Download or read book Path Dependence and Creation written by Raghu Garud and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2013-05-13 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The editors, aware of the recent work in evolutionary theory and the science of chaos and complexity, challenge the sometimes deterministic flavor of this subject. They are interested in uncovering the place of agency in these theories that take history so seriously. In the end, they are as interested in path creation and destruction as they are in path dependence. This book is compiled of both theoretical and empirical writings. It shows relatively well-known industries, such as the automobile, biotechnology, and semi-conductor industries in a new light. It also invites the reader to learn more about medical practices, wind power, lasers, and synthesizers. Primarily written for academicians, researchers, and Ph.D. students in fields related to technology management, this book is research-oriented and will appeal to all managers.
Download or read book Creation s Path written by Sharon D. Holliday and published by Armour of Light Publishing. This book was released on 2008-04 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book In God s Path written by Robert G. Hoyland and published by Ancient Warfare and Civilizati. This book was released on 2015 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In just over a hundred years--from the death of Muhammad in 632 to the beginning of the Abbasid Caliphate in 750--the followers of the Prophet swept across the whole of the Middle East, North Africa, and Spain. Their armies threatened states as far afield as the Franks in Western Europe and the Tang Empire in China. The conquered territory was larger than the Roman Empire at its greatest expansion, and it was claimed for the Arabs in roughly half the time. How this collection of Arabian tribes was able to engulf so many empires, states, and armies in such a short period of time is a question that has perplexed historians for centuries. Most recent popular accounts have been based almost solely on the early Muslim sources, which were composed centuries later for the purpose of demonstrating that God had chosen the Arabs as his vehicle for spreading Islam throughout the world. In this ground-breaking new history, distinguished Middle East expert Robert G. Hoyland assimilates not only the rich biographical and geographical information of the early Muslim sources but also the many non-Arabic sources, contemporaneous or near-contemporaneous with the conquests. The story of the conquests traditionally begins with the revelation of Islam to Muhammad. In God's Path, however, begins with a broad picture of the Late Antique world prior to the Prophet's arrival, a world dominated by the two superpowers of Byzantium and Sasanian Persia, "the two eyes of the world." In between these empires, in western (Saudi) Arabia, emerged a distinct Arab identity, which helped weld its members into a formidable fighting force. The Arabs are the principal actors in this drama yet, as Hoyland shows, the peoples along the edges of Byzantium and Persia--the Khazars, Bulgars, Avars, and Turks--also played important roles in the remaking of the old world order. The new faith propagated by Muhammad and his successors made it possible for many of the conquered peoples to join the Arabs in creating the first Islamic Empire. Well-paced and accessible, In God's Path presents a pioneering new narrative of one the great transformational periods in all of history.
Download or read book Expressive Minds and Artistic Creations written by Szilvia Csabi and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-01-02 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Expressive Minds and Artistic Creations: Studies in Cognitive Poetics presents multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary research papers describing new developments in the field of cognitive poetics. The articles examine the complex connections between cognition and poetics with special attention given to how people both create and interpret novel artistic works in a variety of expressive media, including literature, music, art, and multimodal artifacts. The authors have diverse disciplinary backgrounds, but all of them embrace theories and research findings from multiple perspectives, such as linguistics, psychology, literary studies, music, art, neuroscience, and media studies. Several authors explicitly discuss empirical and theoretical challenges in doing interdisciplinary work, which is often considered as essential to future progress in cognitive poetics. Scholars address many specific research questions in their articles, including most notably, the role of embodiment and simulation in human imagination, the importance of conceptual metaphors and conceptual blending processes in the creation and interpretation of literature, and the function of multiperspectivity in poetic and multimodal texts. Several new ideas are also advanced in the volume regarding the cognitive mechanisms responsible for artistic creations and understandings. The volume overall offers an expanded view of cognitive poetics research which situates the study of expressive minds within a broader range of personal, social, cultural and historical contexts. Among other leading researchers, many contributors are world-famous scholars of psychology, linguistics, and literature, including Raymond W. Gibbs, Jr., Zoltán Kövecses, and Reuven Tsur, whose defining papers also survey the roles and significance of conceptual mechanisms in literature.
Download or read book Path Dependence and Creation written by Raghu Garud and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2013-05-13 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The editors, aware of the recent work in evolutionary theory and the science of chaos and complexity, challenge the sometimes deterministic flavor of this subject. They are interested in uncovering the place of agency in these theories that take history so seriously. In the end, they are as interested in path creation and destruction as they are in path dependence. This book is compiled of both theoretical and empirical writings. It shows relatively well-known industries, such as the automobile, biotechnology, and semi-conductor industries in a new light. It also invites the reader to learn more about medical practices, wind power, lasers, and synthesizers. Primarily written for academicians, researchers, and Ph.D. students in fields related to technology management, this book is research-oriented and will appeal to all managers.
Download or read book Creations Story written by Paul Ekroth and published by Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2018-10-04 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Creations Story began in the mind of God before the universe came into existence. Creations Story has been hidden under a dark cloud of confusion from the days of Moses. It has been assumed that the heaven and the earth had been created on the first day. It has been the customary manner used to determine earth's age was by counting the life span of each person. Adam was created on the sixth day and lived 930 years. Those who followed Adam, their births and deaths, were also recorded. It has been determined under these guide lines that the universe is between six to ten thousand years old. Creations age was not disputed until the seventeenth century when the first telescope came into existence. With the advancement of astronomy, it has been estimated that the universe is 13.4 billion years old. This horrified the Christian church and the secular world condemned the Bible as a book of mythical fixation. Creations story reveals that the Bible does not suggest the age of the universe, nor is Adam's race the first to occupy the earth! Creations Story reveals the past. What became of animal sacrifice? Why are the Jewish people scattered throughout the nations? Will they ever inherit their land in peace? Is there a devil? If so, where had he come from and what will be his end? What became of the dinosaurs? Is the Old Testament and the New Testament two separate books? Who was this man, Jesus? With the influx of many churches and beliefs, who is right? Creations Story clarifies the path of salvation. We have arrived at the Bible's final book. Destruction is at hand. The world's great cities will crumble to the earth. The United States will vanish as if it had never existed. The good news is that God's children will inherit a new world. A land where we will never hunger or thirst, nor will we ever become old!
Download or read book Path Dependence and New Path Creation in Renewable Energy Technologies written by James Simmie and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-01-08 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why are old technologies persisted with after better alternatives have been invented? This book examines this question, a central concern of evolutionary economics, specifically focusing on renewable energy technologies. The concept of path dependence is used to analyse why and how technological development can become locked-in to inefficient ways of doing things. This book shows how lock-in can be avoided by the creation of new technological pathways. The chapters focus on the comparatively recent introduction of new wind turbine technologies for the generation of carbon free electricity. This case study provides valuable lessons in understanding the issues confronting inventors attempting to commercialise their new ideas in the form of innovations in the face of historically established conventional technologies. It is also set within the critical debate on climate change and the need to de-carbonise energy supplies in order to stop further man-made deterioration in the global environment. This book was originally published as a special issue of European Planning Studies.
Download or read book Creation Spirituality written by Matthew Fox and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 1991-03-29 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Matthew Fox, the popular and controversial author of The Coming of the Cosmic Christ, a prophetic manifesto for the preservation of the planet. For those new to the works of Matthew Fox, and for those eager to learn his thoughts after his Vatican-ordered public silence, comes this introduction to creation spirituality--Fox's framework for a far-reaching spirituality of the Americas. Passionate and provocative, Fox uncovers the ancient tradition of a creation-centered spirituality that melds Christian mysticism with the contemporary struggle for social justice, feminism, and environmentalism. Basic to Fox's notion of creation spirituality is the gift of awe--a mystical response to creation and the first step toward transformation. Awe prompts indignation at the exploitation and destruction of the earth's people and resources. Awe leads to action. Showing how we can learn from each other, Fox's spirituality weds the healing and liberation found in both North and South America. Creation Spirituality challenges readers of every religious and political persuasion to unite in a new vision through which we learn to honor the earth and the people who inhabit it as the gift of a good and just creator.
Download or read book Mechanical Creations in 3D written by Stewart Jones and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2018-11-21 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cogs, cranks, wheels, plates, chains, springs and pistons - a nightmare for animators. This book shows 3D artists how to create, setup, control and automate movements for complex and technically challenging mechanical structures all while working on a super-detailed steampunk train! This book will specifically implement current industry trends and techniques for animated mechanical structures. We will be using Autodesk 3ds Max only, with no plugins and no additional software required. Readers will close out this book with a completed steampunk train for their portfolios and practical knowledge to combat other tricky hard-surface rigging and animation challenges.
Download or read book Creations of the Mind written by Eric Margolis and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2007-06-14 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Creations of the Mind presents sixteen original essays by theorists from a wide variety of disciplines who have a shared interest in the nature of artifacts and their implications for the human mind. All the papers are written specially for this volume, and they cover a broad range of topics concerned with the metaphysics of artifacts, our concepts of artifacts and the categories that they represent, the emergence of an understanding of artifacts in infants' cognitive development, as well as the evolution of artifacts and the use of tools by non-human animals. This volume will be a fascinating resource for philosophers, cognitive scientists, and psychologists, and the starting point for future research in the study of artifacts and their role in human understanding, development, and behaviour. Contributors: John R. Searle, Richard E. Grandy, Crawford L. Elder, Amie L. Thomasson, Jerrold Levinson, Barbara C. Malt, Steven A. Sloman, Dan Sperber, Hilary Kornblith, Paul Bloom, Bradford Z. Mahon, Alfonso Caramazza, Jean M. Mandler, Deborah Kelemen, Susan Carey, Frank C. Keil, Marissa L. Greif, Rebekkah S. Kerner, James L. Gould, Marc D. Hauser, Laurie R. Santos, Steven Mithen
Download or read book The Messengers written by Raymond Hansen and published by Spire Publishing. This book was released on 2008-06 with total page 741 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During my many searches for knowledge and information, I have not discovered anything anywhere to contradict my findings in respect to the fact that ignorance, and all of its sources, are the main culprits for the propagation of ignorance, without which, the world would be a far better place. Imagine having at your disposal, the ability to correct many of the wrongs within society. This actually is the case if you are capable of recognising such facts. I regret deeply the fact that it is necessary to omit many pieces of information.
Download or read book Sepher Yetzirah written by and published by Book Tree. This book was released on 2006-09 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Considered to be the oldest known Jewish mystical text now an important part of Cabalistic studies. It first appeared in historical records during the first century C.E., but its principles had been passed down for centuries before this, with Jewish scholars believing that the patriarch Abraham had received the teachings directly.
Download or read book Source written by Joseph Jaworski and published by Berrett-Koehler Publishers. This book was released on 2012-02-06 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As he did in his classic Synchronicity, Joseph Jaworski once again takes us on a mind-expanding journey, this time to the very heart of creativity and deep knowing. Institutions of all sorts are facing profound change today, with complexity increasing at a speed and intensity we’ve never experienced before. Jaworski came to realize that traditional analytical leadership approaches are inadequate for dealing creatively with this complexity. To effectively face these challenges, leaders need to access the Source from which truly profound innovation flows. Many people, including Jaworski himself, have experienced a connection with this Source, often when called upon to respond in times of crisis—moments of extreme spontaneity and intuitive insight. Actions simply flow through them, seemingly without any sort of conscious intervention. But these experiences are chance occurrences—ordinarily, we don’t know how to access the Source, and we even have a blind spot as to its very existence. In an extraordinarily wide-ranging intellectual odyssey, Jaworski relates his fascinating experiences with quantum physicists, cognitive scientists, indigenous leaders, and spiritual thinkers, all focused on getting to the heart of the Source. Ultimately, he develops four guiding principles that encompass the nature of the Source and what we need to do to stay in dynamic dialogue with it. Using the combination of narrative and reflection that made Synchronicity so compelling, Jaworski has written a book that illuminates the essential nature not only of visionary leadership but also of relationships, consciousness, and ultimately reality itself.
Download or read book Contemporary Garden Aesthetics Creations and Interpretations written by Michel Conan and published by Dumbarton Oaks. This book was released on 2007 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using a variety of critical perspectives, this text demonstrates a renewal of garden design and directions for garden aesthetics, analysing projects by Fernando Chacel (Brazil), Andy Goldsworthy (Great Britain), Charles Jencks (Great Britain), Patricia Johanson (U.S.) and Bernard Lassus (France).
Download or read book Interactive Storytelling written by Rogelio E. Cardona-Rivera and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2019-11-12 with total page 443 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling, ICIDS 2019, held in Little Cottonwood Canyon, UT, USA, in November 2019. The 14 revised full papers and 10 short papers presented together with 19 posters, 1 demo, and 3 doctoral consortiums were carefully reviewed and selected from 66 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections: Creating the Discipline: Interactive Digital Narrative Studies, Impacting Culture and Society, Interactive Digital Narrative Practices and Applications, Theoretical Foundations, Technologies, Human Factors, Doctoral Consortium, and Demonstrations.
Download or read book Escape from Apocalyptic Chaos Vol 2 written by Bertha Dudde and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2022-02-09 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Escape from Apocalyptic Chaos (Vol. 2) By: Bertha Dudde “Presented by Brian & Dana Burmachuk” This book is about the story of humanity in two volumes. This is the second volume. This information has never been published before. This message prepares readers for the end of times. This message is directly from God. The writers hope readers find enlightenment and strength to live through the chaos.
Download or read book AWESOME CREATIONS AND EVOLUTION written by Kamran Pirnahad and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2010-03-10 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pirnahad has initially gathered the material of this book in the format of different articles as relating to crucial concepts that have affected the history, and evolution of mankind. Afterwards, He decided to transform these inspirational writings into a comprehensive book of revelations. He has received the necessary information not only through endless, sincere and honest research, continuous education, but also through faith in God, intuition, insight, vision, meditation and dreams. All contents and basic materials of this book have been thought and initially constructed and defined in the English (American) language, within its socio-cultural, historic and religious course of development. Moreover, all basic concepts have been developed on the basis of a universal conscience, and therefore, most views could be also understood and adapted by other languages, within their specific cultural environment. This book has been mostly the result of the insight and many visions the author has been receiving through the capacity of his soul, mind and spirit and within a multi-dimensional platform, therefore, there are only few references to outside sources. His book has been nevertheles based on a comprehensive library of multi faceted references in different fiels as related to the subject of his book. Pirnahad's effort to prepare and write this book is solely based on the principle that those who possess special spiritual, intellectual and creative talents, should reveal and share their thoughts, works and ideasfor the benefit of mankind. The author has reserved high hopes that at this crucial time in human evolution and history, this effort could help everyone gain a better insight into major concepts concerning faith, humanity, history, culture, languages and evolution, and develop a more meaningful and profound way of life. This book was originally edited and published on 7/22/2005 and revised and reedited on 1/20/2010
