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The book stretches from classic to pun filled prose and
"Dittyography." This word has been invented in order to better
explain the varied styles of rhymes interspersed along with the
articles contained. Ben has written for many Free Press Papers
primarily read by senior citizens across the country. AARP is just
one of these. The book bases its content on a platform of human
interest for anyone who might like to simply peruse positive
content and maybe allow themselves to smile instead of what might
otherwise be impending.
The world today is facing a bewildering array of problems where
human behavior is both brazen and bizarre. Those who are searching
for a way out are daring to ask fundamental questions: What is
man's rightful place? Are we a doomed species? Is God becoming
weary of mankind? In Man's Fate and God's Choice, Bhimeswara Challa
shares his comprehensive study of human behavior that suggests that
the very paradigm of our thinking is inappropriate for the current
challenges we face. In a thoughtful, innovative presentation of
ideas, Challa posits that any betterment in human behavior needs a
cathartic change at the deepest level, ultimately reawakening the
intelligence of the human heart. He begins by examining the
greatest challenge of this generation of human beings and continues
by placing the multiple identities of man in perspective, reviewing
our growing insensitivity to human suffering. Finally, he looks to
the living world for inspiration, metaphors, and models for human
transformation. Man's Fate and God's Choice incisively covers an
array of issues and proposes an agenda for action as it challenges
those who see misery and ask "Why?" to also see the promise in the
rainbow and then ask "Why not?"
Peripheralizing DeLillo tracks the historical arc of Don
DeLillo’s poetics as it recomposes itself across the genres of
short fiction, romance, the historical novel, and the philosophical
novel of time. Drawing on theories that capital, rather than the
bourgeoisie, is the displaced subject of the novel, Thomas Travers
investigates DeLillo’s representation of fully commodified social
worlds and re-evaluates Marxist accounts of the novel and its
philosophy of history. Deploying an innovative re-periodisation,
Travers considers the evolution of DeLillo’s aesthetic forms as
they register and encode one of the crises of contemporary
historicity: the secular dynamics through which a society organised
around waged work tends towards conditions of under- and
unemployment. Situating DeLillo within global histories of uneven
and combined development, Travers explores how DeLillo’s
treatment of capital and labour, affect and narration, reconfigures
debates around realism and modernism. The DeLillo that emerges from
this study is no longer an exemplary postmodern writer, but a
composer of capitalist epics, a novelist drawn to peripheral zones
of accumulation, zones of social death whose surplus populations
his fiction strives to re-historicise, if not re-dialecticise as
subjects of history.
The discipline of engineering presumes certain foundational truths
that are not reducible to mathematical formulas. It presupposes
certain things about creativity, beauty, and abstraction in order
to operate effectively. In short, engineering relies on philosophy.
Conversely, philosophy can draw profound truths from principles
derived from engineering experience. Engineering and the Ultimate
crosses boundaries between a wide variety of disciplines to find
truths both new and old that can be transformative to modern
thought and practice.
At a clubhouse in Lagos, Nigeria, intellectuals meet for
fellowship and to ponder the simple and complicated questions that
have puzzled people everywhere.
Among them are Olurombi, a renowned poet; Emeka, a professor of
philosophy at one of Nigeria's premier universities; and Ahmed, a
physicist researcher at the Planetary and Space Research Institute
of Nigeria.
While arguing with each other and enjoying each other's company
at their gathering spot, the Egghead Place, the men and their
fellow intellectuals provide meaningful insights into African
traditions. They also explore local heritage, wise sayings, and
insights that break down cultural barriers- all in a fl owing
narrative that includes poetry, deep thoughts, and scientific
reasoning.
The men and their cohorts closely study abstract thoughts,
metaphors, and empirical data as they pursue a quest to understand
humanity and life itself. While often seemingly at odds, they find
out that they also have a lot in common. Join them as they look at
life from an African perspective and discover what ties all of us
together in "Colloquies."
In "The Dynamic Concept of Philosophical Mathematics," author
Anthony Ugochukwu O. Aliche delves deeply into a comprehensive
discussion into the intertwined relationship between philosophy and
mathematics. Aliche begins by defining philosophical mathematics
and traces its origins and its branches. He then relates the
concept to the worlds of science, engineering, technology, creative
and applied arts, and human existence.
In this systemic, practical and research-driven work, Aliche
presents innovative interpretations of mathematical and
philosophical issues and reexamines their relevance and
applicability to modern developments. He also proposes abolishing
most ancient and primordial mathematical policies and formulas, as
they are not helping the world of science and technology to
grow.
Presenting principles, practices, and theories, "The Dynamic
Concept of Philosophical Mathematics" demystifies the oracle of
mathematics and communicates that knowledge is power and must
therefore be progressive. He equally insisted that the progressive
nature of knowledge which must be God-driven fundamentally
fulcrumed the demystification of QED which he replaced with the
Infinitude Method which scientifically agrees with the progressive
dynamism of knowledge.
"A product of seasoned scholarship, natural wisdom, empirical
research, and inspired originality. It is perhaps one of the most
sophisticated intellectual inputs to the world of knowledge"
In addition to being contemplated in the classical disciplines of
anthropology, human sociality has been subjected to scientific
examination in the natural and social sciences. This book offers a
substantial discussion of empirical research programs within
current economics (experimental and neuroeconomics), with special
regard to the themes of reciprocity and altruism. These themes are
discussed from a philosophical perspective informed by
phenomenology and hermeneutics, and linked to theories of conflict,
recognition and alterity in social philosophy, which are used to
show the limitations of the purely science-based naturalistic
approaches in economics. Finally, the book introduces the concept
of the neighbor in Christian theology and shows how this figure
brings a new perspective to the examination of human sociality.
"No Such Thing as Terminal: The Re-Discovery of the Lost Secret
German Cure for Cancer and The Fountain of Youth. " Genetic
Engineering is not just a futuristic fantasy which is often how
Hollywood portrays it to be. Rather it exists in the here and the
now and has been in existence with a technical theory that has been
giving positive results since the 1930's. These innovations have
however been secretly suppressed for a multitude of reasons not the
least of which is political power. Now in this book is discussed
one person's accidental hit on the secret cure for cancer using
genetic engineering. A cure which has existed since the 1930's and
has repeatedly been tried both in vivo and in vitro. Herein is
explored one person's speculations, scientific discoveries, and
evidence of both the credibility of the medicine and the conspiracy
of the cover-up. DNA was not first discovered by Crick and Watson
nor were they really the first to describe its structure. This was
done long before them with the advent of the invention of Quantum
Mechanics which began in earnest in 1926 with the work of
Schrodinger and earlier with the work of Von Laue in
crystallography.
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