Author : J. Douglas Kenyon
Publisher : Atlantis Rising LLC
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 11,77 MB
Release : 2013-09-01
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 1467528463
Martin Ruggles: NEANDERTHALS AND CIVILIZATION How Much Did They Know and When Did They Know It? Rita Louise, Ph.D.: CREATURES OF THE UNDERGROUND Where Mythology Meets the Extraterrestrial Presence Robert Bauval: THE "BLACK BOX" OF IMHOTEP Astounding Details of Lost Ancient Genius Steven Sora: LEGEND OF THE SWAN KNIGHT Does the Tale Hide Clues to Our Origins? Patrick Marsolek: TERROR MANAGEMENT THEORY IN TROUBLE Has the finality of Death Been Oversold?
Author : J. Douglas Kenyon
Publisher : Atlantis Rising LLC
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 10,58 MB
Release : 2013-11-01
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 1467528471
Martin Ruggles: LAKE VOSTOK'S SECRET LIFE Startling Proof of the Very Strange World Beneath Antarctica's Ice David H. Childress: EASTER ISLAND'S ASTONISHING ANTIQUITY Orthodox Science Has a Lot of Explaining to Do Thomas J. Carey: THE SUSPENSION OF DISBELIEF U.S. Air Force Strategy and the Roswell Case Robert M. Schoch: THE ZODIAC OF GLASTONBURY A Scientist Looks at Mrs. Maltwood's Vision Steven Sora: DID THE WELSH DISCOVER AMERICA? Prince Madoc and England's Claim to the New World
Author : J. Douglas Kenyon
Publisher : Atlantis Rising LLC
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 47,80 MB
Release : 2014-01-01
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 1633158152
Inside AR 103: Patrick Marsolek: GENETIC MANIPULATION Understanding the Dangerous New Playing Field for Big Business, Big Science, and Ambitious Little Guys Susan Martinez, Ph.D.: DEEP TIME IN DEEP TROUBLE Have the Timekeepers Fixed the Game? Christopher Dunn: THE ENGINEERS OF PUMA PUNKU Hard Evidence of Advanced Tools for Ancient Builders Ralph Ellis: THE GARDEN OF EDEN IN EGYPT? Startling Evidence for a Game Changing Hypothesis Cynthia Logan: THE BLESSINGS OF CHAOS Inside the Revolutionary Mind of Mathematician Ralph Abraham
Author : Daniel Campo
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 39,76 MB
Release : 2024-01-23
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1531504698
Chronicles grassroots efforts to recover, rebuild, and enjoy architecturally iconic but economically obsolete places in the American Rust Belt. A pioneering Detroit automobile factory. A legendary iron mill at the edge of Pittsburgh. A campus of concrete grain elevators in Buffalo. Two monumental train stations, one in Buffalo, the other in Detroit. These once-noble sites have since fallen from their towering grace. As local elected leaders did everything they could to destroy what was left of these places, citizens saw beauty and utility in these industrial ruins and felt compelled to act. Postindustrial DIY tells their stories. The culmination of more than a dozen years of on-the-ground investigation, ethnography, and historical analysis, author and urbanist Daniel Campo immerses the reader in this postindustrial landscape, weaving the perspectives of dozens of DIY protagonists as well as architects, planners, and preservationists. Working without capital, expertise, and sometimes permission in a milieu dominated by powerful political and economic interests, these do-it-yourself actors are driven by passion and a sense of civic duty rather than by profit or political expediency. They have craftily remade these sites into collective preservation projects and democratic grounds for arts and culture, environmental engagement, regional celebrations, itinerant play, and in-the-moment constructions. Their projects are generating excitement about the prospect of Rust Belt life, even as they often remain invisible to the uninformed passerby and fall short of professional preservation or environmental reclamation standards. Demonstrating that there is no such thing as a site that is “too far gone” to save or reuse, Postindustrial DIY is rich with case studies that demonstrate how great architecture is not simply for the elites or the wealthy. The citizen preservationists and urbanists described in this book offer looser, more playful, and often more publicly satisfying alternatives to the development practices that have transformed iconic sites into expensive real estate or a clean slate for the next profitable endeavor. Transcending the disciplinary boundaries of architecture, historic preservation, city planning, and landscape architecture, Postindustrial DIY suggests new ways to engage, adapt, and preserve architecturally compelling sites and bottom-up strategies for Rust Belt revival.
Author : Crystal Gail Fraser
Publisher : Univ. of Manitoba Press
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 50,34 MB
Release : 2024-12-13
Category : History
ISBN : 1772840963
The first comprehensive study of Indian residential schools in the North In this ground-breaking book, Crystal Gail Fraser draws on Dinjii Zhuh (Gwich'in) concepts of individual and collective strength to illuminate student experiences in northern residential schools, revealing the many ways Indigenous communities resisted the institutionalization of their children. After 1945, federal bureaucrats and politicians increasingly sought to assimilate Indigenous northerners—who had remained comparatively outside of their control—into broader Canadian society through policies that were designed to destroy Indigenous ways of life. Foremost among these was an aggressive new schooling policy that mandated the construction of Grollier and Stringer Halls: massive residential schools that opened in Inuvik in 1959, eleven years after a special joint committee of the House of Commons and the Senate recommended that all residential schools in Canada be closed. By Strength, We Are Still Here shares the lived experiences of Indigenous northerners from 1959 until 1982, when the territorial government published a comprehensive plan for educational reform. Led by Survivor testimony, Fraser shows the roles both students and their families played in disrupting state agendas, including questioning and changing the system to protect their cultures and communities. Centring the expertise of Knowledge Keepers, By Strength, We Are Still Here makes a crucial contribution to Indigenous research methodologies and to understandings of Canadian and Indigenous histories during the second half of the twentieth century.
Author : Sheldon Richmond
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 25,16 MB
Release : 2020-04-07
Category : Science
ISBN : 1527549224
Computers are supposed to be smart, yet they frustrate both ordinary users and computer technologists. Why are people frustrated by smart machines? Computers don’t fit people. People think in terms of comparisons, stories, and analogies, and seek feedback, whereas computers are based on a fundamental design that does not fit with analogical and feedback thinking. They impose a binary, an all-or-nothing, approach to everything. Moreover, the social world and institutions that have developed around computer technology hide and reinforce the lack of alignment between computers and people. This book suggests a solution: we do not have to accept the way things are now and work around the bad social and technical design of computers. Rather, it proposes a diverse, distributed, critical discussion of how to design and build both computer technology and its social institutions.
Author : Susan B. Martinez
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 45,36 MB
Release : 2013-11-02
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 1591437547
A provocative challenge to Darwin’s theory of evolution • Shows there is no missing link because the human race, since day one, is the result of outright interbreeding among highly diverse types • Reveals multiple “Gardens of Eden” and how each continent has its own independent hominid lineages • Explains Homo sapiens’ mental powers (the Great Leap Forward) and how we acquired the “blood of the gods,” which endowed us with a soul Did we evolve from apes, or are we all descendants of Adam and Eve? Why is the “missing link” still missing? Is the dumb luck of natural selection valid? Piecing together the protohistory of humanity through anthropology, genetics, paleolinguistics, and indigenous traditions, Susan B. Martinez offers an entirely original alternative to Darwin’s evolution: Modern humanity did not evolve but is a mosaic of mixed ancestry, the result of eons of cross-breeding and retro-breeding among different groups, including Cro-Magnon, Neanderthal, hobbits, giants, and Africa’s “Lucy” and “Zinj.” Martinez shows that there were multiple “Gardens of Eden” and how each continent had its own blend of races prior to the Great Flood, which caused the diaspora that brought a renaissance of culture to every division of the Earth. Martinez explains Homo sapiens’ mental powers (the Great Leap Forward) in cosmological terms--how we are the product of both heaven and earth. She identifies the “Sons of Heaven” and the angel-engendered races, explaining how Homo sapiens acquired the “blood of the gods,” which endowed us with a soul. Providing the ultimate resolution to the Evolution versus Creationism debate, this landmark study of hybrid man justifies his unexpectedly sudden appearance in the fossil record, the curious parallels between oral histories of the world’s people, and why anatomically modern features are found in the earliest paleontological evidence.
Author : Simon Elias Bibri
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 43,74 MB
Release : 2020-06-20
Category : Science
ISBN : 3030417468
This book explores the recent advances in the leading paradigms of urbanism, namely compact cities, eco-cities, and data–driven smart cities, and the evolving approach to their amalgamation under the umbrella term of smart sustainable cities. It addresses these advances by investigating how and to what extent the strategies of compact cities and eco-cities and their merger have been enhanced and strengthened through new planning and development practices, and are being supported and leveraged by the applied solutions pertaining to data-driven smart cities. The ultimate goal is to advance sustainability and harness its synergistic effects on multiple scales. This entails developing and implementing more effective approaches to the balanced integration of the three dimensions of sustainability, as well as to producing combined effects of the strategies and solutions of the prevailing approaches to urbanism that are greater than the sum of their separate effects in terms of the tripartite value of sustainability. Sustainable urban development is today seen as one of the keys towards unlocking the quest for a sustainable world. And the big data revolution is set to erupt in cities throughout the world, heralding an era where instrumentation, datafication, and computation are increasingly pervading the very fabric of cities and the spaces we live in thanks to the IoT. Big data and the IoT technologies are seen as powerful forces that have tremendous potential for advancing urban sustainability. Indeed, they are instigating a massive change in the way sustainable cities can tackle the kind of special conundrums, wicked problems, and significant challenges they inherently embody as complex systems. They offer a multitudinous array of innovative solutions and sophisticated approaches informed by groundbreaking research and data–driven science. As such, they are becoming essential to the functioning of sustainable cities. Besides, yet knowing to what extent we are making progress towards sustainable cities is problematic, adding to the fragmented, conflicting picture that arises of change on the ground in the face of the escalating rate and scale of urbanization and in the light of emerging ICT and its novel applications. In a nutshell, new circumstances require new responses. This timely and multifaceted book is intended for a wide readership. As such, it will appeal to researchers, academics, urban scientists, urbanists, planners, designers, policy-makers, and futurists, as well as all readers interested in sustainable cities and their ongoing and future data-driven transformation.
Author : Sun-ha Hong
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 25,46 MB
Release : 2020-07-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1479802107
An inquiry into what we can know in an age of surveillance and algorithms Knitting together contemporary technologies of datafication to reveal a broader, underlying shift in what counts as knowledge, Technologies of Speculation reframes today’s major moral and political controversies around algorithms and artificial intelligence. How many times we toss and turn in our sleep, our voluminous social media activity and location data, our average resting heart rate and body temperature: new technologies of state and self-surveillance promise to re-enlighten the black boxes of our bodies and minds. But Sun-ha Hong suggests that the burden to know and to digest this information at alarming rates is stripping away the liberal subject that ‘knows for themselves’, and risks undermining the pursuit of a rational public. What we choose to track, and what kind of data is extracted from us, shapes a society in which my own experience and sensation is increasingly overruled by data-driven systems. From the rapidly growing Quantified Self community to large-scale dragnet data collection in the name of counter-terrorism and drone warfare, Hong argues that data’s promise of objective truth results in new cultures of speculation. In his analysis of the Snowden affair, Hong demonstrates an entirely new way of thinking through what we could know, and the political and philosophical stakes of the belief that data equates to knowledge. When we simply cannot process all the data at our fingertips, he argues, we look past the inconvenient and the complicated to favor the comprehensible. In the process, racial stereotypes and other longstanding prejudices re-enter our newest technologies by the back door. Hong reveals the moral and philosophical equations embedded into the algorithmic eye that now follows us all.
Author : Susan C. Breau
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 597 pages
File Size : 42,80 MB
Release : 2016-09-30
Category : Law
ISBN : 1784717401
International law’s role in governing disasters is undergoing a formative period in its development and reach, in parallel with concerted efforts by the international community to respond more effectively to the increasing number and intensity of disasters across the world. This Research Handbook examines a broad range of legal regimes directly and indirectly relevant to disaster prevention, mitigation and reconstruction across a spectrum of natural and manmade disasters, including armed conflict.
