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Book Synopsis The cicada and the bird by : Christopher Tricker
Download or read book The cicada and the bird written by Christopher Tricker and published by Christopher Tricker. This book was released on 2022-11-07 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chuang Tzu uses grand metaphors and charming parables to help us to stop identifying with this and that thing, and to instead identify with our horizon-spanning field of consciousness and our embodied sense of spirit or energy. This frees us to be present with, and to playfully engage with, whatever things happen to appear before us. His remarkable book, written in Ancient China sometime around 300 BC, has lain hidden for millennia in a sprawling morass misleadingly known as the Chuang Tzu. Now, at last, it has been excavated. Here for the first time in over two thousand years is Chuang Tzu’s actual book: crisp and poetic, structured and elegant. A philosophical and literary work of art.
Book Synopsis The Galaxy by : William Conant Church
Download or read book The Galaxy written by William Conant Church and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 904 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Zen Buddhist Philosophy of D. T. Suzuki by : Rossa Ó Muireartaigh
Download or read book The Zen Buddhist Philosophy of D. T. Suzuki written by Rossa Ó Muireartaigh and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2022-03-24 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: D.T. Suzuki (1870-1966) reached global fame for his writings on Zen Buddhism. In this introduction to his theories of self, knowledge, and the world, Suzuki is presented as a Buddhist philosopher in his own right. Beginning with a biography of his life providing the historical context to his thought and discussing Suzuki's influences, chapters cover the Zen notion of the non-self and Suzuki's Zen view of consciousness, language, and religious truths. His ideas about philosophy and radical views on rationality and faith come to life in two new complete translations of The Place of Peace in our Heart (1894) and Religion and Science (1949), which helps us to understand why Suzuki's description of Zen attracted the attention of many leading intellectuals and helped it become a household name in the English-speaking world. Offering the first complete overview of Suzuki's approach, reputation, and legacy as a philosopher, this is for anyone interested in the philosophical relevance and development of Mahayana Buddhism today.
Download or read book The Galaxy written by Mark Twain and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 936 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Revolt of the Galaxy by : E.E. 'Doc' Smith
Download or read book Revolt of the Galaxy written by E.E. 'Doc' Smith and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2012-11-30 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: GALACTIC THREAT The awesome forces of the Empire of Earth have destroyed most of the evil conspiracy's fleet, including the ship bearing the ice-blooded Lady A, when the Family d'Alembert uncover a plot on the planet Newforest, proving that the conspiracy commanded by the mysterious C is even more widespread than they have dreamed. For Yvette suddenly realises who - or what - C actually is, and she knows the terrifying true meaning of Lady A's boast that the conspiracy is the Empire! Revolt of the Galaxy is the tenth and final exciting novel in the enthralling space adventure series whose heroes and heroines are the intrepid Family dAlembert.
Download or read book The Old Lie written by Claire G. Coleman and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2019-08-27 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Set in an intergalactic war, this powerful story is told from multiple viewpoints and delivers an emotionally wrenching impact.' - Sally Morgan, author of the bestselling Australian classic MY PLACE Shane Daniels and Romany Zetz have been drawn into a war that is not their own. Lives will be destroyed, families will be torn apart. Trust will be broken. When the war is over, some will return to a changed world. Will they discover that glory is a lie? Claire G. Coleman's new novel takes us to a familiar world to ask what we have learned from the past. The Old Lie might not be quite what you expect. **Includes bonus chapters from the bestselling and award-winning Terra Nullius** Praise for Terra Nullius: 'surprising and unforgettable' - Publisher's Weekly 'moving and original' - Weekend Australian 'impossible to ignore' - Books and Publishing 'unflinching' - Sydney Review of Books 'timely' - Adelaide Review
Download or read book Rising Force written by Ken Lozito and published by Acoustical Books LLC. This book was released on 2024-01-25 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eight months have passed since the Star Shroud barrier was engaged to protect the Earth, but it won’t last, and humanity is scrambling to build a fleet. Cut off from home, the crew of the Athena has taken refuge on the Boxan colony world, a last safe haven for the creators of the Star Shroud. When Kaylan forms a psychic link to a mysterious Boxan soldier fighting gruesome battles on a dying world she has to act even if the Boxans refuse. Rising Force is the fifth book in the Ascension space opera series. Kaylan will risk the Alliance to uncover the secrets of the Boxan home world and mount a daring rescue mission for those left behind. She just needs to find a way past a planetary quarantine zone that has kept the Confederation at bay for over fifty years.
Book Synopsis Star Trek: Here There Be Monsters by : Keith R. A. DeCandido
Download or read book Star Trek: Here There Be Monsters written by Keith R. A. DeCandido and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2001-11-15 with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Starfleet Corps Of Engineers After the events of What Lay Beyond, the Gateways crisis has finally come to a close and Starfleet can rest easy, knowing that another threat to the galaxy has been stopped. Except for the Starfleet Corps of Engineers who, as usual, are left to clean up the mess. While on a mission to Tellar, the U.S.S. da Vinci gets a distress call from the planet Maeglin. Still reeling from a previous attack, the natives of Maeglin find themselves under siege by a horde of alien creatures that came through one of the Iconian Gateways and are now hell-bent on destroying the planet! Commander Sonya Gomez and her team of S.C.E. engineers must find a way to stop the rampaging monsters before it's too late!
Book Synopsis An Average Morning in the Galaxy by : Stephen Parr
Download or read book An Average Morning in the Galaxy written by Stephen Parr and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013-11 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of transformative poetry by a leading exponent of the genre. Poems have been called urgent, loving and shadowed by death; visionary, finely crafted, they come from moments of deep awareness, and touch the heart. Unlike anything else you will find in contemporary writing.
Book Synopsis When the Universe Took a U-turn by : B. G. Sidharth
Download or read book When the Universe Took a U-turn written by B. G. Sidharth and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2010 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book addresses some of the baffling questions encountered at the final frontier of space and time related to particle physics and cosmology in the context of recent iconoclastic observations and developments. When particle physics stagnated in the early seventies, a new development emerged OCo String Theory. For the past 25 years, String Theory, popularly called the OC Theory of EverythingOCO, has mesmerized not just scientists, but also the general public. Yet a closer scrutiny today reveals that it is no more than a mathematical marvel. It has neither predicted anything nor has it been anywhere near verification. We are essentially where we were in the early seventies. Another chronic problem that Einstein had abandoned was the unified description of his theory of General Relativity that deals with the Universe at large and Electromagnetism which is to do with particles. Such a description is necessary even if it warrants a radical departure from our time-honoured ideas of space and time. A bright spot has now appeared in Cosmology. Iconoclastic observations in the past years have shown that the Universe is actually accelerating, driven by a mysterious Dark Energy. This book takes the lay reader through these uncharted waters and mind-boggling developments on an unimaginable journey from the ultra small to the farthest stretches conceivable, via such imagination defying concepts as extra dimensions and multiple universes. Sample Chapter(s). Chapter 1: The Lord is subtle, but defies commonsense! (120 KB). Contents: The Lord is Subtle, But Defies Commonsense!; You Can Be Younger Than Your Grandson; God Does Not Play Dice, or Does He?; Time is Running Backwards Isn''t It?; On a Collision Course; Law Without Law; When the Universe Took a U Turn. Readership: Students and academics interested in theoretical physics and history of science.
Book Synopsis My Life as an Artificial Creative Intelligence by : Mark Amerika
Download or read book My Life as an Artificial Creative Intelligence written by Mark Amerika and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2022-05-10 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A series of intellectual provocations that investigate the creative process across the human-nonhuman spectrum. Is it possible that creative artists have more in common with machines than we might think? Employing an improvisational call-and-response writing performance coauthored with an AI text generator, remix artist and scholar Mark Amerika, interrogates how his own "psychic automatism" is itself a nonhuman function strategically designed to reveal the poetic attributes of programmable worlds still unimagined. Through a series of intellectual provocations that investigate the creative process across the human-nonhuman spectrum, Amerika critically reflects on whether creativity itself is, at root, a nonhuman information behavior that emerges from an onto-operational presence experiencing an otherworldly aesthetic sensibility. Amerika engages with his cyberpunk imagination to simultaneously embrace and problematize human-machine collaborations. He draws from jazz performance, beatnik poetry, Buddhist thought, and surrealism to suggest that his own artificial creative intelligence operates as a finely tuned remix engine continuously training itself to build on the history of avant-garde art and writing. Playful and provocative, My Life as an Artificial Creative Intelligence flips the script on contemporary AI research that attempts to build systems that perform more like humans, instead self-reflexively making a very nontraditional argument about AI's impact on society and its relationship to the cosmos.
Book Synopsis The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Complete Trilogy of Five by : Douglas Adams
Download or read book The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Complete Trilogy of Five written by Douglas Adams and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2012-03-01 with total page 784 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Don't Panic: collected together in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five are the five titles that comprise Douglas Adams' wildly popular and wholly remarkable comedy science fiction series. Contains exclusive bonus material from the Douglas Adams archives, plus special introductions by Russell T. Davies, Terry Jones, Simon Brett, Neil Gaiman and Dirk Maggs. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy One Thursday lunchtime the Earth gets unexpectedly demolished to make way for a new hyperspace bypass. For Arthur Dent, who has only just had his house demolished that morning, this seems already to be rather a lot to cope with. Sadly, however, the weekend has only just begun. The Galaxy may offer a mind-boggling variety of ways to be blown up and/or insulted, but it’s very hard to get a cup of tea. The Restaurant at the End of the Universe When all questions of space, time, matter and the nature of being have been resolved, only one question remains - 'Where shall we have dinner?' The Restaurant at the End of the Universe provides the ultimate gastronomic experience, and for once there is no morning after to worry about. Life, the Universe and Everything Following a number of stunning catastrophes, Arthur Dent is surprised to find himself living in a hideously miserable cave on prehistoric Earth. However, just as he thinks that things cannot get possibly worse, they suddenly do. An eddy in the space-time continuum lands him, Ford Prefect, and their flying sofa in the middle of the cricket ground at Lord's, just two days before the world is due to be destroyed by the Vogons. Escaping the end of the world for a second time, Arthur, Ford, and their old friend Slartibartfast embark (reluctantly) on a mission to save the whole galaxy from fanatical robots. Not bad for a man in his dressing gown . . . So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish There is a knack to flying. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss. It's not an easy thing to do, and Arthur Dent thinks he's the only human who's been able to master this nifty little trick - until he meets Fenchurch, the woman of his dreams. Fenchurch once realised how the world could be made a good and happy place. Unfortunately, she's forgotten. Convinced that the secret lies within God's Final Message to His Creation, they go in search of it. And, in a dramatic break with tradition, actually find it . . . Mostly Harmless Arthur Dent has settled down on the small planet Lamuella and has embraced his role as a Sandwich Maker. However, his plans for a quiet life are thrown awry by the unexpected arrival of his daughter. There's nothing worse than a frustrated teenager with a copy of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy in their hands. When she runs away, Arthur goes after her determined to save her from the horrors of the universe. After all - he's encountered most of them before . . . This publishing phenomenon began as a radio drama and now exists in a number of wildly contradictory versions (including a TV series, a movie and a towel) – this version, produced by Douglas Adams' original publisher, is, at least, definitively inaccurate.
Book Synopsis Voltara: Battle for the Galaxy by : Alice Meeks
Download or read book Voltara: Battle for the Galaxy written by Alice Meeks and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2014-12-15 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He grew up with a life of privilege naive to his father’s true nature—the dark evil legacy of his family. Then he met a human who showed him the truth. He swore to change his destiny and that of future Asters to the side of good. He escaped to earth and joined the galactic alliance. Now he will face the ultimate choice of the galaxy over his own blood. Can he become the man this universe needs to survive? Or will he destroy and surrender to the darkness inside?
Download or read book Death written by Shelly Kagan and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2012-04-24 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is one thing we can be sure of: we are all going to die. But once we accept that fact, the questions begin. In this thought-provoking book, philosophy professor Shelly Kagan examines the myriad questions that arise when we confront the meaning of mortality. Do we have reason to believe in the existence of immortal souls? Should we accept an account according to which people are just material objects, nothing more? Can we make sense of the idea of surviving the death of one's body? If I won't exist after I die, can death truly be bad for me? Would immortality be desirable? Is fear of death appropriate? Is suicide ever justified? How should I live in the face of death? Written in an informal and conversational style, this stimulating and provocative book challenges many widely held views about death, as it invites the reader to take a fresh look at one of the central features of the human condition—the fact that we will die.
Book Synopsis Science and the Riddle of Consciousness by : Jeffrey Foss
Download or read book Science and the Riddle of Consciousness written by Jeffrey Foss and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2000-08-31 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Consciousness has become a major topic of scientific interest, and dozens of books have been written in recent years to explain it, yet it still remains a mystery. Science and the Riddle of Consciousness explains why consciousness is a riddle for science, and demonstrates how this riddle can be solved. The questions examined in the book speak directly to neuroscientists, computer scientists, psychologists, and philosophers.
Book Synopsis A Half-Century of Physical Asymptotics and Other Diversions by : Michael Berry
Download or read book A Half-Century of Physical Asymptotics and Other Diversions written by Michael Berry and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2017-07-19 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Michael Berry is a theoretical physicist who has contributed to a wide variety of areas in quantum mechanics, optics and related mathematics, linked by the geometrical aspects of waves, especially phase. This collection of his selected published and unpublished papers, reviews, tributes to other scientists, speeches and other works ranges from the technical to the popular. It is organized by the themes of his significant scientific contributions. Detailed introductions emphasize the rich connections between the different themes. An essential read for physicists, mathematicians, students and philosophers of science.
Book Synopsis The Galaxy Builder by : Keith Laumer
Download or read book The Galaxy Builder written by Keith Laumer and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2016-03-24 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The world, as Lafayette O'Leary knew it, disappeared in a flash. Perhaps it was his own doing - after all, he had the uncanny gift of creating alternate realities by sheer mental power. But the result was a nightmare gone out of control. All O'Leary wanted was to find his wife and return to the familiar world of Artesia. Yet no sooner did he manage to extricate himself from one bizarre situation than he was thrust into another, equally threatening... There was only one thing to do: he had to penetrate the very center of power from which his destiny was being controlled and - take it into his own hands!
