This book is the opportunity for the individual to know and explore who he is. The man is much more than he finds himself in in daily life, and human kind needs to step out into the unknown To see what can be his destiny. Be it tribulation and sorrow, or the beauty of love and compassion. Man has the choice through free will. His real world is out there beyond what is being seen in the physical.
In a eugenics-driven future society, will one young woman’s defiance make a difference? In the not-too-distant future, England’s population quality and quantity are under scientific control: Only those deemed the fittest are permitted to procreate. Women are groomed to be “vocational mothers”—or else sterilized and put to other uses. Written by an author married to one of the world’s most prominent eugenics advocates, this ambivalent adventure anticipates both Brave New World and The Handmaid’s Tale. When a young woman rebels against her conditioning, can she break free?
An electrifying biography of one of the most extraordinary scientists of the twentieth century and the world he made. The smartphones in our pockets and computers like brains. The vagaries of game theory and evolutionary biology. Nuclear weapons and self-replicating spacecrafts. All bear the fingerprints of one remarkable, yet largely overlooked, man: John von Neumann. Born in Budapest at the turn of the century, von Neumann is one of the most influential scientists to have ever lived. A child prodigy, he mastered calculus by the age of eight, and in high school made lasting contributions to mathematics. In Germany, where he helped lay the foundations of quantum mechanics, and later at Princeton, von Neumann’s colleagues believed he had the fastest brain on the planet—bar none. He was instrumental in the Manhattan Project and the design of the atom bomb; he helped formulate the bedrock of Cold War geopolitics and modern economic theory; he created the first ever programmable digital computer; he prophesized the potential of nanotechnology; and, from his deathbed, he expounded on the limits of brains and computers—and how they might be overcome. Taking us on an astonishing journey, Ananyo Bhattacharya explores how a combination of genius and unique historical circumstance allowed a single man to sweep through a stunningly diverse array of fields, sparking revolutions wherever he went. The Man from the Future is an insightful and thrilling intellectual biography of the visionary thinker who shaped our century.
"The biographer in search of Mme de Maintenon's true personality inevitably turns first of all to her own correspondence. And there the enigma of this extraordinary woman immediately reveals itself. For although she wrote thousands of letters between the ages of fifteen and eighty-four, she burned almost the whole of her correspondence with Louis XIV. In consequence no direct evidence remains regarding her relationship with him either before or after their marriage. The fact that this did take place however is generally accepted. Few if any women have played so important a part behind the scenes in their country's history. The only time Mme de Maintenon emerged from this political seclusion was during the War of the Spanish Succession, when Louis XIV was using correspondence with the Princesse des Ursin as an ancillary channel of communication with the Spanish Court, independently of his official representatives there. Until well into the nineteenth century, Mme de Maintenon was regarded as an unsympathetic figure. The libels propagated by Saint-Simon and the Duchesse d'Orléans in her lifetime were further enhanced by the forgeries of her correspondence by La Beaumelle, which were only exposed in 1865 by the scholarly researches of Lavallée. My aim has been neither to strengthen the case of Françoise de Maintenon's hagiographers nor of her slanderers, but to present my readers with the facts as far as they are ascertainable, and leave them to judge for themselves. I hope that they will agree with me that she was neither a saint nor a devil, but one of the most remarkable women in European history." -- preface.
Expanded edition covering the Adventure Magazine genre of Cold-War masculinity including new material wartime xenophobic American magazine articles and advertisements.
Chasing a fresh start Danny, an East Endborn entrepreneur, leads his five gay friends and business partners on a joint venture in the countryside. When it all comes to a sudden end, the friends find themselves at the mercy of Franco, a ruthless gangster who will stop at nothing to get what he wants. Danny and his friends soon learn that the hardest decisions are the ones which leave you no choice. Complicating matters, each partner finds that the problems of their present and past have trapped them in place and will not be left behind without a fight. A chance encounter, a hasty decision, and other seemingly innocent events bring the group to a boiling point. And soon, each will find himself on a path he never imagined. Mansworld takes you on a journey woven with love, sex, family, gangsters, crime, and survival. For this group of friends and partners, a painful lesson awaitsyour past will decide your future.
A Man’s World is a collection of twenty profiles of fascinating men by author and magazine writer Steve Oney. Oney realized early in his career that he was interested in how men face challenges and cope with success and failure, seeing in their struggles something of his own. Written over a forty-year period for publications including Esquire, Premiere, GQ, TIME, Los Angeles, and the Atlanta Journal-Constitution Magazine, the stories, many prizewinning, bring to life the famous (Harrison Ford), the brilliant (Robert Penn Warren), the tortured (Gregg Allman), and the unknown (Chris Leon, a twenty-year-old Marine Corps corporal killed in the Iraq war).
A revolution is under way. Within a generation, more households will be supported by women than by men. In this book the author takes us to the frontier of this new economic order. She shows us why this flip is inevitable, what painful adjustments will have to be made along the way, and how both men and women will feel surprisingly liberated in the end. Couples today are debating who must assume the responsibility of primary earner and who gets the freedom of being the slow track partner. With more men choosing to stay home, she shows how that lifestyle has achieved a higher status, and the ways males have found to recover their masculinity. And the revolution is global: she takes us from Japan to Denmark to show how both sexes are adapting as the marriage market has turned into a giant free-for-all, with men and women at different stages of this transformation finding partners who match their expectations. This book is an analysis of the most important cultural shift since the rise of feminism: the coming era in which women will earn more than men, and how this will change work, love, and sex.
