A Truly Golden Handbook

Author : Veerle Achten,Geert Bouckaert,Erik Schokkaert
Publisher : Leuven University Press
Page : 577 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2016-09-26
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789462700796

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‘A Truly Golden Handbook’ by Veerle Achten,Geert Bouckaert,Erik Schokkaert Pdf

What would the ideal society of the future look like? In 1516, the eminent English humanist Thomas More tried his hand at imagining a perfect society on a distant island. His Utopia was published in the Flemish town of Leuven, home of a university that was established almost a century earlier. 500 years later, scholars of this university revisit More’s best-known work and reflect on the ideal society of the future, using the scientific insights of today, including perspectives which More could never have imagined. What will our cities look like a hundred years from now? How will stem cell research and 3D printing change the world? Will we be able to cure all diseases? Will we be traveling to other planets? Will computers take over? Or will humanity find a way to improve the quality of life for everyone and feed a growing world population? In ‘A Truly Golden Handbook’, more than fifty KU Leuven scholars share their science-based utopian dreams. From the creation of spare organs, artificial intelligence and the genetic future, to global governance, ecological sustainability and pathways to more equality, this visionary book offers a broad interdisciplinary look at the world of tomorrow. Contributors All contributions were written by academics of KU Leuven Conny Aerts, Ivo Aertsen, Marc Boogaerts, Geert Bouckaert, René Bouwen, Frederik Ceyssens, Stephan Claes, Katrijn Clémer, Sara Coemans, Goele Cornelissen, Marc Craps, Joep Crompvoets, Lieven De Cauter, Ortwin de Graef, Jan De Lepeleire, Dorien De Man, Bart De Moor, Koen Devriendt, Rudi D’Hooge, Thomas D’Hooghe, Philip Dutré, Jan Elen, Liesbet Geris, Gerard Govers, Styn Grieten, Karin Hannes, Ann Heylighen, Hilde Heynen, Rianne Janssen, Rudy Lauwereins, Koen Lemmens, Peter Lievens, Katlijn Malfliet, Jan Masschelein, Terrence Merrigan, Yves Moreau, Bart Muys, Marten Ovaere, Jan Rongé, Erik Schokkaert, Frans Schuit, Maarten Simons, Manuel Sintubin, Stéphane Symons, Rik Torfs, Chantal Van Audenhove, Kenneth Van den Bergh, André Van de Putte, Hilde Van Esch, Inge Vanfraechem, Ine Van Hoyweghen, Geertrui Van Overwalle, Peter Van Puyvelde, Arne van Stiphout, An Verburgh, Peter Vermeersch, Johan Wagemans, Lode Walgrave

Author : Robert T. Bakker
Publisher : Golden Books
Page : 65 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Dinosaurs
ISBN : 9780375859588

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The Big Golden Book of Dinosaurs by Robert T. Bakker Pdf

Renowned paleontologist Robert T. Bakker and award-winning paleoartist Luis V. Rey combine forces in this oversized picture book about the evolution of dinosaurs. From the conquest of land by dino ancestor Acanthostega during the Devonian Period, through the mass die-off of dinosaurs at the end of the Cretaceous Period, Bakker and Rey take readers on a safari through time while paying subtle homage to the 1960 Giant Golden Book Dinosaurs and Other Prehistoric Reptiles that inspired them both as young dinophiles. With stops along the way to look at monster bugs, ferocious fin-backs, fluffy dinosaurs, sea monsters and the 12-year-old girl who discovered them, dinosaur orchestras, tickling tyrannosaurs, and much, much more, this is a journey readers will never forget. It's a perfect gift for young dinosaur lovers as well as adult fans of Dr. Bakker and Luis Rey!"

Author : Jesse Golden
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2016-11-23
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0692756485

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The Golden Secrets 30 Ways to Optimal Health by Jesse Golden Pdf

The Golden Secrets to Optimal Health reveals a holistic, unconventional, long-term approach to feeling and looking your best- for you, your family and the environment. The Golden Secrets offers practical ways to achieve longevity, happiness, and conscious living. Whether you are just getting started or are a savvy "health nut," you will gain knowledge that will positively affect your health. Rooted in ancient wisdom and practiced in real life, Jesse Golden embodies her philosophies, and for the first time, reveals her secrets to attaining optimal health. Through her own challenges with dis-ease and by earning her Holistic and Yoga certifications, Jesse is intimately familiar with the many facets involved in overcoming illness in order to thrive. Ranging from learning how to find the connections between mental patterns and ailments to exploring how the colors you surround yourself with can positively or negatively affect your health. The Golden Secrets explores every aspect of optimal health to implement into your daily life. Jesse provides an abundance of information, healing recipes, empowering words, inspiring pictures to motivate you and for the first time teaches you her Golden Secrets yoga sequence. By practicing self-love, Jesse encourages you to commit yourself to implement these new habits at your own pace, giving you a life-changing opportunity to be the best version of you.

Author : Kate Ryan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2021-08-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1922310085

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The Golden Book by Kate Ryan Pdf

Author : Richard Evans Schultes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2021-04-25
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1667135805

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Hallucinogenic Plants by Richard Evans Schultes Pdf

What are hallucinogenic plants? How do they affect mind and body? Who uses them - and why? This unique Golden Guide surveys the role of psychoactive plants in primitive and civilized societies from early times to the present. The first nontechnical guide to both the cultural significance and physiological effects of hallucinogens, HALLUCINOGENIC PLANTS will fascinate general readers and students of anthropology and history as well as botanists and other specialists. All of the wild and cultivated species considered are illustrated in brilliant full color. A Brilliant accompaniment to R G Wasson's Soma Divine Mushroom of Immortality and R G Wasson's Wondrous Mushroom.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:732664188

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The True Story of Smokey the Bear by Anonim Pdf

Author : Roze Hentschell,Kathy Lavezzo
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781611493818

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Essays in Memory of Richard Helgerson by Roze Hentschell,Kathy Lavezzo Pdf

Essays in Memory of Richard Helgerson: Laureations brings together new essays by leading literary scholars of the British and European middle ages and early modern period who have been influenced by the groundbreaking scholarship of Richard Helgerson. The contributors evince the ongoing impact of Helgerson's work in critical debates including those of nationalism, formal analysis, and literary careerism.

Author : Kirsten Hall
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1592702147

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The Gold Leaf by Kirsten Hall Pdf

When the forest animals find a gold leaf, they fight about who gets to have it.

Author : Jen Arena
Publisher : Golden Books
Page : 26 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2018-05-08
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781524770334

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My Little Golden Book About the Statue of Liberty by Jen Arena Pdf

Now the littlest readers can learn about how the Statue of Liberty came to be—and what it means to people all over the world. In this engaging book, preschoolers will learn the fascinating story behind the creation of the Statue of Liberty. Simple words and bright artwork bring to life the story of the people—a professor, a sculptor, a poet, a newspaperman—who helped establish this famous landmark. Little ones will learn that the torch was created first, in time for America's 100th birthday, and displayed in a park. And they'll gain a clear understanding of what the Statue of Liberty has always meant to people around the world. Fun facts, such as how schoolchildren gave their pennies to help pay for the base of the statue, complete this charming nonfiction Little Golden Book.

Author : Peter Marks,Jennifer A. Wagner-Lawlor,Fátima Vieira
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 721 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2022-03-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783030886547

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The Palgrave Handbook of Utopian and Dystopian Literatures by Peter Marks,Jennifer A. Wagner-Lawlor,Fátima Vieira Pdf

The Palgrave Handbook of Utopian and Dystopian Literatures celebrates a literary genre already over 500 years old. Specially commissioned essays from established and emerging international scholars reflect the vibrancy of utopian vision, and its resiliency as idea, genre, and critical mode. Covering politics, environment, geography, body and mind, and social organization, the volume surveys current research and maps new areas of study. The chapters include investigations of anarchism, biopolitics, and postcolonialism and study film, art, and literature. Each essay considers central questions and key primary works, evaluates the most recent research, and outlines contemporary debates. Literatures of Africa, Australia, China, Latin America, and the Middle East are discussed in this global, cross-disciplinary, and comprehensive volume.

Author : Joshua David Stone
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2001-01-16
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780595168682

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The Golden Book of Melchizedek by Joshua David Stone Pdf

One of the most revolutionary cutting edge books ever written on Melchizedek, Ascension and the Path of God Realization! Dr Stone considers this book, of the 27 books in his Ascension Book Series, to be one of his best! Absolutely Spiritually electrying reading! Truly a Revelation for the next Millennium! This book explores how to achieve Self Mastery and God Realization on a Spiritual, Psychological and Physical/Earthly Level and how to balance the three. It must be understood that to achieve God Realization at the highest level, one must be aware that there are "Four Faces of God!" There is a Spiritual, Mental, Emotional and Material Face! This most remarkable book explores and gives tools and techniques for achieving Self Realization in this lifetime, in a most comprehensive, easy to read, easy to understand and practical manner! This book is guaratanteed to revolutionize and dramatically transform anyone's consciousness who reads this book! This book is literally pulsating with Cosmic and Divine Spiritual energies! It literaly holds within it the secret codes, wisdom, insights and tools to unlock the Mysteries of Creation!

Author : Geronimo Stilton
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2014-03-25
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780545658881

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The Hunt for the Golden Book by Geronimo Stilton Pdf

From the bestselling middle grade series, a chapter book about a mouse journalist searching for a missing computer, plus a bonus short mystery and jokes. Grandfather William was throwing me, Geronimo Stilton, a party—it had been ten years since I published my first book! He wanted me to write a new book especially for the occasion. Then my laptop was stolen right from under my snout. Cheese niblets, how terrible! Could my friends and I find my computer and print my book all in time for the party? BONUS! After the story, read an extra Mini Mystery adventure: The Lake Monster. When a mysterious monster is sighted in a lake on Mouse Island, Geronimo is called in to investigate! But can he figure out this creature’s secret? PLUS cheesy jokes galore! Praise for Geronimo Stilton’s books: “Lightning pace and full-color design will hook kids in a flash.” —Publishers Weekly

Author : Andrea Posner-Sanchez
Publisher : Golden/Disney
Page : 26 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2012-07-24
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780736429061

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I am a Princess (Disney Princess) by Andrea Posner-Sanchez Pdf

Rapunzel, Tiana, Cinderella, Ariel, Belle, Aurora, Jasmine, and Snow White share what it truly means to be a princess. Children ages 2-5 will love getting to know even more about all their favorite Disney princesses in this full-color Little Golden Book.

Author : Andrew Hadfield
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 768 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2013-07-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780191655074

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The Oxford Handbook of English Prose 1500-1640 by Andrew Hadfield Pdf

The Oxford Handbook of English Prose 1500-1640 is the only current overview of early modern English prose writing. The aim of the volume is to make prose more visible as a subject and as a mode of writing. It covers a vast range of material vital for the understanding of the period: from jestbooks, newsbooks, and popular romance to the translation of the classics and the pioneering collections of scientific writing and travel writing; from diaries, tracts on witchcraft, and domestic conduct books to rhetorical treatises designed for a courtly audience; from little known works such as William Baldwin's Beware the Cat, probably the first novel in English, to The Bible, The Book of Common Prayer and Richard Hooker's eloquent statement of Anglican belief, The Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity. The work not only deals with the range and variety of the substance and types of English prose, but also analyses the forms and styles of writing adopted in the early modern period, ranging from the Euphuistic nature of prose fiction inaugurated by John Lyly's mannered novel, to the aggressive polemic of the Marprelate controversy; from the scatological humour of comic writing to the careful modulations of the most significant sermons of the age; and from the pithy and concise English essays of Francis Bacon to the ornate and meandering style of John Florio's translation of Montaigne's famous collection. Each essay provides an overview as well as comment on key passages, and a select guide to further reading.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 817 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2023-11-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780198881032

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The Oxford Handbook of Thomas More's Utopia by Anonim Pdf

Thomas More's Utopia is one of the most iconic, translated, and influential texts of the European Renaissance. This Handbook of specially commissioned and original essays brings together for the first time three different ways of thinking about the book: in terms of its renaissance contexts, its vernacular translations, and its utopian legacies. It has been developed to allow readers to consider these different facets of Utopia in relation to each other and to provide fresh and original contributions to our understanding of the book's creation, vernacularization, and afterlives. In so doing, it provides an integrated overview of More's text, as well as new contributions to the range of scholarship and debates that Utopia continues to attract. An especially innovative feature is that it allows readers to follow Utopia across time and place, unpacking the often-revolutionary moments that encouraged its translation by new generations of writers as far afield as France, Russia, Japan, and China. The Handbook is organized in four sections: on different aspects of the origins and contexts of Utopia in the 1510s; on histories of its translation into different vernaculars in the early modern and modern eras; and on various manifestations of utopianism up to the present day. The Handbook's Introduction outlines the biography of More, the key strands of interpretation and criticism relating to the text, the structure of the Handbook, and some of its recurring themes and issues. An appendix provides an overview of Utopia for readers new to the text.