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Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
From astrophysicist Adam Frank, a little book on the biggest
questions in our search for extraterrestrial life, questions we
stand ready to answer. Everyone is curious about life in the
Universe, UFOs and whether ET is out there. Over the course of his
thirty-year career as an astrophysicist, Adam Frank has
consistently been asked about the possibility of intelligent life
in the universe. Are aliens real? Where are they? Why haven't we
found them? What happens if we do? We've long been led to believe
that astronomers spend every night searching the sky for
extraterrestials, but the truth is we have barely started looking.
Not until now have we even known where to look or how. In The
Little Book of Aliens, Frank, a leading researcher in the field,
takes us on a journey to all that we know about the possibility of
life outside planet Earth and shows us the cutting-edge science
that has brought us to this unique moment in human history: the one
where we go find out for ourselves. In this small book with big
stakes, Frank gives us a rundown of everything we need to know,
from the scientific origins of the search for intelligent life, the
Fermi Paradox, the Kardashev Scale, the James Webb Telescope, as
well as UFOs and their conspiracy theories. Drawing from his own
work and that of other scientists studying the possibility of alien
life, he brings together the latest scientific thinking, data,
ideas, and discoveries to equip us with the critical facts as we
stand at what may be the last moment in human history where we
still believe we are all alone. This book is about everything we
do--and do not--know about life, intelligent or otherwise beyond
Earth. In language that is engaging, entertaining and fun, The
Little Book of Aliens provides a comprehensive first look at how
close we are to finding out if others actually exist--and if they
do, what they might be like. Humankind is on the precipice of
finding its neighbors. What comes next? No person is better suited
to answer that question--and lead the search--than Adam Frank.
The Second Edition of Adam Frank’s groundbreaking book supports
the mission of helping students become scientifically educated
citizens. He shows students that the process of science is a human
endeavor by introducing them, via interviews, to scientists from
across the field. New Anatomy of a Discovery features help students
visualize the excitement of discovery while Interactive Simulations
ask students to engage in the scientific method by making
observations, manipulating variables, and answering questions.
Scholars of politics are comfortable theorizing about the
parliamentary process and individual political parties, but they
are often guilty of ignoring the role of individual citizens except
through opinion polls and voting statistics. Even at the local
level, the main focus of political theorists has traditionally been
on formal systems of government usually lauding representative
democracy as the standard for Western government while the
importance of participatory action at a local level has been vastly
underestimated. Correcting this imbalance, the renowned political
scholars who contribute to this volume outline both the theory and
practice of so-called "extra-formal democracy," wherein societal
governance is more accurately described as a "network activity" and
citizens, politicians, public administrators and other
professionals act together on issues or problems that are defined
as public. This new and complex form of democracy explored here in
three unique settings: the United States, the Netherlands, and
Denmark is increasingly regarded as an achievable vision for a
multi-faceted theory of government."
Light of the Stars tells a radically new story about what we are:
one world in a universe awash in planets. Building on his widely
discussed scientific papers and The New York Times op-eds,
astrophysicist Adam Frank shows that not only is it likely that
alien civilisations have existed many times before but that many of
them have driven their own worlds into dangerous eras of change. He
explains how dust storms on Mars, the greenhouse effect on Venus,
Gaia Theory, the threat of nuclear winter, and efforts to prove or
disprove the plurality of worlds from Aristotle to Copernicus to
Carl Sagan have contributed to our understanding of our place in
the universe and the growing challenge of climate change. And he
explores what may be the largest question of all: if there has been
life on other worlds, what its presence can tell us about our own
fate.
Light of the Stars tells a radically new story about what we are:
one world in a universe awash in planets. Building on his widely
discussed scientific papers and The New York Times op-eds,
astrophysicist Adam Frank shows that not only is it likely that
alien civilisations have existed many times before but that many of
them have driven their own worlds into dangerous eras of change. He
explains how dust storms on Mars, the greenhouse effect on Venus,
Gaia Theory, the threat of nuclear winter, and efforts to prove or
disprove the plurality of worlds from Aristotle to Copernicus to
Carl Sagan have contributed to our understanding of our place in
the universe and the growing challenge of climate change. And he
explores what may be the largest question of all: if there has been
life on other worlds, what its presence can tell us about our own
fate.
From Stonehenge to beyond the Big Bang, an exhilarating scientific
exploration of how we make time Time is the grandest conception of
the universe that we humans have been able to imagine – and its
most intimate, the very frame of human life. In About Time,
astrophysicist and award-winning writer Adam Frank tells the
scientific story of this wonderful and tyrannical invention. A
Palaeolithic farmer moved through the sun-fuelled day and
star-steered night in a radically different way than the
Elizabethan merchants who set their pace to the clocks newly
installed in their town squares. Since then, science has swept time
into increasingly minute and standardized units – the industrial
efficiency of ironworks’ punch clocks; the space-age precision of
atomic fountains and GPS satellites; the fifteen-minute increments
of Outlook’s digital revolution. And in the past decade,
string-theory branes, multiverses, and “clockless” physics have
begun to overturn our ideas about how the universe began – the
Big Bang – in ways that will completely rewrite time and our
experience of it. Weaving cosmology with day-to-day chronicles and
a down-to-earth style, About Time is both dazzling and riveting as
it confronts what comes next.
Transferential Poetics presents a method for bringing theories of
affect to the study of poetics. Informed by the thinking of Silvan
Tomkins, Melanie Klein, and Wilfred Bion, it offers new
interpretations of the poetics of four major American artists:
Edgar Allan Poe, Henry James, Gertrude Stein, and Andy Warhol. The
author emphasizes the close, reflexive attention each of these
artists pays to the transfer of feeling between text and reader, or
composition and audience- their transferential poetics. The book's
historical route from Poe to Warhol culminates in television, a
technology and cultural form that makes affect distinctly available
to perception. The peculiar theatricality of these four artists,
Frank argues, can best be understood as a reciprocal framing
relation between the bodily means of communicating affect (by face
and voice) and technologies of graphic reproduction.
The question of affect is central to critical theory, psychology,
politics, and the entire range of the humanities; but no
discipline, including psychoanalysis, has offered a theory of
affect that would be rich enough to account for the delicacy and
power, the evanescence and durability, the bodily rootedness and
the cultural variability of human emotion.SilvanTomkins (1911-1991)
was one of the most radical and imaginative psychologists of the
twentieth century. In Affect, Imagery, Consciousness, a four-volume
work published over the last thirty years of his life, Tomkins
developed an ambitious theory of affect steeped in cybernetics and
systems theory as well as in psychoanalysis, ethology, and
neuroscience. The implications of his conceptually daring and
phenomenologically suggestive theory are only now--in the context
of postmodernism--beginning to be understood. With Shame and Its
Sisters, editors Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick and Adam Frank make
available for the first time an engaging and accessible selection
of Tomkins's work.
Featuring intensive examination of several key affects,
particularly shame and anger, this volume contains many of
Tomkins's most haunting, diagnostically incisive, and theoretically
challenging discussions. An introductory essay by the editors
places Tomkins's work in the context of postwar information
technologies and will prompt a reexamination of some of the
underlying assumptions of recent critical work in cultural studies
and other areas of the humanities. The text is also accompanied by
a biographical sketch of Tomkins by noted psychologist Irving E.
Alexander, Tomkins's longtime friend and collaborator.
Eloquent, urgent, and inspiring, "The Constant Fire" tackles the
acrimonious debate between science and religion, taking us beyond
its stagnant parameters into the wider domain of human spiritual
experience. From a Neolithic archaeological site in Ireland to
modern theories of star formation, Adam Frank traverses a wide
terrain, broadening our sights and allowing us to imagine an
alternative perspective. Drawing from his experience as a
practicing astrophysicist and from the writings of the great
scholars of religion, philosophy, and mythology, Frank locates the
connective tissue linking science and religion - their commonality
as sacred pursuits - and finds their shared aspiration in pursuit
of 'the True and the Real'. Taking us from the burning of Giordano
Bruno in 1600 to Einstein and on to today's pressing issues of
global warming and resource depletion, "The Constant Fire" shows us
how to move beyond this stale debate into a more profound
experience of the world as sacred - a world that embraces science
without renouncing human spirituality.
Iconoclasm, Identity Politics and the Erasure of History surveys
the origins, uses and manifestations of iconoclasm in history, art
and public culture. It examines the various causes and uses of
image/property defacement as a tool of political, national,
religious and artistic process. This is one of the first books to
examine the outbreak of iconoclasm in Europe and North America in
the summer of 2020 in the context of previous outbreaks, and it
examines the implications of iconoclasm as a form of control,
censorship and expression.
Recent scholarly trends and controversies in Gertrude Stein
scholarship have focused on her politics and her friendships as
well as on Stein the collector, the celebrity, the visual icon.
Clearly, these recent examinations not only deepen our
understanding of Stein but also attest to her staying power. Yet
Stein's writing itself too often remains secondary. The central
premise of Primary Stein is that an extraordinary amount of textual
scholarship remains to be done on Stein's work, whether the
well-known, the little-known, or yet unpublished. The essays in
Primary Stein draw on recent interdisciplinary examinations, using
cultural and historical contexts to enrich and complicate how we
might read, understand, and teach Stein's writing. Following
Stein's own efforts throughout her lifetime to shift the focus from
her personality to her writing, these innovative essays turn the
lens back to a wide range of her texts, including novels, plays,
lectures and poetry. Each essay takes Stein's primary works as its
core interpretive focus, returning scholarly conversations to the
challenges and pleasures of working with Stein's texts.
Searching for the fabled Timberline People leads to the discovery
of a whole new culture - the culture of the Treagle.
Recent scholarly trends and controversies in Gertrude Stein
scholarship have focused on her politics and her friendships as
well as on Stein the collector, the celebrity, the visual icon.
Clearly, these recent examinations not only deepen our
understanding of Stein but also attest to her staying power. Yet
Stein s writing itself too often remains secondary. The central
premise of Primary Stein is that an extraordinary amount of textual
scholarship remains to be done on Stein s work, whether the
well-known, the little-known, or yet unpublished. The essays in
Primary Stein draw on recent interdisciplinary examinations, using
cultural and historical contexts to enrich and complicate how we
might read, understand, and teach Stein s writing. Following Stein
s own efforts throughout her lifetime to shift the focus from her
personality to her writing, these innovative essays turn the lens
back to a wide range of her texts, including novels, plays,
lectures and poetry. Each essay takes Stein s primary works as its
core interpretive focus, returning scholarly conversations to the
challenges and pleasures of working with Stein s texts."
Wait a Minute, I Have to Take Off My Bra is an anthology
celebrating the most female of body parts, the breasts. From
light-hearted memories of the first buds of puberty to heart
wrenching accounts of breast cancer, these stories and poems run
the gamut of experiences and emotions. A portion of all profits
will be donated to the Breast Cancer Society of Canada.
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!
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