James Williams eBooks

Scansatevi dalla luceLibertà e resistenza digitale. E-book. Formato EPUB James Williams   -  Effequ, 2023  - 

Quanto è importante l'attenzione? Per James Williams, prima strategist di Google poi filosofo formatosi a Oxford, la più recente minaccia alla libertà degli uomini viene dai sistemi di persuasione intelligente che sempre di più indirizzano i nostri pensieri e le nostre azioni. Mentre le tecnologie digitali rendevano abbondanti le informazioni, la nostra attenzione è diventata la risorsa che scarseggia e che le tecnologie competono per catturare, senza preoccuparsi di seguire gli obbiettivi che ci prefissiamo e aiutarci a raggiungerli. Abbiamo derubricato i danni che ne derivano come ‘distrazioni’ o piccoli fastidi: ma sono proprio questi, invece, a minare l’integrità della volontà umana a livello individuale e collettivo. Liberare l’attenzione dalle forze della persuasione intelligente può dunque essere il più importante compito morale e politico di questa epoca. Tenendo in equilibrio le nozioni dell’antica Grecia e quelle della Silicon Valley, l’analisi ragionata e appassionata di Williams fa luce su un aspetto cruciale dell’epoca in cui viviamo.

Wills and Intestate Succession: A Manual of Practical Law. E-book. Formato PDF James Williams   -  Forgotten Books, 2017  - 

The justification of the appearance of another volume on the well-worn theme of succession is the belief of the writer that there exists no work which attempts in a small compass to deal at once with the history and principles for which the student looks, and with the practical law essential to the layman, who is pretty sure at some time in his life to be a testator, an executor, or an administrator. Special features are, the notice of Scotch and Irish Law, and - where the subject admits of it - of the Conflict of Laws (the Statuten-Kollision of German jurists), or Private International Law, as some prefer to call it, and a list of the best authorities. The writer trusts that the statement of the law is as accurate as can be expected where limitations of space prevent that complete development of principles by cases which is the object of works of a more technical nature. Cases are seldom cited unless they are of unusual interest or importance. It has not been thought necessary in a book of this character to give a reference to more than one report in which a case occurs.

Seventy-Five Years on the Border. E-book. Formato PDF James Williams   -  Forgotten Books, 2017  - 

I trust my readers will not think me egotistical if I first mention my parentage, also a short sketch of my life work of 70 years at Midway Place, where I now live. My father, Luke Williams, and my mother, Louisa Beatty, were natives of Kentucky and came to Mis souri early in the 19th century. They were married in Cooper County, at Boonville, Mo. They moved to Van Buren County, now Cass County, Mo., to where my first memory goes back — and removed to Midway Place April 3oth, 1842, which I have ever since called my home.