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Author : Francis D. Reynolds
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780760715963
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (159 download)
Download or read book Crackpot Or Genius? written by Francis D. Reynolds and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Francis D. Reynolds
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Crackpot Or Genius? written by Francis D. Reynolds and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reynolds shows how to be truly innovative and know how to turn a worthy invention into a welcome product, examining the legal and commercial aspects of the trade.
Author : Richard Taruskin
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520268059
Total Pages : 508 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)
Download or read book The Danger of Music and Other Anti-Utopian Essays written by Richard Taruskin and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2010-11-11 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Roth Family Foundation music in America imprint"--Prelim. p.
Author : John Adair
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0857082221
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (57 download)
Download or read book John Adair's 100 Greatest Ideas for Smart Decision Making written by John Adair and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-12-06 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Adair’s 100 Greatest Ideas for Smart Decision Making is a one-stop of practical advice and tips on problem solving and productive thinking from one of the world’s best-known and most sought after authorities on leadership and management. Inside you will find: 11 Greatest Ideas for Practical Wisdom 8 Greatest Ideas for Problem Solving Strategies 13 Greatest Ideas for How Your Mind Works 8 Greatest Ideas for Clear Thinking 13 Greatest Ideas for Productive Thinking ...and 47 other fantastic ideas, tips and tricks that will give you the confidence, answers, and inspiration you need to succeed.
Author : Evan Esar
Publisher : Barnes & Noble Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781566195294
Total Pages : 990 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (952 download)
Download or read book 20,000 Quips & Quotes written by Evan Esar and published by Barnes & Noble Publishing. This book was released on 1995 with total page 990 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Dean Keith Simonton
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262537958
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (625 download)
Download or read book The Genius Checklist written by Dean Keith Simonton and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2019-11-12 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What it takes to be a genius: nine essential and contradictory ingredients. What does it take to be a genius? A high score on an IQ test? Brilliant physicist Richard Feynman's IQ was too low for membership in Mensa. Suffering from varying degrees of mental illness? Creativity is often considered a marker of mental health. Be a child prodigy like Mozart, or a later bloomer like Beethoven? Die tragically young, like Keats, or live to a ripe old age like Goethe? In The Genius Checklist, Dean Keith Simonton examines the key factors in creative genius and finds that they are more than a little contradictory. Simonton, who has studied creativity and genius for more than four decades, draws on both scientific research and stories from the lives of famous creative geniuses that range from Isaac Newton to Vincent van Gogh to Virginia Woolf. He explains the origin of IQ tests and the art of estimating the IQ of long-dead historical figures (John Stuart Mill: 200; Charles Darwin: 160). He compares IQ scores with achieved eminence as measures of genius, and he draws a distinction between artistic and scientific genius. He rules out birth order as a determining factor (in the James family alone, three geniuses at three different birth-order positions: William James, firs-tborn; Henry James, second born; Alice James, born fifth and last); considers Malcolm Gladwell's 10,000 hour rule; and describes how the “lone” genius gets enmeshed in social networks. Genius, Simonton explains, operates in ways so subtle that they seem contradictory. Genius is born and made, the domain of child prodigies and their elders. Simonton's checklist gives us a new, integrative way to understand geniuses—and perhaps even to nurture your own genius!
Author : Lee Steinmetz
Publisher : MSU Press
ISBN 13 : 1628951648
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (289 download)
Download or read book The Poetry of the American Civil War written by Lee Steinmetz and published by MSU Press. This book was released on 2012-12-30 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Deeply affecting and diverse in perspective, The Poetry of the American Civil War is the first comprehensive volume to focus entirely on poetry written and published during the Civil War. Of the nearly one thousand books of poetry published in the 1860s, some two hundred addressed the war in some way, and these collectively present a textured portrait of life during the conflict. The poets represented here hail from the North and the South, and at times mirror each other uncannily. Among them are housewives, doctors, preachers, bankers, journalists, and teachers. Their verse reflects the day-to-day reality of war, death, and destruction, and it contemplates questions of faith, slavery, society, patriotism, and politics. This is an essential volume for poetry lovers, historians, and Civil War enthusiasts alike.
Author : James F. Welles
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Understanding Stupidity written by James F. Welles and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mack Reynolds
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
ISBN 13 : 1479455547
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (794 download)
Download or read book Equality: In the Year 2000 written by Mack Reynolds and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2020-11-09 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Julian West had been put into a hypnotic trance and placed in a sealed room. Then the house burned down and he was forgotten...until he awoke forty years later. It was the year 2000, and it seemed like Utopia. But would it be Utopia for Julian West? He was a man of the past, totally unable to adapt to the unbelievable social, political and cultural changes; totally unable to assimilate the explosive advances in all branches of knowledge. Julian West was a child, lost among the wonders of the Twenty-First Century
Author : Leoni Robens
Publisher : OrangeBooks Publication
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 548 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book Around Strange Fairy Lane Limericks 4 U Wonderful Poetries To Treasure written by Leoni Robens and published by OrangeBooks Publication. This book was released on 2024-05-19 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poetry at its best! ---- An End to all Rat Races! And a new bold step into fun, leisure, and recreation, containing fifty poetry compositions for all funny competitions and magical races, no bar ages or sages because it is in a strange pixie language of modern and classic revelation into the beauty and depth of the working of fairies and their point of views. Fair and Square (Hebrew: יצאת צדיק - "yazata tzadik") Rich lines of eloquence par excellence that soothes, embalms, and nourishes the soul and deeply touches the cockles of your hearts! “That cannot be seen but felt-----That cannot be felt but seen”---In my illustrations and fantasy dreams! Poems like Ole Fisherman Yakkasakki of Yukkamakki and his Coral Queen Corraline, the beautiful valley along The rich Fairy Path of puppets played by God and his Puppet masters, The Silver Nut Meg Tree right amid an aromatic boundary of Spice land, Coffee Drinkers, The Ningyo, Golden Temple, about stars and their star signs shown by merfolk in seas ---The Mermaids’ wishing Bassinet Days and the Mermaids’ Babies Months, Mermaid Sea Ears, Chamelia, And Harvey’s Silver Dragon Hornet Motorbike out of an India scope Love story, Paloma’s magic brush, The Banjaran and his cow Gauri, the Living Christmas Tree, the Story of the Christmas Flower, the One Legged Fairy Woman, Frankenstein and the Bat Vampire Werewolf of Moonlight, Robot Knight Sparx and the Human Fly! Many more to amaze and mystify my little bunnies racing behind in a fair and square race betwixt nature and all its faery residents! Thank you and join along adventuring with the ladybug writer and her coat of many colors!
Author : Mark Kurlansky
Publisher : Tilbury House Publishers and Cadent Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0884489140
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (844 download)
Download or read book BIG LIES: from Socrates to Social Media written by Mark Kurlansky and published by Tilbury House Publishers and Cadent Publishing. This book was released on 2022-09-27 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A KIRKUS' SELECTION FOR BEST TEEN & YA NONFICTION 2022 NAMED ONE OF KIRKUS' BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2022 PW HOLIDAY GIFT GUIDE 2022 In his new book for young readers Mark Kurlansky’s lens is the art of the “BIG LIE”, a term coined by Adolf Hitler. Kurlansky has written Big Lies: From Socrates to Social Media for the next stewards of our world. It is not only a history-of, but a how-to manual for seeing through Big Lies and thinking critically. Big lies are told by governments, politicians, and corporations to avoid responsibility, cast blame on the innocent, win elections, disguise intent, create chaos, and gain power and wealth. Big lies are as old as civilization. They corrupt public understanding and discourse, turn science upside down, and reinvent history. They prevent humanity from addressing critical challenges. They perpetuate injustices. They destabilize the world. The modern age has provided ever-more-effective ways of spreading lies, but it has also given us the scientific method, which is the most effective tool for finding what is true. In the book’s final chapter, Kurlansky reveals ways to deconstruct an allegation. A scientific theory has to be testable, and so does an allegation. BIG LIES soars across history: alighting on the “noble lies” of Socrates and Plato; Nero blaming Christians for the burning of Rome; the great injustices of the Middle Ages; the big lies of Stalin and Hitler and their terrible consequences; the reckless lies of contemporary demagogues, which are amplified through social media; lies against women and Jews are two examples in the long history of “othering” the vulnerable for personal gain; up to the equal-opportunity spotlight in America. “Belief is a choice,” Kurlansky writes, “and honesty begins in each of us. A lack of caring what is true or false is the undoing of democracy. The alternative to truth is a corrupt state in which the loudest voices and most seductive lies confer power and wealth on grifters and oligarchs. We cannot achieve a healthy planet for all the world’s people if we do not keep asking what is true.”
Author : Taran Kang
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1487529090
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (875 download)
Download or read book Transgression and the Aesthetics of Evil written by Taran Kang and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2021-11-01 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do we perceive evil? How do we represent evil? In Transgression and the Aesthetics of Evil, Taran Kang examines the entanglements of aesthetics and morality. Investigating conceptions and images of evil, Kang identifies a fateful moment of transformation in the eighteenth century that continues to reverberate to the present day. Transgression, once allocated the central place in the constitution of evil, undergoes a startling revaluation in the Enlightenment and its aftermath, one that needs to be understood in relation to emergent ideas in the arts. Taran Kang engages with the writings of Edmund Burke, the Marquis de Sade, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Hannah Arendt, among others, as he questions recent calls to "de-aestheticize" evil and insists on a historically informed appreciation of evil’s aesthetic dimensions. Chapters consider the figure of the "evil genius," the paradoxical appeal of the grotesque and the disgusting, and the moral status of spectators who behold scenes of suffering and acts of transgression. In grappling with these issues, Transgression and the Aesthetics of Evil questions the feasibility and desirability of insulating the moral from the aesthetic.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (129 download)
Download or read book Parameters written by and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : The Knowledge Commons
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1607106841
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (71 download)
Download or read book Instant Genius: Smart Mouths written by The Knowledge Commons and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-09-01 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The smartest and funniest quotations of all time, artfully arranged into witty—and surprising—categories. Every page will entertain, educate, and delight. Uncle John’s dedicated team of quotationeers have scoured the worlds of entertainment, history, literature, politics, sports, and more to bring you this unique collection of utterances that bear repeating. From silly to profound, from Aristotle to Mr. T, you’ll discover insights on such topics as love, sex, conspiracies, boredom, cheese, juggling, and the true meaning of belly-button lint. Here are but a few of the thousands of morsels awaiting you: “Weaseling out of things is good. It’s what separates us from the other animals . . . except the weasel.” —Homer Simpson “All hockey players are bilingual. They know English and profanity.” —Gordie Howe “In America, sex is an obsession. In other parts of the world, it’s a fact.” —Marlene Dietrich “With my sunglasses on, I’m Jack Nicholson. Without them, I’m fat and sixty.” —Jack Nicholson “It is no coincidence that in no known language does the phrase ‘as pretty as an airport’ appear.” —Douglas Adams “If it’s called USA Today, why is all the news from yesterday? Bam! Busted!” —Stephen Colbert “Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight.” —Phyllis Diller
Author : David P. Barash
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190275502
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (92 download)
Download or read book Out of Eden written by David P. Barash and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this changing world of what is deemed socially and politically "correct," polygamy is perhaps the last great taboo. Over the course of the last thousand years, monogamy - at least in name - has been the default setting for coupledom and procreation. And yet, throughout history, there havebeen inklings that "one-man, one-woman" may not be the most natural state-of-being for humans. The recent Ashley Madison "cheaters website" hacking, coupled with the high divorce rate of the last half-century, provide more than enough evidence to convince even a hopeless romantic that monogamy, andthe institution of marriage which props it up, is doomed to be a bygone remnant of a more socially conservative past.Esteemed writer and evolutionary biologist David P. Barash tackles this uncomfortable finding: that humans are actually biologically and anthropologically more inclined toward polygamy. With years of research in the field to back up this argument, Barash presents hundreds of anecdotes from bothevolutionary biology and human history that guide the reader through the societal impacts of monogamy and polygamy - some expected (sexual behavior) and others unexpected (the most successful models of parenting). Despite this natural inclination of humanity, Barash is reassuring throughout thisfascinating read in his resolution that "biology is not destiny."
Author : Phil Taylor
Publisher : Hodder & Stoughton
ISBN 13 : 1444797298
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (447 download)
Download or read book Staying Power written by Phil Taylor and published by Hodder & Stoughton. This book was released on 2014-10-23 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Phil 'The Power' Taylor is the uncontested king of darts, his sixteen world championship titles between 1990 and 2013 far outclassing anything else the game has seen. He started out as a protégé of Eric Bristow, the Crafty Cockney, having wandered into his Burslem pub with a set of darts his wife had given him for his birthday. At that time Taylor was earning £52 a week working in a ceramics factory and hardly played. But jaws dropped and pint mugs tipped over as this newcomer suddenly unleashed a gift for flight that had soon eclipsed even the Crafty Cockney himself, and amassed Phil a haul of over 200 professional tournament victories. Staying Power is a year in the life of a legend, twice nominated for BBC Sports Personality of the Year, a man who made darts look a doddle to British pub-goers everywhere and set his seal on the game as the bloke to beat. A year of triumph and disaster, in which Taylor crashed out of the world championship in the second round to young outsider Michael Smith and fell asleep at home on Christmas day, exhausted from the strain of constant winning. A year when he played arguably the greatest ever game of darts, in the Grand Slam semi-final against recent world champion Adrian Lewis the two slugging it out to the wire. A year in which Taylor rocked Australia, fêted like royalty. A year of spats and hecklers, clashes on stage and off, of head-to-heads with the Dutch superstar Michael van Gerwen. But most of all this is a year in which Phil Taylor, one of sport's greatest champions, has looked hard at his life in his determination to stay in power.
Author : David Cope
Publisher : A-R Editions, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0895796406
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (957 download)
Download or read book Hidden Structure written by David Cope and published by A-R Editions, Inc.. This book was released on 2009-06-01 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today's computers provide music theorists with unprecedented opportunities to analyze music more quickly and accurately than ever before. Where analysis once required several weeks or even months to complete¿often replete with human errors, computers now provide the means to accomplish these same analyses in a fraction of the time and with far more accuracy. However, while such computer music analyses represent significant improvements in the field, computational analyses using traditional approaches by themselves do not constitute the true innovations in music theory that computers offer. In Hidden Structure: Music Analysis Using Computers David Cope introduces a series of analytical processes that¿by virtue of their concept and design¿can be better, and in some cases, only accomplished by computer programs, thereby presenting unique opportunities for music theorists to understand more thoroughly the various kinds of music they study.Following the introductory chapter that covers several important premises, Hidden Structure focuses on several unique approaches to music analysis offered by computer programs. While these unique approaches do not represent an all-encompassing and integrated global theory of music analysis, they do represent significantly more than a compilation of loosely related computer program descriptions. For example, Chapter 5 on function in post-tonal music, firmly depends on the scalar foundations presented in chapter 4. Likewise, chapter 7 presents a multi-tiered approach to musical analysis that builds on the material found in all of the preceding chapters. In short, Hidden Structure uniquely offers an integrated view of computer music analysis for today¿s musicians.
