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Author : Robert D. Johnson
Publisher : OakHill Press
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1886939233
"A Touch Of Reality" helps the reader understand the dynamics of operating as a high performance team and how to use Bcube TM, the patented invention, to leverage the right forces and move a team in the right direction.
Author : Philip K. Dick
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 1003 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2011-11-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780547549255
"A great and calamitous sequence of arguments with the universe: poignant, terrifying, ludicrous, and brilliant. The Exegesis is the sort of book associated with legends and madmen, but Dick wasn't a legend and he wasn't mad. He lived among us, and was a genius."-Jonathan Lethem Based on thousands of pages of typed and handwritten notes, journal entries, letters, and story sketches, The Exegesis of Philip K. Dick is the magnificent and imaginative final work of an author who dedicated his life to questioning the nature of reality and perception, the malleability of space and time, and the relationship between the human and the divine. Edited and introduced by Pamela Jackson and Jonathan Lethem, this will be the definitive presentation of Dick's brilliant, and epic, final work. In The Exegesis, Dick documents his eight-year attempt to fathom what he called "2-3-74," a postmodern visionary experience of the entire universe "transformed into information." In entries that sometimes ran to hundreds of pages, Dick tried to write his way into the heart of a cosmic mystery that tested his powers of imagination and invention to the limit, adding to, revising, and discarding theory after theory, mixing in dreams and visionary experiences as they occurred, and pulling it all together in three late novels known as the VALIS trilogy. In this abridgment, Jackson and Lethem serve as guides, taking the reader through the Exegesis and establishing connections with moments in Dick's life and work.
Author : Dove Night
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2024-07-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780359035465
Author : Matthew Ratcliffe
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2008-06-27
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780191548529
Feelings of Being is the first ever account of the nature, role and variety of 'existential feelings' in psychiatric illness and in everyday life. There is a great deal of current philosophical and scientific interest in emotional feelings. However, many of the feelings that people struggle to express in their everyday lives do not appear on standard lists of emotions. For example, there are feelings of unreality, surreality, unfamiliarity, estrangement, heightened existence, isolation, emptiness, belonging, significance, insignificance, and the list goes on. Ratcliffe refers to such feelings as 'existential' because they comprise a changeable sense of being part of a world In this book, Ratcliffe argues that existential feelings form a distinctive group by virtue of three characteristics: they are bodily feelings, they constitute ways of relating to the world as a whole, and they are responsible for our sense of reality. He explains how something can be a bodily feeling and, at the same time, a sense of reality and belonging. He then explores the role of altered feeling in psychiatric illness, showing how an account of existential feeling can help us to understand experiential changes that occur in a range of conditions, including depression, circumscribed delusions, depersonalisation and schizophrenia. The book also addresses the contribution made by existential feelings to religious experience and to philosophical thought.
Author : Alberto Gallace,Charles Spence
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780199644469
This book explores the science of touch. It brings together the latest findings from cognitive neuroscience about the processing of tactile information in humans. The book provides a comprehensive overview of scientific knowledge regarding themes such as tactile memory, tactile awareness (consciousness) and tactile attention.
Author : Mark Christafari Dada
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
Page : 94 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781553694083
Do you want to brighten your path to enlightenment? Hailed as the must have book when you need the rights words to say at that very special moment. Join the many lucky souls who have eyes to see thus did read and those who have ears to hear thus took heed to the wonderful teachings set before us in this classical masterpiece of pure poetic verse that shows the everlasting power of God in man. This book chronicles the journeys of a man to the stage where he now sits and meditates. Contained within its pages are poems, prayers and odes written as the author felt them. These works are original concepts and without any extensive review or latter editing. Yet they show the state of being as it existed in the time and space which required such thoughts. Spoken truly as poems of the soul. During the course of writing his poetry, Mark Christafari Dada I often delved into the depths of other beings. Thus acting as the medium to transmit the wails of their souls. He also shares with us his own transient understanding. As the saying goes, "I never met a person I didn't like". I myself can say, "I never met anyone who did not enjoy reading the works of this truly brilliant and uniquely humble soul". For any individual who reads this far and continues not will likewise cut short the growth of their enlightenment.
Author : Bobby Azarian
Publisher : BenBella Books
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2022-06-28
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781637740446
Why do we exist? For centuries, this question was the sole province of religion and philosophy. But now science is ready to take a seat at the table. According to the prevailing scientific paradigm, the universe tends toward randomness; it functions according to laws without purpose, and the emergence of life is an accident devoid of meaning. But this bleak interpretation of nature is currently being challenged by cutting-edge findings at the intersection of physics, biology, neuroscience, and information theory—generally referred to as “complexity science.” Thanks to a new understanding of evolution, as well as recent advances in our understanding of the phenomenon known as emergence, a new cosmic narrative is taking shape: Nature’s simplest “parts” come together to form ever-greater “wholes” in a process that has no end in sight. In The Romance of Reality, cognitive neuroscientist Bobby Azarian explains the science behind this new view of reality and explores what it means for all of us. In engaging, accessible prose, Azarian outlines the fundamental misunderstanding of thermodynamics at the heart of the old assumptions about the universe’s evolution, and shows us the evidence that suggests that the universe is a “self-organizing” system, one that is moving toward increasing complexity and awareness. Cosmologist and science communicator Carl Sagan once said of humanity that “we are a way for the cosmos to know itself.” The Romance of Reality shows that this poetic statement in fact rests on a scientific foundation and gives us a new way to know the cosmos, along with a riveting vision of life that imbues existence with meaning—nothing supernatural required.
Author : Jim Baggott
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2013-08-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781453299142
From acclaimed science author Jim Baggot, a lively, provocative, and “intellectually gratifying” critique of modern theoretical physics (The Economist). Where does one draw the line between solid science and fairy-tale physics? Jim Baggott argues that there is no observational or experimental evidence for many of the ideas of modern theoretical physics: super-symmetric particles, super strings, the multiverse, the holographic principle, or the anthropic cosmological principle. Unafraid to challenge prominent theorists, Baggott offers engaging portraits of many central figures of modern physics, including Stephen Hawking, Paul Davies, John D. Barrow, Brian Greene, and Leonard Susskind. Informed, comprehensive, and balanced, Farewell to Reality discusses the latest ideas about the nature of physical reality while clearly distinguishing between fact and fantasy, providing essential and entertaining reading for everyone interested in what we know and don’t know about the nature of the universe and reality itself.
Author : Jean Baudrillard
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Art
ISBN : 0472065211
Develops a theory of contemporary culture that relies on displacing economic notions of cultural production with notions of cultural expenditure. This book represents an effort to rethink cultural theory from the perspective of a concept of cultural materialism, one that radically redefines postmodern formulations of the body.
Author : Jane McGonigal
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2011-01-20
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781101475492
“McGonigal is a clear, methodical writer, and her ideas are well argued. Assertions are backed by countless psychological studies.” —The Boston Globe “Powerful and provocative . . . McGonigal makes a persuasive case that games have a lot to teach us about how to make our lives, and the world, better.” —San Jose Mercury News “Jane McGonigal's insights have the elegant, compact, deadly simplicity of plutonium, and the same explosive force.” —Cory Doctorow, author of Little Brother A visionary game designer reveals how we can harness the power of games to boost global happiness. With 174 million gamers in the United States alone, we now live in a world where every generation will be a gamer generation. But why, Jane McGonigal asks, should games be used for escapist entertainment alone? In this groundbreaking book, she shows how we can leverage the power of games to fix what is wrong with the real world-from social problems like depression and obesity to global issues like poverty and climate change-and introduces us to cutting-edge games that are already changing the business, education, and nonprofit worlds. Written for gamers and non-gamers alike, Reality Is Broken shows that the future will belong to those who can understand, design, and play games. Jane McGonigal is also the author of SuperBetter: A Revolutionary Approach to Getting Stronger, Happier, Braver and More Resilient.
Author : Jay David Bolter,Maria Engberg,Blair MacIntyre
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2021-11-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780262361927
How augmented reality and virtual reality are taking their places in contemporary media culture alongside film and television. T This book positions augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) firmly in contemporary media culture. The authors view AR and VR not as the latest hyped technologies but as media—the latest in a series of what they term “reality media,” taking their places alongside film and television. Reality media inserts a layer of media between us and our perception of the world; AR and VR do not replace reality but refashion a reality for us. Each reality medium mediates and remediates; each offers a new representation that we implicitly compare to our experience of the world in itself but also through other media. The authors show that as forms of reality media emerge, they not only chart a future path for media culture, but also redefine media past. With AR and VR in mind, then, we can recognize their precursors in eighteenth-century panoramas and the Broadway lights of the 1930s. A digital version of Reality Media, available through the book’s website, invites readers to visit a series of virtual rooms featuring interactivity, 3-D models, videos, images, and texts that explore the themes of the book.
Author : Ziya Tong
Publisher : Canongate Books
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2019-10-03
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781838850500
What are we not seeing? Our naked eyes see only a thin sliver of reality. We are blind in comparison to the X-rays that peer through skin, and the animals that can see in infrared or ultraviolet or with 360-degree vision. In The Reality Bubble, Ziya Tong illuminates this hidden world and takes us on a journey to examine ten of humanity’s biggest blind spots. What she reveals is not on the things we didn’t evolve to see but, more dangerously, the blindness of modern society. Fast-paced, utterly fascinating and deeply humane, this vitally important book gives voice to the sense we’ve all had – that there is more to the world than meets the eye.
Author : Richard Dawkins
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2012-09-11
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781451675047
The author addresses key scientific questions previously explained by rich mythologies, from the evolution of the first humans and the life cycle of stars to the principles of a rainbow and the origins of the universe.
Author : Jackie Kay
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 11 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2011-01-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780007427598
Obsessed with a certain TV cookery show, a woman embarks on her own whisky-fuelled culinary adventure.
Author : Daniel E. Harmon
Publisher : Chelsea House
Page : 93 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0791049531
Examines the symptoms and diagnosis of schizophrenia, possible causes of the illness, its effects on family members, and treatment options