Zig Zag And Swirl

Author : Lyell D. Henry
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2009-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781587294662

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Zig-Zag-and-Swirl by Lyell D. Henry Pdf

Alfred W. Lawson (1869–1954) was a professional baseball player, inventor of the airliner, leader of a movement in the 1930s calling for the abolition of banks and interest, and founder of a utopian community, the so-called Des Moines University of Lawsonomy. This unusual institution, constantly embroiled in controversy in the 1940s and early 1950s, was dedicated not only to teaching Lawson’s novel religious and scientific ideas but also to initiating a reform of human nature.

Author : Martin Gardner
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2012-05-04
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780486131627

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Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science by Martin Gardner Pdf

Fair, witty appraisal of cranks, quacks, and quackeries of science and pseudoscience: hollow earth, Velikovsky, orgone energy, Dianetics, flying saucers, Bridey Murphy, food and medical fads, and much more.

Author : Philip Ward
Publisher : Skyhorse
Page : 495 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2012-06-01
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781620873366

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The Book of Common Fallacies by Philip Ward Pdf

Long before Snopes.com and Wikipedia, The Book of Common Fallacies set out to debunk popular beliefs and set the record straight. By tracking down the facts and citing experts in a multitude of fields, Philip Ward points out the senseless ideas that we have come to accept as fact. Newly updated with today’s common misconceptions and available as a single-volume paperback for the first time, The Book of Common Fallacies exposes the truth behind hundreds of commonly held false beliefs.

Author : Lyell D. Henry
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:704466411

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Zig-zag-and-swirl by Lyell D. Henry Pdf

Author : Mark Wilson
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 696 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2006-01-05
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780191533440

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Wandering Significance by Mark Wilson Pdf

Mark Wilson presents a highly original and broad-ranging investigation of the way we get to grips with the world conceptually, and the way that philosophical problems commonly arise from this. Words such as colour, shape, solidity exemplify the commonplace conceptual tools we employ to describe and order the world around us. But the world's goods are complex in their behaviors and we often overlook the subtle adjustments that our evaluative terms undergo as their usage becomes gradually adapted to different forms of supportive circumstance. Wilson not only explains how these surprising strategies of hidden management operate, but also tells the astonishing story of how faulty schemes and great metaphysical systems sometimes spring from a simple failure to recognize the innocent wanderings to which our descriptive words are heir. Wilson combines traditional philosophical concerns about human conceptual thinking with illuminating data derived from a large variety of fields including physics and applied mathematics, cognitive psychology, and linguistics. Wandering Significance offers abundant new insights and perspectives for philosophers of language, mind, and science, and will also reward the interest of psychologists, linguists, and anyone curious about the mysterious ways in which useful language obtains its practical applicability.

Author : Timothy Miller
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1998-05-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0815627750

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The Quest for Utopia in Twentieth-Century America by Timothy Miller Pdf

This book is the long-anticipated first volume of a two-volume work that will chronicle intentional communities in the twentieth century. Timothy Miller's chronological account is likely to be the standard work on the subject. Communities of the early twentieth century were often obscure and short-lived enterprises that left little trace of themselves. Historical accounts of them are few, and the ephemera such ventures produced have rarely been collected. Miller first looks at the older groups that were operating until I 900. He explores their impact of the early twentieth-century art colonies, and then turns to a decade-by-decade discussion of many dozens of new groups formed up to 1960. His comprehensive perspective—a synopsis of the first sixty years of this century—has never before been undertaken in the study of communal groups.

Author : Alfred William Lawson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1938
Category : Children
ISBN : UIUC:30112045454383

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Children by Alfred William Lawson Pdf

Author : Tomasz Witkowski
Publisher : Universal-Publishers
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2015-01-29
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781627345286

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Psychology Gone Wrong by Tomasz Witkowski Pdf

Psychology Gone Wrong: The Dark Sides of Science and Therapy explores the dark sides of psychology, the science that penetrates almost every area of our lives. It must be read by everyone who has an interest in psychology, by all those who are studying or intend to study psychology, and by present and potential clients of psychotherapists. This book will tell you which parts of psychology are supported by scientific evidence, and which parts are simply castles built on sand. This is the first book which comprehensively covers all mistakes, frauds and abuses of academic psychology, psychotherapy, and psycho-business.

Author : Timothy Miller
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1995-07-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781438413112

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America's Alternative Religions by Timothy Miller Pdf

This is a single-volume source of reliable information on the most important alternative religions, covering for each such essentials as history, theology, impact on the culture, and current status. The chapters of the book were written by experts who study the movements they have written about.

Author : Edward J. Roach
Publisher : Ohio University Press
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2014-01-06
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9780821444740

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The Wright Company by Edward J. Roach Pdf

Fresh from successful flights before royalty in Europe, and soon after thrilling hundreds of thousands of people by flying around the Statue of Liberty, in the fall of 1909 Wilbur and Orville Wright decided the time was right to begin manufacturing their airplanes for sale. Backed by Wall Street tycoons, including August Belmont, Cornelius Vanderbilt III, and Andrew Freedman, the brothers formed the Wright Company. The Wright Company trained hundreds of early aviators at its flight schools, including Roy Brown, the Canadian pilot credited with shooting down Manfred von Richtofen—the “Red Baron”—during the First World War; and Hap Arnold, the commander of the U.S. Army Air Forces during the Second World War. Pilots with the company’s exhibition department thrilled crowds at events from Winnipeg to Boston, Corpus Christi to Colorado Springs. Cal Rodgers flew a Wright Company airplane in pursuit of the $50,000 Hearst Aviation Prize in 1911. But all was not well in Dayton, a city that hummed with industry, producing cash registers, railroad cars, and many other products. The brothers found it hard to transition from running their own bicycle business to being corporate executives responsible for other people’s money. Their dogged pursuit of enforcement of their 1906 patent—especially against Glenn Curtiss and his company—helped hold back the development of the U.S. aviation industry. When Orville Wright sold the company in 1915, more than three years after his brother’s death, he was a comfortable man—but his company had built only 120 airplanes at its Dayton factory and Wright Company products were not in the U.S. arsenal as war continued in Europe. Edward Roach provides a fascinating window into the legendary Wright Company, its place in Dayton, its management struggles, and its effects on early U.S. aviation.

Author : Christopher W. Shaw
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2019-09-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226636337

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Money, Power, and the People by Christopher W. Shaw Pdf

Banks and bankers are hardly the most beloved institutions and people in this country. With its corruptive influence on politics and stranglehold on the American economy, Wall Street is held in high regard by few outside the financial sector. But the pitchforks raised against this behemoth are largely rhetorical: we rarely see riots in the streets or public demands for an equitable and democratic banking system that result in serious national changes. Yet the situation was vastly different a century ago, as Christopher W. Shaw shows. This book upends the conventional thinking that financial policy in the early twentieth century was set primarily by the needs and demands of bankers. Shaw shows that banking and politics were directly shaped by the literal and symbolic investments of the grassroots. This engagement remade financial institutions and the national economy, through populist pressure and the establishment of federal regulatory programs and agencies like the Farm Credit System and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. Shaw reveals the surprising groundswell behind seemingly arcane legislation, as well as the power of the people to demand serious political repercussions for the banks that caused the Great Depression. One result of this sustained interest and pressure was legislation and regulation that brought on a long period of relative financial stability, with a reduced frequency of economic booms and busts. Ironically, this stability led to the decline of the very banking politics that brought it about. Giving voice to a broad swath of American figures, including workers, farmers, politicians, and bankers alike, Money, Power, and the People recasts our understanding of what might be possible in balancing the needs of the people with those of their financial institutions.

Author : Richard J. Rolwing
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 467 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2002-11
Category : Constitutional law
ISBN : 9781401060671

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My Daily Constitution by Richard J. Rolwing Pdf

365 essays, each about 365 words, on Uncle Sam's Birth Right and Genealogy, the U.S. Constitution's philosophical and historical presuppositions and implications, or Philosophy for Dummies.

Author : Michael Shermer
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9780195157987

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The Borderlands of Science by Michael Shermer Pdf

Presents a collection of essays on various topics in science and personalities in science, including Carl Sagan, Sigmund Freud, and Alfred Russel Wallace.

Author : Stuart Banner
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2013-03-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199930296

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The Baseball Trust by Stuart Banner Pdf

The Baseball Trust is about the origins and persistence of baseball's strange exemption from antitrust law. Told through a frequently riveting and always entertaining history of America's pastime, author Stuart Banner emphasizes the strategies baseball has used to achieve a protected legal status enjoyed by no other industry in America.

Author : Surazeus Astarius
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2019-07-16
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780359794386

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Hermead: Philosophers by Surazeus Astarius Pdf

Hermead of Surazeus is an epic poem about the development of philosophy over 600 years in the lives and ideas of 26 of the greatest philosophers who contributed to the growth of civilization. This single volume edition presents in 126,680 lines of pentameter blank verse the tales of Hermes, Prometheus, Kadmos, Asklepios, Zethos Hesiodos, Thales, Anaximandros, Pythagoras, Herakleitos, Parmenides, Anaxagoras, Empedokles, Leukippos, Philolaos, Demokritos, Aristokles Platon, Aristoteles, Demetrios Phalereus, Epikouros, Arkhimedes, Ktesibios, Eratosthenes, Krates, Hipparkhos, Philodemos, and Lucretius.