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Eisenhower's Sputnik Moment

Author : Yanek Mieczkowski
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 0801467934
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (14 download)

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Download or read book Eisenhower's Sputnik Moment written by Yanek Mieczkowski and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2013-02-15 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a critical Cold War moment, Dwight D. Eisenhower's presidency suddenly changed when the Soviet Union launched Sputnik, the world's first satellite. What Ike called "a small ball" became a source of Russian pride and propaganda, and it wounded him politically, as critics charged that he responded sluggishly to the challenge of space exploration. Yet Eisenhower refused to panic after Sputnik-and he did more than just stay calm. He helped to guide the United States into the Space Age, even though Americans have given greater credit to John F. Kennedy for that achievement. In Eisenhower's Sputnik Moment, Yanek Mieczkowski examines the early history of America's space program, reassessing Eisenhower's leadership. He details how Eisenhower approved breakthrough satellites, supported a new civilian space agency, signed a landmark science education law, and fostered improved relations with scientists. These feats made Eisenhower's post-Sputnik years not the flop that critics alleged but a time of remarkable progress, even as he endured the setbacks of recession, medical illness, and a humiliating first U.S. attempt to launch a satellite. Eisenhower's principled stands enabled him to resist intense pressure to boost federal spending, and he instead pursued his priorities-a balanced budget, prosperous economy, and sturdy national defense. Yet Sputnik also altered the world's power dynamics, sweeping Eisenhower in directions that were new, even alien, to him, and he misjudged the importance of space in the Cold War's "prestige race." By contrast, Kennedy capitalized on the issue in the 1960 election, and after taking office he urged a manned mission to the moon, leaving Eisenhower to grumble over the young president's aggressive approach. Offering a fast-paced account of this Cold War episode, Mieczkowski demonstrates that Eisenhower built an impressive record in space and on earth, all the while offering warnings about America's stature and strengths that still hold true today.

Moment Maps and Combinatorial Invariants of Hamiltonian Tn-spaces

Author : Victor Guillemin
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1461202698
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (612 download)

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Download or read book Moment Maps and Combinatorial Invariants of Hamiltonian Tn-spaces written by Victor Guillemin and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The action of a compact Lie group, G, on a compact sympletic manifold gives rise to some remarkable combinatorial invariants. The simplest and most interesting of these is the moment polytopes, a convex polyhedron which sits inside the dual of the Lie algebra of G. One of the main goals of this monograph is to describe what kinds of geometric information are encoded in this polytope. This book is addressed to researchers and can be used as a semester text.

On Hegel

Author : Karin de Boer
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230283284
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book On Hegel written by Karin de Boer and published by Springer. This book was released on 2010-07-07 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on the Science of Logic , this wide-ranging and innovative reading exposes the force as well as the limit of Hegel's philosophy. Drawing on Hegel's early account of tragic conflicts, De Boer brings into play a form of negativity that challenges the optimism inherent in modernity and Hegelian dialectics alike.

Probable Impossibilities

Author : Alan Lightman
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0593081323
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book Probable Impossibilities written by Alan Lightman and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2022-04-19 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The acclaimed author of Einstein’s Dreams tackles "big questions like the origin of the universe and the nature of consciousness ... in an entertaining and easily digestible way” (Wall Street Journal) with a collection of meditative essays on the possibilities—and impossibilities—of nothingness and infinity, and how our place in the cosmos falls somewhere in between. Can space be divided into smaller and smaller units, ad infinitum? Does space extend to larger and larger regions, on and on to infinity? Is consciousness reducible to the material brain and its neurons? What was the origin of life, and can biologists create life from scratch in the lab? Physicist and novelist Alan Lightman, whom The Washington Post has called “the poet laureate of science writers,” explores these questions and more—from the anatomy of a smile to the capriciousness of memory to the specialness of life in the universe to what came before the Big Bang. Probable Impossibilities is a deeply engaged consideration of what we know of the universe, of life and the mind, and of things vastly larger and smaller than ourselves.

Pale Blue Dot

Author : Carl Sagan
Publisher : Ballantine Books
ISBN 13 : 0307801012
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book Pale Blue Dot written by Carl Sagan and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2011-07-06 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Fascinating . . . memorable . . . revealing . . . perhaps the best of Carl Sagan’s books.”—The Washington Post Book World (front page review) In Cosmos, the late astronomer Carl Sagan cast his gaze over the magnificent mystery of the Universe and made it accessible to millions of people around the world. Now in this stunning sequel, Carl Sagan completes his revolutionary journey through space and time. Future generations will look back on our epoch as the time when the human race finally broke into a radically new frontier—space. In Pale Blue Dot, Sagan traces the spellbinding history of our launch into the cosmos and assesses the future that looms before us as we move out into our own solar system and on to distant galaxies beyond. The exploration and eventual settlement of other worlds is neither a fantasy nor luxury, insists Sagan, but rather a necessary condition for the survival of the human race. “Takes readers far beyond Cosmos . . . Sagan sees humanity’s future in the stars.”—Chicago Tribune

The Not So Common Sense

Author : Shawn W. Rosenberg
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300129467
Total Pages : 438 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book The Not So Common Sense written by Shawn W. Rosenberg and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2008-10-01 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: divdivIn this fascinating interdisciplinary book, Shawn W. Rosenberg challenges two basic assumptions that orient much contemporary social scientific thinking. Offering theory and empirical research, he rejects the classic liberal view that people share a basic “common sense” or rationality. At the same time, he questions the view of contemporary social theory that meaning is simply an intersubjective or cultural product. Through in-depth interviews, Rosenberg explores the underlying logic of cognition. Rather than discovering a common sense or rationality, he finds that people reason in fundamentally different ways, and these differences affect the kind of understandings they craft and the evaluations they make. As a result, people actively reconstruct culturally prevalent meanings and norms in their own subjective terms. Rosenberg provides a comprehensive description of three types of socio-political reasoning and the full text of three exemplary interviews. Rosenberg’s findings help explain such puzzling social phenomena as why people do not learn even when it is to their advantage to do so, or why they fail to adapt to changed social conditions even when they have clear information and motivation. The author argues that this kind of failure is commonplace and discusses examples ranging from the crisis of modernity to the classroom performance of university students. Building on the ideas of Jean Piaget, George Herbert Mead, and Jurgen Habermas, Rosenberg offers a new orienting vision, structural pragmatics, to account for these social phenomena and his own research in cognition. In the concluding chapter, he discusses the implications of his work for the study of social cognition, political behavior, and democratic theory. /DIV/DIV

Philosophical Papers

Author : George Edward Moore
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317832256
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (178 download)

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Download or read book Philosophical Papers written by George Edward Moore and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-06-03 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is Volume XVII of twenty-two in a series on 20th Century Philosophy. Originally published in 1959, it is a contribution to the History of Modern Philosophy under the heads: first of different Schools of Thought-Sensationalist, Realist, Idealist, Intuitivist; secondly of different Subjects-Psychology, Ethics, Aesthetics, Political Philosophy, Theology. This is a collection of papers by George Edward Moore, Emeritus Professor of Philosophy and Fellow of Trinity College in the University of Cambridge.

Topological (in) Hegel

Author : Borislav G. Dimitrov
Publisher : Borislav Dimitrov
ISBN 13 : 1370071213
Total Pages : 520 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Topological (in) Hegel written by Borislav G. Dimitrov and published by Borislav Dimitrov. This book was released on 2018-01-23 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The aim of this book is to critically examine whether it is methodologically possible to combine mathematical rigor – topology with a systematic dialectical methodology in Hegel, and if so, to provide as result of my interpretation the outline of Hegel’s Analysis Situs, also with the proposed models (build on the topological manifold, cobordism, topological data analysis, persistent homology, simplicial complexes and graph theory, to provide an indication of how the merger of Hegel’s dialectical logic and topology may be instrumental to a systematic logician and of how a systematic dialectical logic perspective may help mathematical model builders.

Biblical Doctrine

Author : John MacArthur
Publisher : Crossway
ISBN 13 : 1433545942
Total Pages : 1270 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (335 download)

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Download or read book Biblical Doctrine written by John MacArthur and published by Crossway. This book was released on 2017-01-13 with total page 1270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Long-Awaited Systematic Theology by Well-Known Pastor, Author, and President of the Master's Seminary Doctrine isn't just for theologians—it's important for every Christian because it shows us who God is and how we should live. Systematizing the robust theology that has undergirded John MacArthur's well-known preaching ministry for decades, this overview of basic Christian doctrine covers topics such as God the Father, Jesus Christ, the Holy Spirit, the Bible, salvation, and more. Comprehensive in scope yet written to be accessible to the average reader—with non-technical vocabulary, minimal footnotes, and a helpful bibliography—this volume offers Christians a solid foundation for what they believe and why.

Engineering Mechanics

Author : C. Hartsuijker
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1402054831
Total Pages : 785 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Engineering Mechanics written by C. Hartsuijker and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-03-06 with total page 785 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first of two volumes introducing structural and continuum mechanics in a comprehensive and consistent way. The current book presents all theoretical developments both in text and by means of an extensive set of figures. This same approach is used in the many examples, drawings and problems. Both formal and intuitive (engineering) arguments are used in parallel to derive the principles used, for instance in bending moment diagrams and shear force diagrams. A very important aspect of this book is the straightforward and consistent sign convention, based on the stress definitions of continuum mechanics. The book is suitable for self-education.

The Places Where There Are Spaces

Author : Lisa Hopkins
Publisher : FriesenPress
ISBN 13 : 103830962X
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (383 download)

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Download or read book The Places Where There Are Spaces written by Lisa Hopkins and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2024-07-08 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explore mindfulness, well-being, and the art of living a created life in this collection of thought-provoking and motivational stories. Discover the benefits of embracing the present moment and savoring the beauty in unplanned, non-specific moments that enrich our lives. Drawing from her 25-year career as a performing artist and educator, and her expertise as a life coach, Coach Lisa shares insights wholeheartedly and invites readers to reflect. Prompts at the end of each chapter encourage us to take a deeper exploration of the reasons behind our actions and inspire us to consider who we want to be in the world.

The Moment

Author : Heidrun Friese
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
ISBN 13 : 1781387710
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (813 download)

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Download or read book The Moment written by Heidrun Friese and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2001-09-01 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modern philosophical thought has a manifold tradition of emphasising ‘the moment’. ‘The moment’ demands questioning all-too-common notions of time, of past, present and future, uniqueness and repetition, rupture and continuity. This collection addresses the key questions posed by ‘the moment’, considering writers such as Nietzsche, Husserl, Benjamin and Badiou, and elucidates the connections between social theory, philosophy, literary theory and history that are opened up by this notion.

Walking in Cities

Author : Jaspar Joseph-Lester
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 104004008X
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Walking in Cities written by Jaspar Joseph-Lester and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-09-30 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings together an international group of artists and writers to respond to the question of how our new world orders force us to reconsider urban walking and urban spaces in ways which extend into the digital sphere of online dialogue and screen sharing. In their reflections on walking cities in lockdown, the artists and writers contributing to this book share a number of complementary themes. Key to this is the question of how we walk in post-pandemic cities and how such walking might motivate or be motivated by transgressive, atomised or collective thoughts, affects, relations and experiences. Here we see how navigating cities in lockdown requires us to re-territorialise, improvise, create and de- or re-politize. There is, for example, a clear distinction between the severe lockdown measures that were introduced in Cape Town and the liberal appeal to good citizenship that northern hemisphere cities such as Stockholm chose to rely on. These measures impact on the way we experience urban walking and, in each case, lead to deeper reflections about the heightened presence of ideological structures embedded within the urban.

Unity and Time in Metaphysics

Author : Edmund Runggaldier
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 311021234X
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book Unity and Time in Metaphysics written by Edmund Runggaldier and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2009 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The contributions to this collection deal with the fundamental problem of unity, which plays a decisive role in many contemporary debates (even when this role is not acknowledged). Questions like whether there can be unities that persist through time ? e.g. persons who remain the same throughout their lives ? are discussed from various perspectives. Is such an idea possible at all, and if so, what role do concepts like force, capacity, and disposition play in this context?

Beyond the Visible Universe : from a New Space-time Concept of the Physical Vacuum

Author : S. Sarg
Publisher : Stoyan Sarg
ISBN 13 : 0973051531
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (73 download)

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Download or read book Beyond the Visible Universe : from a New Space-time Concept of the Physical Vacuum written by S. Sarg and published by Stoyan Sarg. This book was released on 2005 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Collected Works of Henri Bergson

Author : Henri Bergson
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 721 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)

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Download or read book The Collected Works of Henri Bergson written by Henri Bergson and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-11-13 with total page 721 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Henri Bergson was a French philosopher who was influential in the tradition of continental philosophy, especially during the first half of the 20th century until World War II. Bergson is known for his influential arguments that processes of immediate experience and intuition are more significant than abstract rationalism and science for understanding reality. He was awarded the 1927 Nobel Prize in Literature "in recognition of his rich and vitalizing ideas and the brilliant skill with which they have been presented". In 1930 France awarded him its highest honour, the Grand-Croix de la Legion d'honneur. This edition includes: Laughter: An Essay on the Meaning of the Comic Time and Free Will: An Essay on the Immediate Data of Consciousness Creative Evolution Meaning of the War: Life & Matter in Conflict Dreams

A Hope for Philosophy I

Author : Ye Xiushan
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000569462
Total Pages : 139 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book A Hope for Philosophy I written by Ye Xiushan and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-10-20 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the final work by Ye Xiushan, one of the most famous philosophers and philosophy scholars in China, this two-volume title scrutinizes the historical development of both Chinese and Western philosophies, aiming to explore the convergence between the two philosophical traditions. Combining the historical examination and argumentation based on philosophical problematics, the two-volume set expounds the key figures and schools and critical thoughts in both Western and Chinese philosophical histories. In this first volume, the author investigates the intellectual heritage of ancient Greece and Thales of Miletus as the cradle of European philosophy, freedom in Greek philosophy, reason and negation in classical German philosophy, and the relationship between epistemology and ontology in the philosophical history, thereby illuminating the core spirit of Western philosophy and theoretical quandary facing the contemporary European philosophy. This title will appeal to scholars, students, and general readers interested in philosophical history, comparative philosophy, Chinese philosophy, and Western philosophy ranging over Greek philosophy, German classic philosophy, and contemporary continental philosophy.