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Apocalyptic AI: Visions of Heaven in Robotics, Artificial Intelligence, and Virtual Reality

By: Robert M. Geraci

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Apocalyptic AI: Visions of Heaven in Robotics, Artificial Intelligence, and Virtual Reality

By: Robert M. Geraci

Apocalyptic AI, the hope that we might one day upload our minds into machines or cyberspace and live forever, is a surprisingly wide-spread and influential idea, affecting everything from the world view of online gamers to government research funding and philosophical thought. In Apocalyptic AI, Robert Geraci offers the first serious account of this "cyber-theology" and the people who promote it. Drawing on interviews with roboticists and AI researchers and with devotees of the online game Second Life, among others, Geraci illuminates the ideas of such advocates of Apocalyptic AI as Hans Moravec and Ray Kurzweil. He reveals that the rhetoric of Apocalyptic AI is strikingly similar to that of the apocalyptic traditions of Judaism and Christianity. In both systems, the believer is trapped in a dualistic universe and expects a resolution in which he or she will be translated to a transcendent new world and live forever in a glorified new body. Equally important, Geraci shows how this worldview shapes our culture. Apocalyptic AI has become a powerful force in modern culture. In this superb volume, he shines a light on this belief system, revealing what it is and how it is changing society.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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019997893X

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Dickens, Journalism, Music

'Household Words' and 'All The Year Round'

By: Robert Terrell Bledsoe

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Dickens, Journalism, Music

'Household Words' and 'All The Year Round'

By: Robert Terrell Bledsoe

Dickens, Journalism, Music presents the first full analysis of the articles on music published in the two journals conducted by Charles Dickens, Household Words and its successor, All the Year Round. Robert Bledsoe examines the editorial influence of Dickens on articles written by a range of writers and what it reveals about his own developing attitude to music and its social role in parks, community singing groups, music halls and on the streets. The book also looks at the difference between the two journals and how the greater coverage of classical music and opera in All the Year Round reflects the increasing importance of music to Dickens in his later life.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1441175091

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9781441175090

Islam and Citizenship in Indonesia

Democracy and the Quest for an Inclusive Public Ethics

By: Robert W. Hefner

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Islam and Citizenship in Indonesia

Democracy and the Quest for an Inclusive Public Ethics

By: Robert W. Hefner

Islam and Citizenship in Indonesia examines the conditions facilitating democracy, women’s rights, and inclusive citizenship in Indonesia, the most populous Muslim-majority country and the third largest democracy in the world. The book shows that Muslim understandings of Islamic traditions and ethics have coevolved with the understanding and practice of democracy and citizen belonging. Following thirty-two years of authoritarian rule, in 1998 this sprawling Southeast Asian country returned to electoral democracy. The achievement brought with it, however, an upsurge in both the numbers and assertiveness of Islamist militias, as well as a sharp increase in violence against religious minorities. The resulting mobilizations have pitted the Muslim supporters of an Indonesian variety of inclusive citizenship against populist proponents of Islamist majoritarianism. Seen from this historical example, the book demonstrates that Muslim actors come to know and practice Islam in a manner not determined in an unchanging way by scriptural commands but in coevolution with broader currents in politics, society, and citizen belonging. By exploring these questions in both an Indonesian and comparative context, this book offers important lessons on the challenge of democracy and inclusive citizenship in the Muslim-majority world. Well-written and informative, this book will be suitable for adoption in university courses on Islam, Southeast Asian Politics, Indonesian and Asian studies, as well as courses dealing with religion, democracy, and citizen belonging in multicultural societies around the world. The book will be of interest to the general reader with an interest in Islam, citizenship, and democracy.

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Taylor & Francis

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1003831516

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Aegean Bronze Age Rhyta

By: Robert B Koehl

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Aegean Bronze Age Rhyta

By: Robert B Koehl

Rhyta are among the most appealing yet enigmatic classes of artefacts from the Aegean Bronze Age. They were produced in a wide range of forms and media with a consistently high degree of craftsmanship. This comprehensive study of Bronze Age rhyta from the Aegean builds on nearly a century of discoveries and scholarly contributions, and addresses questions of typology, function, context, and the uses of these vessels. The volume includes a thoroughly illustrated catalogue, an index of sites and the present locations of rhyta.

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INSTAP Academic Press

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1623030579

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Apocalyptic AI

Visions of Heaven in Robotics, Artificial Intelligence, and Virtual Reality

By: Robert M. Geraci

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Apocalyptic AI

Visions of Heaven in Robotics, Artificial Intelligence, and Virtual Reality

By: Robert M. Geraci

Apocalyptic AI, the hope that we might one day upload our minds into machines and live forever in cyberspace, is a surprisingly wide-spread and influential idea. Robert Geraci points out that the rhetoric of 'Apocalyptic AI' is strikingly similar to that of the apocalyptic traditions of Judaism and Christianity.

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Oxford University Press

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0199964009

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The A to Z of Ancient Egyptian Warfare

By: Robert G. Morkot

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The A to Z of Ancient Egyptian Warfare

By: Robert G. Morkot

The A to Z of Ancient Egyptian Warfare covers the period from the emergence of the Egyptian state around 3000 BC to the Arab conquest in the mid-7th century AD. The book is divided into three main sections. An introductory section includes a chronology of Egypt, with all known military actions, and an essay highlighting the problems of the surviving evidence and its interpretation and the major changes in military technology and organization over the period involved. The central section covers a wide range of issues, including pharaohs for whom military activities are documented; foreign rulers and countries against whom the Egyptians fought or who invaded Egypt; weapons and military technology; major archaeological sites; gods and goddesses associated with warfare; arms trade; literature; and social advancement. The third section is a detailed bibliography of the historical phases and archaeological sites, and the broader subject areas covered by the dictionary. There are maps of Egypt and the surrounding regions and a list with rulers, their dates, and the dynasties and kingdoms to which they are assigned by Egyptologists.

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Scarecrow Press

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1461671701

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Exotic Nuclei and Nuclear/particle Astrophysics

Mamaia-Constanta, Romania, 13-24 June 2005 : Proceedings of the Carpathian Summer School of Physics 2005

By: S. Stoica,Livius Trache,Robert E. Tribble

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Exotic Nuclei and Nuclear/particle Astrophysics

Mamaia-Constanta, Romania, 13-24 June 2005 : Proceedings of the Carpathian Summer School of Physics 2005

By: S. Stoica,Livius Trache,Robert E. Tribble

This volume documents an important event in the World Year of Physics 2005 and a continuation of the traditional international summer schools that have taken place in Romania regularly since 1964. On one hand, the study of exotic nuclei seeks answers about the structure and interaction of unique finite quantum mechanical many-body systems. On the other, it provides data that have an impact on the understanding of the origin of the elements in the Universe. The contributions, written by outstanding professors from prestigious research centers over the world, provide the reader with both comprehensive reviews and the most recent results in the field. Large experimental facilities are discussed together with future research projects. The book offers insights into how experiments in terrestrial nuclear physics laboratories may be combined with observations in outer space to enlarge our basic knowledge. Sample Chapter(s). Chapter 1: Research on Neutron Clusters (1,195 KB). Contents: Exotic Nuclei: Research on Neutron Clusters (F M Marques); Neutron Transfer Studied with a Radioactive Beam of 24 Ne, Using TIARA at SPIRAL (W Catford et al.); Rare Isotopes INvestigations at GSI (RISING) Using Relativistic Ion Beams (J Jolie et al.); Mass Formula from Normal to Hypernuclei (C Samanta); Exotic Nuclear Structures: Exotic Phenomena in Medium Mass Nuclei (A Petrovici); NUSTAR at FAIR. Nuclear Structure Research at GSI and the Future (G Muenzenberg); From Super-Radiance to Continuum Shell Model (V Zelevinski); New Methods for the Exact Solution of the Nuclear Eigenvalue Problem Beyond Mean Field Approaches (N Lo Iudice et al.); Q-Phonon Approach for Low-Lying 1 - Two-Phonon States in Spherical Nuclei (V V Voronov et al.); Analytic Description of the Phase Transition from Octupole Deformation to Octupole Vibrations (D Bonatsos et al.); Three-Body Models in Nuclear Physics (P Descouvemont); Properties of Low-Lying States: Shape Parameters and Proton-Neutron Symmetry (V Werner); Shell Model Nuclear Level Densities (M Horoi); Exotic Decays, Clusters and Superheavy Nuclei: Nuclear Structure and Double Beta Decay (J Suhonen); Systematics of Proton Emission (D S Delion et al.); Synthesis of Superheavy Elements at SHIP (S Hofmann et al.); Synthesis of Heaviest Elements Using a Gas-Filled Recoil Separator at RIKEN (K Morita); Fission Valleys and Heavy Ion Decay Modes (D N Poenaru et al.); Dynamics of Mass Asymmetry in Dinuclear Systems (W Scheid et al.); Exotic Matter in Nuclei and Stars. Neutrinos: Clusters of Matter and Antimatter: A Mechanism for Cold Compression (W Greiner); BRAHMS Experiment Quest for Early Universe Phases of Hadronic Matter (Z Majka); Strange Matter in Core-Collapse Supernova (J Horvath); Neutrino Astrophysics: Gamma Ray Bursts (G C McLaughlin); Neutrino Emission from Neutron Stars (D G Yakovlev et al.); New Achievements in Neutrino Properties (S Stoica); High Energy Cosmic Rays: The Origin of Cosmic Rays (P Biermann); The Mystery of the Highest Energies in the Universe (H Rebel); The Cosmic Ray Experiment KASCADE-GRANDE (I M Brancus et al.); Prospects for the Detection of High-Energy Cosmic Rays Using Radio Techniques (Ad van den Berg); Nucleosynthesis and Nuclear Physics for Astrophysics: Explosive Nucleosynthesis: Supernovae, Classical Novae, and X-Ray Bursts (J Jose); Experimental Approach to Nuclear Reactions of Astrophysical Interest Involving Radioactive Nuclei (C Angulo); Background Studies at the LUNA Underground Accelerator Facility (Zs Fulop); Thoughts about Two of the Important Reactions in Nuclear Astrophysics (L Buchmann); Recent Experimental Studies of Nuclear Astrophysics Using Intermediate-Energy Exotic Beams (T Motobayashi); An Indirect Method Using ANCs in Nuclear Astrophysics (R E Tribble et al.); Recent Applications of the Trojan-Horse Method in Nuclear Astrophysics (C Spitaleri); Nuclear Astrophysics Experiments at CIAE (W Liu et al.); Global Reaction Models Relevant to the p Process (S V Harissopoulos); Large Facilities: TRIUMF OCo Canada's National Laboratory for Particle and Nuclear Physics (L Buchmann); Status of the AGATA Project (E Farnea); Research at ISOLDE and the Path to Eurisol (P A Butler); and other papers. Readership: Academics, Universities and research centres in physics. Undergraduate and graduate students, taking nuclear physics classes, research professionals in nuclear physics and astrophysics.

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World Scientific

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9812772863

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Of Planting and Planning

The making of British colonial cities

By: Robert Home

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Of Planting and Planning

The making of British colonial cities

By: Robert Home

‘At the centre of the world-economy, one always finds an exceptional state, strong, aggressive and privileged, dynamic, simultaneously feared and admired.’ - Fernand Braudel, Civilization and Capitalism, 15th–18th Centuries This, surely, is an apt description of the British Empire at its zenith. Of Planting and Planning explores how Britain used the formation of towns and cities as an instrument of colonial expansion and control throughout the Empire. Beginning with the seventeenth-century plantation of Ulster and ending with decolonization after the Second World War, Robert Home reveals how the British Empire gave rise to many of the biggest cities in the world and how colonial policy and planning had a profound impact on the form and functioning of those cities. This second edition retains the thematic, chronological and interdisciplinary approach of the first, each chapter identifying a key element of colonial town planning. New material and illustrations have been added, incorporating the author's further research since the first edition. Most importantly, Of Planting and Planning remains the only book to cover the whole sweep of British colonial urbanism.

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Routledge

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1135945896

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Integrated Coastal and Ocean Management

Concepts And Practices

By: Biliana Cicin-Sain,Robert Knecht

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Integrated Coastal and Ocean Management

Concepts And Practices

By: Biliana Cicin-Sain,Robert Knecht

Biliana Cicin-Sain and Robert W. Knecht are co-directors of the Center for the Study of Marine Policy at the University of Delaware in Newark, Delaware and co-authors of The Future of U.S. Ocean Policy (Island Press, 1998).

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159726766X

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The Story of the Nutcracker

By: E. T. A. Hoffmann,Robert Blaisdell,Thea Kliros

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The Story of the Nutcracker

By: E. T. A. Hoffmann,Robert Blaisdell,Thea Kliros

After hearing how her toy nutcracker got his ugly face, a little girl helps break the spell he is under and watches him change into a handsome prince.

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0486291537

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Barcelona

By: Robert Hughes

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Barcelona

By: Robert Hughes

A monumentally informed and irresistibly opinionated guide to the most un-Spanish city in Spain, from the bestselling author of The Fatal Shore. In these pages, Robert Hughes scrolls through Barcelona's often violent history; tells the stories of its kings, poets, magnates, and revolutionaries; and ushers readers through municipal landmarks that range from Antoni Gaudi's sublimely surreal cathedral to a postmodern restaurant with a glass-walled urinal. The result is a work filled with the attributes of Barcelona itself: proportion, humor, and seny—the Catalan word for triumphant common sense.

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Vintage

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0679743839

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The Films of Orson Welles

By: Robert Garis

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The Films of Orson Welles

By: Robert Garis

This book offers a comprehensive overview of the Orson Welles' life and career, highlighting the shape of the filmmaker's career, his astonishing precocity and his extraordinary gifts that resulted in both splendid successes and puzzling failures. At the core of this book are sustained readings of Welles' masterpieces, Citizen Kane and The Magnificent Ambersons, and critically incisive accounts of his other major films, The Lady from Shanghai, Touch of Evil, Othello, Macbeth, and Chimes at Midnight.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521649722

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The Gernsback Days

A Study of the Evolution of Modern Science Fiction from 1911 to 1936

By: Mike Ashley,Michael Ashley,Robert A. W. Lowndes

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The Gernsback Days

A Study of the Evolution of Modern Science Fiction from 1911 to 1936

By: Mike Ashley,Michael Ashley,Robert A. W. Lowndes

In recent years there has been a resurgence of interest in Hugo Gernsback, and the start of a serious study of the contribution he made to the development of science fiction. . . . It seemed to me that the time was due to reinvestigate the Gernsback era and dig into the facts surrounding the origins of Amazing Stories. I wanted to find out exactly why Hugo Gernsback had launched the magazine, what he was trying to achieve, and to consider what effects he had-good and bad. . . . Too many writers and editors from the Gernsback days have been unjustly neglected, or unfairly criticized. Now, I hope, Robert A. W. Lowndes and I have provided the grounds for a fair consideration of their efforts, and a true reconstruction of the development of science fiction. It's the closest to time travel you'll ever get. I hope you enjoy the trip."-Mike Ashley, Preface

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Wildside Press LLC

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0809510553

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The Moon-Maker

By: Arthur Train,Robert Williams Wood

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The Moon-Maker

By: Arthur Train,Robert Williams Wood

Now with an Historical Afterword by Ron MillerIncludes the original illustrations Featured in Ron Millers _The Conquest of Space Book Series.Ó An atomic-powered spaceship on a mission to divert an asteroid from an impending collision with earth might sound like an up-to-date SF scenario...unless the book was written in 1916! Discoverer of the asteroid and passenger on the dangerous space mission is beautiful Rhoda Gibbs, an extraordinary woman 50 years ahead of her time. The novel's science is impeccable and remains accurate even by today's standards. Includes the prequel, The Man Who Rocked the Earth, which includes the first-ever realistic description of a nuclear explosion...right down to the gruesome effects of lingering radiation poisoning. At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management).

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Baen Publishing Enterprises

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1625790007

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Following Balanchine

By: Robert Garis

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Following Balanchine

By: Robert Garis

A long-time observer of George Balanchine describes his experience with & reactions to the great choreographer's work. Handsomely illustrated with dramatic black-&-white photographs of past & present members of the New York City Ballet, this fascinating book is a major contribution to dance criticism. Robert Garis taught English at Wellesley College & has been a dance critic for Partisan Review, New Republic, Yale Review, Ballet Review, & Raritan. This valuable book provides at once an interpretation of Balanchine's ballets, a portrait of the intelligentsia that gathered around his enterprise, & the history of one mind's delight as Garis, over four decades, watched & meditated on the unfolding of Balanchine's great body of work.

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0756760739

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9780756760731

Head and Neck Pathology

Atlas for Histologic and Cytologic Diagnosis

By: Robert A. Robinson

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Head and Neck Pathology

Atlas for Histologic and Cytologic Diagnosis

By: Robert A. Robinson

Featuring 900 full-color illustrations, this book is a concise and practical atlas of the surgical pathology and cytology of the head and neck. It covers the most common head and neck lesions and tumors the general pathologist sees in daily practice and will aid pathology residents and practitioners in quickly narrowing down a histologic differential diagnosis. Integral to the images provided are illustrated criteria for achieving a diagnosis—essentially what to look for when reviewing pathology slides. Differential diagnoses are shown, as are pitfalls in the diagnosis. A companion Website will offer the fully searchable text and an image bank.

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Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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1469801701

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Favorite Greek Myths

By: Bob Blaisdell,Robert Blaisdell

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Favorite Greek Myths

By: Bob Blaisdell,Robert Blaisdell

Retells the stories of the Golden Fleece, the Trojan War, Hercules, and other Greek myths.

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0486288595

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The Secret Initiation of Jesus at Qumran

The Essene Mysteries of John the Baptist

By: Robert Feather

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The Secret Initiation of Jesus at Qumran

The Essene Mysteries of John the Baptist

By: Robert Feather

An examination of the early, mysterious Essene community at Qumran that links it with John the Baptist, Jesus, and the beginnings of Christianity • Offers an eyewitness account of the final burial place of John the Baptist • Makes the case that Christianity grew out of a form of monotheism first formulated by the Egyptian pharaoh Akhenaten • Includes physical and photographic evidence never before published In his earlier book The Mystery of the Copper Scroll of Qumran, Robert Feather analyzed the Dead Sea Scroll engraved on copper that is considered the work of the secretive, devout Jewish sect known as the Essenes, who lived at Qumran around the time of Jesus. To continue his research into the Essene community's way of life and how its beliefs may have influenced the beginnings of Christianity, he met with Father Jozef Milik, one of the scholars who worked on deciphering the Dead Sea Scrolls in the 1950s. Feather learned that during Milik's work somewhere near the Qumran ruins, he had excavated a headless corpse that he believed to be that of John the Baptist. Feather presents persuasive, powerful evidence illustrating the strong link between the Qumran Essenes and New Testament teachings and showing that both John the Baptist and Jesus were intimately involved with this community at Qumran. He further supports the claim that early Christians continued a belief system centered on a form of monotheism first formulated by the Egyptian pharaoh Akhenaten and uniquely espoused by the Essenes at Qumran.

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Simon and Schuster

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1591438829

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9781591438823

The Myth of Race

The Troubling Persistence of an Unscientific Idea

By: Robert W. Sussman

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The Myth of Race

The Troubling Persistence of an Unscientific Idea

By: Robert W. Sussman

Biological races do not exist—and never have. This view is shared by all scientists who study variation in human populations. Yet racial prejudice and intolerance based on the myth of race remain deeply ingrained in Western society. In his powerful examination of a persistent, false, and poisonous idea, Robert Sussman explores how race emerged as a social construct from early biblical justifications to the pseudoscientific studies of today. The Myth of Race traces the origins of modern racist ideology to the Spanish Inquisition, revealing how sixteenth-century theories of racial degeneration became a crucial justification for Western imperialism and slavery. In the nineteenth century, these theories fused with Darwinism to produce the highly influential and pernicious eugenics movement. Believing that traits from cranial shape to raw intelligence were immutable, eugenicists developed hierarchies that classified certain races, especially fair-skinned “Aryans,” as superior to others. These ideologues proposed programs of intelligence testing, selective breeding, and human sterilization—policies that fed straight into Nazi genocide. Sussman examines how opponents of eugenics, guided by the German-American anthropologist Franz Boas’s new, scientifically supported concept of culture, exposed fallacies in racist thinking. Although eugenics is now widely discredited, some groups and individuals today claim a new scientific basis for old racist assumptions. Pondering the continuing influence of racist research and thought, despite all evidence to the contrary, Sussman explains why—when it comes to race—too many people still mistake bigotry for science.

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Harvard University Press

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0674417313

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The Coming of the Greeks

Indo-European Conquests in the Aegean and the Near East

By: Robert Drews

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The Coming of the Greeks

Indo-European Conquests in the Aegean and the Near East

By: Robert Drews

When did the Indo-Europeans enter the lands that they occupied during historical times? And, more specifically, when did the Greeks come to Greece? Robert Drews brings together the evidence--historical, linguistic, and archaeological--to tackle these important questions.

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Princeton University Press

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0691029512

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White Coat Tales

Medicine's Heroes, Heritage, and Misadventures

By: Robert B. Taylor

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White Coat Tales

Medicine's Heroes, Heritage, and Misadventures

By: Robert B. Taylor

This new edition of White Coat Tales presents intriguing stories that give historical context to what we do in medicine today—the body’s “holy bone” and how it got its name, a surprising reason why gout seemed to be so prevalent several centuries ago, and the therapeutic misadventure that shortened the life of Eleanor Roosevelt. In addition to many new tales, this revised edition contains 128 illustrations, such as images of Baron von Münchhausen aloft with cannonballs and Vincent van Gogh’s portrait of his doctor showing a clue to the painter’s health. Read about legendary medical innovators, diseases that changed history, illnesses of famous persons, and some epic blunders of physicians and scientists. The author is Robert B. Taylor, MD, Emeritus Professor, Oregon Health & Science University School of Medicine, and Professor, Eastern Virginia Medical School. Dr. Taylor is the author and editor of more than 33 medical books. To see Dr. Taylor lecture on the history of medicine, go here: https://youtu.be/Zx4yaUyaPRA

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