphries makes his move. The future of mankind lies in Randolph's hands. The Asteroid Wars have begun. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Author : Tom Savage
Publisher : Onyx Books
ISBN 13 : 9780451183330
Total Pages : 422 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Precipice written by Tom Savage and published by Onyx Books. This book was released on 1995 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The house is named Cliffhanger, a bit of heaven perched high on a hill in a Caribbean paradise, where a twisted conspiracy among the super-rich of St. Thomas turns the sparkling island playground into a killing ground where nothing is what it seems, and no one is who they claim.

Author : Achea Redd
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1637630611
Total Pages : 121 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Precipice of Mental Health written by Achea Redd and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-05-03 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The mental health crisis is worse than ever: In an age of increasing isolation, insecurity, and loss, people are suffering, and not everyone is able to afford or access the help that they need. Mental health activist Achea Redd wants to change that, because for her, it's personal. Though Redd seemingly led a charmed life as the daughter of a pastor and wife of NBA legend and former Olympian Michael Redd, the mother of two battled debilitating mental illness. In The Precipice of Mental Health, Redd shares her remarkably reflective story about the societal issues of mental health and her personal mental health struggles, including eating disorders, panic attacks, suicidal ideation, and the impact COVID-19 had on her battle." --