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The Last Garden

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The Last Garden – by: MoscleIn a future where Earth has died and life has become extinct, only one sentient being remains: EDEN-9, an artificial intelligence created to preserve the seeds, genes, and memories of all that has ever lived.Programmed to rebuild the planet, it faces a dilemma that goes beyond science: does humanity deserve a second chance?Between genetic experiments, ethical dilemmas, ... Read more

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The Last Garden – by: MoscleIn a future where Earth has died and life has become extinct, only one sentient being remains: EDEN-9, an artificial intelligence created to preserve the seeds, genes, and memories of all that has ever lived.Programmed to rebuild the planet, it faces a dilemma that goes beyond science: does humanity deserve a second chance?Between genetic experiments, ethical dilemmas,
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Biogeographic Patterns of South American Anurans

by Tiago S. Vasconcelos, Fernando R. da Silva, Tiago G. dos Santos, Vitor H. M. Prado, Diogo B. Provete ...

Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
This book analyzes different facets of anuran amphibian distribution in South America. We integrate alternative biological metrics employing cutting-edge methods to understand the dynamic processes underlying species distribution patterns. By using the modern biogeographic toolbox, we explore how richness gradients, phylogenetic diversity, functional diversity, and range size/endemism distribution ... Read more

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This book analyzes different facets of anuran amphibian distribution in South America. We integrate alternative biological metrics employing cutting-edge methods to understand the dynamic processes underlying species distribution patterns. By using the modern biogeographic toolbox, we explore how richness gradients, phylogenetic diversity, functional diversity, and range size/endemism distribution
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Southern and Postcolonial Perspectives on Policing, Security and Social Order

by John Lea, Lambros Fatsis, Guilherme Benzaquen, Danielle Watson, Chris Cunneen, Kristian Lasslett, Ihsan Ali-Fauzi, Elizabete Albernaz, Luiz dal Santo, Vitor Dieter, Vivian Cubas, Giovana Esther Zucatto, Valéria Cristina Oliveira, Jackie Garza ...

Postcolonial legacies continue to impact upon the Global South and this edited collection examines their influence on systems of policing, security management and social ordering. Expanding the Southern Criminology agenda, the book critically examines social harms, violence and war crimes, human rights abuses, environmental degradation and the criminalization of protest.The book asks how current ... Read more

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Postcolonial legacies continue to impact upon the Global South and this edited collection examines their influence on systems of policing, security management and social ordering. Expanding the Southern Criminology agenda, the book critically examines social harms, violence and war crimes, human rights abuses, environmental degradation and the criminalization of protest.The book asks how current
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Inductive Logic Programming

23rd International Conference, ILP 2013, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, August 28-30, 2013, Revised Selected Papers

Edited by Gerson Zaverucha, Vítor Santos Costa, Aline Paes ...

Series series Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Inductive Logic Programming, ILP 2013, held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in August 2013.The 9 revised extended papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 42 submissions. The conference now focuses on all aspects of learning in logic, multi-relational learning and data mining, statistical ... Read more

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This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Inductive Logic Programming, ILP 2013, held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in August 2013.The 9 revised extended papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 42 submissions. The conference now focuses on all aspects of learning in logic, multi-relational learning and data mining, statistical
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Physics of the Future

How Science Will Shape Human Destiny and Our Daily Lives by the Year 2100

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**NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The renowned theoretical physicist and national bestselling author of The God Equation details the developments in computer technology, artificial intelligence, medicine, space travel, and more, that are poised to happen over the next century.“Mind-bending…. [An] alternately fascinating and frightening book.” —San Francisco Chronicle**Space elevators. Internet-enabled ... Read more

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**NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The renowned theoretical physicist and national bestselling author of The God Equation details the developments in computer technology, artificial intelligence, medicine, space travel, and more, that are poised to happen over the next century.“Mind-bending…. [An] alternately fascinating and frightening book.” —San Francisco Chronicle**Space elevators. Internet-enabled
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Advocacy Networks in International Politics

by Margaret E. Keck, Kathryn A. Sikkink ...

Valuable reading for anyone concerned with contemporary dynamics of social change. â• International AffairsMargaret E. Keck and Kathryn Sikkink examine a type of pressure group that has been largely ignored by political analysts: networks of activists that coalesce and operate across national frontiers. Their targets may be international organizations or the policies of particular states. ... Read more

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Valuable reading for anyone concerned with contemporary dynamics of social change. â• International AffairsMargaret E. Keck and Kathryn Sikkink examine a type of pressure group that has been largely ignored by political analysts: networks of activists that coalesce and operate across national frontiers. Their targets may be international organizations or the policies of particular states.
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Ten Emerging Technologies That'll Improve and/or Ruin Everything

by Kelly Weinersmith, Zach Weinersmith ...

**The instant New York Times bestseller!A Wall Street Journal Best Science Book of the Year!A Popular Science Best Science Book of the Year!From a top scientist and the creator of the hugely popular web comic Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal, a hilariously illustrated investigation into future technologies -- from how to fling a ship into deep space on the cheap to 3D organ printing**What will ... Read more

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Feminicide and Global Accumulation

Frontline Struggles to Resist the Violence of Patriarchy and Capitalism

by Susana Draper, Liz Mason-Deese, Silvia Federici, Sheila Gruner ...

• There is widespread interest in intersectional approaches and voices of BIPOC on issues of violence in society.• The contributors in this book are not just theorizing about gender-based violence but are also on the frontlines of organizing against it.• Silvia Federici is a celebrated feminist, Marxist theorist and author of Caliban and the Witch, Revolution at Point Zero, Witches, Witch-Hunting, ... Read more

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• There is widespread interest in intersectional approaches and voices of BIPOC on issues of violence in society.• The contributors in this book are not just theorizing about gender-based violence but are also on the frontlines of organizing against it.• Silvia Federici is a celebrated feminist, Marxist theorist and author of Caliban and the Witch, Revolution at Point Zero, Witches, Witch-Hunting,
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The Skeptics' Guide to the Future

What Yesterday's Science and Science Fiction Tell Us About the World of Tomorrow

by Dr. Steven Novella ...

From the bestselling authors and hosts of "The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe," a high-tech roadmap of the future in their beloved voice, cracking open the follies of futurists past and how technology will profoundly change our world, redefining what it means to be human.Our predictions of the future are a wild fantasy, inextricably linked to our present hopes and fears, biases and ignorance. ... Read more

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From the bestselling authors and hosts of "The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe," a high-tech roadmap of the future in their beloved voice, cracking open the follies of futurists past and how technology will profoundly change our world, redefining what it means to be human.Our predictions of the future are a wild fantasy, inextricably linked to our present hopes and fears, biases and ignorance.
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Violent Democracies in Latin America

by Neil L. Whitehead, Jo Ellen Fair, Leigh A. Payne ...

Series series The Cultures and Practice of Violence
Despite recent political movements to establish democratic rule in Latin American countries, much of the region still suffers from pervasive violence. From vigilantism, to human rights violations, to police corruption, violence persists. It is perpetrated by state-sanctioned armies, guerillas, gangs, drug traffickers, and local community groups seeking self-protection. The everyday presence of ... Read more

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Despite recent political movements to establish democratic rule in Latin American countries, much of the region still suffers from pervasive violence. From vigilantism, to human rights violations, to police corruption, violence persists. It is perpetrated by state-sanctioned armies, guerillas, gangs, drug traffickers, and local community groups seeking self-protection. The everyday presence of
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100 Mysteries of Science Explained

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Answers on subjects from dark matter to disappearing bees, from the magazine that's been enlightening and entertaining Americans for nearly 150 years.What happened to the Neanderthals? When is the next Ice Age due? Why do we hiccup? From end-of-the-world scenarios to what goes on within our own brains and bodies, the experts at Popular Science magazine uncover the secrets of the universe and ... Read more

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Social Death

Racialized Rightlessness and the Criminalization of the Unprotected

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Series Book 7 - Nation of Nations
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Winner of the 2013 John Hope Franklin Book Prize presented by the American Studies AssociationA necessary read that demonstrates the ways in which certain people are devalued without attention to social contextsSocial Death tackles one of the core paradoxes of social justice struggles and scholarship—that the battle to end oppression shares the moral grammar that structures exploitation and
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