Author : Pappas, Nicholas J.
Publisher : Algora Publishing
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 13,28 MB
Release : 2020-05-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1628944153
Know yourself -- that's great advice, but how do we get there? In a lively conversation about the meaning of life, three characters explore a wide range of concepts, including friendship and love, self-discipline and self-respect, trust and justice.
Author : Gail Fine
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 26,94 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0198235496
This is the first book on Aristotle's important but neglected essay Peri ideon, 'On Ideas', to be published in English. Gail Fine explores the philosophical merits of Aristotle's criticisms of Plato, and relates their views to current debates about universals, properties, meaning, and knowledge. The full, annotated text of Peri ideon is included, with translation.
Author : Reuven Brenner
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 40,29 MB
Release : 1989-07-10
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780226074016
In this book, Reuven Brenner argues that people bet on new ideas and are more willing to take risks when they have been outdone by their fellows on local, national, or international scales. Such bets mean that people deviate from the beaten path and either gamble, commit crimes, or come up with new ideas in art, business, or politics, and ideas concerning war and peace in particular. By using evidence on gambling, crime, and creativity now and during the Industrial Revolution, by examining innovations in English and French inheritance laws and the emergence of welfare legislation, and by looking at what has happened before and after wars, Brenner reaches the conclusion that hope and fear, envy and vanity, sentiments provoked when being leapfrogged, make humans race.
Author : David Nichols
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 46,60 MB
Release : 2008-05-23
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780470512074
Return on Ideas is a practical guide to getting more from the resources you put into your innovation process. David Nichols clearly shows why current innovation funnel models stifle rather than encourage new ideas, and offers a new methodology, ‘rocketing’, to tackle the problem. The first book to look in detail at innovation as a business-driving imperative, Return on Ideas provides the tools, techniques and processes to actually upgrade the way you tackle innovation, illustrated with examples from innovative companies such as Yo! Sushi, Apple, Vodafone, Unilever, P&G, Danone, Amex and Ben & Jerry’s – as well as unconventional sources such as theatre and comedy.
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Publisher : Robert Shaw
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 48,19 MB
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Author : Stephen Wolfram
Publisher : Wolfram Media
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 37,68 MB
Release : 2016
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781579550035
This book of thoroughly engaging essays from one of today's most prodigious innovators provides a uniquely personal perspective on the lives and achievements of a selection of intriguing figures from the history of science and technology. Weaving together his immersive interest in people and history with insights gathered from his own experiences, Stephen Wolfram gives an ennobling look at some of the individuals whose ideas and creations have helped shape our world today. Contents includes biographical sketches of: Richard Feynman Kurt Godel Alan Turing John von Neumann George Boole Ada Lovelace Gottfried Leibniz Benoit Mandelbrot Steve Jobs Marvin Minsky Russell Towle Bertrand Russell Alfred Whitehead Richard Crandall Srinivasa Ramanujan Solomon Golomb
Author : Eric Berkowitz
Publisher : Beacon Press
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 41,73 MB
Release : 2021-05-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0807036242
A fascinating examination of how restricting speech has continuously shaped our culture, and how censorship is used as a tool to prop up authorities and maintain class and gender disparities Through compelling narrative, historian Eric Berkowitz reveals how drastically censorship has shaped our modern society. More than just a history of censorship, Dangerous Ideas illuminates the power of restricting speech; how it has defined states, ideas, and culture; and (despite how each of us would like to believe otherwise) how it is something we all participate in. This engaging cultural history of censorship and thought suppression throughout the ages takes readers from the first Chinese emperor’s wholesale elimination of books, to Henry VIII’s decree of death for anyone who “imagined” his demise, and on to the attack on Charlie Hebdo and the volatile politics surrounding censorship of social media. Highlighting the base impulses driving many famous acts of suppression, Berkowitz demonstrates the fragility of power and how every individual can act as both the suppressor and the suppressed.
Author : Stephen Hough
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 19,56 MB
Release : 2020-02-04
Category : Music
ISBN : 0374721408
A collection of essays on music and life by the famed classical pianist and composer Stephen Hough is one of the world’s leading pianists, winning global acclaim and numerous awards, both for his concerts and his recordings. He is also a writer, composer, and painter, and has been described by The Economist as one of “Twenty Living Polymaths.” Hough writes informally and engagingly about music and the life of a musician, from the broader aspects of what it is to walk out onto a stage or to make a recording, to specialist tips from deep inside the practice room: how to trill, how to pedal, how to practice. He also writes vividly about people he’s known, places he’s traveled to, books he’s read, paintings he’s seen; and he touches on more controversial subjects, such as assisted suicide and abortion. Even religion is there—the possibility of the existence of God, problems with some biblical texts, and the challenges involved in being a gay Catholic. Rough Ideas is an illuminating, constantly surprising introduction to the life and mind of one of our great cultural figures.
Author : Vicky Skinner
Publisher : Swoon Reads
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 36,93 MB
Release : 2020-08-11
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 1250195438
Two teens who have nothing in common work together at a record store in All Our Worst Ideas, a powerful and voice-driven YA novel from Vicky Skinner. When Amy, on her way to becoming valedictorian of her graduating class and getting accepted to her dream school, gets dumped by her long-term boyfriend, she takes a job at a record store to ease the pain. She needs a distraction, badly. Oliver, Amy’s record store co-worker, isn’t so sure about Amy—his complete opposite—but what he is sure of is his decision not to go to college. He just can’t figure out how to tell his mother. As they work late-night shifts at the record store, Amy and Oliver become friends and then confidantes and then something more, but when Amy has a hard time letting go of what she thought was her perfect future with her ex, she risks losing the future she didn’t even know she wanted with Oliver.
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Publisher : Meriwether Publishing
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 21,4 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN :
This book is perfect "€" jam-packed with games and lists, it's also the most user-friendly book we've ever seen! Who knows what you'll love more? Maybe it will be the clean layout that specifies space prep minutes, player prep minutes, performance minutes, and number of players for every single game. Or maybe it will be the appendices, where each of the 71 games is cross-referenced by not only these details just mentioned, but also dramatic skills and National Theatre Standards by grade! Perhaps you'll best love the CD-Rom which includes printable PDF files of every list in the book. You can even print these lists directly onto labels or pages for student use. Besides directions and examples, every single game also has tips on side coaching and evaluation and critique. It just doesn't get better than this! This mother lode of rich activities will be mined by drama teachers in search of memory jogs and new inspirations for years to come!
