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What Makes Us

Author : Rafi Mittlefehldt
Publisher : Candlewick
ISBN 13 : 0763697508
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (636 download)

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Download or read book What Makes Us written by Rafi Mittlefehldt and published by Candlewick. This book was released on 2019-10-15 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A viral video reveals a teen’s dark family history, leaving him to reckon with his heritage, legacy, and identity in this fiery, conversation-starting novel. Eran Sharon knows nothing of his father except that he left when Eran was a baby. Now a senior in high school and living with his protective but tight-lipped mother, Eran is a passionate young man deeply interested in social justice and equality. When he learns that the Houston police have launched a program to increase traffic stops, Eran organizes a peaceful protest. But a heated moment at the protest goes viral, and a reporter connects the Sharon family to a tragedy fifteen years earlier — and asks if Eran is anything like his father, a supposed terrorist. Soon enough, Eran is wondering the same thing, especially when the people he’s gone to school and temple with for years start to look at him differently. Timely, powerful, and full of nuance, Rafi Mittlefehldt’s sophomore novel confronts the prejudices, fears, and strengths of family and community, striking right to the heart of what makes us who we are.

What Makes Us Human?

Author : Charles Pasternak
Publisher : ONEWorld Publications
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book What Makes Us Human? written by Charles Pasternak and published by ONEWorld Publications. This book was released on 2007-10 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How and why did we become who we are? In "What Makes Us Human?" some of theorld's most brilliant thinkers offer their answers to this perennial puzzle,ncluding Susan Blackmore, Robin Dunbar, Susan Greenfield, Richard Harries,enan Malik, Richard Wrangham, Ian Tattersall, and Lewis Wolpert. Together,hey draw on a broad spectrum of disciplines, from anthropology, biochemistry,edicine, and neuroscience, to philosophy, psychology, and religion, to askhat makes us distinctively human. Is it our cognitive abilities, or our usef tools, our story-telling, our beliefs, our curiosity, our ability to cook,r our culture? Are we half-ape or half-angel? "What Makes Us Human?"xplains how and why our ancestors adapted to their surroundings to produceuch clever, talented, and unlikely progeny. It is for all to enjoy.

Why?

Author : Mario Livio
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1476792127
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (767 download)

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Download or read book Why? written by Mario Livio and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-07-11 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Astrophysicist and author Mario Livio investigates perhaps the most human of all our characteristics—curiosity—in this “lively, expert, and definitely not dumbed-down account” (Kirkus Reviews) as he explores our innate desire to know why. Experiments demonstrate that people are more distracted when they overhear a phone conversation—where they can know only one side of the dialogue—than when they overhear two people talking and know both sides. Why does half a conversation make us more curious than a whole conversation? “Have you ever wondered why we wonder why? Mario Livio has, and he takes you on a fascinating quest to understand the origin and mechanisms of our curiosity. I thoroughly recommend it.” (Adam Riess, Nobel Prize Winner in Physics, 2011). Curiosity is not only at the heart of mystery and suspense novels, it is also essential to other creative endeavors, from painting to sculpture to music. It is the principal driver of basic scientific research. Even so, there is still no definitive scientific consensus about why we humans are so curious, or about the mechanisms in our brain that are responsible for curiosity. In the ever-fascinating Why? Livio interviewed scientists in several fields to explore the nature of curiosity. He examined the lives of two of history’s most curious geniuses, Leonardo da Vinci and Richard Feynman. He also talked to people with boundless curiosity: a superstar rock guitarist who is also an astrophysicist; an astronaut with degrees in computer science, biology, literature, and medicine. What drives these people to be curious about so many subjects? An astrophysicist who has written about mathematics, biology, and now psychology and neuroscience, Livio has firsthand knowledge of his subject which he explores in a lucid, entertaining way that will captivate anyone who is curious about curiosity.

What Makes Us Think?

Author : Jean-Pierre Changeux
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 069123826X
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)

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Download or read book What Makes Us Think? written by Jean-Pierre Changeux and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2021-10-12 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Will understanding our brains help us to know our minds? Or is there an unbridgeable distance between the work of neuroscience and the workings of human consciousness? In a remarkable exchange between neuroscientist Jean-Pierre Changeux and philosopher Paul Ricoeur, this book explores the vexed territory between these divergent approaches--and comes to a deeper, more complex perspective on human nature. Ranging across diverse traditions, from phrenology to PET scans and from Spinoza to Charles Taylor, What Makes Us Think? revolves around a central issue: the relation between the facts (or "what is") of science and the prescriptions (or "what ought to be") of ethics. Changeux and Ricoeur ask: Will neuroscientific knowledge influence our moral conduct? Is a naturally based ethics possible? Pursuing these questions, they attack key topics at the intersection of philosophy and neuroscience: What are the relations between brain states and psychological experience? Between language and truth? Memory and culture? Behavior and action? What is a mental representation? How does a sign relate to what it signifies? How might subjective experience be constructed rather than discovered? And can biological or cultural evolution be considered progressive? Throughout, Changeux and Ricoeur provide unprecedented insight into what neuroscience can--and cannot--tell us about the nature of human experience. Changeux and Ricoeur bring an unusual depth of engagement and breadth of knowledge to each other's subject. In doing so, they make two often hostile disciplines speak to one another in surprising and instructive ways--and speak with all the subtlety and passion of conversation at its very best.

What Makes Us Human?

Author : Jean-Louis Lamboray
Publisher : Balboa Press
ISBN 13 : 150436371X
Total Pages : 110 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book What Makes Us Human? written by Jean-Louis Lamboray and published by Balboa Press. This book was released on 2016-10-25 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Me, Im a gangster. The police know me. Until recently, my job was to rob banks and to rape girls. Now, I realise that my life is more important than that! This is Kasure talking. He lives in Goroka, Papua New Guinea. What caused this change? When Jean-Louis Lamboray and 11 people from all continents launched the Constellation in 2004, they took the prism of our shared humanity to challenge the status quo. They dreamed of a world where communities would take charge of their own lives and connect for sharing and support. They would not teach nor preach but appreciate community strengths. They would not evaluate communities, but communities would assess themselves and learn from their actions. At the outset, Jean-Louis and his friends could only count on their own strengths to inch towards their dream. Now they celebrate a positive epidemic as in more than sixty countries thousands of communities mobilise their own strengths to address their concerns, shape their dream and act to fulfil it. Told with the simplicity of troubadours and of African storytellers this story of stories invites you to reflect and to trust in your own strengths as you join others to address collective challenges. And this is only the beginning of the journey Jean-Louis Lamboray is one of the worlds most impressive public health doctors. Lamborays ideas are original and brilliant, and theyve worked in practice. Richard Preston, contributor to The New Yorker, currently working on a successor book to The Hot Zone. At the Ministry of Health of Senegal, we try very hard to stimulate community ownership of health issues. Jean-Louiss book will help us take further action. Awa-Marie Coll-Seck, Minister of Health and Social Affairs, Senegal.

What Makes Us Smart

Author : Samuel Gershman
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691225990
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)

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Download or read book What Makes Us Smart written by Samuel Gershman and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2021-10-19 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How a computational framework can account for the successes and failures of human cognition At the heart of human intelligence rests a fundamental puzzle: How are we incredibly smart and stupid at the same time? No existing machine can match the power and flexibility of human perception, language, and reasoning. Yet, we routinely commit errors that reveal the failures of our thought processes. What Makes Us Smart makes sense of this paradox by arguing that our cognitive errors are not haphazard. Rather, they are the inevitable consequences of a brain optimized for efficient inference and decision making within the constraints of time, energy, and memory—in other words, data and resource limitations. Framing human intelligence in terms of these constraints, Samuel Gershman shows how a deeper computational logic underpins the “stupid” errors of human cognition. Embarking on a journey across psychology, neuroscience, computer science, linguistics, and economics, Gershman presents unifying principles that govern human intelligence. First, inductive bias: any system that makes inferences based on limited data must constrain its hypotheses in some way before observing data. Second, approximation bias: any system that makes inferences and decisions with limited resources must make approximations. Applying these principles to a range of computational errors made by humans, Gershman demonstrates that intelligent systems designed to meet these constraints yield characteristically human errors. Examining how humans make intelligent and maladaptive decisions, What Makes Us Smart delves into the successes and failures of cognition.

What Makes Us Unique?

Author : Jillian Roberts
Publisher : Orca Book Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1459809505
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (598 download)

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Download or read book What Makes Us Unique? written by Jillian Roberts and published by Orca Book Publishers. This book was released on 2016-09-27 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When it comes to explaining physical, cultural and religious differences to children, it can be difficult to know where to begin. What Makes Us Unique? provides an accessible introduction to the concept of diversity, teaching children how to respect and celebrate people's differences and that ultimately, we are all much more alike than we are different. Additional questions at the back of the book allow for further discussion. Child psychologist Dr. Jillian Roberts designed the Just Enough series to empower parents/caregivers to start conversations with young ones about difficult or challenging subject matter. Other books in the series deal with birth, death, separation and divorce. For more information, visit www.justenoughseries.com.

What Makes Us Stronger

Author : Freya Lewis
Publisher : Seven Dials
ISBN 13 : 1841883492
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (418 download)

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Download or read book What Makes Us Stronger written by Freya Lewis and published by Seven Dials. This book was released on 2020-05-07 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Freya Lewis is extraordinary' Katie Piper 'A love letter to the NHS' Lorraine Kelly 'A poignant story of courage and pain but, most of all, it is a striking testament to friendship.' Daily Express 'A candid account of the terrorist attack and the effect it has had on her life.' The i 'An unflinching story of grief, survival and love' YOU Magazine The Manchester Arena attack nearly destroyed her. Love and courage saved her. Freya Lewis was just three metres away from the terrorist who detonated the bomb at the Manchester arena on the night of 22nd May 2017. Her best friend Nell was tragically killed, but Freya - thrown forwards by the blast - somehow survived. She suffered 29 separate injuries, was in a coma for five days, and wheelchair-bound for three months. Yet just 12 months later, she was on her feet, running the Junior Great Manchester Run and raising £60,000 for the hospital that saved her. From her darkest moment, she found the determination to live life to the fullest, for herself, and for those who lost their lives. This is Freya's courageous story. But it is also the story of the amazing community that surrounded her, uplifted her, and ultimately saved her life. What Makes Us Stronger is a testament to the power of hope and positivity.

What Makes Us Tick?

Author : Hugh Mackay
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN 13 : 1458731685
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (587 download)

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Download or read book What Makes Us Tick? written by Hugh Mackay and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2011-02-14 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why do we talk as if we're rational, but act as if we're not? Why do some people always want to take control? What is the true role of religion? Why do we seek change, yet resist it? Why do we want more of the things that have failed to satisfy us? Why are we so passionate about sport? Why do we fall out of love? As Australia's leading social re...

How Physics Makes Us Free

Author : J. T. Ismael
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190269456
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book How Physics Makes Us Free written by J. T. Ismael and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-02-03 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1687 Isaac Newton ushered in a new scientific era in which laws of nature could be used to predict the movements of matter with almost perfect precision. Newton's physics also posed a profound challenge to our self-understanding, however, for the very same laws that keep airplanes in the air and rivers flowing downhill tell us that it is in principle possible to predict what each of us will do every second of our entire lives, given the early conditions of the universe. Can it really be that even while you toss and turn late at night in the throes of an important decision and it seems like the scales of fate hang in the balance, that your decision is a foregone conclusion? Can it really be that everything you have done and everything you ever will do is determined by facts that were in place long before you were born? This problem is one of the staples of philosophical discussion. It is discussed by everyone from freshman in their first philosophy class, to theoretical physicists in bars after conferences. And yet there is no topic that remains more unsettling, and less well understood. If you want to get behind the façade, past the bare statement of determinism, and really try to understand what physics is telling us in its own terms, read this book. The problem of free will raises all kinds of questions. What does it mean to make a decision, and what does it mean to say that our actions are determined? What are laws of nature? What are causes? What sorts of things are we, when viewed through the lenses of physics, and how do we fit into the natural order? Ismael provides a deeply informed account of what physics tells us about ourselves. The result is a vision that is abstract, alien, illuminating, and-Ismael argues-affirmative of most of what we all believe about our own freedom. Written in a jargon-free style, How Physics Makes Us Free provides an accessible and innovative take on a central question of human existence.

How Water Makes Us Human

Author : Luci Attala
Publisher : University of Wales Press
ISBN 13 : 178683412X
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (868 download)

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Download or read book How Water Makes Us Human written by Luci Attala and published by University of Wales Press. This book was released on 2019-04-01 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about how water becomes people – or, put another way, how people and water flow together and shape each other. While the focus of the book is on the relationships held between water and people, it also has a broader message about human relationships with the environment generally – a message that illustrates not only that people are existentially entangled with the material world, but that the materials of the world shape, determine and enable humans to be ‘humans’ in the ways that they are. Offering a selection of anthropological examples from Kenya, Wales and Spain to illustrate how water’s materiality coproductively generates the way people are able to engage with water, this book uses cross-disciplinary perspectives to provide and promote a new analytic – one that encourages ethical, holistic and sustainable relationships with the world around us. This approach challenges representations that ignore, sidestep or are blind to the fleshy materiality of being human, and aims to encourage a re-imagining of the world that acknowledges humanity as intrinsically active-with and part of the fabric of the collection of materials we call planet Earth.

All Kinds of People

Author : Jennifer Waters
Publisher : Capstone
ISBN 13 : 9780756503772
Total Pages : 28 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (37 download)

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Download or read book All Kinds of People written by Jennifer Waters and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2003 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the diversity among humankind, including differences in physical appearance, communication, mobility, and personality.

Animals Make Us Human

Author : Temple Grandin
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 0151014892
Total Pages : 355 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book Animals Make Us Human written by Temple Grandin and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2009 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author of "Animals in Translation" employs her own experience with autism and her background as an animal scientist to show how to give animals the best and happiest life.

What Makes Us Human?

Author : Jeremy Vine
Publisher : Headline
ISBN 13 : 1472272536
Total Pages : 405 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (722 download)

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Download or read book What Makes Us Human? written by Jeremy Vine and published by Headline. This book was released on 2021-08-19 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A dazzling insight into what gives meaning to our life and to us as a species. What makes us human? From Carlo Rovelli on the particles of dust that make us, to Caitlin Moran on the joy of Friday nights, and A C Grayling on how we express ourselves through culture: this illuminating book shares 130 mind-expanding answers to that question. We all want to understand our place in the universe and find a sense of purpose in the life. This book will help the reader navigate that journey with the help of leading names from the worlds of literature, history, philosophy, politics, sport, comedy and popular culture. Originally broadcast as a popular feature on the Jeremy Vine Show, What Makes Us Human? includes short essays from: Andrew Marr, Carlo Rovelli, Marian Keyes, Alain de Botton, Robert Webb, Richard Dawkins, Stephen Fry, and many more.

What Makes Us Human?

Author : Mark Meynell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781909919051
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book What Makes Us Human? written by Mark Meynell and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-09 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

What Makes Us Humans

Author : Michel Tibayrenc
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781536168532
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (685 download)

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Download or read book What Makes Us Humans written by Michel Tibayrenc and published by . This book was released on 2020-01-07 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The knowledge on human biology is blooming. Progresses in genomics, epigenetics, neurobiology, human evolution, population genetics, and prehistory is extremely fast presently. However, few bridges have been launched between these fields on one hand, and human sciences (ethics, politics, psychoanalysis, philosophy) on the other hand. Now knowledge on human nature and on what makes us specifically humans do need tight collaborations between biological and human sciences. One of the specific goals of the book is to sort out, in our knowledge on human nature, what is: (i) strongly supported; (ii) still speculative; (iii) still extremely tentative; (iv) obviously (sometimes purposely) misleading; (v) definitely to be rejected. Such a sorting out is sorely needed, since this theme is politically loaded and full of propaganda, storytelling and "fake news". This kind of endeavor is urgent because there is now a strong tendency in the general public to lose confidence in science and to believe in alternate sources of knowledge with uncertain backgrounds (social networks, internet). This books uniquely offers a thorough discussion, based on biology as well as on human sciences, on major societal debates of the time, such as origin of humankind, human genetic diversity, biology of cognition, science in front of intolerant ideologies, science and religion, and science and creationism/intelligent design. Its specific feature is sorted by the present states of knowledge, what is robust, then still speculative, unintentionally or intentionally ("scientific fake news") misleading, and obviously wrong. Thorough updating is based on more than 300 references from the specialized literature as well as from the general media. The book, which is written in an accessible language and is completed with a glossary of specialized terms, will be therefore profitable to specialists of the concerned fields, university professors, teachers, students, as well as the general public.

Does Skill Make Us Human?

Author : Natasha Iskander
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691217572
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)

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Download or read book Does Skill Make Us Human? written by Natasha Iskander and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2021-11-09 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Regulation : how the politics of skill become law -- Production : how skill makes cities -- Skill : how skill is embodied and what it means for the control of bodies -- Protest : how skillful practice becomes resistance -- Body : how definitions of skill cause injury -- Earth : how the politics of skill shape responses to climate change.