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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware.

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Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'We are all born flightless, every one. After so many thousands of years each of us still drops into the world smooth-skinned and featherless.' Why have we never been content to keep our feet on the ground In the 1960s this desire to get high exploded with the LSD counterculture and the Apollo missions. In this unique and dazzling book, acclaimed author Kester Brewin (MUTINY / AFTER MAGIC) explores the history of the human quest for transcendence, and how, following a family tragedy, it blighted his own life. Drawing on a huge cast of characters from the Montgolfier brothers to Renaissance artists, Hells Angels, astronauts, The Beatles, Gonzo journalists and dreaming hippies, GETTING HIGH is a wild trip into the ancient dream of flight, soaring through shamanic ritual, enlightenment science and punching a hole in what we think the 1960s was all about. Interwoven in all of this is Brewin's own story. Growing up in a mining village in Yorkshire, his father was the local vicar, the man tasked with lifting this subterranean community each Sunday and offer it a vision of the above. But this pressure to open heaven has terrible consequences for the family, and a tragic illness sends each of them flying. Skilfully linking ancient history, the story of the 1960s and his own battles with the yearning to 'get high, ' this is an important and timely book with an urgent message about religion, the promises of technology, and our need to keep our feet on the ground.…

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - 'Hugely accomplished' - Lucy Morris, Curtis Brown'An exceptionally talented writer' - Emma Finn, Conville & Walsh'Brilliantly depicts the emotional knife-edge on which a teacher and her classes rest' - The Literary ConsultancyShe wasn't allowed to bury her mother. Now she must attempt to resurrect her career.It is September of 2020, and a young English teacher must return to in-person teaching to face the child she tore into just as lockdown was hitting. She has spent months in virtual isolation, unable to attend her mother's funeral and wondering how she will find a way back to restoring her reputation. Her answer is Charles Dickens: as this class of children from a West London estate face examinations, she will teach them Great Expectations. Yet nothing will be quite as simple as she hopes.Unflinching, irreverent and ultimately hopeful, Middle Class is a searing insight into the complex theatre of a London comprehensive and a stunning examination of education and social mobility in modern Britain from one of its most exciting new writers.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - 'Beautifully written.a fascinating account of our centuries-old desire to build machines with higher intelligence and - now that we have done - our agony about what to do with them.' - Professor Sir Christopher Pissarides, Nobel Laureate'A must-read for anyone fascinated by the past, present, and future of AI' - ChatGPT'100% zesty. It is not only a powerful telling of humanity's ongoing relationship with technology and a reflection on the current questions surrounding AI, but it is also the most compelling radical theological text I have read.' - Tripp FullerIn the year 1600, a monk is burned at the stake for claiming to have built a device that will allow him to know all things.350 years later, having witnessed 'Trinity' - the first test of the atomic bomb - America's leading scientist outlines a memory machine that will help end war on earth.25 years in the making, an ex-soldier finally unveils this 'machine for augmenting human intellect', dazzling as he stands 'Zeus-like, dealing lightning with both hands'.In this profound and urgent new book, leading thinker on technology Kester Brewin shows how AI is both stunningly new and rooted in the most ancient human desires. Hailed by the UK government's own lead on AI as 'god-like', as we finally welcome this stunning technology amongst us - with Frankenstein and Faustus, from the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel to the underbelly of Silicon Valley - Brewin skillfully leads us through the myths, machines and monsters that have influenced the development of our greatest and most longed-for invention, and how we can learn to live alongside it.Praise for MIDDLE CLASS:'Hugely accomplished' - Lucy Morris, Curtis Brown'An exceptionally talented writer' - Emma Finn, Conville and WalshPraise for GETTING HIGH:'Fascinating.revelatory' - Andrew Smith, author of MOONDUST and TOTALLY WIRED.'Beautiful' - Professor Simon Critchley, author of BOWIE and INFINITELY DEMANDING'Honest, absorbing, clear-eyed and compelling' - Erik Davis, author of TECHGNOSIS and NOMAD CODESPraise for MUTINY:'Startlingly original, subtle and substantive, written in a prose that is as lyrical as it is lucid' - Third Way Magazine'Brilliantly riffs and mashes across literary genres' - Simon Nash'A stimulating, entertaining, and ultimately profound meditation on what pirates can teach us about living in the real world' - Dr Gladys Ganiel.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - 'We are all born flightless, every one. After so many thousands of years each of us still drops into the world smooth-skinned and featherless.'Why have we never been content to keep our feet on the ground In the 1960s this desire to get high exploded with the LSD counterculture and the Apollo missions. In this unique and dazzling book, acclaimed author Kester Brewin (MUTINY / AFTER MAGIC) explores the history of the human quest for transcendence, and how, following a family tragedy, it blighted his own life.Drawing on a huge cast of characters from the Montgolfier brothers to Renaissance artists, Hells Angels, astronauts, The Beatles, Gonzo journalists and dreaming hippies, GETTING HIGH is a wild trip into the ancient dream of flight, soaring through shamanic ritual, enlightenment science and punching a hole in what we think the 1960s was all about.Interwoven in all of this is Brewin's own story. Growing up in a mining village in Yorkshire, his father was the local vicar, the man tasked with lifting this subterranean community each Sunday and offer it a vision of the above. But this pressure to open heaven has terrible consequences for the family, and a tragic illness sends each of them flying. Skilfully linking ancient history, the story of the 1960s and his own battles with the yearning to 'get high,' this is an important and timely book with an urgent message about religion, the promises of technology, and our need to keep our feet on the ground.…

Zustand: New. Dieser Artikel ist ein Print on Demand Artikel und wird nach Ihrer Bestellung fuer Sie gedruckt. &Uumlber den AutorA mathematics teacher working in South East London, Kester Brewin has also become one of the leading thinkers on the philosophy of religion and technology. The power of his work lies in the synthesis of ideas from disp.…

Zustand: New. Dieser Artikel ist ein Print on Demand Artikel und wird nach Ihrer Bestellung fuer Sie gedruckt. &Uumlber den AutorrnrnBorn into a Yorkshire vicarage, Kester Brewin has taught mathematics in South East London schools for over twenty years and writes regularly for the national education press. The author of a number of celebrated books of n.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. God-like | Kester Brewin | Taschenbuch | Englisch | 2024 | Vaux Publishing | EAN 9780993562877 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr[at]libri[dot]de | Anbieter: preigu Print on Demand.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Getting High | A Savage Journey to the Heart of the Dream of Flight | Kester F Brewin | Taschenbuch | Kartoniert / Broschiert | Englisch | 2016 | Vaux Publishing | EAN 9780993562815 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr[at]libri[dot]de | Anbieter: preigu Print on Demand. …

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Middle Class | Kester Brewin | Taschenbuch | Kartoniert / Broschiert | Englisch | 2022 | Vaux Publishing | EAN 9780993562853 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr[at]libri[dot]de | Anbieter: preigu Print on Demand.