The Real Zombies Of Nature

Author : Scientific American Editors
Publisher : Scientific American
Page : 121 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2017-10-23
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781250121554

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The Real Zombies of Nature by Scientific American Editors Pdf

The zombie has had a bit of a renaissance over the last decade. It seems like zombies are everywhere. From recent films like World War Z to popular TV shows like The Walking Dead, we’ve reached peak zombie saturation in American culture. Communities throughout the country hold zombie runs and races. In 2016 the first zombie-proof house was built, complete with concrete walls that move over the structure so that it’s completely sealed. Even the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention compiled a preparedness guide “in case” of a zombie apocalypse. So what’s driving the zombie obsession in American culture? Where did the fear of this creature originate? In this eBook, The Real Zombies of Nature, we look at the myth of the zombie versus real instances of zombification in the natural world and engage in some scientific speculation about what would happen if myth ever became reality.

Author : Rebecca L. Johnson
Publisher : Millbrook Press
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2017-01-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781512457698

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Zombie Makers by Rebecca L. Johnson Pdf

Audisee® eBooks with Audio combine professional narration and sentence highlighting to engage reluctant readers! Are zombies real? As far as we know, dead people do not come back to life and start walking around, looking for trouble. But there are things that can take over the bodies and brains of innocent creatures, turning them into senseless slaves. Meet nature's zombie makers—including a fly-enslaving fungus, a suicide worm, and a cockroach-taming wasp—and their victims.

Author : Matt Simon
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2018-10-02
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781524705145

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Plight of the Living Dead by Matt Simon Pdf

A brain-bending exploration of real-life zombies and mind controllers, and what they reveal to us about nature—and ourselves Zombieism isn’t just the stuff of movies and TV shows like The Walking Dead. It’s real, and it’s happening in the world around us, from wasps and worms to dogs and moose—and even humans. In Plight of the Living Dead, science journalist Matt Simon documents his journey through the bizarre evolutionary history of mind control. Along the way, he visits a lab where scientists infect ants with zombifying fungi, joins the search for kamikaze crickets in the hills of New Mexico, and travels to Israel to meet the wasp that stings cockroaches in the brain before leading them to their doom. Nothing Hollywood dreams up can match the brilliant, horrific zombies that natural selection has produced time and time again. Plight of the Living Dead is a surreal dive into a world that would be totally unbelievable if very smart scientists didn’t happen to be proving it’s real, and most troublingly—or maybe intriguingly—of all: how even we humans are affected. “Fantastic . . . You'll be thinking about this book long after you're done reading it.” —Kelly Weinersmith, New York Times bestselling coauthor of Soonish

Author : Ned Block,Owen Flanagan,Guven Guzeldere
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 884 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1997-09-10
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0262522101

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The Nature of Consciousness by Ned Block,Owen Flanagan,Guven Guzeldere Pdf

Intended for anyone attempting to find their way through the large and confusingly interwoven philosophical literature on consciousness, this reader brings together most of the principal texts in philosophy (and a small set of related key works in neuropsychology) on consciousness through 1997, and includes some forthcoming articles. Its extensive coverage strikes a balance between seminal works of the past few decades and the leading edge of philosophical research on consciousness.As no other anthology currently does, The Nature of Consciousness provides a substantial introduction to the field, and imposes structure on a vast and complicated literature, with sections covering stream of consciousness, theoretical issues, consciousness and representation, the function of consciousness, subjectivity and the explanatory gap, the knowledge argument, qualia, and monitoring conceptions of consciousness. Of the 49 contributions, 18 are either new or have been adapted from a previous publication.

Author : Brad Steiger
Publisher : Visible Ink Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2010-05-01
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781578593415

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Real Zombies, the Living Dead, and Creatures of the Apocalypse by Brad Steiger Pdf

Featuring 30 chilling stories of reallife zombie encounters, this comprehensive and unsettling study draws upon traditions found throughout the world to dispel common depictions of zombies as lurching, flesheating automatons made popular by countless movies and books. This fascinating collection includes the stories of the Devil Baby of Bourbon Street, a monstrous creature complete with horns and tail that still lurks in the shadows of the Big Easy; Black Mama Courteaux and the great zombie war, involving hundreds of zombie soldiers battling for the supremacy of their queen; and the swamp child of Mama Cree, who still roams the bayous of Louisiana. In addition to the stories, a variety of zombierelated facts are explored, including ceremonies and initiations, zombies throughout history, sacred zombie and voodoorelated sites, and zombies and monsters of the Bible.

Author : Brad Steiger
Publisher : Visible Ink Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2010-05-01
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781578593439

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Real Zombies, the Living Dead, and Creatures of the Apocalypse by Brad Steiger Pdf

Featuring 30 chilling stories of reallife zombie encounters, this comprehensive and unsettling study draws upon traditions found throughout the world to dispel common depictions of zombies as lurching, flesheating automatons made popular by countless movies and books. This fascinating collection includes the stories of the Devil Baby of Bourbon Street, a monstrous creature complete with horns and tail that still lurks in the shadows of the Big Easy; Black Mama Courteaux and the great zombie war, involving hundreds of zombie soldiers battling for the supremacy of their queen; and the swamp child of Mama Cree, who still roams the bayous of Louisiana. In addition to the stories, a variety of zombierelated facts are explored, including ceremonies and initiations, zombies throughout history, sacred zombie and voodoorelated sites, and zombies and monsters of the Bible.

Author : Kirsten W. Larson
Publisher : Amicus Ink
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2016-02-02
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1681520346

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Zombies in Nature by Kirsten W. Larson Pdf

Truth is stranger than fiction, right? Find out where you can uncover real-life vampires and zombies. Learn about crazy mutations, and discover animals with amazing super powers. Pop culture tie-ins and freaky facts hook readers into learning about animal and plant science. They may seem like stories from comic books, but you might find these freaky plants and animals in your own backyard. This photo-illustrated book for elementary readers describes animals that seem to take over the brains of other animals. Explains how parasites can alter their hosts' behaviors to use the host for their survival.

Author : Amy L. Thompson,Antonio S. Thompson
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2015-09-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781476620909

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...But If a Zombie Apocalypse Did Occur by Amy L. Thompson,Antonio S. Thompson Pdf

Part pop culture trope, part hypothetical cataclysm, the zombie apocalypse is rooted in modern literature, film and mythology. This collection of new essays considers the implications of this scientifically impossible (but perhaps imminent) event, examining real-world responses to pandemic contagion and civic chaos, as well as those from Hollywood and popular culture. The contributors discuss the zombie apocalypse as a metaphor for actual catastrophes and estimate the probabilities of human survival and behavior during an undead invasion.

Author : David Fedman,Eleana J. Kim,Albert L. Park
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2023-05-15
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781501768811

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Forces of Nature by David Fedman,Eleana J. Kim,Albert L. Park Pdf

Bringing together a multidisciplinary conversation about the entanglement of nature and society in the Korean peninsula, Forces of Nature aims to define and develop the field of the Korean environmental humanities. At its core, the volume works to foreground non-human agents that have long been marginalized in Korean studies, placing flora, fauna, mineral deposits, and climatic conditions that have hitherto been confined to footnotes front and center. In the process, the authors blaze new trails through Korea's social and physical landscapes. What emerges is a deeper appreciation of the environmental conflicts that have animated life in Korea. The authors show how natural processes have continually shaped the course of events on the peninsula—how floods, droughts, famines, fires, and pests have inexorably impinged on human affairs—and how different forces have been mobilized by the state to variously, control, extract, modernize, and showcase the Korean landscape. Forces of Nature suggestively reveals Korea's physical landscape to be not so much a passive context to Korea's history, but an active agent in its transformation and reinvention across centuries.

Author : Sam Kean,Tim Folger
Publisher : Mariner Books
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2018-10-02
Category : American essays
ISBN : 9781328987808

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The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2018 by Sam Kean,Tim Folger Pdf

Best-selling author Sam Kean edits this year's volume of the finest science and nature writing.

Author : Terrence W. Deacon
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2011-11-21
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780393080834

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Incomplete Nature: How Mind Emerged from Matter by Terrence W. Deacon Pdf

A radical new explanation of how life and consciousness emerge from physics and chemistry. As physicists work toward completing a theory of the universe and biologists unravel the molecular complexity of life, a glaring incompleteness in this scientific vision becomes apparent. The "Theory of Everything" that appears to be emerging includes everything but us: the feelings, meanings, consciousness, and purposes that make us (and many of our animal cousins) what we are. These most immediate and incontrovertible phenomena are left unexplained by the natural sciences because they lack the physical properties—such as mass, momentum, charge, and location—that are assumed to be necessary for something to have physical consequences in the world. This is an unacceptable omission. We need a "theory of everything" that does not leave it absurd that we exist. Incomplete Nature begins by accepting what other theories try to deny: that, although mental contents do indeed lack these material-energetic properties, they are still entirely products of physical processes and have an unprecedented kind of causal power that is unlike anything that physics and chemistry alone have so far explained. Paradoxically, it is the intrinsic incompleteness of these semiotic and teleological phenomena that is the source of their unique form of physical influence in the world. Incomplete Nature meticulously traces the emergence of this special causal capacity from simple thermodynamics to self-organizing dynamics to living and mental dynamics, and it demonstrates how specific absences (or constraints) play the critical causal role in the organization of physical processes that generate these properties. The book's radically challenging conclusion is that we are made of these specific absenses—such stuff as dreams are made on—and that what is not immediately present can be as physically potent as that which is. It offers a figure/background shift that shows how even meanings and values can be understood as legitimate components of the physical world.

Author : Jason Holt
Publisher : Broadview Press
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2003-02-26
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1551113511

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Blindsight and the Nature of Consciousness by Jason Holt Pdf

Ever since its discovery nearly thirty years ago, the phenomenon of blindsight—vision without visual consciousness—has been the source of great controversy in the philosophy of mind, psychology, and the neurosciences. Despite the fact that blindsight is widely acknowledged to be a critical test-case for theories of mind, Blindsight and the Nature of Consciousness is the first extended treatment of the phenomenon from a philosophical perspective. Holt argues, against much received wisdom, for a thorough-going materialism—the view not only that mental states are brain states, but (much more controversially) that mental properties are physical as well. Designed not only for philosophers and scientists, Blindsight and the Nature of Consciousness has something to say to anyone interested in the mystery of the human mind and in how philosophers and scientists are working toward solving that mystery.

Author : Madeline Tyler
Publisher : Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2019-12-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781538253144

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Zombie Investigators by Madeline Tyler Pdf

It might be a matter of life and death whether the stink coming from a sibling's bedroom is smelly socks or the odor of the undead, as in zombies! So, the real-life scientific methods and vocabulary in this entertaining and enlightening volume could save a life. Readers will be riveted as they're carefully trained to become paranormal investigators. They'll learn to make predictions, identify variables, analyze outcomes, and possibly avert a zombie apocalypse. They'll also delve into intriguing information about the mythology of zombies as well as bizarre zombie-like behaviors found in nature.

Author : Robin L. Murray,Joseph K. Heumann
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2016-10-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780803285699

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Monstrous Nature by Robin L. Murray,Joseph K. Heumann Pdf

5. Zombie Evolution: A New World with or without Humans -- 6. Laughter and the Eco-horror Film: The Troma Solution -- 7. Parasite Evolution in the Eco- horror Film: When the Host Becomes the Monster -- PART 4: Gendered Landscapes and Monstrous Bodies -- 8. Gendering the Cannibal: Bodies and Landscapesin Feminist Cannibal Movies -- 9. American Mary and Body Modification: Nature and the Art of Change -- Conclusion: Monstrous Nature and the New Cli-Fi Cinema -- Filmography -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Xulon Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781619968769

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Where Demons Hide by Anonim Pdf