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Author : William Barrett
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book The Illusion of Technique written by William Barrett and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William Barrett
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0307761088
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (77 download)
Download or read book Irrational Man written by William Barrett and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2011-01-26 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Widely recognized as the finest definition of existentialist philosophy ever written, this book introduced existentialism to America in 1958. Barrett speaks eloquently and directly to concerns of the 1990s: a period when the irrational and the absurd are no better integrated than before and when humankind is in even greater danger of destroying its existence without ever understanding the meaning of its existence. Irrational Man begins by discussing the roots of existentialism in the art and thinking of Augustine, Aquinas, Pascal, Baudelaire, Blake, Dostoevski, Tolstoy, Hemingway, Picasso, Joyce, and Beckett. The heart of the book explains the views of the foremost existentialists—Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Heidegger, and Sartre. The result is a marvelously lucid definition of existentialism and a brilliant interpretation of its impact.
Author : William Barrett
Publisher : Anchor Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (38 download)
Download or read book The Illusion of Technique written by William Barrett and published by Anchor Books. This book was released on 1978 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William Barrett
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780718303464
Total Pages : 359 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (34 download)
Download or read book The Illusion of Technique written by William Barrett and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Michael English
Publisher : Collins & Brown
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (1 download)
Download or read book The Anatomy of Illusion written by Michael English and published by Collins & Brown. This book was released on 1989 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Tom Savini
Publisher : Imagine (PA)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Grande Illusions written by Tom Savini and published by Imagine (PA). This book was released on 1983 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Steven Sloman
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0399184341
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (991 download)
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 304 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.
Author : Porochista Khakpour
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1620403048
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (24 download)
Download or read book The Last Illusion written by Porochista Khakpour and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2014-05-13 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A kaleidoscopic tale inspired by a legend from the medieval Persian epic "Book of Kings" follows the coming-of-age of a feral Middle Eastern youth in New York City on the eve of the September 11 attacks. By the award-winning author of Sons and Other Flammable Objects. 25,000 first printing.
Author : Vivienne Mylne
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780719001741
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (17 download)
Download or read book The Eighteenth-century French Novel written by Vivienne Mylne and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1970 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Nirmala
Publisher : Endless Satsang Foundation
ISBN 13 : 145230436X
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (523 download)
Download or read book Nothing Personal: Seeing Beyond the Illusion of a Separate Self written by Nirmala and published by Endless Satsang Foundation. This book was released on 2010-01-16 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Advaita and nondual teachings are about finding the Truth. This Truth is not a dogma that you study; it is the Truth about life †the Truth about who you really are. This Truth is discovered, not learned. It is discovered through sincerely inquiring, Who am I? What you discover is that who you are has nothing to do with self-images or roles and everything to do with what you experience when you ask this question. What you discover is that who you think of yourself as is just that †a thought! And beyond that thought is a great Mystery †an experience of nothingness, which is your true nature.Nothing Personal leads you to the experience of your true nature and helps you explore its depth. Through exposition, questions and dialogues, it brings you to a place of realization of the Truth: you are that spacious Awareness in which everything appears, including your thoughts and feelings. Your thoughts and feelings do not define you but merely appear within Consciousness along with everything else. This Consciousness is who you are.Nothing Personal offers a gentle and persistent guide to seeing the underlying truth of your ultimate nature. In this concisely edited collection of satsang talks and dialogues, you are invited to honor the limitless love that is your true nature and to enjoy the sweet richness that is revealed when you give this Truth your undivided attention.From the introduction:Unlike most books, this one is not meant to add to your knowledge or understanding. It is about the Truth that cannot be spoken or written. Although the Truth cannot be contained in this or any other book, each word written here is intended to point you toward that Truth. Many of the words and ideas may seem paradoxical or contradictory because what they point to is larger than our conceptual frameworks. Many questions are asked, which are not answered anywhere in the book. Find out what the experience is like to ask yourself these questions, even if they leave you emptier of knowledge and understanding. In this emptying, you just may discover what you are looking for.The Truth is revealed when we allow ourselves to not know, so I invite you to set aside all that you know for the time being and allow yourself to look with innocent eyes at what the words are attempting to unveil. Take the time to experience the unspoken truth in each section before moving on to the next. Resist the temptation to read these words with your mind, which is likely to rush right past the Truth. Allow the words to sink into your heart and reveal the truth of who you are.
Author : Michael Raduga
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781500578039
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (78 download)
Download or read book The Phase written by Michael Raduga and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2014-07-19 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the newest version of The Phase: A Practical Guidebook for Lucid Dreaming and Out-of-Body Travel Michael Raduga: "This guidebook is the result of ten years of extremely active personal practice and study of the phase (lucid dreaming + out-of-body experience), coupled with having successfully taught it to thousands of people. I know all of the obstacles and problems that are usually run into when getting to know this phenomenon, and have tried to protect future practitioners from them in this book. All my life I sought an elegant solution to one odd riddle. I sought it from Siberia to California, from the field of neurophysiology to quantum physics, and in illegal experiments on thousands of people. But the answer I found sent me into shock and changed my entire perception of reality. Unlike others, I offer not only a new perspective on the world, but also step-by-step practices that can shake the pillars of your limited reality, and give you revolutionary new tools for obtaining information, self-healing, travel, entertainment, and much more." TABLE OF CONTENTS: - Part I: What is the Phase? Chapter 1 - The Enigma. Chapter 2 - The Search for an Answer. Chapter 3 - The Answer. - Part II: How to Enter the Phase Today. - Part III: The Phase Practitioner's Practical Encyclopedia. Chapter 1 - General Background. Chapter 2 - The Indirect Method. Chapter 3 - The Direct Method. Chapter 4 - Becoming Conscious While Dreaming. Chapter 5 - Non-Autonomous Methods. Chapter 6 - Deepening. Chapter 7 - Maintaining. Chapter 8 - Primary Skills. Chapter 9 - Translocation and Finding Objects. Chapter 10 - Application. Chapter 11 - Useful Tips. Chapter 12 - A Collection of Techniques. Chapter 13 - Putting a Face on the Phenomenon. Chapter 14 - Final Test. Chapter 15 - The Highest Level of Practice. Chapter 16 - Real Examples of Phase Experiences. - Appendix. (Version 3.0, 2015)
Author : Frank Thomas
Publisher : Disney Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 584 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Illusion of Life written by Frank Thomas and published by Disney Press. This book was released on 1995-10-05 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Disney Animation
Author : Sandro Del-Prete
Publisher : Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9781402754005
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (54 download)
Download or read book The Master of Illusions written by Sandro Del-Prete and published by Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.. This book was released on 2008 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of illusions by Sandro Del-Prete, each illustration is accompanied by a description.
Author : Jim Steinmeyer
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 0099476649
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (994 download)
Download or read book Hiding the Elephant written by Jim Steinmeyer and published by Random House. This book was released on 2005 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now in paperback comes Steinmeyer's astonishing chronicle of half a century of illusionary innovation, backstage chicanery, and keen competition within the world of magicians.
Author : Bruce Hood
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199969892
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (999 download)
Download or read book The Self Illusion written by Bruce Hood and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-06-15 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most of us believe that we are unique and coherent individuals, but are we? The idea of a "self" has existed ever since humans began to live in groups and become sociable. Those who embrace the self as an individual in the West, or a member of the group in the East, feel fulfilled and purposeful. This experience seems incredibly real but a wealth of recent scientific evidence reveals that this notion of the independent, coherent self is an illusion - it is not what it seems. Reality as we perceive it is not something that objectively exists, but something that our brains construct from moment to moment, interpreting, summarizing, and substituting information along the way. Like a science fiction movie, we are living in a matrix that is our mind. In The Self Illusion, Dr. Bruce Hood reveals how the self emerges during childhood and how the architecture of the developing brain enables us to become social animals dependent on each other. He explains that self is the product of our relationships and interactions with others, and it exists only in our brains. The author argues, however, that though the self is an illusion, it is one that humans cannot live without. But things are changing as our technology develops and shapes society. The social bonds and relationships that used to take time and effort to form are now undergoing a revolution as we start to put our self online. Social networking activities such as blogging, Facebook, Linkedin and Twitter threaten to change the way we behave. Social networking is fast becoming socialization on steroids. The speed and ease at which we can form alliances and relationships is outstripping the same selection processes that shaped our self prior to the internet era. This book ventures into unchartered territory to explain how the idea of the self will never be the same again in the online social world.
Author : Katharina Rein
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000891488
Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (8 download)
Download or read book Techniques of Illusion written by Katharina Rein and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-05-03 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores stage conjuring during its “golden age,” from about 1860 to 1910. This study provides close readings highlighting four paradigmatic illusions of the time that stand in for different kinds of illusions typical of stage magic in the “golden age” and analyses them within their cultural and media-historical context: “Pepper’s Ghost,” the archetypical mirror illusion; “The Vanishing Lady,” staging a teleportation in a time of a dizzying acceleration of transport; “the levitation,” simulating weightlessness with the help of an extended steel machinery; and “The Second Sight,” a mind-reading illusion using up-to-date communication technologies. These close readings are completed by writings focusing on visual media and expanding the scope backwards and forwards in time, roughly to 1800 and to 2000. This exploration will be of great interest to students and scholars in theatre and performance studies.
Author : James Peck
Publisher : Metropolitan Books
ISBN 13 : 1429991569
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)
Download or read book Ideal Illusions written by James Peck and published by Metropolitan Books. This book was released on 2011-03-15 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From a noted historian and foreign-policy analyst, a groundbreaking critique of the troubling symbiosis between Washington and the human rights movement The United States has long been hailed as a powerful force for global human rights. Now, drawing on thousands of documents from the CIA, the National Security Council, the Pentagon, and development agencies, James Peck shows in blunt detail how Washington has shaped human rights into a potent ideological weapon for purposes having little to do with rights—and everything to do with furthering America's global reach. Using the words of Washington's leaders when they are speaking among themselves, Peck tracks the rise of human rights from its dismissal in the cold war years as "fuzzy minded" to its calculated adoption, after the Vietnam War, as a rationale for American foreign engagement. He considers such milestones as the fight for Soviet dissidents, Tiananmen Square, and today's war on terror, exposing in the process how the human rights movement has too often failed to challenge Washington's strategies. A gripping and elegant work of analysis, Ideal Illusions argues that the movement must break free from Washington if it is to develop a truly uncompromising critique of power in all its forms.
