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Book Synopsis Radical Distortion by : John W. Reich
Download or read book Radical Distortion written by John W. Reich and published by Prometheus Books. This book was released on 2012-10-16 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our social unity is under attack from extremists on opposite sides of the political spectrum. Often the loudest and most influential public voices today are also the most divisive. Amid the din of conflicting claims, accusations, and counteraccusations, voices of moderation can no longer be heard. Radical speech is creating hazards for civil discourse and even for governance. Under such conditions, how will we ever find common ground to advance the needs of the nation? Psychologist John W. Reich presents answers to this question in this insightful discussion of the social-science research on the decision-making processes of those who endorse extremist beliefs. A key finding of this research is that extremism causes selective hearing and biases our very ability to form objective judgments. In fact, radical speech leads to radical hearing and impedes our willingness to consider moderate viewpoints. Based on these findings, Reich presents seven principles whereby we can reduce or eliminate the toxic influences of extremist rhetoric and selective hearing. These include becoming aware of how emotion affects our judgments, accepting the fact that we live in a diverse society where differing points of view are common, and detecting when extremist rhetoric is designed solely to attack its opponents. If knowledge is power, then the best antidote to toxic speech is increased scientific understanding of how our judgments are formed. By making the latest social-science research on this important subject accessible, Radical Distortion takes a crucial first step toward creating a more civil society.
Book Synopsis Molecular Distortions in Ionic and Excited States by : Peter V. Schastnev
Download or read book Molecular Distortions in Ionic and Excited States written by Peter V. Schastnev and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 1995-08-25 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book discusses the achievements in the study on the structure of active species being formed at the change of molecule charge or electronic state. It gives a systematic outline of the problem of molecular structure distortions in radical ionic and excited states involving experimental and theoretical material. The text focuses on analyzing the physical reasons for structural distortion occurrences at a model level and also with results of detailed quantum-chemical calculations. The book presents numerous facts on the structural distortions in ions of various types of organic molecules. Data is presented for the first time on distortions in radical ions of polyfluoroaromatics and other conjugated molecules.
Book Synopsis The Aesthetics of Antifascist Film by : Jennifer Lynde Barker
Download or read book The Aesthetics of Antifascist Film written by Jennifer Lynde Barker and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through a series of detailed film case histories ranging from The Great Dictator to Hiroshima mon amour to The Lives of Others, The Aesthetics of Antifascist Film: Radical Projection explores the genesis and recurrence of antifascist aesthetics as it manifests in the WWII, Cold War and Post-Wall historical periods. Emerging during a critical moment in film history—1930s/1940s Hollywood— cinematic antifascism was representative of the international nature of antifascist alliances, with the amalgam of film styles generated in émigré Hollywood during the WWII period reflecting a dialogue between an urgent political commitment to antifascism and an equally intense commitment to aesthetic complexity. Opposed to a fascist aesthetics based on homogeneity, purity and spectacle, these antifascist films project a radical beauty of distortion, heterogeneity, fragmentation and loss. By juxtaposing documentation and the modernist techniques of surrealism and expressionism, the filmmakers were able to manifest a non-totalizing work of art that still had political impact. Drawing on insights from film and cultural studies, aesthetic and ethical philosophy, and socio-political theory, this book argues that the artistic struggles with political commitment and modernist strategies of representation during the 1930s and 40s resulted in a distinctive, radical aesthetic form that represents an alternate strand of post-modernism.
Book Synopsis Writing Ground Zero by : John Whittier Treat
Download or read book Writing Ground Zero written by John Whittier Treat and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Treat summarizes the Japanese contribution to such ongoing international debates as the crisis of modern ethics, the relationship of experience to memory, and the possibility of writing history. This Japanese perspective, he shows, both confirms and amends many of the assertions made in the West on the shift that the death camps and nuclear weapons have jointly signaled for the modern world and for the future.
Book Synopsis Avant-Garde Canadian Literature by : Gregory Betts
Download or read book Avant-Garde Canadian Literature written by Gregory Betts and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2013-02-27 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Avant-Garde Canadian Literature, Gregory Betts draws attention to the fact that the avant-garde has had a presence in Canada long before the country's literary histories have recognized, and that the radicalism of avant-garde art has been sabotaged by pedestrian terms of engagement by the Canadian media, the public, and the literary critics. This book presents a rich body of evidence to illustrate the extent to which Canadians have been producing avant-garde art since the start of the twentieth century. Betts explores the radical literary ambitions and achievements of three different nodes of avant-garde literary activity: mystical revolutionaries from the 1910s to the 1930s; Surrealists/Automatists from the 1920s to the 1960s; and Canadian Vorticists from the 1920s to the 1970s. Avant-Garde Canadian Literature offers an entrance into the vocabulary of the ongoing and primarily international debate surrounding the idea of avant-gardism, providing readers with a functional vocabulary for discussing some of the most hermetic and yet energetic literature ever produced in this country.
Book Synopsis Inside Modernism by : Thomas Vargish
Download or read book Inside Modernism written by Thomas Vargish and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, a professor of literature and a physicist offer a broad, new, interdisciplinary account of Modernism. Thomas Vargish and Delo E. Mook encompass physics, the visual arts and literature in a thought-provoking analysis of the period from the 1880s to World War II. Uncovering common structures and values underlying each of these disparate fields, the authors define Modernism and its historical location between nineteenth-century intellectual conventions that preceded it and the Postmodernism that followed. Bridging boundaries that traditionally divide disciplines, Vargish and Mook create a uniquely coherent and comprehensive view of the aesthetics and intellectual values that characterize the culture of Modernism.
Book Synopsis Photography Outdoors by : James Martin
Download or read book Photography Outdoors written by James Martin and published by Mountaineers Books. This book was released on 2014-03-13 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Author–Photographer James Martin has made significant updates to this third edition of the popular Photography: Outdoors, with an emphasis on bringing your skills up to date with the latest hardware and software. Included is instruction on using Lightroom — a new, more powerful, and much easier to use editing tool than Photoshop — as well as tips for getting the most from popular software such as Adobe’s Creative suite. Other updates, revisions, and/or new topics cover: • Mirrorless revolution • “New” state of the art: why medium format still rules • RaW editors vs. editor/databases • RaW conversion: aCR, aperture, Capture One, DoX, and camera proprietary • HDR with Photoshop, Nik, Photomatix, and Lightroom • Using Adobe Camera Raw, the Lightroom Develop Module, or aperture as your principal editing tool — the 80/20 rule becomes 90/10 • New sharpening and noise reduction tools • Gigapan and other panorama tools • RgB Pro color space • Adobe Cs6 topics and what’s new in the interface for Cs 4, 5, 6 • Content aware Fill and Patch • Complete non-destructive workfl ow • Video convergence • Advanced tool set (what’s available for those who wish to go further) • Resources and websites Whether your goal is to capture a dramatic climbing photo, a sparkling waterfall image, or the vibrancy of wildlife in a lush setting, Photography: Outdoors, 3rd Edition, will give you the skills you need to be successful.
Book Synopsis What is the True Christianty ? by : Hendrick Park
Download or read book What is the True Christianty ? written by Hendrick Park and published by Xulon Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today there is a pervasive indifference to the question "What is the Christianity?" This is a serious situation because there are numerous false or only partly false or only partly true and partly false versions of Christianity in the world. This indifference is also an indication of one's indifference to the God. A person cannot be indifferent to the God Who holds his future in His hands and has power to determine his ultimate destiny, and about the true religion that God has revealed for mankind. The author of this book believes that neither the Roman Catholic Church nor the current Protestant Churches are the true church that represents the True Christianity although the Protestant denominations are truer to the Christianity of the New Testament than the Catholic Church. The renowned Catholic theologian Hans Kueng pointed out the deplorable problems of the catholic Church and called for the reform of the Church in his book The Roman Catholic Church(2001). The True religion of God must be preserved intact and this preservation is the greatest duty of the Christians and the church to God. According to prophets of God, "Justice and Mercy" and the pure preservation of the True religion of God are the two main concerns of God, and God laments the gullibility and blind submission of people to wicked religious leaders. The author of this book is a retired minister of the United Church of Canada and holds a Th. D. from the University of Toronto. In 2008 he published The Roman Catholic Church - A Critical Appraisal through the Xulon Press.
Book Synopsis The Routledge History of Antisemitism by : Mark Weitzman
Download or read book The Routledge History of Antisemitism written by Mark Weitzman and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-09-04 with total page 459 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Antisemitism is a topic on which there is a wide gap between scholarly and popular understanding, and as concern over antisemitism has grown, so too have the debates over how to understand and combat it. This handbook explores its history and manifestations, ranging from its origins to the internet. Since the Holocaust, many in North America and Europe have viewed antisemitism as a historical issue with little current importance. However, recent events show that antisemitism is not just a matter of historical interest or of concern only to Jews. Antisemitism has become a major issue confronting and challenging our world. This volume starts with explorations of antisemitism in its many different shapes across time and then proceeds to a geographical perspective, covering a broad scope of experiences across different countries and regions. The final section discusses the manifestations of antisemitism in its varied cultural and social forms. With an international range of contributions across 40 chapters, this is an essential volume for all readers of Jewish and non-Jewish history alike.
Book Synopsis The Pleasure of Pictures by : Jérôme Pelletier
Download or read book The Pleasure of Pictures written by Jérôme Pelletier and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-07-17 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The general aim of this volume is to investigate the nature of the relation between pictorial experience and aesthetic appreciation. In particular, it is concerned with the character and intimacy of this relationship: is there a mere causal connection between pictorial experience and aesthetic appreciation, or are the two relata constitutively associated with one another? The essays in the book’s first section investigate important conceptual issues related to the pictorial experience of paintings. In Section II, the essays discuss the notion of styles, techniques, agency, and facture, and also take into account the experience of photographic and cinematic pictures. The Pleasure of Pictures goes substantially beyond current debates in the philosophy of depiction to launch a new area of reflection in philosophical aesthetics.
Book Synopsis The Regime of Islands in International Law by : Hiran W. Jayewardene
Download or read book The Regime of Islands in International Law written by Hiran W. Jayewardene and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-09-27 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Fighting to Preserve a Nation's Soul by : Robert Bauman
Download or read book Fighting to Preserve a Nation's Soul written by Robert Bauman and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2019 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fighting to Preserve a Nation's Soul examines the relationship between religion, race, and the War on Poverty that President Lyndon Johnson initiated in 1964 and that continues into the present. It studies the efforts by churches, synagogues, and ecumenical religious organizations to join and fight the war on poverty as begun in 1964 by the Office of Economic Opportunity. The book also explores the evolving role of religion in relation to the power balance between church and state and how this dynamic resonates in today's political situation. Robert Bauman surveys all aspects of religion's role in this struggle and substantially discusses the Roman Catholic Church, mainline Protestant churches, Jewish groups, and ecumenical organizations such as the National Council of Churches. In addition, he pays particular attention to race, showing how activist priests and other religious leaders connected religion with the antipoverty efforts of the civil rights movement. For example, he shows how the Interreligious Foundation for Community Organization (IFCO) exemplifies the move toward ecumenism among American religious organizations and the significance of black power to the evolving War on Poverty. Indeed, the Black Manifesto, issued by civil rights and black power activist James Forman in 1969, challenged American churches and synagogues to donate resources to the IFCO as reparations for those institutions' participation in slavery and racial segregation. Bauman, then, explores the intricate and fundamental connection between religious organizations, social movements, and community antipoverty agencies and expands the argument for a long War on Poverty.
Book Synopsis Images of Organization by : Gareth Morgan
Download or read book Images of Organization written by Gareth Morgan and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 2006-04-15 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since its first publication over twenty years ago, Images of Organization has become a classic in the canon of management literature. The book is based on a very simple premise—that all theories of organization and management are based on implicit images or metaphors that stretch our imagination in a way that can create powerful insights, but at the risk of distortion. Gareth Morgan provides a rich and comprehensive resource for exploring the complexity of modern organizations internationally, translating leading-edge theory into leading-edge practice.
Book Synopsis The Whispering Roots by : Cecil Day Lewis
Download or read book The Whispering Roots written by Cecil Day Lewis and published by Jonathan Cape. This book was released on 1970 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Philosophy of Cinematic Art by : Berys Gaut
Download or read book A Philosophy of Cinematic Art written by Berys Gaut and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-01-14 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A wide-ranging and accessible study of cinema as an art form, discussing traditional photographic films, digital cinema, and videogames.
Book Synopsis What Science Is and How It Works by : Gregory N. Derry
Download or read book What Science Is and How It Works written by Gregory N. Derry and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2002-03-04 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How does a scientist go about solving problems? How do scientific discoveries happen? Why are cold fusion and parapsychology different from mainstream science? What is a scientific worldview? In this lively and wide-ranging book, Gregory Derry talks about these and other questions as he introduces the reader to the process of scientific thinking. From the discovery of X rays and semiconductors to the argument for continental drift to the invention of the smallpox vaccine, scientific work has proceeded through honest observation, critical reasoning, and sometimes just plain luck. Derry starts out with historical examples, leading readers through the events, experiments, blind alleys, and thoughts of scientists in the midst of discovery and invention. Readers at all levels will come away with an enriched appreciation of how science operates and how it connects with our daily lives. An especially valuable feature of this book is the actual demonstration of scientific reasoning. Derry shows how scientists use a small number of powerful yet simple methods--symmetry, scaling, linearity, and feedback, for example--to construct realistic models that describe a number of diverse real-life problems, such as drug uptake in the body, the inner workings of atoms, and the laws of heredity. Science involves a particular way of thinking about the world, and Derry shows the reader that a scientific viewpoint can benefit most personal philosophies and fields of study. With an eye to both the power and limits of science, he explores the relationships between science and topics such as religion, ethics, and philosophy. By tackling the subject of science from all angles, including the nuts and bolts of the trade as well as its place in the overall scheme of life, the book provides a perfect place to start thinking like a scientist.
Book Synopsis Doctrine in Shades of Green by : Andrew J. Spencer
Download or read book Doctrine in Shades of Green written by Andrew J. Spencer and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2022-01-13 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How we come to our conclusions about ethical issues matters as much as the specific policies or practices we commend. This book argues that four key doctrines form a theological perspective for environmental ethics. They are the key ideas upon which people build their ethics of the environment. By looking at the doctrines of revelation, creation, anthropology, and eschatology, we can find points of contact to work together more effectively for the common good and have more meaningful debates when our positions differ. This book uses examples from four different theological positions—ecotheology, theological liberalism, fundamentalism, and evangelicalism—to show that a creation-positive ethic is possible from all of these positions, and it explores why people who stand within various theological streams may engage in environmental issues in diverse ways.
