Opening New Worlds

Author : Charles Spinosa,Fernando Flores,Hubert L. Dreyfus
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1999-02-18
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0262692244

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Disclosing New Worlds by Charles Spinosa,Fernando Flores,Hubert L. Dreyfus Pdf

Argues that human beings are at their best not when they are engaged in abstract reflection, but when they are intensely involved in changing the taken-for-granted, everyday practices in some domain of their culture—that is, when they are making history. Disclosing New Worlds calls for a recovery of a way of being that has always characterized human life at its best. The book argues that human beings are at their best not when they are engaged in abstract reflection, but when they are intensely involved in changing the taken-for-granted, everyday practices in some domain of their culture—that is, when they are making history. History-making, in this account, refers not to wars and transfers of political power, but to changes in the way we understand and deal with ourselves. The authors identify entrepreneurship, democratic action, and the creation of solidarity as the three major arenas in which people make history, and they focus on three prime methods of history-making—reconfiguration, cross-appropriation, and articulation.

Author : Michael Jan Friedman
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2012-08-28
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781471106255

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New Worlds, New Civilizations by Michael Jan Friedman Pdf

They said it couldn't be done ... all the myriad worlds which have been sought out and explored through more than 500 television episodes and nine Star Trek movies, mapped, illustrated and brought to life in the pages of a comprehensive Star Trek atlas. From the comparatively crowded space of the Alpha and Beta Quadrants, home to Earth and Vulcan, Bajor and Betazed, the Cardassian Union and the Romulan and Klingon Empires; to the distant Gamma Quadrant controlled by the Dominion; to the far reaches of the Delta Quadrant, home space of the Borg, where of Federation explorers only the crew of the USS Voyager has ever been; NEW WORLDS, NEW CIVILIZATIONS catalogues peoples and planets from all four corners of the galaxy. Ever wondered where the blue-skinned Bolians originated from? Or what it is like on the permanently frozen homeworld of the bloodless Breen? From the first world that the first away team landed on under the command of Christopher Pike in the original pilot episode 'The Cage' (a world that has been off-limits to the Federation ever since), to the world of the Ba'ku as seen in 'Star Trek: Insurrection', all these and many more are described and depicted in all their fascinating detail by a team of star-studded contributors. Produced in the finest tradition of bestselling Star Trek illustrated reference from Pocket Books such as The Art of Star Trek and Where No Man Has Gone Before, NEW WORLDS, NEW CIVILIZATIONS will be an essential addition to every Trekker's shelves.

Author : Jürg Wassmann,Katharina Stockhaus
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2007-11-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781800735132

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Experiencing New Worlds by Jürg Wassmann,Katharina Stockhaus Pdf

The many different localities of the Pacific region have a long history of transformation, under both pre- and post-colonial conditions. More recently, rates of local transformation have increased tremendously under post-colonial regimes. The forces of globalization, which rapidly distribute commodities, images, and political and moral concepts across the region, have presented Pacific populations with an unprecedented need and opportunity to fashion new and expanded understandings of their cultural and individual identities. This volume, the first in a new series, examines the forces of globalization at different levels, as they manifest themselves and operate across cultural, cognitive and biographical dimensions of human life in the Pacific. While posing familiar questions, it offers new answers through the integration of cultural and psychological methods. The contributors draw on practice theory, cognitive science and the anthropology of space and place while exploring the key analytical rubrics of human agency, memory and landscape.

Author : Ray Jayawardhana
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2013-04-21
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781400846542

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Strange New Worlds by Ray Jayawardhana Pdf

An insider's look at the cutting-edge science of today's planet hunters In Strange New Worlds, renowned astronomer Ray Jayawardhana brings news from the front lines of the epic quest to find planets—and alien life—beyond our solar system. Only in the past two decades, after millennia of speculation, have astronomers begun to discover planets around other stars—thousands in fact. Now they are closer than ever to unraveling distant twins of the Earth. In this book, Jayawardhana vividly recounts the stories of the scientists and the remarkable breakthroughs that have ushered in this extraordinary age of exploration. He describes the latest findings--including his own—that are challenging our view of the cosmos and casting new light on the origins and evolution of planets and planetary systems. He reveals how technology is rapidly advancing to support direct observations of Jupiter-like gas giants and super-Earths—rocky planets with several times the mass of our own planet—and how astronomers use biomarkers to seek possible life on other worlds. Strange New Worlds provides an insider's look at the cutting-edge science of today's planet hunters, our prospects for discovering alien life, and the debates and controversies at the forefront of extrasolar-planet research. In a new afterword, Jayawardhana explains some of the most recent developments as we search for the first clues of life on other planets.

Author : Lisa Kaaren Bailey,Lindsay Diggelmann,Kim M. Phillips
Publisher : Brepols Publishers
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Discoveries in geography
ISBN : PSU:000067790005

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Old Worlds, New Worlds by Lisa Kaaren Bailey,Lindsay Diggelmann,Kim M. Phillips Pdf

Pre-modern European history is replete with moments of encounter. At the end of arduous sea and land journeys, and en route, Europeans met people who challenged their assumptions and certainties about the world. Some sought riches, others allies; some looked for Christian converts and some aimed for conquest. Others experienced the forced cultural encounter of exile. Many travelled only in imagination, forming ideas which have become foundational to modern mentalities: race, ethnicity, nation, and the nature of humanity. The consequences were profound: both productive and destructive. At the beginning of the third millennium CE we occupy a world shaped by those centuries of travel and encounter. This collection examines key themes and moments in European cultural expansion. Unlike many studies it spans both the medieval and early modern periods, challenging the stereotype of the post-Columbus 'age of discovery'. There is room too for examining cross-cultural relationships within Europe and regions closely linked to it, to show that curiosity, conflict and transformation could result from such meetings as they did in more far-flung realms. Several essays deal with authors, events, and ideas which will be unfamiliar to most readers but which deserve greater attention in the history of encounter and exploration.

Author : J. Weldes
Publisher : Springer
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2003-05-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781403982087

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To Seek Out New Worlds by J. Weldes Pdf

This volume explores the science fiction/world politics intertext. Through detailed analyses of such texts as Blade Runner, Stalker, Star Trek, and Buffy the Vampire Slayer, the chapters in this volume examine the complex and sometimes contradictory relations between world politics, both as discipline and as practice, and discourses of science fiction. Offering a novel combination of popular culture analysis with major theoretical and empirical issues concerning world politics, Science Fiction and World Politics provides insights into the discursive constitution of both science fiction and world politics while highlighting the occasional challenges that the science fiction/world politics intertext launches at our common sense.

Author : Joshua Blu Buhs
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2024
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226831480

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Think to New Worlds by Joshua Blu Buhs Pdf

"This book is about Charles Fort, his followers, and the surprising influence they have had on science fiction, the avant-garde, UFOlogy, and more broadly on the role of spirituality and conspiracy in the modern world. Fort was an author and maverick philosopher who wrote four non-fiction books about anomalies-rains of frogs, mysterious disappearances, unexplained lights in the sky-for which he offered hypotheses that even he did not (always) accept as true. His books developed into a monistic philosophy that denounced science as a machine for generating truth. In his view, science was a small part of a larger system in which truth and falsity were constantly transforming one into the other. This was not a rejection of the modern world but, instead, its fulfillment: Fort prophesied the next stage in intellectual evolution after the scientific era. He inspired four overlapping groups: members of the Fortean Society; science fiction fans and writers; avant-garde artists; and flying saucer enthusiasts. First We Must Think to New Worlds takes up each of these groups in turn to ask: How can the human imagination be expanded? What is the fundamental structure of the universe? And, how does power move? As they developed their responses, Fort's followers mixed Forteanism with Fundamentalism, New Agery, and conspiracy, as well as a host of other forms of modern enchantments, such as the ironic imagination, scientific wonder, and Theosophical syncretism. Each chapter is interrupted by and concludes with shorter sections that focus on particular Forteans or Fortean events as a way to deepen themes"--

Author : Ronald H. Fritze
Publisher : History Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015051923145

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New Worlds by Ronald H. Fritze Pdf

A fascinating narrative history of the great voyages of discovery, and is the only book of its kind to span the crucial period 1400-1600 in one readable book.

Author : Clay Mathers,Jeffrey M. Mitchem,Charles M. Haecker
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2013-04-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780816530205

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Native and Spanish New Worlds by Clay Mathers,Jeffrey M. Mitchem,Charles M. Haecker Pdf

Native and Spanish New Worlds brings together archaeological, ethnohistorical, and anthropological research from sixteenth-century contexts to illustrate interactions during the first century of Native–European contact in what is now the southern United States. The contributors examine the southwestern and southeastern United States and the connections between these regions and explain the global implications of entradas during this formative period in borderlands history.

Author : Tony Fry,Adam Nocek
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2020-12-29
Category : Design
ISBN : 9781000320091

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Design in Crisis by Tony Fry,Adam Nocek Pdf

This book is an essential contribution to the transdisciplinary field of critical design studies. The essays in this collection locate design at the center of a series of interrelated planetary crises, from climate change, nuclear war, and racial and geopolitical violence to education, computational culture, and the loss of the commons. In doing so, the essays propose a range of needed interventions in order to transform design itself and its role within the shifting realities of a planetary crisis. It challenges the widely popular view that design can contribute to solving world problems by exposing how this attitude only intensifies the problems we currently face. In this way, the essays critique the dominant modes of framing the meaning and scope of design as a largely Anglo-European 'problem-solving' practice. By drawing on post-development theory, decolonial theory, black studies, continental philosophy, science and technology studies, and more, the contributions envision a critical and speculative practice that problematises both its engagement with planet and itself. The essays in this collection will appeal to design theorists and practitioners alike, but also to scholars and students generally concerned with how the past and future of design is implicated in the unfolding complexity of ecological devastation, racial and political violence, coloniality, technological futures, and the brutality of modern Western culture generally.

Author : Joe Cortina,Janet Elder
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2010-01-12
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0073407178

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New Worlds: An Introduction to College Reading by Joe Cortina,Janet Elder Pdf

The new fourth edition of Joe Cortina and Janet Elder's New Worlds: An Introduction to College Reading continues to offer a clear, effective, and systematic way to approach college reading assignments. New Worlds introduces the skills needed to master college-level reading, and shows how to apply those skills throughout the college curriculum and beyond.

Author : Judith Krummeck
Publisher : Green Place Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2019-10-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1950584097

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Old New Worlds by Judith Krummeck Pdf

Old New Worlds intertwines the immigrant stories of the author and her great-great grandmother. Sarah Barker and her new husband sail from England in 1815 to minister to the indigenous Khoihoi in South Africa's Eastern Cape. In the midst of conflict, illness, and natural disasters, Sarah bears sixteen children. Two hundred years later, Judith leaves post apartheid South Africa with her new American husband to immigrate to the United States. She is drawn to Sarah's immigrant story in the context of her own experience, and she sets out to try and trace her. In the process, she finds a soul mate.

Author : Sarai Gonzalez,Monica Brown
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2019-03-26
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781338335781

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Sarai and the Around the World Fair by Sarai Gonzalez,Monica Brown Pdf

From activist and viral video star Sarai Gonzalez! When Sarai outgrows her bike, she worries she'll never get to travel anywhere. But, when Martin Luther King Jr. Elementary hosts their first Around the World Fair, Sarai learns that with a little imagination, you can go anywhere you want!Inspired by the life of viral video sensation and social activist Sarai Gonzalez with the help of award-winning children's book author Monica Brown.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Philistine Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Third person by Anonim Pdf

Author : Christopher E. Mason
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2022-04-12
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780262543842

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The Next 500 Years by Christopher E. Mason Pdf

An argument that we have a moral duty to explore other planets and solar systems--because human life on Earth has an expiration date. Inevitably, life on Earth will come to an end, whether by climate disaster, cataclysmic war, or the death of the sun in a few billion years. To avoid extinction, we will have to find a new home planet, perhaps even a new solar system, to inhabit. In this provocative and fascinating book, Christopher Mason argues that we have a moral duty to do just that. As the only species aware that life on Earth has an expiration date, we have a responsibility to act as the shepherd of life-forms--not only for our species but for all species on which we depend and for those still to come (by accidental or designed evolution). Mason argues that the same capacity for ingenuity that has enabled us to build rockets and land on other planets can be applied to redesigning biology so that we can sustainably inhabit those planets. And he lays out a 500-year plan for undertaking the massively ambitious project of reengineering human genetics for life on other worlds. As they are today, our frail human bodies could never survive travel to another habitable planet. Mason describes the toll that long-term space travel took on astronaut Scott Kelly, who returned from a year on the International Space Station with changes to his blood, bones, and genes. Mason proposes a ten-phase, 500-year program that would engineer the genome so that humans can tolerate the extreme environments of outer space--with the ultimate goal of achieving human settlement of new solar systems. He lays out a roadmap of which solar systems to visit first, and merges biotechnology, philosophy, and genetics to offer an unparalleled vision of the universe to come.