The Monastery And The Microscope

Author : Wendy Hasenkamp,Janna R. White
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2017-09-19
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780300231380

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An illuminating record of dialogues between the Dalai Lama and some of today’s most prominent scientists, philosophers, and contemplatives In 2013, during a historic six-day meeting at a Tibetan monastery in southern India, the Dalai Lama gathered with leading scientists, philosophers, and monks for in-depth discussions on the nature of reality, consciousness, and the human mind. This eye-opening book presents a record of those spirited and wide-ranging dialogues, featuring contributions from prominent scholars like Richard Davidson, Matthieu Ricard, Tania Singer, and Arthur Zajonc as they address such questions as: Does nature have a nature? Do you need a brain to be conscious? Can we change our minds and brains through meditation? Throughout, the contributors explore the exciting and sometimes surprising commonalities between Western scientific and Tibetan Buddhist methods of perceiving, investigating, and knowing. Part history, part state-of-the-field, part inspiration for the future, this book rigorously and accessibly explores what these two investigative traditions can teach each other, and what that can tell us about ourselves and the world.

Author : Wendy Hasenkamp,Janna R. White
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2017-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780300218084

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The Monastery and the Microscope by Wendy Hasenkamp,Janna R. White Pdf

An illuminating record of dialogues between the Dalai Lama and some of today's most prominent scientists, philosophers, and contemplatives In 2013, during a historic six-day meeting at a Tibetan monastery in southern India, the Dalai Lama gathered with leading scientists, philosophers, and monks for in-depth discussions on the nature of reality, consciousness, and the human mind. This eye-opening book presents a record of those spirited and wide-ranging dialogues, featuring contributions from prominent scholars like Richard Davidson, Matthieu Ricard, Tania Singer, and Arthur Zajonc as they address such questions as: Does nature have a nature? Do you need a brain to be conscious? Can we change our minds and brains through meditation? Throughout, the contributors explore the exciting and sometimes surprising commonalities between Western scientific and Tibetan Buddhist methods of perceiving, investigating, and knowing. Part history, part state-of-the-field, part inspiration for the future, this book rigorously and accessibly explores what these two investigative traditions can teach each other, and what that can tell us about ourselves and the world.

Author : Ruth Richards
Publisher : Springer
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2018-08-20
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781137557667

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Everyday Creativity and the Healthy Mind by Ruth Richards Pdf

As human beings we all have creative potential, a quality essential to human development and a vital component to healthy and happy lives. However this may often remain stifled by the choices we make, or ways in which we choose to live in our daily lives. Framed by the “Four Ps of Creativity” – product, person, process, press – this book offers an alternative understanding of the fundamentals of ordinary creativity. Ruth Richards highlights the importance of “process”, circumventing our common preoccupation with the product, or creative outcome, of creativity. By focusing instead on the creator and the creative process, she demonstrates how we may enhance our relationships with life, beauty, future possibilities, and one another. This book illustrates how our daily life styles and choices, as well as our environments, may enable and allow creativity; whereas environments not conducive to creative flow may kill creative potential. Also explored are questions of ‘normality’, beauty and nuance in creativity, as well as creative relationships.

Author : McIntosh Battery & Optical Co
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : Lantern slides
ISBN : NYPL:33433066414933

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Illustrated Catalogue of Stereopticons, Sciopticons, Dissolving View Apparatus, Microscopes, Solar Microscope and Stereopticon Combination by McIntosh Battery & Optical Co Pdf

Author : William Benjamin Carpenter
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1883
Category : Botany
ISBN : STANFORD:36105019969752

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The Microscope and Its Revelations by William Benjamin Carpenter Pdf

Author : Robert Hooke
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1665
Category : Hair
ISBN : IBNF:CF005643240

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Micrographia by Robert Hooke Pdf

Author : Paul M. Rea
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2020-11-19
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9783030474836

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Biomedical Visualisation by Paul M. Rea Pdf

This edited book explores the use of technology to enable us to visualise the life sciences in a more meaningful and engaging way. It will enable those interested in visualisation techniques to gain a better understanding of the applications that can be used in visualisation, imaging and analysis, education, engagement and training. The reader will be able to explore the utilisation of technologies from a number of fields to enable an engaging and meaningful visual representation of the biomedical sciences, with a focus in this volume related to anatomy, and clinically applied scenarios. The first six chapters in this volume show the wide variety of tools and methodologies that digital technologies and visualisation techniques can be utilised and adopted in the educational setting. This ranges from body painting, clinical neuroanatomy, histology and veterinary anatomy through to real time visualisations and the uses of digital and social media for anatomical education. The last four chapters represent the diversity that technology has to be able to use differing realities and 3D capture in medical visualisation, and how remote visualisation techniques have developed. Finally, it concludes with an analysis of image overlays and augmented reality and what the wider literature says about this rapidly evolving field.

Author : Andrew Briggs,Oleg Kolosov
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780199232734

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Acoustic Microscopy by Andrew Briggs,Oleg Kolosov Pdf

For many years Acoustic Microscopy has been the definitive book on the subject. A key development since it was first published has been the development of ultrasonic force microscopy. The 2nd edition has a major new chapter on this technique and its applications.

Author : Andrew Lycett
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Page : 912 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2015-11-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781474602990

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Rudyard Kipling by Andrew Lycett Pdf

Paragon of English virtues or racist imperialist? Andrew Lycett (acclaimed biographer of Ian Fleming) has returned to primary sources to tell the intricate story of a misunderstood genius who became Britain's most famous and highest earning author. Among the many new sources, Lycett has discovered previously unpublished letters that illuminate Kipling's crucial years in India, his first girlfriend (the model for Mrs Hauksbee of Plain Tales from the Hills), his parents' decision to send him back to England to boarding school; and in his adult life his use of opium, his frustrating times in London and the brief peace he found in America before the devastating loss of both his young daughter and, in the First World War, his son. Lycett also uncovers the extraordinary story of Kipling's great love for Flo Garrard, daughter of the crown jeweller, and unravels the complicated yet enthralling saga of the American family the Balestiers, and of Carrie Balestier who became Kipling's wife. This biography is full of new material on Kipling's financial dealings with Lord Beaverbrook, his friendships with T.E. Lawrence, the painter Edward Burne-Jones and the Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin (who was his cousin).

Author : Katherine Binney Shippen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1963
Category : Biological products
ISBN : OSU:32435064457492

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Men, Microscopes, and Living Things by Katherine Binney Shippen Pdf

Author : Ahmet Yavuz Oral,Zehra Banu Bahsi Oral
Publisher : Springer
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2016-11-09
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783319466019

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3rd International Multidisciplinary Microscopy and Microanalysis Congress (InterM) by Ahmet Yavuz Oral,Zehra Banu Bahsi Oral Pdf

The 3rd International Multidisciplinary Microscopy Congress (InterM2015), held from 19 to 23 October 2015, focused on the latest developments concerning applications of microscopy in the biological, physical and chemical sciences at all dimensional scales, advances in instrumentation, techniques in and educational materials on microscopy. These proceedings gather 17 peer-reviewed technical papers submitted by leading academic and research institutions from nine countries and representing some of the most cutting-edge research available.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 802 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1858
Category : English literature
ISBN : NYPL:33433104916659

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The National Magazine by Anonim Pdf

Author : Robert Hooke
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2020-03-26
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798630562739

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Micrographia by Robert Hooke Pdf

Robert Hooke (1635‒1703) was an English polymath who is perhaps best remembered for his many contributions in different fields of science. He can be considered the first scientist in history to be hired and paid exclusively to produce scientific work. While holding a position at the prestigious Royal Society, he prepared Micrographia, the first major publication of the Society. In this volume, Robert Hooke described detailed observations of several materials, insects and plants, made with a microscope and various different lenses. He also included some astronomical observations made with a telescope. The book contains the first observation of cells, made possible thanks to the power of the microscope. While observing a slice of cork, Hooke noted tiny units that resembled cells inhabited by monks in a monastery. During his later years he worked on a theory of gravitation that brought him in a harsh dispute with Isaac Newton. This rivalry resulted in a damaged reputation for Robert Hooke, with his name gradually fading into obscurity. This work has been newly converted and integrated for maximum quality and readability.

Author : John Saunders
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 806 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1858
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:555030992

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The National magazine, ed. by J. Saunders and W. Marston by John Saunders Pdf

Author : Rebecca Stefoff
Publisher : Marshall Cavendish
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0761422307

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Microscopes and Telescopes by Rebecca Stefoff Pdf

"An exploration of the origins, history, development, and societal impact of the microscope and the telescope"--Provided by publisher.