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Who are we? Where did we come from? Where are we going? In "My
Reality," author Stan Green examines and attempts to answer these
three basic questions confronting humanity. Writing from the
perspective of a well-read and educated person who has lived
through the last half of the twentieth and the beginning of the
twenty-first century, Green presents his ideas based on the study
of both history and science.
"My Reality" tracks the historical events that molded the
scientific, political, and religious thinking that has shaped the
world. Beginning with the Big Bang, Green traces the development of
the universe, life, and history of humanity over thirteen billion,
seven hundred million years to provide a snapshot of human
existence today. He bases his thoughts on the understanding that
reality changes as the knowledge base regarding the state of
everything changes, with even the smallest modification resulting
in our species or culture being significantly different.
As Green examines our understanding of the universe and our
place in it, he offers several probable scenarios that could mark
our future.
A "New York Times "Notable Book of 2012
Whether it's in a cockpit at takeoff or the planning of an
offensive war, a romantic relationship or a dispute at the office,
there are many opportunities to lie and self-deceive--but deceit
and self-deception carry the costs of being alienated from reality
and can lead to disaster. So why does deception play such a
prominent role in our everyday lives? In short, why do we
deceive?
In his bold new work, prominent biological theorist Robert Trivers
unflinchingly argues that self-deception evolved in the service of
deceit--the better to fool others. We do it for biological
reasons--in order to help us survive and procreate. From viruses
mimicking host behavior to humans misremembering (sometimes
intentionally) the details of a quarrel, science has proven that
the deceptive one can always outwit the masses. But we undertake
this deception at our own peril.
Trivers has written an ambitious investigation into the
evolutionary logic of lying and the costs of leaving it
unchecked.
Computer simulations help advance climatology, astrophysics, and
other scientific disciplines. They are also at the crux of several
high-profile cases of science in the news. How do simulation
scientists, with little or no direct observations, make decisions
about what to represent? What is the nature of simulated evidence,
and how do we evaluate its strength? Aimee Kendall Roundtree
suggests answers in Computer Simulation, Rhetoric, and the
Scientific Imagination. She interprets simulations in the sciences
by uncovering the argumentative strategies that underpin the
production and dissemination of simulated findings. She also
explains how subjective and social influences do not diminish
simulations' virtue or power to represent the real thing. Along the
way, Roundtree situates computer simulations within the scientific
imagination alongside paradoxes, thought experiments, and
metaphors. A cogent rhetorical analysis, Computer Simulation,
Rhetoric, and the Scientific Imagination engages scholars of the
rhetoric of science, technology, and new and digital media, but it
is also accessible to the general public interested in debates over
hurricane preparedness and climate change.
This book (hardcover) is part of the TREDITION CLASSICS. It
contains classical literature works from over two thousand years.
Most of these titles have been out of print and off the bookstore
shelves for decades. The book series is intended to preserve the
cultural legacy and to promote the timeless works of classical
literature. Readers of a TREDITION CLASSICS book support the
mission to save many of the amazing works of world literature from
oblivion. With this series, tredition intends to make thousands of
international literature classics available in printed format again
- worldwide.
This study originates in the observation that improv comedy or
improvised theater has such a vast majority of white people
practicing it, while other improvisational or comedic art forms
(jazz, freestyle rap, stand up) are historically grounded in and
marked as Black cultural production. What it is about improv that
makes it such a white space? Can an absence be an object of study?
If so, what is there to study? Where should one look?
The book is a review of some basics notions in optics. The first
chapter starts with a review of Newton's laws and planetary motion
and some related equations. The second chapter deals with the
planet earth's atmosphere; the third is an introduction to remote
sensing. Chapter 4 and 5 introduce a background on Maxwell's laws
in electromagnetism and light polarization. Some other topics of
interest have been also developed. Among these topics are the light
interaction with spherical surfaces and related equations, light
Interference, linear polarization by anisotropy, Fourier transform
spectroscopy, and an introduction to Lidar.
A perfume-flavorist's practical description of most of the
commercially available perfume and flavor chemicals, with their
chemical structure and practical physical data, appearance, odor
and flavor type, reported and suggested uses, production and
evaluation, with literature references for further details and
study. Volume II Monographs 1507 trans-4-HEPTENAL to 2928:
TETROHYDRO-para-TOLYLALDEHYDE
The present work deals with the representation of trauma and
violence in coming-of-age stories written by African-American and
Afro-Caribbean women authors in the United States. The kinds of
violence explored in this work are related to the post-colonial
condition the women protagonists experience, in which racism,
sexism, classism, among other kinds of discrimination, are
co-created in an intersectional experience of oppression. The
titles analyzed in this work are: Lucy (1990), written by Jamaica
Kincaid; Breath, Eyes, Memory (1994), written by Edwidge Danticat;
Bone Black - Memories of Girlhood (1996), written by bell hooks;
and God Help the Child (2015), written by Toni Morrison. The
Bildungsroman genre serves as the form with which the authors are
able to display the different forms of violence experienced during
the the process of growing up female and black in the United
States, and also in the Caribbean islands of Antigua and Haiti, in
the cases of Kincaid and Danticat respectively. The coming-of-age
stories written by women, and more specifically by African-American
and Afro-Caribbean women, tend to showcase narratives in which the
tensions between the protagonists' self-determination and the
influence of social and cultural factors in their development
opportunities are negotiated. The genre is adapted and subverted by
the authors, deviating from its canonical European origins,
becoming a site in which the authors are able to represent
different kinds of violence, and the subsequent traumatic
consequences caused by it.
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