Author: Jeffrey Kipnis
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595334970
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 285
Book Description
Would you dash headlong into deadly danger to find a possibly non-existent mystical tome at the direction of an incarcerated lunatic, to save a man you saw die, just because the lunatic is your boyfriend? Well, if you're Miss Phoebe Katonic, and the lunatic is Dano K. Dath, and you'll have a heroic squirrel at your side and a robot army at your command, of course you'll go! After all, there were reasons that you were in the Squirrel's Nest Home yourself a couple of years ago. If you're not already asking yourself, "Now, who is this daft squirrel canoe, and why would it want apoplectic cramps?", you soon will be! Join Lightning Squirrel and Phoebe in the world spanning, action packed sequel to The Blawnox Unpleasantness. Lightning Squirrel and Phoebe leave a trail of mayhem as they battle sinister foes across the globe in hopes of saving the lost librarian, Rudolph Barter, as Dano himself struggles to unpuzzle a terrible peril awaiting the planet. And join Dr. Alin Sicoh as he delves into The Adventures of Lightning Squirrel, the allegedly autobiographical tale penned by Dano, to unravel the mysteries that led to Dano's present and Phoebe's former psychoses.
Cosmic Redshifted Anthrocentric Worms
Author: Jeffrey Kipnis
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595334970
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 285
Book Description
Would you dash headlong into deadly danger to find a possibly non-existent mystical tome at the direction of an incarcerated lunatic, to save a man you saw die, just because the lunatic is your boyfriend? Well, if you're Miss Phoebe Katonic, and the lunatic is Dano K. Dath, and you'll have a heroic squirrel at your side and a robot army at your command, of course you'll go! After all, there were reasons that you were in the Squirrel's Nest Home yourself a couple of years ago. If you're not already asking yourself, "Now, who is this daft squirrel canoe, and why would it want apoplectic cramps?", you soon will be! Join Lightning Squirrel and Phoebe in the world spanning, action packed sequel to The Blawnox Unpleasantness. Lightning Squirrel and Phoebe leave a trail of mayhem as they battle sinister foes across the globe in hopes of saving the lost librarian, Rudolph Barter, as Dano himself struggles to unpuzzle a terrible peril awaiting the planet. And join Dr. Alin Sicoh as he delves into The Adventures of Lightning Squirrel, the allegedly autobiographical tale penned by Dano, to unravel the mysteries that led to Dano's present and Phoebe's former psychoses.
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595334970
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 285
Book Description
Would you dash headlong into deadly danger to find a possibly non-existent mystical tome at the direction of an incarcerated lunatic, to save a man you saw die, just because the lunatic is your boyfriend? Well, if you're Miss Phoebe Katonic, and the lunatic is Dano K. Dath, and you'll have a heroic squirrel at your side and a robot army at your command, of course you'll go! After all, there were reasons that you were in the Squirrel's Nest Home yourself a couple of years ago. If you're not already asking yourself, "Now, who is this daft squirrel canoe, and why would it want apoplectic cramps?", you soon will be! Join Lightning Squirrel and Phoebe in the world spanning, action packed sequel to The Blawnox Unpleasantness. Lightning Squirrel and Phoebe leave a trail of mayhem as they battle sinister foes across the globe in hopes of saving the lost librarian, Rudolph Barter, as Dano himself struggles to unpuzzle a terrible peril awaiting the planet. And join Dr. Alin Sicoh as he delves into The Adventures of Lightning Squirrel, the allegedly autobiographical tale penned by Dano, to unravel the mysteries that led to Dano's present and Phoebe's former psychoses.
Big History and the Future of Humanity
Author: Fred Spier
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1118881729
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 371
Book Description
big history and the future of humanity “This remains the best single attempt to theorize big history as a discipline that can link core concepts and paradigms across all historical disciplines, from cosmology to geology, from biology to human history. With additional and updated material, the Second Edition also offers a fine introduction to the history of big history and a superb introductory survey to the big history story. Essential reading for anyone interested in a rapidly evolving new field of scholarship that links the sciences and the humanities into a modern, science-based origin story.” David Christian, Macquarie University “Notable for its theoretic approach, this new Second Edition is both an indispensable contribution to the emerging big history narrative and a powerful university textbook. Spier defines words carefully and recognizes the limits of current knowledge, aspects of his own clear thinking.” Cynthia Brown, Emerita, Dominican University of California Reflecting the latest theories in the sciences and humanities, this new edition of Big History and the Future of Humanity presents an accessible and original overview of the entire sweep of history from the origins of the universe and life on Earth up to the present day. Placing the relatively brief period of human history within a much broader framework – one that considers everything from vast galaxy clusters to the tiniest sub-atomic particles – big history is an innovative theoretical approach that opens up entirely new multidisciplinary research agendas. Noted historian Fred Spier reveals how a thorough examination of patterns of complexity can offer richer insights into what the future may have in store for humanity. The second edition includes new learning features, such as highlighted scientific concepts, an illustrative timeline and comprehensive glossary. By exploring the cumulative history from the Big Bang to the modern day, Big History and the Future of Humanity, Second Edition, sheds important historical light on where we have been – and offers a tantalizing glimpse of what lies ahead.
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1118881729
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 371
Book Description
big history and the future of humanity “This remains the best single attempt to theorize big history as a discipline that can link core concepts and paradigms across all historical disciplines, from cosmology to geology, from biology to human history. With additional and updated material, the Second Edition also offers a fine introduction to the history of big history and a superb introductory survey to the big history story. Essential reading for anyone interested in a rapidly evolving new field of scholarship that links the sciences and the humanities into a modern, science-based origin story.” David Christian, Macquarie University “Notable for its theoretic approach, this new Second Edition is both an indispensable contribution to the emerging big history narrative and a powerful university textbook. Spier defines words carefully and recognizes the limits of current knowledge, aspects of his own clear thinking.” Cynthia Brown, Emerita, Dominican University of California Reflecting the latest theories in the sciences and humanities, this new edition of Big History and the Future of Humanity presents an accessible and original overview of the entire sweep of history from the origins of the universe and life on Earth up to the present day. Placing the relatively brief period of human history within a much broader framework – one that considers everything from vast galaxy clusters to the tiniest sub-atomic particles – big history is an innovative theoretical approach that opens up entirely new multidisciplinary research agendas. Noted historian Fred Spier reveals how a thorough examination of patterns of complexity can offer richer insights into what the future may have in store for humanity. The second edition includes new learning features, such as highlighted scientific concepts, an illustrative timeline and comprehensive glossary. By exploring the cumulative history from the Big Bang to the modern day, Big History and the Future of Humanity, Second Edition, sheds important historical light on where we have been – and offers a tantalizing glimpse of what lies ahead.
The Canon
Author: Natalie Angier
Publisher: HMH
ISBN: 0547348568
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
The New York Times bestseller that makes scientific subjects both understandable and fun: “Every sentence sparkles with wit and charm.” —Richard Dawkins From the Pulitzer Prize–winning New York Times science journalist and bestselling author of Woman, this is a playful, passionate guide to the science all around us (and inside us)—from physics to chemistry, biology, geology, astronomy, and more. Drawing on conversations with hundreds of the world’s top scientists, Natalie Angier creates a thoroughly entertaining guide to scientific literacy. For those who want a fuller understanding of some of the great issues of our time, The Canon offers insights on stem cells, bird flu, evolution, and global warming. For students—or parents whose kids ask a lot of questions about how the world works—it brings to life such topics as how the earth was formed, or what electricity is. Also included are clear, fascinating explanations of how to think scientifically and grasp the tricky subject of probability. The Canon is a joyride through the major scientific disciplines that reignites our childhood delight and sense of wonder—and along the way, tells us what is actually happening when our ice cream melts or our coffee gets cold, what our liver cells do when we eat a caramel, why the horse is an example of evolution at work, and how we’re all really made of stardust.
Publisher: HMH
ISBN: 0547348568
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
The New York Times bestseller that makes scientific subjects both understandable and fun: “Every sentence sparkles with wit and charm.” —Richard Dawkins From the Pulitzer Prize–winning New York Times science journalist and bestselling author of Woman, this is a playful, passionate guide to the science all around us (and inside us)—from physics to chemistry, biology, geology, astronomy, and more. Drawing on conversations with hundreds of the world’s top scientists, Natalie Angier creates a thoroughly entertaining guide to scientific literacy. For those who want a fuller understanding of some of the great issues of our time, The Canon offers insights on stem cells, bird flu, evolution, and global warming. For students—or parents whose kids ask a lot of questions about how the world works—it brings to life such topics as how the earth was formed, or what electricity is. Also included are clear, fascinating explanations of how to think scientifically and grasp the tricky subject of probability. The Canon is a joyride through the major scientific disciplines that reignites our childhood delight and sense of wonder—and along the way, tells us what is actually happening when our ice cream melts or our coffee gets cold, what our liver cells do when we eat a caramel, why the horse is an example of evolution at work, and how we’re all really made of stardust.
Complete Course in Astrobiology
Author: Gerda Horneck
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 3527619003
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
This up-to-date resource is based on lectures developed by experts in the relevant fields and carefully edited by the leading astrobiologists within the European community. Aimed at graduate students in physics, astronomy and biology and their lecturers, the text begins with a general introduction to astrobiology, followed by sections on basic prebiotic chemistry, extremophiles, and habitability in our solar system and beyond. A discussion of astrodynamics leads to a look at experimental facilities and instrumentation for space experiments and, ultimately, astrobiology missions, backed in each case by the latest research results from this fascinating field. Includes a CD-ROM with additional course material.
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 3527619003
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
This up-to-date resource is based on lectures developed by experts in the relevant fields and carefully edited by the leading astrobiologists within the European community. Aimed at graduate students in physics, astronomy and biology and their lecturers, the text begins with a general introduction to astrobiology, followed by sections on basic prebiotic chemistry, extremophiles, and habitability in our solar system and beyond. A discussion of astrodynamics leads to a look at experimental facilities and instrumentation for space experiments and, ultimately, astrobiology missions, backed in each case by the latest research results from this fascinating field. Includes a CD-ROM with additional course material.
Cosmos & Culture
Author: Steven J. Dick
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Astronomy
Languages : en
Pages : 620
Book Description
From GPO Bookstore's Website: Authors with diverse backgrounds in science, history, anthropology, and more, consider culture in the context of the cosmos. How does our knowledge of cosmic evolution affect terrestrial culture? Conversely, how does our knowledge of cultural evolution affect our thinking about possible cultures in the cosmos? Are life, mind, and culture of fundamental significance to the grand story of the cosmos that has generated its own self-understanding through science, rational reasoning, and mathematics? Book includes bibliographical references and an index.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Astronomy
Languages : en
Pages : 620
Book Description
From GPO Bookstore's Website: Authors with diverse backgrounds in science, history, anthropology, and more, consider culture in the context of the cosmos. How does our knowledge of cosmic evolution affect terrestrial culture? Conversely, how does our knowledge of cultural evolution affect our thinking about possible cultures in the cosmos? Are life, mind, and culture of fundamental significance to the grand story of the cosmos that has generated its own self-understanding through science, rational reasoning, and mathematics? Book includes bibliographical references and an index.
The Science Delusion
Author: Rupert Sheldrake
Publisher: Coronet
ISBN: 9781529393224
Category : Materialism
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
Freeing the Spirit of EnquiryThe Science Delusion is the belief that science already understands the nature of reality. The fundamental questions are answered, leaving only the details to be filled in. In this book (published in the US as Science Set Free), Dr Rupert Sheldrake, one of the world's most innovative scientists, shows that science is being constricted by assumptions that have hardened into dogmas. The 'scientific worldview' has become a belief system. All reality is material or physical. The world is a machine, made up of dead matter. Nature is purposeless. Consciousness is nothing but the physical activity of the brain. Free will is an illusion. God exists only as an idea in human minds, imprisoned within our skulls. Sheldrake examines these dogmas scientifically, and shows persuasively that science would be better off without them: freer, more interesting, and more fun.In The God Delusion Richard Dawkins used science to bash God, but here Rupert Sheldrake shows that Dawkins' understanding of what science can do is old-fashioned and itself a delusion.
Publisher: Coronet
ISBN: 9781529393224
Category : Materialism
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
Freeing the Spirit of EnquiryThe Science Delusion is the belief that science already understands the nature of reality. The fundamental questions are answered, leaving only the details to be filled in. In this book (published in the US as Science Set Free), Dr Rupert Sheldrake, one of the world's most innovative scientists, shows that science is being constricted by assumptions that have hardened into dogmas. The 'scientific worldview' has become a belief system. All reality is material or physical. The world is a machine, made up of dead matter. Nature is purposeless. Consciousness is nothing but the physical activity of the brain. Free will is an illusion. God exists only as an idea in human minds, imprisoned within our skulls. Sheldrake examines these dogmas scientifically, and shows persuasively that science would be better off without them: freer, more interesting, and more fun.In The God Delusion Richard Dawkins used science to bash God, but here Rupert Sheldrake shows that Dawkins' understanding of what science can do is old-fashioned and itself a delusion.
The Living Cosmos
Author: Chris Impey
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139499815
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 417
Book Description
Considering the development of life on Earth, the existence of life in extreme environments and the potential for life elsewhere in the Universe, this book gives a fascinating insight into our place in the Universe. Chris Impey leads the reader through the history, from the Copernican revolution to the emergence of the field of astrobiology – the study of life in the cosmos. He examines how life on Earth began, exploring its incredible variety and the extreme environments in which it can survive. Finally, Impey turns his attention to our Solar System and the planets beyond, discussing whether there may be life elsewhere in the Universe. Written in non-technical language, this book is ideal for anyone wanting to know more about astrobiology and how it is changing our views of life and the Universe. An accompanying website available at www.cambridge.org/9780521173841 features podcasts, articles and news stories on astrobiology.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139499815
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 417
Book Description
Considering the development of life on Earth, the existence of life in extreme environments and the potential for life elsewhere in the Universe, this book gives a fascinating insight into our place in the Universe. Chris Impey leads the reader through the history, from the Copernican revolution to the emergence of the field of astrobiology – the study of life in the cosmos. He examines how life on Earth began, exploring its incredible variety and the extreme environments in which it can survive. Finally, Impey turns his attention to our Solar System and the planets beyond, discussing whether there may be life elsewhere in the Universe. Written in non-technical language, this book is ideal for anyone wanting to know more about astrobiology and how it is changing our views of life and the Universe. An accompanying website available at www.cambridge.org/9780521173841 features podcasts, articles and news stories on astrobiology.
What Makes a Great Exhibition?
Author: Paula Marincola
Publisher: Reaktion Books
ISBN: 1780234864
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 191
Book Description
For better or worse, museums are changing from forbidding bastions of rare art into audience-friendly institutions that often specialize in “blockbuster” exhibitions designed to draw crowds. But in the midst of this sea change, one largely unanswered question stands out: “What makes a great exhibition?” Some of the world’s leading curators and art historians try to answer this question here, as they examine the elements of a museum exhibition from every angle. What Makes a Great Exhibition? investigates the challenges facing American and European contemporary art in particular, exploring such issues as group exhibitions, video and craft, and the ways that architecture influences the nature of the exhibitions under its roof. The distinguished contributors address diverse topics, including Studio Museum in Harlem director Thelma Golden’s examination of ethnically-focused exhibitions; and Robert Storr, director of the 2007 Venice Biennale and formerly of the Museum of Modern Art, on the meaning of “exhibition and “exhibitionmaker.” A thought-provoking volume on the practice of curatorial work and the mission of modern museums, What Makes A Great Exhibition? will be indispensable reading for all art professionals and scholars working today.
Publisher: Reaktion Books
ISBN: 1780234864
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 191
Book Description
For better or worse, museums are changing from forbidding bastions of rare art into audience-friendly institutions that often specialize in “blockbuster” exhibitions designed to draw crowds. But in the midst of this sea change, one largely unanswered question stands out: “What makes a great exhibition?” Some of the world’s leading curators and art historians try to answer this question here, as they examine the elements of a museum exhibition from every angle. What Makes a Great Exhibition? investigates the challenges facing American and European contemporary art in particular, exploring such issues as group exhibitions, video and craft, and the ways that architecture influences the nature of the exhibitions under its roof. The distinguished contributors address diverse topics, including Studio Museum in Harlem director Thelma Golden’s examination of ethnically-focused exhibitions; and Robert Storr, director of the 2007 Venice Biennale and formerly of the Museum of Modern Art, on the meaning of “exhibition and “exhibitionmaker.” A thought-provoking volume on the practice of curatorial work and the mission of modern museums, What Makes A Great Exhibition? will be indispensable reading for all art professionals and scholars working today.
Written Into the Void
Author: Peter Eisenman
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300111118
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
This volume gathers a selection of architect Peter Eisenman's later writings. In these texts, he undertakes a variety of tasks, including theoretical analyses, close readings of his own works, and innovative assessments of the designs and writings of other architects and critics.
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300111118
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
This volume gathers a selection of architect Peter Eisenman's later writings. In these texts, he undertakes a variety of tasks, including theoretical analyses, close readings of his own works, and innovative assessments of the designs and writings of other architects and critics.
Perfect Acts of Architecture
Author: Jeffrey Kipnis
Publisher: The Museum of Modern Art
ISBN: 9780870700392
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
This book presents drawings created between 1972 and 1987 by Rem Koolhaas and Elia Zenghelis, Peter Eisenman, Bernard Tschumi, Daniel Libeskind and Thom Mayne with Andrew Zago.
Publisher: The Museum of Modern Art
ISBN: 9780870700392
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
This book presents drawings created between 1972 and 1987 by Rem Koolhaas and Elia Zenghelis, Peter Eisenman, Bernard Tschumi, Daniel Libeskind and Thom Mayne with Andrew Zago.