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An incisive argument for fostering stronger links between the interests of society and progress in science.
Author : Daniel Sarewitz
Publisher : Temple University Press
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 28,14 MB
Release : 2010-06-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1439903727
An incisive argument for fostering stronger links between the interests of society and progress in science.
Author : Brendan D Murphy
Publisher :
Page : 606 pages
File Size : 21,80 MB
Release : 2017-08-04
Category :
ISBN : 9780646973357
The Grand Illusion synthesizes the best consciousness research with decades of cutting-edge discovery and hard science, empowering you with an intelligent new paradigm and new direction for humanity. This acclaimed book destroys the materialist notion of humans as "meat computers" and lays the foundation for a scientifically-based metaphysics.
Author : Julian Jackson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 47,40 MB
Release : 2019-07-25
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1838716696
Jean Renoir's 1937 film La Grande Illusion is set during the First World War, but its themes of Franco-German conflict, divided loyalties in a time of war and the rise of anti-Semitism made it compelling and controversial viewing. Julian Jackson traces the film's historical context and its reception history.
Author : Susana Martinez-Conde
Publisher : Scientific American / Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 27,63 MB
Release : 2017-10-24
Category : Art
ISBN : 0374120404
A collection of visual illusions with explanations of the science behind them, gathered from the Best Illusions of the Year contest. --
Author : Frank P. Harvey
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 18,9 MB
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780802089489
Frank P. Harvey mounts a powerful case for American unilateralism. He addresses the relationship between globalization, terrorism, and unilateralism, and provides a systematic explanation for, and defense of, Washington's response to threats of terrorism and proliferation of weapons of mass destruction.
Author : Bennington Books
Publisher : Bennington Books
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 13,27 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0975499602
"This book is made up of almost entirely unrevised seminar sessions written for part of a three-year project (1989-92) conducted at the University of Sussex"--Inrod
Author : Malcolm Anderson
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 22,1 MB
Release : 1998-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781855674868
The political geography of Europe and consequentially, the issues confronting the European Union have changed radically since 1989. Understanding the complex nature of international frontiers in Europe is essential in contemporary politics.
Author : Barry Allen
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 49,6 MB
Release : 2011-03-15
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 0801457025
"As familiar and widely appreciated works of modern technology, bridges are a good place to study the relationship between the aesthetic and the technical. Fully engaged technical design is at once aesthetic and structural. In the best work (the best design, the most well made), the look and feel of a device (its aesthetic, perceptual interface) is as important a part of the design problem as its mechanism (the interface of parts and systems). We have no idea how to make something that is merely efficient, a rational instrument blindly indifferent to how it appears. No engineer can design such a thing and none has ever been built."—from Artifice and Design In an intriguing book about the aesthetics of technological objects and the relationship between technical and artistic accomplishment, Barry Allen develops the philosophical implications of a series of interrelated concepts-knowledge, artifact, design, tool, art, and technology-and uses them to explore parallel questions about artistry in technology and technics in art. This may be seen at the heart of Artifice and Design in Allen's discussion of seven bridges: he focuses at length on two New York bridges—the Hell Gate Bridge and the Bayonne Bridge—and makes use of original sources for insight into the designers' ideas about the aesthetic dimensions of their work. Allen starts from the conviction that art and technology must be treated together, as two aspects of a common, technical human nature. The topics covered in Artifice and Design are wide-ranging and interdisciplinary, drawing from evolutionary biology, cognitive psychology, and the history and anthropology of art and technology. The book concludes that it is a mistake to think of art as something subjective, or as an arbitrary social representation, and of Technology as an instrumental form of purposive rationality. "By segregating art and technology," Allen writes, "we divide ourselves against ourselves, casting up self-made obstacles to the ingenuity of art and technology."
Author : Jordi Camí
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 29,77 MB
Release : 2022-06-07
Category : Science
ISBN : 0691239150
How magicians exploit the natural functioning of our brains to astonish and amaze us How do magicians make us see the impossible? The Illusionist Brain takes you on an unforgettable journey through the inner workings of the human mind, revealing how magicians achieve their spectacular and seemingly impossible effects by interfering with your cognitive processes. Along the way, this lively and informative book provides a guided tour of modern neuroscience, using magic as a lens for understanding the unconscious and automatic functioning of our brains. We construct reality from the information stored in our memories and received through our senses, and our brains are remarkably adept at tricking us into believing that our experience is continuous. In fact, our minds create our perception of reality by elaborating meanings and continuities from incomplete information, and while this strategy carries clear benefits for survival, it comes with blind spots that magicians know how to exploit. Jordi Camí and Luis Martínez explore the many different ways illusionists manipulate our attention—making us look but not see—and take advantage of our individual predispositions and fragile memories. The Illusionist Brain draws on the latest findings in neuroscience to explain how magic deceives us, surprises us, and amazes us, and demonstrates how illusionists skillfully “hack” our brains to alter how we perceive things and influence what we imagine.
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Publisher :
Page : 632 pages
File Size : 35,10 MB
Release : 1927
Category : United States
ISBN :