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Esta obra es una guía fascinante para todos aquellos que quieren aprender a utilizar el poder de su mente para mejorar todos los aspectos de su vida. La autora explica con ejemplos y ejercicios cómo acceder a poderes hasta ahora desconocidos, como la clarividencia y la telepatía. Así pues, si desea aprender a desarrollar su verdadero potencial psíquico, este es su libro.
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"Shortlisted for the Pickstone Prize, British Society for the History of Science" Jacqueline Feke is assistant professor of philosophy at the University of Waterloo in Ontario.
A stimulating intellectual history of Ptolemy's philosophy and his conception of a world in which mathematics reigns supreme
The Greco-Roman mathematician Claudius Ptolemy is one of the most significant figures in the history of science. He is remembered today for his astronomy,...
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Does technology change who we are, and if so, in what ways? Can humanity transcend physical bodies and spaces? Will AI and genetic engineering help us reach new heights or will they unleash dystopias? How do we face mortality, our own and that of our warming planet? Questions like these-which are only growing more urgent-can be answered only by drawing on different kinds of knowledge and ways of knowing. They challenge us to bridge the divide between...
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Critical Approaches to Science and Religion offers a new direction for scholarship on science and religion that examines social, political, and ecological concerns long part of the field but never properly centered. The works that make up this volume are not preoccupied with traditional philosophical or theological issues. Instead, the book draws on three vital schools of thought: critical race theory, feminist and queer theory, and postcolonial theory....
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In his last work as an author, celebrated doctor and psychotherapist Claudio Naranjo uses The Revolution We Expected to make a final call to humanity to awaken to our collective potential and work to transcend our patriarchal past and present. The book presents a map that argues not only for collective individual awakening but a concerted effort to transform our institutions so that our educational and cultural lessons are in service to a better world....
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Technology continues to unlock new ways for Americans to live and work. To illustrate these changes, this broadside explores the promise of online platforms such as Uber and Airbnb. Unfortunately, instead of embracing innovation, many cities insist on applying antiquated regulations or completely banning these new services to protect special interests-at the expense of workers and consumers. These fights go far beyond the sharing economy. To promote...
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Qu'est-ce qu'être supporter ? Quels sont les ressorts de l'engouement, tantt folklorique, tantt fanatique, pour une équipe de football ? Les supporters constituent-ils une population à part ? Sont-ils, à l'inverse, des miroirs grossissants ou déformants de nos sociétés ?
En se focalisant sur les supportérismes des équipes nationales de football, cet ouvrage ambitionne de combler un vide dans l'étude du supportérisme et de ses implications...
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The world is about to run out of cheap oil and change dramatically. Within the next few years, global production will peak. Thereafter, even if industrial societies begin to switch to alternative energy sources, they will have less net energy each year to do all the work essential to the survival of complex societies. We are entering a new era, as different from the industrial era as the latter was from medieval times. In The Party's Over, Richard...
2909) Bullshit jobs
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"'Does your job make a meaningful contribution to the world?' David Graeber asked this question in a playful, provocative online essay titled On the Phenomenon of Bullshit Jobs. He defined a bullshit job as 'a form of paid employment that is so completely pointless, unnecessary, or pernicious that even the employee cannot justify its existence, even though as part of the conditions of employment, the employee feels obliged to pretend that this is...
2910) State of Denial
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South Africa is the country with the highest number of HIV+ people in the world. "State of Denial" puts a human face on the millions affected by introducing us to six South Africans involved with the AIDS epidemic. By the year 2000, an estimated 4.2 million people in South Africa were infected with HIV; if present trends continue by 2010, 7 million will have died of the disease. State of Denial puts a human face behind the numbers by introducing us...
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"From the hit television series Breaking Bad, to daily news reports, anti-drug advertising campaigns and highly publicized world-wide hunts for 'narcoterrorists' such as Joaquin 'El Chapo' Guzman, the drug, methamphetamine occupies a unique and important space in the public's imagination. In Meth Wars, Travis Linnemann situates the 'meth epidemic' within the broader culture and politics of drug control and mass incarceration. Linnemann draws together...
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"Why does it seem like our everyday life is shadowed by something menacing? This book identifies and illuminates paranoia as a significant feature of contemporary U.S. society and culture. Centering on what it identifies as three key dimensions - power, truth, and identity - in three different contexts - society, literature, and critique - the book explores and explains the increasing influence of paranoid thinking in U.S. society during the second...
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"The definitive history of World War II from the African American perspective, written by civil rights expert and Dartmouth history professor Matthew Delmont. Over one million Black men and women served in World War II. Black troops were at Normandy, Iwo Jima, and the Battle of the Bulge, serving in segregated units and performing unheralded but vital support jobs, only to be denied housing and educational opportunities on their return home. Without...
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"A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year" Torie Bosch is editor of Future Tense, a partnership of Slate, New America, and Arizona State University that explores the intersection of technology, policy, and society. She lives outside of Philadelphia. Kelly Chudler is a multidisciplinary artist and musician and the illustrator of Neuropedia (Princeton), Brain Bytes, and Worried?
Leading technologists, historians, and journalists reveal the...
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"After Ethereum creator Vitalik Buterin dropped out of college and launched Bitcoin Magazine, he wrote the Ethereum white paper, which proposed an open source system that would take what Bitcoin did for money and do it for everything else: contracts, social networks, and sharing economies. Now, less than a decade later, his idea is valued at about half a trillion dollars, and it is the foundation for the weird new world of NFT artworks, virtual real...
2916) More than rivals: a championship game and a friendship that moved a town beyond black and white
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"The true story of a friendship between two high school basketball players, one black and one white, that diffused the highly charged racial tensions in a small Southern town during the late 1960s"--Provided by publisher.
Eddie Sherlin and Bill Ligon grew up on opposite sides of the tracks, but shared a passion for basketball. The barriers that divided them melted away when the boys were on the court. After years of playing wherever they could find...
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"En este libro ameno y provocador, el doctor Jason Fung establece una teoría novedosa y sólida sobre la obesidad. Además de numerosos hábitos para mejorar tu salud y controlar tus niveles de insulina, con El código de la obesidad aprenderás a usar el ayuno intermitente para romper el ciclo de la resistencia a la insulina y alcanzar un peso saludable."--
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They are outsiders who seek to redefine fields from mental health to diplomacy to music. They push boundaries and transform ideas. They include filmmakers crowdsourcing their work, transgender and autistic activists, and Occupy Wall Street's "alternative bankers." These people create and package themselves in a practice cultural critic Alissa Quart dubs "identity innovation."
In this book, Quart introduces us to individuals who have created new...
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As a writer in Wired magazine puts it, Neil Young is a "folk-country-grunge dinosaur [who has been] reborn (again) as an Internet-friendly, biodiesel-driven, multimedia machine." In Neil Young and the Poetics of Energy, William Echard stages an encounter between Young's challenging and ever-changing work and current theories of musical meaning-an encounter from which both emerge transformed.
Echard roots his discussion in an extensive review of writings...