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City Of Illusions

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Author : Ursula K. Le Guin
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 1473205867
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (732 download)

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Download or read book City Of Illusions written by Ursula K. Le Guin and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2015-10-01 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'She is unique. She is legend' THE TIMES 'A tour de force' EVENING STANDARD 'A wonderfully mordant analyst of human weakness' Martin Amis Earth, like the rest of the Known Worlds, has fallen to the Shing. Scattered here and there, small groups of humans live in a state of semi-barbarism. They have lost the skills, science and knowledge that had been Earth's in the golden age of the League of Worlds, and whenever a colony of humans tries to rekindle the embers of a half-forgotten technology, the Shing, with their strange, mindlying power, crush them out. There is one man who can stand against the malign Shing, but he is an alien with amber eyes and must first prove to paranoid humanity that he himself is not a creature of the Shing.

Life, Money and Illusion

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Author : Mike Nickerson
Publisher : New Society Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1550924419
Total Pages : 465 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (59 download)

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Download or read book Life, Money and Illusion written by Mike Nickerson and published by New Society Publishers. This book was released on 2009-09-01 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years, unchecked growth has brought us to the brink of economic and environmental collapse. Life, Money & Illusion was inspired by the dilemma of having an economic structure that has to grow to remain healthy, while facing the finite limits of our planet. This revised and updated edition launches a review of economic expansion. It examines how growth came to be a goal and how that goal, though once beneficial, is now the propellant for catastrophe. Then, by showing how the economy can be restructured to remain within planetary limits, it points the way to a sustainable future. Life, Money & Illusion advocates change by shifting the dominant economic paradigm from growth to sustainability. Techniques include: Measuring progress with social and environmental indicators, along with economic ones Encouraging investment in community Practical changes, such as full cost accounting, tax shifting, and monetary reform Honoring the Golden Rule instead of the Rule of Gold Focusing more on living than on stuff An engaging and empowering vision of a future that celebrates humanity's extraordinary ability to adapt and evolve, Life, Money & Illusion will appeal to social activists, business people, students, environmentalists, financial planners, economists, parents, grandparents, and anyone else with a stake in the future. Mike Nickerson is an educator and the author of three books on sustainability. He helped draft the Canada Well-Being Measurement Act and lives in Ontario, Canada.

Illusions

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Author : Madeline J. Reynolds
Publisher : Entangled: Teen
ISBN 13 : 1640635645
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (46 download)

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Download or read book Illusions written by Madeline J. Reynolds and published by Entangled: Teen. This book was released on 2018-11-06 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dear Thomas, I know you're angry. It's true, I was sent to expose your mentor as a fraud illusionist, and instead I have put your secret in jeopardy. I fear I have even put your life in jeopardy. For that I can only beg your forgiveness. I've fallen for you. You know I have. And I never wanted to create a rift between us, but if it means protecting you from those who wish you dead—I'll do it. I'll do anything to keep you safe, whatever the sacrifice. Please forgive me for all I've done and what I'm about to do next. I promise, it's one magic trick no one will ever see coming. Love, Saverio

The Earth of Illusions

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Author : Nano P Bott, S. Dave
Publisher : Notion Press
ISBN 13 : 1948352796
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (483 download)

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Download or read book The Earth of Illusions written by Nano P Bott, S. Dave and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 2017-12-18 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you ever felt that humans are… insignificant? Has it ever been felt like this before? How about a change from the usual setup from humans and rebel passively? Hidden in the most insignificant place of the world, how can mere students hide facts from the rest? Demon, Yokai, Mythological Beast, these all are quite adept at hiding and blending yet, why does the most perfect student seem to have a secret? Who are we… exactly?

The Grand Illusion

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Author : Brendan D Murphy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780646973357
Total Pages : 606 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (733 download)

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Download or read book The Grand Illusion written by Brendan D Murphy and published by . This book was released on 2017-08-04 with total page 606 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Grand Illusion synthesizes the best consciousness research with decades of cutting-edge discovery and hard science, empowering you with an intelligent new paradigm and new direction for humanity. This acclaimed book destroys the materialist notion of humans as "meat computers" and lays the foundation for a scientifically-based metaphysics.

Green Illusions

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Author : Ozzie Zehner
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 0803243367
Total Pages : 462 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book Green Illusions written by Ozzie Zehner and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We don’t have an energy crisis. We have a consumption crisis. And this book, which takes aim at cherished assumptions regarding energy, offers refreshingly straight talk about what’s wrong with the way we think and talk about the problem. Though we generally believe we can solve environmental problems with more energy—more solar cells, wind turbines, and biofuels—alternative technologies come with their own side effects and limitations. How, for instance, do solar cells cause harm? Why can’t engineers solve wind power’s biggest obstacle? Why won’t contraception solve the problem of overpopulation lying at the heart of our concerns about energy, and what will? This practical, environmentally informed, and lucid book persuasively argues for a change of perspective. If consumption is the problem, as Ozzie Zehner suggests, then we need to shift our focus from suspect alternative energies to improving social and political fundamentals: walkable communities, improved consumption, enlightened governance, and, most notably, women’s rights. The dozens of first steps he offers are surprisingly straightforward. For instance, he introduces a simple sticker that promises a greater impact than all of the nation’s solar cells. He uncovers why carbon taxes won’t solve our energy challenges (and presents two taxes that could). Finally, he explores how future environmentalists will focus on similarly fresh alternatives that are affordable, clean, and can actually improve our well-being. Watch a book trailer.

More Optical Illusions

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Author : Al Seckel
Publisher : Carlton Publishing Group
ISBN 13 : 9781842224878
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (248 download)

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Download or read book More Optical Illusions written by Al Seckel and published by Carlton Publishing Group. This book was released on 2002 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A gallery of over one hundred optical illusions, each with an explanation.

The Harmony of Illusions

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Author : Allan Young
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400821932
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book The Harmony of Illusions written by Allan Young and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 1997-10-27 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As far back as we know, there have been individuals incapacitated by memories that have filled them with sadness and remorse, fright and horror, or a sense of irreparable loss. Only recently, however, have people tormented with such recollections been diagnosed as suffering from "post-traumatic stress disorder." Here Allan Young traces this malady, particularly as it is suffered by Vietnam veterans, to its beginnings in the emergence of ideas about the unconscious mind and to earlier manifestations of traumatic memory like shell shock or traumatic hysteria. In Young's view, PTSD is not a timeless or universal phenomenon newly discovered. Rather, it is a "harmony of illusions," a cultural product gradually put together by the practices, technologies, and narratives with which it is diagnosed, studied, and treated and by the various interests, institutions, and moral arguments mobilizing these efforts. This book is part history and part ethnography, and it includes a detailed account of everyday life in the treatment of Vietnam veterans with PTSD. To illustrate his points, Young presents a number of fascinating transcripts of the group therapy and diagnostic sessions that he observed firsthand over a period of two years. Through his comments and the transcripts themselves, the reader becomes familiar with the individual hospital personnel and clients and their struggle to make sense of life after a tragic war. One observes that everyone on the unit is heavily invested in the PTSD diagnosis: boundaries between therapist and patient are as unclear as were the distinctions between victim and victimizer in the jungles of Southeast Asia.

Earth Is a Young Soul Planet

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Author : Rev. Lorana Clark
Publisher : Balboa Press
ISBN 13 : 1452559120
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (525 download)

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Download or read book Earth Is a Young Soul Planet written by Rev. Lorana Clark and published by Balboa Press. This book was released on 2012-10 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You are a unified field of light energy, localized in a physical body, manifesting the essence of God within the density of matter. How's that for a description of the total you and me-and every other being, whether they know it or not. Those that don't know it usually don't show it. Those that see God as outside of themselves live in superstition and fear.

Reading- The Grand Illusion

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Author : Kenneth Goodman
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 131733101X
Total Pages : 187 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (173 download)

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Download or read book Reading- The Grand Illusion written by Kenneth Goodman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-01-22 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is reading? In this groundbreaking book, esteemed researchers Ken Goodman, Peter Fries, and Steven Strauss, explain not only what reading really is but also why common sense makes it seem to be something quite different from that reality. How can this grand illusion be explained? That is the purpose of this book. As the authors show, unraveling the secrets of the grand illusion of reading teaches about far more than reading itself, but also about how remarkable human language is, how the brain uses language to navigate the world, what it means to be human. Each author brings a different perspective, but all share a common view of the reading process. Together they provide a clear and surprising exposition of the reading process, in which they involve readers of this book in exploring the ways they themselves read and make sense of written language while their eyes fixate on fewer than 70 percent of the words in the text. In addition, the authors engage in a cross-disciplinary discussion about how readers use the brain, eyes, and language in reading. The different perspectives provide depth to the authors’ description of reading. The information presented in this book will be new to many teachers, researchers, teacher educators, and the public alike. The final chapter draws on the understandings from the book to challenge the treatment of reading and writing as school subjects and offers the basis for supporting literacy development as a natural extension of oral language development.

Behind Every Illusion

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Author : Christina Harner
Publisher : Christina Harner
ISBN 13 : 097954324X
Total Pages : 503 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (795 download)

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Download or read book Behind Every Illusion written by Christina Harner and published by Christina Harner. This book was released on 2009-05 with total page 503 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Power of Illusion

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Author : Christopher Anvil
Publisher : Baen Publishing Enterprises
ISBN 13 : 1618247832
Total Pages : 615 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (182 download)

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Download or read book The Power of Illusion written by Christopher Anvil and published by Baen Publishing Enterprises. This book was released on 2010-10-01 with total page 615 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new collection of stories by the master of humorous science fiction adventure, including: The full-length novel, The Day the Machines Stopped¾and what happens, not just to civilization, but to humanity and its chances of survival when all the machines stop working at once? A man is captured by aliens who are investigating the Earth as a possible target for colonization. The aliens have science and technology far in advance of humans¾but, unfortunately for them, they have never developed the human art of bluffing. For the first time in book form, Anvil's stories of Richard Verner, who is called in to solve apparently insoluble problems, such as explaining why experimental missiles keep failing for no apparent reason, or locating a kidnapped judge, or even solving an inexplicable murder that's interrupting his vacation. And much more, in a generous volume of sardonically humorous science fiction. At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management).

Visual Illusions

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Author : Matthew Luckiesh
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Visual Illusions written by Matthew Luckiesh and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Knowledge Illusion

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Author : Steven Sloman
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0399184341
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (991 download)

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Download or read book The Knowledge Illusion written by Steven Sloman and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2017-03-14 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The Knowledge Illusion is filled with insights on how we should deal with our individual ignorance and collective wisdom.” —Steven Pinker We all think we know more than we actually do. Humans have built hugely complex societies and technologies, but most of us don’t even know how a pen or a toilet works. How have we achieved so much despite understanding so little? Cognitive scientists Steven Sloman and Philip Fernbach argue that we survive and thrive despite our mental shortcomings because we live in a rich community of knowledge. The key to our intelligence lies in the people and things around us. We’re constantly drawing on information and expertise stored outside our heads: in our bodies, our environment, our possessions, and the community with which we interact—and usually we don’t even realize we’re doing it. The human mind is both brilliant and pathetic. We have mastered fire, created democratic institutions, stood on the moon, and sequenced our genome. And yet each of us is error prone, sometimes irrational, and often ignorant. The fundamentally communal nature of intelligence and knowledge explains why we often assume we know more than we really do, why political opinions and false beliefs are so hard to change, and why individual-oriented approaches to education and management frequently fail. But our collaborative minds also enable us to do amazing things. The Knowledge Illusion contends that true genius can be found in the ways we create intelligence using the community around us.

Empire of Illusion

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Author : Chris Hedges
Publisher : Knopf Canada
ISBN 13 : 0307398587
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (73 download)

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Download or read book Empire of Illusion written by Chris Hedges and published by Knopf Canada. This book was released on 2009-07-28 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pulitzer prize–winner Chris Hedges charts the dramatic and disturbing rise of a post-literate society that craves fantasy, ecstasy and illusion. Chris Hedges argues that we now live in two societies: One, the minority, functions in a print-based, literate world, that can cope with complexity and can separate illusion from truth. The other, a growing majority, is retreating from a reality-based world into one of false certainty and magic. In this “other society,” serious film and theatre, as well as newspapers and books, are being pushed to the margins. In the tradition of Christopher Lasch’s The Culture of Narcissism and Neil Postman’s Amusing Ourselves to Death, Hedges navigates this culture — attending WWF contests as well as Ivy League graduation ceremonies — exposing an age of terrifying decline and heightened self-delusion.

Famous Scientific Illusions

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Author : Nikola Tesla
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1627932186
Total Pages : 81 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (279 download)

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Download or read book Famous Scientific Illusions written by Nikola Tesla and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-06-28 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Famous Scientific Illusions Nikola Tesla addresses "exceptionally interesting errors in the interpretation and application of physical phenomena which have for years dominated the minds of experts and men of science." Among these are the Moons rotation, Interplanetary Communication, Signals to Mars and others.

Illusions

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Author : James Sully
Publisher : London : Paul
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book Illusions written by James Sully and published by London : Paul. This book was released on 1881 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: