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PAP. Condición: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Condición: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Condición: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

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PAP. Condición: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Condición: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Condición: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Condición: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Condición: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Condición: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Condición: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Condición: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Condición: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Condición: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

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Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. Do Aliens Really Exist? "There are No Aliens: A Critique of Extraterrestrialism" challenges how we conceptualize extraterrestrial intelligence, arguing that our vision of potential cosmic companions remains profoundly shaped by human cognitive architecture and cultural frameworks rather than representing genuine openness to cosmic otherness. The book systematically examines anthropocentrism across multiple dimensions: scientific methodologies that privilege Earth-like biology, probability calculations that transform limited data into seemingly rigorous predictions, and technological projections that extend industrial capitalist values onto cosmic scales. It analyzes physical constraints on interstellar travel, limitations of religious frameworks, and epistemological barriers to recognizing intelligence unlike our own. Cultural analysis reveals how aliens function primarily as psychological projections-screens for processing human anxieties about technology, otherness, and social change-telling us more about ourselves than about what might exist beyond Earth. Importantly, the book doesn't deny the possibility of extraterrestrial intelligence or discourage the search. Rather, it recognizes the conceptual constraints limiting our cosmic imagination while developing more sophisticated approaches characterized by epistemological humility-acknowledging human limitations while reaching beyond them where possible. The book explores alternative frameworks that might transcend conventional thinking, from object-oriented ontology to indigenous cosmologies to quantum consciousness theories. It proposes methodological reforms including agnostic biosignature research, multiple working hypotheses, anomaly-focused observation, and algorithmic approaches to pattern recognition that might detect organizations beyond human cognitive biases. Ultimately, "There are No Aliens" suggests that sophisticated extraterrestrialist thinking may not provide definitive answers about alien existence but more nuanced questions about cosmic reality-questions acknowledging both the possibilities and limitations of human cosmic comprehension while remaining open to what might exist beyond current understanding. The alien remains simultaneously a projection of human consciousness and a genuine possibility beyond human experience-both mirror and mystery. By recognizing how our conception of cosmic others is shaped by human experience while remaining open to possibilities beyond it, we might develop more sophisticated approaches to whether we share the cosmos with other intelligences. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. DE-EGOISMDe-Egoism offers a practical philosophy for transcending the limitations of ego-driven existence while maintaining healthy functionality in daily life. Unlike complete self-denial, it recognizes the ego as a necessary but ultimately constraining psychological structure that limits our capacity for connection, meaning, and contentment.Core Principles: De-Egoism rests on five foundational tenets: Ego Recognition - Developing awareness of ego patterns in thoughts, emotions, and behaviorsCommunal Integration - Experiencing self as part of larger systems rather than separate from themValue Recalibration - Shifting priorities from personal achievement to collective wellbeingPresence Before Identity - Engaging directly with reality rather than through ego-constructed narrativesBalanced Contribution - Finding fulfillment through giving rather than accumulatingPractical Application: The De-Egoism workbook (offered separately from the book) translates these principles into 26 structured practices across three categories: - **Foundation Practices** develop core capacities like mindful awareness, perspective-taking, value clarification, and contribution orientation- **Daily Life Applications** implement these principles in home environments, relationships, work, finances, and civic engagement- **Advanced Practices** address resistance, facilitate ongoing evolution, and extend principles to collective systemsEach practice includes clear purpose statements, step-by-step instructions, reflection questions, and progress tracking tools.Intended Outcomes: Through consistent engagement with these practices, practitioners can expect: - Reduced suffering from comparison, approval-seeking, and defensive positioning- Enhanced capacity for authentic connection beyond ego protection- Greater alignment between values and actions- More flexible, responsive engagement with challenges- Increased contribution to collective wellbeing- Sustainable fulfillment beyond ego gratificationDe-Egoism doesn't promise spiritual perfection but offers a practical pathway toward greater freedom from limiting ego patterns. The workbook provides a structured approach for integrating these principles progressively, creating a sustainable journey of development rather than an overwhelming transformation.The practice meets practitioners where they are, offering entry points for beginners while providing depth for advanced exploration, ultimately supporting a more expansive, connected, and meaningful engagement with life. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. "There are No Aliens: A Critique of Extraterrestrialism" challenges how we conceptualize extraterrestrial intelligence, arguing that our vision of potential cosmic companions remains profoundly shaped by human cognitive architecture and cultural frameworks rather than representing genuine openness to cosmic otherness.The book systematically examines anthropocentrism across multiple dimensions: scientific methodologies that privilege Earth-like biology, probability calculations that transform limited data into seemingly rigorous predictions, and technological projections that extend industrial capitalist values onto cosmic scales. It analyzes physical constraints on interstellar travel, limitations of religious frameworks, and epistemological barriers to recognizing intelligence unlike our own.Cultural analysis reveals how aliens function primarily as psychological projections-screens for processing human anxieties about technology, otherness, and social change-telling us more about ourselves than about what might exist beyond Earth.Importantly, the book doesn't deny the possibility of extraterrestrial intelligence or discourage the search. Rather, it recognizes the conceptual constraints limiting our cosmic imagination while developing more sophisticated approaches characterized by epistemological humility-acknowledging human limitations while reaching beyond them where possible.The book explores alternative frameworks that might transcend conventional thinking, from object-oriented ontology to indigenous cosmologies to quantum consciousness theories. It proposes methodological reforms including agnostic biosignature research, multiple working hypotheses, anomaly-focused observation, and algorithmic approaches to pattern recognition that might detect organizations beyond human cognitive biases.Ultimately, "There are No Aliens" suggests that sophisticated extraterrestrialist thinking may not provide definitive answers about alien existence but more nuanced questions about cosmic reality-questions acknowledging both the possibilities and limitations of human cosmic comprehension while remaining open to what might exist beyond current understanding.The alien remains simultaneously a projection of human consciousness and a genuine possibility beyond human experience-both mirror and mystery. By recognizing how our conception of cosmic others is shaped by human experience while remaining open to possibilities beyond it, we might develop more sophisticated approaches to whether we share the cosmos with other intelligences. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. When a blinding white flash heralds the sun's catastrophic transformation, Earth begins an unstoppable descent into a global winter. Journalist Peter Vollman witnesses his garden wither in seconds and birds fall dead from the sky-just the beginning of humanity's greatest crisis.As temperatures plummet worldwide, the same solar event creates an unexpected opportunity: Venus, Earth's hellish sister planet, has become potentially habitable after the sun's burst burned away portions of its toxic atmosphere. With Earth facing an unsurvivable freeze, a desperate evacuation plan unfolds-humanity's remaining resources focused on establishing a colony on Venus.Six months later, Peter finds himself selected for the colonization program. Aboard the Venus Hope III, he discovers that surviving on humanity's new home involves more than just technological challenges. The colony has fractured into three competing visions for the future: The Terraformers, led by the militaristic General Rivera, believe humanity must transform Venus to resemble Earth-a generations-long project to recreate the world they've lost.The Pioneers, under brilliant scientist Dr. Eliza Kwan, advocate for adapting humans to Venus through bacterial symbiosis-embracing evolution to survive on the planet as it exists.The Returners, a smaller faction led by Dr. Maya Okafor, focus on preserving Earth's biological heritage while developing technologies to eventually return to their home planet.As Peter navigates these factional tensions as a communications specialist, he uncovers disturbing secrets: the colony's habitats are failing faster than acknowledged, Venus bacteria possess unexpected properties, and Dr. Kwan's research includes her enigmatic daughter Ling-possibly the first human specifically adapted for Venus.When sabotage cripples a vital atmospheric processor, killing several colonists, Peter's investigation pulls him deeper into the colony's power struggles. The arrival of Earth's final transmission-announcing the home planet's imminent uninhabitability-pushes factional conflicts toward open conflict.Caught between Rivera's increasingly authoritarian security measures, Kwan's ethically troubling adaptation experiments, and the Returners' desperate preservation efforts, Peter must determine which vision for humanity's future to support. Or whether a fourth path might emerge from the integration of all three approaches.As habitat systems begin failing under Venus's relentless conditions, the question becomes not just how humanity will survive, but what "humanity" will mean after adapting to an alien world.DIVIDED HORIZONS explores the psychological and philosophical dimensions of survival when humanity faces extinction-examining how identity, ethics, and connection to our origins shape our responses to catastrophic change. In this thought-provoking science fiction thriller, the greatest threat to human survival might not be Venus's hostile environment, but our inability to transcend our divisions before it's too late. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - Four centuries after Pompeii was buried, they are still trying to live in the ashes.Colonia Vana: The Gray Settlement is a literary historical novel about a colony founded in the shadow of Mount Vesuvius-a settlement built not in ignorance of catastrophe, but in defiance of it.Generation after generation returns to the same poisoned ground. They excavate ruins, rebuild homes, write plans, refine methods, and convince themselves that intelligence, organization, and perseverance can succeed where nature has already delivered its verdict. Each generation believes it has solved the problem. Each generation is wrong.Told through journals, letters, technical reports, and the final account of the last surviving witness, this is the story of a community defined by its refusal to leave-and of the slow transformation of disaster into routine, danger into normal life, and death into acceptable cost.At once a historical narrative and a philosophical meditation, Colonia Vana explores enduring questions:Can knowledge overcome reality When does resilience become denial And how long can a civilization persist once it begins mistaking survival for success Set amid the gray ruins of Pompeii and the ever-present threat of Vesuvius, this is a haunting portrait of human persistence, ambition, and the quiet tragedy of learning the wrong lessons from history.For readers of literary historical fiction, generational sagas, and thoughtful novels about civilization, collapse, and the limits of human control.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Colonia Vana | The Gray Settlement | R. Vandaal | Taschenbuch | Englisch | 2026 | Blur Nation Media | EAN 9798233458910 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr[at]libri[dot]de | Anbieter: preigu Print on Demand.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - 'There are No Aliens: A Critique of Extraterrestrialism' challenges how we conceptualize extraterrestrial intelligence, arguing that our vision of potential cosmic companions remains profoundly shaped by human cognitive architecture and cultural frameworks rather than representing genuine openness to cosmic otherness.The book systematically examines anthropocentrism across multiple dimensions: scientific methodologies that privilege Earth-like biology, probability calculations that transform limited data into seemingly rigorous predictions, and technological projections that extend industrial capitalist values onto cosmic scales. It analyzes physical constraints on interstellar travel, limitations of religious frameworks, and epistemological barriers to recognizing intelligence unlike our own.Cultural analysis reveals how aliens function primarily as psychological projections-screens for processing human anxieties about technology, otherness, and social change-telling us more about ourselves than about what might exist beyond Earth.Importantly, the book doesn't deny the possibility of extraterrestrial intelligence or discourage the search. Rather, it recognizes the conceptual constraints limiting our cosmic imagination while developing more sophisticated approaches characterized by epistemological humility-acknowledging human limitations while reaching beyond them where possible.The book explores alternative frameworks that might transcend conventional thinking, from object-oriented ontology to indigenous cosmologies to quantum consciousness theories. It proposes methodological reforms including agnostic biosignature research, multiple working hypotheses, anomaly-focused observation, and algorithmic approaches to pattern recognition that might detect organizations beyond human cognitive biases.Ultimately, 'There are No Aliens' suggests that sophisticated extraterrestrialist thinking may not provide definitive answers about alien existence but more nuanced questions about cosmic reality-questions acknowledging both the possibilities and limitations of human cosmic comprehension while remaining open to what might exist beyond current understanding.The alien remains simultaneously a projection of human consciousness and a genuine possibility beyond human experience-both mirror and mystery. By recognizing how our conception of cosmic others is shaped by human experience while remaining open to possibilities beyond it, we might develop more sophisticated approaches to whether we share the cosmos with other intelligences.¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - When a blinding white flash heralds the sun's catastrophic transformation, Earth begins an unstoppable descent into a global winter. Journalist Peter Vollman witnesses his garden wither in seconds and birds fall dead from the sky-just the beginning of humanity's greatest crisis.As temperatures plummet worldwide, the same solar event creates an unexpected opportunity: Venus, Earth's hellish sister planet, has become potentially habitable after the sun's burst burned away portions of its toxic atmosphere. With Earth facing an unsurvivable freeze, a desperate evacuation plan unfolds-humanity's remaining resources focused on establishing a colony on Venus.Six months later, Peter finds himself selected for the colonization program. Aboard the Venus Hope III, he discovers that surviving on humanity's new home involves more than just technological challenges. The colony has fractured into three competing visions for the future:The Terraformers, led by the militaristic General Rivera, believe humanity must transform Venus to resemble Earth-a generations-long project to recreate the world they've lost.The Pioneers, under brilliant scientist Dr. Eliza Kwan, advocate for adapting humans to Venus through bacterial symbiosis-embracing evolution to survive on the planet as it exists.The Returners, a smaller faction led by Dr. Maya Okafor, focus on preserving Earth's biological heritage while developing technologies to eventually return to their home planet.As Peter navigates these factional tensions as a communications specialist, he uncovers disturbing secrets: the colony's habitats are failing faster than acknowledged, Venus bacteria possess unexpected properties, and Dr. Kwan's research includes her enigmatic daughter Ling-possibly the first human specifically adapted for Venus.When sabotage cripples a vital atmospheric processor, killing several colonists, Peter's investigation pulls him deeper into the colony's power struggles. The arrival of Earth's final transmission-announcing the home planet's imminent uninhabitability-pushes factional conflicts toward open conflict.Caught between Rivera's increasingly authoritarian security measures, Kwan's ethically troubling adaptation experiments, and the Returners' desperate preservation efforts, Peter must determine which vision for humanity's future to support. Or whether a fourth path might emerge from the integration of all three approaches.As habitat systems begin failing under Venus's relentless conditions, the question becomes not just how humanity will survive, but what 'humanity' will mean after adapting to an alien world.DIVIDED HORIZONS explores the psychological and philosophical dimensions of survival when humanity faces extinction-examining how identity, ethics, and connection to our origins shape our responses to catastrophic change. In this thought-provoking science fiction thriller, the greatest threat to human survival might not be Venus's hostile environment, but our inability to transcend our divisions before it's too late.