Author: Daniel Roderick O'Conor
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ireland
Languages : en
Pages : 690
Book Description
The Works of Mr. D.R. O'Conor
Author: Daniel Roderick O'Conor
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ireland
Languages : en
Pages : 690
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ireland
Languages : en
Pages : 690
Book Description
Wayfinding
Author: M. R. O'Connor
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
ISBN: 1250096960
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 367
Book Description
At once far flung and intimate, a fascinating look at how finding our way make us human. In this compelling narrative, O'Connor seeks out neuroscientists, anthropologists and master navigators to understand how navigation ultimately gave us our humanity. Biologists have been trying to solve the mystery of how organisms have the ability to migrate and orient with such precision—especially since our own adventurous ancestors spread across the world without maps or instruments. O'Connor goes to the Arctic, the Australian bush and the South Pacific to talk to masters of their environment who seek to preserve their traditions at a time when anyone can use a GPS to navigate. O’Connor explores the neurological basis of spatial orientation within the hippocampus. Without it, people inhabit a dream state, becoming amnesiacs incapable of finding their way, recalling the past, or imagining the future. Studies have shown that the more we exercise our cognitive mapping skills, the greater the grey matter and health of our hippocampus. O'Connor talks to scientists studying how atrophy in the hippocampus is associated with afflictions such as impaired memory, dementia, Alzheimer’s Disease, depression and PTSD. Wayfinding is a captivating book that charts how our species' profound capacity for exploration, memory and storytelling results in topophilia, the love of place. "O'Connor talked to just the right people in just the right places, and her narrative is a marvel of storytelling on its own merits, erudite but lightly worn. There are many reasons why people should make efforts to improve their geographical literacy, and O'Connor hits on many in this excellent book—devouring it makes for a good start." —Kirkus Reviews
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
ISBN: 1250096960
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 367
Book Description
At once far flung and intimate, a fascinating look at how finding our way make us human. In this compelling narrative, O'Connor seeks out neuroscientists, anthropologists and master navigators to understand how navigation ultimately gave us our humanity. Biologists have been trying to solve the mystery of how organisms have the ability to migrate and orient with such precision—especially since our own adventurous ancestors spread across the world without maps or instruments. O'Connor goes to the Arctic, the Australian bush and the South Pacific to talk to masters of their environment who seek to preserve their traditions at a time when anyone can use a GPS to navigate. O’Connor explores the neurological basis of spatial orientation within the hippocampus. Without it, people inhabit a dream state, becoming amnesiacs incapable of finding their way, recalling the past, or imagining the future. Studies have shown that the more we exercise our cognitive mapping skills, the greater the grey matter and health of our hippocampus. O'Connor talks to scientists studying how atrophy in the hippocampus is associated with afflictions such as impaired memory, dementia, Alzheimer’s Disease, depression and PTSD. Wayfinding is a captivating book that charts how our species' profound capacity for exploration, memory and storytelling results in topophilia, the love of place. "O'Connor talked to just the right people in just the right places, and her narrative is a marvel of storytelling on its own merits, erudite but lightly worn. There are many reasons why people should make efforts to improve their geographical literacy, and O'Connor hits on many in this excellent book—devouring it makes for a good start." —Kirkus Reviews
The Ecclesiologist
Author: Ecclesiological Society
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3752569565
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1867.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3752569565
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1867.
The Ecclesiologist
Author: Ecclesiological society
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
Review of Mr. O'Connor's Work, Entitled “Memoir of a Controversy Respecting the Name Borne by the O'Connors of Ballintulber.” By a Member of the Belanagare Family
Author: Roderic O'CONNOR
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 70
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 70
Book Description
Star of the Sea
Author: Joseph O'Connor
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780156029667
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
St. Petersburg High school juniors Dicey Bell, a baseball star, and Jack Chen, who loves science and role-playing games, discover a mutual attraction when paired for a project, but on their first date, a zombie-producing fungus sends them on the run.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780156029667
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
St. Petersburg High school juniors Dicey Bell, a baseball star, and Jack Chen, who loves science and role-playing games, discover a mutual attraction when paired for a project, but on their first date, a zombie-producing fungus sends them on the run.
The Selected Writings of Maurice O’Connor Drury
Author: Maurice O’Connor Drury
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1474256376
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 473
Book Description
Maurice O'Connor Drury was among Wittgenstein's first students after his return to Cambridge in 1929. The subsequent course of Drury's life and thought was to be enormously influenced by his teacher, from his decision to become a doctor to his later work in psychiatry. The Selected Writings of Maurice O'Connor Drury brings together the best of his lectures, conversations, and letters on philosophy, religion and medicine. Central to the collection is the Danger of Words, the 1973 text described by Ray Monk as 'the most truly Wittgensteinian book published by any of Wittgenstein's students'. Through notes on conversations with Wittgenstein, letters to a student of philosophy and correspondence of almost 30 years with Rush Rhees, Drury gives shape to what he had learned from Wittgenstein. Whether discussing methods of philosophy, Simone Weil or the power of hypnosis, he makes fascinating excursions into the bearing of Wittgenstein's thought on philosophy and the practice of medicine and psychiatry. With an introduction presenting a new biography of Drury, analysing the relationship between him and Wittgenstein, The Selected Writings of Maurice O'Connor Drury features previously unpublished archival sources. Beautifully written and carefully selected, each piece reveals the impact of Wittgenstein's teachings, shedding light on the friendship and thinking of one of the most important philosophers of the 20th century.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1474256376
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 473
Book Description
Maurice O'Connor Drury was among Wittgenstein's first students after his return to Cambridge in 1929. The subsequent course of Drury's life and thought was to be enormously influenced by his teacher, from his decision to become a doctor to his later work in psychiatry. The Selected Writings of Maurice O'Connor Drury brings together the best of his lectures, conversations, and letters on philosophy, religion and medicine. Central to the collection is the Danger of Words, the 1973 text described by Ray Monk as 'the most truly Wittgensteinian book published by any of Wittgenstein's students'. Through notes on conversations with Wittgenstein, letters to a student of philosophy and correspondence of almost 30 years with Rush Rhees, Drury gives shape to what he had learned from Wittgenstein. Whether discussing methods of philosophy, Simone Weil or the power of hypnosis, he makes fascinating excursions into the bearing of Wittgenstein's thought on philosophy and the practice of medicine and psychiatry. With an introduction presenting a new biography of Drury, analysing the relationship between him and Wittgenstein, The Selected Writings of Maurice O'Connor Drury features previously unpublished archival sources. Beautifully written and carefully selected, each piece reveals the impact of Wittgenstein's teachings, shedding light on the friendship and thinking of one of the most important philosophers of the 20th century.
Journal ...
Author: Canada. Parliament. House of Commons
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 458
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 458
Book Description
The Medical Times and Gazette
Author:
Publisher:
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Category : Medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 694
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 694
Book Description
THE DAWNING LIGHT: 45 Sci-Fi Novels & Stories in One Volume
Author: Randall Garrett
Publisher: e-artnow
ISBN: 8026897935
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 1831
Book Description
e-artnow presents to you this meticulously edited SF Collection, jam-packed with thrilling intergalactic adventures, supernatural mysteries and lost world tales: Psi-Power Series: Brain Twister The Impossibles Supermind Novels: Pagan Passions Anything You Can Do... Quest of the Golden Ape Unwise Child Short Stories: The Highest Treason Despoilers of the Golden Empire But, I Don't Think A Spaceship Named McGuire The Eyes Have It Nor Iron Bars a Cage Damned If You Don't By Proxy The Foreign Hand-Tie The Penal Cluster Hail to the Chief His Master's Voice The Judas Valley Cum Grano Salis ...Or Your Money Back Anchorite The Bramble Bush The Unnecessary Man The Asses of Balaam With No Strings Attached A World by the Tale Dead Giveaway Psichopath Suite Mentale The Man Who Hated Mars Thin Edge Instant of Decision Heist Job on Thizar Fifty Per Cent Prophet The Destroyers Hanging by a Thread What the Left Hand Was Doing Belly Laugh In Case of Fire The Measure of a Man Time Fuze Viewpoint ...After a Few Words
Publisher: e-artnow
ISBN: 8026897935
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 1831
Book Description
e-artnow presents to you this meticulously edited SF Collection, jam-packed with thrilling intergalactic adventures, supernatural mysteries and lost world tales: Psi-Power Series: Brain Twister The Impossibles Supermind Novels: Pagan Passions Anything You Can Do... Quest of the Golden Ape Unwise Child Short Stories: The Highest Treason Despoilers of the Golden Empire But, I Don't Think A Spaceship Named McGuire The Eyes Have It Nor Iron Bars a Cage Damned If You Don't By Proxy The Foreign Hand-Tie The Penal Cluster Hail to the Chief His Master's Voice The Judas Valley Cum Grano Salis ...Or Your Money Back Anchorite The Bramble Bush The Unnecessary Man The Asses of Balaam With No Strings Attached A World by the Tale Dead Giveaway Psichopath Suite Mentale The Man Who Hated Mars Thin Edge Instant of Decision Heist Job on Thizar Fifty Per Cent Prophet The Destroyers Hanging by a Thread What the Left Hand Was Doing Belly Laugh In Case of Fire The Measure of a Man Time Fuze Viewpoint ...After a Few Words