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Author : Kevin Brockmeier
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780982525494
Total Pages : 131 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (254 download)
Download or read book The Human Soul as a Rube Goldberg Device written by Kevin Brockmeier and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Kevin Brockmeier
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307387763
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (73 download)
Download or read book The View From the Seventh Layer written by Kevin Brockmeier and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2009-03-10 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Peering into the often unnoticed corners of life, Kevin Brockmeier has been consistently praised for the originality of his vision, the boundlessness of his imagination and the command of his craft. Once again, in this new collection of fiction, Brockmeier shows us a fantastical world that is intimately familiar but somehow distant and beautiful. From the touching title story, where a young, antisocial woman imagines her escape into the sky with an apparition only she can see, to the haunting story of a pastor tempted by something less than divine, Brockmeier moves effortlessly from the extraordinary to the everyday, while challenging us to see the world anew. Stunning, elegant, profound, and playful, The View from the Seventh Layer cements Kevin Brockmeier's place as one of the most creative and compassionate writers of his generation.
Author : Geoff Hamilton
Publisher : Infobase Learning
ISBN 13 : 1438140673
Total Pages : 1386 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (381 download)
Download or read book Encyclopedia of Contemporary Writers and Their Work written by Geoff Hamilton and published by Infobase Learning. This book was released on 2015-04-22 with total page 1386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents an alphabetical reference guide detailing the lives and works of authors associated with the English-language fiction of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
Author : John J. McGraw
Publisher : AEGIS PRESS
ISBN 13 : 0974764507
Total Pages : 422 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (747 download)
Download or read book Brain & Belief written by John J. McGraw and published by AEGIS PRESS. This book was released on 2004 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From its beginnings in prehistoric religion to its central importance in Western faith traditions, the soul has been a constant source of fascination and speculation. Brain & Belief seeks to understand mankind's obsession with life, death, and the afterlife. Exploring the latest insights from neuroscience, psychopharmacology, and existential psychology, McGraw exhaustively researches the various takes on the human soul and considers the meaning of the soul in a postmodern world. The ambitious scope of the book is balanced by a deeply personal voice whose sympathy for both science and religion is resonant.
Author : Chander Behl
Publisher : FriesenPress
ISBN 13 : 1460258037
Total Pages : 1032 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (62 download)
Download or read book Anatomy of Spirituality: Portrait of the Soul written by Chander Behl and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2015-04-27 with total page 1032 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The domain of spirituality, separated from its theological overburden, believes in the existence of a spiritual self, presumed to be distinctly separate from the psychological self. The spiritual eternal self, also known as the soul or spirit (sometimes supported by an overarching Spirit), is asserted to be operating behind the ephemeral self. This book takes a contrarian stance; it argues that the premise of the soul concept is obtained through the magic of language, maintained through the marvel of the brain’s biochemistry, and sustained through the mirage of the psychological juggernauts of the brain. The magic, the marvel and the mirage, together, bring about subtle shifts as the linguistic brain suppresses many psychological details, habitually applies mental templates such as inversions and dichotomies, and enhances its language by coining religious and spiritual metaphors. The consequence of these changes is that the usual flickering self begins to be impressed by itself, believing it is buttressed by something transcendental and eternal within: the soul or the spirit. The self, although indoctrinated during its formative years, also begins to assimilate and accept the opinion that the overwhelming weight of religious doctrines and dogmas, the overburden, signifies as the legitimate proof for the eternal soul.
Author : H.W. Wilson Company
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Standard Catalog for Public Libraries written by H.W. Wilson Company and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes an abridged edition of 1908 catalog issued under title: English prose fiction ... list of about 800 title.
Author : Rube Goldberg
Publisher : Hastings House Book Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book Rube Goldberg Vs. the Machine Age written by Rube Goldberg and published by Hastings House Book Publishers. This book was released on 1968 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Rube Goldberg
Publisher : Abrams
ISBN 13 : 1613125593
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (131 download)
Download or read book The Art of Rube Goldberg written by Rube Goldberg and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2013-11-12 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A “generously illustrated and well-designed appreciation” of the Pulitzer Prize–winning illustrator, with an introduction by New Yorker writer Adam Gopnik.(The New York Times) Cartoonist, humorist, sculptor, author, engineer, and inventor, Rube Goldberg wrote and illustrated nearly 50,000 cartoon in his seventy-two-year career. Goldberg (1883–1970) was the most famous cartoonist of his time, best known for his comical inventions, which were syndicated in daily newspapers throughout the world. Author Jennifer George celebrates all aspects of her grandfather’s career, from his very first published drawings in his high school newspaper and college yearbook to his iconic inventions, his comic strips and advertising work, and his later sculpture and Pulitzer Prize–winning political cartoons. Also included are essays from such writers and comic historians as Adam Gopnik, Al Jaffee, Carl Linich, Peter Meresca, Paul Tumey and Brian Walker, as well as rare photographs, letters, memorabilia, and patents, many reproduced here for the first time. Brilliantly designed and packaged to capture the inventiveness of Rube Goldberg’s work, The Art of Rube Goldberg is a coffee table book the whole family can enjoy. “Goldberg’s cartoons touch the edge of modern art.” —Adam Gopnik “There will likely never be another Rube Goldberg. Fortunately, his granddaughter’s wonderful book ensures that we’ll always remember this one-of-a-kind cartooning legend.” ―The Washington Times
Author : Roger Lewin
Publisher : Orion Business
ISBN 13 : 9780684843841
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (438 download)
Download or read book The Soul at Work written by Roger Lewin and published by Orion Business. This book was released on 2000 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An accomplished science writer and a development psychologist present the first management book to show how organizations that use complexity science to create a highly human-oriented environment are more adaptable, innovative, and financially successful.
Author : George Howe Colt
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0743282027
Total Pages : 640 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (432 download)
Download or read book November of the Soul written by George Howe Colt and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2006-02-21 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written with the same graceful narrative voice that made his bestselling National Book Award finalist The Big House such a success, George Howe Colt's November of the Soul is a compassionate, compelling, thought-provoking, and exhaustive investigation into the subject of suicide. Drawing on hundreds of in-depth interviews and a fascinating survey of current knowledge, Colt provides moving case studies to offer insight into all aspects of suicide -- its cultural history, the latest biological and psychological research, the possibilities of prevention, the complexities of the right-to-die movement, and the effects on suicide's survivors. Presented with deep compassion and humanity, November of the Soul is an invaluable contribution not only to our understanding of suicide but also of the human condition.
Author : George Makari
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393248690
Total Pages : 608 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (932 download)
Download or read book Soul Machine: The Invention of the Modern Mind written by George Makari and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2015-11-02 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A brilliant and comprehensive history of the creation of the modern Western mind. Soul Machine takes us back to the origins of modernity, a time when a crisis in religious authority and the scientific revolution led to searching questions about the nature of human inner life. This is the story of how a new concept—the mind—emerged as a potential solution, one that was part soul and part machine, but fully neither. In this groundbreaking work, award-winning historian George Makari shows how writers, philosophers, physicians, and anatomists worked to construct notions of the mind as not an ethereal thing, but a natural one. From the ascent of Oliver Cromwell to the fall of Napoleon, seminal thinkers like Hobbes, Locke, Diderot, and Kant worked alongside often-forgotten brain specialists, physiologists, and alienists in the hopes of mapping the inner world. Conducted in a cauldron of political turmoil, these frequently shocking, always embattled efforts would give rise to psychiatry, mind sciences such as phrenology, and radically new visions of the self. Further, they would be crucial to the establishment of secular ethics and political liberalism. Boldly original, wide-ranging, and brilliantly synthetic, Soul Machine gives us a masterful, new account of the making of the modern Western mind.
Author : Peter George Oliver Freund
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 9812706461
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (127 download)
Download or read book A Passion for Discovery written by Peter George Oliver Freund and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2007 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fascinating book assembles human stories about physicists and mathematicians. Remarkably, these stories cluster around some general themes having to do with the interaction between scientists, and with the impact of historic events ? such as the advent of fascism and communism in the twentieth century ? on scientists' behavior. Briefly, but lucidly, some of the beautiful science that brought these scientists together in the first place is explained.Author's webpage: http: //freund9.googlepages.com/peterfreundwritings
Author : Peter G O Freund
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 9814338265
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (143 download)
Download or read book A Passion for Discovery written by Peter G O Freund and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2007-08-14 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fascinating book assembles human stories about physicists and mathematicians. Remarkably, these stories cluster around some general themes having to do with the interaction between scientists, and with the impact of historic events ? such as the advent of fascism and communism in the twentieth century ? on scientists' behavior. Briefly, but lucidly, some of the beautiful science that brought these scientists together in the first place is explained. Author's webpage: http: //freund9.googlepages.com/peterfreundwritings.Contents: Einstein Once RemovedThe Conscience of PhysicsThe Language of GodOswald Teichmller and Nazi ScienceScientists in PoliticsJews in Science. The BacklashStalin and the QuantumOppenheimer, Hero or Antihero?On and Off the Map: Romanian MathematicsA Brief History of Spaceas well as chapters on Richard Feynman, E C G Stueckelberg, Emmy Noether, Andrei Sakharov, and others Readership: Primarily general readers, and particularly theoretical physicists, mathematicians and high energy experimental physicists.
Author : Sammy R Browne
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 0964202832
Total Pages : 187 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (642 download)
Download or read book The MCAT Writing Sample and Verbal Reasoning written by Sammy R Browne and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John P. Wright
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780199256747
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (567 download)
Download or read book Psyche and Soma written by John P. Wright and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Psyche and Soma is a multi-disciplinary exploration of the conceptions of the human soul or mind and body, through the course of more than two thousand years of Western history. Thirteen specially commissioned chapters, each written by a recogized expert, discuss figures such as the physiciansHippocrates, Galen, Stahl, and Cabanis; theologians St Paul, Augustine, and Aquinas; and philosophers from Plato and Aristotle to Descartes, Leibniz, and La Mettrie. The chapters explore in chronlogical sequence the views of these writers on such questions as the soul's immortality, the control itexerts over the body, how mental disturbances arise out of bodily imbalances, and the roles of the priest and the physician in promoting spiritual and mental health. Psyche and Soma will be a key point of reference and a rich source of illumination in this central area of human inquiry.
Download or read book New York Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1980-10-20 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York magazine was born in 1968 after a run as an insert of the New York Herald Tribune and quickly made a place for itself as the trusted resource for readers across the country. With award-winning writing and photography covering everything from politics and food to theater and fashion, the magazine's consistent mission has been to reflect back to its audience the energy and excitement of the city itself, while celebrating New York as both a place and an idea.
Author : HARRINGTON
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1461203910
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (612 download)
Download or read book So Human a Brain written by HARRINGTON and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WALTER A. ROSENBLITH Footnotes to the Recent History of Neuroscience: Personal Reflections and Microstories The workshop upon which this volume is based offered me an opportunity to renew contact fairly painlessly with workers in the brain sciences, not just as a participant/observer but maybe as what might be called a teller of microstories. I had originally become curious about the brain by way of my wife's senior thesis, in which she attempted to relate electroencephalography to certain aspects of human behavior. As a then-budding physicist and communications engineer, I had barely heard about brain waves, nor had I studied physiology in a systematic way. My work on noise dealt with the effects of certain acoustical stimuli on biological structures and entire organisms. This was the period immediately after World War II when many scientists and engineers who had done applied work in the war effort were trying to find their way among the challenging new fields that were opening up. Francis Crick, among others, has described such a search taking place in the cafes of the "other" Cambridge, the one on the Cam. At that time the brain sciences, in his opinion, offered much less promise than molecular biology. However, he was sufficiently attracted by what they might eventually have to offer to keep an eye on them, and several decades later his work turned toward the brain.
