Download or read book The Einstein Enigma written by José Rodrigues dos Santos and published by Harper Paperbacks. This book was released on 2011-11-22 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Princeton, New Jersey, 1951: As a CIA operative watches from the shadows, two old men—Israeli prime minister David Ben-Gurion and world-renowned scientist Albert Einstein—enter Einstein’s home to speak privately about nuclear weapons and the existence of God. Present Day Cairo, Egypt: Over lunch in the Muslim quarter, world-famous cryptanalyst Thomas Noronha is hired by a beautiful dark-haired woman, Ariana Pakravan, to decipher a cryptogram hidden in a recently discovered secret document under heavy security in Tehran. A manuscript penned by Albert Einstein, it is titled Die Gottesformel: The God Formula. So begins a remarkable adventure that spans the world, as Thomas and Ariana pursue the dangerous truth behind an incredible document. The Einstein Enigma is a breathtaking fusion of science, thriller, and religion, a mind-bending trip to the source of time, the essence of the universe, and the meaning of life itself.

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Download or read book Diaspora written by Greg Egan and published by Greg Egan. This book was released on 1997-09-03 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2975, the orphan Yatima is grown from a randomly mutated digital mind seed in the conceptory of Konishi polis. Yatima explores the Coalition of Polises, the network of computers where most life in the solar system now resides, and joins a friend, Inoshiro, to borrow an abandoned robot body and meet a thriving community of “fleshers” in the enclave of Atlanta. Twenty-one years later, news arrives from a lunar observatory: gravitational waves from Lac G-1, a nearby pair of neutron stars, show that the Earth is about to be bathed in a gamma-ray flash created by the stars’ collision — an event that was not expected to take place for seven million years. Yatima and Inoshiro return to Atlanta to try to warn the fleshers, but meet suspicion and disbelief. Some lives are saved, but the Earth is ravaged. In the aftermath of the disaster, the survivors resolve to discover the cause of the neutron stars’ premature collision, and they launch a thousand polises into interstellar space in search of answers. This diaspora eventually reaches a planet subtly transformed to encode a message from an older group of travellers: a greater danger than Lac G-1 is imminent, and the only escape route leads beyond the visible universe.

Download or read book Divination on stage written by Folke Gernert and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2021-02-08 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Magicians, necromancers and astrologers are assiduous characters in the European golden age theatre. This book deals with dramatic characters who act as physiognomists or palm readers in the fictional world and analyses the fictionalisation of physiognomic lore as a practice of divination in early modern Romance theatre from Pietro Aretino and Giordano Bruno to Lope de Vega, Calderón de la Barca and Thomas Corneille.

Download or read book La cosmolog a en el siglo XXI entre la f sica y la filosof a written by Juan Arana and published by PUBLICACIONS UNIVERSITAT ROVIRA i VIRGILI. This book was released on 2012-05-14 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Los autores de este texto, físicos y filósofos, abordan el estado del conocimiento actual sobre el Universo desde el punto de vista de las ciencias y de la filosofía. Asimismo, analizan las controversias surgidas en torno al llamado “modelo concordante”, construido a partir del Big Bang, así como sus implicaciones.

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Download or read book The Art of Naruto Uzumaki written by Frances Wall and published by Viz. This book was released on 2007-10-25 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Showcases artwork from the comic book "Naruto" that encompasses everything from pencil roughs to original pages and finished covers that span the life of the comic, along with an interview with comic book's creator.

Download or read book World Anthropologies written by Gustavo Lins Ribeiro and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-07-12 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since its inception, anthropology's authority has been based on the assumption that it is a unified discipline emanating from the West. In an age of heightened globalization, anthropologists have failed to discuss consistently the current status of their practice and its mutations across the globe. World Anthropologies is the first book to provoke this conversation from various regions of the world in order to assess the diversity of relations between regional or national anthropologies and a contested, power-laden Western discourse. Can a planetary anthropology cope with both the 'provincial cosmopolitanism' of alternative anthropologies and the 'metropolitan provincialism' of hegemonic schools? How might the resulting 'world anthropologies' challenge the current panorama in which certain allegedly national anthropological traditions have more paradigmatic weight - and hence more power - than others? Critically examining the international dissemination of anthropology within and across national power fields, contributors address these questions and provide the outline for a veritable world anthropologies project.

Download or read book Cosmolog a written by Alemañ Berenguer and published by Guadalmazán. This book was released on 2023-07-10 with total page 435 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Viaja por los confines del cosmos y adéntrate en los misterios del universo. La cosmología atraviesa un momento fascinante, en el que la observación y el análisis han permitido un gran avance en nuestra comprensión del universo y su funcionamiento. No obstante, su complejidad representa un gran desafío para la divulgación científica, ya que es necesario explicar conceptos abstractos y anfractuosos de una manera accesible y atractiva para cualquiera. ¿Qué sabemos sobre el universo y qué enigmas quedan aún por desentrañar? Acompáñanos en este fascinante recorrido. En este libro, el autor aborda este desafío de primer orden con éxito, logrando transmitir con un lenguaje claro y conciso los conocimientos actuales de la física moderna y la cosmología, desde los primeros modelos cosmológicos de la Antigua Grecia hasta los conceptos más avanzados de la teoría cuántica y la relatividad general. El lector encontrará una guía detallada y completa para entender las últimas teorías y descubrimientos en cosmología, desde la evolución del universo en su origen hasta las más recientes investigaciones sobre la naturaleza de la materia y la energía oscura. Explora los límites del conocimiento y la capacidad humana en la comprensión del universo. Cosmología: La ciencia ante el reto del universo es un libro imprescindible para todos aquellos interesados en conocer los avances actuales en la cosmología y la física del universo, así como para aquellos que quieran disfrutar de la belleza y la complejidad del cosmos en el que vivimos.

Download or read book El big bang aproximaci n al universo y a la sociedad written by Sergio Torres Arzayús and published by Siglo del Hombre Editores. This book was released on 2011-09-04 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: La fascinación por los astros es una característica común de los seres humanos. Desde la antigüedad, todas las culturas han manifestado interés por explicar el universo y el lugar que ocupamos en él. Todos queremos enterarnos de los últimos descubrimientos sobre el cosmos; sin embargo, el torrente de información científica y la jerga que la acompaña nos intimida. En estas páginas el lector encontrará una presentación clara y pedagógica sobre lo que sabemos hoy acerca del universo y lo que ese conocimiento significa en la sociedad contemporánea. Al examinar la manera como el Big Bang emerge y es aceptado, podemos ver un ejemplo clave del proceso científico.

Download or read book Territory written by David Delaney and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2008-04-15 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This short introduction conveys the complexities associated with the term "territory" in a clear and accessible manner. It surveys the field and brings theory to ground in the case of Palestine. A clear and accessible introduction to the complexities associated with the term "territory". Provides an interdisciplinary survey of the many strands of research in the field. Addresses specific areas including interpretations of territorial structures; the relationship between territoriality and scale; the validity and fluidity of territory; and the practical, social processes associated with territorial re-configurations. Stresses that our understanding of territory is inseparable from our understanding of power. Uses Israel/Palestine as an extended illustrative case study. The author’s strong legal and geographical background gives the work an authoritative perspective.

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Download or read book The Caste War of Yucat n written by Nelson A. Reed and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the classic account of one of the most dramatic episodes in Mexican history--the revolt of the Maya Indians of Yucatán against their white and mestizo oppressors that began in 1847. Within a year, the Maya rebels had almost succeeded in driving their oppressors from the peninsula; by 1855, when the major battles ended, the war had killed or put to flight almost half of the population of Yucatán. A new religion built around a Speaking Cross supported their independence for over fifty years, and that religion survived the eventual Maya defeat and continues today. This revised edition is based on further research in the archives and in the field, and draws on the research by a new generation of scholars who have labored since the book's original publication 36 years ago. One of the most significant results of this research is that it has put a human face on much that had heretofore been treated as semi-mythical. Reviews of the First Edition "Reed has not only written a fine account of the caste war, he has also given us the first penetrating analysis of the social and economic systems of Yucatán in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries." --American Historical Review "In this beautifully written history of a little-known struggle between several contending forces in Yucatán, Reed has added an important dimension to anthropological studies in this area." --American Anthropologist "Not only is this exciting history (as compelling and dramatic as the best of historical fiction) but it covers events unaccountably neglected by historians. . . . This is a brilliant contribution to history. . . . Don't miss this book." --Los Angeles Times "One of the most remarkable books about Latin America to appear in years." --Hispanic American Report

Download or read book Cosmolog a moderna desde sus or genes written by Emilio Elizalde and published by LOS LIBROS DE LA CATARATA. This book was released on 2022-02-16 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No resulta difícil imaginar a nuestros ancestros contemplando admirados el maravilloso cielo nocturno. Y fue ya en la Antigüedad cuando empezaron a elaborarse las primeras teorías sobre los componentes constitutivos del universo, material y etéreo, que nos envuelve. Este libro se centra sobre todo en un punto concreto: investigar el momento en que la cosmología se convirtió por fin en una verdadera ciencia, en que las teorías sobre el cosmos devinieron teorías científicas. Eso no sucedió de la noche a la mañana, ya que fue un proceso lento, que ocupó gran parte del siglo XX y en el que intervinieron numerosos astrónomos, cosmólogos y teóricos de la física fundamental, con sus grandes aciertos y, en ocasiones, crasos errores. Todo este proceso se fundamentó en conciliar los datos empíricos obtenidos de las observaciones astronómicas (Leavitt, Slipher, Hubble) con un marco teórico muy sólido: la relatividad general de Einstein. Teoría que finalmente permitió (Friedmann, De Sitter, Lemaître) interpretar y entender los resultados obtenidos por los astrónomos. Visto en perspectiva, las aportaciones del pasado siglo tuvieron unas implicaciones extraordinarias, casi increíbles, que cambiaron por completo nuestra visión del universo: de ser pequeño, estático, inmutable y eterno pasó a ser enorme, a tener un principio, a partir de casi nada, y a expandirse aceleradamente. Lo que ha creado, a su vez, un nuevo misterio donde por un tiempo reinó la certeza absoluta.

Download or read book Seven Nights written by Jorge Luis Borges and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The incomparable Borges delivered these seven lectures in Buenos Aires in 1977; attendees were treated to Borges' erudition on the following topics: Dante's The Divine Comedy, Nightmares, Thousand and One Dreams, Buddhism, Poetry, The Kabbalah, and Blindness.

Download or read book The Ritual Process written by Victor Turner and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Ritual Process: Structure and Anti-Structure, Victor Turner examines rituals of the Ndembu in Zambia and develops his now-famous concept of "Communitas." He characterizes it as an absolute inter-human relation beyond any form of structure.The Ritual Process has acquired the status of a small classic since these lectures were first published in 1969. Turner demonstrates how the analysis of ritual behavior and symbolism may be used as a key to understanding social structure and processes. He extends Van Gennep's notion of the "liminal phase" of rites of passage to a more general level, and applies it to gain understanding of a wide range of social phenomena. Once thought to be the "vestigial" organs of social conservatism, rituals are now seen as arenas in which social change may emerge and be absorbed into social practice.As Roger Abrahams writes in his foreword to the revised edition: "Turner argued from specific field data. His special eloquence resided in his ability to lay open a sub-Saharan African system of belief and practice in terms that took the reader beyond the exotic features of the group among whom he carried out his fieldwork, translating his experience into the terms of contemporary Western perceptions. Reflecting Turner's range of intellectual interests, the book emerged as exceptional and eccentric in many ways: yet it achieved its place within the intellectual world because it so successfully synthesized continental theory with the practices of ethnographic reports."

Download or read book Creationism and Its Critics in Antiquity written by David Sedley and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2008-01-16 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The world is configured in ways that seem systematically hospitable to life forms, especially the human race. Is this the outcome of divine planning or simply of the laws of physics? Ancient Greeks and Romans famously disagreed on whether the cosmos was the product of design or accident. In this book, David Sedley examines this question and illuminates new historical perspectives on the pantheon of thinkers who laid the foundations of Western philosophy and science. Versions of what we call the "creationist" option were widely favored by the major thinkers of classical antiquity, including Plato, whose ideas on the subject prepared the ground for Aristotle's celebrated teleology. But Aristotle aligned himself with the anti-creationist lobby, whose most militant members—the atomists—sought to show how a world just like ours would form inevitably by sheer accident, given only the infinity of space and matter. This stimulating study explores seven major thinkers and philosophical movements enmeshed in the debate: Anaxagoras, Empedocles, Socrates, Plato, the atomists, Aristotle, and the Stoics.