Author: Harry Parker
Publisher: Profile Books
ISBN: 1782835830
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
*SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2022 BARBELLION PRIZE* As heard on BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week As seen on Sky Arts Book Club with Elizabeth Day and Andi Oliver An eye-opening account of disability, identity, and how robotics and AI are altering our understanding of what it means to be human - from the bestselling author of Anatomy of a Soldier Harry Parker's life changed overnight, when he lost his legs to an IED in Afghanistan. That took him into an often surprising landscape of a very human kind of hacking, and he wondered, are all humans becoming hybrids? Parker introduces us to the exhilarating breadth of human invention - and intervention. Grappling with his own new identity and disability, he discovers the latest robotics, tech and implants that might lead us to powerful, liberating possibilities for what a body can be. 'I loved Hybrid Humans. A way of looking at the future without nostalgia for the past' - Jeanette Winterson
Hybrid Humans
Author: Harry Parker
Publisher: Profile Books
ISBN: 1782835830
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
*SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2022 BARBELLION PRIZE* As heard on BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week As seen on Sky Arts Book Club with Elizabeth Day and Andi Oliver An eye-opening account of disability, identity, and how robotics and AI are altering our understanding of what it means to be human - from the bestselling author of Anatomy of a Soldier Harry Parker's life changed overnight, when he lost his legs to an IED in Afghanistan. That took him into an often surprising landscape of a very human kind of hacking, and he wondered, are all humans becoming hybrids? Parker introduces us to the exhilarating breadth of human invention - and intervention. Grappling with his own new identity and disability, he discovers the latest robotics, tech and implants that might lead us to powerful, liberating possibilities for what a body can be. 'I loved Hybrid Humans. A way of looking at the future without nostalgia for the past' - Jeanette Winterson
Publisher: Profile Books
ISBN: 1782835830
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
*SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2022 BARBELLION PRIZE* As heard on BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week As seen on Sky Arts Book Club with Elizabeth Day and Andi Oliver An eye-opening account of disability, identity, and how robotics and AI are altering our understanding of what it means to be human - from the bestselling author of Anatomy of a Soldier Harry Parker's life changed overnight, when he lost his legs to an IED in Afghanistan. That took him into an often surprising landscape of a very human kind of hacking, and he wondered, are all humans becoming hybrids? Parker introduces us to the exhilarating breadth of human invention - and intervention. Grappling with his own new identity and disability, he discovers the latest robotics, tech and implants that might lead us to powerful, liberating possibilities for what a body can be. 'I loved Hybrid Humans. A way of looking at the future without nostalgia for the past' - Jeanette Winterson
Hybrid Humans: Scientific Evidence of Our 800,000-Year-Old Alien Legacy
Author: Bruce R. Fenton
Publisher: Independently Published
ISBN: 9781980846604
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 170
Book Description
The world's most intriguing question is, did an advanced alien intelligence genetically engineer the first humans? Hybrid Humans confirms that Homo sapiens are indeed an alien-hybrid species established by a wealth of supporting scientific evidence. Already an Amazon Bestseller in UFOs, Hybrid Humans follows in the tradition of trail breaking ancient astronaut books by Lloyd Pye, Erik Von Daniken and Zacharia Sitchin. Fans of History Channel's Ancient Aliens will love this book!The extraterrestrial colonists came in peace from the Pleiades, only for most to die a fiery death in orbit around Earth. A long-forgotten series of prehistoric events, now retrieved, reveals the true evolutionary origins of humans. How this information has returned to us is itself a mind-blowing story.In 1995, Valerie Barrow (an Australian psychic medium) found herself temporary custodian of an ancient artefact, long-protected by Aboriginal elders. Unknown to her the mysterious 'stone' was, in fact, an incredible extraterrestrial data storage device with an onboard consciousness. The resident alien intelligence introduced itself as Alcheringa and began to download information directly into Valerie's mind. The historical events Alcheringa revealed are about to change our understanding of human origins and humanity's place in the universe, forever.Hybrid Humans does ask readers to believe anything - every claim validated by objective physical evidence. Guided by Alcheringa, Daniella Fenton successfully tracked down the surviving crystalline wreckage from the enormous flying saucer and identified specific anomalies in human DNA, fingerprints of highly advanced extraterrestrial genetic engineers. Get ready for ETI contact, alien disclosure and revelation of our alien-human hybrid origins - all in one astonishing book!
Publisher: Independently Published
ISBN: 9781980846604
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 170
Book Description
The world's most intriguing question is, did an advanced alien intelligence genetically engineer the first humans? Hybrid Humans confirms that Homo sapiens are indeed an alien-hybrid species established by a wealth of supporting scientific evidence. Already an Amazon Bestseller in UFOs, Hybrid Humans follows in the tradition of trail breaking ancient astronaut books by Lloyd Pye, Erik Von Daniken and Zacharia Sitchin. Fans of History Channel's Ancient Aliens will love this book!The extraterrestrial colonists came in peace from the Pleiades, only for most to die a fiery death in orbit around Earth. A long-forgotten series of prehistoric events, now retrieved, reveals the true evolutionary origins of humans. How this information has returned to us is itself a mind-blowing story.In 1995, Valerie Barrow (an Australian psychic medium) found herself temporary custodian of an ancient artefact, long-protected by Aboriginal elders. Unknown to her the mysterious 'stone' was, in fact, an incredible extraterrestrial data storage device with an onboard consciousness. The resident alien intelligence introduced itself as Alcheringa and began to download information directly into Valerie's mind. The historical events Alcheringa revealed are about to change our understanding of human origins and humanity's place in the universe, forever.Hybrid Humans does ask readers to believe anything - every claim validated by objective physical evidence. Guided by Alcheringa, Daniella Fenton successfully tracked down the surviving crystalline wreckage from the enormous flying saucer and identified specific anomalies in human DNA, fingerprints of highly advanced extraterrestrial genetic engineers. Get ready for ETI contact, alien disclosure and revelation of our alien-human hybrid origins - all in one astonishing book!
Human + Machine
Author: Paul R. Daugherty
Publisher: Harvard Business Press
ISBN: 1633693872
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
AI is radically transforming business. Are you ready? Look around you. Artificial intelligence is no longer just a futuristic notion. It's here right now--in software that senses what we need, supply chains that "think" in real time, and robots that respond to changes in their environment. Twenty-first-century pioneer companies are already using AI to innovate and grow fast. The bottom line is this: Businesses that understand how to harness AI can surge ahead. Those that neglect it will fall behind. Which side are you on? In Human + Machine, Accenture leaders Paul R. Daugherty and H. James (Jim) Wilson show that the essence of the AI paradigm shift is the transformation of all business processes within an organization--whether related to breakthrough innovation, everyday customer service, or personal productivity habits. As humans and smart machines collaborate ever more closely, work processes become more fluid and adaptive, enabling companies to change them on the fly--or to completely reimagine them. AI is changing all the rules of how companies operate. Based on the authors' experience and research with 1,500 organizations, the book reveals how companies are using the new rules of AI to leap ahead on innovation and profitability, as well as what you can do to achieve similar results. It describes six entirely new types of hybrid human + machine roles that every company must develop, and it includes a "leader’s guide" with the five crucial principles required to become an AI-fueled business. Human + Machine provides the missing and much-needed management playbook for success in our new age of AI. BOOK PROCEEDS FOR THE AI GENERATION The authors' goal in publishing Human + Machine is to help executives, workers, students and others navigate the changes that AI is making to business and the economy. They believe AI will bring innovations that truly improve the way the world works and lives. However, AI will cause disruption, and many people will need education, training and support to prepare for the newly created jobs. To support this need, the authors are donating the royalties received from the sale of this book to fund education and retraining programs focused on developing fusion skills for the age of artificial intelligence.
Publisher: Harvard Business Press
ISBN: 1633693872
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
AI is radically transforming business. Are you ready? Look around you. Artificial intelligence is no longer just a futuristic notion. It's here right now--in software that senses what we need, supply chains that "think" in real time, and robots that respond to changes in their environment. Twenty-first-century pioneer companies are already using AI to innovate and grow fast. The bottom line is this: Businesses that understand how to harness AI can surge ahead. Those that neglect it will fall behind. Which side are you on? In Human + Machine, Accenture leaders Paul R. Daugherty and H. James (Jim) Wilson show that the essence of the AI paradigm shift is the transformation of all business processes within an organization--whether related to breakthrough innovation, everyday customer service, or personal productivity habits. As humans and smart machines collaborate ever more closely, work processes become more fluid and adaptive, enabling companies to change them on the fly--or to completely reimagine them. AI is changing all the rules of how companies operate. Based on the authors' experience and research with 1,500 organizations, the book reveals how companies are using the new rules of AI to leap ahead on innovation and profitability, as well as what you can do to achieve similar results. It describes six entirely new types of hybrid human + machine roles that every company must develop, and it includes a "leader’s guide" with the five crucial principles required to become an AI-fueled business. Human + Machine provides the missing and much-needed management playbook for success in our new age of AI. BOOK PROCEEDS FOR THE AI GENERATION The authors' goal in publishing Human + Machine is to help executives, workers, students and others navigate the changes that AI is making to business and the economy. They believe AI will bring innovations that truly improve the way the world works and lives. However, AI will cause disruption, and many people will need education, training and support to prepare for the newly created jobs. To support this need, the authors are donating the royalties received from the sale of this book to fund education and retraining programs focused on developing fusion skills for the age of artificial intelligence.
Denisovan Origins
Author: Andrew Collins
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1591432642
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 656
Book Description
Reveals the profound influence of the Denisovans and their hybrid descendants upon the flowering of human civilization around the world • Traces the migrations of the sophisticated Denisovans and their interbreeding with Neanderthals and early human populations more than 40,000 years ago • Shows how Denisovan hybrids became the elite of ancient societies, including the Adena mound-building culture • Explores the Denisovans’ extraordinary advances, including precision-machined stone tools and jewelry, tailored clothing, and celestially-aligned architecture Ice-age cave artists, the builders at Göbekli Tepe, and the mound-builders of North America all share a common ancestry in the Solutreans, Neanderthal-human hybrids of immense sophistication, who dominated southwest Europe before reaching North America 20,000 years ago. Yet, even before the Solutreans, the American continent was home to a powerful population of enormous stature, giants remembered in Native American legend as the Thunder People. New research shows they were hybrid descendants of an extinct human group known as the Denisovans, whose existence has now been confirmed from fossil remains found in a cave in the Altai region of Siberia. Tracing the migrations of the Denisovans and their interbreeding with Neanderthals and early human populations in Asia, Europe, Australia, and the Americas, Andrew Collins and Greg Little explore how the new mental capabilities of the Denisovan-Neanderthal and Denisovan-human hybrids greatly accelerated the flowering of human civilization over 40,000 years ago. They show how the Denisovans displayed sophisticated advances, including precision-machined stone tools and jewelry, tailored clothing, celestially-aligned architecture, and horse domestication. Examining evidence from ancient America, the authors reveal how Denisovan hybrids became the elite of the Adena mound-building culture, explaining the giant skeletons found in Native American burial mounds. The authors also explore how the Denisovans’ descendants were the creators of a cosmological death journey and viewed the Milky Way as the Path of Souls. Revealing the impact of the Denisovans upon every part of the world, the authors show that, without early man’s hybridization with Denisovans, Neanderthals, and other yet-to-be-discovered hominid populations, the modern world as we know it would not exist.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1591432642
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 656
Book Description
Reveals the profound influence of the Denisovans and their hybrid descendants upon the flowering of human civilization around the world • Traces the migrations of the sophisticated Denisovans and their interbreeding with Neanderthals and early human populations more than 40,000 years ago • Shows how Denisovan hybrids became the elite of ancient societies, including the Adena mound-building culture • Explores the Denisovans’ extraordinary advances, including precision-machined stone tools and jewelry, tailored clothing, and celestially-aligned architecture Ice-age cave artists, the builders at Göbekli Tepe, and the mound-builders of North America all share a common ancestry in the Solutreans, Neanderthal-human hybrids of immense sophistication, who dominated southwest Europe before reaching North America 20,000 years ago. Yet, even before the Solutreans, the American continent was home to a powerful population of enormous stature, giants remembered in Native American legend as the Thunder People. New research shows they were hybrid descendants of an extinct human group known as the Denisovans, whose existence has now been confirmed from fossil remains found in a cave in the Altai region of Siberia. Tracing the migrations of the Denisovans and their interbreeding with Neanderthals and early human populations in Asia, Europe, Australia, and the Americas, Andrew Collins and Greg Little explore how the new mental capabilities of the Denisovan-Neanderthal and Denisovan-human hybrids greatly accelerated the flowering of human civilization over 40,000 years ago. They show how the Denisovans displayed sophisticated advances, including precision-machined stone tools and jewelry, tailored clothing, celestially-aligned architecture, and horse domestication. Examining evidence from ancient America, the authors reveal how Denisovan hybrids became the elite of the Adena mound-building culture, explaining the giant skeletons found in Native American burial mounds. The authors also explore how the Denisovans’ descendants were the creators of a cosmological death journey and viewed the Milky Way as the Path of Souls. Revealing the impact of the Denisovans upon every part of the world, the authors show that, without early man’s hybridization with Denisovans, Neanderthals, and other yet-to-be-discovered hominid populations, the modern world as we know it would not exist.
Hybrid
Author: Noel Kingsbury
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226437132
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 510
Book Description
"Noel Kingsbury reveals that even those imaginary perfect foods are themselves far from anything that could properly be called natural, rather, they represent the end of a millennia-long history of selective breeding and hybridization. Starting his story at the birth of agriculture, Kingsbury traces the history of human attempts to make plants more reliable, productive, and nutritiousa story that owes as much to accident and error as to innovation and experiment. Drawing on historical and scientific accounts, as well as a rich trove of anecdotes, Kingsbury shows how scientists, amateur breeders, and countless anonymous farmers and gardeners slowly caused the evolutionary pressures of nature to be supplanted by those of human needs and thus led us from sparse wild grasses to succulent corn cobs, and from mealy, white wild carrots to the juicy vegetables we enjoy today. At the same time, Kingsbury reminds us that contemporary controversies over the Green Revolution and genetically modified crops are not new, plant breeding has always had a political dimension."--Publisher's description.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226437132
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 510
Book Description
"Noel Kingsbury reveals that even those imaginary perfect foods are themselves far from anything that could properly be called natural, rather, they represent the end of a millennia-long history of selective breeding and hybridization. Starting his story at the birth of agriculture, Kingsbury traces the history of human attempts to make plants more reliable, productive, and nutritiousa story that owes as much to accident and error as to innovation and experiment. Drawing on historical and scientific accounts, as well as a rich trove of anecdotes, Kingsbury shows how scientists, amateur breeders, and countless anonymous farmers and gardeners slowly caused the evolutionary pressures of nature to be supplanted by those of human needs and thus led us from sparse wild grasses to succulent corn cobs, and from mealy, white wild carrots to the juicy vegetables we enjoy today. At the same time, Kingsbury reminds us that contemporary controversies over the Green Revolution and genetically modified crops are not new, plant breeding has always had a political dimension."--Publisher's description.
Humans, Gods, and Hybrids
Author: Mark Marinaccio
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780578764955
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Being the son of an ambassador is never easy but being from a race of alien-human hybrids, known as Travelers, makes life for Kellan and his girlfriend, Tendra, even more difficult. All they want is to be like everyone else on Earth, but when they come face to face with a group of anti-Trav humans, their lives are changed forever.Agent Kate Pierce's job as a member of the newly-formed Reattachment and Protection Agency is to keep children safe - specifically human-alien hybrid children. When terrorists threaten Kate's ability to protect Sabrina, a Traveler child, Kate draws on strengths that she never knew she had, becoming entangled with the aliens, her own government, and a conspiracy that turns her world upside down.Alien-human hybrids who have no memory of their past are headed to Earth!Children with mysterious superpowers are being abducted! Deep seeded Government secrets threaten the stability of the planet and?A desperate federal agent searches for the daughter that she never knew she had!The first book in the HUMANS, GODS, and HYBRIDS series challenges everything you thought you knew about first contact with an alien race.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780578764955
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Being the son of an ambassador is never easy but being from a race of alien-human hybrids, known as Travelers, makes life for Kellan and his girlfriend, Tendra, even more difficult. All they want is to be like everyone else on Earth, but when they come face to face with a group of anti-Trav humans, their lives are changed forever.Agent Kate Pierce's job as a member of the newly-formed Reattachment and Protection Agency is to keep children safe - specifically human-alien hybrid children. When terrorists threaten Kate's ability to protect Sabrina, a Traveler child, Kate draws on strengths that she never knew she had, becoming entangled with the aliens, her own government, and a conspiracy that turns her world upside down.Alien-human hybrids who have no memory of their past are headed to Earth!Children with mysterious superpowers are being abducted! Deep seeded Government secrets threaten the stability of the planet and?A desperate federal agent searches for the daughter that she never knew she had!The first book in the HUMANS, GODS, and HYBRIDS series challenges everything you thought you knew about first contact with an alien race.
Exogenesis: Hybrid Humans
Author: Bruce R. Fenton
Publisher: New Page Books
ISBN: 1632651742
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
"Exogenesis is the hypothesis that life originated elsewhere in the universe and was spread to Earth. This book explores the scientific evidence that supports the popular belief that the Earth was visited in prehistory, but it goes even further-concluding that there is also compelling evidence of alien involvement with the human genome. The broader history of possible extraterrestrial contact is explored, alongside a look at current events on the subject of alien disclosure, showing evidence of contact that has continued since the dawn of humanity"--
Publisher: New Page Books
ISBN: 1632651742
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
"Exogenesis is the hypothesis that life originated elsewhere in the universe and was spread to Earth. This book explores the scientific evidence that supports the popular belief that the Earth was visited in prehistory, but it goes even further-concluding that there is also compelling evidence of alien involvement with the human genome. The broader history of possible extraterrestrial contact is explored, alongside a look at current events on the subject of alien disclosure, showing evidence of contact that has continued since the dawn of humanity"--
Two Human Species Exist
Author: Bruce Eldine Morton
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780983341710
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Two human species have long existed, unrecognized in front of our very eyes. They are Homo sapiens patripolaris and Homo sapiens matripolaris. Their reproductive differences remain unnoticed. Yet, because they are two different species, when they cross-breed, their hybrid offspring are cross-wired to produce Dyslexics, Homosexuals, Pedophiles, and Schizophrenics. This book contains published questionnaires that enable you to find your hemisity, your familial polarity, learn to which species you belong, and what type of "normal" or hybrid you are. Unrecognized, life-affecting differences in courtship and child rearing exist between the two species. This is the topic of Familial Polarity whose ancient existence and influence upon history you can confirm for yourself. Ignorance of familial polarity is a major source of multiple levels of global conflict.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780983341710
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Two human species have long existed, unrecognized in front of our very eyes. They are Homo sapiens patripolaris and Homo sapiens matripolaris. Their reproductive differences remain unnoticed. Yet, because they are two different species, when they cross-breed, their hybrid offspring are cross-wired to produce Dyslexics, Homosexuals, Pedophiles, and Schizophrenics. This book contains published questionnaires that enable you to find your hemisity, your familial polarity, learn to which species you belong, and what type of "normal" or hybrid you are. Unrecognized, life-affecting differences in courtship and child rearing exist between the two species. This is the topic of Familial Polarity whose ancient existence and influence upon history you can confirm for yourself. Ignorance of familial polarity is a major source of multiple levels of global conflict.
Hybrid Humans: Driven by money and love
Author: Vipin Malhotra
Publisher: Clever Fox Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
The rudderless path on which the world is hurtling today is a result of our misplaced priorities, largely due to infinite human greed. Industrial revolution has unleashed upon the common man a maddening desire to earn more and more to become more and more powerful. In this blind race, we have forgotten that humans are not even a speck in the gigantic universe and if the nature chooses to move forward without us, there is nothing much that we would be able to do. So, there is an urgent need for us to align with nature and not the other way round. The author introduces the yet unexplored concept of 'love cycle' in nature to show how love can bring back humanity and happiness in our highly stressful and mechanized lives, and in the process also save us all from the apocalypse in the making. Those who adopt this lifestyle are driven by money as well as love and will be rightly called Hybrid Humans, contributing in their own small way in Mission LiFE of PM Modi.
Publisher: Clever Fox Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
The rudderless path on which the world is hurtling today is a result of our misplaced priorities, largely due to infinite human greed. Industrial revolution has unleashed upon the common man a maddening desire to earn more and more to become more and more powerful. In this blind race, we have forgotten that humans are not even a speck in the gigantic universe and if the nature chooses to move forward without us, there is nothing much that we would be able to do. So, there is an urgent need for us to align with nature and not the other way round. The author introduces the yet unexplored concept of 'love cycle' in nature to show how love can bring back humanity and happiness in our highly stressful and mechanized lives, and in the process also save us all from the apocalypse in the making. Those who adopt this lifestyle are driven by money as well as love and will be rightly called Hybrid Humans, contributing in their own small way in Mission LiFE of PM Modi.
Anatomy of a Soldier
Author: Harry Parker
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 1101946644
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
Anatomy of a Soldier is a stunning first novel—of patriotism, heroism, and profound humanism—that will immediately take its place on the shelf of classics about what it truly means to be at war. Let’s imagine a man called Captain Tom Barnes, aka BA5799, who’s leading British troops in the war zone. And two boys growing up together there, sharing a prized bicycle and flying kites before finding themselves estranged once foreign soldiers appear in their countryside. And then there’s the man who trains one of them to fight against the other’s father and all these infidel invaders. Then imagine the family and friends who radiate out from these lives, people on all sides of this conflict where virtually everyone is caught up in the middle of something unthinkable. But then regard them not as they see themselves but as all the objects surrounding them do: shoes and boots, a helmet, a bag of fertilizer, a medal, a beer glass, a snowflake, dog tags, and a horrific improvised explosive device that binds them all together by blowing one of them apart—forty-five different narrators in all, including the multiple medical implements subsequently required to keep Captain Barnes alive. The result is a novel that reveals not only an author with a striking literary talent and intelligence but also the lives of people—whether husband or wife, father or mother, son or daughter—who are part of this same heart-stopping journey. A work of extraordinary humanity and hope, created out of something hopeless and dehumanizing, it makes art out of pain and suffering and takes its place in a long and rich line of novels that articulate the lives that soldiers lead. In the boom of an instant, and in decades of very different lives and experiences, we see things we’ve never understood so clearly before.
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 1101946644
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
Anatomy of a Soldier is a stunning first novel—of patriotism, heroism, and profound humanism—that will immediately take its place on the shelf of classics about what it truly means to be at war. Let’s imagine a man called Captain Tom Barnes, aka BA5799, who’s leading British troops in the war zone. And two boys growing up together there, sharing a prized bicycle and flying kites before finding themselves estranged once foreign soldiers appear in their countryside. And then there’s the man who trains one of them to fight against the other’s father and all these infidel invaders. Then imagine the family and friends who radiate out from these lives, people on all sides of this conflict where virtually everyone is caught up in the middle of something unthinkable. But then regard them not as they see themselves but as all the objects surrounding them do: shoes and boots, a helmet, a bag of fertilizer, a medal, a beer glass, a snowflake, dog tags, and a horrific improvised explosive device that binds them all together by blowing one of them apart—forty-five different narrators in all, including the multiple medical implements subsequently required to keep Captain Barnes alive. The result is a novel that reveals not only an author with a striking literary talent and intelligence but also the lives of people—whether husband or wife, father or mother, son or daughter—who are part of this same heart-stopping journey. A work of extraordinary humanity and hope, created out of something hopeless and dehumanizing, it makes art out of pain and suffering and takes its place in a long and rich line of novels that articulate the lives that soldiers lead. In the boom of an instant, and in decades of very different lives and experiences, we see things we’ve never understood so clearly before.