Souls In The Great Machine

Author : Sean McMullen
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1466821582
Total Pages : 709 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Souls in the Great Machine written by Sean McMullen and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2002-12-15 with total page 709 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Souls in the Great Machine is the first volume of Sean McMullen's brilliant future history of the world of Greatwinter. The great Calculor of Libris was forced to watch as Overmayor Zarvora had four of its components lined up against a wall and shot for negligence. Thereafter, its calculations were free from errors, and that was just as well-for only this strangest of calculating machines and its two thousand enslaved components could save the world from a new ice age. And all the while a faint mirrorsun hangs in the night sky, warning of the cold to come. In Sean McMullen's glittering, dynamic, and exotic world two millennia from now, there is no more electricity, wind engines are leading-edge technology, librarians fight duels to settle disputes, steam power is banned by every major religion, and a mysterious siren "Call" lures people to their death. Nevertheless, the brilliant and ruthless Zarvora intends to start a war in space against inconceivably ancient nuclear battle stations. Unbeknownst to Zarvora, however, the greatest threat to humanity is neither a machine nor a force but her demented and implacable enemy Lemorel, who has resurrected an obscene and evil concept from the distant past: Total War. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Author : Sean Mcmullen
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780765344571
Total Pages : 612 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Souls in the Great Machine written by Sean Mcmullen and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2002-12-15 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The great Calculor of Libris was forced to watch as Overmayor Zarvora had four of its components lined up against a wall and shot for negligence. Thereafter, its calculations were free from errors, and that was just as well-for only this strangest of calculating machines and its two thousand enslaved components could save the world from a new ice age. And all the while a faint mirrorsun hangs in the night sky, warning of the cold to come. In Sean McMullen's glittering, dynamic, and exotic world two millennia from now, there is no more electricity, wind engines are leading-edge technology, librarians fight duels to settle disputes, steam power is banned by every major religion, and a mysterious siren "Call" lures people to their death. Nevertheless, the brilliant and ruthless Zarvora intends to start a war in space against inconceivably ancient nuclear battle stations. Unbeknownst to Zarvora, however, the greatest threat to humanity is neither a machine nor a force but her demented and implacable enemy Lemorel, who has resurrected an obscene and evil concept from the distant past: Total War. Souls in the Great Machine is the first volume of Sean McMullen's brilliant future history of the world of Greatwinter

Author : George Makari
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393248690
Total Pages : 608 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Soul Machine: The Invention of the Modern Mind written by George Makari and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2015-11-02 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A brilliant and comprehensive history of the creation of the modern Western mind. Soul Machine takes us back to the origins of modernity, a time when a crisis in religious authority and the scientific revolution led to searching questions about the nature of human inner life. This is the story of how a new concept—the mind—emerged as a potential solution, one that was part soul and part machine, but fully neither. In this groundbreaking work, award-winning historian George Makari shows how writers, philosophers, physicians, and anatomists worked to construct notions of the mind as not an ethereal thing, but a natural one. From the ascent of Oliver Cromwell to the fall of Napoleon, seminal thinkers like Hobbes, Locke, Diderot, and Kant worked alongside often-forgotten brain specialists, physiologists, and alienists in the hopes of mapping the inner world. Conducted in a cauldron of political turmoil, these frequently shocking, always embattled efforts would give rise to psychiatry, mind sciences such as phrenology, and radically new visions of the self. Further, they would be crucial to the establishment of secular ethics and political liberalism. Boldly original, wide-ranging, and brilliantly synthetic, Soul Machine gives us a masterful, new account of the making of the modern Western mind.

Author : Tracy Kidder
Publisher : Back Bay Books
ISBN 13 : 0316204552
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Soul of A New Machine written by Tracy Kidder and published by Back Bay Books. This book was released on 2011-08-23 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tracy Kidder's "riveting" (Washington Post) story of one company's efforts to bring a new microcomputer to market won both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award and has become essential reading for understanding the history of the American tech industry. Computers have changed since 1981, when The Soul of a New Machine first examined the culture of the computer revolution. What has not changed is the feverish pace of the high-tech industry, the go-for-broke approach to business that has caused so many computer companies to win big (or go belly up), and the cult of pursuing mind-bending technological innovations. The Soul of a New Machine is an essential chapter in the history of the machine that revolutionized the world in the twentieth century. "Fascinating...A surprisingly gripping account of people at work." --Wall Street Journal

Author : Sean Mcmullen
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780765344557
Total Pages : 612 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Miocene Arrow written by Sean Mcmullen and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2003-05-18 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Science fiction-roman.

Author : Chris Sorrell
Publisher : Titan Comics
ISBN 13 : 1787734471
Total Pages : 50 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book MediEvil written by Chris Sorrell and published by Titan Comics. This book was released on 2019-11-20 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The un-dead hero of MediEvil returns in this thrilling prequel from the original creators of the critically acclaimed videogame. After being swept through time and landing in his own past, Sir Daniel Fortesque finds himself teaming up with old friends – including a were-dog and cockney-fairies – in order to once again save the kingdom of Gallowmere. The evil sorcerer Zarok is raising an evil un-dead army, and Sir Dan is the only one who can ensure his cowardly former-self prevails. Delve deep into MediEivl lore as the secret history of Sir Dan is revealed, and a brand new adventure, that follows on directly from MediEvil 2, begins!

Author : Sean McMullen
Publisher :
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Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Author : Sean Mcmullen
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1429977833
Total Pages : 592 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Eyes of the Calculor written by Sean Mcmullen and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2003-12-07 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Sean McMullen's glittering, dynamic, and exotic world two thousand years in the future, librarians fight duels to settle disputes, there is no electricity, fueled engines are banned by every major religion in Australica, humanity has split into two species, and intelligent cetezoids rule the oceans. In space, the enigmatic Mirrorsun has begun to spin. Immense solar sails are pushing vast amounts of energy into its ancient orbital band, energy that could tear it apart--or be directed down at Earth. Already the hypnotic Call has ceased, and all electrical machines have been reduced to molten metal. A religious prophet has risen and is attempting to bring together the entire continent of Australica under her rule. Meanwhile, her diesel-powered sailwing shot down by religious fanatics, the American princess Samondel is forced to set aside her trade-seeking mission and disguise herself as a student. Her only friends are a disgraced monk who is a member of the secret police and a beautiful young librarian who is a dangerous and unstable psychopath. From these unlikely friendships she must form an alliance between two continents and two species, and prevent ultimate war. Fundamentally, unexpectedly, things are changing everywhere. As catastrophe looms and civilization begins to crumble, the Dragon Librarians of Australica have just one means left to hold their world together: to kidnap every numerate person on the continent and rebuild their out-of-date human-powered computer--the Calculor. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Author : David Ewing Duncan
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1524743593
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Talking to Robots written by David Ewing Duncan and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2019-07-16 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Award-winning journalist David Ewing Duncan considers 24 visions of possible human-robot futures—Incredible scenarios from Teddy Bots to Warrior Bots, and Politician Bots to Sex Bots—Grounded in real technologies and possibilities and inspired by our imagination. What robot and AI systems are being built and imagined right now? What do they say about us, their creators? Will they usher in a fantastic new future, or destroy us? What do some of our greatest thinkers, from physicist Brian Greene and futurist Kevin Kelly to inventor Dean Kamen, geneticist George Church, and filmmaker Tiffany Shlain, anticipate about our human-robot future? For even as robots and A.I. intrigue us and make us anxious about the future, our fascination with robots has always been about more than the potential of the technology–it’s also about what robots tell us about being human.

Author : Michael R Greenberg
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 131729842X
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Explaining Risk Analysis written by Michael R Greenberg and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2016-09-13 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Risk analysis is not a narrowly defined set of applications. Rather, it is widely used to assess and manage a plethora of hazards that threaten dire implications. However, too few people actually understand what risk analysis can help us accomplish and, even among experts, knowledge is often limited to one or two applications. Explaining Risk Analysis frames risk analysis as a holistic planning process aimed at making better risk-informed decisions and emphasizing the connections between the parts. This framework requires an understanding of basic terms, including explanations of why there is no universal agreement about what risk means, much less risk assessment, risk management and risk analysis. Drawing on a wide range of case studies, the book illustrates the ways in which risk analysis can help lead to better decisions in a variety of scenarios, including the destruction of chemical weapons, management of nuclear waste and the response to passenger rail threats. The book demonstrates how the risk analysis process and the data, models and processes used in risk analysis will clarify, rather than obfuscate, decision-makers’ options. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of risk assessment, risk management, public health, environmental science, environmental economics and environmental psychology.