Climbing Mount Implausible
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Climbing Mount Improbable
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Author : Richard Dawkins
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2006-04-06
Climbing Mount Improbable written by Richard Dawkins and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-04-06 with Science categories.
How could such an intricate object as the human eye - so complex and so precise - have come about by chance? In this masterful piece of popular science, Richard Dawkins builds a powerful and carefully reasoned argument for evolutionary adapatation as the force behind all life on earth. The metaphor of 'Mount Improbable' represents the combination of perfection and improbability that we find in the seemingly 'designed' complexity of living things. And through it all runs the thread of DNA, the molecule of life, responsible for its own destiny on an unending pilgrimage through time. Evocative illustrations accompany Dawkins' eloquent descriptions of astonishing adaptations in the living world.
Climbing Mount Implausible
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Author : Damien Broderick
language : en
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
Release Date : 2010-01-01
Climbing Mount Implausible written by Damien Broderick and has been published by Wildside Press LLC this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-01-01 with Fiction categories.
Climbing Mount Implausible showcases a writer's growth though nearly fifty years of questing into the future. It includes his first published stories, plus detailed notes on his own evolution as a writer, his recent Philip K. Dick tribute, "Dead Air," and an outrageously funny collaboration with Paul Di Filippo, "Cockroach Love."
Climbing Mount Improbable
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Author : Richard Dawkins
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2006
Climbing Mount Improbable written by Richard Dawkins and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with categories.
The View From Mount Improbable
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Author : Richard Dawkins
language : en
Publisher: Penguin Canada
Release Date : 2005
The View From Mount Improbable written by Richard Dawkins and has been published by Penguin Canada this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Science categories.
In May 2005 Penguin will publish 70 unique titles to celebrate the company's 70th birthday. The titles in the Pocket Penguins series are emblematic of the renowned breadth of quality of the Penguin list and will hark back to Penguin founder Allen Lane's vision of good books for all'. In this extract from Climbing Mount Improbable Richard Dawkins, bestselling author of The Blind Watchmaker, gives an introduction to evolutionary biology and unravels the mysteries of the highest peak of all: the eye.
Praxiology And The Reasons For Action
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Author : Piotr Makowski
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2017-07-05
Praxiology And The Reasons For Action written by Piotr Makowski and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-07-05 with Philosophy categories.
This volume explores two traditions in practical philosophy: action theory, which concerns the nature of motivation for human action, and praxiology, the study of human action. By bringing different perspectives together, the volume strives to contribute to the international debate on theories of reasons for action as a philosophy of action.The volume consists of three main parts. The first part, "Reasons for Action," bridges the gap between reasons for action theories and praxiology. The second part of the volume, titled "Theories of Action," explores philosophical approaches to action. Finally, in the third part, "Applications," the contributors show several ways of applying praxiological ways of thinking and acting to the problems of reflection assessment, solving action incompleteness, and knowledge management.The ultimate goal of this volume is to broaden the scientific view of action: to establish a perspective on action that is permeated by moral theories on the one hand, and accounts focused on efficiency and economy of action on the other hand. This work is the newest volume in Transaction's Praxiology series.
An Informed Cosmos
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Author : Peter S. Williams
language : en
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Release Date : 2023-07-14
An Informed Cosmos written by Peter S. Williams and has been published by Wipf and Stock Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-07-14 with Religion categories.
After a substantial author's preface recounting the author's life-journey with the question of science and design in nature, An Informed Cosmos pulls together essays that jointly cover the core arguments for a scientific theory of intelligent design. Along with a foreword by philosopher of science and leading design theorist Stephen C. Meyer, and a wide range of recommended resources, An Informed Cosmos offers an informed overview of the contemporary case for intelligent design.
Xeno Fiction More Best Of Science Fiction
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Author : Damien Broderick
language : en
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
Release Date : 2013-08-05
Xeno Fiction More Best Of Science Fiction written by Damien Broderick and has been published by Wildside Press LLC this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-08-05 with Fiction categories.
Science fiction loves strangeness. It relishes oddities, even when it piles on fear and dystopian loathing. The technical term for a fascination with the strange and alien is xenophilia, just as the term for a terror of the strange is xenophobia. At its core, then, science fiction is...Xeno Fiction. So science fiction seeks out the strange, roams far from home in space and time, looks with avid eagerness upon the ways of the Others, human or alien. It participates, in brilliantly lighted imagination, in their strange lives. In this second gathering from Van Ikin's critical journal, Science Fiction: A Review of Speculative Literature, writers of the alien are investigated with wit and insight. G. Travis Regier follows the Other into its own home, accompanying those experts in the alien, C. J. Cherry and Samuel R. Delany. In the book's long key essay, Terry Dowling pursues the Art of Xenography as exemplified by Jack Vance's "General Culture" novels. Three expert commentators look into Booker Prize-winner Peter Carey's postcolonial and postmodern frolics into alternative realities. And the Xeno fictions of Isaac Asimov, Greg Egan, Mary Gentle, Ursula K. Le Guin, Naomi Mitchison, Neal Stephenson, and Stanley Weinbaum are read as their road maps into the strange. Eleven revealing essays on speculative fiction by some of the best critics in the field.
Post Mortal Syndrome
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Author : Damien Broderick
language : en
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
Release Date : 2011-12-07
Post Mortal Syndrome written by Damien Broderick and has been published by Wildside Press LLC this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-12-07 with Fiction categories.
immortality, longevity, science fiction, robin cook, michael crichton
Skiffy And Mimesis
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Author : Damien Broderick
language : en
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
Release Date : 2010-05-01
Skiffy And Mimesis written by Damien Broderick and has been published by Wildside Press LLC this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-05-01 with Literary Criticism categories.
This second anthology of the best of Australian SF Review includes pieces by Gregory Benford, Janeen Webb, Lucius Shepard, Jenny Blackford, George Turner, Yvonne Rousseau, Douglas Barbour, and others--writing about Watchmen, cyberpunk, steampunk, Philip K. Dick, Ursula K. Le Guin, Kim Stanley Robinson, and Lucius Shepard. Complete with introduction, bibliography, and index.
New Worlds Before The New Wave 1960 1964
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Author : John Boston
language : en
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
Release Date : 2013-04-30
New Worlds Before The New Wave 1960 1964 written by John Boston and has been published by Wildside Press LLC this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-04-30 with Fiction categories.
In the mid-1960s, British science fiction and fantasy were convulsed by the "New Wave." This movement emerged from the SF magazines edited by John Carnell. Such brilliant NEW WORLDS and SCIENCE FANTASY writers as J. G. Ballard, Brian W. Aldiss, John Brunner, and Michael Moorcock heralded the rise of this new kind of fantastic fiction. John Boston and Damien Broderick's concluding volume of their critical trilogy examines the history and development of these important magazines--and the fiction that they championed. By the end of this period (1964), Carnell had set the stage for that major development in UK science fiction--the new wave adventures of the transformed NEW WORLDS, under the editorship of Moorcock--and had himself shifted gear into the next mode of SF publishing as editor of the paperback anthology series, New Writings in SF. Boston and Broderick's series will become the definitive critical histories of these important British magazines. Complete with indices of names and titles cited.