: What happens when we leave the places we`re from? What do we lose, who do we become, and what parts of our pasts are unshakeable? Mannheim`s second story collection focuses on twelve people who have relocated - both voluntarily and involuntarily. Opening with the Miami-set thriller `Noir`, these exquisitely rendered stories will leave you reeling.
: 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
: Raphael (Āśram Vidyā Ord : The Threefold Pathway of Fire ISBN: 1931406006 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781931406000 : : : 3421.00 . : .
: Adrian Deans, Deans : Welcome to ord city ISBN: 0648848302 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780648848301 : : : 1055.00 . : .
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All refugees welcome in Australia In 2023, Australia reversed its closed border policy and said to the world: 'Welcome You are free to come to Australia, but you must spend the first seven years in the Temporary Citizenship Zone around the Ord River.' Seven years later, Ord City is a teeming Asian metropolis with 2.5 million people preparing for the First Wave - the first tranche of refugees gaining full citizenship - on Australia Day 2030. But mainstream Australia is passionately divided over Ord City, not least because of the risk of letting in terrorists, and dark political forces are bubbling to the surface. Agent Conan Tooley is sent up to Ord City to look into a routine gangland murder, but finds himself frustrated and confused by the questions that arise at every step. As the days to the First Wave count down, Conan encounters any number of people throwing up obstacles, including The Army of God (a Christian charity active in Ord City); a carload of young people travelling to Ord City for the Illumination Festival the night before the First Wave; and Asif, a deep cell terrorist with a deadly mission. There is also the Shadow Group - mysterious figures who seem to be pulling strings at high levels to achieve some hidden purpose. As the various subplots wind towards the explosive conclusion, the motives and values of all are profoundly challenged.
Welcome to Ord City is a satirical crime thriller set against the backdrop of Australia's refugee policy and the malleable populism that characterises the Lucky Country in the C21.
: Full Title: Proceedings, Findings, and Opinions of the Court of Inquiry Convened by Order of the President of the United States in Special Orders No. 277, Headquarters of the Army, Adjutant Generals Office, Washington, D.C., Dec. 9, 1879. in the Case of Gouverneur K.
Description: The Making of the Modern Law: Trials, 1600-1926 collection provides descriptions of the major trials from over 300 years, with official trial documents, unofficially published accounts of the trials, briefs and arguments and more. Readers can delve into sensational trials as well as those precedent-setting trials associated with key constitutional and historical issues and discover, including the Amistad Slavery case, the Dred Scott case and Scopes "monkey" trial.Trials provides unfiltered narrative into the lives of the trial participants as well as everyday people, providing an unparalleled source for the historical study of sex, gender, class, marriage and divorce.
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Harvard Law School Library Washington: Government Printing Office. 1883
