A Pattern Of Peoples

Author : Simon Baron-Cohen
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2020-11-10
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781541647138

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The Pattern Seekers by Simon Baron-Cohen Pdf

A groundbreaking argument about the link between autism and ingenuity. Why can humans alone invent? In The Pattern Seekers, Cambridge University psychologist Simon Baron-Cohen makes a case that autism is as crucial to our creative and cultural history as the mastery of fire. Indeed, Baron-Cohen argues that autistic people have played a key role in human progress for seventy thousand years, from the first tools to the digital revolution. How? Because the same genes that cause autism enable the pattern seeking that is essential to our species's inventiveness. However, these abilities exact a great cost on autistic people, including social and often medical challenges, so Baron-Cohen calls on us to support and celebrate autistic people in both their disabilities and their triumphs. Ultimately, The Pattern Seekers isn't just a new theory of human civilization, but a call to consider anew how society treats those who think differently.

Author : Christopher Alexander
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2018-09-20
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780190050351

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A Pattern Language by Christopher Alexander Pdf

You can use this book to design a house for yourself with your family; you can use it to work with your neighbors to improve your town and neighborhood; you can use it to design an office, or a workshop, or a public building. And you can use it to guide you in the actual process of construction. After a ten-year silence, Christopher Alexander and his colleagues at the Center for Environmental Structure are now publishing a major statement in the form of three books which will, in their words, "lay the basis for an entirely new approach to architecture, building and planning, which will we hope replace existing ideas and practices entirely." The three books are The Timeless Way of Building, The Oregon Experiment, and this book, A Pattern Language. At the core of these books is the idea that people should design for themselves their own houses, streets, and communities. This idea may be radical (it implies a radical transformation of the architectural profession) but it comes simply from the observation that most of the wonderful places of the world were not made by architects but by the people. At the core of the books, too, is the point that in designing their environments people always rely on certain "languages," which, like the languages we speak, allow them to articulate and communicate an infinite variety of designs within a forma system which gives them coherence. This book provides a language of this kind. It will enable a person to make a design for almost any kind of building, or any part of the built environment. "Patterns," the units of this language, are answers to design problems (How high should a window sill be? How many stories should a building have? How much space in a neighborhood should be devoted to grass and trees?). More than 250 of the patterns in this pattern language are given: each consists of a problem statement, a discussion of the problem with an illustration, and a solution. As the authors say in their introduction, many of the patterns are archetypal, so deeply rooted in the nature of things that it seemly likely that they will be a part of human nature, and human action, as much in five hundred years as they are today.

Author : John Lash Latey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 46 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1840
Category : Letter writing
ISBN : BL:A0026901864

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The Pattern Book of Letters for Working People by John Lash Latey Pdf

Author : Marilyne Woodsmall,Wyatt Woodsmall
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Success in business
ISBN : 1892876000

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People Pattern Power, P3 by Marilyne Woodsmall,Wyatt Woodsmall Pdf

Author : Joseph Parker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1888
Category : Bible
ISBN : UOM:39015065472949

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The People's Bible by Joseph Parker Pdf

Author : Joseph Parker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1888
Category : Bible
ISBN : WISC:89110297108

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The People's Bible: I Chronicles X-2 Chronicles XX by Joseph Parker Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 886 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1891
Category : Children's periodicals, American
ISBN : NYPL:33333219793136

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Harper's Young People by Anonim Pdf

Author : Chambers W. and R., ltd
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 848 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1874
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:600070146

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Chambers's information for the people, ed. by W. and R. Chambers by Chambers W. and R., ltd Pdf

Author : Stephen Allen,Alexandra Xanthaki
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 620 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2011-01-12
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781847316233

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Reflections on the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples by Stephen Allen,Alexandra Xanthaki Pdf

The adoption of the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples by the United Nations General Assembly on 13 September 2007 was acclaimed as a major success for the United Nations system given the extent to which it consolidates and develops the international corpus of indigenous rights. This is the first in-depth academic analysis of this far-reaching instrument. Indigenous representatives have argued that the rights contained in the Declaration, and the processes by which it was formulated, obligate affected States to accept the validity of its provisions and its interpretation of contested concepts (such as 'culture', 'land', 'ownership' and 'self-determination'). This edited collection contains essays written by the main protagonists in the development of the Declaration; indigenous representatives; and field-leading academics. It offers a comprehensive institutional, thematic and regional analysis of the Declaration. In particular, it explores the Declaration's normative resonance for international law and considers the ways in which this international instrument could catalyse institutional action and influence the development of national laws and policies on indigenous issues.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 850 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1877
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
ISBN : MSU:31293036394546

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Chambers's Encyclopaedia: a Dictionary of Universal Knowledge for the People ... by Anonim Pdf

Author : Albert-Laszlo Barabasi
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2010-04-29
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781101187166

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Bursts by Albert-Laszlo Barabasi Pdf

A revolutionary new theory showing how we can predict human behavior-from a radical genius and bestselling author Can we scientifically predict our future? Scientists and pseudo scientists have been pursuing this mystery for hundreds and perhaps thousands of years. But now, astonishing new research is revealing patterns in human behavior previously thought to be purely random. Precise, orderly, predictable patterns... Albert Laszlo Barabasi, already the world's preeminent researcher on the science of networks, describes his work on this profound mystery in Bursts, a stunningly original investigation into human nature. His approach relies on the digital reality of our world, from mobile phones to the Internet and email, because it has turned society into a huge research laboratory. All those electronic trails of time stamped texts, voicemails, and internet searches add up to a previously unavailable massive data set of statistics that track our movements, our decisions, our lives. Analysis of these trails is offering deep insights into the rhythm of how we do everything. His finding? We work and fight and play in short flourishes of activity followed by next to nothing. The pattern isn't random, it's "bursty." Randomness does not rule our lives in the way scientists have assumed up until now. Illustrating this revolutionary science, Barabasi artfully weaves together the story of a 16th century burst of human activity-a bloody medieval crusade launched in his homeland, Transylvania-with the modern tale of a contemporary artist hunted by the FBI through our post 9/11 surveillance society. These narratives illustrate how predicting human behavior has long been the obsession, sometimes the duty, of those in power. Barabási's astonishingly wide range of examples from seemingly unrelated areas include how dollar bills move around the U.S., the pattern everyone follows in writing email, the spread of epidemics, and even the flight patterns of albatross. In all these phenomena a virtually identical, mathematically described bursty pattern emerges. Bursts reveals what this amazing new research is showing us about where individual spontaneity ends and predictability in human behavior begins. The way you think about your own potential to do something truly extraordinary will never be the same.

Author : William Harrison De Puy,Henry Frederic Redall
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 656 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1889
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
ISBN : CHI:099078781

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The New People's Cyclopedia of Universal Knowledge by William Harrison De Puy,Henry Frederic Redall Pdf

Author : Martin Bell,John Taylor
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2003-12-25
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781134591954

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Population Mobility and Indigenous Peoples in Australasia and North America by Martin Bell,John Taylor Pdf

This book draws together relevant research findings to produce the first comprehensive overview of Indigenous peoples' mobility. Chapters draw from a range of disciplinary sources, and from a diversity of regions and nation-states. Within nations, mobility is the key determinant of local population change, with implications for service delivery, needs assessment, and governance. Mobility also provides a key indicator of social and economic transformation. As such, it informs both social theory and policy debate. For much of the twentieth century conventional wisdom anticipated the steady convergence of socio-demographic trends, seeing this as an inevitable concomitant of the development process. However, the patterns and trends in population movement observed in this book suggest otherwise, and provide a forceful manifestation of changing race relations in these new world settings.

Author : Lotta Kühlhorn
Publisher : Die Gestalten Verlag-DGV
Page : 137 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Design
ISBN : 3899555155

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Designing Patterns by Lotta Kühlhorn Pdf

This practical guide explains the ins and outs of designing patterns while the included CD features templates for experimentation by beginners and professionals alike.

Author : Robert MacDougall
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2014-01-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9780812245691

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The People's Network by Robert MacDougall Pdf

The Bell System dominated telecommunications in the United States and Canada for most of the twentieth century, but its monopoly was not inevitable. In the decades around 1900, ordinary citizens—farmers, doctors, small-town entrepreneurs—established tens of thousands of independent telephone systems, stringing their own wires to bring this new technology to the people. Managed by opportunists and idealists alike, these small businesses were motivated not only by profit but also by the promise of open communication as a weapon against monopoly capital and for protection of regional autonomy. As the Bell empire grew, independents fought fiercely to retain control of their local networks and companies—a struggle with an emerging corporate giant that has been almost entirely forgotten. The People's Network reconstructs the story of the telephone's contentious beginnings, exploring the interplay of political economy, business strategy, and social practice in the creation of modern North American telecommunications. Drawing from government documents in the United States and Canada, independent telephone journals and publications, and the archives of regional Bell operating companies and their rivals, Robert MacDougall locates the national debates over the meaning, use, and organization of the telephone industry as a turning point in the history of information networks. The competing businesses represented dueling political philosophies: regional versus national identity and local versus centralized power. Although independent telephone companies did not win their fight with big business, they fundamentally changed the way telecommunications were conceived.