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Faster Than A Cannonball

Author : Dylan Jones
Publisher : White Rabbit
ISBN 13 : 147462460X
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (746 download)

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Download or read book Faster Than A Cannonball written by Dylan Jones and published by White Rabbit. This book was released on 2022-10-13 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Decades tend to crest halfway through, and 1995 was the year of the Nineties: peak Britpop (Oasis v Blur), peak YBA (Tracey Emin's tent), peak New Lad (when Nick Hornby published High Fidelity, when James Brown's Loaded detonated the publishing industry, and when pubs were finally allowed to stay open on a Sunday). It was the year of The Bends, the year Danny Boyle started filming Trainspotting, the year Richey Edwards went missing, the year Alex Garland wrote The Beach, the year Blair changed Clause IV after a controversial vote at the Labour Conference. Not only was the mid-Nineties perhaps the last time that rock stars, music journalists and pop consumers held onto a belief in rock's mystical power, it was a period of huge cultural upheaval - in art, literature, publishing and drugs. And it was a period of almost unparalleled hedonism, a time when many people thought they deserved to live the rock and roll lifestyle, when a generation of narcotic omnivores thought they could all be rock stars just by buying a magazine and a copy of (What's the Story) Morning Glory? Faster Than a Cannonball is a cultural swipe of the decade from loungecore to the rise of New Labour, teasing all the relevant artistic strands through interviews with all the major protagonists and exhaustive re-evaluations of the important records of the year - The Bends by Radiohead, Grand Prix by Teenage Fanclub, Maxinquaye by Tricky, Different Class by Pulp, The Great Escape by Blur, It's Great When You're Straight... Yeah! by Black Grape, Exit Planet Dust by the Chemical Brothers, I Should Coco by Supergrass, Elastica by Elastica, Pure Phase by Spiritualized, ...I Care Because You Do by Aphex Twin and of course (What's the Story) Morning Glory by Oasis, the most iconic album of the decade.

Cannonball!

Author : Brock Yates
Publisher : Motorbooks
ISBN 13 : 1610600665
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book Cannonball! written by Brock Yates and published by Motorbooks. This book was released on 2003-10-12 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This first book of its kind tells the behind-the-scenes story of the incredibly illegal Cannonball rally. This best seller is now available in paperback!In the early 1970s, Brock Yates, senior editor of Car and Driver Magazine, created the now infamous Cannonball Sea-to-Shining-Sea Memorial Trophy Dash; a flat out, no-holds-barred race from New York City to Redondo Beach, California. Setting out to prove that well trained drivers could safely navigate the American highways at speeds in excess of the posted limits, Mr. Yates created a spectacle reminiscent of the glory days of the barnstorming pilots. Filled with fascinating unpublished stories, nostalgic and modern-day photographs, inside information and hilarious stories from this outrageous and incredibly immoral rally. Brock is one of the best-known, most respected automotive journalists in the world today.

Cannonball

Author : Kelsey Wroten
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781941250334
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book Cannonball written by Kelsey Wroten and published by . This book was released on 2019-04-30 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kelsey Wroten's Cannonball fires the reader straight into the messy life of Caroline Bertram: aspiring writer, queer, art school graduate, near alcoholic, and self proclaimed tortured genius. Wroten tells the story of an artist struggling with the arrival of adulthood and the Sisyphean task of artistic fulfillment. Stunningly drawn in a classic style, with big truths and biting wit, Wroten's debut graphic novel is Art School Confidential for the Tumblr generation.

Cannonball!

Author : Cara Martone
Publisher : Dorrance Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1480958441
Total Pages : 30 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Cannonball! written by Cara Martone and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2019-01-04 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cannonball! By: Cara Martone Cannonball! is a fun tale of Jason and Brooke, two children who embark on an unexpected adventure when a normal day of swimming in their pool turns into a journey they never knew was possible! They get to see and learn about new places and at the same time learn what is truly meaningful in life.

Cannonball

Author : Joseph McElroy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781938604218
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book Cannonball written by Joseph McElroy and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Iraq war, two divers, a Californian family with an intimacy that opens the larger stories even more deeply.

There Are Two Errors in the the Title of This Book, Revised and Expanded (Again)

Author : Robert M. Martin
Publisher : Broadview Press
ISBN 13 : 177048289X
Total Pages : 403 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book There Are Two Errors in the the Title of This Book, Revised and Expanded (Again) written by Robert M. Martin and published by Broadview Press. This book was released on 2011-10-26 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As this book richly and entertainingly demonstrates, philosophy is as much the search for the right questions as it is the search for the right answers. Robert M. Martin’s popular collection of philosophical puzzles, paradoxes, jokes, and anecdotes is updated and expanded in this third edition, with dozens of new entries.

Cannonball!

Author : Amy Schmidt
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780578699011
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (99 download)

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Download or read book Cannonball! written by Amy Schmidt and published by . This book was released on 2020-06 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You're Never Too Old and It's Never Too Late You're entering midlife-the "big five-oh" may be looming or may have come and gone. You find yourself standing on the edge of the high dive wishing you could cannonball with fearless exhilaration like you did when you were ten. But you're frozen. What's holding you back? Fear of the unknown? Procrastination? Self-doubt? Fear of others judging you? Fear of failing? Amy Schmidt has been there, done that, and still doing some of it. In Cannonball, Fearlessly Facing Fifty, she shares her personal stories, and those of other women, to help arm us with insights and inspiration to cannonball fearlessly into the rest of our lives with the biggest splash possible. Amy is the real deal-disarmingly open, honest, and relatable. She sometimes feels fat. She can be a perfectionist. She can procrastinate and she sometimes forgets to love herself. But as she says, "I am a work in progress," and most days she feels "absolutelyfreaking" amazing. Amy is the BFF you want climbing each rung of that ladder with you and encouraging you to cannonball into the next best phase of your life.

Conversations About Philosophy, Volume 1

Author : Howard Burton
Publisher : Open Agenda Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1771701080
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (717 download)

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Download or read book Conversations About Philosophy, Volume 1 written by Howard Burton and published by Open Agenda Publishing. This book was released on 2021-05-24 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Conversations About Philosophy, Volume 1, includes the following 5 carefully-edited Ideas Roadshow Conversations featuring leading researchers. This collection includes a detailed preface highlighting the connections between the different books. Each book is broken into chapters with a detailed introduction and questions for discussion at the end of each chapter: 1.Plato’s Heaven: A User’s Guide - A Conversation with James Robert Brown, Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Toronto. This wide-ranging conversation addresses a central theme in current philosophy: Platonism vs. Naturalism and provides accounts of both approaches to mathematics. The Platonist-Naturalist debate over mathematics is explored in a comprehensive fashion and also sheds light on non-mathematical aspects of a dispute that is central to contemporary philosophy. This book also surveys new avenues of research into the epistemology of thought experiments. 2.Philosophy of Brain - A Conversation with neurophilosopher Patricia Churchland, UC San Diego. During this comprehensive conversation Patricia Churchland discusses her extensive research in the fields of philosophy of neuroscience, philosophy of the mind and neuroethics. Further topics include how the brain works, how we are able to represent the external world of objects and our inner world of thoughts, self and consciousness. 3.Defined By Relationship is based on an in-depth filmed conversation between Howard Burton and Charles Foster, who is a writer, traveller, veterinarian, barrister, philosopher and Fellow of Green Templeton College, University of Oxford. This wide-ranging conversation provides a detailed exploration of several of his books in many different fields with a particular focus on Human Dignity in Bioethics and Law and the New York Times Bestseller Being a Beast. 4. Free Will: An Investigation - A Conversation with Alfred Mele, the William H. and Lucyle T. Werkmeister Professor of Philosophy at Florida State University. This in-depth conversation examines free will and the different notions of free will that exist, the connections of free will with developments in neuroscience, social psychology and public opinion polls and Alfred Mele’s key concern about how current and future insights might be directly applied to improve our world. 5. Appreciating Analytic Philosophy - A Conversation with Scott Soames, Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at University of Southern California. Scott Soames is specialized in the philosophy of language and the history of analytic philosophy. This detailed conversation provides a thoughtful introduction to analytic philosophy, including some examples of contemporary relevance to a wide range of other fields. Howard Burton is the founder and host of all Ideas Roadshow Conversations and was the Founding Executive Director of Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics. He holds a PhD in theoretical physics and an MA in philosophy.

Plato’s Heaven: A User’s Guide

Author : Howard Burton
Publisher : Open Agenda Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1771700327
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (717 download)

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Download or read book Plato’s Heaven: A User’s Guide written by Howard Burton and published by Open Agenda Publishing. This book was released on 1901-01-01 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is based on an in-depth filmed conversation between Howard Burton and James Robert Brown, Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Toronto. This wide-ranging conversation addresses a central theme in current philosophy: Platonism vs. Naturalism and provides accounts of both approaches to mathematics. The Platonist-Naturalist debate over mathematics is explored in a comprehensive fashion and also sheds light on non-mathematical aspects of a dispute that is central to contemporary philosophy. Thought experiments stand as a fascinating challenge to the necessity of data in the empirical sciences. Are these experiments, conducted uniquely in our imagination, simply rhetorical devices or communication tools or are they an essential part of scientific practice? This book also surveys the current state of this debate and explores new avenues of research into the epistemology of thought experiments. This carefully-edited book includes an introduction, Mathematical Metaphysics, and questions for discussion at the end of each chapter: I. Introducing Platonism - An explanation for what mathematics really is II. Attacks and Defenses - Platonism under fire III. Seeing With the Mind’s Eye - Two revealing examples IV. Platonism Bounces Back - From quantum physics to the mind-body problem V. The Philosophical Life - On sociological divides and being a team player About Ideas Roadshow Conversations: This book is part of an expanding series of 100+ Ideas Roadshow conversations, each one presenting a wealth of candid insights from a leading expert through a focused yet informal setting to give non-specialists a uniquely accessible window into frontline research and scholarship that wouldn't otherwise be encountered through standard lectures and textbooks.

Scientific Thinking

Author : Robert M. Martin
Publisher : Broadview Press
ISBN 13 : 1460401638
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (64 download)

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Download or read book Scientific Thinking written by Robert M. Martin and published by Broadview Press. This book was released on 1997-03-31 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scientific Thinking is a practical guide to inductive reasoning—the sort of reasoning that is commonly used in scientific activity, whether such activity is performed by a scientist, a reporter, a political pollster, or any one of us in day-to-day life. The book provides comprehensive coverage of such topics as confirmation, sampling, correlations, causality, hypotheses, and experimental methods. Martin’s writing confounds those who would think that such topics must be dry-as-dust, presenting ideas in a lively and engaging tone and incorporating amusing examples throughout. This book underlines the importance of acquiring good habits of scientific thinking, and helps to instill those habits in the reader. Stimulating questions and exercises are included in each chapter.

For the Sake of Argument

Author : Robert M. Martin
Publisher : Broadview Press
ISBN 13 : 1770486348
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book For the Sake of Argument written by Robert M. Martin and published by Broadview Press. This book was released on 2016-11-15 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Academic philosophy can be puzzling to newcomers. The conventions, terms, and expectations entrenched among philosophers aren’t always clear from the outside. Why are philosophers so preoccupied with finding “the truth”—doesn’t everyone have their own philosophy? Is philosophy so deep and difficult that its literature has to be incomprehensible? What kinds of arguments can there be for a philosophical position? Where does the evidence come from? Why is there so much jargon—wouldn’t it be better to do away with it altogether? Best-selling author and retired philosophy professor Robert Martin answers these questions and many more, offering a practical guide to arguing and writing philosophically. Anecdotes, jokes, asides, digressions, oddments, and entertainments are included throughout, resulting in an informal introduction that doesn’t shy away from the nuts and bolts of philosophical argument.

Thought X

Author : Robin Ince
Publisher : Comma Press
ISBN 13 : 1905583605
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (55 download)

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Download or read book Thought X written by Robin Ince and published by Comma Press. This book was released on 2017-04-20 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Featuring leading scientists acting as consultants on the stories, and writing scientific afterwords, bringing the theory featured in the stories to life, including Prof. Sarah Bridle (Jodrell Bank), Prof. Jonathan Wolff and Prof. Frank Jackson (the inventor of the 'Mary's Room' thought experiment). Science is always telling stories. Whether in the creation myths of evolution or the Big Bang, or in the eureka moments of science history, narrative – just as much as metaphor – is a key tool in the scientist’s surprisingly literary toolkit. Perhaps the most interesting use of story is the thought experiment, the intuition pump, that draws on the most instinctive parts of the imagination to crack otherwise perplexing problems. From Newton's Bucket, to Maxwell’s Demon, from Einstein's Lift to Schrödinger’s Cat – all are examples of 'fiction' being used at the highest level, not just to explain, but to deduce, to prove. In this unique anthology, authors have collaborated with leading scientists, to bounce literary, human narratives against purely theoretical ones, alloying together real stories with abstract ones, to produce truly extraordinary results. Full list of thought experiments: The Twin Paradox, The Grandfather Paradox, Maxwell's Demon, Laplace's Demon, Mary's Room, The Chinese Room, Schrödinger's Cat, Galileo's Boat, The Infinite Monkey Typing Pool, Einstein in a LIft, Einstein Chasing a Beam of Light, Newton's Bucket, Olber's Paradox.

The Philosophical Project of Carnap and Quine

Author : Sean Morris
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108494242
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book The Philosophical Project of Carnap and Quine written by Sean Morris and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-03-31 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book reassesses Carnap and Quine by presenting them as sharing philosophical motivations despite their notable differences.

Thought Experiments

Author : Nenad Miscevic
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030810828
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book Thought Experiments written by Nenad Miscevic and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-09-29 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a readable introduction to the main aspects of thought experimenting in philosophy and science (together with related imaginative activities in mathematics and linguistics). It presents the main options in understanding thought experiments, from empiricism to Platonism, and discusses their strengths and weaknesses. However, it also provides some original perspectives on the topic. Firstly, it provides a new definition and analysis of thought experimenting that brings it closer to laboratory experimenting. Secondly, it develops the author’s earlier theory of “mental modelling”, proposed some decades ago by him, and some other researchers in the field as the crucial procedure in thought experimenting. The mental modelling approach links work with thought experimenting to cognitive science and to research on mental simulation which is a hot topic in present-day research. Thirdly, it proposes a principled way to respond to criticism of thought experimenting by “experimental philosophers” as they have been dominating the present-day debates. The response suggests a possible ameliorative, self-help project for thought experimenting. Finally, the book provides a way to systematize the history of important thought experiments in science and philosophy and thus connects, in an original way, the systematic investigation of experimenting to the historical work of famous thought experiments. It is of interest to scholars interested in history of ideas and philosophy of science.

The Cannonball Tree Mystery

Author : Ovidia Yu
Publisher : Constable
ISBN 13 : 1472132041
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (721 download)

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Download or read book The Cannonball Tree Mystery written by Ovidia Yu and published by Constable. This book was released on 2021-06-03 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'One of Singapore's finest living authors'South China Morning Post 'Simply glorious. Every nook and cranny of 1930s Singapore is brought richly to life' CATRIONA MCPHERSON 'Charming' RHYS BOWEN 'One of the most likeable heroines in modern literature' SCOTSMAN ________________ Has Su Lin summoned a tree demon who is now killing on her behalf? The overpoweringly fragrant flowers, snakelike vines and deadly fruit of the cannonball tree are enough to keep most people away. But when a piece of expensive photographic equipment is found nearby, on closer inspection Su Lin discovers the body of Mimi, her horrible relative who has been trying to blackmail her. Su Lin is not the only one to realise how much easier this death makes things for her in the new normal of life in Syonan (Japanese Occupied Singapore). And then more fortuitious deaths follow. But is someone really killing people on her account? As Su Lin contends with the fear and rancour of those around her, the resentment of former friends and a whistling demon, can she hope not only to survive but untangle the cannonball tree's secrets to prevent further deaths... and possibly turn the tide of the war? ________________ Praise for Ovidia Yu: 'Chen Su Lin is a true gem. Her slyly witty voice and her admirable, sometimes heartbreaking, practicality make her the most beguiling narrator heroine I've met in a long while' Catriona McPherson 'Charming and fascinating with great authentic feel. Ovidia Yu's teenage Chinese sleuth gives us an insight into a very different culture and time. This book is exactly why I love historical novels' Rhys Bowen 'A wonderful detective novel . . . a book that introduces one of the most likeable heroines in modern literature and should be on everyone's Must Read list' Scotsman 'Unassuming, brilliantly observant' SCMP 'Ovidia Yu's writing helped me peel back the layers to understand Singapore. The story and Chen Su Lin's initiative and tenacity, set against a backdrop of wartime Singapore, intrigued both the historian and the mystery lover in me' Kara Owens CMG CVO, British High Commissioner to Singapore

For the Record

Author : Ed Bolian
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781520302645
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (26 download)

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Download or read book For the Record written by Ed Bolian and published by . This book was released on 2017-01-04 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Speed, supercars, horsepower, anti-police countermeasures, and an epic pursuit of a childhood dream collide on a literal and figurative drive that leads a man to spend every available dollar chasing a record. Ed Bolian's memoir recounts his path from a conversation in high school with Cannonball Run founder, Brock Yates, to setting the fastest time ever for driving from New York to Los Angeles. The journey explores goal setting, criminal psychology, and spirituality. Join Ed in the pursuit of finding your true purpose and using what makes you unique to achieve something extraordinary.

Faster Than Light

Author : Nick Herbert
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0452263174
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (522 download)

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Download or read book Faster Than Light written by Nick Herbert and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1989-11-30 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Even though most physicists believe that the speed of light is as fast as anyone can go, Einstein's theory of special relativity does not rule out faster-than-light (FTL) travel. On the contrary, it seems to indicate that certain superluminal or FTL effects would permit us to re-experience the past: time travel would become a reality, not science fiction. Through this crack in the cosmic egg steps Herbert, a Stanford physicist and author of Quantum Reality, who summarizes clearly current speculation and theory about faster-than-light travel. Along with space warps, black holes and tachyons (hypothetical FTL particles), he looks at the so-called 'quantum connection'—an alleged force said to instantaneously link any two subatomic particles long after they have bumped into each other. Free of the woolgathering that tints much writing on the 'new physics', this brave, exciting book should send scientists back to their drawing boards; for the nonspecialist reader, it reveals a world much stranger than Star Trek."—Publishers Weekly "Original, challenging, and audacious."—San Diego Magazine