Download or read book Reflections on the Motive Power of Fire written by Sadi Carnot and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-05-09 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The title essay, along with other papers in this volume, laid the foundation of modern thermodynamics. Highly readable, "Reflections" contains no arguments that depend on calculus, examining the relation between heat and work in terms of heat in steam engines, air-engines, and an internal combustion machine. Translation of 1890 edition.
Download or read book Reflections on Time and Politics written by Nathan Widder and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Explores the nature of time and its implications for questions of politics, ethics, and the self. Shows how a conception of time that breaks with common sense notions of chronological order can help us rethink the understandings of identity, difference, power, resistance, and overcoming"--Provided by publisher.
Download or read book Peace and Power written by Peggy L. Chinn and published by Jones & Bartlett Publishers. This book was released on 1999 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Reflections of Power written by Justin Dwinnell and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2009-07-09 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To Samson Slater, his abrupt recall to RADCAL Corporation means only one thing—a security threat to SUNRAY, a solar satellite project designed to endAmerica's crippling dependency onMideastoil. Like a spider hidden in a web of corporate intrigue, there lurks a sinister conspiracy, and in the corridors of power ofWashington, the budget ax hangs over the bill to fund SUNRAY. As Sam struggles through a serpentine maze to track down pieces of a deadly puzzle... Aboard a luxury yacht, a plot unfurls. On a cruise ship, a gigolo seduces a RADCAL secretary to steal the technology. At RADCAL, Sam is charmed by Daria, an exquisite Russian scientist. In aHoustongay nightclub, the gigolo, who knows too much, is murdered. In SugarlandTexas, inspectors uncover shortages inUSoil reserves. Inside Morgan Oil's executive suite, a deadly power game plays out. On the Senate floor, an eloquent orator pleads for SUNRAY funding. From the Oval Office, the President threatens a veto. InCuba, a clandestine UHF radio station targets the SUNRAY space launch. ...and while scrambling to unmask the mastermind behind the conspiracy, Sam discovers he must choose between Daria and the success of SUNRAY.
Download or read book If You Will Ask written by Oswald Chambers and published by Our Daily Bread Publishing. This book was released on 2013-07-15 with total page 91 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of teachings on prayer from the author of My Utmost for His Highest will help you better understand the purpose of prayer, from intercession to the Holy Spirit’s work in and through our petitions. Most importantly, you’ll learn how prayer aligns our hearts with God’s will.
Download or read book From Protest to Power written by Bob Rae and published by McClelland & Stewart. This book was released on 2009-02-24 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In January of 1996, when Bob Rae declared he was stepping down as the leader of the Ontario New Democratic Party, the media was full of praise for the former premier of Ontario. In From Protest to Power, Rae provides a surprising, frank look back at his time in politics. Shedding light on his rise to power from radical student politics to becoming the leader of the first NDP government to hold power in Ontario. He takes a look at his incredible life from Rhodes Scholar at Oxford and studying with philosopher Isaiah Berlin to his life as a family man. In the fall of 2006, with Bob Rae running for the federal leadership of the Liberal Party, it is time for us to examine his remarkable life once more. A life that has been motivated by the belief that politics and public service matter. As he says in the new introduction, “I am running because I care deeply about my country. I want it to stay strong. I want it to stay together. And I want to play whatever part I can to help make those things happen.” Learn more about what makes Bob run. From the Trade Paperback edition.
Download or read book Walking in This World written by Julia Cameron and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2003-09-29 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this long-awaited sequel to the international bestseller The Artist's Way, Julia Cameron presents the next step in her course of discovering and recovering the creative self. Walking in This World picks up where Julia Cameron's bestselling book on the creative process, The Artist's Way, left off to present readers with a second course—Part Two in an amazing journey toward discovering our human potential. Full of valuable new strategies and techniques for breaking through difficult creative ground, this is the "intermediate level" of the Artist's Way program. A profoundly inspired work by the leading authority on the subject of creativity, Walking in This World is an invaluable tool for artists. This second book is followed by Finding Water, the thrird book in The Artist's Way trilogy.
Download or read book Who Rules in Your Life written by Miriam Subirana and published by O-Books. This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thoughts and patterns of thoughts have a big influence in our lives. Many people do not realize about this repercussion. To think is something we usually do. When you create thoughts you generate feelings, attitudes, words, and actions, and so you create the picture of your life. One of the objectives of this book is to help you to be aware of the quality of your thoughts.
Download or read book Redefining Black Power written by Joanne Griffith and published by City Lights Publishers. This book was released on 2012-02-28 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Conversations with black leaders and activists exploring current African American political and cultural life.
Download or read book Keeping Good Time written by Avery Gordon and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-12-03 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Avery Gordon's first book, Ghostly Matters, was widely acclaimed as a work of striking sociological imagination and social theory. Keeping Good Time, her much anticipated second book, brings together essays by Gordon that were "written to be read aloud." Her eloquent voice in this book further establishes her place among literary sociological writers of a new generation. Keeping Good Time will be of great interest to activists, feminists, sociologists, students and everyone concerned about how to beat the odds in influencing the shape of social and culture change. Readers will find their thinking changed by the author's perennial quest to "develop insights gained in confrontation with injustice."
Download or read book The Power of Witnessing written by Nancy R. Goodman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 2012. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Download or read book The Illusion of Power written by G. G. Kariuki and published by East African Publishers. This book was released on 2001 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kariki's political participation dates from 1952, when he pledged an oath to the allegiance of the Gikuyu tribe, the Mau Mau movement and the cause of African unity. Post-independence, he gradually progressed to being a political insider, serving in the Kenyan African National Union (KANU) and the Kenyan Government. In 1983 he was expelled from KANU - the only political party. It is from this outsider-perspective, and in this climate of fear and uncertainty, without the desired freedom of association and access to political colleagues of the period of struggle, that he nevertheless here recounts his experiences of half a century in politics. He holds the belief that political evolution is inexorable; and that knowledge about, and reflection on the past is the only way of preventing the tragedy of yet another generation repeating that which they condemned in their predecessors.
Download or read book The Powers of the Past written by Harvey J. Kaye and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Entropy and Information written by Mikhail V. Volkenstein and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2009-10-27 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is just...entropy, he said, thinking that this explained everything, and he repeated the strange word a few times. 1 ? Karel Capek , “Krakatit” This “strange word” denotes one of the most basic quantities of the physics of heat phenomena, that is, of thermodynamics. Although the concept of entropy did indeed originate in thermodynamics, it later became clear that it was a more universal concept, of fundamental signi?cance for chemistry and biology, as well as physics. Although the concept of energy is usually considered more important and easier to grasp, it turns out, as we shall see, that the idea of entropy is just as substantial—and moreover not all that complicated. We can compute or measure the quantity of energy contained in this sheet of paper, and the same is true of its entropy. Furthermore, entropy has remarkable properties. Our galaxy, the solar system, and the biosphere all take their being from entropy, as a result of its transferenceto the surrounding medium. Thereis a surprisingconnectionbetween entropyandinformation,thatis,thetotalintelligencecommunicatedbyamessage. All of this is expounded in the present book, thereby conveying informationto the readeranddecreasinghis entropy;butitis uptothe readertodecidehowvaluable this information might be.
Download or read book The Power of Death written by Maria-José Blanco and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2014-10-01 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The social and cultural changes of the last century have transformed death from an everyday fact to something hidden from view. Shifting between the practical and the theoretical, the professional and the intimate, the real and the fictitious, this collection of essays explores the continued power of death over our lives. It examines the idea and experience of death from an interdisciplinary perspective, including studies of changing burial customs throughout Europe; an account of a“dying party” in the Netherlands; examinations of the fascination with violent death in crime fiction and the phenomenon of serial killer art; analyses of death and bereavement in poetry, fiction, and autobiography; and a look at audience reactions to depictions of death on screen. By studying and considering how death is thought about in the contemporary era, we might restore the natural place it has in our lives.
Download or read book Elements of Influence written by Terry R. Bacon and published by AMACOM/American Management Association. This book was released on 2012 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We succeed in business and in life when we influence how others think, feel, and act: getting them to accept our point of view, follow our lead, join our cause, feel our excitement, or buy our products and services. The act of influencing is such a part of our daily lives that we often don't even realize when we (or others) are doing it. But to succeed, we need to know how influence works...and how to use it. Influencing effectively requires adaptability, perceptiveness, and insight into other people and cultures. Based on 20 years of research, Elements of Influence shows readers how to: * Understand why people allow themselves to be influenced--and why they resist * Choose the right approach for each situation * Be influential when they have no formal authority * Succeed in every kind of organization--even in other countries Filled with exercises and practical applications, this book shows how anyone can increase his or her influence to achieve greater success.
Download or read book A Credible Witness written by Brenda Salter McNeil and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2009-08-12 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Evangelist and teacher McNeil thinks evangelism that only introduces people to Jesus is incomplete. The picture is much larger than that, she claims. Jesus' encounter with the Samaritan woman gives the full picture of reconciliation with God and with one another.
