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For religious persons, the notion of human being is tied
inextricably to the notion of God (or the gods) and turns on this
question: what is human being? How did we, with our almost infinite
capacities for thought, change, and domination, come to be? Imbued
with powers far beyond any other animal, humans are too faulty to
be considered gods themselves. Yet, the idea of God (or the gods)
appears in all distinctive human cultures: it names the other pole
of human-it designates a being who realizes perfectly our
imperfectly realized nature. With the rise of new sciences come
ancient anxieties about how we should define human being. In the
nineteenth century, electricity and magnetism fascinated experts
and captivated the lay public. In the twenty-first century,
advances in neuroscience open up vast new possibilities of
mimicking, and perhaps emulating human being. In this book twelve
scholars and scientists ask what-if anything-distinguishes Brain
from Mind, and Mind from Self and Soul.
For religious persons, the notion of human being is tied
inextricably to the notion of God (or the gods) and turns on this
question: what is human being? How did we, with our almost infinite
capacities for thought, change, and domination, come to be? Imbued
with powers far beyond any other animal, humans are too faulty to
be considered gods themselves. Yet, the idea of God (or the gods)
appears in all distinctive human cultures: it names the other pole
of human_it designates a being who realizes perfectly our
imperfectly realized nature. With the rise of new sciences come
ancient anxieties about how we should define human being. In the
nineteenth century, electricity and magnetism fascinated experts
and captivated the lay public. In the twenty-first century,
advances in neuroscience open up vast new possibilities of
mimicking, and perhaps emulating human being. In this book twelve
scholars and scientists ask what_if anything_distinguishes Brain
from Mind, and Mind from Self and Soul.
Teaching Shakespeare Beyond the Centre showcases a wide array of
recent, innovative and original research into Shakespeare and
learning in Australasia, in secondary, tertiary and adult
education. Premised on the dissolution of the centre/colony binary
that for so long structured the reception and teaching of
Shakespeare in the colonies, the book explores the use of local
knowledge and experience to invigorate and renew learning. In
elevating the value of the 'local', the book provides models of
educational theory and practice that are transferable and
adaptable. The editors have drawn on contributors with diverse
areas of expertise including dramatic practitioners, historicist
scholars, school teachers and academics who train teachers, and
literary scholars with an interest in new theoretical and practical
approaches to pedagogy.
Showcasing a wide array of recent, innovative and original research
into Shakespeare and learning in Australasia and beyond, this
volume argues the value of the 'local' and provides transferable
and adaptable models of educational theory and practice.
The global greenhouse effect may be one of the greatest challenges
ever to face humankind. If fossil fuel use, and the consequent CO
emissions, 2 continue to increase at their current trend, there is
the possibility that over the next century there will be massive
climate change and the flooding of coastal areas. The economics
profession is beginning to respond to this challenge, through
seeking to understand the economic processes which detennine the
demand for energy, the proportion of this energy supplied by fossil
fuels, and the policy instruments available for reducing fossil
fuel demand while still supplying appropriate amounts of energy.
This study is a contribution to that literature. We examine the
impact of structural changes in the German and UK economies upon CO
emissions 2 over the last two decades, and explore the potential
for further structural change to reduce such emissions. This study
is different from much of the current literature, in that we do not
presuppose that the respective economies consist of only one, or a
few, sectors. Instead, we analyse the interrelationships of 47
sectors for about 20 years, using input-output methods. We also
deal with the effects of the changing sectoral structure of imports
and exports of these two countries on the 'responsibility' for CO
emissions. On the basis of this extensive evidence we have a solid
2 foundation to develop different scenarios to show how the
'Toronto target' of reducing CO emissions by 20% over 20 years can
be achieved.
After spending a year in Germany as a security guard with the
50th Ordnance Company, Curtis Gay went to Viet Nam as a Private
First Class. Six months later he was a Sergeant in the 25th
Infantry Division and experienced some of the most intense fighting
of the war. This book is his story.
Curtis spent a year as a Drill Sergeant at Fort Dix, New Jersey
before leaving the Army in 1968. After a long career in the
electrical industry, he is retired and lives in Durham, North
Carolina with his wife.
Everybody is recovering from something. The author is a Certified
Lay Minister who suffers from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder from
Vietnam and is a recovering alcoholic. These sermons are being
shared in the hope that somebody, somewhere, will find peace.
The Wife Who Came with Workboots by Teri P. Gay This book is a
memoir, set against the backdrop of Teri P. Gay's life out in the
country with her second husband, John Gay, a renowned engineer and
land surveyor in New York State, whom she married after ending a
previous marriage of twenty-five years. The book's chapters tell
about growing up in Glens Falls, New York-Hometown, U.S.A.-in the
1960s and '70s; being a wife, mother, and professional woman in the
'80s and '90s; getting divorced and remarrying; turning fifty;
living out in the country; and embracing life and aging in the
twenty-first century. Through tales of growing up poor, rising to a
career as a corporate executive, suffering through personal
turmoils, and grappling with some misadventures, this book should
resonate wholeheartedly with a broad audience of readers. It is
honest and fresh, happy and sad, while weaving in a historical
perspective throughout. About the Author Teri P. Gay has been a
historian and writer in northern New York State for many years, and
in addition to authoring many historical articles (which are listed
on her website: www.terigay.com), she has written two other books.
The first is Malta Memories (Adirondack Press, 2007), and the
second is Strength without Compromise: Womanly Influence and
Political Identity in Turn-of-the-Twentieth-Century Rural Upstate
New York (The American Classics Company, 2009).
This is a new release of the original 1938 edition.
Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of
rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for
everyone!
Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of
rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for
everyone!
Including A Chapter Written Expressly For This Publication By
Professor Bordet.
After spending a year in Germany as a security guard with the
50th Ordnance Company, Curtis Gay went to Viet Nam as a Private
First Class. Six months later he was a Sergeant in the 25th
Infantry Division and experienced some of the most intense fighting
of the war. This book is his story.
Curtis spent a year as a Drill Sergeant at Fort Dix, New Jersey
before leaving the Army in 1968. After a long career in the
electrical industry, he is retired and lives in Durham, North
Carolina with his wife.
Including A Chapter Written Expressly For This Publication By
Professor Bordet.
Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of
rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for
everyone!
In uncovering the roots of modernism, a master historian shows us a
hidden side of the Victorian era, the role of the bourgeois as
reactionaries, revolutionaries, and middle-of-the-roaders in the
passage of high culture toward modernism.
"In the Victorian decades, the name bourgeois was at once a term
of reproach and a source of self-respect". So Peter Gay opens his
newest and perhaps most surprising work. For the Victorians we meet
in this volume are not the stodgy, complacent characters of
drawing-room comedy. They are instead a varied crowd, from the
capitalists in the top tier of the bourgeoisie eager to be
recognized as gentlemen or, better yet, dubbed as nobility to those
at the bottom of the pile, the clerks and craftsmen mortally afraid
of sinking into the mass of the proletariat. What they share is an
anxiety, driven by their concern to advance up the social pyramid
or at least to maintain the status they have achieved.
Some of the individuals in this richly peopled narrative turn on
their own class, none more bitterly than Gustave Flaubert; others
celebrate their success, whether in Manchester or in Munich, by
sponsoring symphony orchestras or establishing museums; still
others become cultural hunters and gatherers, turning their newly
acquired fortunes to the private accumulation of art, ranging from
the "safe" works of the old masters to the daring innovations of
the Impressionists.
The stage is thus set for the explosion of modernism accompanied
by an inevitable reaction against the subversive avant-garde of
artists, composers, and writers as varied as Cezanne, Picasso,
Stravinsky, Shaw, Ibsen, and Zola. No one reading this concluding
volume of Peter Gay's magnificentrevaluation of the nineteenth
century will ever again use the term Victorian as a synonym for
dull.
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