Reality Alternatives

Author : Lesley L. Smith
Publisher : Quarky Media
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2018-09-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780986135095

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Reality Alternatives by Lesley L. Smith Pdf

When lonely physicist Chloe Carsen discovers a parallel world she becomes addicted to her life there with a perfect family and a perfect career. She doesn't even care that her physical body in the real world is wasting away. But, then, in the alternative world her ideal life begins to fall apart. Her anti-gravity experiment unleashes a government manhunt for her and her family; they'll do anything to get their hands on her tech. The lives of Chloe's alternative-world husband and sons are endangered. Chloe is torn away from them as her real-world brother finds her on the verge of death and destroys her equipment. Heartbroken and torn between two worlds, Chloe pushes her scientific expertise to the limit to find a way to reconcile her two lives. Can the husband and sons be saved? Can she build a life for herself in the real world?

Author : Lesley L. Smith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2022-05-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1950198510

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Reality Alternatives by Lesley L. Smith Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2019-12-09
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789004415270

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Idealist Alternatives to Materialist Philosophies of Science by Anonim Pdf

Idealist Alternatives to Materialist Philosophies of Science (ed. Philip MacEwen) presents some of the major challenges to materialist interpretations of science while also giving materialism a full hearing.

Author : Daniel Ness,Stephen J. Farenga
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2017-03-16
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781317446521

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Alternatives to Privatizing Public Education and Curriculum by Daniel Ness,Stephen J. Farenga Pdf

Through conversations in honor of Dale D. Johnson, this book takes a critical view of the monoculture in curriculum and policy that has developed in education with the increase of federal funding and privatization of services for public education, and examines the shift from public interest and control to private and corporate shareholder hegemony. Most states’ educational responsibilities—assessment of constituents, curriculum development, and instructional protocols—are increasingly being outsourced to private enterprises in an effort to reduce state budgets. These enterprises have been given wide access to state resources such as public data from state-sanctioned testing results, field-testing rights to public schools, and financial assistance. Chapter authors challenge this paradigm as well as the model that has set growing premiums on accountability and performance measures. Connecting common impact between the standards movement and the privatization of education, this book lays bare the repercussions of high-stakes accountability coupled with increasing privatization. Winner of The Society of Professors of Education Book Award (2018)

Author : Sophie Repp,Katharina Spalek
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2021-06-21
Category : Science
ISBN : 9782889668403

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The Role of Alternatives in Language by Sophie Repp,Katharina Spalek Pdf

Author : Informa Healthcare
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 1980 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2000-12-14
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781482298536

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International Encyclopedia of Ergonomics and Human Factors - 3 Volume Set by Informa Healthcare Pdf

The first encyclopedia in the field, the International Encyclopedia of Ergonomics and Human Factors provides a comprehensive and authoritative compendium of current knowledge on ergonomics and human factors. It gives specific information on concepts and tools unique to ergonomics. About 500 entries, published in three volumes and on CD-ROM, are pre

Author : Robert Fitton
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2008-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780595485451

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Alternatives by Robert Fitton Pdf

He's 500 years old and can create reality of his choice. Five hundred years ago, in present day Colorado, Ricardo and Martin stumble upon an alien mountain outpost called Cibola. The Aabaec change realities for Ricardo at will. In the present day, Ricardo rips Peter Sturgis from Jeannie and his children, and places him in an alternate reality, where Jeannie is a Hollywood star, Jean Carisle, married to Ricardo. Peter wins the Jeannie of this alternate reality and faces his ultimate showdown with Ricardo when Ricardo orders Jeannie's death.

Author : Redie Bereketeab
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 117 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2020-09-02
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781000199918

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Alternatives to Neoliberal Peacebuilding and Statebuilding in Africa by Redie Bereketeab Pdf

This book critically interrogates the neoliberal peacebuilding and statebuilding model and proposes a popular progressive model centred around the lived realities of African societies. The neoliberal interventionist model assumed prominence and universal hegemony following the demise of state socialism at the end of the Cold War. However, this book argues that it is a primarily short-term, top-down approach that imposes Western norms and values on conflict and post-conflict societies. By contrast, the popular progressive model espoused by this book is based on stringent examination and analysis of the reality of the socio-economic development, structures, institutions, politics and cultures of developing societies. In doing so, it combines bottom-up and top-down, popular and elite, and long-term evolutionary processes of societal construction as a requisite for enduring peacebuilding and statebuilding. By comparing and contrasting the dominant neoliberal peacebuilding and statebuilding model with a popular progressive model, the book seeks to empower locals (both elites and masses) to sit in the driver’s seat and construct their own societies. As such, it is an important contribution to scholars, activists, policymakers, civil society organisations, NGOs and all those who are concerned with peace, stability and development across Africa and other developing countries.

Author : George Zachariah
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2015-01-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781317545286

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Alternatives Unincorporated by George Zachariah Pdf

The victims of environmental destruction are often sidelined in eco-theology and environmental discourse. Movements for ecological justice fail to take into account the voice of those at the grassroots. 'Alternatives Unincorporated' presents an environmental ethics that begins with those on the margins. Using the key example of the Narmada Dam in India and the popular resistance movement which built up against the project, the book examines the collective action of subaltern communities in caring for their local environment. The book frames these movements as theological texts that inform a life-affirming earth ethics. The aim of the book is to challenge prevailing social and ecological dynamics and to affirm the interconnectedness of social justice and environmental action.

Author : Allard den Dulk
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2014-12-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781628923339

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Existentialist Engagement in Wallace, Eggers and Foer by Allard den Dulk Pdf

The novels of David Foster Wallace, Dave Eggers and Jonathan Safran Foer are increasingly regarded as representing a new trend, an 'aesthetic sea change' in contemporary American literature. 'Post-postmodernism' and 'New Sincerity' are just two of the labels that have been attached to this trend. But what do these labels mean? What characterizes and connects these novels? Den Dulk shows that the connection between these works lies in their shared philosophical dimension. On the one hand, they portray excessive self-reflection and endless irony as the two main problems of contemporary Western life. On the other hand, the novels embody an attempt to overcome these problems: sincerity, reality-commitment and community are portrayed as the virtues needed to achieve a meaningful life. This shared philosophical dimension is analyzed by viewing the novels in light of the existentialist philosophies of Søren Kierkegaard, Jean-Paul Sartre, Ludwig Wittgenstein and Albert Camus.

Author : Charlie Cooper,Sinéad Gormally,Gill Hughes
Publisher : Springer
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2015-10-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137393593

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Socially Just, Radical Alternatives for Education and Youth Work Practice by Charlie Cooper,Sinéad Gormally,Gill Hughes Pdf

Challenging dominant discourses in neoliberal marketized societies about working with disconnected young people, this book argues that alternative, radical approaches to formal and informal education are necessary to challenge repressive practices, and to help build a more equal, socially-just society.

Author : Peter Stastny (ed.),Peter Lehmann (ed.)
Publisher : Peter Lehmann Publishing
Page : 459 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2022-10-10
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9783987567704

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Alternatives Beyond Psychiatry by Peter Stastny (ed.),Peter Lehmann (ed.) Pdf

The book highlights alternatives beyond psychiatry, current possibilities for self-help for individuals experiencing madness or depression, and strategies toward implementing humane treatment. Sixty-one authors (ex-) users and survivors of psychiatry, therapists, psychiatrists, lawyers, social scientists and relatives from all five continents report about their alternative work, their objectives and successes, and their individual and collective experiences. +++ These are the main questions addressed by the 61 authors from all five continents: What helps me if I go mad or depressive? / How can I find trustworthy help for a relative or a friend in need? / How can I protect myself from coercive treatment? / As a family member or friend, how can I help? / What should I do if I can no longer bear to work in the mental health field? / What are the alternatives to psychiatry? / How can I get involved in creating alternatives? / Assuming psychiatry would be abolished: what do you propose. instead of psychiatry?

Author : Esther Lightcap Meek
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2017-05-05
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781498239844

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Contact with Reality by Esther Lightcap Meek Pdf

Is knowledge discovered, or just invented? Can we ever get outside ourselves to know how reality is in itself, independent of us? Philosophical realism raises the question whether in our knowing we connect with an independent reality--or only connect with our own mental constructs. Far from being a silly parlor game, the question impacts our lives concretely and deeply. Modern Western culture has been infected with antirealism and the doubt, skepticism, subjectivism, relativism, and atheism that attends it--not to mention distrust and arbitrary (mis)use of reality. Premier scientist-turned-philosopher Michael Polanyi stepped aside from research to offer an innovative account of knowing that takes its cue from how discovery actually happens. Polanyi defied the antirealism of the twentieth century, sounding a ringing note of hope in his repeated claim that in discovery, we know we have made contact with reality because "we have a sense of the possibility of indeterminate future manifestations." And that sense marks contact with reality, because it is the way reality is: abundant, generous, and fraught with as-yet-unnameable possibilities. This book examines that distinctive claim, contrasting it to the wider philosophical discussions regarding realism and antirealism in the recent decades. It shows why Polanyi's outlook is superior, and why that matters, not just to scientific discoverers, but to us all.

Author : Yosef Gorny
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780791482209

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Converging Alternatives by Yosef Gorny Pdf

Converging Alternatives provides the first comparative study of the national ideology of two rival Jewish socialist movements: the Bund party and the Zionist Labor movement in Eretz-Israel (Palestine). Yosef Gorny traces the concept of the Jewish nation from the foundation of the Bund and the first Zionist Congress in 1897 until the remains of the Bund decided to join the Jewish local and world institutions in 1985. The following events from those years are covered: the Soviet Revolution, the Balfour declaration, the founding of the Polish Republic, the British Mandate on Palestine, the rise of the Nazi party in Germany, the Jewish-Arab conflict, the Holocaust, and the gradual disappearance of the two movements from the historical stage. This innovative approach to the Bund and Zionist movements helps explain the connection between nationalism and multiculturalism in the Jewish modern tradition.

Author : Ruth M. J. Byrne
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2007-01-26
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0262261847

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The Rational Imagination by Ruth M. J. Byrne Pdf

The human imagination remains one of the last uncharted terrains of the mind. This accessible and original monograph explores a central aspect of the imagination, the creation of counterfactual alternatives to reality, and claims that imaginative thoughts are guided by the same principles that underlie rational thoughts. Research has shown that rational thought is more imaginative than cognitive scientists had supposed; in The Rational Imagination, Ruth Byrne argues that imaginative thought is more rational than scientists have imagined. People often create alternatives to reality and imagine how events might have turned out "if only" something had been different. Byrne explores the "fault lines" of reality, the aspects of reality that are more readily changed in imaginative thoughts. She finds that our tendencies to imagine alternatives to actions, controllable events, socially unacceptable actions, causal and enabling relations, and events that come last in a temporal sequence provide clues to the cognitive processes upon which the counterfactual imagination depends. The explanation of these processes, Byrne argues, rests on the idea that imaginative thought and rational thought have much in common.