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Author : Ruth Hubbard
Publisher : Beacon Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1999-05-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 0807004316
How Genetic Information Is Produced and Manipulated by Scientists, Physicians, Employers, Insurance Companies, Educators, and Law Enforcers
Author : Tony Veale
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2012-09-27
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781441155160
Karl Lagerfeld's description of his sunglasses as a 'Burqa for my eyes' drew a huge amount of commentary. But what was going on within that phrase? Why was it deemed original and contentious and what can it tell us about creativity? Taking us through cliché, metaphor, analogy, neologism and surrealism, amongst other creative tropes, Tony Veale offers a comprehensive guide to the actual processes behind linguistic creativity. By grounding his approachable examples in easy to replicate methods, the book is perfect as a resource for individual creative exploration. Anyone with an open mind and a computer and a desire to learn about how we creatively say things with words will love this book.Written by an expert in natural language generation, this deceptively simple book offers powerful tools for reconceptualising creativity.
Author : Judith Fein
Publisher : Torrance Publishing Company
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : PSU:000022271136
Dr. Judith Fein gives you the key to the secrets of self-esteem & personal power. "Fein's book is a gift for women who want control over their lives"
Author : Percy Seymour
Publisher : Virgin Books Limited
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Astrology
ISBN : 0753503565
Almost 2000 years ago, the earth saw the dawning of the age of pisces. This new era brought with it the birth of Christianity heralded by the magi, more commonly known as the three wise men.
Author : Stephen Briers
Publisher : Pearson UK
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-14
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9780273781448
Exposing the self-help myths that make us all more miserable. This is what your psychologist would really tell you–if he thought you could handle it! This is the kick up the backside the self-help genre needs: an intelligent, provocative and thought-provoking expose of the modern myths that we’re told make us happier, but in reality screw us up. Clinical psychologist, Dr Stephen Briers shines a light into the dark corners of self-help and explodes the myths, false hopes, quack philosophies and unrealistic expectations it routinely advocates. It is a refreshing antidote to the `same old same old’ approaches, offering a radical re-think of the way we approach problems in our lives, offering empowering new perspectives and expert advice on avoiding the biggest life traps. Dr Briers questions the perceived wisdom, shakes up the status quo, and encourages us to think again. The full text downloaded to your computer With eBooks you can: search for key concepts, words and phrases make highlights and notes as you study share your notes with friends eBooks are downloaded to your computer and accessible either offline through the Bookshelf (available as a free download), available online and also via the iPad and Android apps. Upon purchase, you'll gain instant access to this eBook. Time limit The eBooks products do not have an expiry date. You will continue to access your digital ebook products whilst you have your Bookshelf installed.
Author : Hans Koning
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 141 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1992-01-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781583673829
"The book is an idea that has finally found its time." --Publisher's Weekly "I think your book on Christopher Columbus is important. I'm more grateful for that book than any other book I have read in a couple of years." --Kurt Vonnegut
Author : Irving Kirsch
Publisher : Random House
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2009-10-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781409086352
Everyone knows that antidepressant drugs are miracles of modern medicine. Professor Irving Kirsch knew this as well as anyone. But, as he discovered during his research, there is a problem with what everyone knows about antidepressant drugs. It isn't true. How did antidepressant drugs gain their reputation as a magic bullet for depression? And why has it taken so long for the story to become public? Answering these questions takes us to the point where the lines between clinical research and marketing disappear altogether. Using the Freedom of Information Act, Kirsch accessed clinical trials that were withheld, by drug companies, from the public and from the doctors who prescribe antidepressants. What he found, and what he documents here, promises to bring revolutionary change to the way our society perceives, and consumes, antidepressants. The Emperor's New Drugs exposes what we have failed to see before: depression is not caused by a chemical imbalance in the brain; antidepressants are significantly more dangerous than other forms of treatment and are only marginally more effective than placebos; and, there are other ways to combat depression, treatments that don't only include the empty promise of the antidepressant prescription. This is not a book about alternative medicine and its outlandish claims. This is a book about fantasy and wishful thinking in the heart of clinical medicine, about the seductions of myth, and the final stubbornness of facts.
Author : Sara L. Spurgeon
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 9781603445924
The frontier and Western expansionism are so quintessentially a part of American history that the literature of the West and Southwest is in some senses the least regional and the most national literature of all. The frontier--the place where cultures meet and rewrite themselves upon each other's texts--continues to energize writers whose fiction evokes, destroys, and rebuilds the myth in ways that attract popular audiences and critics alike. Sara L. Spurgeon focuses on three writers whose works not only exemplify the kind of engagement with the theme of the frontier that modern authors make, but also show the range of cultural voices that are present in Southwestern literature: Cormac McCarthy, Leslie Marmon Silko, and Ana Castillo. Her central purposes are to consider how the differing versions of the Western "mythic" tales are being recast in a globalized world and to examine the ways in which they challenge and accommodate increasingly fluid and even dangerous racial, cultural, and international borders. In Spurgeon's analysis, the spaces in which the works of these three writers collide offer some sharply differentiated visions but also create new and unsuspected forms, providing the most startling insights. Sometimes beautiful, sometimes tragic, the new myths are the expressions of the larger culture from which they spring, both a projection onto a troubled and troubling past and an insistent, prophetic vision of a shared future
Author : Malcolm Millais
Publisher : White Lion Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Architecture, Modern
ISBN : 0711229740
The Modern movement began in the 1920s when a small group of young architects felt all that had gone before should be rejected and that architectural design should start afresh. This fresh start, they declared, should be based on modern technology and a new, modern approach to life. Their innovations became the 20th century's dominant movement in architecture, crystallizing into the international style of the 1920s and '30s. In "Exploding the Myths of Modern Architecture, " Malcolm Millais explores the forces and factors that led to the emergence of the Modern movement, arguing that it was based on completely false premises. Millais offers a rarely heard perspective on the Modern movement, explaining its failures and how the well-meaning "revolutionaries" behind it gained and maintained power.
Author : Hopkins, David
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Education (UK)
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2013-06-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780335263141
This book looks at the failure of educational reform efforts to impact on the learning and performance of students due to misguided action based on a number of myths associated with school reform which remain prevalent in education.
Author : John Robbins
Publisher : H J Kramer
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 0915811804
The author calls for a revolution in health care, criticizing its hostility to alternative medicine and its bias against women.
Author : Hans Koning
Publisher : New York : Monthly Review Press
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105001972665
A biography of the fifteenth-century Italian seaman and navigator who unknowingly discovered a new continent while looking for a western route to India.
Author : Benjamin Ginsberg
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : History
ISBN : 9781442222380
One of the most common assumptions about World War II is that the Jews did not actively or effectively resist their own extermination at the hands of the Nazis. In this powerful book, Benjamin Ginsberg convincingly argues that the Jews not only resisted the Germans but actually played a major role in the defeat of Nazi Germany. The question, he contends, is not whether the Jews fought but where and by what means. True, many Jews were poorly armed, outnumbered, and without resources, but Ginsberg shows persuasively that this myth of passivity is solely that--a myth. Instead, the Jews resisted strongly in four key ways: through their leadership role in organizing the defense of the Soviet Union, their influence and scientific research in the United States, their contribution to allied espionage and cryptanalysis, and their importance in European resistance movements. In this compelling, cogent history, we discover that Jews contributed powerfully to Hitler's defeat.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Women
ISBN : UIUC:30112104421935
Author : Y. Xu
Publisher : Springer
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2009-08-31
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780230100084
This book argues that the World Bank, far from being a unitary actor, is fundamentally plural, internally fragmented and dispersed, with cascading chains of delegation, authority and controls, and with considerable discretion delegated to the staff.