Download or read book I of the Vortex written by Rodolfo R. Llinas and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2002-02-22 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A highly original theory of how the mind-brain works, based on the author's study of single neuronal cells. In I of the Vortex, Rodolfo Llinas, a founding father of modern brain science, presents an original view of the evolution and nature of mind. According to Llinas, the "mindness state" evolved to allow predictive interactions between mobile creatures and their environment. He illustrates the early evolution of mind through a primitive animal called the "sea squirt." The mobile larval form has a brainlike ganglion that receives sensory information about the surrounding environment. As an adult, the sea squirt attaches itself to a stationary object and then digests most of its own brain. This suggests that the nervous system evolved to allow active movement in animals. To move through the environment safely, a creature must anticipate the outcome of each movement on the basis of incoming sensory data. Thus the capacity to predict is most likely the ultimate brain function. One could even say that Self is the centralization of prediction. At the heart of Llinas's theory is the concept of oscillation. Many neurons possess electrical activity, manifested as oscillating variations in the minute voltages across the cell membrane. On the crests of these oscillations occur larger electrical events that are the basis for neuron-to-neuron communication. Like cicadas chirping in unison, a group of neurons oscillating in phase can resonate with a distant group of neurons. This simultaneity of neuronal activity is the neurobiological root of cognition. Although the internal state that we call the mind is guided by the senses, it is also generated by the oscillations within the brain. Thus, in a certain sense, one could say that reality is not all "out there," but is a kind of virtual reality.
Download or read book In the Vortex of Violence written by Gema Kloppe-Santamaría and published by University of California Press. This book was released on 2020-08-18 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the Vortex of Violence examines the uncharted history of lynching in post-revolutionary Mexico. Based on a collection of previously untapped sources, the book examines why lynching became a persistent practice during a period otherwise characterized by political stability and decreasing levels of violence. It explores how state formation processes, as well as religion, perceptions of crime, and mythical beliefs, contributed to shaping people’s understanding of lynching as a legitimate form of justice. Extending the history of lynching beyond the United States, this book offers key insights into the cultural, historical, and political reasons behind the violent phenomenon and its continued practice in Latin America today.
Download or read book Vortex written by Robert Charles Wilson and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2012-02-28 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Vortex" tells the story of Turk Findley, the protagonist introduced in "Axis," who is transported 10,000 years into the future by the mysterious entities called "the Hypotheticals."
Download or read book Escape the Vortex written by Jeanne DuPrau and published by Random House Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2016 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Alpha and Omega teams are in a race for the six essential elements that can fuse into a new source of clean energy, but the elements are scattered throughout the galaxy, and the teams are running out of time."--
Download or read book The Vortex written by Frank Uekötter and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2024-04-18 with total page 752 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Environmental challenges are defining the twenty-first century. To fully understand ongoing debates about our current crises—climate change, loss of biological diversity, pollution, extinction, resource woes—means revisiting their origins, in all their complexity. With this ambitious, highly original contribution to the environmental history of global modernity, Frank Uekötter considers the many ways humans have had an impact on their physical environment throughout history. Ours is not a one-way trajectory to sudden collapse, he argues, but rather death by a thousand cuts. The many paths we’ve forged to arrive in our current predicament, from agriculture to industry to infrastructure, must be considered collectively if we are to stay afloat in what Uekötter describes as a vortex: a powerful metaphor for the flow of history, capturing the momentum and the many crosscurrents that swept people and environments along. His book invites us to look at environmental challenges from multiple perspectives, including all the twists and turns that have helped to create the mess we find ourselves in. Uekötter has written a world history for an age where things are falling apart: where we know what lies ahead and are equipped with the right tools—technological and otherwise—and plenty of experience to deal with environmental challenges, but somehow fail to get our affairs in order.
Download or read book The Vortex written by José Eustasio Rivera and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2018-04-12 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published in 1924 and widely acknowledged as a major work of twentieth-century Latin American literature, José Eustasio Rivera's The Vortex follows the harrowing adventures of the young poet Arturo Cova and his lover Alicia as they flee Bogotá and head into the wild and woolly backcountry of Colombia. After being separated from Alicia, Arturo leaves the high plains for the jungle, where he witnesses firsthand the horrid conditions of those forced or tricked into tapping rubber trees. A story populated by con men, rubber barons, and the unrelenting landscape, The Vortex is both a denunciation of the sensational human-rights abuses that took place during the Amazonian rubber boom and one of the most famous renderings of the natural environment in Latin American literary history.
Download or read book The Vortex written by José Eustasio Rivera and published by . This book was released on 1935 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Into the Vortex written by Britta H. Sjogren and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2006-04-27 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A pathbreaking feminist analysis of sound's shifting relation to image in film
Download or read book The Vortex written by Esther Hicks and published by Hay House. This book was released on 2009 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Leading Edge work by Esther and Jerry Hicks, who present The Teachings of Abraham, helps readers understand every relationship they are currently involved in as well as every relationship they have ever experienced. Includes a bonus CD on the law of attraction.
Download or read book The Vortex written by Scott Carney and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2022-03-29 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "[A] tremendous new book." —The Boston Globe "Carney and Miklian write vividly in the fashion of a cinematic disaster flick." —The Washington Post The deadliest storm in modern history ripped Pakistan in two and led the world to the brink of nuclear war when American and Soviet forces converged in the Bay of Bengal In November 1970, a storm set a collision course with the most densely populated coastline on Earth. Over the course of just a few hours, the Great Bhola Cyclone would kill 500,000 people and begin a chain reaction of turmoil, genocide, and war. The Vortex is the dramatic story of how that storm sparked a country to revolution. Bhola made landfall during a fragile time, when Pakistan was on the brink of a historic election. The fallout ignited a conflagration of political intrigue, corruption, violence, idealism, and bravery that played out in the lives of tens of millions of Bangladeshis. Authors Scott Carney and Jason Miklian take us deep into the story of the cyclone and its aftermath, told through the eyes of the men and women who lived through it, including the infamous president of Pakistan, General Yahya Khan, and his close friend Richard Nixon; American expats Jon and Candy Rhode; soccer star-turned-soldier Hafiz Uddin Ahmad; and a young Bengali revolutionary, Mohammed Hai. Thrillingly paced and written with incredible detail, The Vortex is not just a story about the painful birth of a new nation but also a universal tale of resilience and liberation in the face of climate emergency that affects every single person on the planet.
Download or read book Sedona Vortex Guidebook written by Robert Shapiro and published by Light Technology Publishing. This book was released on 1991-01-01 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 200-plus pages of channeled, never-before-published information on the vortex energies of Sedona and the techniques to enable you to use the vortexes as multidimensional portals to time, space and other realities. This Sedona guide book contains channeled wisdom that featured a select group of teachers and the channels through whom they speak.
Download or read book Polar Vortex written by Shani Mootoo and published by Akashic Books. This book was released on 2020-09-15 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A novel reminiscent of the works of Herman Koch and Rachel Cusk, in which a lesbian couple attempts to escape the secrets of their pasts. “[Mootoo’s] unsettling latest examines how secrets always come back to haunt us—especially the ones we’ve managed to keep from ourselves.” —Globe & Mail, one of the 100 Favorite Books of 2020 One of Autostraddle‘s Best Queer Books of 2020 Polar Vortex is a seductive and tension-filled novel about Priya and Alex, a lesbian couple who left the big city to relocate to a bucolic countryside community. It seemed like a good way to leave their past behind and cement their newish, later-in-life relationship. But there’s leaving the past behind—and then there’s running away from awkward histories. Priya has a secret—a long-standing on-again, off-again relationship with a man, Prakash. In Priya’s mind Prakash is little more than an old friend, but in reality things are a bit complicated. Why has she never told Alex about him? Prakash has tracked Priya down in her new life, and before she realizes what she’s doing, she invites him to visit. Alex is not pleased, and soon the existing cracks in their relationship widen, revealing secrets Alex herself would have preferred to keep. Into the fissure walks Prakash, whose own agenda forces all three to face the inevitable consequences of their choices.
Download or read book The Enemies and Friends Thru the Vortex written by Bobbie Kaald and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2013-08-08 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Making of an Enemy is the fi rst book of a series. The apocalypse happens and strands several colonizing ships in space. They eventually decide that the silence from Earth means the worst happened and join up with the other colonizing vessels. From there, they set out to fi nd a new home, and many, many years later, the story really starts. Soon, you meet the leading lady who leaves the shipyard in a fi t of anger alone on a small ship. The ship is hit by one or more asteroids and disabled. She is rescued by the villainous marauders and eventually rescued from them by her shipyard friends. From there the chase is on with a culmination in a fi nal disaster. The Unmaking of an Enemy begins where the fi rst one ends. There is a birth in space proving that it is possible after many generations of not being able to carry a pregnancy to term in space. They fi nd that their nemesis is still alive and the chase is on again. The book ends with the discovery that the explosion created a rift in space. The Enemies Become Friends begins by the enemies and friends fi nding out that all of the space debris from the explosion is disappearing into the anomaly. Eventually, everyone is pardoned if they help evacuate all of mankind from all of the settlements. The book ends by fi nding out that the probes and a ship navigated the anomaly to the other side, and messages are coming back thru. The Enemies and Friends thru the Vortex is the continuation of a story which refuses to end. The fl eet of combined mankind sends a volunteer vessel thru the vortex. It is manned with enough volunteers to man the empty ship if found intact. With a great deal of diffi culty, a message eventually gets back to the fl eet about their safety and the diffi culties experienced on the ride thru the vortex. One by one the fl eet attempts to travel thru the vortex.
Download or read book The Vortex at Thompson Park Volume 4 written by Michael DeFranco and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2016-12-06 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pocket Book - Volume 4 of 4, Amazon, Barnes & Noble - The FIRST SCI-FI book about an Upstate New York town called Watertown and its urban legend The Vortex at Thompson Park. Real locations and residents of Watertown along with a local NEWS crew interact with which may be fictional situations through out time; who knows for sure? Volume 4 continues the stories began in the previous volumes with different points in time addressed in each chapter with a very interesting conlusuion.
Download or read book The Vortex and The Jet written by Reiner Decher and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-02-25 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This open access book is an introduction for the lay reader to understand the basics of flight. The exposure is to the mysteries of lift generation by wings and the basic function of the jet propulsion engine. The text relies on simple descriptions of the physics of air flow without unduly involving mathematics. The text is richly illustrated with sketches and photographs to enrich verbal descriptions. The book takes the viewpoint that a reader does not have a background in the engineering of airplane components but is interested in the subject. The description is in terms of easy-to-understand terminology, occasional use of humor, references to everyday experiences, and occasionally to an algebraic relationship when that is unavoidable. This book would serve a student aspiring to be an engineer to begin grappling with the phenomena involved and the techniques used to analyze these phenomena. The practitioner, as well as the beginner, in the art of flying an airplane is well served with the knowledge exposed here. The text makes no apology for technical complexity. Its introduction is rigorous and provides a sound footing for further study.
Download or read book The vortex blaster makes war written by E. E. Smith and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-07-10 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The vortex blaster makes war" by E. E. Smith. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.
Download or read book The Vortex Structure of the Cloud Cover According to Weather Satellite Data written by Li︠u︡dmila Silʹvestrovna Minina and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
