Download or read book Astrology and the Hoax of Scientific Temper written by Gayatri D. Vasudev and published by Motilal Banarsidass Publishe. This book was released on 1998-12-31 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an inspired collection of writings that expose the fraud of `Scientific temper in its attacks on Astrology. Astrology has always had its critics criticism in indeed healthy for the growth and proper understanding of any science. But unfair and unjust criticism made up of distortions, lies and bias must be forcefully met and nipped in the bud. Otherwise it can be a dangerous enemy of all honest intellectual inquiry and examination.
Download or read book Hoax A History of Deception written by Ian Tattersall and published by Black Dog & Leventhal. This book was released on 2018-03-20 with total page 487 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An entertaining collection of the most audacious and underhanded deceptions in the history of mankind, from sacred relics to financial schemes to fake art, music, and identities. World history is littered with tall tales and those who have fallen for them. Ian Tattersall, a curator emeritus at the American Museum of Natural History, has teamed up with Peter Néaumont to tell this anti-history of the world, in which Michelangelo fakes a masterpiece; Arctic explorers seek an entrance into a hollow Earth; a Shakespeare tragedy is "rediscovered"; a financial scheme inspires Charles Ponzi; a spirit photographer snaps Abraham Lincoln's ghost; people can survive ingesting only air and sunshine; Edgar Allen Poe is the forefather of fake news; and the first human was not only British but played cricket. Told chronologically, HOAX begins with the first documented announcement of the end of the world in 2800 BC and winds its way through controversial tales such as the Loch Ness Monster and the Shroud of Turin, past proven fakes such as the Thomas Jefferson's ancient wine and the Davenport Tablets built by a lost race, and explores bald-faced lies in the worlds of art, science, literature, journalism, and finance.
Download or read book Genetic Entropy written by John C. Sanford and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this text, Sanford, a retired Cornell professor, shows that the "Primary Axiom"--the foundational evolutionary premise that life is merely the result of mutations and natural selection--is false. He strongly refutes the Darwinian concept that man is just the result of a random and pointless natural process.
Download or read book The Heredity Hoax written by Gary Greenberg and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2025-01-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This innovative and thought-provoking book integrates both new, authored material and reprints of existing literature that, together, provide a compelling narrative that reveals the fatally flawed science associated with genetic reductionist accounts of human behaviour and development. Through an interdisciplinary lens, it illuminates the dynamic nature of human development, empowering readers to question established notions and embrace the complexity of our potential. Across the book the work of top-tier scientists, from developmental, comparative, educational, and biological science illuminate theory and research converging on the conclusion that the multiple egregiously flawed work of genetic reductionists should be expunged from research pertinent to human development. The book challenges the prevailing reductionist narratives and their application to social policies, programs and uses in media. Theoretically based and empirically rigorous, this multidisciplinary approach to human development will shine a light on the inequities in individuals or groups that suggest that specific genes do not enable them to succeed in life. The Heredity Hoax invites graduate schools and advanced undergraduate courses on human development, human potential, epigenetics and more to delve into the intricate interplay between genes, environment, and personal growth. This will also serve as an unimpeachable source of evidence for researchers, educators, and social policymakers.
Download or read book Gattaca written by Sue Tweg and published by Insight Publications. This book was released on 2002 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Insight Study Guides are written by experts and cover a range of popular literature, plays and films. Designed to provide insight and an overview about each text for students and teachers, these guides endeavor to develop knowledge and understanding rather than just provide answers and summaries.
Download or read book Eugene Field A Study in Heredity and Contradictions written by Slason Thompson and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2020-12-11 with total page 477 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book features a biographical account of the American writer Eugene Field (1850-1895), best known for his children's poetry and humorous essays. There were two Fields – the author and the man – and it is the purpose of this study to reproduce the latter as he appeared to those who knew and loved him for what he was personally for the benefit of those who have only known him through the medium of his writings. In doing this it was far from the author's intention and farther from his friendship to disturb any of the preconceptions that have been formed from the perusal of Field's works as these are the creations of something entirely apart from the man whose genius produced them._x000D_ Contents:_x000D_ Pedigree_x000D_ His Father's First Love-affair_x000D_ The Dred Scott Case_x000D_ Birth and Early Youth_x000D_ Education_x000D_ Choice of a Profession_x000D_ Marriage and Early Domestic Life_x000D_ Early Experiences in Journalism_x000D_ In Denver, 1881-1883_x000D_ Anecdotes of Life in Denver_x000D_ Coming to Chicago_x000D_ Personal Characteristics_x000D_ Relations with Stage Folk_x000D_ Beginning of His Literary Education_x000D_ Method of Work_x000D_ Nature of His Daily Work_x000D_ Pedigree_x000D_ Introduction to Colored Inks_x000D_ Some Letters_x000D_ More Letters_x000D_ Publication of His First Books_x000D_ His Second Visit to Europe_x000D_ In the Saints' and Sinners' Corner_x000D_ Political Relations_x000D_ His "Auto-analysis"_x000D_ Last Years_x000D_ Last Days
Download or read book A Study in Heredity and Contradictions written by Slason Thompson and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2021-05-07 with total page 477 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book features a biographical account of the American writer Eugene Field (1850-1895), best known for his children's poetry and humorous essays. There were two Fields – the author and the man – and it is the purpose of this study to reproduce the latter as he appeared to those who knew and loved him for what he was personally for the benefit of those who have only known him through the medium of his writings. In doing this it was far from the author's intention and farther from his friendship to disturb any of the preconceptions that have been formed from the perusal of Field's works as these are the creations of something entirely apart from the man whose genius produced them. Contents: Pedigree His Father's First Love-affair The Dred Scott Case Birth and Early Youth Education Choice of a Profession Marriage and Early Domestic Life Early Experiences in Journalism In Denver, 1881-1883 Anecdotes of Life in Denver Coming to Chicago Personal Characteristics Relations with Stage Folk Beginning of His Literary Education Method of Work Nature of His Daily Work Pedigree Introduction to Colored Inks Some Letters More Letters Publication of His First Books His Second Visit to Europe In the Saints' and Sinners' Corner Political Relations His "Auto-analysis" Last Years Last Days
Download or read book A History of Genetics written by Alfred Henry Sturtevant and published by CSHL Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the small “Fly Room†at Columbia University, T.H. Morgan and his students, A.H. Sturtevant, C.B. Bridges, and H.J. Muller, carried out the work that laid the foundations of modern, chromosomal genetics. The excitement of those times, when the whole field of genetics was being created, is captured in this book, written in 1965 by one of those present at the beginning. His account is one of the few authoritative, analytic works on the early history of genetics. This attractive reprint is accompanied by a website, http://www.esp.org/books/sturt/history/ offering full-text versions of the key papers discussed in the book, including the world's first genetic map.
Download or read book The Journal of Heredity written by and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The journal discusses articles on gene action, regulation, and transmission in both plant and animal species, including the genetic aspects of botany, cytogenetics and evolution, zoology, and molecular and developmental biology.
Download or read book Toward an Understanding of Homosexuality written by Daniel Cappon and published by Englewood Cliffs, N.J. : Prentice-Hall. This book was released on 1965 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "...Homosexuality as a symptom ... is an extruded portion of the personality which signals an underlying ... malady. Thus, [it] is as curable as its underlying causes..."--pref.
Download or read book Future Law written by Edwards Lilian Edwards and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2020-03-02 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How will law, regulation and ethics govern a future of fast-changing technologies? Bringing together cutting-edge authors from academia, legal practice and the technology industry, Future Law explores and leverages the power of human imagination in understanding, critiquing and improving the legal responses to technological change. It focuses on the practical difficulties of applying law, policy and ethical structures to emergent technologies both now and in the future. It covers crucial current issues such as big data ethics, ubiquitous surveillance and the Internet of Things, and disruptive technologies such as autonomous vehicles, DIY genetics and robot agents. By using examples from popular culture such as books, films, TV and Instagram - including 'Black Mirror', 'Disney Princesses', 'Star Wars', 'Doctor Who' and 'Rick and Morty' - it brings hypothetical examples to life. And it asks where law might go next and to regulate new-phase technology such as artificial intelligence, 'smart homes' and automated emotion recognition.
Download or read book Cyril Burt written by Nicholas John Mackintosh and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Widely regarded as Britain's most eminent educational psychologist, Sir Cyril Burt (1883-1971) was, within five years of his death, publicly denounced as a fraud who had fabricated data to show that intelligence is inherited. This volume contains seven contributions examining Burt's work and concluding that both Burt's defenders and accusers missed crucial evidence. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Download or read book The Mammoth Book of Time Travel SF written by Mike Ashley and published by Robinson. This book was released on 2013-07-04 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thought-provoking collection not only takes us into the past and the future, but also explores what might happen if we attempt to manipulate time to our own advantage. These stories show what happen once you start to meddle with time and the paradoxes that might arise. It also raises questions about whether we understand time, and how we perceive it. Once we move outside the present day, can we ever return or do we move into an alternate world? What happens if our meddling with Nature leads to time flowing backwards, or slowing down or stopping all together? Or if we get trapped in a constant loop from which we can never escape. Is the past and future immutable or will we ever be able to escape the inevitable? These are just some of the questions that are raised in these challenging, exciting and sometimes amusing stories by Kage Baker, Simon Clark, Fritz Leiber, Christopher Priest, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Robert Silverberg, Michael Swanwick, John Varley and many others.
Download or read book The Next Step written by Michael H. Burnam and published by John Hunt Publishing. This book was released on 2017-09-29 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It’s been five years since Mickey passed the Europans’ test, saving the Europans and planet Earth. Pam and David are living on Europa in a wondrous habitat where anything seems possible, and have twins with unusual abilities. Earth is transforming into a Utopian paradise thanks to the Sphere, an alien hard drive filled with advanced technology gifted to Earth by the Europans. But Mickey, who chose to remain on Earth, suspects the Europans of having a secret, more sinister agenda. When he severs his connection to the Sphere and begins to investigate, Mickey is captured by the Sphere Cult and put on trial for his life... The second book in the thrilling YA sci-fi series from Michael H. Burnam, The Next Step, asks what happens when Evolution progresses to immortality?
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Download or read book Ethics in Engineering Practice and Research written by Caroline Whitbeck and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1998-03-13 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A real-world, problem-centered approach to engineering ethics, using case studies, for students and professionals.
Download or read book The Baptist Story written by A. A. Davis and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2018-12-02 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Baptist Story is a story of struggle and triumph, victory and heartbreak. There have always existed, although sometimes in the most remote regions, those who sought to maintain pure New Testament practice in the face of all adversity. These believers were a simple people who led a simple life, and who sought to adhere to the simple, primitive practices of the New Testament. For their adherence to the simple truths of God’s precious Word, these Godly saints suffered banishment, imprisonment, persecution, some even suffering death by fire and sword. Their persecutions were sanctioned by the pagan religious establishments of that day. But these saints endured because “they loved not their lives unto the death.” They counted the truth of God’s Word more precious than family, friends, and their very lives. This excellent work, which is a series of sermons based upon The Trail of Blood by the revered J. M. Carroll, presents in a simple, enlightening, and easy to read fashion, the story of these precious souls who lived pure lives and died for the simple truths which are often taken advantage of today. Baptists of today need to become more aware of the struggles borne by their forefathers and the premium price paid for the maintenance of New Testament truth. Just as we owe the military soldiers a debt for the sacrifices they have made for the cause of personal freedom, so we owe an even greater debt to the soldiers of the cross who suffered and gave their lives to secure our religious freedom, which is taken for granted today. We present this book with the hope that it will be used to make God’s people aware of their glorious past. We pray that the all-wise God will see fit to use this work to once again enlighten His people and to give them the courage to stand for the truths contained in His precious Word.
