The Microcosm Within

Author : William B. Miller, Jr.
Publisher : Universal-Publishers
Page : 573 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2013-12-04
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781612332772

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You are not what you think you are. New research is transforming how we understand ourselves—from a singular 'self' to a vast cooperative, co-dependent and collaborative network of cellular environments and ecologies—a microcosm within. From this unique perspective, a startling revision of evolutionary theory unfurls. Sharply reasoned and certain to be controversial, The Microcosm Within takes its readers on a sweeping scientific journey that reorganizes our thinking about our biological selves, evolution, and extinction. Darwin has dominated evolution for over a century. But many issues remain puzzling—What is the origin of self-sacrifice? Does natural selection really account for evolution? Why is homosexuality commonplace in the animal kingdom? Why were the arms of Tyrannosaurus Rex so small? Why do some species go extinct yet others endure? The Microcosm Within offers intriguing and profound answers by exploring our extraordinary world of cellular consciousness, connections, and collaboration. Current research has unexpectedly revealed that all cells and microbes have elemental cognition and a previously unappreciated capacity for discrimination and awareness. From these faculties, cooperative natural genetic engineering is enabled; and it is from this starting point that biological complexity evolves. The Microcosm Within illuminates how immunological factors dominate evolution and extinction. Biology and evolutionary theory will never be the same.

Author : George Gilder
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1990-07-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780671705923

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From Simon & Schuster, Microcosm is the provocative national bestseller by the author of Wealth and Poverty. George Gilder's Microcosm is the crystal ball of the next technological era. Leading scientists, engineers, and entrepreneurs provide vivid accounts of the latest inventions, revealing how the new international balance of power really lies in information technology.

Author : Jr. William B. Miller
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 574 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2013-11-08
Category : Science
ISBN : 1627341765

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The Microcosm Within by Jr. William B. Miller Pdf

Author : Carl Zimmer
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2008-05-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780307377562

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A Best Book of the YearSeed Magazine • Granta Magazine • The Plain-DealerIn this fascinating and utterly engaging book, Carl Zimmer traces E. coli's pivotal role in the history of biology, from the discovery of DNA to the latest advances in biotechnology. He reveals the many surprising and alarming parallels between E. coli's life and our own. And he describes how E. coli changes in real time, revealing billions of years of history encoded within its genome. E. coli is also the most engineered species on Earth, and as scientists retool this microbe to produce life-saving drugs and clean fuel, they are discovering just how far the definition of life can be stretched.

Author : Rudolf Steiner
Publisher : Rudolf Steiner Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2021-05-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781855845893

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Macrocosm and Microcosm by Rudolf Steiner Pdf

Rudolf Steiner shows how deeply and intimately human beings, the microcosm, are related to the macrocosm. But for Steiner the macrocosm is more than just the physical universe. It includes many hidden realms – like the world of Elements and the world of Archetypes – which lie behind outer manifestations such as our physical body. The macrocosm works within us continuously – in the daily alternation between sleeping and waking and in the great cyclical interchange between incarnation on earth and our time between death and rebirth. Steiner discusses the various paths of self-development that lead across the threshold to spiritual dimensions, transforming human soul-forces into organs of higher perception. In future we will even have the capacity to evolve a form of thinking that is higher than the intellect – the thinking of the heart. In this classic series of lectures, now retranslated and featuring a previously-unavailable public address, Rudolf Steiner also discusses: the planets and their connection with our sleeping and waking life; the inner path of the mystic; the ‘greater’ and ‘lesser’ guardians of the threshold; the Egyptian mysteries of Osiris and Isis; initiation in the Northern mysteries; The four spheres of the higher worlds; mirror-images of the macrocosm in man; the strengthening powers of sleep; the symbol of the Rose Cross; reading the Akashic Record; four-dimensional space; the development of future human capacities, and much more. The volume includes an introduction, notes and index.

Author : Vincent L. Di Paolo
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 155 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2018-09-26
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781546261186

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Cosmic Visions Within the Microcosm of My Right Hemisphere: by Vincent L. Di Paolo Pdf

“What happens to the information of a star system when it enters a galactic black hole?” Stephen Hawking “What are the functions of black holes?” “What is the probability of other intelligent planets within our universe?” “How did the human brain develop? Where does intelligence come from?” “How does myelin permit higher learning?” “Did the Supreme Being create the cosmos? And where is the Supreme Being now?” ALL OF THESE QUESTIONS AND MORE ARE ANSWERED IN THIS BOOK! A MUST READ FOR ALL WHO SEEK HIGHER INTELLIGENCE!!!

Author : Philip Elliot Slater
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Psychology
ISBN : MINN:31951000813638N

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Microcosm presents an intensive analysis of the formation and development of groups. It relates the structural and emotional processes which emerge in this context to large-scale societies. Using case illustrations from self-analytic groups, the author examines changes in the group's relationship to the leader.

Author : Eugenia De Acton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1801
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:600039962

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The microcosm, by the author of 'Vicissitudes in genteel life'. by Eugenia De Acton Pdf

Author : Lynn Margulis,Dorion Sagan
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2023-04-28
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780520340510

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Microcosmos by Lynn Margulis,Dorion Sagan Pdf

"Microcosmos is nothing less than the saga of the life of the planet. Lynn Margulis and Dorion Sagan have put it all together, literally, in this extraordinary book, which is unlike any treatment of evolution for a general readership that I have encountered before. A fascinating account that we humans should be studying now for clues to our own survival."—From the Foreword by Dr. Lewis Thomas Microcosmos brings together the remarkable discoveries of microbiology in the later decades of the 20th century and the pioneering research of Dr. Margulis to create a vivid new picture of the world that is crucial to our understanding of the future of the planet. Addressed to general readers, the book provides a beautifully written view of evolution as a process based on interdependency and their interconnectedness of all life on the planet.

Author : Robert J. Beyers,Howard T. Odum
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 566 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781461393443

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Ecological Microcosms by Robert J. Beyers,Howard T. Odum Pdf

Ecological Microcosms is a seminal work which reviews the expanding field of enclosed ecosystem research, and relates the results and models of microcosm studies to general concepts in ecology. Microcosms are miniaturized pieces of our biosphere, ranging from streams and lakes to terraria, agroecosystems, and waste systems. The study of these simplified ecosystems is providing provocative insights into ecological principles as well as issues of environmental management and global stability. The authors have used the well-known thermodynamic approach of H.T. Odum and numerous computer simulations. The book also includes an evaluation of alternative mesocosm approaches for the support of humans in space, as well as appendices to aid in the teaching of environmental concepts using student-created microcosms. Ecological Microcosms will be of interest to ecologists, environmental engineers, policy makers and environmental managers, space scientists, and educators. Robert J. Beyers is a Professor of Biology at the University of South Alabama. Howard T. Odum is Graduate Research Professor of Environmental Engineering Sciences at the University of Florida, and was awarded, with Eugene Odum, the 1987 Crafoord Prize in the Biosciences.

Author : Joseph ben Jacob Ibn Ẓaddik,Jacob Haberman
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0838638678

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The Microcosm of Joseph Ibn Saddiq by Joseph ben Jacob Ibn Ẓaddik,Jacob Haberman Pdf

Divided into four small treatises: In treatise I, the author enumerates the four sources of knowledge In treatise II, the author discusses psychological and physiological matters. The last two treatises of 'The Microcosm' includes an informative introduction by the editor as well as an appendic of Saddiq's original Hebrew text.

Author : Claudio Magris
Publisher : Random House
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2011-01-11
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781446433768

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Amid wars, failed revolutions and the shifting of frontiers, the bit-part players often have the best tales to tell - an astonishing, genre-blurring travelogue from Italian master Claudio Magris. In the tiny borderlands of Istria and Italy, from the forests of Monte Nevoso, to the hidden valleys of the Tyrol, to a Trieste café, Microcosms pieces together a mosaic of stories - comic, tragic, picaresque, nostalgic - from life's minor characters. Their worlds might be small, but they are far from minimalist: in them flashes the great, the meaningful, the unrepeatable significance of every existence.

Author : William Fishbough
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1852
Category : Science
ISBN : UCAL:B3105846

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The Macrocosm and Microcosm, Or The Universe Without and the Universe Within by William Fishbough Pdf

Author : Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2006-09-22
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781402041150

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Islamic Philosophy and Occidental Phenomenology on the Perennial Issue of Microcosm and Macrocosm by Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka Pdf

By proposing the Microcosm and Macrocosm analogy for dialogue between Islamic Philosophy and Occidental Phenomenology, the authors of this volume are reviving the perennial positioning of the human condition in the play of forces within and without the human being. This theme has run from Plato through the Middle Ages, Renaissance and Modernity, and has been ignored by contemporaries. It now acquires a new pertinence and striking significance due to the scientific discoveries into the "infinitely small" in life, on the one hand, and the prodigious technological discoveries of the "infinitely great" on the other. Both open up undreamt-of prospects for the continuing conquest of cosmic forces. The human person – thrown into turmoil by the new approaches to life and needing to acquire new habits of mind, having lost security of all beliefs – desperately seeks a new clarification of the Human Condition within the unity of everything-there-is, of cosmic forces, and of his destiny. The dialogue between Islamic Philosophy and phenomenology of life can show the way. Papers by: Gholam-Reza A'awani, Mehdi Aminrazavi, Roza Davari Ardakani, Mohammad Azadpur, Gary Backhaus, Marina Banchetti-Robino, William Chittick, Seyed Mostafa Muhaghghegh Damad, Golamhossein Ebrahimi Dinani, Nader El-Bizri, Kathleen Haney, Salahaddin Khalilov, Sayyid Mohammad Khamenei, Mahmoud Khatami, Mieczyslaw Pawel Migon, Nikolay Milkov, Sachiko Murata, Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka, Daniela Verducci.

Author : Jay D. Gile
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 12 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Plant-soil relationships
ISBN : UCR:31210008899021

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Biological Effects and Interactions of Pesticides in a Soil-plant-water Microcosm by Jay D. Gile Pdf