Transcendence by gaia vince5/29/2023 In this book, Gaia set out to understand our exceptional nature and what alchemy created the planet-altering force of nature know as humanity. We are not like other animals, yet we evolved from the same process. We are also formed in a cultural developing bath. Evolution has created a mechanism where a human being can be built from a single cell.I strongly recommend this to scholars and students in and discipline. It’s like taking a step back from looking at individual trees and seeing the great story of the human forest. It provides a perfect framework for anyone who wants to understand where we came from and where we might be heading. It is based on our best scientific knowledge and focuses on the evolutionary triad of genes, environment, and culture. Unlike most history books that focus on one era, this book has it all. Transcendence: How Humans Evolved Through Fire, Language, Beauty, and Time by Gaia Vince tells the big picture story of human evolution from its beginnings to the present.
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Henry thoreau walden5/29/2023 The 60s, too, saw a revived interest in transcendentalism, a movement to which Emerson introduced Thoreau and which stressed individualism and intuition rather than adherence to religious doctrines and rituals. He was briefly jailed for refusing to pay taxes on the grounds that they financed slavery and the US - Mexico war, later writing an essay, On Civil Disobedience, which not only influenced Martin Luther King and Gandhi but echoed through anti-Vietnam War protests and the flouting of authority in the hippie era. Thoreau and his anti-establishment ideals found new relevance in the 1960s. "I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived." He stayed there for two years, two months and two days, later recording the experience as the journal of a single year. In 1845, aged 27, Thoreau went to live in woods near Concord, Massachusetts, building a single-room cabin on land owned by his friend and mentor, Ralph Waldo Emerson. Wikinomics5/29/2023 The major change is that Wikipedia has modified the information source from an old one-way monologue to a rich exchange or “conversation” involving billions of people. The key difference between both sources of information is that Wikipedia’s fluid content creation mechanisms and large volunteer community may ensure that its errors get fixed quickly. Among 42 entries tested, the difference in accuracy was not particularly great: the average science entry in Wikipedia contained around 4 inaccuracies whereas the Encyclopedia Britannica had about 3 errors. A 2005 study published in Nature ( 1) found that when comparing Encyclopedia Britannica and Wikipedia, the exercise revealed numerous errors in both encyclopedias. Wikipedia is a free online encyclopedia that was founded in 2001 and allows anyone to edit. Wikipedia is another example of Wikinomics. Linux has no employees, stock options, or corporate campuses. Linux, one of the world’s leading operating systems, was developed by the largest and most sophisticated software development community in the world. Wikinomics is a new force or movement that is bringing people together on the net to create a giant brain (mass collaboration). Eleanor oliphant is perfectly fine5/28/2023 And it is Raymond's big heart that will ultimately help Eleanor find the way to repair her own profoundly damaged one. When she and Raymond together save Sammy, an elderly gentleman who has fallen on the sidewalk, the three become the kinds of friends who rescue one another from the lives of isolation they have each been living. But everything changes when Eleanor meets Raymond, the bumbling and deeply unhygienic IT guy from her office. Nothing is missing in her carefully timetabled life of avoiding social interactions, where weekends are punctuated by frozen pizza, vodka, and phone chats with Mummy. Meet Eleanor Oliphant: She struggles with appropriate social skills and tends to say exactly what she's thinking. The title character, Eleanor Oliphant, narrates the story, introducing herself. No one's ever told Eleanor that life should be better than fine. Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine is a 2017 comic novel about human connection. Smart, warm, uplifting, the story of an out-of-the-ordinary heroine whose deadpan weirdness and unconscious wit make for an irresistible journey as she realizes the only way to survive is to open her heart. “Beautifully written and incredibly funny. I fell in love with Eleanor I think you will fall in love, too!” -Reese Witherspoon A REESE WITHERSPOON x HELLO SUNSHINE BOOK CLUB PICK The shiva trilogy5/28/2023 He is the author of three best-selling novels: The Rozabal Line, Chanakya's Chant, and The Krishna Key.
Chainbreaker tara sim5/28/2023 However, the plot races among an overwhelming number of unresolved conflicts that leave readers unsure what to expect in the sequel. Sim is adept at worldbuilding, and the book’s romantic scenes sizzle. On the way, Colton learns the disturbing truth behind his origins. While Danny is away, this tower is attacked, and Colton journeys to India to protect Danny. As the mechanics piece together what happened, Danny, a white human, grapples with his illicit relationship with Colton, the male clock spirit that controls time in the tower where Danny is the mechanic. Daphne and Danny are given this assignment because of their recent successes thwarting similar attacks in England-although, startlingly, unlike the attacks the teens witnessed, the tower bombings in India have not actually stopped time. In this second volume in Sim’s Timekeeper series, readers rejoin teenage clock mechanics Danny Hart and Daphne Richards as they travel to Agra to investigate a series of clock tower bombings. In 1876, someone is destroying the clock towers that control India’s time. Bright dead things review5/28/2023 Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, American Poetry Review, Oxford American, and Guernica. About the Author: Ada Limón is the author of four poetry collections. Building on the legacies of forebears such as Frank O'Hara, Sharon Olds, and Mark Doty, Limón's work is consistently generous, accessible, and "effortlessly lyrical" ( New York Times)-though every observed moment feels complexly thought, felt, and lived. As if saying endings bring new beginnings. I like how the title is dead yet Ada gave life to it. Ada Limón has often been a poet who wears her heart on her sleeve, but in these extraordinary poems that heart becomes a "huge beating genius machine" striving to embrace and understand the fullness of the present moment. The Blurb Bright Dead Things examines the chaos that is life, the dangerous thrill of living in a world you know you have to leave one day, and the search to find something that is ultimately disorderly, and marvelous, and ours. A finalist for both the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award, Bright Dead Things examines the dangerous thrill of living in a world you must leave one day and the search to find something that is "disorderly, and marvelous, and ours."Ī book of bravado and introspection, of feminist swagger and harrowing loss, this fourth collection considers how we build our identities out of place and human contact-tracing in intimate detail the ways the speaker's sense of self both shifts and perseveres as she moves from New York City to rural Kentucky, loses a dear parent, ages past the capriciousness of youth, and falls in love. Lucca by sarah brianne5/28/2023 It is intense but you know what? Sarah Brianne – Nero Audiobook Free. I noticed a great deal on the other reviews of it that people were shut off by the intensity of the intimidation. My Note: This publication may not be for every person. Simply quit right now as well as go get it. 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They called us enemy book cover5/28/2023 They Called Us Enemy is Takei's firsthand account of those years behind barbed wire, the joys and terrors of growing up under legalized racism, his mother's hard choices, his father's faith in democracy, and the way those experiences planted the seeds for his astonishing future. Roosevelt, every person of Japanese descent on the west coast was rounded up and shipped to one of ten "relocation centers," hundreds or thousands of miles from home, where they would be held for years under armed guard. In 1942, at the order of President Franklin D. But long before he braved new frontiers in Star Trek, he woke up as a four-year-old boy to find his own birth country at war with his father's - and their entire family forced from their home into an uncertain future. George Takei has captured hearts and minds worldwide with his captivating stage presence and outspoken commitment to equal rights. Experience the forces that shaped an American icon - and America itself - in this gripping tale of courage, country, loyalty, and love. New York Times Bestseller! A stunning graphic memoir recounting actor/author/activist George Takei's childhood imprisoned within American concentration camps during World War II. Behave robert sapolsky goodreads5/28/2023 Moreover, wealthier people are less adept at recognizing other people’s emotions and in experimental settings are greedier and more likely to cheat or steal. Across the socioeconomic spectrum, on the average, the wealthier people are, the less empathy they report for people in distress and the less compassionately they act. This has been explored at length in a series of studies by Dacher Keltner of UC Berkeley. “when it comes to empathy and compassion, rich people tend to suck. AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |