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Unfinished Nature

Author : Arpita Roy
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231556047
Total Pages : 333 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book Unfinished Nature written by Arpita Roy and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2024-04-02 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The discovery of the Higgs boson in 2012, the culmination of a decades-long search, is one of the singular triumphs of particle physics. Advanced experiments at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN (the Conseil Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire) near Geneva detected the long-hypothesized particle, resulting in the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physics. Drawing on two and a half years of in-depth fieldwork spent among CERN’s research community during this critical period, Arpita Roy offers a rich analysis of science in the making. To what extent are scientific discoveries a matter of empirical findings? How do scientists at the farthest reach of abstraction understand their work? Unfinished Nature delves deep into this particle physics laboratory to distinguish the modes of reasoning that animate scientific discoveries and innovations. Demonstrating a deep knowledge of both contemporary physics and the methods of qualitative social science, Roy considers what scientists have to say about their commitments and concerns, the sources and vision guiding their experiments, and the questions they ask of themselves and others. In so doing, she argues that finding new facts in experimental physics turns on conceptual leaps, not necessarily empirical results. A sophisticated interdisciplinary ethnography of a scientific community, Unfinished Nature offers provocative insights into the nature and production of scientific knowledge.

Incomplete Nature: How Mind Emerged from Matter

Author : Terrence W. Deacon
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393049914
Total Pages : 625 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book Incomplete Nature: How Mind Emerged from Matter written by Terrence W. Deacon and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2012 with total page 625 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the emergent processes that bridge the gap between organisms that think and have consciousness and those that do not and discusses the origins of life, information, and free will.

An Unfinished Foundation

Author : Ken Conca
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0190232862
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book An Unfinished Foundation written by Ken Conca and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2015 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The UN treats the global environment as a problem for international law and economic development-but not as part of its mandate to promote peace and champion human rights. In this pathbreaking book, a leading scholar of global environmental governance suggests reforms to mobilize peacebuilding, conflict sensitivity, and rights-based approaches as tools for environmental protection.

Karl Marx’s Ecosocialism

Author : Kohei Saito
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 1583676414
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (836 download)

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Download or read book Karl Marx’s Ecosocialism written by Kohei Saito and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2017-10-24 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Delving into Karl Marx's central works as well as his natural scientific notebooks, published only recently and still being translated, [the author] argues that Karl Marx actually saw the environment crisis embedded in captialism. [The book] shows us that Marx has given us more than we once thought, that we can now come closer to finishing Marx's critique, and to building a sustainable ecosocialist world."--Page [4] of cover.

Unfinished Revolutions

Author : Robert T. Denommé
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 9780271041803
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (418 download)

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Download or read book Unfinished Revolutions written by Robert T. Denommé and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2010-11-01 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Original essays that show how the French Revolution continues to influence that country to the present day.

Einstein's Unfinished Revolution

Author : Lee Smolin
Publisher : Knopf Canada
ISBN 13 : 0345809122
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (458 download)

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Download or read book Einstein's Unfinished Revolution written by Lee Smolin and published by Knopf Canada. This book was released on 2019-04-09 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A daring new vision of the quantum universe, and the scandals controversies, and questions that may illuminate our future--from Canada's leading mind on contemporary physics. Quantum physics is the golden child of modern science. It is the basis of our understanding of atoms, radiation, and so much else, from elementary particles and basic forces to the behaviour of materials. But for a century it has also been the problem child of science, plagued by intense disagreements between its intellectual giants, from Albert Einstein to Stephen Hawking, over the strange paradoxes and implications that seem like the stuff of fantasy. Whether it's Schrödinger's cat--a creature that is simultaneously dead and alive--or a belief that the world does not exist independently of our observations of it, quantum theory is what challenges our fundamental assumptions about our reality. In Einstein's Unfinished Revolution, globally renowned theoretical physicist Lee Smolin provocatively argues that the problems which have bedeviled quantum physics since its inception are unsolved for the simple reason that the theory is incomplete. There is more, waiting to be discovered. Our task--if we are to have simple answers to our simple questions about the universe we live in--must be to go beyond it to a description of the world on an atomic scale that makes sense. In this vibrant and accessible book, Smolin takes us on a journey through the basics of quantum physics, introducing the stories of the experiments and figures that have transformed the field, before wrestling with the puzzles and conundrums that they present. Along the way, he illuminates the existing theories about the quantum world that might solve these problems, guiding us toward his own vision that embraces common sense realism. If we are to have any hope of completing the revolution that Einstein began nearly a century ago, we must go beyond quantum mechanics as we know it to find a theory that will give us a complete description of nature. In Einstein's Unfinished Revolution, Lee Smolin brings us a step closer to resolving one of the greatest scientific controversies of our age.

Unfinished

Author : Iñaki Carnicero
Publisher : Actar D, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1638409307
Total Pages : 487 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (384 download)

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Download or read book Unfinished written by Iñaki Carnicero and published by Actar D, Inc.. This book was released on 2021-03-29 with total page 487 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spain was one of the countries where the practice of architecture has been most affected by the economic crisis. There are few places on earth where such large numbers of buildings were built in such a short period of time. The lack of reflection over whether these projects were necessary or valid resulted in the subsequent abandonment of many buildings when their completion or maintenance was discovered not to be economically viable. Their appearance throughout Spanish territories has generated a collection of unfinished buildings where the factor of time was eliminated from the formula for making architecture. The publication gathers examples of architecture produced during the past few years, born out of renunciation and economy of means, designed to evolve and adapt to future necessities and trusting in the beauty conferred by the passage of time.

The Nature of Middle-Earth

Author : J. R. R. Tolkien
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 0358454603
Total Pages : 467 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (584 download)

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Download or read book The Nature of Middle-Earth written by J. R. R. Tolkien and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2021 with total page 467 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is well known that J.R.R. Tolkien published The Hobbit in 1937 and The Lord of the Rings in 1954-5. What may be less known is that he continued to write about Middle-earth in the decades that followed, right up until the years before his death in 1973. For him, Middle-earth was part of an entire world to be explored, and the writings in The Nature of Middle-earth reveal the journeys that he took as he sought to better understand his unique creation. He discusses sweeping themes as profound as Elvish immortality and reincarnation, and the Powers of the Valar, to the more earth-bound subjects of the lands and beasts of Númenor and the geography of the Rivers and Beacon-hills of Gondor.

In the Presence of Krishnamurti

Author : Mary Zimbalist
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781732122321
Total Pages : 582 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (223 download)

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Download or read book In the Presence of Krishnamurti written by Mary Zimbalist and published by . This book was released on 2018-06-10 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mary Zimbalist's account of her time with Krishnamurti

Unfinished

Author : João Biehl
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822372452
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (223 download)

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Download or read book Unfinished written by João Biehl and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2017-11-16 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This original, field-changing collection explores the plasticity and unfinishedness of human subjects and lifeworlds, advancing the conceptual terrain of an anthropology of becoming. People's becomings trouble and exceed ways of knowing and acting, producing new possibilities for research, methodology, and writing. The contributors creatively bridge ethnography and critical theory in a range of worlds on the edge, from war and its aftermath, economic transformation, racial inequality, and gun violence to religiosity, therapeutic markets, animal rights activism, and abrupt environmental change. Defying totalizing analytical schemes, these visionary essays articulate a human science of the uncertain and unknown and restore a sense of movement and possibility to ethics and political practice. Unfinished invites readers to consider the array of affects, ideas, forces, and objects that shape contemporary modes of existence and future horizons, opening new channels for critical thought and creative expression. Contributors. Lucas Bessire, João Biehl, Naisargi N. Dave, Elizabeth A. Davis, Michael M. J. Fischer, Angela Garcia, Peter Locke, Adriana Petryna, Bridget Purcell, Laurence Ralph, Lilia M. Schwarcz

Unfinished Leninism

Author : Paul Le Blanc
Publisher : Haymarket Books
ISBN 13 : 1608464261
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book Unfinished Leninism written by Paul Le Blanc and published by Haymarket Books. This book was released on 2014-06-15 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Praise for Paul Le Blanc's Lenin and the Revolutionary Party: "A work of unusual strength and coherence, inspired not by academic neutrality but by the deep conviction that there is much to learn from the actual ideas and experiences of Lenin." —Michael Löwy As a leader of the Russian Revolution, Vladimir Lenin was perhaps the greatest revolutionary of the twentieth century. These clearly written essays offer an account of his life and times, a lively view of his personality, and a stimulating engagement with his ideas. Paul Le Blanc is a professor of history at La Roche College and has written widely on radical movements.

The Form of the Unfinished

Author : Balachandra Rajan
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400854776
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book The Form of the Unfinished written by Balachandra Rajan and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2014-07-14 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Distinguishing between the incomplete poem and the unfinished poem, Professor Rajan sees the unfinished poem as remaining in dialogue with its own dissensions. He contributes to current critical debates by showing how the long poem resists assimilation to the forces of both unification and undecidability, finding its significance on the line of engagement between them. Originally published in 1985. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Darwin's Unfinished Symphony

Author : Kevin N. Laland
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 069118447X
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)

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Download or read book Darwin's Unfinished Symphony written by Kevin N. Laland and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2018-09-11 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Humans possess an extraordinary capacity for culture, from the arts and language to science and technology. But how did the human mind—and the uniquely human ability to devise and transmit culture—evolve from its roots in animal behavior? Darwin’s Unfinished Symphony presents a captivating new theory of human cognitive evolution. This compelling and accessible book reveals how culture is not just the magnificent end product of an evolutionary process that produced a species unlike all others—it is also the key driving force behind that process. Kevin Laland tells the story of the painstaking fieldwork, the key experiments, the false leads, and the stunning scientific breakthroughs that led to this new understanding of how culture transformed human evolution. It is the story of how Darwin’s intellectual descendants picked up where he left off and took up the challenge of providing a scientific account of the evolution of the human mind.

Design of the Unfinished

Author : Luciano Crespi
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030734579
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (37 download)

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Download or read book Design of the Unfinished written by Luciano Crespi and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-07-07 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book aims to provide city administrators and planners with a tool to accompany them in experimenting with the regeneration of no longer used parts of the built heritage, called leftovers, by adopting an innovative approach. A new and radically different form of project, with the task of proposing a new aesthetic code and a style of thought aimed at creating shelters for nomads of the third millennium. In the design field, the 21st century will be destined to measure itself against temporariness and precariousness, also in terms of aesthetic practices. Based on this hypothesis, the text identifies the design of the unfinished as the perspective for attributing to the leftovers a character, which is representative of the conditions of the just begun century. Through a transdisciplinary, exhibition-like and reversible approach, the elements of degradation of the existing work are welcomed in the project as a "gift", to be translated into a syntax aimed at giving form and meaning to the internal and external environments, with the inclusion of "additional components".

Unfinished

Author : Kelly Baum
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN 13 : 1588395863
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (883 download)

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Download or read book Unfinished written by Kelly Baum and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 2016-03-01 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This groundbreaking book explores the evolving concept of unfinishedness as essential to understanding art movements from the Renaissance to the present day. Unfinished features more than 200 works, created in a variety of media, by artists ranging from Leonardo, Titian, Rembrandt, Turner, and Cézanne to Picasso, Warhol, Twombly, Freud, Richter, and Nauman. What unites these works, across centuries and media, is that each one displays some aspect of being unfinished. Essays and case studies by major contemporary scholars address this key concept from the perspective of both the creator and the viewer, probing the impact that this long artistic trajectory—which can be traced back to the first century—has had on modern and contemporary art. The book investigates the degrees to which instances of incompleteness were accidental or intentional experimental or conceptual. Also included are illuminating interviews with contemporary artists, including Tuymans, Celmins, and Marden, and parallel considerations of the unfinished in literature and film. The result is a multidisciplinary approach and thought-provoking analysis that provide valuable insight into the making, meaning, and critical reception of the unfinished in art.

Unfinished Tales Of Numenor And Middle-Earth

Author : J.R.R. Tolkien
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 054795199X
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (479 download)

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Download or read book Unfinished Tales Of Numenor And Middle-Earth written by J.R.R. Tolkien and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2012-02-15 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times bestseller for twenty-one weeks upon publication, J.R.R. Tolkien's Unfinished Tales is a collection of short stories ranging in time from the Elder Days of Middle-earth to the end of the War of the Ring, and further relates events as told in The Silmarillion and The Lord of the Rings. The book concentrates on the lands of Middle-earth and comprises Gandalf's lively account of how he came to send the Dwarves to the celebrated party at Bag-End, the story of the emergence of the sea-god Ulmo before the eyes of Tuor on the coast of Beleriand, and an exact description of the military organization of the Riders of Rohan and the journey of the Black Riders during the hunt for the Ring. Unfinished Tales also contains the only surviving story about the long ages of Númenor before its downfall, and all that is known about the Five Wizards sent to Middle-earth as emissaries of the Valar, about the Seeing Stones known as the Palantiri, and about the legend of Amroth.

Our Nature

Author : Peter Noel Dunn
Publisher : Balboa Press
ISBN 13 : 1982208821
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (822 download)

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Download or read book Our Nature written by Peter Noel Dunn and published by Balboa Press. This book was released on 2018-12-17 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everyone loves a good a story. Just as we need music or dancing, we need stories. It’s universal. After all, humankind has been weaving tales for ages. Stories tell us about our origins, how life works, who we are, and what we share. Who doesn’t love sitting by a fire, listening to a good story? There, as our faces flicker in the firelight and silence quiets our souls, we are carried to that timeless realm of imagination and possibility which is such a fundamental part of our humanity. Storytelling is part of human nature. Author Peter Noel Dunn’s Our Nature: A Book of Unfinished Parables is a collection of stories with intent and hidden meanings. “The wonderful thing about parables is that they want you to participate. They require interpretation. That’s where the magic is. Since the parable involves you- the reader - more often than not, you become the storyteller.” Our Nature: A Book of Unfinished Parables is packed with engaging characters and a variety of stories that are masterfully handled. Dunn brings each scene to life, with your imagination a welcome participant.