Download or read book Ai confini dell universo written by Francesco Vetrugno and published by Edizioni Nuova Cultura. This book was released on 2017-12-01 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: L'autore nasce attorno alla metà del secolo scorso. Nelle notti serene e senza Luna, d’estate, in campagna, da bambino vive il fascino del firmamento in cui individua ad occhio nudo la Stella Polare, l’Orsa maggiore, la Via Lattea…che bello dormire almeno una volta sotto le stelle! Tale scenario suscita in lui un senso di rassicurante serenità, di armonia e di pace interiore, che fa ben sperare. Pure, in quella grande immensità avvolta nel mistero, è curioso di sapere che c’è al di là delle stelle, della volta infinita! Nella giovinezza, tale curiosità aumenta e tenta di sapere come «funzionano» i fenomeni della Natura, per eventuali applicazioni. Apprende che: “L’Universo è un immenso libro che continuamente ci sta aperto innanzi agli occhi, ma non si può intender se prima non si impara ad intender la lingua ne’ quali è scritto. Egli è scritto in lingua matematica, e i caratteri sono triangoli, ellissi ed altre figure geometriche, senza i quali mezzi è impossibile intenderne parola…”, Galileo Galilei. Dunque, per capire come «funzionano» i fenomeni della Natura occorre imparare la lingua matematica, la regina delle scienze. E allora, avanti tutta con tale scienza. Lo sbarco sulla Luna nel 1969 mette le ali al suo entusiasmo e alla sua fantasia, tanto da porsi domande del tipo: “Siamo soli nell’Universo?” Se vogliamo saperne di più possiamo immaginare un viaggio tra stelle, pianeti e galassie, a bordo di una fantascientifica astronave che vola alla velocità della luce, verso i Confini dell’Universo, alla ricerca dell’origine della materia vivente o meno, uomo compreso. Coloro che amano il bello della Natura e che, per viverlo, osano sfidare l’impossibile sono invitati a prendere parte a tale immaginario viaggio.
Download or read book Rough Animals written by Rae DelBianco and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2018-06-05 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 25 Best Thriller Books of the Summer—New York Post Best New Books Coming Out Summer 2018 —Southern Living 46 Great Books to Read This Summer—Nylon Dazzling Debuts"—WYPR, "The Weekly Reader" Summer Thrillers That Will Have You at the Edge of Your Chaise Lounge—Refinery29 8 New Books You Should Read This June—vulture.com What We Read, Watched, and Listened to in May—Outside “Furious and electric . . . a fever dream."—Publishers Weekly, *Starred Review!* Breaking Bad meets No Country for Old Men... Ever since their father's untimely death five years before, Wyatt Smith and his inseparably close twin sister, Lucy, have scraped by alone on their family's isolated ranch in Box Elder County, Utah. That is until one morning when, just after spotting one of their steers lying dead in the field, Wyatt is hit in the arm by a hail of gunfire that takes four more cattle with it. The shooter: a fever-eyed, fearsome girl-child with a TEC-9 in her left hand and a worn shotgun in her right. They hold the girl captive, but she breaks loose overnight and heads south into the desert. With the dawning realization that the loss of cattle will mean the certain loss of the ranch, Wyatt feels he has no choice but to go after her and somehow find restitution for what's been lost. Wyatt's decision sets him on an epic twelve-day odyssey through a nightmarish underworld he only half understands; a world that pitches him not only against the primordial ways of men and the beautiful yet brutally unforgiving landscape, but also against himself. As he winds his way down from the mountains of Box Elder to the mesas of Monument Valley and back, Wyatt is forced to look for the first time at who he is and what he’s capable of, and how those hard truths set him irrevocably apart from the one person he’s ever really known and loved. Steeped in a mythic, wildly alive language of its own, and gripping from the first gunshot to the last, Rough Animals is a tour de force from a powerful new voice.
Download or read book The Flying Saucer Conspiracy written by Donald Edward Keyhoe and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presenting the Flying Saucer Conspiracy by Donald Keyhoe.
Download or read book Philosophy After Darwin written by Michael Ruse and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 593 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An anthology of essential writings that cover some of the most influential ideas about the philosophical implications of Darwinism, since the publication of "On the Origin of Species".
Download or read book Darwin written by Adrian J. Desmond and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1994 with total page 910 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In lively and accessible style, the authors tell how Darwin came to his world-changing conclusions and how he kept his thoughts secret for twenty years. Hailed as the definitive biography, this book explains Darwin's paradox and offers a window on Victorian science, theology, and mores. Contains a wealth of new information and 90 photographs.
Download or read book Evolution of Self Consciousness written by Chauncey Wright and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-07-03 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Evolution of Self-Consciousness, Wright endeavored to explain the most elaborate psychical activities of men as developments of elementary forms of conscious processes present in the animal kingdom as a whole. The immediacy of sensible qualities to consciousness entails that there is no way to separate subject and object in consciousness. In this quotation, Wright suggests that the division of subject from object may constitute "rightly dividing the world" as indexed by survival value. A division made in these terms, rather than by an individual's experiences of himself and the world, is a reasonable basis for natural realism.
Download or read book Without Miracles written by Gary Cziko and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Without Miracles describes many remarkable examples of the fit of various structures, behaviors, and products of living organisms to their environments in a broad synthesis of humankind's attempt to understand the emergence of complex, adapted entities.
Download or read book Re Engineering Philosophy for Limited Beings written by William C. Wimsatt and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2007-06-30 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Analytic philosophers once pantomimed physics, trying to understand the world by breaking it down. Thinkers from the Darwinian sciences now pose alternatives to such reductionism. Wimsatt argues that today’s scientists seek to atomize phenomena only to understand how entities, events, and processes articulate at different levels.
Download or read book The Foundations of Ethology written by K. Lorenz and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-04-17 with total page 507 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a contribution to the history of ethology-not a definitive history, but the personal view of a major figure in that story. It is all the more welcome because such a grand theme as ethology calls for a range of perspectives. One reason is the overarching scope of the subject. Two great questions about life that constitute much of biology are "How does it work (structure and function)?" and "How did it get that way (evolu tion and ontogeny)?" Ethology addresses the antecedent of "it. " Of what are we trying to explain the mechanism and development? Surely behav ior, in all its wealth of detail, variation, causation, and control, is the main achievement of animal evolution, the essential consequence of animal structure and function, the raison d' etre of all the rest. Ethology thus spans between and overlaps with the ever-widening circles of ecol ogy over the eons and the ever-narrowing focus of physiology of the neurons. Another reason why the history of ethology needs perspectives is the recency of its acceptance. For such an obviously major aspect of animal biology, it is curious how short a time-less than three decades-has seen the excitement of an active field and a substantial fraternity of work ers, the addition of professors and courses to departments and curricula in biology (still far from universal}, and the normal complement of spe cial journals, symposia, and sessions at congresses.
Download or read book Outlines of Cosmic Philosophy Based on the Doctrine of Evolution with Criticisms on the Positive Philosophy written by John Fiske and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Attraverso l Universo Sulle Spalle Di un Raggio Di Luce written by Daniele Gasparri and published by . This book was released on 2015-06-05 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seconda edizione, corretta e aggiornata, del volume "Sulle spalle di un raggio di luce".Un uomo comune, con la passione per l'Universo, porta il proprio figlio in quella casa di campagna laddove tutto ebbe inizio. In quel minuscolo angolo, di un altrettanto insignificante pianeta, disperso nello spazio e nel tempo del Cosmo, quel bambino speciale potrà dare sfogo a tutta la propria curiosità. Il padre, rispondendo sempre più orgoglioso alle decine di domande di quel fiume in piena, avrà la conversazione più matura, profonda e sincera della propria vita. Dalla definizione di Universo ai pianeti abitabili nella Via Lattea, dalle lune del Sistema Solare al destino del Cosmo, passando per buchi neri e materia oscura, i personaggi capiranno che l'Universo non è soltanto un luogo popolato da stelle, pianeti, galassie o oggetti particolari e violenti, ma è anche la più grande scuola di vita che ognuno di noi potrà mai frequentare. Ed è assolutamente incredibile come tutto questo si basi solo su un raggio di luce, che venga visto dai nostri occhi o attraverso potenti telescopi. Un raggio di luce, spesso debolissimo, è tutto quello che abbiamo per comprendere l'Universo e noi stessi... ma forse è più che sufficiente.
Download or read book Viaggio Attraverso L universo written by Alpz Italia and published by Alpz Italia. This book was released on with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Un viaggio affascinante e ricco di eventi attraverso l'universo! L'universo ha 13,8 miliardi di anni. Immagina questo periodo di tempo come equivalente alla lunghezza di un campo di calcio. In questo, ogni passo che fai equivale a circa 50 milioni di anni. Dove pensi che si trovi l'intero arco della storia umana? Buono alla fine. . . la larghezza di un singolo capello umano. Gli esseri umani tendono a sentirsi importanti. In realtà, occupiamo un umile angolo di una galassia senza pretese in una distesa di spazio e tempo piuttosto media. Visiteremo stelle, galassie, buchi neri e persino viaggeremo nel tempo, quindi se sei pronto, allaccia le cinture e preparati per il decollo!
Download or read book The Natural Science of the Human Species written by Konrad Lorenz and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 1997-08 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This translation contains a synopsis of all the ideas that made Lorenz famous as the founder of ethology, the study of comparative animal behavior. edited from the author's posthumous works by Agnes von CranachHere Am I Where Are You?: The Behavior of the Greylag Goose was thought to be Konrad Lorenz's last book. However, in 1991 the Russian Manuscript was discovered in an attic, and its subsequent publication in German has become a scientific sensation. Written under the most extreme conditions in Soviet prison camps, the Russian Manuscript was the first outline of a large-scale work on behavioralscience. This translation contains a synopsis of all the ideas thatmade Lorenz famous as the founder of ethology, the study of comparative animal behavior.
Download or read book Bright Air Brilliant Fire written by Gerald M. Edelman and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author takes the reader on a tour that covers such topics as computers, evolution, Descartes, Schrodinger, and the nature of perception, language, and invididuality. He argues that biology provides the key to understanding the brain. Underlying his argument is the evolutionary view that the mind arose at a definite time in history. This book ponders connections between psychology and physics, medicine, philosophy, and more. Frequently contentious, Edelman attacks cognitive and behavioral approaches, which leave biology out of the picture, as well as the currently fashionable view of the brain as a computer.
Download or read book Il futuro dell umanit written by Michio Kaku and published by Rizzoli. This book was released on 2018-03-27 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Asteroidi vaganti, cambiamenti climatici, sovrappopolazione: il nostro pianeta non è sicuro come sembra. In un futuro non troppo lontano l'umanità potrebbe essere costretta ad abbandonarlo e a colonizzare lo spazio, partendo dalla Luna e dal sistema solare per poi spingersi verso le stelle e le galassie, fin oltre i confini dell'universo conosciuto. E anche senza la minaccia di una catastrofe incombente basterà la nostra innata curiosità a spingerci verso nuovi orizzonti: grazie agli sviluppi sempre più rapidi della robotica, della biotecnologia e delle nanotecnologie saremo in grado di fondare città autosufficienti su pianeti distanti anni luce, costruire razzi come l'Enterprise di Star Trek o il Millennium Falcon di Star Wars, a energia nucleare o ad antimateria, utilizzare i buchi neri come scorciatoie per esplorare universi paralleli. Creeremo automi autoreplicanti e intelligenti che svolgeranno per noi i lavori più pesanti e rischiosi, modificheremo la nostra struttura corporea per adattarla ad atmosfere a noi incompatibili e forse, un giorno, potremo fare a meno dei nostri corpi per spostarci nel cosmo sotto forma di pura coscienza, alla velocità della luce, realizzando il sogno più antico della nostra specie: l'immortalità. Tra una partita di football marziano e un ipotetico incontro con alieni ipertecnologici, Michio Kaku accompagna il lettore nel viaggio che porterà l'umanità oltre i confini dello spazio e del tempo, rendendola finalmente una specie multiplanetaria, multigalattica e multidimensionale.
Download or read book Behind the Mirror written by Konrad Lorenz and published by Mariner Books. This book was released on 1978 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lorenz examines the nature of human thought and intelligence and attributes the problems of modern civilization largely to the limitations.
Download or read book Stelle pianeti e galassie written by Margherita Hack and published by Editoriale Scienza. This book was released on 2016-02-12 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Margherita Hack si fa guida d'eccezione e, con Massimo Ramella, racconta la storia dell'astronomia, dagli astronomi-sacerdoti babilonesi ai moderni telescopi e ai satelliti futuristici, passando per la nutrita schiera di studiosi che hanno contribuito a rivoluzionare, nei secoli, la visione dell'universo. Dalle prime osservazioni legate alla sfera soprannaturale tanta strada è stata fatta e il numero di corpi celesti a noi noti continua ad aumentare, ma l’aspetto più misterioso e affascinante è che ogni nuova scoperta potrebbe mettere in discussione quanto sappiamo...Tra buchi neri, pianeti extrasolari e galassie lontanissime, la storia dell'esplorazione del cielo cattura e incanta il lettore.Corredano il testo box di approfondimento e, nella sezione "L’osservatorio virtuale", tante attività di osservazione del cielo da svolgere con programmi scaricabili gratuitamente dal sito.
