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Gli Alieni Del Pianeta Terra Unindagine Sulla Genesi Delluomo Articolata Sulle Conoscenze Scientifiche E Antropologiche In Relazione Allipotesi Extraterrestre
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Book Synopsis The Languages of Political Theory in Early-Modern Europe by : Anthony Pagden
Download or read book The Languages of Political Theory in Early-Modern Europe written by Anthony Pagden and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays on the political 'languages' of natural law, classical republicanism, commerce and political science.
Book Synopsis The Flying Saucer Conspiracy by : Donald Edward Keyhoe
Download or read book The Flying Saucer Conspiracy written by Donald Edward Keyhoe and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presenting the Flying Saucer Conspiracy by Donald Keyhoe.
Book Synopsis Science on Stage by : Kirsten Shepherd-Barr
Download or read book Science on Stage written by Kirsten Shepherd-Barr and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2018-06-05 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Science on Stage is the first full-length study of the phenomenon of "science plays"--theatrical events that weave scientific content into the plot lines of the drama. The book investigates the tradition of science on the stage from the Renaissance to the present, focusing in particular on the current wave of science playwriting. Drawing on extensive interviews with playwrights and directors, Kirsten Shepherd-Barr discusses such works as Michael Frayn's Copenhagen and Tom Stoppard's Arcadia. She asks questions such as, What accounts for the surge of interest in putting science on the stage? What areas of science seem most popular with playwrights, and why? How has the tradition evolved throughout the centuries? What currents are defining it now? And what are some of the debates and controversies surrounding the use of science on stage? Organized by scientific themes, the book examines selected contemporary plays that represent a merging of theatrical form and scientific content--plays in which the science is literally enacted through the structure and performance of the play. Beginning with a discussion of Christopher Marlowe's Doctor Faustus, the book traces the history of how scientific ideas (quantum mechanics and fractals, for example) are dealt with in theatrical presentations. It discusses the relationship of science to society, the role of science in our lives, the complicated ethical considerations of science, and the accuracy of the portrayal of science in the dramatic context. The final chapter looks at some of the most recent and exciting developments in science playwriting that are taking the genre in innovative directions and challenging the audience's expectations of a science play. The book includes a comprehensive annotated list of four centuries of science plays, which will be useful for teachers, students, and general readers alike.
Book Synopsis Cannibal Metaphysics by : Eduardo Batalha Viveiros de Castro
Download or read book Cannibal Metaphysics written by Eduardo Batalha Viveiros de Castro and published by Univocal Publishing. This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The iconoclastic Brazilian anthropologist and theoretician Eduardo Viveiros de Castro, well known in his discipline for helping initiate its "ontological turn," offers a vision of anthropology as "the practice of the permanent decolonization of thought." After showing that Amazonian and other Amerindian groups inhabit a radically different conceptual universe than ours--in which nature and culture, human and nonhuman, subject and object are conceived in terms that reverse our own--he presents the case for anthropology as the study of such "other" metaphysical schemes, and as the corresponding critique of the concepts imposed on them by the human sciences. Along the way, he spells out the consequences of this anthropology for thinking in general via a major reassessment of the work of Claude Lévi-Strauss, arguments for the continued relevance of Deleuze and Guattari, dialogues with the work of Philippe Descola, Bruno Latour, and Marilyn Strathern, and inventive treatments of problems of ontology, translation, and transformation. Bold, unexpected, and profound, Cannibal Metaphysics is one of the chief works marking anthropology's current return to the theoretical center stage.
Book Synopsis The Early H.G. Wells by : Bernard Bergonzi
Download or read book The Early H.G. Wells written by Bernard Bergonzi and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 1961-12-15 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a sensitive study of Wells’ imaginative development during his formative years. It comes at a time when interest in H.G. Wells’ early writing is beginning to revive, owing, no doubt, to the current translation into reality of some aspects of science fiction. Mr. Bergonzi examines Wells’ early fiction, from surviving student writings of the late eighties to 1901 when he published The First Men in the Moon, his last significant scientific romance, and Anticipations, his first systematic non-fictional treatise. The main emphasis of his study falls on the scientific romances of the nineties, which are examined in detail. In addition to literary analysis, relevant source material and reviews, which show how contemporaries received Wells’ work, are noted. Wells’ early attitude to science is shown to have been deeply ambivalent, as is apparent in his successive uses of the Frankenstein archetype. His intellectual attitudes tended towards scepticism and pessimism rather than to the ‘utopian’ optimism associated with his later career. These romances reflect in imaginative and non-discursive form some of the major preoccupations of late-Victorian England: the impact of Darwinism, of Socialism, and an increasing lack of national self-confidence. Mr. Bergonzi sees Wells as essentially a fin de siècle myth-maker, and he argues that it is this aspect of Wells’ work which most requires attention if he is to be remembered in the future. Two early pieces by Wells, now unobtainable elsewhere, are given in an Appendix. One, The Chronic Argonauts, a fragment of a fantastic novel written at the age of 21, is the earliest draft of The Time Machine.
Book Synopsis Dictionary of Literary Themes and Motifs by : Jean-Charles Seigneuret
Download or read book Dictionary of Literary Themes and Motifs written by Jean-Charles Seigneuret and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 1988 with total page 728 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This index is a veritable who's who of the greats of Western literature. . . . The Board recommends it for every collection whose users conduct analytical studies of literature. Reference Books Bulletin The powerful hold that literature exercises is based primarily on recognition--the reader's ability to identify with others through shared human concerns that transcend ttace, time, and cultural boundaries. These universal themes, and how they have been treated in literature from the classical period to the present, are the subject of the critical essays comprising this volume. A fascinating resource for students and general readers and an essential research tool for scholars in literature, it is the first thematic reference on this scale to be published in English. The dictionary consists of 143 essays contributed by 98 specialists in world literature. Topics covered include themes relating to adventure, family life, the supernatural, eroticism, status, humor, idealism, terror, and many other categories of human experience. Each entry begins with a defintion and a sketch on the origin and historical background of the literary theme. The topical essay discusses the significance and occurrence of the theme in world literature and supplies information on geographical area, genre, style, and chronology. Entries conclude with a selected bibliography of scholarship in the area. A cross-index to themes and motifs will enable the reader to find information on secondary or related topics. Convenient to use and presented in a standardized format, this major new reference will be an important acquisition for libraries with collections in English, American, and world literature.
Book Synopsis Essays on Self-reference by : Niklas Luhmann
Download or read book Essays on Self-reference written by Niklas Luhmann and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy by : Gary Westfahl
Download or read book The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy written by Gary Westfahl and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 2005 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive three-volume reference work offers six hundred entries, with the first two volumes covering themes and the third volume exploring two hundred classic works in literature, television, and film.
Book Synopsis Shadows of the Future by : Patrick Parrinder
Download or read book Shadows of the Future written by Patrick Parrinder and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 1995-09-01 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: H. G. Wells—the inventor of the concept of the time machine and the phrase "the Shape of Things to Come"—described his life's work as one of "critical anticipation." Shadows of the Future identifies the attempt to imagine possible futures as the unifying principle behind Wells's diverse and sometimes wayward literary career. The book unravels the complex layers of meaning in The Time Machine, and shows how throughout his life he sought to exploit the potential of literary and cultural prophecy in new ways. Described by John Middleton Murry as "the last prophet of bourgeois Europe," he was also its first futurologist. In Shadows of the Future Wells's assumption of the prophet's role is related to his championship of the modern scientific outlook, and to the theory and practice of science fiction and utopian literature. Parrinder explores the connections between novelty and repetition, between imagining the future and imagining the past, and between prophecy and parody as literary modes. Wells's science fiction is reexamined both as a projection of the cosmology implicit in the writings of Darwin and Huxley, and as a new variation on the Romantic and Enlightenment themes of such earlier authors as Blake, Gibbon, and Mary Shelley. Later chapters relate Wells's fiction to his nonfiction and look at the uneasy relationship of his utopianism to literary prophecy, and at the paradoxes inherent in the militant internationalism of the " prophet at large." Finally, Wells's influence is traced in a study of the antiutopian fictions of Zamyatin and Orwell, and in a broad account of the connections between science fiction and the scientific outlook down to our own time.
Book Synopsis From Faust to Strangelove by : Roslynn Doris Haynes
Download or read book From Faust to Strangelove written by Roslynn Doris Haynes and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: They were mad, of course. Or evil. Or godless, amoral, arrogant, impersonal, and inhuman. At best, they were well-intentioned but blind to the dangers of forces they barely controlled. They were Faust and Frankenstein, Jekyll and Moreau, Caligari and Strangelove--the scientists of film and fiction, cultural archetypes that reflected ancient fears of tampering with the unknown or unleashing the little-understood powers of nature. In From Faust to Strangelove Roslyn Haynes offers the first detailed and comprehensive study of the image of the scientist in Western literature and film--from medieval images of alchemists to present-day depictions of cyberpunks and genetic engineers.
Download or read book H.G. Wells written by John R. Hammond and published by MacMillan Publishing Company. This book was released on 1980 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Lectures on the Relation Between Law & Public Opinion in England During the Nineteenth Century by : Albert Venn Dicey
Download or read book Lectures on the Relation Between Law & Public Opinion in England During the Nineteenth Century written by Albert Venn Dicey and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis L'evoluzione umana dalla Terra a Marte by : Brunetto Chiarelli
Download or read book L'evoluzione umana dalla Terra a Marte written by Brunetto Chiarelli and published by Edizioni Altravista. This book was released on 2016-12-13 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Questo volume è un’indagine sull’uomo. La selezione naturale promuove dei cambiamenti in cui gruppi di organismi della stessa specie si evolvono e il processo conduce alla speciazione. Ma l’evoluzione della vita potrebbe non essere infinita, la vita del Sole avrà una fine, questa stella perderà la sua massa e diminuirà la sua forza di attrazione sulla Terra, che di conseguenza si allontanerà. La vita terrestre è quindi destinata all’estinzione, ma il Sole non è il solo elemento che condiziona la permanenza della specie umana sulla Terra: esistono altre minacce concrete, come la caduta di un asteroide. Questo quadro disarmante accadrà fra circa 4 miliardi di anni, periodo in cui l’Homo sapiens 3 avrà scoperto come usare l’energia oscura per raggiungere una velocità in grado di superare quella della luce e raggiungere altri pianeti o grandi asteroidi, esopianeti su cui rendere possibile la vita umana. Per gli astronauti, viaggiare nello spazio significa avere la consapevolezza che il tempo e lo spazio sono un’illusione rispetto alla realtà cosmica e solo l’intelligenza accompagnata alla volontà della riuscita consentono il loro adattamento negli ambienti confinati. Lo spazio tempo, abitualmente dissociato, è riunito in un continuum spazio-temporale quadrimensionale M che è alla base di tutto il lavoro sulla teoria della relatività ristretta. L’esistente per Karl Jasper non è infatti collocato nel tempo e nello spazio, semplicemente ci è; esserci: da sein.
