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The Age of Em
Robots may one day rule the world, but what is a robot-ruled Earth like? Many think that the first truly smart robots will be brain emulations or \"ems.\" Robin Hanson draws on decades of expertise in economics, physics, and computer science to paint a detailed picture of this next great era in human (and machine) evolution - the age of em.
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The Eastern Archaic, historicized
The Eastern Archaic, Historicized offers an alternative perspective on the genesis and transformation of cultural diversity over eight millennia of hunter-gatherer dwelling in eastern North America. For many decades, archaeological understanding of Archaic diversity has been dominated by perspectives that emphasize localized relationships between humans and environment. The evidence, shows, however that Archaic people routinely associated with other groups throughout eastern North America and expressed themselves materially in ways that reveal historical links to other places and times. Starting with the colonization of eastern North America by two distinct ancestral lines, the Eastern Archaic was an era of migrations, ethnogenesis, and coalescence—an 8,200-year era of making histories through interactions and expressing them culturally in ritual and performance.
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The Hadza
InThe Hadza, Frank Marlowe provides a quantitative ethnography of one of the last remaining societies of hunter-gatherers in the world. The Hadza, who inhabit an area of East Africa near the Serengeti and Olduvai Gorge, have long drawn the attention of anthropologists and archaeologists for maintaining a foraging lifestyle in a region that is key to understanding human origins. Marlowe ably applies his years of research with the Hadza to cover the traditional topics in ethnography-subsistence, material culture, religion, and social structure. But the book's unique contribution is to introduce readers to the more contemporary field of behavioral ecology, which attempts to understand human behavior from an evolutionary perspective. To that end,The Hadzaalso articulates the necessary background for readers whose exposure to human evolutionary theory is minimal.
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Flourishing in the Age of Climate Change
Flourishing in the Age of Climate
Change explores skills we need to
successfully navigate the distinctive environmental, social, and
economic challenges of the twenty-first century. Our
inability to address increasing resource constraints, social
conflict, and ecological decline lead many toward a deep pessimism
that saps motivation for change.
Drawing on research from environmental science, ethics,
psychology, sociology and educational theory, William M. Throop
shows why cultivating underdeveloped skills involved in
collaboration, humility, frugality and systems thinking can enable
flourishing within our context. He also illustrates how we can
strengthen such skills individually and how education can scale up
their cultivation, which will be essential for achieving
sustainability.
Flourishing in the Age of Climate Change is a hopeful,
practical resource for readers passionate about creating a world
where we can thrive, and where flourishing is widespread.
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Presencing
We are collectively creating results nobody wants, and most change efforts address the symptoms rather than the source. Presencing offers a different approach—one that bridges inner development with outer systems change through 7 concrete practices built for this moment. From Otto Scharmer, MIT senior lecturer and creator of Theory U, and Katrin Kaufer, MIT researcher, cofounder of the Presencing Institute, and author of Just Money (MIT Press), this field guide draws on more than twenty years of global work with the Theory U framework, now used by thousands of organizations across climate, finance, education, and social innovation. Inside this book: * The Wheel of Deep Change — a framework mapping 7 societal sectors and specific leverage points where transformation takes hold * Social Fields theory — a deeper layer of systems thinking that accounts for the quality of consciousness from which collective action emerges * Seven step-by-step practices covering generative listening, dialogue, co-sensing, presencing, co-imagining, co-creating, and ecosystem governance * Real-world stories of \"islands of coherence\"—communities already demonstrating regenerative ways of working together across the globe * Reflection questions and dialogue prompts for individual readers, leadership teams, and classroom or workshop settings Readers new to Theory U will find a self-contained entry point, and those already familiar will find significant new depth and updated methods.
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