Everything Is Connected


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A magical meditation on the powerful idea that we are connected to everything and everyone. Playful illustrations and funny, rhyming text show readers all of the many ways we are linked to every big, small, hairy, slimy, snuggly, scaly, floppy, flappy, bristly, buzzy, beautiful creature on Earth. “One of Bala Kids’s inaugural releases, this waggish picture book takes its title to heart, emphasizing readers’ connection to an eclectic roundup of people, objects, and phenomena.“—Publishers Weekly “Jason Gruhl invokes Dr. Seuss with some light rhyming and brings up everything that entrances children—tarantulas, slime, comets, you name it. Ignasi Font’s visually complex and incredibly funny illustrations (a blobfish that looks like Squidward?) will keep kids observing even on the hundredth read. The book is destined to become a dharma classic.“—Tricycle Everything is connected. And since you are part of everything, you are connected to everything: to pharaohs, Ben Franklin, T. Rex, ancient Greece, to love and to poverty, hunger and peace!




Linked


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The best-selling guide to network science, the revolutionary field that reveals the deep links between all forms of human social life A cocktail party. A terrorist cell. Ancient bacteria. An international conglomerate. All are networks, and all are a part of a surprising scientific revolution. In Linked, Albert-Lálórabá, the nation's foremost expert in the new science of networks, takes us on an intellectual adventure to prove that social networks, corporations, and living organisms are more similar than previously thought. Barabá shows that grasping a full understanding of network science will someday allow us to design blue-chip businesses, stop the outbreak of deadly diseases, and influence the exchange of ideas and information. Just as James Gleick and the Erdos-Réi model brought the discovery of chaos theory to the general public, Linked tells the story of the true science of the future and of experiments in statistical mechanics on the internet, all vital parts of what would eventually be called the Barabá-Albert model.




Connected


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Celebrated scientists Nicholas Christakis and James Fowler explain the amazing power of social networks and our profound influence on one another's lives. Your colleague's husband's sister can make you fat, even if you don't know her. A happy neighbor has more impact on your happiness than a happy spouse. These startling revelations of how much we truly influence one another are revealed in the studies of Dr. Christakis and Fowler, which have repeatedly made front-page news nationwide. In Connected, the authors explain why emotions are contagious, how health behaviors spread, why the rich get richer, even how we find and choose our partners. Intriguing and entertaining, Connected overturns the notion of the individual and provides a revolutionary paradigm-that social networks influence our ideas, emotions, health, relationships, behavior, politics, and much more. It will change the way we think about every aspect of our lives.




Is Everything Connected?


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We have long looked for the connections that unite us. Philosophers found links in faith. Scientists discovered new relationships between humans and humans, humans and nature, and humans and the stars. Thinkers still search for the mathematical equation that will explain it all. Is Everything Connected? draws on an always-growing web of thought to show readers the ties that bind. Ancient tales and modern science form a double spiral staircase of ideas. On the top floor: big questions about the roots of our differences, our place among earth’s life forms, and the ways that the Force and silly games express our bold shared dream of togetherness.




Mereon Matrix, The: Everything Connected Through (K)nothing


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In this richly illustrated book, the contributors describe the Mereon Matrix, its dynamic geometry and topology. Through the definition of eleven First Principles, it offers a new perspective on dynamic, whole and sustainable systems that may serve as a template information model. This template has been applied to a set of knowledge domains for verification purposes: pre-life-evolution, human molecular genetics and biological evolution, as well as one social application on classroom management.The importance of the book comes in the following ways:




Network World


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For more than 20 years, Network World has been the premier provider of information, intelligence and insight for network and IT executives responsible for the digital nervous systems of large organizations. Readers are responsible for designing, implementing and managing the voice, data and video systems their companies use to support everything from business critical applications to employee collaboration and electronic commerce.




Conspiracy Culture


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Conspiracy theories are everywhere in post-war American culture. From postmodern novels to The X-Files and from gangsta rap to feminist polemic, there is a widespread suspicion that sinister forces are conspiring to take control of our national destiny, our minds, and even our bodies. Conspiracy explanations can no longer be dismissed as the paranoid delusions of far-right crackpots. Indeed, they have become a necessary response to a risky and increasingly globalized world, in which everything is connected but nothing adds up. Peter Knight provides an engaging and cogent analysis of the development of conspiracy culture, from 1960s' countercultural suspicions about the authorities to the 1990s, where a paranoid attitude is both routine and ironic. Conspiracy Culture analyses conspiracy narratives about familiar topics like the Kennedy assassination, alien abduction, body horror, AIDS, crack cocaine, the New World Order, as well as more unusual ones like the conspiracies of patriarchy and white supremacy. Conspiracy Culture shows how Americans have come to distrust not only the narratives of the authorities, but even the authority of narrative itself to explain What Is Really Going On. From the complexities of Thomas Pynchon's novels to the endless mysteries of The X-Files, Knight argues that contemporary conspiracy culture is marked by an infinite regress of suspicion. Trust no one, because we have met the enemy and it is us.




English/German Dictionary of Idioms


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This dictionary is the ideal supplement to the German/English Dictionary of Idioms, which together give a rich source of material for the translator from and into each language. The dictionary contains 15,000 headwords, each entry supplying the German equivalents, variants, contexts and the degree of currency/rarity of the idiomatic expression. This dictionary will be an invaluable resource for students and professional literary translators. Not for sale in Germany, Austria or Switzerland




1 DOWN 4 UP


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This uplifting journey of visionary fiction encourages readers to find solace and inspiration in the beauty of self-exploration and the pursuit of personal freedom. Joan's summer of adventures await beyond the confines of her comfort zone to uncover layers of self-discovery and growth. Humor, joy, and grace punctuate the narrative of this novel catered to the young adult within us all. 1 Down 4 Up goes beyond the physical realm, teaching techniques and guiding Joan—and by extension, the audience—towards a richer understanding of life's challenges and triumphs.




The Hierarchy of Needs


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What do you want the most in life? Is it immediate gratification, or continuous prosperity and development? Is it the best for you and your family, or the best for the entire world? Or is it simply to feel the best, as much as possible? Because your needs determine your life, as they always seek to control you, in every manner. While you can still choose their entire fulfillment, in any order, manner, and priority you desire. Because everything common, necessary, unique, delightful, and original in life and in the world, you do in order to fulfill your needs. While this is exactly your hierarchy or harmony of needs and fulfillment, while if you remain ignorant of these, you end up living your life randomly, ideologically, or instinctually, but not at the genuine intelligent human level. Your needs might not always regard you, as you expect. Study yourself throughout your fulfillment, to see how you do not actually live your life on your behalf, but on behalf of your cells. Because your entire activity is meant to tend to your cells, in every manner, and nothing else. Your eating activity is an example, since you always eat in order to feed your cells. It is the same with thirst, security, breathing, recovery, and reproduction, because you fulfill all these in order to tend to your cells, and to keep their genetic material in the world long after you are gone. Yet there is still more to your needs and fulfillment to study and understand, because you live your life on behalf of your cells, body, and subconscious mind through the fulfillment of your lower level needs, while you live your life on behalf of your family, community, nation, society, and the entire world through the fulfillment of your needs of higher levels and higher classes. Because people expect you to fulfill some of their needs too, while they also fulfill yours. But can you ever make order in all these? Study yourself now, to find your lifelong activity filled up with a multitude of needs, all being more or less important, harder or easier to fulfill, higher or lower in nature, addressing higher classes of life or only yourself, with all needs fulfilled randomly or in a precise order or hierarchy. Throughout this book, we model the human needs and fulfillment while identifying and classifying them accurately, by studying closely all hierarchies and harmonies of needs, helping you distinguish the necessary in your fulfillment from the irrelevant, in order to find a clear meaning in life and in the world, for you and for the entire world.