Virtual Virgin
Title | Virtual Virgin PDF eBook |
Author | Carole Nelson Douglas |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Pages | 388 |
Release | 2011-11-29 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1439167796 |
"For a red-blooded male, Las Vegas offers a virtual smorgasbord of temptation: sexy showgirls, vampy vampires, zombie starlets, you name it. But paranormal investigator Delilah Street isn't worried about losing her man to these vixens. Especially when the one woman with a soft spot for the guy also has a hard-shelled exterior ..."--Page 4 of cover.
Virgin's Handbook on Virtual Relationships
Title | Virgin's Handbook on Virtual Relationships PDF eBook |
Author | Pamala Clift |
Publisher | Pamala Clift |
Pages | 264 |
Release | 2012-04-21 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781463666996 |
Male/Female relationships are even MORE complicated online. So this book sets out to unravel some of the confusion of seeking intimacy virtually. --from back book cover.
The Age of Spiritual Machines
Title | The Age of Spiritual Machines PDF eBook |
Author | Ray Kurzweil |
Publisher | Penguin |
Pages | 404 |
Release | 2000-01-01 |
Genre | Computers |
ISBN | 9780140282023 |
The inventor of the most innovative and compelling technology of our era, an international authority on artificial intelligence, and bestselling author of The Singularity is Nearer now offers a framework for envisioning the twenty-first century in The Age of Spiritual Machines--an age in which the marriage of human sensitivity and artificial intelligence fundamentally alters and improves the way we live. Kurzweil's prophetic blueprint for the future takes us through the advances that inexorably result in computers exceeding the memory capacity and computational ability of the human brain by the year 2020 (with human-level capabilities not far behind); in relationships with automated personalities who will be our teachers, companions, and lovers; and in information fed straight into our brains along direct neural pathways. Optimistic and challenging, thought-provoking and engaging, The Age of Spiritual Machines is the ultimate guide on our road into the next century.
Virgin Capital
Title | Virgin Capital PDF eBook |
Author | Tami Navarro |
Publisher | State University of New York Press |
Pages | 305 |
Release | 2021-11-01 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1438486049 |
Virgin Capital examines the cultural impact and historical significance of the Economic Development Commission (EDC) in the United States Virgin Islands. A tax holiday program, the EDC encourages financial services companies to relocate to these American-owned islands in exchange for an exemption from 90% of income taxes, and to stimulate the economy by hiring local workers and donating to local charitable causes. As a result of this program, the largest and poorest of these islands—St. Croix—has played host to primarily US financial firms and their white managers, leading to reinvigorated anxieties around the costs of racial capitalism and a feared return to the racial and gender order that ruled the islands during slavery. Drawing on fieldwork conducted during the boom years leading up to the 2008–2009 financial crisis, Virgin Capital provides ethnographic insight into the continuing relations of coloniality at work in the quintessentially "modern" industry of financial services and neoliberal "development" regimes, with their grounding in hierarchies of race, gender, class, and geopolitical positioning.
Augmented and Virtual Reality in the Metaverse
Title | Augmented and Virtual Reality in the Metaverse PDF eBook |
Author | Vladimir Geroimenko |
Publisher | Springer Nature |
Pages | 347 |
Release | |
Genre | |
ISBN | 3031577469 |
Library of Congress Subject Headings
Title | Library of Congress Subject Headings PDF eBook |
Author | Library of Congress |
Publisher | |
Pages | 1644 |
Release | 1997 |
Genre | Subject headings, Library of Congress |
ISBN |
Library of Congress Subject Headings
Title | Library of Congress Subject Headings PDF eBook |
Author | Library of Congress. Cataloging Policy and Support Office |
Publisher | |
Pages | 1662 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | Subject headings, Library of Congress |
ISBN |