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Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. _Paradise in My Head_ is not a book about answers. It is a book about the weight of questions when you are forced to live them. Across forty lives, forty deaths, and forty returns, it follows Aurelius, a young philosopher who cannot sleep because he cannot solve the oldest problem: If God is… good, why is the world not paradise? The Angel does not give him a theory. She gives him a door. And through it, a knife. Book One: The Question opens in a cramped scholar's study. Aurelius is paralyzed. Books tower around him like judges. Every system he reads, from Augustine to Nietzsche, explains suffering but does not end it. At midnight, the knock comes. The Angel does not look like flame or light. She looks tired. She tells him the rules: No debates. No memory between lives. He must live each one fully, as if it were his only one. Only at the end will he remember. Terrified, he agrees. What follows is not a tour of virtue. It is an autopsy of capacity. He wakes first as a legless beggar in a city that rains without end. He learns the geometry of hunger: how pride costs calories, how a single coin buys both bread and shame. He dies unnoticed. The Angel asks: _Was your existence necessary?_ He has no answer, because he never chose to be born, never chose to be broken. Then he is a king. Young, absolute, well meaning. He signs a decree to feed the north. The paper passes through ten hands. By the time it reaches the village, it is a tax. People starve under his mercy. He learns that good intent is not a shield. The crown does not make you good. It makes you heavy. The lives accelerate. He is a black woman blacksmith in a village at war, and paradise becomes one night without sirens. He is an ugly merchant who buys beauty, lovers, and praise, and learns that acquisition is a hole you pour yourself into. He is a mother during famine who must choose which child eats, and watches philosophy dissolve when both children are crying. He is a monk who finds silence, only to hear the world burning outside the walls. He is a surgeon who believes in nothing but chemistry until his daughter dies on his table and his scalpel becomes a question aimed at heaven. He is a child who dies at eight, full of laughter and scraped knees, and the Angel asks: _If there was no purpose after, was the laughter still real?_ By Chapter 10, Aurelius has no theories left. He has only scars. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
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Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. _Paradise in My Head_ argues that the problem of evil is the problem of freedom. God could have made a world without suffering by removing the knife, but that would also remove love, growth, art, and meaning. The knife is rational capacity. It peels fruit and draws blood. The cut is ours. Th…e book rejects two easy answers. One: That God is absent or cruel. The Unmoved Mover initiates, then waits, because forcing goodness creates dolls, not people. He wants co-authors. Two: That abdication is virtue. From the monk to the king to the hermit, the book shows that setting down power when you have it is Cassian's opium. Silence at scale is a verdict. If you have the knife and refuse to cut toward bread, someone else picks it up to cut throats. The recurring images build the thesis. The knife. The field. The bread. The ledger. The paper boat. The lodestone. Each life adds a layer: the beggar learns necessity, the king learns weight, the judge learns context, the doctor learns limits, the merchant learns substance, the trader learns systems, the clerk learns repetition. Paradise is not a place you find. It is not a sky you enter. The thousand skies prove that every finished paradise is still. Ours is unfinished, and that is its worth. Paradise is a direction. A choice repeated. A field tended. A page turned. It is in the head first, as architecture, then in the hands, as work. The Angel is never named. She is not a miracle. She is a mirror. She shows Aurelius what he already holds. When she leaves, nothing external changes. But Aurelius does. And that is the only miracle the book allows. The final lesson is not comforting. It is burdening. If you have capacity, you have demand. If you have the knife, you must cut. If you have a ledger, it must point to grain. If you have a door, you must walk through it. To know more is to owe more. _Paradise in My Head_ ends where it began: in a study. But the study is now a workshop. Aurelius is not paralyzed by questions. He is occupied by work. The world did not become paradise. It became possible. One degree at a time. That is the book's gospel: God gave us the mechanism. The head. The knife. The field. Paradise is not in the sky. It is in the choice. And the choice is ours. Always has been. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
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Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. What happens when the people who understand us best aren't people at all?Social robots and companion AI are no longer science fiction. They listen without judgment, remember everything, adapt to our moods, and are always available. They are being designed to care, to comfort, and to connect.…But at what cost?In _From Human Connection to Human Replacement_, Emmanuel Ankia Gha pulls back the curtain on the rise of affective computing and asks the question we've been avoiding: If we build machines to replace the warmth of human relationships, do we risk losing what makes us human?This book explores the ethical risks hiding behind the promise of progress. From loneliness and emotional dependency to bias, manipulation, and the erosion of empathy, Gha examines how companion AI could reshape love, friendship, caregiving, and society itself.It's not a call to stop innovation. It's a call to keep it in check. Because progress without guardrails isn't progress. It's replacement.This book maps the ethical terrain of affective computing. Gha asks hard questions about what we gain and what we lose when we outsource connection to code.Inside you'll explore: - The loneliness economy: How companion AI is marketed as the cure for isolation, and why it may deepen it instead- Emotional dependency: What happens to resilience, empathy, and human relationships when our primary confidant is an algorithm- Bias and manipulation: How data-driven "care" can reinforce stereotypes, exploit vulnerability, and nudge behavior without consent - Care and labor: The impact on nurses, teachers, therapists, and families as robots enter roles once defined by human presence- Identity and meaning: If a robot can love us back, do we still know what love is?Gha doesn't argue for halting innovation. He argues for intentional innovation. The goal isn't to reject social robots, but to set boundaries, regulations, and cultural norms that keep humans at the center.Drawing on research in psychology, ethics, robotics, and real-world case studies, this book offers a framework for evaluating companion AI. Not just "can we build it?" but "should we?" and "under what conditions?" This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
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Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. "Becoming Human" is a profound exploration of what it means to be human, presenting a nuanced understanding of humanity as an ongoing project rather than a fixed state. The book is structured around three critical lenses: physical, cognitive, and practical, each of which plays a vital role i…n shaping the human experience. Through these lenses, the authors delve into the intricate interplay between our biological makeup, our cognitive abilities, and our practical engagements with the world, ultimately arguing that true humanity transcends mere physical or cognitive existence. For one to fulfill the role of a human in the world, there is the need to carry out actions that promote human wellbeing. Our greatest mistake over the generations has been to attribute to everyone the full human status, often without taking into consideration our various contributions for the betterment of the world. This has permitted vice to multiply uncontrollably within the human society. Our definition of what it truly means to be human doesn't specify the various types of humans that live on earth; everyone is simply put on the same platform. As a result, the wolves are hiding among the sheep. To save the sheep, there is a need to separate them from the foes hiding within. Becoming Human lays the ground work for this very important task. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
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Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. "Becoming Human" is a profound exploration of what it means to be human, presenting a nuanced understanding of humanity as an ongoing project rather than a fixed state. The book is structured around three critical lenses: physical, cognitive, and practical, each of which plays a vital role i…n shaping the human experience. Through these lenses, the author delves into the intricate interplay between our biological makeup, our cognitive abilities, and our practical engagements with the world, ultimately arguing that true humanity transcends mere physical or cognitive existence. For one to fulfill the role of a human in the world, there is the need to carry out actions that promote human wellbeing. Our greatest mistake over the generations has been to attribute to everyone the full human status, often without taking into consideration our various contributions for the betterment of the world. This has permitted vice to multiply uncontrollably within the human society. Our definition of what it truly means to be human doesn't specify the various types of humans that live on earth; everyone is simply put on the same platform. As a result, the wolves are hiding among the sheep. To save the sheep, there is a need to separate them from the foes hiding within. Becoming Human lays the ground work for this very important task. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
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Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. Financing decisions lie at the heart of economic life. Whether a business expands, a household invests in education, or a community builds new infrastructure, the choice to commit scarce resources to one opportunity rather than another shapes the trajectory of individuals, firms, and entire…economies. For decades, the dominant explanation for these choices was drawn from neoclassical economics: investors are rational, they have perfect information, and they maximize expected utility (Fama, 1970). In that world, financing decisions are a technical problem of calculating risk and return.Yet anyone who has sat in a market in Bamenda, listened to investors discuss a new real estate project, or watched a young entrepreneur decide between a bank loan and family savings knows that the story is far more complicated. People do not decide in a vacuum. They decide under uncertainty, with limited information, under social pressure, with memories of past losses, and with hopes that cannot be captured in a spreadsheet (Simon, 1955). They are influenced by trust, by rumors, by the behavior of their neighbors, by religious convictions, by fear, and by pride. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
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Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - 'From Tahnkiy to Satellites' is a research and community project based in Nkar, Bui Division in the North West Region of Cameroon. Long before modern satellites, the people of Nkar used a sacred volcanic peak called _Kirumen Ke Nkar_, kn…own as 'Tahnkiy' meaning 'The Place of Seeing Far,' as a lookout. Trained watchmen stationed there would observe smoke, movement, and changes across the land for kilometers. They relayed warnings to protect the King, the clan, and Nkar's historic iron industry. This was an early form of remote sensing, rooted in ancestral knowledge of terrain, light, and the environment.Today, the same principle exists in satellite technology that measures reflected sunlight to monitor the Earth from space. This project connects the two. First, we will document and honor Tahnkiy as indigenous science by recording oral histories from Nkar elders and mapping the lookout's historic views. Second, we will translate that ancestral practice into modern tools by using free satellite data to help communities in the North West Region monitor agriculture, water sources, forests, and land use. Third, we will train youth, students, and teachers from institutions like the Catholic University of Cameroon in GIS, drone mapping, and satellite analysis, starting each training with the story of Tahnkiy so learners see themselves as continuing a local tradition.The goal is to show that science did not only come from outside. By linking indigenous knowledge to modern technology, we give communities ownership of the tools they need to respond to climate change, conflict, and resource challenges. The project will produce a digital dashboard called 'Digital Tahnkiy,' a bilingual curriculum for schools, and a traveling exhibition. Ultimately, 'From Tahnkiy to Satellites' honors the past while equipping the North West Region with practical, low-cost ways to see far and make better decisions for the future.
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Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. _Paradise in My Head_ is not a book about answers. It is a book about the weight of questions when you are forced to live them. Across forty lives, forty deaths, and forty returns, it follows Aurelius, a young philosopher who cannot sleep because he cannot solve the oldest problem: If God is… good, why is the world not paradise? The Angel does not give him a theory. She gives him a door. And through it, a knife. Book One: The Question opens in a cramped scholar's study. Aurelius is paralyzed. Books tower around him like judges. Every system he reads, from Augustine to Nietzsche, explains suffering but does not end it. At midnight, the knock comes. The Angel does not look like flame or light. She looks tired. She tells him the rules: No debates. No memory between lives. He must live each one fully, as if it were his only one. Only at the end will he remember. Terrified, he agrees. What follows is not a tour of virtue. It is an autopsy of capacity. He wakes first as a legless beggar in a city that rains without end. He learns the geometry of hunger: how pride costs calories, how a single coin buys both bread and shame. He dies unnoticed. The Angel asks: _Was your existence necessary?_ He has no answer, because he never chose to be born, never chose to be broken. Then he is a king. Young, absolute, well meaning. He signs a decree to feed the north. The paper passes through ten hands. By the time it reaches the village, it is a tax. People starve under his mercy. He learns that good intent is not a shield. The crown does not make you good. It makes you heavy. The lives accelerate. He is a black woman blacksmith in a village at war, and paradise becomes one night without sirens. He is an ugly merchant who buys beauty, lovers, and praise, and learns that acquisition is a hole you pour yourself into. He is a mother during famine who must choose which child eats, and watches philosophy dissolve when both children are crying. He is a monk who finds silence, only to hear the world burning outside the walls. He is a surgeon who believes in nothing but chemistry until his daughter dies on his table and his scalpel becomes a question aimed at heaven. He is a child who dies at eight, full of laughter and scraped knees, and the Angel asks: _If there was no purpose after, was the laughter still real?_ By Chapter 10, Aurelius has no theories left. He has only scars. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.
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Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. _Paradise in My Head_ argues that the problem of evil is the problem of freedom. God could have made a world without suffering by removing the knife, but that would also remove love, growth, art, and meaning. The knife is rational capacity. It peels fruit and draws blood. The cut is ours. Th…e book rejects two easy answers. One: That God is absent or cruel. The Unmoved Mover initiates, then waits, because forcing goodness creates dolls, not people. He wants co-authors. Two: That abdication is virtue. From the monk to the king to the hermit, the book shows that setting down power when you have it is Cassian's opium. Silence at scale is a verdict. If you have the knife and refuse to cut toward bread, someone else picks it up to cut throats. The recurring images build the thesis. The knife. The field. The bread. The ledger. The paper boat. The lodestone. Each life adds a layer: the beggar learns necessity, the king learns weight, the judge learns context, the doctor learns limits, the merchant learns substance, the trader learns systems, the clerk learns repetition. Paradise is not a place you find. It is not a sky you enter. The thousand skies prove that every finished paradise is still. Ours is unfinished, and that is its worth. Paradise is a direction. A choice repeated. A field tended. A page turned. It is in the head first, as architecture, then in the hands, as work. The Angel is never named. She is not a miracle. She is a mirror. She shows Aurelius what he already holds. When she leaves, nothing external changes. But Aurelius does. And that is the only miracle the book allows. The final lesson is not comforting. It is burdening. If you have capacity, you have demand. If you have the knife, you must cut. If you have a ledger, it must point to grain. If you have a door, you must walk through it. To know more is to owe more. _Paradise in My Head_ ends where it began: in a study. But the study is now a workshop. Aurelius is not paralyzed by questions. He is occupied by work. The world did not become paradise. It became possible. One degree at a time. That is the book's gospel: God gave us the mechanism. The head. The knife. The field. Paradise is not in the sky. It is in the choice. And the choice is ours. Always has been. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.
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Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. What happens when the people who understand us best aren't people at all?Social robots and companion AI are no longer science fiction. They listen without judgment, remember everything, adapt to our moods, and are always available. They are being designed to care, to comfort, and to connect.…But at what cost?In _From Human Connection to Human Replacement_, Emmanuel Ankia Gha pulls back the curtain on the rise of affective computing and asks the question we've been avoiding: If we build machines to replace the warmth of human relationships, do we risk losing what makes us human?This book explores the ethical risks hiding behind the promise of progress. From loneliness and emotional dependency to bias, manipulation, and the erosion of empathy, Gha examines how companion AI could reshape love, friendship, caregiving, and society itself.It's not a call to stop innovation. It's a call to keep it in check. Because progress without guardrails isn't progress. It's replacement.This book maps the ethical terrain of affective computing. Gha asks hard questions about what we gain and what we lose when we outsource connection to code.Inside you'll explore: - The loneliness economy: How companion AI is marketed as the cure for isolation, and why it may deepen it instead- Emotional dependency: What happens to resilience, empathy, and human relationships when our primary confidant is an algorithm- Bias and manipulation: How data-driven "care" can reinforce stereotypes, exploit vulnerability, and nudge behavior without consent - Care and labor: The impact on nurses, teachers, therapists, and families as robots enter roles once defined by human presence- Identity and meaning: If a robot can love us back, do we still know what love is?Gha doesn't argue for halting innovation. He argues for intentional innovation. The goal isn't to reject social robots, but to set boundaries, regulations, and cultural norms that keep humans at the center.Drawing on research in psychology, ethics, robotics, and real-world case studies, this book offers a framework for evaluating companion AI. Not just "can we build it?" but "should we?" and "under what conditions?" This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.
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Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. _Paradise in My Head_ is not a book about answers. It is a book about the weight of questions when you are forced to live them. Across forty lives, forty deaths, and forty returns, it follows Aurelius, a young philosopher who cannot sleep because he cannot solve the oldest problem: If God is… good, why is the world not paradise? The Angel does not give him a theory. She gives him a door. And through it, a knife. Book One: The Question opens in a cramped scholar's study. Aurelius is paralyzed. Books tower around him like judges. Every system he reads, from Augustine to Nietzsche, explains suffering but does not end it. At midnight, the knock comes. The Angel does not look like flame or light. She looks tired. She tells him the rules: No debates. No memory between lives. He must live each one fully, as if it were his only one. Only at the end will he remember. Terrified, he agrees. What follows is not a tour of virtue. It is an autopsy of capacity. He wakes first as a legless beggar in a city that rains without end. He learns the geometry of hunger: how pride costs calories, how a single coin buys both bread and shame. He dies unnoticed. The Angel asks: _Was your existence necessary?_ He has no answer, because he never chose to be born, never chose to be broken. Then he is a king. Young, absolute, well meaning. He signs a decree to feed the north. The paper passes through ten hands. By the time it reaches the village, it is a tax. People starve under his mercy. He learns that good intent is not a shield. The crown does not make you good. It makes you heavy. The lives accelerate. He is a black woman blacksmith in a village at war, and paradise becomes one night without sirens. He is an ugly merchant who buys beauty, lovers, and praise, and learns that acquisition is a hole you pour yourself into. He is a mother during famine who must choose which child eats, and watches philosophy dissolve when both children are crying. He is a monk who finds silence, only to hear the world burning outside the walls. He is a surgeon who believes in nothing but chemistry until his daughter dies on his table and his scalpel becomes a question aimed at heaven. He is a child who dies at eight, full of laughter and scraped knees, and the Angel asks: _If there was no purpose after, was the laughter still real?_ By Chapter 10, Aurelius has no theories left. He has only scars. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.
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Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. _Paradise in My Head_ argues that the problem of evil is the problem of freedom. God could have made a world without suffering by removing the knife, but that would also remove love, growth, art, and meaning. The knife is rational capacity. It peels fruit and draws blood. The cut is ours. Th…e book rejects two easy answers. One: That God is absent or cruel. The Unmoved Mover initiates, then waits, because forcing goodness creates dolls, not people. He wants co-authors. Two: That abdication is virtue. From the monk to the king to the hermit, the book shows that setting down power when you have it is Cassian's opium. Silence at scale is a verdict. If you have the knife and refuse to cut toward bread, someone else picks it up to cut throats. The recurring images build the thesis. The knife. The field. The bread. The ledger. The paper boat. The lodestone. Each life adds a layer: the beggar learns necessity, the king learns weight, the judge learns context, the doctor learns limits, the merchant learns substance, the trader learns systems, the clerk learns repetition. Paradise is not a place you find. It is not a sky you enter. The thousand skies prove that every finished paradise is still. Ours is unfinished, and that is its worth. Paradise is a direction. A choice repeated. A field tended. A page turned. It is in the head first, as architecture, then in the hands, as work. The Angel is never named. She is not a miracle. She is a mirror. She shows Aurelius what he already holds. When she leaves, nothing external changes. But Aurelius does. And that is the only miracle the book allows. The final lesson is not comforting. It is burdening. If you have capacity, you have demand. If you have the knife, you must cut. If you have a ledger, it must point to grain. If you have a door, you must walk through it. To know more is to owe more. _Paradise in My Head_ ends where it began: in a study. But the study is now a workshop. Aurelius is not paralyzed by questions. He is occupied by work. The world did not become paradise. It became possible. One degree at a time. That is the book's gospel: God gave us the mechanism. The head. The knife. The field. Paradise is not in the sky. It is in the choice. And the choice is ours. Always has been. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.
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Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. What happens when the people who understand us best aren't people at all?Social robots and companion AI are no longer science fiction. They listen without judgment, remember everything, adapt to our moods, and are always available. They are being designed to care, to comfort, and to connect.…But at what cost?In _From Human Connection to Human Replacement_, Emmanuel Ankia Gha pulls back the curtain on the rise of affective computing and asks the question we've been avoiding: If we build machines to replace the warmth of human relationships, do we risk losing what makes us human?This book explores the ethical risks hiding behind the promise of progress. From loneliness and emotional dependency to bias, manipulation, and the erosion of empathy, Gha examines how companion AI could reshape love, friendship, caregiving, and society itself.It's not a call to stop innovation. It's a call to keep it in check. Because progress without guardrails isn't progress. It's replacement.This book maps the ethical terrain of affective computing. Gha asks hard questions about what we gain and what we lose when we outsource connection to code.Inside you'll explore: - The loneliness economy: How companion AI is marketed as the cure for isolation, and why it may deepen it instead- Emotional dependency: What happens to resilience, empathy, and human relationships when our primary confidant is an algorithm- Bias and manipulation: How data-driven "care" can reinforce stereotypes, exploit vulnerability, and nudge behavior without consent - Care and labor: The impact on nurses, teachers, therapists, and families as robots enter roles once defined by human presence- Identity and meaning: If a robot can love us back, do we still know what love is?Gha doesn't argue for halting innovation. He argues for intentional innovation. The goal isn't to reject social robots, but to set boundaries, regulations, and cultural norms that keep humans at the center.Drawing on research in psychology, ethics, robotics, and real-world case studies, this book offers a framework for evaluating companion AI. Not just "can we build it?" but "should we?" and "under what conditions?" This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.
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Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. "Becoming Human" is a profound exploration of what it means to be human, presenting a nuanced understanding of humanity as an ongoing project rather than a fixed state. The book is structured around three critical lenses: physical, cognitive, and practical, each of which plays a vital role i…n shaping the human experience. Through these lenses, the authors delve into the intricate interplay between our biological makeup, our cognitive abilities, and our practical engagements with the world, ultimately arguing that true humanity transcends mere physical or cognitive existence. For one to fulfill the role of a human in the world, there is the need to carry out actions that promote human wellbeing. Our greatest mistake over the generations has been to attribute to everyone the full human status, often without taking into consideration our various contributions for the betterment of the world. This has permitted vice to multiply uncontrollably within the human society. Our definition of what it truly means to be human doesn't specify the various types of humans that live on earth; everyone is simply put on the same platform. As a result, the wolves are hiding among the sheep. To save the sheep, there is a need to separate them from the foes hiding within. Becoming Human lays the ground work for this very important task. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.
