Anthropology

AIs are everywhere and they're changing the world. In this book, you'll learn the fundamentals of AI, some of the exciting ways we're using them today, and the kinds of things to expect and look out for in the future. And the book doesn't shy away from the hard and sometimes controversial questions; such as whether AIs will try to kill us and what a war with AI may look like.

Vom Urknall über die Entstehung der Materie, des Leben, des Menschen und seiner Kultur bis zum heutigen High-Tech Menschen. Ein gewaltiger Bogen! Ich spanne ihn hier. Doch 2x Vorsicht! Für Laien: Das Buch kann Spuren von komplexen Zusammenhängen beinhalten. Für Fachleute: Das Buch kann Spuren von Vereinfachungen beinhalten. Viel Spaß damit!

Fire-resistant grass plants are botanical species that possess inherent qualities and adaptive features which enable them to withstand the threat of wildfires and reduce their susceptibility to ignition.

The book is mostly about ongoing lynchings in modern Kenya—their ethnography (they are, among other things, savage), their history (they mushroomed ca. 1991 to continuing high numbers), their documentation (by means of the linked Kenya Lynchings Database), USDOS country reports on human rights practices as a poor source of statistics on them (shame on us Americans). The last addendum includes summaries of some December 2025-February 2026 lynchings-related articles that see brought to 3,568 the number of lynched persons reported about at least minimally by KLD materials. What may shock most readers, hopefully into constructive action, is how much worse a problem with lynchings at least several African countries have, numerically speaking, than the US has had for its entire recorded lynchings history—e.g., 508 for Kenya for 1993, 543 for 2011, 579 or close to it for 2025; 2,124 for South Africa for FY 2022/23; 11,140 for Uganda for just twenty of the years 2001-2024; 16,962 for Tanzania for 1996-2015.

The first English-language anthropological monograph on any of Central Africa's Mangbetu. Meegye-Mangbetu death compensations as intergroup rites of passage, perpetual alliance thereby possible among structurally-hostile groups. A scholarly-popular dissertation revision with fun asides, over 320 photos. Foreword by Mangbetu scholar Stefano Allovio.