Human Culture

Experience Earth from the big bang to the dinosaurs and beyond in this beautifully written, vibrant overview of our home planet's journey from creation to our time today.

From a VICE magazine columnist, "a deeply entertaining - if occasionally horrifying" (Joshua Piven, coauthor of The Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook) look at how humanity is likely to weather such happenings as nuclear war, a global internet collapse, antibiotics shortages, and even immortality.

Bill McKibben, examines the dangers inherent in an array of technologies that threaten not just our survival, but our identity. Imagine a future where lab workers can reprogram human embryos to make our children "smarter" or "more sociable" or "happier." Enough examines such possibilities, and explains how we can avoid their worst consequences while still enjoying the fruits of our new scientific understandings.

We are now standing at the precipice of the next transformative development: The Internet of Things. Soon, connected technology will be embedded in hundreds of everyday objects we already use: our cars, wallets, watches, umbrellas, even our trash cans. These objects will respond to our needs, come to know us, and learn to think on our behalf. David Rose calls these devices - which are just beginning to creep into the marketplace - Enchanted Objects.

In an era where artificial intelligence is no longer a distant possibility but a tangible, shaping force of our everyday lives, The Human Manifesto stands as a pivotal exploration into the future of Human identity, autonomy, and governance in the wake of advancing AI. This book, ambitious in scope and depth, invites listeners on a profound intellectual journey, questioning the essence of Human free will against the backdrop of technology's relentless march.

Getting your employees to do their best work has never been easy. But it is a particular challenge for knowledge workers, who must attend to many different tasks and whose to-do list is often ambiguous, requiring outside-the-box thinking. Lists of dos and don'ts are rarely effective. Instead, your best bet is to align their interests with your own - the heart of motivation - and set them free to use their own drive and creativity on their, and your, behalf.

Zooey lleva los modelos humanista y posthumanista casi hasta el ridículo y la parodia para pensar la sociedad que estamos viviendo y construyendo, la política que nos gobierna y la que ideamos para el futuro. El resultado es un texto provocador y lleno de humor, tremendamente estimulante, en el que explora los temas que lo obsesionan: la relación entre la tecnología y la vida afectiva, social y política.

Relatos Humanos cuenta la historia de cómo viven los empleados y directivos la aventura de un negocio al que no le queda más remedio que adaptarse al cambio para no desaparecer, donde el clima es tenso y no dejan de sucederse situaciones tan habituales como despidos, promociones, prejubilaciones, cambios en la dirección, etc. A lo largo de sus páginas, sus autores, diez directores de Recursos Humanos, descubren su visión sobre las experiencias y vivencias de las personas que conforman las empresas y cómo abordan todos los procesos que se cuecen en el día a día del trabajo.

¿Sabías que todos los humanos tenemos un superpoder? Desde la sabana de África hasta los casquetes polares de Groenlandia, los humanos dominamos el planeta Tierra. Pero, ¿cómo lo hemos logrado? Los leones son más fuertes que nosotros, los delfines nadan mejor, ¡y no tenemos alas! A través de este apasionante viaje de millones de años, descubrirás cuál es este superpoder que nos hace imparables.

Look around. Clearly, we humans are radically different from the other creatures on this planet. But why? Where are the Bronze Age beavers? The Iron Age iguanas? Byron Reese argues that we owe our special status to our ability to imagine the future and recall the past, escaping the perpetual present that all other living creatures are trapped in. Envisioning human history as the development of a societal superorganism he names Agora, Reese shows us how this escape enabled us to share knowledge on an unprecedented scale, and predict—and eventually master—the future.

Sex, The World History: Through Time, Religion, and Culture is a daring, deep historical-anthropological exploration. It is also a scathing condemnation of religion and its insistent control of sex.

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In an era of seemingly instant change, it's easy to think that today's revolutions - in communications, business, and many areas of daily life - are unprecedented. Today's changes may be new and may be happening faster than ever before. But our ancestors at times were just as bewildered by rapid upheavals in what we now call “networks” - the physical links that bind any society together.

There is a generational transformation in the workforce. But there is good news. Artificial intelligence and machine learning can help improve work processes, thus improving work experience and creating an environment that retains skilled workers.

In our modern world, our lives are driven by the latest media: public and private. Their continuous influence on every aspect of our lives leaves us with little to no chance of deciding what really matters. That is, the personal individual and or group decision-making in what matters most, the preservation and expressions of singularity and group identity. This book is an inspiration to adults who can make a difference in their attitude to make a difference among themselves and improve social areas and a better relationship among us, the great and larger human family.

The Art of Managing Humans replaces work relations with working relationships, improving leadership through open communication, promoting welfare, worker involvement, and transparency. It is aimed at any manager, executive, and HR person who wants to identify the crucial balance between management and employees and the practical differences it bridges between mediocre companies and successful organizations.

As human beings, we are fascinated by what makes us tick. We know that nature gave us certain biological appetites to ensure our survival, among those the need for water, food, sex, and love, but meeting these alone is not enough to ensure happiness. Scientists, and now managers, are realizing that people have a biological need to experience social rewards like praise, the thrill of innovation, and the satisfaction of acquiring new skills.

Stell dir vor, es ist Arbeit – und keiner muss hin. Denn deinen Job übernimmt die Künstliche Intelligenz. Schon heute koordiniert KI die Bevorratung im Lager, baut für uns Präsentationen oder diagnostiziert Tumore. Und das ist erst der Anfang. Längst ist klar: Künstliche Intelligenz hat das Potential für sehr große Veränderungen. KI plant nicht nur unsere Reisen und schlägt uns die nächste Serie vor, sondern schmeißt auch unsere Arbeitswelt um. Ein bedeutender und durchaus besorgniserregender Umbruch, aber einer, der genau zum richtigen Zeitpunkt kommt.

In a sweeping synthesis of new research in a number of different disciplines, this book argues that we humans are not who we think we are. As he explores the interconnections between cutting-edge work in bioanthropology, evolutionary biology, neuroscience, human language and learning, and beyond, James Paul Gee advances, also, a personal philosophy of language, learning, and culture, informed by his decades of work across linguistics and the social sciences.

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