A Sort Of Balance
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A Sort Of Balance
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Author : Brian Grant
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2003
A Sort Of Balance written by Brian Grant and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Philosophers categories.
Balance
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Author : Paul Thagard
language : en
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Release Date : 2022-07-05
Balance written by Paul Thagard and has been published by Columbia University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-07-05 with Science categories.
Living is a balancing act. Ordinary activities like walking, running, or riding a bike require the brain to keep the body in balance. A dancer’s poised elegance and a tightrope walker’s breathtaking performance are feats of balance. Language abounds with expressions and figures of speech that invoke balance. People fret over work-life balance or try to eat a balanced diet. The concept crops up from politics—checks and balances, the balance of power, balanced budgets—to science, in which ideas of equilibrium are crucial. Why is balance so fundamental, and how do physical and metaphorical balance shed light on each other? Paul Thagard explores the physiological workings and metaphorical resonance of balance in the brain, the body, and society. He describes the neural mechanisms that keep bodies balanced and explains why their failures can result in nausea, falls, or vertigo. Thagard connects bodily balance with leading ideas in neuroscience, including the nature of consciousness. He analyzes balance metaphors across science, medicine, economics, the arts, and philosophy, showing why some aid understanding but others are misleading or harmful. Thagard contends that balance is ultimately a matter of making sense of the world. In both literal and metaphorical senses, balance is what enables people to solve the puzzles of life by turning sensory signals or an incongruous comparison into a coherent whole. Bridging philosophy, psychology, and neuroscience, Balance shows how an unheralded concept’s many meanings illuminate the human condition.
A Fine Balance
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Author : Rohinton Mistry
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 2010-07-21
A Fine Balance written by Rohinton Mistry and has been published by Vintage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-07-21 with Fiction categories.
With a compassionate realism and narrative sweep that recall the work of Charles Dickens, this magnificent novel captures all the cruelty and corruption, dignity and heroism, of India. The time is 1975. The place is an unnamed city by the sea. The government has just declared a State of Emergency, in whose upheavals four strangers--a spirited widow, a young student uprooted from his idyllic hill station, and two tailors who have fled the caste violence of their native village--will be thrust together, forced to share one cramped apartment and an uncertain future. As the characters move from distrust to friendship and from friendship to love, A Fine Balance creates an enduring panorama of the human spirit in an inhuman state.
Catherine Finds Her Balance
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Author : Kit Hood
language : en
Publisher: James Lorimer & Company
Release Date : 1988-01-01
Catherine Finds Her Balance written by Kit Hood and has been published by James Lorimer & Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988-01-01 with Juvenile Fiction categories.
What do you do when you're caught between parents who're always fighting? Or if you have a dark secret you're afraid to tell anyone? Or if your family has to move to away and your life's turned upside down? Catherine Finds Her Balance and Other Stories shows young people who are faced with challenging dilemmas and who respond with spirit and ingenuity. These stories offer delightful evidence of youthful creativity and resourcefulness in the face of hard questions. Based on the ground breaking Kids of Degrassi Street television program, this book offers a sensitive and engaging look at the challenges of childhood.
Journal
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Author : Canada. Parliament. House of Commons
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1878
Journal written by Canada. Parliament. House of Commons and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1878 with categories.
The Commercial Dictionary Of Trade Products
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Author : Peter Lund Simmonds
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1892
The Commercial Dictionary Of Trade Products written by Peter Lund Simmonds and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1892 with categories.
Equilibrium In The Balance
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Author : S. Haroutunian
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2011-11-09
Equilibrium In The Balance written by S. Haroutunian and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-11-09 with Psychology categories.
For some time now, the study of cognitive development has been far and away the most active discipline within developmental psychology. Although there would be much disagreement as to the exact proportion of papers published in develop mental journals that could be considered cognitive, 50% seems like a conservative estimate. Hence, a series of scholarly books devoted to work in cognitive devel opment is especially appropriate at this time. The Springer Series in Cognitive Development contains two basic types of books, namely, edited collections of original chapters by several authors, and original volumes written by one author or a small group of authors. The flagship for the Springer Series is a serial publication of the "advances" type, carrying the subtitle Progress in Cognitive Development Research. Each volume in the Progress sequence is strongly thematic, in that it is limited to some well-defined domain of cognitive developmental research (e.g., logical and mathematical development, development of learning). All Progress volumes will be edited collections. Editors of such collections, upon consultation with the Series Editor, may elect to have their books published either as contributions to the Progress sequence or as separate volumes. All books written by one author or a small group of authors are being published as separate volumes within the series.
The Encyclopaedia Britannica
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1875
The Encyclopaedia Britannica written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1875 with Encyclopedias and dictionaries categories.
The Poverty Of Eros In Plato S Symposium
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Author : Lorelle D. Lamascus
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2016-03-24
The Poverty Of Eros In Plato S Symposium written by Lorelle D. Lamascus and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-03-24 with Philosophy categories.
The Poverty of Eros in Plato's Symposium offers an innovative new approach towards Eros and the concept of Eros in the Symposium. Lorelle D. Lamascus argues that Plato's depiction of Eros as the child of Poverty (penia) and Resource (poros) is central to understanding the nature of love. Eros is traditionally seen as self-interested or acquisitive, but this book argues instead that Eros and reason are properly in accord with one another. The moral life and the philosophical life alike depend upon properly trained and directed Eros. Lamascus demonstrates that the presentation of the nature of Poverty is essential to the nature of Eros in the Symposium, doing this through in-depth discussion of the major twentieth century interpretations of Platonic Eros. The book shows that poverty provides an appropriate directing of Eros towards eternal and unchanging goods (and away from an age geared towards material items and wealth), and thus that Plato's mythical treatment of Eros in the Symposium lays the groundwork for understanding the soul's embrace of poverty as a way of living, loving, and knowing.
Doris Lessing And Sufi Equilibrium
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Author : S. Fahim
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 1994-07-12
Doris Lessing And Sufi Equilibrium written by S. Fahim and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994-07-12 with Literary Criticism categories.
The purpose of this study is to examine the rationale of Doris Lessing's development from Classical Realism to mysticism and forms of science fiction and to consider the unifying motifs that appear throughout her novels in her consistent search for Sufi Equilibrium. The four novels selected in this study represent significant stages in Lessing's work. Chapter one focuses on The Grass is Singing, which represents the author's early traditionally realistic writing, to show how far the preoccupations of Lessing's later novels find expression in this early work. Chapter two studies The Golden Notebook, which marks a turning point in formal structure in Lessing's canon and is selected as evidence of her interest in Sufism at that early stage. Chapter three concentrates on the study of The Memoirs of a Survivor, which has elicited a comparatively limited amount of criticism but which proves to be a major achievement when brought into line with Sufi methods of writing. Chapter four considers Lessing's science fiction series, 'Canopus in Argos', tracing sources from Oriental literature - a key which unlocks many areas of obscurity.