The Dreams That Stuff Is Made Of

Author : Stephen Hawking
Publisher : Running Press Adult
Page : 1090 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2011-10-25
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780762443741

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The Dreams That Stuff Is Made Of by Stephen Hawking Pdf

"God does not play dice with the universe." So said Albert Einstein in response to the first discoveries that launched quantum physics, as they suggested a random universe that seemed to violate the laws of common sense. This 20th-century scientific revolution completely shattered Newtonian laws, inciting a crisis of thought that challenged scientists to think differently about matter and subatomic particles.The Dreams That Stuff Is Made Of compiles the essential works from the scientists who sparked the paradigm shift that changed the face of physics forever, pushing our understanding of the universe on to an entirely new level of comprehension. Gathered in this anthology is the scholarship that shocked and befuddled the scientific world, including works by Niels Bohr, Max Planck, Werner Heisenberg, Max Born, Erwin Schrodinger, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Richard Feynman, as well as an introduction by today's most celebrated scientist, Stephen Hawking.

Author : Thomas M. Disch
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2000-07-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780684859781

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The Dreams Our Stuff is Made Of by Thomas M. Disch Pdf

A popular insider offers a fascinating history of science fiction filled with provocative critiques, tidbits, and insights that reveal much about our cultural and literary history.

Author : Roberto Piazza
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2011-03-29
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789400705852

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Soft Matter by Roberto Piazza Pdf

Roberto Piazza says: “Physics should be made simple enough to be amusing, but not so trivial as to spoil the fun.” This is exactly the approach of this book in making the science of ‘soft matter’ relevant to everyday life things such as the food we eat, the plastic we use, the concrete we build with, the cells we are made of.

Author : Carrin Dunne
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Feminist theology
ISBN : UOM:39015018594997

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Behold Woman by Carrin Dunne Pdf

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Author : Kai-cheung Dung
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2022-06-21
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780231555999

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A Catalog of Such Stuff as Dreams Are Made On by Kai-cheung Dung Pdf

Dung Kai-cheung’s A Catalog of Such Stuff as Dreams Are Made On is a playful and imaginative glimpse into the consumerist dreamscape of late-nineties Hong Kong. First published in 1999, it comprises ninety-nine sketches of life just after the handover of the former British colony to China. Each of these stories in miniature begins from a piece of ephemera, usually consumer products or pop culture phenomena, and develops alternately comic and poignant snapshots of urban life. Dung’s sketches center on once-trendy items that evoke the world at the turn of the millennium, such as Hello Kitty, Final Fantasy VIII, a Windows 98 disk, a clamshell mobile phone, Air Jordans, and cargo shorts. The protagonist of each piece, typically a young woman, is struck by an odd, even overriding obsession with an object or fad. Characters embark on brief dalliances or relationships lasting no longer than the fashions that sparked them. Dung blends vivid everyday details—Portuguese egg tarts, Japanese TV shows, the Hong Kong subway—with situations that are often fantastical or preposterous. This catalog of vanished products illuminates how people use objects to define and even invent their own selves. A major work from one of Hong Kong’s most gifted and original writers, Dung’s archaeology of the end of the twentieth century speaks to perennial questions about consumerism, nostalgia, and identity.

Author : Randy Pausch
Publisher : Hachette Books
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2008-04-08
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781401395513

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The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch Pdf

After being diagnosed with terminal cancer, a professor shares the lessons he's learned—about living in the present, building a legacy, and taking full advantage of the time you have—in this life-changing classic. "We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand." —Randy Pausch A lot of professors give talks titled "The Last Lecture." Professors are asked to consider their demise and to ruminate on what matters most to them. And while they speak, audiences can't help but mull over the same question: What wisdom would we impart to the world if we knew it was our last chance? If we had to vanish tomorrow, what would we want as our legacy? When Randy Pausch, a computer science professor at Carnegie Mellon, was asked to give such a lecture, he didn't have to imagine it as his last, since he had recently been diagnosed with terminal cancer. But the lecture he gave—"Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams"—wasn't about dying. It was about the importance of overcoming obstacles, of enabling the dreams of others, of seizing every moment (because "time is all you have . . . and you may find one day that you have less than you think"). It was a summation of everything Randy had come to believe. It was about living. In this book, Randy Pausch has combined the humor, inspiration and intelligence that made his lecture such a phenomenon and given it an indelible form. It is a book that will be shared for generations to come.

Author : Helen M. Luke
Publisher : Harmony/Bell Tower
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Dream interpretation
ISBN : 0609805894

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Such Stuff As Dreams Are Made On by Helen M. Luke Pdf

Every life retells the hero or heroine's journey: a wondrous, sometimes painful but always necessary movement toward wholeness. What better way to understand our own experiences of growth and transformation than to hear from others who have gone before us? In "Such Stuff as Dreams Are Made On" Helen Luke explores the inner life through dream and imagery, story and symbol. The first half of the book covers Luke's life from her earliest recollections until the age of seventy. It weaves together dreams and symbolic images from her inner life with accounts of personal events, including her seminal meeting with Jung. The book's second half is comprised of selections from the journals she kept during her last twenty years of life, offering a rare glimpse into a personal path of individuation.

Author : Robert Moss
Publisher : New World Library
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2009-05-10
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781577316633

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The Three Only Things by Robert Moss Pdf

Refutes belief systems that minimize the significance of dreams, coincidence, and the workings of imagination, drawing on the author's workshops and consultations to reveal how to create a more fulfilling life by tapping the power of the subconscious mind. Reprint.

Author : Jack Kerouac
Publisher : City Lights Books
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2001-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0872863808

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Book of Dreams by Jack Kerouac Pdf

"In the Book of Dreams I just continue the same story but in the dreams I had of the real-life characters I always write about." Excerpt: WALKING THROUGH SLUM SUBURBS of Mexico City I'm stopped by smiling threesome of cats who've disengaged themselves from the general fairly crowded evening street of brown lights, coke stands, tortillas-Unmistakably going to steal my bag-I struggled a little, gave up-Begin communicating with them my distress and in fact do so well they end up just stealing parts of my stuff…. We walk off leaving the bag with someone-arm in arm like a gang to the downtown lights of Letran, across a field- Jack Kerouac (1922-1969) was a principal actor in the Beat Generation, a companion of Allen Ginsberg and Neal Cassady in that great adventure. His books include On the Roa, The Dharma Bums, Mexico City Blues, Lonesome Traveler, Scattered Poems, Visions of Cody, Pomes All Sizes, and Scripture of the Golden Eternity.

Author : Stephen W. Hawking,Stephen Hawking,Leonard Mlodinow
Publisher : Random House
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780553819229

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The Grand Design by Stephen W. Hawking,Stephen Hawking,Leonard Mlodinow Pdf

Relativity physics.

Author : Keith Oatley
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2011-07-05
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781119973539

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Such Stuff as Dreams by Keith Oatley Pdf

Such Stuff as Dreams: The Psychology of Fiction explores how fiction works in the brains and imagination of both readers and writers. Demonstrates how reading fiction can contribute to a greater understanding of, and the ability to change, ourselves Informed by the latest psychological research which focuses on, for example, how identification with fictional characters occurs, and how literature can improve social abilities Explores traditional aspects of fiction, including character, plot, setting, and theme, as well as a number of classic techniques, such as metaphor, metonymy, defamiliarization, and cues Includes extensive end-notes, which ground the work in psychological studies Features excerpts from fiction which are discussed throughout the text, including works by William Shakespeare, Jane Austen, Kate Chopin, Anton Chekhov, James Baldwin, and others

Author : Peter Reich
Publisher : Peter Reich
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2011-02-08
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781458179289

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A Book of Dreams by Peter Reich Pdf

Author : Peter Legge
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Self-actualization (Psychology)
ISBN : 0978145984

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The Power of a Dream by Peter Legge Pdf

Author : Amanda Downum
Publisher : Solaris
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2015-05-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781849979191

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Dreams of Shreds and Tatters by Amanda Downum Pdf

When Liz Drake's best friend vanishes, nothing can stop her nightmares. Driven by the certainty he needs her help, she crosses a continent to search for him. She finds Blake comatose in a Vancouver hospital, victim of a mysterious accident that claimed his lover's life – in her dreams he drowns. Blake's new circle of artists and mystics draws her in, but all of them are lying or keeping dangerous secrets. Soon nightmare creatures stalk the waking city, and Liz can't fight a dream from the daylight world: to rescue Blake she must brave the darkest depths of the Dreamlands. Even the attempt could kill her, or leave her mind trapped or broken. And if she succeeds, she must face the monstrous Yellow King, whose slave Blake is on the verge of becoming forever.

Author : Stase Michaels
Publisher : Union Square + ORM
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2015-01-20
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781454915409

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A Little Bit of Dreams by Stase Michaels Pdf

The dream expert guides you through her Five-Step Dream Technique, a fast-track tool for exploring your psyche’s nighttime feedback. Stase Michaels draws on a lifetime of experience as a dream analyst and three degrees in psychology to lead you through the magical forest of dream interpretation. In this eclectic, in-depth look at dreaming, she explores how dreams happen and why they are a reliable source of self-knowledge. Michaels also delves deeper, explaining the five simple steps that help beginners understand dream technique; she also provides information on nightmares, dreams about friends and family, and mystical experiences that occur in the guise of dreams.