Download or read book Blind Reason written by Patricia Griffon and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2016-11-18 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Blind Reason is the intricate tale of the most ambitious and insidious global conspiracy since the Third Reicha tangled web of insatiable greed, hidden agendas, rogue spies, deception, betrayal, lost dreams, and personal tragedies. It begins with the Allied nations' bombing of Berlin in February 1945, which destroyed the Reichsbank, and the subsequent discovery of an abandoned salt mine in southern Germany, where an incalculable stash of gold bullion, currency, and precious art and antiques has been stored for the express purpose of financing the continuation of the Nazis' thousand-year reign. Maya Warwick is an enigmatic and reclusive author living in a mountain community outside Denver. When she discovers that her best friend, Thea Rousseau, has committed suicide, her only clue is an empty bottle of Euphorin, the latest Prozac-like "mood brightener" touted as a panacea for anxiety and depression. Maya is no stranger to bad drugs slipping through the FDA approval process. Ten years earlier, she wrote a best-selling book on another pharmaceutical that was implicated in dozens of grisly tragedies, including the murder-suicide of her parents. Fearing that Thea's actions were a side effect of the medication, Maya uses the Internet to research Euphorin and its manufacturer. She discovers that FetcherBurkeWinslow is a subsidiary of VB Pharmaceuticals (referred to as the "poison machine of the Third Reich") and that VB was the maker of the psychotropic drugs used in mind-control experiments at Auschwitz. She now suspects that Euphorin has a more sinister intent. From there, her investigation leads to various neo-Nazi websites where she learns that Baron Alexander von Brandt, president of VB Pharmaceuticals, is the reputed leader of a burgeoning Nazi party and the son of a former Third Reich minister. In her outrage, Maya innocently posts her conspiracy theories on various Internet bulletin boards alleging that the Nazis are trying to wrangle the bleating herds into a planetary corral, attracting the attention of a couple of CIA lurkers who have been monitoring certain websites since the 9-11 terrorist attacks. She is lured into an online relationship with one of the lurkers and eventually meets the man in charge of the infamous CIA experiments known as Project MK-Ultra. Riggs Haywood ardently recruits Maya into Operation SHADOWHAWK, a black project set up to entrap Baron von Brandt into disclosing his plans for advancing the new Nazi party. More importantly, Riggs wants to know how von Brandt intends to access the vast sum of money and gold that was stashed in Credit Suisse by his father before the collapse of the Third Reich. The Schweizerische Bundespolizei want to know the same thing. Once recruited, Maya is assigned a new name and identity and is sent to Munich to be squired to Baron von Brandt's lavish Christmas extravaganza by a nefarious CIA sleeper named Horst Freundlich. It then becomes her mission to ferret out von Brandt's intentions. After several meetings, he discloses his vision of a future world comprised of genetically engineered people whose lives are enhanced by pharmaceuticals that induce neurochemical bliss. Several attempts are made on her life before Harry Langdon, one of the lurkers who helped ensnare her in this diabolical plot, rescues her. Both he and Maya seek asylum in Switzerland under the auspices of Swiss intelligence. Most of the action takes place in Munich, but also includes scenes in New York; Provence, Switzerland; and Colorado. In the end, each of the characters finds the will to overcome the events that have shaped their lives and reclaim their right to find real love and personal happiness in a world that seems fraught with illusion.
Download or read book Blind Spots written by Max H. Bazerman and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2012-12-23 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When confronted with an ethical dilemma, most of us like to think we would stand up for our principles. But we are not as ethical as we think we are. In Blind Spots, leading business ethicists Max Bazerman and Ann Tenbrunsel examine the ways we overestimate our ability to do what is right and how we act unethically without meaning to. From the collapse of Enron and corruption in the tobacco industry, to sales of the defective Ford Pinto, the downfall of Bernard Madoff, and the Challenger space shuttle disaster, the authors investigate the nature of ethical failures in the business world and beyond, and illustrate how we can become more ethical, bridging the gap between who we are and who we want to be. Explaining why traditional approaches to ethics don't work, the book considers how blind spots like ethical fading--the removal of ethics from the decision--making process--have led to tragedies and scandals such as the Challenger space shuttle disaster, steroid use in Major League Baseball, the crash in the financial markets, and the energy crisis. The authors demonstrate how ethical standards shift, how we neglect to notice and act on the unethical behavior of others, and how compliance initiatives can actually promote unethical behavior. They argue that scandals will continue to emerge unless such approaches take into account the psychology of individuals faced with ethical dilemmas. Distinguishing our "should self" (the person who knows what is correct) from our "want self" (the person who ends up making decisions), the authors point out ethical sinkholes that create questionable actions. Suggesting innovative individual and group tactics for improving human judgment, Blind Spots shows us how to secure a place for ethics in our workplaces, institutions, and daily lives.
Download or read book The Blind Storyteller written by Iris Berent and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do newborns think? Do they know that "three" is greater than "two"? Do they prefer "right" to "wrong"? Laypeople hold strong beliefs on such topics. These beliefs are stories we tell ourselves about what we know and who we are. They reflect our understanding of ourselves and others, and shape our thinking about topics such as mental disorders, free will, and the afterlife. But many of these stories are misguided. We, the storytellers, are blind. How could we get it so wrong? In a novel provocative theory, Berent proposes that our errors emanate from the very principles that make our minds tick. Our blindness to human nature is rooted in human nature itself.
Download or read book Blind Spots written by Kimberly Nix Berens and published by The Collective Book Studio. This book was released on 2020-10-27 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the United States, a majority of students graduate below proficiency in all academic subjects. Parents of struggling students feel overwhelmed and confused about how to help their children simply survive school, let alone succeed. Various school reform efforts have been tried and all have failed. But all hope is not lost. A science exists that allows children to learn as individuals even though at school they are educated in groups. One that avoids senseless labels that sentence children to lifetimes of failure and mediocrity. Dr. Kimberly Berens and a team of scientists have spent the last 20 years perfecting a powerful system of instruction based on the learning, behavioral, and cognitive sciences that they call Fit Learning. This method of teaching has been proven to markedly improve how students understand and achieve, even for children who have been told they have learning disabilities or other disorders that interfere with their ability to learn. Blind Spots reveals the history of our broken education system and shows that by using this teaching system in the classroom, we can unlock the vast potential hidden within every child.
Download or read book Blind Spots written by Madeleine L. Van Hecke and published by Prometheus Books. This book was released on 2009-12-02 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Psychologist Van Hecke argues that much of what we label stupidity can better be explained as blind spots. Full of funny, poignant stories about human foibles, "Blind Spots" offers many insights for improving our social and political lives.
Download or read book Taking God Seriously written by Brian Davies and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-02-18 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is debate on issues related to faith and reason still possible when dialogue between believers and non-believers has collapsed? Taking God Seriously not only proves that it is possible, but also demonstrates that such dialogue produces fruitful results. Here, Brian Davies, a Dominican priest and leading scholar of Thomas Aquinas, and Michael Ruse, a philosopher of science and well-known non-believer, offer an extended discussion on the nature and plausibility of belief in God and Christianity. They explore key topics in the study of religion, notably the nature of faith, the place of reason in discussions about religion, proofs for the existence of God, the problem of evil, and the problem of multiple competing religious systems, as well as the core concepts of Christian belief including the Trinity and the justification of morality. Written in a jargon-free manner, avoiding the extremes of evangelical literalism and New Atheism prejudice, Taking God Seriously does not compromise integrity or shy from discussing important or difficult issues.
Download or read book For the Benefit of Those Who See written by Rosemary Mahoney and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2014-01-14 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the tradition of Oliver Sacks's The Island of the Colorblind, Rosemary Mahoney tells the story of Braille Without Borders, the first school for the blind in Tibet, and of Sabriye Tenberken, the remarkable blind woman who founded the school. Fascinated and impressed by what she learned from the blind children of Tibet, Mahoney was moved to investigate further the cultural history of blindness. As part of her research, she spent three months teaching at Tenberken's international training center for blind adults in Kerala, India, an experience that reveals both the shocking oppression endured by the world's blind, as well as their great resilience, integrity, ingenuity, and strength. By living among the blind, Rosemary Mahoney enables us to see them in fascinating close up, revealing their particular "quality of ease that seems to broadcast a fundamental connection to the world." Having read For the Benefit of Those Who See, you will never see the world in quite the same way again. "In this intelligent and humane book, Rosemary Mahoney writes of people who are blind . . . She reports on their courage and gives voice, time and again, to their miraculous dignity." -- Andrew Solomon, author of Far From the Tree
Download or read book Blindspot written by Mahzarin R. Banaji and published by Bantam. This book was released on 2016-08-16 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Accessible and authoritative . . . While we may not have much power to eradicate our own prejudices, we can counteract them. The first step is to turn a hidden bias into a visible one. . . . What if we’re not the magnanimous people we think we are?”—The Washington Post I know my own mind. I am able to assess others in a fair and accurate way. These self-perceptions are challenged by leading psychologists Mahzarin R. Banaji and Anthony G. Greenwald as they explore the hidden biases we all carry from a lifetime of exposure to cultural attitudes about age, gender, race, ethnicity, religion, social class, sexuality, disability status, and nationality. “Blindspot” is the authors’ metaphor for the portion of the mind that houses hidden biases. Writing with simplicity and verve, Banaji and Greenwald question the extent to which our perceptions of social groups—without our awareness or conscious control—shape our likes and dislikes and our judgments about people’s character, abilities, and potential. In Blindspot, the authors reveal hidden biases based on their experience with the Implicit Association Test, a method that has revolutionized the way scientists learn about the human mind and that gives us a glimpse into what lies within the metaphoric blindspot. The title’s “good people” are those of us who strive to align our behavior with our intentions. The aim of Blindspot is to explain the science in plain enough language to help well-intentioned people achieve that alignment. By gaining awareness, we can adapt beliefs and behavior and “outsmart the machine” in our heads so we can be fairer to those around us. Venturing into this book is an invitation to understand our own minds. Brilliant, authoritative, and utterly accessible, Blindspot is a book that will challenge and change readers for years to come. Praise for Blindspot “Conversational . . . easy to read, and best of all, it has the potential, at least, to change the way you think about yourself.”—Leonard Mlodinow, The New York Review of Books “Banaji and Greenwald deserve a major award for writing such a lively and engaging book that conveys an important message: Mental processes that we are not aware of can affect what we think and what we do. Blindspot is one of the most illuminating books ever written on this topic.”—Elizabeth F. Loftus, Ph.D., distinguished professor, University of California, Irvine; past president, Association for Psychological Science; author of Eyewitness Testimony
Download or read book A Complete Concordance to Shakespeare written by John Bartlett and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-02-17 with total page 1915 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A complete concordance or verbal index to words, phrases and passages in the dramatic works of Shakespeare. There is also a supplementary concordance to the poems. This is an essential reference work for all students and readers of Shakespeare.
Download or read book Blind to Betrayal written by Jennifer Freyd and published by Turner Publishing Company. This book was released on 2013-02-14 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the world's top experts on betrayal looks at why we often can't see it right in front of our faces If the cover-up is worse than the crime, blindness to betrayal can be worse than the betrayal itself. Whether the betrayer is an unfaithful spouse, an abusive authority figure, an unfair boss, or a corrupt institution, we often refuse to see the truth order to protect ourselves. This book explores the fascinating phenomenon of how and why we ignore or deny betrayal, and what we can gain by transforming "betrayal blindness" into insight. Explains the psychological phenomenon of "betrayal blindness", in which we implicitly choose unawareness in order to avoid the risk of seeing treachery or injustice Based on the authors' substantial original research and clinical experience carried out over the last decade as well as their own story of confronting betrayal Filled with fascinating case studies involving unfaithful spouses, abusive authority figures and corrupt institutions, to name a few In a remarkable collaboration of science and clinical perspectives, Jennifer Freyd, one of the world's top experts on betrayal and child abuse, teams up with Pamela Birrell, a psychotherapist and educator with 25 years of experience.
Download or read book Truth s Triumph or a Witness to the Two Witnesses from that unfolded parable of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ Matthew Chap 13 verse 30 to 42 Written in the year 1676 transcribed by the author with some alterations 1690 etc written by Thomas Tomkinson and published by . This book was released on 1823 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Lectures or Tractates on the Gospel According to St John written by James Innes and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-05-31 with total page 566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1874.
Download or read book For Love of Country written by Martha Nussbaum and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2002-06-06 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After the terrorist attacks on the Pentagon and the World Trade Center, American flags appeared everywhere. Is patriotism a good response at a time of national crisis? What does it mean for us to think of ourselves as a nation first? With our connections to the world growing stronger and more vital than ever, Martha C. Nussbaum argues that we should distrust conventional patriotism as parochial and instead see ourselves first of all as "citizens of the world." Sixteen prominent writers and thinkers respond, including Benjamin R. Barber, Sissela Bok, Nathan Glazer, Robert Pinsky, Elaine Scarry, Amartya Sen, and Michael Walzer. NEW DEMOCRACY FORUM A series of short paperback originals exploring creative solutions to our most urgent national concerns. The series editors (for Boston Review), Joshua Cohen and Joel Rogers, aim to foster politically engaged, intellectually honest, and morally serious debate about fundamental issues-both on and off the agenda of conventional politics.
Download or read book Between Philosophy and Religion Hermeneutics and ontology written by Brayton Polka and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2006 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Between Philosophy and Religion Volumes I and II, Brayton Polka examines Spinoza's three major works--on religion, politics, and ethics--in order to show that his thought is at once biblical and modern. Indeed, Polka argues that Spinoza is biblical only insofar as he is understood to be one of the great philosophers of modernity and that he is modern only when it is understood that he is unique in making the interpretation of the Bible central to philosophy and philosophy central to the interpretation of the Bible. This book and its companion volume are essential reading for any scholar of Spinoza.
Download or read book The Homilies On John written by St. Augustine of Hippo and published by Jazzybee Verlag. This book was released on 2012 with total page 1061 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the extended and annotated edition including * an extensive biographical annotation about the author and his life ST. AUGUSTINE was an indefatigable preacher. He considered regular preaching an indispensable part of the duty of a bishop. To his homilies we owe most of his exegetical labors. The homilies were delivered extempore, taken down by scribes and slightly revised by Augustin. They retain their colloquial form, devotional tone, frequent repetitions, and want of literary finish. He would rather be deficient in rhetoric than not be understood by the people. He was cheered by the eager attention and acclamations of his hearers, but never fully satisfied with his performance. “My preaching,” he says, “almost always displeases me. I eagerly long for something better, of which I often have an inward enjoyment in my thoughts before I can put them into audible words. Then when I find that my power of expression is not equal to my inner apprehension, I am grieved at the inability of my tongue to answer to my heart” (De Catech. Rudibus, ch. II. 3, in this Series, Vol. III. 284). His chief merit as an interpreter is his profound theological insight, which makes his exegetical works permanently useful. This volume contains: The Homilies or Tractates on the GOSPEL OF JOHN (In Joannis Evangelium Tractatus CXXIV. Augustin delivered them to his flock at Hippo about A.D. 416 or later.
Download or read book Christ the Logos of Creation An Essay in Analogical Metaphysics written by John R. Betz and published by Emmaus Academic. This book was released on 2023-09-28 with total page 671 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Prologue of the Gospel of John identifies Jesus Christ as the eternal Word or Logos of the Father, who became flesh for the salvation of the world. Yet the world that Christ saves is his world from the beginning, for he is also the Logos of creation, the one “through whom all things were made” (John 1:3). This divinely revealed claim has profound implications not only for theology but also for metaphysics, whose relation to Christian doctrine was undermined over the course of the twentieth century, such that the Christian faith has become an increasingly private affair rather than a credible account of reality and an invitation to participate more fully in it. With Christ, the Logos of Creation, John Betz seeks to recover a Christ-centered, analogical metaphysics and to establish the indispensability of such metaphysics for Christian theology and the Christian vision of reality. In Part I, he dispels the fog of confusion about analogical metaphysics and addresses the ecumenical issues posed by Karl Barth’s famous rejection of the analogia entis. Part II demonstrates how analogical metaphysics helps to explain Christian doctrine and sheds new light on the interrelationship between individual doctrines, including Trinitarian theology, Christology and soteriology, and theological anthropology. In Part III, Betz explores how this analogical perspective can aid in resolving a number of theological disputes, including the metaphysical relationship between nature and grace and the issue of divine humility. Finally, Part IV outlines further directions toward a fully Christological metaphysics that is proportionate both to the challenges of modern theology and the reality of our life in Christ the Logos.
Download or read book The Church of England Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1861 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Report and speeches at the [third] annual meeting of the Church Pastoral-aid Society, May 8, 1838.
