Tag: Invention

The Invention of Scarcity Malthus and the Margins of History [Audiobook]


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English | ASIN: B0C9VYR5NT | 2023 | 8 hours and 1 minute | M4B@64 kbps | 232 MB
Author: Deborah Valenze
Narrator: Suzanne Toren

With the publication of Essay on the Principle of Population and its projection of food shortages in the face of ballooning populations, British theorist Thomas Robert Malthus secured a leading role in modern political and economic thought. In this startling new interpretation, Deborah Valenze reveals how canonical readings of Malthus fail to acknowledge his narrow understanding of what constitutes food production. Valenze returns to the eighteenth-century contexts that generated his arguments, showing how Malthus mobilized a redemptive narrative of British historical development and dismissed the ways that people adapted to the challenges of subsistence needs.

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The Invention of Duty Stoicism as Deontology


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English | 2021 | pages: 188 | ISBN: 900444632X | PDF | 3,5 mb
Where did the notion of ‘moral duty’ come from? In The Invention of Duty: Stoicism as Deontology, Jack Visnjic argues that it was the Stoics who first developed a robust notion of duty as well as a deontological ethics.

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A Thread of Violence A Story of Truth, Invention, and Murder


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English | June 27th, 2023 | ISBN: 0385547625 | 304 pages | True EPUB | 1.26 MB
From the award-winning author comes a gripping account of one of the most scandalous chapters in modern Irish history, at once a propulsive work of true crime and an act of literary subversion.

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A Thread of Violence A Story of Truth, Invention, and Murder [Audiobook]


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English | ASIN: B0BMWCWPGF | 2023 | 7 hours and 25 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 208 MB
Author: Mark O’Connell
Narrator: Mark O’Connell

From the award-winning author comes a gripping account of one of the most scandalous murders in modern Irish history, at once a propulsive work of true crime and an act of literary subversion. Malcolm Macarthur was a well-known Dublin socialite and heir. 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 people. The ensuing manhunt, arrest, and conviction amounted to one of the most infamous political scandals in modern Irish history, contributing to the eventual collapse of a government.

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The History of the GPU – Steps to Invention Steps to Invention


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English | January 2, 2023 | ISBN: 3031109678 | 430 pages | MOBI | 45 Mb
This is the first book in a three-part series that traces the development of the GPU. Initially developed for games the GPU can now be found in cars, supercomputers, watches, game consoles and more. GPU concepts go back to the 1970s when computer graphics was developed for computer-aided design of automobiles and airplanes. Early computer graphics systems were adopted by the film industry and simulators for airplanes and high energy physics―exploding nuclear bombs in computers instead of the atmosphere.

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