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A Remarkable Curiosity

Author : Amos Jay Cummings
Publisher : University Press of Colorado
ISBN 13 : 1457109379
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (571 download)

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Download or read book A Remarkable Curiosity written by Amos Jay Cummings and published by University Press of Colorado. This book was released on 2011-05-18 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1873, Amos Jay Cummings, a decorated Civil War veteran and journalist for the New York Sun newspaper, set out on a westward journey aboard the newly completed transcontinental railroad. For some time, miners, settlers, and entrepreneurs had already been heading west to make their fortunes, and Cummings made the trip in part to see what all the fuss was about. During his six-month expedition from Kansas to California, Cummings sent extraordinary and engaging accounts of the American West back to his readers in New York. Collected in this volume for the first time are Cummings's portraits of a land and its assortment of characters unlike anything back East. Characters like Pedro Armijo, the New Mexican sheep tycoon who took Denver by storm, and more prominently the Mormon prophet Brigham Young and one of his wives, Ann Eliza Young, who was filing for divorce at the time of Cummings's arrival. Although today he is virtually unknown, during his lifetime Cummings was one of the most famous newspapermen in the United States, in part because of stories like these. Complete with a biographical sketch and historical introduction, A Remarkable Curiosity is an enjoyable read for anybody interested in the American West in the latter half of the nineteenth century.

Living Curiously

Author : Becki Saltzman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780989093569
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (935 download)

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Download or read book Living Curiously written by Becki Saltzman and published by . This book was released on 2016-05-20 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Living Curiously reveals the 5-step, science-based framework for using curiosity strategically to generate new ideas, bust assumptions, cure stagnation, and design and create a remarkable life. Living curiously is not about endless inquiry; it's about discovering blind spots, hidden connections, and opportunities in order to make better decisions, and ultimately live a more fulfilling and adventurous life. *** Becki Saltzman is a curiosity seeker, assumption buster, and idea generator. She holds a master's degree in behavioral science from Washington University in Saint Louis and has spent the last two decades studying curiosity and the role it plays in adventure and insights, problem solving, sales, and ideal lifestyle design. She loves great travel adventures, crowded dance floors, and brown drinks.

Curiosity Studies

Author : Perry Zurn
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 1452963622
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (529 download)

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Download or read book Curiosity Studies written by Perry Zurn and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2020-04-14 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first English-language collection to establish curiosity studies as a unique field From science and technology to business and education, curiosity is often taken for granted as an unquestioned good. And yet, few people can define curiosity. Curiosity Studies marshals scholars from more than a dozen fields not only to define curiosity but also to grapple with its ethics as well as its role in technological advancement and global citizenship. While intriguing research on curiosity has occurred in numerous disciplines for decades, no rigorously cross-disciplinary study has existed—until now. Curiosity Studies stages an interdisciplinary conversation about what curiosity is and what resources it holds for human and ecological flourishing. These engaging essays are integrated into four clusters: scientific inquiry, educational practice, social relations, and transformative power. By exploring curiosity through the practice of scientific inquiry, the contours of human learning, the stakes of social difference, and the potential of radical imagination, these clusters focus and reinvigorate the study of this universal but slippery phenomenon: the desire to know. Against the assumption that curiosity is neutral, this volume insists that curiosity has a history and a political import and requires precision to define and operationalize. As various fields deepen its analysis, a new ecosystem for knowledge production can flourish, driven by real-world problems and a commitment to solve them in collaboration. By paying particular attention to pedagogy throughout, Curiosity Studies equips us to live critically and creatively in what might be called our new Age of Curiosity. Contributors: Danielle S. Bassett, U of Pennsylvania; Barbara M. Benedict, Trinity College; Susan Engel, Williams College; Ellen K. Feder, American U; Kristina T. Johnson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Narendra Keval; Christina León, Princeton U; Tyson Lewis, U of North Texas; Amy Marvin, U of Oregon; Hilary M. Schor, U of Southern California; Seeta Sistla, Hampshire College; Heather Anne Swanson, Aarhus U.

American Curiosity

Author : Susan Scott Parrish
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 0807838896
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book American Curiosity written by Susan Scott Parrish and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2012-12-01 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Colonial America presented a new world of natural curiosities for settlers as well as the London-based scientific community. In American Curiosity, Susan Scott Parrish examines how various peoples in the British colonies understood and represented the natural world around them from the late sixteenth century through the eighteenth. Parrish shows how scientific knowledge about America, rather than flowing strictly from metropole to colony, emerged from a horizontal exchange of information across the Atlantic. Delving into an understudied archive of letters, Parrish uncovers early descriptions of American natural phenomena as well as clues to how people in the colonies construed their own identities through the natural world. Although hierarchies of gender, class, institutional learning, place of birth or residence, and race persisted within the natural history community, the contributions of any participant were considered valuable as long as they supplied novel data or specimens from the American side of the Atlantic. Thus Anglo-American nonelites, women, Indians, and enslaved Africans all played crucial roles in gathering and relaying new information to Europe. Recognizing a significant tradition of nature writing and representation in North America well before the Transcendentalists, American Curiosity also enlarges our notions of the scientific Enlightenment by looking beyond European centers to find a socially inclusive American base to a true transatlantic expansion of knowledge.

La Belle assemblée: being a curious collection of some very remarkable incidents which happen'd to persons of the first quality in France ... Adorn'd with copper-plates. The seventh edition

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Author : Madeleine Angelique POISSON DE GOMEZ
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (23 download)

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La belle assemblée: being a curious collection of some very remarkable incidents which happen'd to persons of the first quality in France ... The fifth edition. [Translated by Eliza Haywood?]

Author : Madeleine Angélique POISSON DE GOMEZ
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (24 download)

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The Curious Traveller. Being a Choice Collection of Very Remarkable Histories, Voyages, Travels, ... Digested Into Familiar Letters and Conversations, Etc

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Total Pages : 424 pages
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Why?

Author : Mario Livio
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1476792127
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (767 download)

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Download or read book Why? written by Mario Livio and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-07-11 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Astrophysicist and author Mario Livio investigates perhaps the most human of all our characteristics—curiosity—in this “lively, expert, and definitely not dumbed-down account” (Kirkus Reviews) as he explores our innate desire to know why. Experiments demonstrate that people are more distracted when they overhear a phone conversation—where they can know only one side of the dialogue—than when they overhear two people talking and know both sides. Why does half a conversation make us more curious than a whole conversation? “Have you ever wondered why we wonder why? Mario Livio has, and he takes you on a fascinating quest to understand the origin and mechanisms of our curiosity. I thoroughly recommend it.” (Adam Riess, Nobel Prize Winner in Physics, 2011). Curiosity is not only at the heart of mystery and suspense novels, it is also essential to other creative endeavors, from painting to sculpture to music. It is the principal driver of basic scientific research. Even so, there is still no definitive scientific consensus about why we humans are so curious, or about the mechanisms in our brain that are responsible for curiosity. In the ever-fascinating Why? Livio interviewed scientists in several fields to explore the nature of curiosity. He examined the lives of two of history’s most curious geniuses, Leonardo da Vinci and Richard Feynman. He also talked to people with boundless curiosity: a superstar rock guitarist who is also an astrophysicist; an astronaut with degrees in computer science, biology, literature, and medicine. What drives these people to be curious about so many subjects? An astrophysicist who has written about mathematics, biology, and now psychology and neuroscience, Livio has firsthand knowledge of his subject which he explores in a lucid, entertaining way that will captivate anyone who is curious about curiosity.

The Remarkable and Curious Adventures of that Renowned Ladies' Man, Charles Cochrane ...

Author : Charles Cochrane
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 12 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (21 download)

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The Great Historical, Geographical, Genealogical and Poetical Dictionary; Being a Curious Miscellany of Sacred and Prophane History ... Collected from the Best Historians, Chronologers and Lexicographers ... But More Especially Out of Lewis Morery, D.D. His Eighth Edition Corrected and Enlarged by Monsieur Le Clerc ... The First[-second] Volume

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Total Pages : 638 pages
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The Uses of Curiosity in Early Modern France and Germany

Author : Neil Kenny
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 9780191556586
Total Pages : 516 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (565 download)

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Download or read book The Uses of Curiosity in Early Modern France and Germany written by Neil Kenny and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2004-07-08 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why did people argue about curiosity in France, Germany, and elsewhere in Europe between the sixteenth and the eighteenth centuries, so much more than today? Why was curiosity a fashionable topic in early modern conduct manuals, university dissertations, scientific treatises, sermons, newspapers, novellas, plays, operas, ballets, poems, from Corneille to Diderot, from Johann Valentin Andreae to Gottlieb Spizel? Universities, churches, and other institutions invoked curiosity in order to regulate knowledge or behaviour, to establish who should try to know or do what, and under what circumstances. As well as investigating a crucial episode in the history of knowledge, this study makes a distinctive contribution to historiographical debates about the nature of 'concepts'. Curiosity was constantly reshaped by the uses of it. And yet, strangely, however much people contested what curiosity was, they often agreed that what they were disagreeing about was one and the same thing.

The Inter Ocean Curiosity Shop for the Year ...

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Radical Curiosity

Author : Ken Dychtwald
Publisher : Unnamed Press
ISBN 13 : 9781951213817
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (138 download)

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Download or read book Radical Curiosity written by Ken Dychtwald and published by Unnamed Press. This book was released on 2023-08-25 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Ken Dychtwald maps out where success intersects with meaning to find your own unique crossing." --Deepak Chopra, MD From his working class roots in New Jersey to the "tune in, turn on, drop out" cliffs of Big Sur and the pinnacles of the human potential movement; from launching his company Age Wave and coming to terms with his own aging process, Ken Dychtwald's Radical Curiosity makes sense of his first 70 years of life, offering invaluable life lessons through the lens of a man constantly seeking truth and self-discovery-- giving readers a glimpse into a visionary's extraordinary world, and a guide for claiming a powerful vision of one's own. Although Dr. Ken Dychtwald is widely regarded as one of the world's foremost experts on aging and longevity, Radical Curiosity offers an entirely different, and far more personal, perspective. Triggered by the deaths of his parents, and motivated by his cutting-edge research into the importance of leaving a legacy, Dychtwald dives deep to examine the arc and legacies of his own life through fantastic stories, mind-stretching adventures and his unique encounters with many of the world's great leaders and influencers, in order to show readers his keys to a meaningful, magical and purposeful life. Ultimately, Radical Curiosity is a call to action, one which demands that we add more curiosity, purpose, interdependence and discovery to our lives, regardless of age.

The Moral Psychology of Curiosity

Author : Ilhan Inan
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1786606720
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (866 download)

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Download or read book The Moral Psychology of Curiosity written by Ilhan Inan and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2018-12-05 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this volume the epistemological, psychological moral and educative dimensions are examined from both philosophical and psychological perspectives.

A Selection of Curious Articles from the Gentleman's Magazine

Author : John Walker
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 548 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book A Selection of Curious Articles from the Gentleman's Magazine written by John Walker and published by . This book was released on 1814 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Selection of Curious Articles from the Gentleman's Magazine: I. Ancient and modern literature, criticism, and philology. II. Philosophy and natural history

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Total Pages : 562 pages
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Curious about George

Author : Rae Lynn Schwartz-DuPre
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1496837355
Total Pages : 165 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (968 download)

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Download or read book Curious about George written by Rae Lynn Schwartz-DuPre and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2021-11-15 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1940, Hans Augusto Rey and Margret Rey built two bikes, packed what they could, and fled wartime Paris. Among the possessions they escaped with was a manuscript that would later become one of the most celebrated books in children’s literature—Curious George. Since his debut in 1941, the mischievous icon has only grown in popularity. After being captured in Africa by the Man in the Yellow Hat and taken to live in the big city’s zoo, Curious George became a symbol of curiosity, adventure, and exploration. In Curious about George: Curious George, Cultural Icons, Colonialism, and US Exceptionalism, author Rae Lynn Schwartz-DuPre argues that the beloved character also performs within a narrative of racism, colonialism, and heroism. Using theories of colonial and rhetorical studies to explain why cultural icons like Curious George are able to avoid criticism, Schwartz-DuPre investigates the ways these characters operate as capacious figures, embodying and circulating the narratives that construct them, and effectively argues that discourses about George provide a rich training ground for children to learn US citizenship and become innocent supporters of colonial American exceptionalism. By drawing on postcolonial theory, children’s criticisms, science and technology studies, and nostalgia, Schwartz-DuPre’s critical reading explains the dismissal of the monkey’s 1941 abduction from Africa and enslavement in the US, described in the first book, by illuminating two powerful roles he currently holds: essential STEM ambassador at a time when science and technology is central to global competitiveness and as a World War II refugee who offers a “deficient” version of the Holocaust while performing model US immigrant. Curious George’s twin heroic roles highlight racist science and an Americanized Holocaust narrative. By situating George as a representation of enslaved Africans and Holocaust refugees, Curious about George illuminates the danger of contemporary zero-sum identity politics, the colonization of marginalized identities, and racist knowledge production. Importantly, it demonstrates the ways in which popular culture can be harnessed both to promote colonial benevolence and to present possibilities for resistance.