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Author : William James Sidis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Animate and the Inanimate written by William James Sidis and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William Sidis
Publisher : Bigfontbooks
ISBN 13 : 9781963956009
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (56 download)
Download or read book The Animate and the Inanimate written by William Sidis and published by Bigfontbooks. This book was released on 2023-10-25 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sidis entertains the idea that life originated on Earth from asteroids (as put forth by Lord Kelvin and Hermann von Helmholtz) while describing his theory as a synthesis of the mechanical and vitalist life models. Sidis also claims that stars are "alive" and go through an eternally repeating light-dark cycle, with the second law reversing in the dark portion of the cycle. Sidis' theory was dismissed upon release, only to be discovered in an attic in 1979. Buckminster Fuller (a Sidis classmate) wrote to Gerard Piel in response to this discovery: Imagine my surprise and delight when I was handed a xerox of Sidis' 1925 book, in which he predicted the black hole. His book, The Animate and the Inanimate is a tremendous cosmological work. I find him focusing on the same topics that fascinate me and reaching roughly the same conclusions that I have published in SYNERGETICS and will publish in SYNERGETICS Volume II, which has already gone to press. As a Harvard man of a later generation, I hope you are as excited as I am that Sidis went on to do the most magnificent thinking and writing after college. This is one of the few works by Sidis that was not written under a pen name. In The Animate and the Inanimate, Sidis says that the universe is endless and has parts where the laws of physics are backward, called "negative tendencies." Following these are sections where the laws of physics are forward-looking, known as "positive tendencies," which change over time. He claims there was no "origin of life"; life has always existed and only evolved.
Author : William Sidis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781957990699
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (96 download)
Download or read book The Animate and the Inanimate written by William Sidis and published by . This book was released on 2023-10-25 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Lama Lodru
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Quintessence of the Animate and Inanimate written by Lama Lodru and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Don Rogers
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1461337240
Total Pages : 607 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (613 download)
Download or read book The Acquisition of Symbolic Skills written by Don Rogers and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-03-13 with total page 607 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a selection of papers from a conference which took place at the University of Keele in July 1982. The conference was an extraordinarily enjoyable one, and we would like to take this opportunity of thanking all participants for helping to make it so. The conference was intended to allow scholars working on different aspects of symbolic behaviour to compare findings, to look for common ground, and to identify differences between the various areas. We hope that it was successful in these aims: the assiduous reader may judge for himself. Several themes emerged during the course of the conference. Some of these were: 1. There is a distinction to be made between those symbol systems which attempt, more or less directly, to represent a state of affairs in the world (e. g. language, drawing, map and navigational skill) and those in which the representational function is complemented, if not overshadowed, by properties of the symbol system itself, and the systematic inter-relations that symbols can have to one another (e. g. music, mathematics). The distinction is not absolute, for the nature of all symbolic skills is, in part, a function of the structure of the symbolic system employed. Nonetheless, this distinction helps us to understand some common acquisition difficulties, such as that experienced in mathematics, where mental manipulation of symbols can go awry if a child assumes too close a correspondence between mathematical symbols and the world they represent. 2.
Author : Andreas Feininger
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Anatomy of Nature written by Andreas Feininger and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Daniel H. Pink
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101524383
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (15 download)
Download or read book Drive written by Daniel H. Pink and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2011-04-05 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New York Times bestseller that gives readers a paradigm-shattering new way to think about motivation from the author of When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing Most people believe that the best way to motivate is with rewards like money—the carrot-and-stick approach. That's a mistake, says Daniel H. Pink (author of To Sell Is Human: The Surprising Truth About Motivating Others). In this provocative and persuasive new book, he asserts that the secret to high performance and satisfaction-at work, at school, and at home—is the deeply human need to direct our own lives, to learn and create new things, and to do better by ourselves and our world. Drawing on four decades of scientific research on human motivation, Pink exposes the mismatch between what science knows and what business does—and how that affects every aspect of life. He examines the three elements of true motivation—autonomy, mastery, and purpose-and offers smart and surprising techniques for putting these into action in a unique book that will change how we think and transform how we live.
Author : Amy Wallace
Publisher : Crossroad Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book The Prodigy written by Amy Wallace and published by Crossroad Press. This book was released on 2017-12-15 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William James Sidis (1898-1944) was born to a psychologist with some unorthodox ideas about child rearing, attended Harvard at an absurdly young age, burned out at 14, and spent most of the rest of his life working menial jobs and living in poverty. Dubbed a ``failed prodigy'' by the popular press, he lived out his years as an eccentric and a recluse. The truth is a lot more complex than this, and the "failure" a matter of perspective, as shown in this remarkable biography. Wallace's book, the only biography of this most enigmatic of prodigies, gives us a balanced look at Sidis' up-bringing and a somewhat revisionist look at his later life. Sidis apparently was hard at work on manuscripts of various sorts even during his later years; this book is to my knowledge the only one that gives an account of that later work, which dealt with American Indians. New manuscripts by Sidis have surfaced since the writing of this book, including a book on traffic accident patterns.
Author : John H. Flavell
Publisher : CUP Archive
ISBN 13 : 9780521281560
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (815 download)
Download or read book Social Cognitive Development written by John H. Flavell and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1981-05-29 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A group of distinguished social scientists from a wide range of academic backgrounds the opportunity to reflect on social cognitive development.
Author : Mel Y. Chen
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822352729
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (223 download)
Download or read book Animacies written by Mel Y. Chen and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2012-07-10 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rethinks the criteria governing agency and receptivity, health and toxicity, productivity and stillness
Author : Stephan Harding
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 190744825X
Total Pages : 405 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (74 download)
Download or read book Animate Earth written by Stephan Harding and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2009-03-05 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exciting exploration into how Gaian science can help us to develop a sense of connectedness with the 'more-than-human' world. Written by ecologist Stephan Harding, Animate Earth argues that we need to establish the right relationship with the planet as a living entity in which we are indissolubly embedded - and to which we are all accountable. Now in its second edition, this fascinating book includes a new chapter on fungi, contemplative exercises and an update on the global climate situation. Stephan's work is based on careful integration of rational scientific analysis with our intuition, sensing and feeling - a vitally important task at this time of severe ecological and climate crisis. He replaces the cold, objectifying language of science with a way of speaking of our planet as a sentient, living being rather than as a dead, inert mechanism. Chemical reactions, for instance, are described using human metaphors, such as marriage, to bring personality back into the world of rocks, atmosphere, water and living things. In this sense, the book is a contemporary attempt to rediscover anima mundi (the soul of the world) through Gaian science, whilst assuming no prior knowledge of science. Discover what it means to live as harmoniously as possible within a sentient creature of planetary proportions with this inspiring read.
Author : Boris Sidis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Philistine and Genius written by Boris Sidis and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Brenda Iijima
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Animate, Inanimate Aims written by Brenda Iijima and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poetry. Art. "Drawing the ANIMATE, INANIMATE AIM together, they settle into difference. With subtle contagion of body as structured text, titled ligatures in the midst, thick with emotional materiel, Brenda Iijima's work rhymes--off or near--sight as sound. Nature for culture, culture as nature, 'we/ can play school under a tree' or at war. Breaking and building in twitchy compression, the way Marie Menken's hand-held camera swings, framed and fabulous, this exuberant tragic book of drawings and poems will hook you"--Norma Cole. "A kind of necessity is created here for saying, rejuvenating myths, turning anger into jouissance, making thoughts a river of light...Beware: we won't be chagrined anymore; such subversion is the changing of the world"--Etel Adnan
Author : Harold Whitaker
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 0240517148
Total Pages : 173 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (45 download)
Download or read book Timing for Animation written by Harold Whitaker and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2002 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Learn all the tips and tricks of the trade from the professionals. Highly illustrated throughout, points made in the text are demonstrated with the help of numerous superb drawn examples."--
Author : Minsoo Kang
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674264908
Total Pages : 387 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (742 download)
Download or read book Sublime Dreams of Living Machines written by Minsoo Kang and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2011-02-28 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the dawn of European civilization to the twentieth century, the automaton—better known today as the robot—has captured the Western imagination and provided a vital lens into the nature of humanity. Historian Minsoo Kang argues that to properly understand the human-as-machine and the human-as-fundamentally-different-from-machine, we must trace the origins of these ideas and examine how they were transformed by intellectual, cultural, and artistic appearances of the automaton throughout the history of the West. Kang tracks the first appearance of the automaton in ancient myths through the medieval and Renaissance periods, marks the proliferation of the automaton as a central intellectual concept in the Scientific Revolution and the subsequent backlash during the Enlightenment, and details appearances in Romantic literature and the introduction of the living machine in the Industrial Age. He concludes with a reflection on the destructive confrontation between humanity and machinery in the modern era and the reverberations of the humanity-machinery theme today. Sublime Dreams of Living Machines is an ambitious historical exploration and, at heart, an attempt to fully elucidate the rich and varied ways we have utilized our most uncanny creations to explore essential questions about ourselves.
Author : William James Sidis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (913 download)
Download or read book The Tribes and the States written by William James Sidis and published by . This book was released on 2021-01-06 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Tribes and the States is a history of the indigenous peoples of New England and the effect they exerted on the governments and civic systems that emerged in pre and post revolutionary America. Written by child prodigy William James Sidis, the book contends that American democracy has been shaped largely by the various native peoples European colonists encountered as they settled the continent. Completed in 1936, The Tribes and the States is still a unique, progressive and under-acknowledged history of the United States.---TABLE OF CONTENTSCHAPTER I - RED RACE PRE-HISTORY - Source of the Red Race - The Cro-Magnons - AtlantisCHAPTER II - THE RED MAN IN AMERICA - The Different Red Stocks - Tribe, Phratry, and Gens - Equality and Democracy - War and Peace - The Penacook PeoplesCHAPTER III PRE-FEDERATE EVENTS - Events in the Interior - Pre-Federate Transatlantic Communication - The Iroquois - Lines of CommunicationCHAPTER IV THE IROQUOIS FEDERATION - Dagonoweda's Plan - Formation of the Federation - Iroquois Empire and Counter-Federation - Federation as a New DepartureCHAPTER V THE GREAT WHITE INVASION - An Invading Race - Rights of Conquest and Discovery - French Invasion - British Invasions - White AdministrationsCHAPTER VI THE PENACOOK FEDERATION - The Pilgrims - Samoset's Welcome - The Iroquois Attack - Passaconaway - The Penacook Federation - Federability of the Penacook Federation - Defeat of the IroquoisCHAPTER VII PISCATAQUA AND MASADCHU - Invasion of the Piscataqua - The Paumonok Islands - Growth of the Pilgrim Colony - The Puritan Invasion - The Puritans and Their Neighbors - The Head of Massachusetts Bay - The Iroquois AllianceCHAPTER VIII THE PENACOOK PEACE - The Peace of 1634 - Elsewhere in America - Invasion of the Quinnitucket - Extension of the Bay Colony - Apostle Eliot - Narragansett Bay SettlementsCHAPTER IX THE LAST OF THE PEQUOTS - Federation on the Quinnitucket - The Pequot War - Puritan Re-Migration - Puritan Revolt in England - New HavenCHAPTER X THE NEW ENGLAND CONFEDERATION - Difficulties with the Dutch -New England Federation46 Annexation of the Piscataqua47 New Sects48 Conquest of the South49 The Middle RegionsCHAPTER XI UNDER RESTORED MONARCHY50 American Policy of the Restored Stuarts51 The Penacook Country at the Restoration52 The Duke of York's Claims53 New Settlement in Carolina54 Punishing New England55 New York's Border ConflictsCHAPTER XII METACOM'S WAR56 Bashaba Metacom57 Plymouth Resents Metacom58 Reconquest of Paumonok59 Effect of the Penacook Federation60 War Against Plymouth61 Converts and Adoptees62 The Defeat of the Tribes63 Rebellion in VirginiaCHAPTER XIII QUAKER SETTLEMENT64 The Keystone Colony65 Starting the Quaker Colony66 Massachusetts's Charter Disputes67 Extension of the Keystone TerritoryCHAPTER XIV THE ANDROS REGIME68 New York's Overlord Becomes King69 New York Annexes New England70 Witchcraft71 Rebellion Against Andros72 The Rebellion SpreadsCHAPTER XV REBEL PROVINCES73 Rebel Provinces74 Father Rasles75 The Hudson Valley Is Attacked76 The Rebel Governments77 Scalping Bounties78 Down the Mississippi79 End of the Rebel GovernmentsCHAPTER XVI INTERCOLONIAL STRUGGLES80 The Peace of 169781 Louisiana82 The English Colonies after the Partition83 The Acadian War84 Wars Against the Tribes85 A Thirteenth Colony86 Religious Reform87 The Georgian WarCHAPTER XVII THE GREAT OHIO WAR88 Canessetago and Franklin89 Expulsion of the Acadians90 The Lanapes' New Home91 French Expansion in the Interior92 Virginia's Ohio Expedition93 The Great Ohio War Starts94 Iroquois Territory Invaded95 Amherst's Smallpox96 Capture of Canada97 The Peace of 1763...
Author : Miguel TAMEN
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674044215
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (74 download)
Download or read book Friends of Interpretable Objects written by Miguel TAMEN and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-30 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tamen's concern is to show how inanimate objects take on life through their interpretation--notably, in our own culture, as they are collected and housed in museums. It is his claim that an object becomes interpretable only in the context of a "society of friends." Thus, he suggests, our inveterate tendency as human beings to interpret the phenomenal world gives objects not only a life but also a society.
