Download or read book Mind Code and Context written by T. Givon and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2014-01-21 with total page 475 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scholars concerned with the phenomenon of mind have searched through history for a principled yet non-reductionist approach to the study of knowledge, communication, and behavior. Pragmatics has been a recurrent theme in Western epistemology, tracing itself back from pre-Socratic dialectics and Aristotle's bio- functionalism, all the way to Wittgenstein's content-dependent semantics. This book's treatment of pragmatics as an analytic method focuses on the central role of context in determining the perception, organization, and communication of experience. As a bioadaptive strategy, pragmatics straddles the middle ground between absolute categories and the non-discrete gradation of experience, reflecting closely the organism's own evolutionary compromises. In parallel, pragmatic reasoning can be shown to play a pivotal role in the process of empirical science, through the selection of relevant facts, the abduction of likely hypotheses, and the construction of non-trivial explanations. In this volume, Professor Givon offers pragmatics as both an analytic method and a strategic intellectual framework. He points out its relevance to our understanding of traditional problems in philosophy, anthropology, linguistics, cognitive psychology, neuro-biology, and evolution. Finally, the application of pragmatics to the study of the mind and behavior constitutes an implicit challenge to the current tenets of artificial intelligence.

Download or read book Crack the Customer Mind Code written by Gary Hennerberg and published by Morgan James Publishing. This book was released on 2016-01-26 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Crack the Customer Mind Code upends customary marketing approaches and takes a deeper approach to more successful selling. Based on an analysis of successful marketing campaign patterns, Crack the Customer Mind Code teaches the reader how to align marketing messages that leverage the mind’s natural progression to “yes” through seven steps: 1) identify the persona, 2) stimulate emotion, 3) calm the mind, 4) position or reposition, 5) engage with story, 6) interpret the outcome, and 7) lead prospective customers to give themselves permission to act. With this proven process, organizations can create stronger sales-producing marketing campaigns when the message is aligned with the way in which marketing information is absorbed and processed.

Download or read book The Mind Code written by Sanjeev Sareen and published by sanjeev sareen. This book was released on with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The world outside is recognized and experienced by us, but only as interpreted by our own mind and intellect. The world outside can make us smile in joy or make us weep in sorrow, but only by reaching us through our minds. As is the mind, so is the world. According to the constitution of our mind, is our experience of the world. Therefore, mental control, and mental development- as modern educationists say, is most important. Mental health influences how we think, feel, and behave, impacting our emotions, relationships, and decision-making. Good mental health helps cope with stress, build resilience, and adapt to life's challenges. Just as we engage in physical exercise, eat a balanced diet, and practice preventive care for our bodies, we should also invest in practices that promote mental well-being. Real happiness does not come from worldly positions and possessions. it completely depends on our ability to calm and control our agitated mind because the mind is the cause of our pleasure and pain. A calm and controlled and pure mind experiences bliss. It is, indeed, a rare thing to find a mind that is not affected by its contact with fluctuation. Like heat, which is inseparable from fire. The minds of the vast majority of people have been allowed to run wild and follow their own sweet will and desire. It is ever-changing and wandering. It jumps from one object to another. It is fickle. It wants variety. It is like a spoiled child who is given too much indulgence by its parents or a badly trained animal. Restraint of the mind is a thing unknown to the vast majority of people. It’s essential to recognize that mindsets are not peripheral but central to health and behavior. If we truly want to tackle the diseases and crises of our time, we need to more effectively acknowledge and leverage the power of mindset. So much effort, notably in public health campaigns, is geared toward motivating people to change their behavior: eat healthier, exercise more, and stress less, but an important variable is being left out of the equation: people’s mindsets about those healthy behaviors. We experience these things regularly, and yet we’re not cataloging them as something that matters. For whatever reason – dualism or prioritization of the material – we tend to ignore the fact that our thoughts, mindsets, and expectations are shaping our everyday physiology. We can explain every human behavior in terms of the ‘mind’ involved in it. Since the mind instructs the body to behave in a definite way, every resultant behavior is having a minimum of two aspects – the physical, and the mental. To have an effective behavior, we try to maintain a balance between the two. In this process, the effective behavior, in which mind and body work together without dominating each other, becomes “spiritual” in nature. To attain Self-realisation, one must constantly struggle with the mind for its purification and steadiness. The nature of the human mind, however, is very difficult to understand because it is very subtle as well as hidden. But the mind is very plastic if you know the secret of its manipulation. You can bend it any way you like. You can rewire the brain. The Power of the Mind Is Limitless. But whatever you can truly convince the mind you can do, you can do. Since everything is made out of the mind, it can be controlled by the mind. As you develop more and more mental strength, you will be able to do anything. You Create Your Own Helplessness or Strength. The helplessness you feel is caused by no one but yourself. It is an insult to your mind and the image of God within to allow yourself to be hypnotized by these limitations. You must break your bad habits and develop the power of the mind by which you can command your own life. Mind Works if You Know How to Control It. The matter has come out of the mind; hence, the mind has no physiological limitations. Therefore, if you can control the mind, the whole world will gravitate toward you. Every study should have a practical as well as a theoretical side. You can acquire a mental concept from a story you read in a book, but its practical value in daily life remains to be seen. All too often the intellect becomes satisfied with just the theory but greater and more glorious is the actual perception of the truth contained in that theory. Success doesn't lie in listening to the sermons, but in practicing them. There are ways to develop mind power. Do not be a helpless failure. Control your destiny by changing your thoughts. Do whatever you make up your mind to do. According to spiritual science, the attitude of the mind is everything. The mind is the repository of infinite power. You become your worst enemy when you limit your mental power. To work with your mind is tremendously worthwhile. You haven't tried its powers at all. Breaking through mental limitations is what you should strive for. This book will guide you toward that.

Download or read book The Code of the Extraordinary Mind written by Vishen Lakhiani and published by Rodale. This book was released on 2016-05-10 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What if everything we think we know about how the world works--our ideas of love, education, spirituality, work, happiness, and love--are based on Brules (bullsh*t rules) that get passed from generation to generation and are long past their expiration date? This book teaches you to think like some of the greatest non-conformist minds of our era, to question, challenge, hack, and create new rules for YOUR life so you can define success on your own terms. The Code of the Extraordinary Mind is a blueprint of laws to break us free from the shackles of an ordinary life. It makes a case that everything we know about the world is shaped by conditioning and habit. And thus, most people live their lives based on limiting rules and outdated beliefs about pretty much everything--love, work, money, parenting, sex, health, and more--which they inherit and pass on from generation to generation. But what if you could remove these outdated ideas and start anew? What would your life look like if you could forget the rules of the past, and redefine what happiness, purpose, and success mean for you? Not Just a Book, but a Movement Blending computational thinking, integral theory, modern spirituality, evolutionary biology, and humor, personal growth entrepreneur Vishen Lakhiani provides a revolutionary 10-point framework for understanding and enhancing the human self. You will learn about bending reality. You will learn how to apply unique models like consciousness engineering to help you learn and grow at speeds like never before. You will learn to make a dent in the universe and discover your quest. This framework is based on Lakhiani’s personal experiences, the 5 million people he’s reached through Mindvalley, and 200 hours of interviews and questions posed to incredible minds, including Elon Musk, Richard Branson, Peter Diamandis, Ken Wilber, Dean Kamen, Arianna Huffington, Michael Beckwith, and other legendary leaders. In a unique fusion of cutting-edge ideas, personal stories, irreverence, and a brilliant teaching style, Lakhiani reveals the 10 powerful laws that form a step-by-step process that you can apply to life to shed years of struggle and elevate yourself to exceptional new heights. The 10 Laws to an Extraordinary Life This book challenges conventional ideas of relationships, goal-setting, mindfulness, happiness, and meaning. In a unique fusion of cutting-edge ideas, personal stories, and humorous irreverence, and not to mention, humor and napkin diagrams, this framework combines computational thinking with personal growth to provide a powerful framework for re-coding yourself--and replacing old, limiting models that hold you back with new, empowering beliefs and behaviors that set you on the path toward an extraordinary life. A life of more happiness and achievement than you might have dared to dream possible. Once you discover the code, you will question your limits and realize that there are none. Step into a new understanding of the world around you and your place in it, and find yourself operating at a new, extraordinary level in every way...happiness, purpose, fulfilment, and love. This Book Is a Living, Breathing Manifesto That Goes Beyond a Traditional Publication For those who want more, The Code of the Extraordinary Mind connects to a full on immersive experience including ways for you to dive into particular chapters to unlock additional videos or training and connect with each other and the author to learn via peer-to-peer learning networks.

Download or read book The Mindbody Code written by Mario Martinez, PsyD and published by . This book was released on 2016-08-01 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why is it so difficult to change our beliefs and behaviors even when we know they no longer serve us? How can certain individuals reverse incurable disease while others suffer the effects of childhood wounds despite years of therapy? How is it that the centenarian population is the fastest-growing segment of the US population even though the majority of people over the age of 100 rarely visit their doctors? These are the questions readers will explore in the revolutionary book from clinical neuropsychologist and biocognitive science founder Dr. Mario Martinez. In "The MindBody Code," Dr. Martinez challenges us to embrace a radically new paradigm for health and well-being. Readers will not only learn the basics of this fascinating, cutting-edge science, moreover they will learn to communicate with the body in its own biosymbolic language for results that until this point may have been elusive at best. Through fascinating case studies and practical training in embodying the methodology, Martinez reveals the way our cultural beliefs impact our immune system; the pathway to healing the archetypal wounds of shame, abandonment, and betrayal; how to break through the ceilings of abundance that limit our prosperity; and much more. "

Download or read book The Cerebral Code written by William H. Calvin and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 1998-03-02 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cerebral Code is a new understanding of how Darwinian processes could operate in the brain to shape mental images in only seconds, starting with shuffled memories no better than the jumble of our nighttime dreams, but evolving into something of quality, such as a sentence to speak aloud. Jung said that dreaming goes on continuously but you can't see it when you are awake, just as you can't see the stars in the daylight because it is too bright. Calvin's is a theory for what goes on, hidden from view by the glare of waking mental operations, that produces our peculiarly human type of consciousness with its versatile intelligence. As Piaget emphasized in 1929, intelligence is what we use when we don't know what to do, when we have to grope rather than using a standard response. Calvin tackles a mechanism for doing this exploration and improvement offline, as we think before we act or practice the art of good guessing. Surprisingly, the subtitle's mosaics of the mind is not a literary metaphor. For the first time, it is a description of a mechanism of what appears to be an appropriate level of explanation for many mental phenomena, that of hexagonal mosaics of electrical activity that compete for territory in the association cortex of the brain. This two-dimensional mosaic is predicted to grow and dissolve much as the sugar crystals do in the bottom of a supersaturated glass of iced tea. A Bradford Book

Download or read book The Coddling of the American Mind written by Greg Lukianoff and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2018-09-04 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Something is going wrong on many college campuses in the last few years. Rates of anxiety, depression, and suicide are rising. Speakers are shouted down. Students and professors say they are walking on eggshells and afraid to speak honestly. How did this happen? First Amendment expert Greg Lukianoff and social psychologist Jonathan Haidt show how the new problems on campus have their origins in three terrible ideas that have become increasingly woven into American childhood and education: what doesn’t kill you makes you weaker; always trust your feelings; and life is a battle between good people and evil people. These three Great Untruths are incompatible with basic psychological principles, as well as ancient wisdom from many cultures. They interfere with healthy development. Anyone who embraces these untruths—and the resulting culture of safetyism—is less likely to become an autonomous adult able to navigate the bumpy road of life. Lukianoff and Haidt investigate the many social trends that have intersected to produce these untruths. They situate the conflicts on campus in the context of America’s rapidly rising political polarization, including a rise in hate crimes and off-campus provocation. They explore changes in childhood including the rise of fearful parenting, the decline of unsupervised play, and the new world of social media that has engulfed teenagers in the last decade. This is a book for anyone who is confused by what is happening on college campuses today, or has children, or is concerned about the growing inability of Americans to live, work, and cooperate across party lines.

Download or read book Awakening to the Secret Code of Your Mind written by Darren R. Weissman and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2011-03 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What if you could, like a diamond forged through heat and pressure, transform every painful, scary, and stressful experience in your life into one that is meaningful, courageous, and inspiring? What if you were provided with the tools that allow you to tap and manifest the true power that exists within you-the power to shine? Are you ready to discover your path to peace? In this fascinating book, Dr. Darren Weissman shares ancient spiritual wisdom fused with a modern-day understanding of the mind's relationship to biology and behavior that has implications not only for your health, but for the well-being of the entire planet. You'll learn how to use The LifeLine Technique -a philosophy and technology for awakening your infinite potential for healing and wholeness-and share the experiences of scores of people whose lives have been forever changed as a result. Conscious visionaries pronounced more than 40 years ago that the road to peace is paved with the power of love. Dr. Weissman's book provides the steps you can use to learn to walk that path, and it will help you understand why it is your moral imperative to choose love over fear.

Download or read book The Wisdom Codes written by Gregg Braden and published by Hay House, Inc. This book was released on 2021-05-04 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The cutting edge of neurolinguistics meets the spiritual wisdom of the ages in a handbook of key words that literally rewire our brains. New discoveries in biology and the neurosciences are revealing how the structure of language-the words we think and speak-can actually change the way the neurons in our brains and hearts connect. But our ancestors understood this connection intuitively, thousands of years ago. They created specific word-patterns to provide comfort, healing, strength, and inner power in difficult times, and they encoded these powerful words in prayers, chants, mantras, hymns, and sacred writings to preserve them for future generations. Now beloved teacher and thought leader Gregg Braden cracks the code and puts these powerful words in your hands. Perfect as a pocket guide, a reference for spiritual study, or a gift to someone you love, this elegant, compact book contains Wisdom Codes that cut to the core of life's greatest tests, most challenging demands, and hardest lessons. You'll find chapters devoted to healing from loss and grief, facing your unspoken fears, finding certainty in the face of uncertain choices, and finding forgiveness, as well as ancient parables that offer a "fast track" to unraveling life's deepest mysteries. Each Wisdom Code-distilled from a quote, a scripture passage, or a parable-is accompanied by a brief discussion of what the code means, why it's important, and how to apply it in your life.

Download or read book The Unfakeable Code written by Tony Jeton Selimi and published by novum premium Verlag. This book was released on 2021-04-09 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover a powerful framework that will help you reinvent your life and become the master of your own destiny. Tapping into the secrets and science behind authentic living, leading and loving, The Unfakeable Code® offers you a robust five-step methodology for business, personal and professional transformation. It explores how to harmonize your body-mind-heart intelligence to effortlessly handle negativity, triumph over stress and create a meaningful, purpose-driven life. Combining over 40 years of research, studies and inspiring personal testimony, author, Tony Jeton Selimi's enlightening advice will help you re-examine the rules, traditions, and thought processes that no longer serve you and provide you with a code to re-program your mind, take back control and live freely. In this book, you'll discover a fresh new way to: •Free Yourself From Judgement and Learn To Be Comfortable In Your Own Skin •Handle Rejection In A Healthy Way That Doesn't Stop You From De-Railing Your Dreams •Manage Negative Self-Talk (and Turn Fear Into a Powerful Motivator) •Stop Being a People Pleaser and Take Your Life In The Direction You Want To Go •Harness The Power of Your Emotions In a Productive and Rewarding Manner •Infuse Your Life With a Limitless Sense of Freedom and Untapped Potential And Much More! Designed to motivate, challenge, and inspire you to start living life on your own terms, this must-read book seeks to guide you on your path to self-realization and allow you to be more authentic at home, work, and beyond. If you want to let go of feeling powerless and out of control, it's time for you to discover the power of an Unfakeable personality.

Download or read book Mind Candy written by Felicia Pizzonia and published by . This book was released on 2018-07-30 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We complicate our lives, when all we really need is a little Mind Candy.Felicia Pizzonia has cracked the code to program your subconsciousmind to achieve success; the Mind Candy code. Your life is a reflectionof what you think.

Download or read book The Crucible of Consciousness written by Zoltan Torey and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2009-04-17 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An interdisciplinary examination of the evolutionary breakthroughs that rendered the brain accessible to itself. In The Crucible of Consciousness, Zoltan Torey offers a theory of the mind and its central role in evolution. He traces the evolutionary breakthrough that rendered the brain accessible to itself and shows how the mind-boosted brain works. He identifies what it is that separates the human's self-reflective consciousness from mere animal awareness, and he maps its neural and linguistic underpinnings. And he argues, controversially, that the neural technicalities of reflective awareness can be neither algorithmic nor spiritual—neither a computer nor a ghost in the machine. The human mind is unique; it is not only the epicenter of our knowledge but also the outer limit of our intellectual reach. Not to solve the riddle of the self-aware mind, writes Torey, goes against the evolutionary thrust that created it. Torey proposes a model that brings into a single focus all the elements that make up the puzzle: how the brain works, its functional components and their interactions; how language evolved and how syntax evolved out of the semantic substrate by way of neural transactions; and why the mind-endowed brain deceives itself with entelechy-type impressions. Torey first traces the language-linked emergence of the mind, the subsystem of the brain that enables it to be aware of itself. He then explores this system: how consciousness works, why it is not transparent to introspection, and what sense it makes in the context of evolution. The “consciousness revolution” and the integrative focus of neuroscience have made it possible to make concrete formerly mysterious ideas about the human mind. Torey's model of the mind is the logical outcome of this, highlighting a coherent and meaningful role for a reflectively aware humanity.

Download or read book Building a Second Brain written by Tiago Forte and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-06-14 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Building a second brain is getting things done for the digital age. It's a ... productivity method for consuming, synthesizing, and remembering the vast amount of information we take in, allowing us to become more effective and creative and harness the unprecedented amount of technology we have at our disposal"--

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Download or read book What is Thought written by Eric B. Baum and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Toward a computational explanation of thought: an argument that underlying mind is a complex but compact program that corresponds to the underlying complex structure of the world.

Download or read book The Creatocratic Charter written by Peter Matthews-Akukalia and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2020-02-17 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: FACTS & FEATS OF MAKUPEDIA. 1.a. Universal Authority on Mind & Owner of the Solar Core Asset & Assets. b. Body of Knowledge, Fields of Study & Academic Disciplines for the invention-study: Faculty of Creative & Psycho-Social Sciences; Institute of Chartered Creative & Psycho-Social Scientists, Mind Universities and the Makupedia Business & Professionalism. 2.a. A comprehensive package for the worldwide study curriculum & certifications for the Administration of Creativity, Creative Governance, Creative Sciences, Creative Technologies, Creative & Psycho-Social Sciences, Creative Economy Practice & Professionalism. b.Assets, Assetbase, Assetbank, Data, Database, Databank & Benchmarks for the Makupedia Business & Everything Mind. 3.a.The Charter of De-Royal Makupedia is sacred. It is an invention study that comprises the Mind Sciences, Mindtech Systems, Makware development and Computational Creativity. b. It contains codes for the Faculty of Creative & Psycho-Social Sciences hinged on the knowledge and practice of the Creative Sciences professionalism. c.The seven pillars of Makupedia are all invention-studies waiting to be explored. They are listed as the Creative Sciences, Psychoeconomix, Naturecology, Psychoastronomy, Maktionary, BIQUR and the Makupedia Organization. 4. It outlines my breakthroughs in Creativity that include inventions, resources, values, aspirations and opportunities; intellectual property assets and now creativity property assets. Makupedia has long been at work developing thousands of concepts, principles, theories, strategies, studies, researches, laws and even systems within its system. 5. The results of this endeavor consists the invention and development of over 2,000 academic specializations for a lifetime career pursuit as a Creative Scientist, at least 1,000 inventions, 15million computations on Moon programming, billions of data on human energy and advance cosmic energy systems that characterizes our huge database. 6. Makupedia has 3 new genres of literature, 4 new departments in the faculty study, 4 new currencies classified as the Maks currency, 4 new languages, a new faith and still counting hence the planets as Earth become an inheritance. 7. Makupedia has discovered and tracked the Solar Core and its solar energy source, processes and modules. Discovered are the Planets, the Universe & Universes, the Mind and its dimensions, components, measurements and computations never known since the creation of Man. Makupedia has produced a multidisciplinary dimension of specialized knowledge that will span a career of over a 100 years in continued training. 8. Makupedia is not just a book it is the mobile mind, mobile universities, mobile institutions, mobile kingdoms, mobile cities, mobile nations, mobile planets, and mobile universes and fills the knowledge gap that existed hitherto between the abstract and the physical. 9.a. Our billion data generation systems has led to excellent discoveries and majestic inventions birthing an intellectual monarchy. b.This Mind Databank is founded in at least 10,000 concepts on Nature alone granting us a world authority status, a royalty, the power of the stars in our hands as predicted by Nastrademus, the ownership of the Mind taught by Skinner, the discovery of Nature written by Emerson, the fulfillment of Scriptures, an intellectual monarchy in absolute terms and ownership of the Mind assertively according to the Will of GOD. This ensures the smooth implementation of Creative Governance through collaborations with the appropriate organizations concerned with global administration. 10. It emerges the Creatocratic Nations of Paradise as the 1st Intellectual Nation of Creative Scientists, Creative Scientist Professionals, C3 Nations Organizations & De-Makupedian citizenry. It is only a God that can know the Mind of GOD and now we have proved it. 11. It introduces to the world economy the institutions that will institutionalize, promote, practice, develop and commercialize the Creative Economy, the Mindtech Industry, the Makupedia Sector, the Maks Civilizations and the Creative Age in all nations of the world. 12. This work provides guidance systems for all Nations. It is the Makupedia Business Package for Study, Database, Certifications, Marketing, Franchise, Licensing & Investment Opportunities for Businesses, Institutions, Corporations, Organizations & Governments. 13. Makupedia is promoting intellectual culture, institutionalizing creativity, reducing and possibly eliminating unemployment through the processes of the inherent faculties of the human mind by which one can make legacy through legitimate means. We have raised the expected job creation stake from seven hundred and fifty million to one billion through creativity. The body of knowledge is Makupedia, the faculty is the Creative & Psycho-Social Sciences, the academic discipline is the study departments for the Creative Scientist. 14. Knowledge is the new energy. Makupedia is the new knowledge and the Mind is the greatest asset. So welcome to the reality of human-capital development at the speed of mind, at the speed of thought. It can only get better. We are promoting intellectual culture and institutionalizing the creative economy. That's the reality of our purpose. De-Royal Makupedia...Discover. Develop. Connect.

Download or read book Habitability of the Universe before Earth written by and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2017-12-11 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Habitability of the Universe before Earth: Astrobiology: Exploring Life on Earth and Beyond (series) examines the times and places—before life existed on Earth—that might have provided suitable environments for life to occur, addressing the question: Is life on Earth de novo, or derived from previous life? The universe changed considerably during the vast epoch between the Big Bang 13.8 billion years ago and the first evidence of life on Earth 4.3 billion years ago, providing significant time and space to contemplate where, when and under what circumstances life might have arisen. No other book covers this cosmic time period from the point of view of its potential for life. The series covers a broad range of topics encompassing laboratory and field research into the origins and evolution of life on Earth, life in extreme environments and the search for habitable environments in our solar system and beyond, including exoplanets, exomoons and astronomical biosignatures. - Provides multiple hypotheses on the origin of life and distribution of living organisms in space - Explores the diversity of physical environments that may support the origin and evolution of life - Integrates contemporary views in biology and cosmology, and provides reasons that life is far more mobile in space than most people expect - Includes access to a companion web site featuring supplementary information such as animated computer simulations