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The Next 500 Years

Engineering Life to Reach New Worlds

By: Christopher E. Mason

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The Next 500 Years

Engineering Life to Reach New Worlds

By: Christopher E. Mason

An argument that we have a moral duty to explore other planets and solar systems--because human life on Earth has an expiration date. Inevitably, life on Earth will come to an end, whether by climate disaster, cataclysmic war, or the death of the sun in a few billion years. To avoid extinction, we will have to find a new home planet, perhaps even a new solar system, to inhabit. In this provocative and fascinating book, Christopher Mason argues that we have a moral duty to do just that. As the only species aware that life on Earth has an expiration date, we have a responsibility to act as the shepherd of life-forms--not only for our species but for all species on which we depend and for those still to come (by accidental or designed evolution). Mason argues that the same capacity for ingenuity that has enabled us to build rockets and land on other planets can be applied to redesigning biology so that we can sustainably inhabit those planets. And he lays out a 500-year plan for undertaking the massively ambitious project of reengineering human genetics for life on other worlds. As they are today, our frail human bodies could never survive travel to another habitable planet. Mason describes the toll that long-term space travel took on astronaut Scott Kelly, who returned from a year on the International Space Station with changes to his blood, bones, and genes. Mason proposes a ten-phase, 500-year program that would engineer the genome so that humans can tolerate the extreme environments of outer space--with the ultimate goal of achieving human settlement of new solar systems. He lays out a roadmap of which solar systems to visit first, and merges biotechnology, philosophy, and genetics to offer an unparalleled vision of the universe to come.

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The Next 500 Years

Engineering Life to Reach New Worlds

By: Christopher E. Mason

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Engineering Life to Reach New Worlds

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The Age of Prediction

Algorithms, AI, and the Shifting Shadows of Risk

By: Igor Tulchinsky,Christopher E. Mason

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The Age of Prediction

Algorithms, AI, and the Shifting Shadows of Risk

By: Igor Tulchinsky,Christopher E. Mason

The power of the ever-increasing tools and algorithms for prediction and their paradoxical effects on risk. The Age of Prediction is about two powerful, and symbiotic, trends: the rapid development and use of artificial intelligence and big data to enhance prediction, as well as the often paradoxical effects of these better predictions on our understanding of risk and the ways we live. Beginning with dramatic advances in quantitative investing and precision medicine, this book explores how predictive technology is quietly reshaping our world in fundamental ways, from crime fighting and warfare to monitoring individual health and elections. As prediction grows more robust, it also alters the nature of the accompanying risk, setting up unintended and unexpected consequences. The Age of Prediction details how predictive certainties can bring about complacency or even an increase in risks—genomic analysis might lead to unhealthier lifestyles or a GPS might encourage less attentive driving. With greater predictability also comes a degree of mystery, and the authors ask how narrower risks might affect markets, insurance, or risk tolerance generally. Can we ever reduce risk to zero? Should we even try? This book lays an intriguing groundwork for answering these fundamental questions and maps out the latest tools and technologies that power these projections into the future, sometimes using novel, cross-disciplinary tools to map out cancer growth, people’s medical risks, and stock dynamics.

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MIT Press

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026237319X

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9780262373197

History of Massachusetts Civil War Regiments: Artillery, Cavalry, and Infantry

By: Christopher Cox

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History of Massachusetts Civil War Regiments: Artillery, Cavalry, and Infantry

By: Christopher Cox

This book has information of all Massachusetts Civil War Regiment were organized in the state. This is a research base book to find the information about one or more of the Massachusetts Regiments all in one place. The information is: who the commanding officers were are the organization (mustering in) of the regiment; what battles the regiment was involved in; the armies the regiment belonged to; total enrolled and break down of causalities; and when and where the regiment was organized and mustered out.

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Lulu.com

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1304469921

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A Guide to the UNCITRAL Arbitration Rules

By: Clyde Croft,Clyde E. Croft,Christopher Kee,Jeff Waincymer

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A Guide to the UNCITRAL Arbitration Rules

By: Clyde Croft,Clyde E. Croft,Christopher Kee,Jeff Waincymer

Observer delegates to the UNCITRAL Working Group charged with conducting revisions provide insights and commentary on the process and results.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521195721

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9780521195720

American Higher Education, Second Edition

A History

By: Christopher J. Lucas

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American Higher Education, Second Edition

A History

By: Christopher J. Lucas

The roots of controversy surrounding higher education in the US extend deep into the past. This original, incisive history goes far in offering a needed sense of perspective on current debates over such issues as access, costs, academic quality, social equity, and curricula. Eminently readable and always lively, this timely historical account is sure to be an invaluable resource for assessing the present condition and future prospects of American colleges and universities.

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Springer

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113710841X

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Chosen Peoples

Christianity and Political Imagination in South Sudan

By: Christopher Tounsel

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Chosen Peoples

Christianity and Political Imagination in South Sudan

By: Christopher Tounsel

On July 9, 2011, South Sudan celebrated its independence as the world's newest nation, an occasion that the country's Christian leaders claimed had been foretold in the Book of Isaiah. The Bible provided a foundation through which the South Sudanese could distinguish themselves from the Arab and Muslim Sudanese to the north and understand themselves as a spiritual community now freed from their oppressors. Less than three years later, however, new conflicts emerged along ethnic lines within South Sudan, belying the liberation theology that had supposedly reached its climactic conclusion with independence. In Chosen Peoples, Christopher Tounsel investigates the centrality of Christian worldviews to the ideological construction of South Sudan and the inability of shared religion to prevent conflict. Exploring the creation of a colonial-era mission school to halt Islam's spread up the Nile, the centrality of biblical language in South Sudanese propaganda during the Second Civil War (1983--2005), and postindependence transformations of religious thought in the face of ethnic warfare, Tounsel highlights the potential and limitations of deploying race and Christian theology to unify South Sudan.

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Duke University Press

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1478013109

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9781478013105

Business Organizations

[Connected EBook with Study Center]

By: Theresa A. Gabaldon,Christopher L. Sagers

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Business Organizations

[Connected EBook with Study Center]

By: Theresa A. Gabaldon,Christopher L. Sagers

Buy a new version of this textbook and receive access to the Connected eBook with Study Center on CasebookConnect, including: lifetime access to the online ebook with highlight, annotation, and search capabilities; practice questions from your favorite study aids; an outline tool and other helpful resources. Connected eBooks provide what you need most to be successful in your law school classes. Business Organizations, Third Edition is a pedagogically rich book that recaptures student engagement in the course without sacrificing basic rigor. The traditional coverage of most books in the field is retained, but modernized in reflecting the importance of unincorporated entities and small business counseling problems. Transaction-oriented problems put the student in the practice role of advising a variety of businesses. An expository approach provides clear context for cases. Features include flowcharts, connections boxes, self-testing exercises, an interspersed series of exercises on ethics for business lawyers, a glossary of terms, and sidebars on numerical concepts and skills. Through the use of sidebar explanations or otherwise, the chapters or major sections of chapters in the book stand alone, facilitating teaching in almost any order. An online supplement includes a “business concepts for lawyers” module to be assigned as an instructor desires, as well as a variety of sample documents to show students the actual materials that lawyers work with every day. New to the Third Edition: Shorter length—about 8% Delaware caselaw developments: Caremark litigation since 2019, including In re Boeing 2019 MBCA amendment that permits remote participation in shareholder meetings New/replaced images reflect more diversity and inclusion Updates to coverage of the federal securities laws Benefits for instructors and students: Modularity—achieved by keeping chapters short and self-contained—so that the book can be adapted to professors’ different priorities Substantial material provided for free in an online supplement, to reduce overall student costs, including: A set of complete edited codes to support all readings in the casebook; and A module comprising a “business concepts for lawyers” guide, covering tax, accounting, financial and economic topics keyed directly to the book. Detailed, problem-focused treatment of unincorporated entity issues and special transactional problems in counseling small businesses Visual and pedagogical elements (including teaching and learning aids such as flow-charts and self-testing devices) that are designed to engage a generation of students and teachers accustomed to variety and visual appeal Special cross-referencing aids to emphasize connections among related topics An expository approach providing clear context for the traditional case material that also appears Easy-to-digest sidebar content intended to develop student numeracy strength in tax, accounting and other relevant concepts

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Aspen Publishing

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1543847625

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9781543847628

African Art in Detail

By: Christopher Spring

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African Art in Detail

By: Christopher Spring

This book opens with the question, What is African art? The answer is a brilliantly colorful and detailed look at the myriad materials and genres, forms and meanings, cultural contexts and expressions that comprise artistic traditions across this vast and varied continent. Viewing artworks in their contexts--ancient and modern, urban and rural, western and eastern, decorative and functional--the book is nothing less than a virtual tour of African culture. Masks, textiles, royal art, sculpture, ceramics, tools and weapons--in each instance, the book features examples that reveal the most significant aspects of workmanship, materials, and design in objects of wood, stone, ivory, clay, metalwork, featherwork, leather, basketwork, and cloth. Photographs of each piece alongside close-ups of fine details afford new views of these works and allow for intriguing comparisons between seemingly unrelated objects and media. The featured details evoke the hand and eye of the most accomplished craftspeople across Africa, past and present. In sum, these photographs, along with Chris Spring's enlightening commentary, offer an experience of African art that is at once broad and deep, richly informed and intimately felt. They are, at the same time, a kaleidoscopic view of art from prehistory to gestures prefiguring the future.

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Harvard University Press

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0674036220

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9780674036222

Night on the Water

By: Christopher Church

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Night on the Water

By: Christopher Church

A chance encounter on an airplane with the woolly academic Rovski leads psychic investigator Mason onto a college campus, where he works to figure out why math professor Emily is hassling the guy. As he digs into the mystery, his psychic mentor Hanh instructs him to connect with his client in the dream world. Mason works to get lucid in his dreams and struggles to understand the symbolism and the meaning of his experiences in that realm, and how it intersects waking life. It soon becomes clear that he’s seeing things that other people don’t, and the plucky redhead has to grapple with the classic psychic’s dilemma: how to relate paranormal experiences back to mundane reality. His boyfriend, Ned, and their roommate, Peggy, help Mason keep his feet on the ground, and old friend Gilbert shows up in ways that transcend helpful and dive into annoying. As Rovski gets more rattled by Emily’s behavior, Mason gets closer to the truth, chasing his quarry on his trusty bicycle, sailing across a mountain lake in the dead of night, and ultimately unfolding a hidden part of reality.

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Dagmar Miura

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1951130332

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The Next 500 Years

The Next 500 Years

The Next 500 Years

The Next 500 Years

The Age of Prediction

The Age of Prediction

History of Massachusetts Civil War Regiments: Artillery, Cavalry, and Infantry

History of Massachusetts Civil War Regiments: Artillery, Cavalry, and Infantry

A Guide to the UNCITRAL Arbitration Rules

A Guide to the UNCITRAL Arbitration Rules

American Higher Education, Second Edition

American Higher Education, Second Edition

Chosen Peoples

Chosen Peoples

Business Organizations

Business Organizations

African Art in Detail

African Art in Detail

Night on the Water

Night on the Water

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