Download or read book Curiosity Life s Compelling Force written by David Bultman and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2017-01-25 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a 207 page book filled with heart warming short stories that propel you to your own dream world as you cuddle up in your cozy warm inviting bed. As you read many different types of stories you will form a path of entertaining journeys and take on various forms of life with interesting creative adventures. If you love short stories you will love this book. The print is large and on a easy read white background.
Download or read book A Peculiar Curiosity written by Melanie Cossey and published by Fitzroy Books. This book was released on 2018-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An anthropology professor, Duncan Clarke, stumbles upon the travel journal of a Victorian curiosity dealer that describes a victim of a Haitian witch doctor. Clarke's holiday pastime becomes an all-consuming obsession as he seeks to understand the chilling implications of the journal and the horrifying way in which his own life is tied to the past
Download or read book Annie Montague Alexander written by Louise Chipley Slavicek and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2004 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tells the life story of naturalist and museum patron Annie Montague Alexander, describing her childhood in Hawaii, her initiation to field collecting at a relatively late age, and the forty years she spent amassing specimens for the two museums she founded at the University of California at Berkeley.
Download or read book Alexandra David Neel written by Facts On File, Incorporated and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2004 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women Explorers chronicles the lives of six intrepid women whose hunger for adventure and knowledge compelled them on paths of discovery around the world. Their discoveries not only brought stores of information on topics ranging from ancient dinosaur fossils to life in Tibet, but also challenged the established roles of women in their fields. From the age of five, Alexandra David-Neel longed for adventure and freedom from the societal expectations of women in nineteenth-century Europe. She traveled to Asia where she learned about Eastern religions and cultures and became the first non-Asian woman to enter the forbidden Tibetan city of Lhasa.
Download or read book The Happy Child written by Steven Harrison and published by Sentient+ORM. This book was released on 2002-10-15 with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author of The Shimmering World proposes allowing children to follow their own educational path, thus enabling their curiosity to fuel their learning. In this thought-provoking new book, bestselling author Steven Harrison ventures far outside the box of traditional thinking about education. His radical proposal? Children naturally want to learn, he asserts, so let them direct their own education in democratic learning communities where they can interact seamlessly with their neighborhoods, their towns, and the world at large. Most learning systems apply external motivation through grades, rankings, teacher direction, and approval. The Happy Child suggests that a self-motivated child who is interdependent within a community can develop the full human potential to live a creative and fulfilling life. Harrison focuses on the integration of the whole child, the learning environment, and the non-coercive spirit of curiosity-driven education. Part social-critic, part humanistic visionary, Harrison not only focuses on a reorientation of education, but the possibility of rethinking our families, communities and workplaces, and ultimately what gives our children, and all of us, real happiness. Harrison adds his voice to those of A. S. Neil, John Holt, and John Gatto, all who believe that contemporary schools can never be reformed sufficiently, but must be abandoned entirely for something new and vital to emerge. Praise for The Happy Child “A clarion call for our culture to wise up and re-think what education—and the soul of a child—are really all about. Steven Harrison offers us something sorely lacking in today’s educational policy: a vision of true human potential and a practical philosophy for attaining it. Read this book and envision possibility.” —Jane M. Healy, Ph, author of Failure to Connect: How Computers Affect Our Children’s Minds “Harrison's hard-biting social critique of the plight children and education are in should wake us up to our atrocious treatment of our young, that we might actually address their critical needs rather than simply ignoring them as usual.” —Joseph Chilton Pearce, author of The Crack in the Cosmic Egg “Such a nobly simple idea, that the true purpose of education should be happiness, and so clearly reasoned.” —Chris Mercogliano, author of Making It Up As We Go Along
Download or read book Consciousness Is All There Is written by Dr. Tony Nader and published by Hay House, Inc. This book was released on 2024-08-06 with total page 505 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From a renowned Vedic scholar, leader of the Maharishi Foundations, and Harvard-trained neuroscientist: a radical new paradigm for understanding Consciousness and finding enlightenment, peace, and fulfillment. Dr. Tony Nader, a renowned Vedic scholar and neuroscientist, offers a direct path to peace for ourselves and our world that anyone can obtain—simply by delving into our own Consciousness. Dr. Nader provides the methods, tools, and guidance for connecting with our authentic inner nature and understanding how Consciousness is the essence of all existence, including addressing such fundamental questions as: What is the key to a well-lived, flourishing life in which we can all coexist in peace? Can freedom be compatible with law and order? How can we meet all our challenges as individuals and a society, including the environment, genetic engineering, and the rapid development of artificial intelligence? True wellness is a state of profound clarity, peace, and contentment, resulting from connection with our pure Consciousness. By enlivening our coherence between our Consciousness and the external world, we can find our happiest and highest states of ourselves. "Consciousness Is All There Is will open doors of perception for you to a new and profound understanding of life." — Marci Shimoff, #1 New York Times best-selling author of Chicken Soup for the Woman's Soul and Happy for No Reason
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Download or read book Curious Minds written by John Brockman and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2005-09-13 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What makes a child decide to become a scientist? •For Robert Sapolsky–Stanford professor of biology–it was an argument with a rabbi over a passage in the Bible. •Physicist Lee Smolin traces his inspiration to a volume of Einstein’s work, picked up as a diversion from heartbreak. •Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, a psychologist and the author of Flow, found his calling through Descartes. Murray Gell-Mann, Nicholas Humphrey, Freeman Dyson . . . 27 scientists in all write about what it was that sent them on the path to their life's work. Illuminating memoir meets superb science writing in stories that invite us to consider what it is–and what it isn’t–that sets the scientific mind apart.
Download or read book A Curious Life written by Thomas H. Haines and published by Post Hill Press. This book was released on 2019-08-06 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Curious Life chronicles the remarkable life of preeminent biochemist Thomas Haines. Born in 1933, Haines was barely four when he was sent by court order to The Graham School, an orphanage in Hastings-on-Hudson NY founded in 1806 by Isabella Graham and Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton. His trajectory is a series of radical reversals: from penniless orphan to innovative scientist and educator; from right-wing McCarthyite to left-wing activist; founder of the Sophie Davis School of Biomedical Education of The City University of New York, a medical school designed to bring in low-income and minority students; New York City landlord; husband of a successful artist whom he nursed through a long illness; father of a brilliant and prominent daughter. Now eighty-six, Haines is Professor Emeritus at the Rockefeller Institute and the only alumnus of the Graham School to serve on its board. A diminutive dynamo in a bow tie, Dr. Haines recently participated on a panel at the Smithsonian Museum of American History, and jogs every morning at four a.m. in Central Park. Above all a formidable storyteller, Haines provides an intimate look at his relationships and conveys the excitement of a life in science. “Who could have possibly imagined that the four-year-old boy looking out at the sunset across the Hudson River from the grounds of the Graham School would have been able to live such an incredible and productive life? From abandoned toddler, to homeless vagabond, to research chemist, to husband and father, to university professor, to innovative educator, to New York building landlord, Tom has always placed a premium on personal connections and interactions. He has benefitted from the kindness of strangers and mentorship, and in turn he has mentored and helped countless others along the way on his amazing life’s journey. What a lucky life he has lived.” —Thomas P. Sakmar, “Foreword” “Tom combines a charming, generous and curious demeanor with a fierce inner determination to understand the world and how it works. Perhaps because of his unconventional childhood, Tom has spent his life challenging conventional wisdom. As you will experience in Mindy Lewis’s fabulous telling of Tom’s life, the world is a more enchanting place with Dr. Haines in it.” —Jess Dannhauser, “Introduction”
Download or read book The Excitement of Verbal Adventure A Study of Vladimir Nabokov s English Prose written by J?rgen Bodenstein and published by Рипол Классик. This book was released on 1977 with total page 767 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Routledge Library Editions Advertising written by Various and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-07-14 with total page 2840 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Routledge Library Editions: Advertising brings together as one set, or individual volumes, a series of previously out-of-print classics from a variety of academic imprints. With titles as varied as Advertising and Psychology, Advertising in the 21st Century, Outdoor Advertising and The Economics of Advertising, this set provides in one place a wealth of important reference sources from a wide range of authors expert in the field.
Download or read book Postmodern Cowboy written by Keith Kerr and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-11-17 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than 50 years ago, C. Wright Mills heralded a new age for sociology for the 1960s and beyond. Yet his forward-looking vision also foretold some of the social conditions we associate, more recently, with postmodern society. This intellectual biography of Mills emphasizes early life experiences that shaped Mills's expansive vision of the future, just as Kerr develops, from Mills, tools for confronting current and looming problems. Drawing upon little-known documents, Kerr expands our knowledge about this leading 20th-century sociologist, and shows how forward-looking Millsian scholarship can enhance the endeavors of sociology today.
Download or read book Absolutely Nothing written by Darielys Tejera and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2009-06-04 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this book is to give hope to those going through the same situation as Ms. Tejera once did. To put out something in which people can relate to, to have others be aware that suicide does occur, it does happen and no one is alone in it. Some people have gifts while others have to find their meaning. I realized my gifts and found my purpose which was to help someone else. There for I decided to write this book. I think that is why we are all here, the purpose we serve in our life through some time or another, through some way, shape or form is to save someone else whether you know it or not.
Download or read book Pleased to Meet Me written by Bill Sullivan and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2019-08-06 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why are you attracted to a certain "type?" Why are you a morning person? Why do you vote the way you do? From a witty new voice in popular science comes a clever, life-changing look at what makes you you. "I can't believe I just said that." "What possessed me to do that?" "What's wrong with me?" We're constantly seeking answers to these fundamental human questions, and now, science has the answers. The foods we enjoy, the people we love, the emotions we feel, and the beliefs we hold can all be traced back to our DNA, germs, and environment. This witty, colloquial book is popular science at its best, describing in everyday language how genetics, epigenetics, microbiology, and psychology work together to influence our personality and actions. Mixing cutting-edge research and relatable humor, Pleased to Meet Me is filled with fascinating insights that shine a light on who we really are--and how we might become our best selves.
Download or read book Multiple Literacies Theory written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The essays in this book think through and with Deleuzian concepts in the educational field. The resultant encounters between concepts such as multiplicity, becoming, habit and affect and Multiple Literacies Theory exemplify philosophically inspired and productive thinking. "—Paul Patton, Professor of Philosophy, University of New South Wales
Download or read book The Theory and Practice of Mysticism written by Charles Morris Addison and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
