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The Knifemaker asks searching questions about the morality of science via the biography of Werhner Von Braun, whose life embodies the contradiction at the heart of many landmark advancements of the twentieth century: between the romance of new scientific frontiers and the human cost of reaching them.

Este libro pinta un vívido retrato de un movimiento internacional impulsado por ideas y prácticas extrañas y frecuentemente inquietantes, pero cuya obsesión por trascender las limitaciones humanas puede verse como una especie de microcosmos cultural, una intensificación radical de nuestra fe más amplia en el poder de la tecnología como motor del progreso humano. Es un estudio de carácter de la excentricidad humana y una meditación sobre el deseo inmemorial de trascender los hechos básicos de nuestra existencia animal, un deseo tan primordial como las religiones más antiguas.

My career as a writer, from Star Trek: The Next Generation & Star Trek: Deep Space Nine to UFOs, crop circles, Bigfoot and beyond. With celebrity appearances from Mark Hamill, Bill Paxton, Tony Randall, Ray Bradbury and more.

An audiobook for any couple of the same or opposite sex seeking a personalized wedding that dignifies the relationship and the individual self. This guide emboldens you to harness your individuality, to be creative, and to plan your wedding your way. Every fiancé and fiancée faces the question, how do I become something new without losing myself? Using his own story, author Mark O'Connell, LCSW, reflects on conflicts that arrive during wedding transitions, as well as various other transitions throughout your lives.

Once relegated to the fringes of society, transhumanism (the use of technology to enhance human intellectual and physical capability) is now poised to enter our cultural mainstream. It has found adherents in Silicon Valley billionaires Ray Kurzweil and Peter Diamandis. Google has entered the picture, establishing a bio-tech subsidiary aimed at solving the problem of aging. In To Be a Machine, journalist Mark O'Connell takes a headlong dive into this burgeoning movement.

We're alive in a time of worst-case scenarios: The weather has gone uncanny. Our old postwar alliances are crumbling. Everywhere you look there's an omen, a joke whose punchline is the end of the world. How is a person supposed to live in the shadow of such a grim future? What does it mean to have children - nothing if not an act of hope? What might it be like to live through the worst? And what on Earth is anybody doing about it? Dublin-based writer Mark O'Connell is consumed by these questions - and, as the father of two young children himself, he finds them increasingly urgent.

L'Apocalisse non è una fantasia distopica, non è una remota possibilità. L'Apocalisse è intorno a noi: è negli aggiornamenti quotidiani sulla pandemia, è nei video YouTube sullo scioglimento dei ghiacciai, è nelle conversazioni quotidiane sul futuro. È sui giornali, sul web e sui social. Ma cosa sta facendo, concretamente, l'umanità per evitare la fine? Mark O'Connell ha intrapreso un viaggio alla ricerca di risposte. Ha visitato i bunker di lusso costruiti in Sud Dakota.

Dublino, 1982. C’è un bambino che fissa la finestra del palazzo davanti a quello dei suoi nonni: osserva un uomo che viene portato via in manette dalla Garda, senza dire nulla. Quell’uomo si chiama Malcolm Macarthur, un raffinato frequentatore della società intellettuale cittadina, amante dei papillon in seta, delle giacche in lino e delle buone letture. Macarthur è però soprattutto il responsabile di un duplice omicidio, la cui violenza e insensatezza hanno riempito le pagine dei giornali per mesi, trasformandolo nel ricercato più famoso d’Irlanda.

Malcolm Macarthur was a well-known Dublin socialite. Suave and urbane, he passed his days mingling with artists and aristocrats, reading philosophy, living a life of the mind. But by 1982, his inheritance had dwindled to almost nothing, a desperate threat to his lifestyle. Macarthur hastily conceived a plan: He would commit bank robbery, of the kind that had become frightfully common in Dublin at the time. But his plan spun swiftly out of control, and he needlessly killed two innocent civilians.